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God's Spirit was hovering over the surface + of the waters. +001:003 God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. +001:004 God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided + the light from the darkness. +001:005 God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. + There was evening and there was morning, one day. +001:006 God said, "Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, + and let it divide the waters from the waters." +001:007 God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under + the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; + and it was so. +001:008 God called the expanse sky. There was evening and there + was morning, a second day. +001:009 God said, "Let the waters under the sky be gathered together + to one place, and let the dry land appear;" and it was so. +001:010 God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together + of the waters he called Seas. God saw that it was good. +001:011 God said, "Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, + and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with its seed + in it, on the earth;" and it was so. +001:012 The earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, + and trees bearing fruit, with its seed in it, after their kind; + and God saw that it was good. +001:013 There was evening and there was morning, a third day. +001:014 God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of sky to + divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, + and for seasons, and for days and years; +001:015 and let them be for lights in the expanse of sky to give light + on the earth;" and it was so. +001:016 God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule + the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. + He also made the stars. +001:017 God set them in the expanse of sky to give light to the earth, +001:018 and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide + the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good. +001:019 There was evening and there was morning, a fourth day. +001:020 God said, "Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, + and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of sky." +001:021 God created the large sea creatures, and every living + creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, + after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. + God saw that it was good. +001:022 God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill + the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth." +001:023 There was evening and there was morning, a fifth day. +001:024 God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures after + their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the earth + after their kind;" and it was so. +001:025 God made the animals of the earth after their kind, + and the livestock after their kind, and everything that creeps + on the ground after its kind. God saw that it was good. +001:026 God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: + and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, + and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, + and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that + creeps on the earth." +001:027 God created man in his own image. In God's image he created him; + male and female he created them. +001:028 God blessed them. God said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, + fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish + of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living + thing that moves on the earth." +001:029 God said, "Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, + which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, + which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food. +001:030 To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, + and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, + I have given every green herb for food;" and it was so. +001:031 God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. + There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day. +002:001 The heavens and the earth were finished, and all their vast array. +002:002 On the seventh day God finished his work which he had made; + and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which + he had made. +002:003 God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested + in it from all his work which he had created and made. +002:004 This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of + the earth when they were created, in the day that Yahweh God + made the earth and the heavens. +002:005 No plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of + the field had yet sprung up; for Yahweh God had not caused it + to rain on the earth. There was not a man to till the ground, +002:006 but a mist went up from the earth, and watered the whole + surface of the ground. +002:007 Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, + and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man + became a living soul. +002:008 Yahweh God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put + the man whom he had formed. +002:009 Out of the ground Yahweh God made every tree to grow that is + pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life + also in the middle of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge + of good and evil. +002:010 A river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from there + it was parted, and became four heads. +002:011 The name of the first is Pishon: this is the one which flows + through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; +002:012 and the gold of that land is good. There is aromatic resin + and the onyx stone. +002:013 The name of the second river is Gihon: the same river that flows + through the whole land of Cush. +002:014 The name of the third river is Hiddekel: this is the one which + flows in front of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates. +002:015 Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden + to dress it and to keep it. +002:016 Yahweh God commanded the man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden + you may freely eat; +002:017 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall + not eat of it; for in the day that you eat of it you + will surely die." +002:018 Yahweh God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; + I will make him a helper suitable for him." +002:019 Out of the ground Yahweh God formed every animal of the field, + and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see + what he would call them. Whatever the man called every + living creature, that was its name. +002:020 The man gave names to all livestock, and to the birds of the sky, + and to every animal of the field; but for man there was not + found a helper suitable for him. +002:021 Yahweh God caused a deep sleep to fall on the man, and he slept; + and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh + in its place. +002:022 He made the rib, which Yahweh God had taken from the man, + into a woman, and brought her to the man. +002:023 The man said, "This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. + She will be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man." +002:024 Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, + and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh. +002:025 They were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed. +003:001 Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field + which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, "Has God + really said, 'You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?'" +003:002 The woman said to the serpent, "Of the fruit of the trees + of the garden we may eat, +003:003 but of the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden, + God has said, 'You shall not eat of it, neither shall you + touch it, lest you die.'" +003:004 The serpent said to the woman, "You won't surely die, +003:005 for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, + and you will be like God, knowing good and evil." +003:006 When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it + was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired + to make one wise, she took of the fruit of it, and ate; + and she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate. +003:007 The eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew + that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together, + and made themselves aprons. +003:008 They heard the voice of Yahweh God walking in the garden in + the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves + from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden. +003:009 Yahweh God called to the man, and said to him, "Where are you?" +003:010 The man said, "I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, + because I was naked; and I hid myself." +003:011 God said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten + from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?" +003:012 The man said, "The woman whom you gave to be with me, + she gave me of the tree, and I ate." +003:013 Yahweh God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" + The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate." +003:014 Yahweh God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, + cursed are you above all livestock, and above every animal + of the field. On your belly shall you go, and you shall eat + dust all the days of your life. +003:015 I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your + offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, + and you will bruise his heel." +003:016 To the woman he said, "I will greatly multiply your pain + in childbirth. In pain you will bring forth children. + Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you." +003:017 To Adam he said, "Because you have listened to your wife's voice, + and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, + 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground for your sake. + In toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. +003:018 Thorns also and thistles will it bring forth to you; + and you will eat the herb of the field. +003:019 By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you + return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. + For you are dust, and to dust you shall return." +003:020 The man called his wife Eve, because she was the mother + of all living. +003:021 Yahweh God made coats of skins for Adam and for his wife, + and clothed them. +003:022 Yahweh God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us, + knowing good and evil. Now, lest he put forth his hand, + and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever..." +003:023 Therefore Yahweh God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, + to till the ground from which he was taken. +003:024 So he drove out the man; and he placed Cherubs at the east + of the garden of Eden, and the flame of a sword which turned + every way, to guard the way to the tree of life. +004:001 The man knew Eve his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Cain, + and said, "I have gotten a man with Yahweh's help." +004:002 Again she gave birth, to Cain's brother Abel. Abel was a keeper + of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. +004:003 As time passed, it happened that Cain brought an offering + to Yahweh from the fruit of the ground. +004:004 Abel also brought some of the firstborn of his flock and of + the fat of it. Yahweh respected Abel and his offering, +004:005 but he didn't respect Cain and his offering. Cain was very angry, + and the expression on his face fell. +004:006 Yahweh said to Cain, "Why are you angry? Why has the expression + of your face fallen? +004:007 If you do well, will it not be lifted up? If you don't do well, + sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you + are to rule over it." +004:008 Cain said to Abel, his brother, "Let's go into the field." + It happened when they were in the field, that Cain rose up + against Abel, his brother, and killed him. +004:009 Yahweh said to Cain, "Where is Abel, your brother?" + He said, "I don't know. Am I my brother's keeper?" +004:010 Yahweh said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's + blood cries to me from the ground. +004:011 Now you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened + its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand. +004:012 From now on, when you till the ground, it won't yield its + strength to you. You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer + in the earth." +004:013 Cain said to Yahweh, "My punishment is greater than I can bear. +004:014 Behold, you have driven me out this day from the surface + of the ground. I will be hidden from your face, + and I will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth. + It will happen that whoever finds me will kill me." +004:015 Yahweh said to him, "Therefore whoever slays Cain, vengeance will + be taken on him sevenfold." Yahweh appointed a sign for Cain, + lest any finding him should strike him. +004:016 Cain went out from Yahweh's presence, and lived in the land + of Nod, east of Eden. +004:017 Cain knew his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Enoch. + He built a city, and called the name of the city, after the name + of his son, Enoch. +004:018 To Enoch was born Irad. Irad became the father of Mehujael. + Mehujael became the father of Methushael. Methushael became + the father of Lamech. +004:019 Lamech took two wives: the name of the one was Adah, + and the name of the other Zillah. +004:020 Adah gave birth to Jabal, who was the father of those who dwell + in tents and have livestock. +004:021 His brother's name was Jubal, who was the father of all who + handle the harp and pipe. +004:022 Zillah also gave birth to Tubal Cain, the forger of every cutting + instrument of brass and iron. Tubal Cain's sister was Naamah. +004:023 Lamech said to his wives, "Adah and Zillah, hear my voice. + You wives of Lamech, listen to my speech, for I have slain + a man for wounding me, a young man for bruising me. +004:024 If Cain will be avenged seven times, truly Lamech + seventy-seven times." +004:025 Adam knew his wife again. She gave birth to a son, and named + him Seth, "for God has appointed me another child instead + of Abel, for Cain killed him." +004:026 There was also born a son to Seth, and he named him Enosh. + Then men began to call on Yahweh's name. +005:001 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day + that God created man, he made him in God's likeness. +005:002 He created them male and female, and blessed them, and called + their name Adam,{"Adam" and "Man" are spelled with the exact + same consonants in Hebrew, so this can be correctly translated + either way.} in the day when they were created. +005:003 Adam lived one hundred thirty years, and became the father of a + son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth. +005:004 The days of Adam after he became the father of Seth were eight + hundred years, and he became the father of sons and daughters. +005:005 All the days that Adam lived were nine hundred thirty years, + then he died. +005:006 Seth lived one hundred five years, and became the father of Enosh. +005:007 Seth lived after he became the father of Enosh eight hundred + seven years, and became the father of sons and daughters. +005:008 All the days of Seth were nine hundred twelve years, + then he died. +005:009 Enosh lived ninety years, and became the father of Kenan. +005:010 Enosh lived after he became the father of Kenan, eight hundred + fifteen years, and became the father of sons and daughters. +005:011 All the days of Enosh were nine hundred five years, then he died. +005:012 Kenan lived seventy years, and became the father of Mahalalel. +005:013 Kenan lived after he became the father of Mahalalel eight hundred + forty years, and became the father of sons and daughters +005:014 and all the days of Kenan were nine hundred ten years, + then he died. +005:015 Mahalalel lived sixty-five years, and became the father of Jared. +005:016 Mahalalel lived after he became the father of Jared eight hundred + thirty years, and became the father of sons and daughters. +005:017 All the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred ninety-five years, + then he died. +005:018 Jared lived one hundred sixty-two years, and became + the father of Enoch. +005:019 Jared lived after he became the father of Enoch eight hundred years, + and became the father of sons and daughters. +005:020 All the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty-two years, + then he died. +005:021 Enoch lived sixty-five years, and became the father of Methuselah. +005:022 Enoch walked with God after he became the father of Methuselah + three hundred years, and became the father of sons and daughters. +005:023 All the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty-five years. +005:024 Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him. +005:025 Methuselah lived one hundred eighty-seven years, and became + the father of Lamech. +005:026 Methuselah lived after he became the father of Lamech seven hundred + eighty-two years, and became the father of sons and daughters. +005:027 All the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty-nine years, + then he died. +005:028 Lamech lived one hundred eighty-two years, and became the father + of a son, +005:029 and he named him Noah, saying, "This same will comfort us + in our work and in the toil of our hands, because of the ground + which Yahweh has cursed." +005:030 Lamech lived after he became the father of Noah five hundred + ninety-five years, and became the father of sons and daughters. +005:031 All the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy-seven years, + then he died. +005:032 Noah was five hundred years old, and Noah became the father + of Shem, Ham, and Japheth. +006:001 It happened, when men began to multiply on the surface + of the ground, and daughters were born to them, +006:002 that God's sons saw that men's daughters were beautiful, + and they took for themselves wives of all that they chose. +006:003 Yahweh said, "My Spirit will not strive with man forever, + because he also is flesh; yet will his days be one + hundred twenty years." +006:004 The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also + after that, when God's sons came in to men's daughters. + They bore children to them. Those were the mighty men + who were of old, men of renown. +006:005 Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, + and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was + only evil continually. +006:006 Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it + grieved him in his heart. +006:007 Yahweh said, "I will destroy man whom I have created + from the surface of the ground; man, along with animals, + creeping things, and birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I + have made them." +006:008 But Noah found favor in Yahweh's eyes. +006:009 This is the history of the generations of Noah. Noah was + a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. + Noah walked with God. +006:010 Noah became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. +006:011 The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was + filled with violence. +006:012 God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh + had corrupted their way on the earth. +006:013 God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh has come before me, + for the earth is filled with violence through them. + Behold, I will destroy them with the earth. +006:014 Make a ship of gopher wood. You shall make rooms in the ship, + and shall seal it inside and outside with pitch. +006:015 This is how you shall make it. The length of the ship will + be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, + and the height of it thirty cubits. +006:016 You shall make a roof in the ship, and to a cubit shall you finish + it upward. You shall set the door of the ship in its side. + You shall make it with lower, second, and third levels. +006:017 I, even I, do bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy + all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. + Everything that is in the earth will die. +006:018 But I will establish my covenant with you. You shall come + into the ship, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' + wives with you. +006:019 Of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two + of every sort into the ship, to keep them alive with you. + They shall be male and female. +006:020 Of the birds after their kind, of the livestock after their kind, + of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, + two of every sort shall come to you, to keep them alive. +006:021 Take with you of all food that is eaten, and gather it to you; + and it will be for food for you, and for them." +006:022 Thus Noah did. According to all that God commanded him, + so he did. +007:001 Yahweh said to Noah, "Come with all of your household into + the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me + in this generation. +007:002 You shall take seven pairs of every clean animal with you, + the male and his female. Of the animals that are not clean, + take two, the male and his female. +007:003 Also of the birds of the sky, seven and seven, male and female, + to keep seed alive on the surface of all the earth. +007:004 In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty + days and forty nights. Every living thing that I have made, + I will destroy from the surface of the ground." +007:005 Noah did everything that Yahweh commanded him. +007:006 Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came + on the earth. +007:007 Noah went into the ship with his sons, his wife, and his sons' + wives, because of the waters of the flood. +007:008 Clean animals, animals that are not clean, birds, and everything + that creeps on the ground +007:009 went by pairs to Noah into the ship, male and female, + as God commanded Noah. +007:010 It happened after the seven days, that the waters of the flood + came on the earth. +007:011 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, + on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all + the fountains of the great deep were burst open, and the sky's + windows were opened. +007:012 The rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights. +007:013 In the same day Noah, and Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, + and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, + entered into the ship; +007:014 they, and every animal after its kind, all the livestock after + their kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth + after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird + of every sort. +007:015 They went to Noah into the ship, by pairs of all flesh with + the breath of life in them. +007:016 Those who went in, went in male and female of all flesh, + as God commanded him; and Yahweh shut him in. +007:017 The flood was forty days on the earth. The waters increased, + and lifted up the ship, and it was lifted up above the earth. +007:018 The waters prevailed, and increased greatly on the earth; + and the ship floated on the surface of the waters. +007:019 The waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth. All the high + mountains that were under the whole sky were covered. +007:020 The waters prevailed fifteen cubits upward, and the + mountains were covered. +007:021 All flesh died that moved on the earth, including birds, + livestock, animals, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, + and every man. +007:022 All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, + of all that was on the dry land, died. +007:023 Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface + of the ground, including man, livestock, creeping things, + and birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the earth. + Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ship. +007:024 The waters prevailed on the earth one hundred fifty days. +008:001 God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were + with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. + The waters subsided. +008:002 The deep's fountains and the sky's windows were also stopped, + and the rain from the sky was restrained. +008:003 The waters receded from the earth continually. After the end + of one hundred fifty days the waters decreased. +008:004 The ship rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day + of the month, on Ararat's mountains. +008:005 The waters receded continually until the tenth month. + In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops + of the mountains were seen. +008:006 It happened at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window + of the ship which he had made, +008:007 and he sent forth a raven. It went back and forth, + until the waters were dried up from the earth. +008:008 He sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated + from the surface of the ground, +008:009 but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned + to him into the ship; for the waters were on the surface + of the whole earth. He put forth his hand, and took her, + and brought her to him into the ship. +008:010 He stayed yet another seven days; and again he sent forth + the dove out of the ship. +008:011 The dove came back to him at evening, and, behold, in her mouth + was an olive leaf plucked off. So Noah knew that the waters + were abated from the earth. +008:012 He stayed yet another seven days, and sent forth the dove; + and she didn't return to him any more. +008:013 It happened in the six hundred first year, in the first month, + the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth. + Noah removed the covering of the ship, and looked. + He saw that the surface of the ground was dried. +008:014 In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, + the earth was dry. +008:015 God spoke to Noah, saying, +008:016 "Go out of the ship, you, and your wife, and your sons, + and your sons' wives with you. +008:017 Bring forth with you every living thing that is with you + of all flesh, including birds, livestock, and every creeping + thing that creeps on the earth, that they may breed abundantly + in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply on the earth." +008:018 Noah went forth, with his sons, his wife, and his sons' + wives with him. +008:019 Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, whatever moves + on the earth, after their families, went out of the ship. +008:020 Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and took of every clean animal, + and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings + on the altar. +008:021 Yahweh smelled the sweet savor. Yahweh said in his heart, + "I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, + because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; + neither will I ever again strike everything living, + as I have done. +008:022 While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, + and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease." +009:001 God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, "Be fruitful, + and multiply, and replenish the earth. +009:002 The fear of you and the dread of you will be on every + animal of the earth, and on every bird of the sky. + Everything that the ground teems with, and all the fish + of the sea are delivered into your hand. +009:003 Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. + As the green herb, I have given everything to you. +009:004 But flesh with the life of it, the blood of it, you shall not eat. +009:005 I will surely require your blood of your lives. + At the hand of every animal I will require it. + At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother, + I will require the life of man. +009:006 Whoever sheds man's blood, his blood will be shed by man, + for God made man in his own image. +009:007 Be fruitful and multiply. Bring forth abundantly in the earth, + and multiply in it." +009:008 God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying, +009:009 "As for me, behold, I establish my covenant with you, + and with your offspring after you, +009:010 and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, + the livestock, and every animal of the earth with you, + of all that go out of the ship, even every animal of the earth. +009:011 I will establish my covenant with you: all flesh will not be cut + off any more by the waters of the flood, neither will there + ever again be a flood to destroy the earth." +009:012 God said, "This is the token of the covenant which I make + between me and you and every living creature that is with you, + for perpetual generations: +009:013 I set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be for a sign + of a covenant between me and the earth. +009:014 It will happen, when I bring a cloud over the earth, + that the rainbow will be seen in the cloud, +009:015 and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you + and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters will + no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. +009:016 The rainbow will be in the cloud. I will look at it, that I + may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every + living creature of all flesh that is on the earth." +009:017 God said to Noah, "This is the token of the covenant which I + have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth." +009:018 The sons of Noah who went forth from the ship were Shem, Ham, + and Japheth. Ham is the father of Canaan. +009:019 These three were the sons of Noah, and from these, the whole + earth was populated. +009:020 Noah began to be a farmer, and planted a vineyard. +009:021 He drank of the wine and got drunk. He was uncovered + within his tent. +009:022 Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, + and told his two brothers outside. +009:023 Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it on both their shoulders, + went in backwards, and covered the nakedness of their father. + Their faces were backwards, and they didn't see + their father's nakedness. +009:024 Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his youngest son had + done to him. +009:025 He said, "Canaan is cursed. He will be servant of servants + to his brothers." +009:026 He said, "Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Shem. Let Canaan + be his servant. +009:027 May God enlarge Japheth. Let him dwell in the tents of Shem. + Let Canaan be his servant." +009:028 Noah lived three hundred fifty years after the flood. +009:029 All the days of Noah were nine hundred fifty years, then he died. +010:001 Now this is the history of the generations of the sons of Noah + and of Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them + after the flood. +010:002 The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, + and Tiras. +010:003 The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah. +010:004 The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim. +010:005 Of these were the islands of the nations divided in their lands, + everyone after his language, after their families, + in their nations. +010:006 The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan. +010:007 The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. + The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan. +010:008 Cush became the father of Nimrod. He began to be a mighty + one in the earth. +010:009 He was a mighty hunter before Yahweh. Therefore it is said, + "Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before Yahweh." +010:010 The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, + in the land of Shinar. +010:011 Out of that land he went forth into Assyria, and built + Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah, +010:012 and Resen between Nineveh and Calah (the same is the great city). +010:013 Mizraim became the father of Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim, +010:014 Pathrusim, Casluhim (which the Philistines descended from), + and Caphtorim. +010:015 Canaan became the father of Sidon (his firstborn), Heth, +010:016 the Jebusite, the Amorite, the Girgashite, +010:017 the Hivite, the Arkite, the Sinite, +010:018 the Arvadite, the Zemarite, and the Hamathite. + Afterward the families of the Canaanites were spread abroad. +010:019 The border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as you go + toward Gerar, to Gaza; as you go toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, + and Zeboiim, to Lasha. +010:020 These are the sons of Ham, after their families, + after their languages, in their lands, in their nations. +010:021 To Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, the elder + brother of Japheth, to him also were children born. +010:022 The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram. +010:023 The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash. +010:024 Arpachshad became the father of Shelah. Shelah became + the father of Eber. +010:025 To Eber were born two sons. The name of the one was Peleg, + for in his days the earth was divided. His brother's + name was Joktan. +010:026 Joktan became the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, +010:027 Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, +010:028 Obal, Abimael, Sheba, +010:029 Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan. +010:030 Their dwelling was from Mesha, as you go toward Sephar, + the mountain of the east. +010:031 These are the sons of Shem, after their families, + after their languages, in their lands, after their nations. +010:032 These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, + in their nations. Of these were the nations divided in the earth + after the flood. +011:001 The whole earth was of one language and of one speech. +011:002 It happened, as they traveled east, that they found a plain + in the land of Shinar, and they lived there. +011:003 They said one to another, "Come, let's make bricks, and burn + them thoroughly." They had brick for stone, and they used + tar for mortar. +011:004 They said, "Come, let's build ourselves a city, and a tower + whose top reaches to the sky, and let's make ourselves a name, + lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth." +011:005 Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children + of men built. +011:006 Yahweh said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have + all one language, and this is what they begin to do. + Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do. +011:007 Come, let's go down, and there confuse their language, + that they may not understand one another's speech." +011:008 So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface + of all the earth. They stopped building the city. +011:009 Therefore the name of it was called Babel, because there + Yahweh confused the language of all the earth. From there, + Yahweh scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth. +011:010 This is the history of the generations of Shem. Shem was + one hundred years old and became the father of Arpachshad + two years after the flood. +011:011 Shem lived five hundred years after he became the father + of Arpachshad, and became the father of sons and daughters. +011:012 Arpachshad lived thirty-five years and became the father of Shelah. +011:013 Arpachshad lived four hundred three years after he became the father + of Shelah, and became the father of sons and daughters. +011:014 Shelah lived thirty years, and became the father of Eber: +011:015 and Shelah lived four hundred three years after he became + the father of Eber, and became the father of sons and daughters. +011:016 Eber lived thirty-four years, and became the father of Peleg. +011:017 Eber lived four hundred thirty years after he became the father + of Peleg, and became the father of sons and daughters. +011:018 Peleg lived thirty years, and became the father of Reu. +011:019 Peleg lived two hundred nine years after he became the father + of Reu, and became the father of sons and daughters. +011:020 Reu lived thirty-two years, and became the father of Serug. +011:021 Reu lived two hundred seven years after he became the father + of Serug, and became the father of sons and daughters. +011:022 Serug lived thirty years, and became the father of Nahor. +011:023 Serug lived two hundred years after he became the father of Nahor, + and became the father of sons and daughters. +011:024 Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and became the father of Terah. +011:025 Nahor lived one hundred nineteen years after he became the father + of Terah, and became the father of sons and daughters. +011:026 Terah lived seventy years, and became the father + of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. +011:027 Now this is the history of the generations of Terah. + Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. + Haran became the father of Lot. +011:028 Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his birth, + in Ur of the Chaldees. +011:029 Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, + and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran + who was also the father of Iscah. +011:030 Sarai was barren. She had no child. +011:031 Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son's son, + and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife. They went + forth from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. + They came to Haran and lived there. +011:032 The days of Terah were two hundred five years. + Terah died in Haran. +012:001 Now Yahweh said to Abram, "Get out of your country, + and from your relatives, and from your father's house, + to the land that I will show you. +012:002 I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make + your name great. You will be a blessing. +012:003 I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him + who curses you. In you will all of the families of the + earth be blessed." +012:004 So Abram went, as Yahweh had spoken to him. Lot went with him. + Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed out of Haran. +012:005 Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother's son, all their substance + that they had gathered, and the souls whom they had gotten + in Haran, and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan. + Into the land of Canaan they came. +012:006 Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, + to the oak of Moreh. The Canaanite was then in the land. +012:007 Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, "I will give this land to + your seed{or, offspring}." He built an altar there to Yahweh, + who appeared to him. +012:008 He left from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, + and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai + on the east. There he built an altar to Yahweh and called + on the name of Yahweh. +012:009 Abram traveled, going on still toward the South. +012:010 There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt + to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was severe + in the land. +012:011 It happened, when he had come near to enter Egypt, that he said + to Sarai his wife, "See now, I know that you are a beautiful + woman to look at. +012:012 It will happen, when the Egyptians will see you, that they + will say, 'This is his wife.' They will kill me, but they + will save you alive. +012:013 Please say that you are my sister, that it may be well with me + for your sake, and that my soul may live because of you." +012:014 It happened that when Abram had come into Egypt, the Egyptians + saw that the woman was very beautiful. +012:015 The princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh; + and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house. +012:016 He dealt well with Abram for her sake. He had sheep, + oxen, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, + female donkeys, and camels. +012:017 Yahweh plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues + because of Sarai, Abram's wife. +012:018 Pharaoh called Abram and said, "What is this that you have done + to me? Why didn't you tell me that she was your wife? +012:019 Why did you say, 'She is my sister,' so that I took her + to be my wife? Now therefore, see your wife, take her, + and go your way." +012:020 Pharaoh gave men charge concerning him, and they brought him + on the way with his wife and all that he had. +013:001 Abram went up out of Egypt: he, his wife, all that he had, + and Lot with him, into the South. +013:002 Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold. +013:003 He went on his journeys from the South even to Bethel, + to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, + between Bethel and Ai, +013:004 to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first. + There Abram called on the name of Yahweh. +013:005 Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents. +013:006 The land was not able to bear them, that they might live together: + for their substance was great, so that they could not live together. +013:007 There was a strife between the herdsmen of Abram's livestock + and the herdsmen of Lot's livestock: and the Canaanite + and the Perizzite lived in the land at that time. +013:008 Abram said to Lot, "Please, let there be no strife between + me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen; + for we are relatives. +013:009 Isn't the whole land before you? Please separate yourself from me. + If you go to the left hand, then I will go to the right. + Or if you go to the right hand, then I will go to the left." +013:010 Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan, + that it was well-watered everywhere, before Yahweh destroyed + Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Yahweh, like the land + of Egypt, as you go to Zoar. +013:011 So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself. + Lot traveled east, and they separated themselves the one + from the other. +013:012 Abram lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived in the cities + of the plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom. +013:013 Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners + against Yahweh. +013:014 Yahweh said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him, "Now, + lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, + northward and southward and eastward and westward, +013:015 for all the land which you see, I will give to you, and to + your offspring forever. +013:016 I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that + if a man can number the dust of the earth, then your seed + may also be numbered. +013:017 Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth + of it; for I will give it to you." +013:018 Abram moved his tent, and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, + which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to Yahweh. +014:001 It happened in the days of Amraphel, king of Shinar, Arioch, + king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Tidal, + king of Goiim, +014:002 that they made war with Bera, king of Sodom, and with Birsha, + king of Gomorrah, Shinab, king of Admah, and Shemeber, + king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar). +014:003 All these joined together in the valley of Siddim (the same + is the Salt Sea). +014:004 Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth + year, they rebelled. +014:005 In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer came, and the kings who + were with him, and struck the Rephaim in Ashteroth Karnaim, + and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh Kiriathaim, +014:006 and the Horites in their Mount Seir, to Elparan, which is + by the wilderness. +014:007 They returned, and came to En Mishpat (the same is Kadesh), + and struck all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, + that lived in Hazazon Tamar. +014:008 The king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king + of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela + (the same is Zoar) went out; and they set the battle in array + against them in the valley of Siddim; +014:009 against Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim, + and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; + four kings against the five. +014:010 Now the valley of Siddim was full of tar pits; and the kings + of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and they fell there, and those + who remained fled to the hills. +014:011 They took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their food, + and went their way. +014:012 They took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who lived in Sodom, + and his goods, and departed. +014:013 One who had escaped came and told Abram, the Hebrew. + Now he lived by the oaks of Mamre, the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, + and brother of Aner; and these were allies of Abram. +014:014 When Abram heard that his relative was taken captive, he led forth + his trained men, born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, + and pursued as far as Dan. +014:015 He divided himself against them by night, he and his servants, + and struck them, and pursued them to Hobah, which is on the left + hand of Damascus. +014:016 He brought back all the goods, and also brought back + his relative, Lot, and his goods, and the women also, + and the people. +014:017 The king of Sodom went out to meet him, after his return from + the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, + at the valley of Shaveh (that is, the King's Valley). +014:018 Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine: + and he was priest of God Most High. +014:019 He blessed him, and said, "Blessed be Abram of God Most High, + possessor of heaven and earth: +014:020 and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies + into your hand." Abram gave him a tenth of all. +014:021 The king of Sodom said to Abram, "Give me the people, + and take the goods to yourself." +014:022 Abram said to the king of Sodom, "I have lifted up my hand + to Yahweh, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth, +014:023 that I will not take a thread nor a sandal strap nor anything + that is yours, lest you should say, 'I have made Abram rich.' +014:024 I will accept nothing from you except that which the young men + have eaten, and the portion of the men who went with me: + Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre. Let them take their portion." +015:001 After these things the word of Yahweh came to Abram in + a vision, saying, "Don't be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, + your exceedingly great reward." +015:002 Abram said, "Lord Yahweh, what will you give me, seeing I + go childless, and he who will inherit my estate is + Eliezer of Damascus?" +015:003 Abram said, "Behold, to me you have given no seed: + and, behold, one born in my house is my heir." +015:004 Behold, the word of Yahweh came to him, saying, "This man will + not be your heir, but he who will come forth out of your own + body will be your heir." +015:005 Yahweh brought him outside, and said, "Look now toward the sky, + and count the stars, if you are able to count them." + He said to Abram, "So shall your seed be." +015:006 He believed in Yahweh; and he reckoned it to him for righteousness. +015:007 He said to him, "I am Yahweh who brought you out of Ur + of the Chaldees, to give you this land to inherit it." +015:008 He said, "Lord Yahweh, how will I know that I will inherit it?" +015:009 He said to him, "Bring me a heifer three years old, a female + goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, + and a young pigeon." +015:010 He brought him all of these, and divided them in the middle, + and laid each half opposite the other; but he didn't + divide the birds. +015:011 The birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and Abram + drove them away. +015:012 When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. + Now terror and great darkness fell on him. +015:013 He said to Abram, "Know for sure that your seed will live as + foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. + They will afflict them four hundred years. +015:014 I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve. + Afterward they will come out with great wealth, +015:015 but you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried + in a good old age. +015:016 In the fourth generation they will come here again, + for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full." +015:017 It came to pass that, when the sun went down, and it + was dark, behold, a smoking furnace, and a flaming torch + passed between these pieces. +015:018 In that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your + seed I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to + the great river, the river Euphrates: +015:019 the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, +015:020 the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, +015:021 the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites." +016:001 Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no children. She had a handmaid, + an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar. +016:002 Sarai said to Abram, "See now, Yahweh has restrained me from bearing. + Please go in to my handmaid. It may be that I will obtain + children by her." Abram listened to the voice of Sarai. +016:003 Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, + after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, + and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife. +016:004 He went in to Hagar, and she conceived. When she saw that she + had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes. +016:005 Sarai said to Abram, "This wrong is your fault. + I gave my handmaid into your bosom, and when she saw + that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes. + Yahweh judge between me and you." +016:006 But Abram said to Sarai, "Behold, your maid is in your hand. + Do to her whatever is good in your eyes." Sarai dealt harshly + with her, and she fled from her face. +016:007 The angel of Yahweh found her by a fountain of water in + the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur. +016:008 He said, "Hagar, Sarai's handmaid, where did you come from? + Where are you going?" She said, "I am fleeing from the face + of my mistress Sarai." +016:009 The angel of Yahweh said to her, "Return to your mistress, + and submit yourself under her hands." +016:010 The angel of Yahweh said to her, "I will greatly multiply + your seed, that they will not be numbered for multitude." +016:011 The angel of Yahweh said to her, "Behold, you are with child, + and will bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael, + because Yahweh has heard your affliction. +016:012 He will be like a wild donkey among men. His hand will + be against every man, and every man's hand against him. + He will live opposite all of his brothers." +016:013 She called the name of Yahweh who spoke to her, "You are + a God who sees," for she said, "Have I even stayed alive + after seeing him?" +016:014 Therefore the well was called Beer Lahai Roi.{Beer Lahai Roi + means "well of the one who lives and sees me."} Behold, + it is between Kadesh and Bered. +016:015 Hagar bore a son for Abram. Abram called the name of his son, + whom Hagar bore, Ishmael. +016:016 Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram. +017:001 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram, + and said to him, "I am God Almighty. Walk before me, + and be blameless. +017:002 I will make my covenant between me and you, and will + multiply you exceedingly." +017:003 Abram fell on his face. God talked with him, saying, +017:004 "As for me, behold, my covenant is with you. You will be + the father of a multitude of nations. +017:005 Neither will your name any more be called Abram, but your + name will be Abraham; for I have made you the father of a + multitude of nations. +017:006 I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you. + Kings will come out of you. +017:007 I will establish my covenant between me and you and your seed + after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, + to be a God to you and to your seed after you. +017:008 I will give to you, and to your seed after you, the land + where you are traveling, all the land of Canaan, for an + everlasting possession. I will be their God." +017:009 God said to Abraham, "As for you, you will keep my covenant, + you and your seed after you throughout their generations. +017:010 This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me + and you and your seed after you. Every male among you + shall be circumcised. +017:011 You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin. + It will be a token of the covenant between me and you. +017:012 He who is eight days old will be circumcised among you, + every male throughout your generations, he who is born + in the house, or bought with money from any foreigner who is + not of your seed. +017:013 He who is born in your house, and he who is bought with your money, + must be circumcised. My covenant will be in your flesh + for an everlasting covenant. +017:014 The uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh + of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his people. + He has broken my covenant." +017:015 God said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you shall not + call her name Sarai, but her name will be Sarah. +017:016 I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. + Yes, I will bless her, and she will be a mother of nations. + Kings of peoples will come from her." +017:017 Then Abraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, + "Will a child be born to him who is one hundred years old? + Will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?" +017:018 Abraham said to God, "Oh that Ishmael might live before you!" +017:019 God said, "No, but Sarah, your wife, will bear you a son. + You shall call his name Isaac.{Isaac means "he laughs."} I + will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant + for his seed after him. +017:020 As for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, + and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. + He will become the father of twelve princes, and I will make + him a great nation. +017:021 But my covenant I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear + to you at this set time next year." +017:022 When he finished talking with him, God went up from Abraham. +017:023 Abraham took Ishmael his son, all who were born in his house, + and all who were bought with his money; every male among + the men of Abraham's house, and circumcised the flesh of their + foreskin in the same day, as God had said to him. +017:024 Abraham was ninety-nine years old, when he was circumcised + in the flesh of his foreskin. +017:025 Ishmael, his son, was thirteen years old when he was circumcised + in the flesh of his foreskin. +017:026 In the same day both Abraham and Ishmael, his son, were circumcised. +017:027 All the men of his house, those born in the house, and those + bought with money of a foreigner, were circumcised with him. +018:001 Yahweh appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat + in the tent door in the heat of the day. +018:002 He lifted up his eyes and looked, and saw that three men + stood opposite him. When he saw them, he ran to meet them + from the tent door, and bowed himself to the earth, +018:003 and said, "My lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, + please don't go away from your servant. +018:004 Now let a little water be fetched, wash your feet, and rest + yourselves under the tree. +018:005 I will get a morsel of bread so you can refresh your heart. + After that you may go your way, now that you have come to + your servant." They said, "Very well, do as you have said." +018:006 Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, "Quickly make + ready three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes." +018:007 Abraham ran to the herd, and fetched a tender and good calf, + and gave it to the servant. He hurried to dress it. +018:008 He took butter, milk, and the calf which he had dressed, + and set it before them. He stood by them under the tree, + and they ate. +018:009 They said to him, "Where is Sarah, your wife? + He said, "See, in the tent." +018:010 He said, "I will certainly return to you when the season + comes round. Behold, Sarah your wife will have a son." + Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him. +018:011 Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. + It had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women. +018:012 Sarah laughed within herself, saying, "After I have grown old + will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?" +018:013 Yahweh said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh, saying, 'Will I + really bear a child, yet I am old?' +018:014 Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set time I will return + to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son." +018:015 Then Sarah denied, saying, "I didn't laugh," for she was afraid. + He said, "No, but you did laugh." +018:016 The men rose up from there, and looked toward Sodom. + Abraham went with them to see them on their way. +018:017 Yahweh said, "Will I hide from Abraham what I do, +018:018 seeing that Abraham has surely become a great and mighty nation, + and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him? +018:019 For I have known him, to the end that he may command his + children and his household after him, that they may keep + the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; + to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has + spoken of him." +018:020 Yahweh said, "Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, + and because their sin is very grievous, +018:021 I will go down now, and see whether their deeds are as bad + as the reports which have come to me. If not, I will know." +018:022 The men turned from there, and went toward Sodom, but Abraham + stood yet before Yahweh. +018:023 Abraham drew near, and said, "Will you consume the righteous + with the wicked? +018:024 What if there are fifty righteous within the city? + Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty + righteous who are in it? +018:025 Be it far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous + with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. + May that be far from you. Shouldn't the Judge of all + the earth do right?" +018:026 Yahweh said, "If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, + then I will spare all the place for their sake." +018:027 Abraham answered, "See now, I have taken it on myself to speak + to the Lord, who am but dust and ashes. +018:028 What if there will lack five of the fifty righteous? + Will you destroy all the city for lack of five?" He said, + "I will not destroy it, if I find forty-five there." +018:029 He spoke to him yet again, and said, "What if there are forty + found there?" He said, "I will not do it for the forty's sake." +018:030 He said, "Oh don't let the Lord be angry, and I will speak. + What if there are thirty found there?" He said, "I will not + do it, if I find thirty there." +018:031 He said, "See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord. + What if there are twenty found there?" He said, "I will not + destroy it for the twenty's sake." +018:032 He said, "Oh don't let the Lord be angry, and I will + speak just once more. What if ten are found there?" + He said, "I will not destroy it for the ten's sake." +018:033 Yahweh went his way, as soon as he had finished communing + with Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place. +019:001 The two angels came to Sodom at evening. Lot sat in the gate + of Sodom. Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. + He bowed himself with his face to the earth, +019:002 and he said, "See now, my lords, please turn aside into + your servant's house, stay all night, wash your feet, + and you will rise up early, and go on your way." + They said, "No, but we will stay in the street all night." +019:003 He urged them greatly, and they came in with him, and entered + into his house. He made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, + and they ate. +019:004 But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, + surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people + from every quarter. +019:005 They called to Lot, and said to him, "Where are the men + who came in to you this night? Bring them out to us, + that we may have sex with them." +019:006 Lot went out to them to the door, and shut the door after him. +019:007 He said, "Please, my brothers, don't act so wickedly. +019:008 See now, I have two virgin daughters. Please let me bring them + out to you, and you may do to them what seems good to you. + Only don't do anything to these men, because they have come + under the shadow of my roof." +019:009 They said, "Stand back!" They said, "This one fellow came + in to live as a foreigner, and he appoints himself a judge. + Now will we deal worse with you, than with them!" + They pressed hard on the man Lot, and drew near to break the door. +019:010 But the men put forth their hand, and brought Lot into the house + to them, and shut the door. +019:011 They struck the men who were at the door of the house + with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied + themselves to find the door. +019:012 The men said to Lot, "Do you have anybody else here? + Sons-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and whoever you + have in the city, bring them out of the place: +019:013 for we will destroy this place, because the outcry against + them has grown great before Yahweh that Yahweh has sent us + to destroy it." +019:014 Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were + pledged to marry his daughters, and said, "Get up! + Get out of this place, for Yahweh will destroy the city." + But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking. +019:015 When the morning came, then the angels hurried Lot, saying, "Get up! + Take your wife, and your two daughters who are here, + lest you be consumed in the iniquity of the city." +019:016 But he lingered; and the men grabbed his hand, his wife's hand, + and his two daughters' hands, Yahweh being merciful to him; + and they took him out, and set him outside of the city. +019:017 It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, + "Escape for your life! Don't look behind you, and don't + stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, + lest you be consumed!" +019:018 Lot said to them, "Oh, not so, my lord. +019:019 See now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you + have magnified your loving kindness, which you have shown + to me in saving my life. I can't escape to the mountain, + lest evil overtake me, and I die. +019:020 See now, this city is near to flee to, and it is a little one. + Oh let me escape there (isn't it a little one?), and my + soul will live." +019:021 He said to him, "Behold, I have granted your request concerning + this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which + you have spoken. +019:022 Hurry, escape there, for I can't do anything until you get there." + Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.{Zoar means "little."} +019:023 The sun had risen on the earth when Lot came to Zoar. +019:024 Then Yahweh rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire + from Yahweh out of the sky. +019:025 He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants + of the cities, and that which grew on the ground. +019:026 But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became + a pillar of salt. +019:027 Abraham got up early in the morning to the place where he had + stood before Yahweh. +019:028 He looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land + of the plain, and looked, and saw that the smoke of the land + went up as the smoke of a furnace. +019:029 It happened, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, + that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle + of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived. +019:030 Lot went up out of Zoar, and lived in the mountain, and his + two daughters with him; for he was afraid to live in Zoar. + He lived in a cave with his two daughters. +019:031 The firstborn said to the younger, "Our father is old, + and there is not a man in the earth to come in to us after + the manner of all the earth. +019:032 Come, let's make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, + that we may preserve our father's seed." +019:033 They made their father drink wine that night: + and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father. + He didn't know when she lay down, nor when she arose. +019:034 It came to pass on the next day, that the firstborn said + to the younger, "Behold, I lay last night with my father. + Let us make him drink wine again, tonight. You go in, + and lie with him, that we may preserve our father's seed." +019:035 They made their father drink wine that night also. + The younger went and lay with him. He didn't know when she + lay down, nor when she got up. +019:036 Thus both of Lot's daughters were with child by their father. +019:037 The firstborn bore a son, and named him Moab. He is the father + of the Moabites to this day. +019:038 The younger also bore a son, and called his name Ben Ammi. + He is the father of the children of Ammon to this day. +020:001 Abraham traveled from there toward the land of the South, and lived + between Kadesh and Shur. He lived as a foreigner in Gerar. +020:002 Abraham said about Sarah his wife, "She is my sister." + Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah. +020:003 But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said + to him, "Behold, you are a dead man, because of the woman + whom you have taken. For she is a man's wife." +020:004 Now Abimelech had not come near her. He said, "Lord, will you + kill even a righteous nation? +020:005 Didn't he tell me, 'She is my sister?' She, even she herself, + said, 'He is my brother.' In the integrity of my heart + and the innocence of my hands have I done this." +020:006 God said to him in the dream, "Yes, I know that in the integrity + of your heart you have done this, and I also withheld you + from sinning against me. Therefore I didn't allow you + to touch her. +020:007 Now therefore, restore the man's wife. For he is a prophet, + and he will pray for you, and you will live. If you don't + restore her, know for sure that you will die, you, and all + who are yours." +020:008 Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all + his servants, and told all these things in their ear. + The men were very scared. +020:009 Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, + "What have you done to us? How have I sinned against you, + that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? + You have done deeds to me that ought not to be done!" +020:010 Abimelech said to Abraham, "What did you see, that you have + done this thing?" +020:011 Abraham said, "Because I thought, 'Surely the fear of God is + not in this place. They will kill me for my wife's sake.' +020:012 Besides, she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, + but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife. +020:013 It happened, when God caused me to wander from my father's house, + that I said to her, 'This is your kindness which you shall show + to me. Everywhere that we go, say of me, "He is my brother."'" +020:014 Abimelech took sheep and oxen, male servants and female servants, + and gave them to Abraham, and restored Sarah, his wife, to him. +020:015 Abimelech said, "Behold, my land is before you. + Dwell where it pleases you." +020:016 To Sarah he said, "Behold, I have given your brother a thousand + pieces of silver. Behold, it is for you a covering of the eyes + to all that are with you. In front of all you are vindicated." +020:017 Abraham prayed to God. God healed Abimelech, and his wife, + and his female servants, and they bore children. +020:018 For Yahweh had closed up tight all the wombs of the house + of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife. +021:001 Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said, and Yahweh did to Sarah + as he had spoken. +021:002 Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, + at the set time of which God had spoken to him. +021:003 Abraham called his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore + to him, Isaac.{Isaac means "He laughs."} +021:004 Abraham circumcised his son, Isaac, when he was eight days old, + as God had commanded him. +021:005 Abraham was one hundred years old when his son, Isaac, + was born to him. +021:006 Sarah said, "God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears will + laugh with me." +021:007 She said, "Who would have said to Abraham, that Sarah would + nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old age." +021:008 The child grew, and was weaned. Abraham made a great feast + on the day that Isaac was weaned. +021:009 Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne + to Abraham, mocking. +021:010 Therefore she said to Abraham, "Cast out this handmaid and her son! + For the son of this handmaid will not be heir with my son, Isaac." +021:011 The thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight on account + of his son. +021:012 God said to Abraham, "Don't let it be grievous in your + sight because of the boy, and because of your handmaid. + In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. + For from Isaac will your seed be called. +021:013 I will also make a nation of the son of the handmaid, + because he is your seed." +021:014 Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a bottle + of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder; + and gave her the child, and sent her away. She departed, + and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba. +021:015 The water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child + under one of the shrubs. +021:016 She went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a bow + shot away. For she said, "Don't let me see the death of the child." + She sat over against him, and lifted up her voice, and wept. +021:017 God heard the voice of the boy. The angel of God called + to Hagar out of the sky, and said to her, "What ails + you, Hagar? Don't be afraid. For God has heard the voice + of the boy where he is. +021:018 Get up, lift up the boy, and hold him in your hand. + For I will make him a great nation." +021:019 God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. She went, + filled the bottle with water, and gave the boy drink. +021:020 God was with the boy, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness, + and became, as he grew up, an archer. +021:021 He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother took a wife + for him out of the land of Egypt. +021:022 It happened at that time, that Abimelech and Phicol the captain + of his army spoke to Abraham, saying, "God is with you in all + that you do. +021:023 Now, therefore, swear to me here by God that you will not deal + falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son. + But according to the kindness that I have done to you, + you shall do to me, and to the land in which you have lived + as a foreigner." +021:024 Abraham said, "I will swear." +021:025 Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, + which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away. +021:026 Abimelech said, "I don't know who has done this thing. + Neither did you tell me, neither did I hear of it, until today." +021:027 Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them to Abimelech. + Those two made a covenant. +021:028 Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves. +021:029 Abimelech said to Abraham, "What do these seven ewe lambs + which you have set by themselves mean?" +021:030 He said, "You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand, + that it may be a witness to me, that I have dug this well." +021:031 Therefore he called that place Beersheba,{Beersheba can + mean "well of the oath" or "well of seven."} because they + both swore there. +021:032 So they made a covenant at Beersheba. Abimelech rose up + with Phicol, the captain of his army, and they returned + into the land of the Philistines. +021:033 Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and called there + on the name of Yahweh, the Everlasting God. +021:034 Abraham lived as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines + many days. +022:001 It happened after these things, that God tested Abraham, + and said to him, "Abraham!" He said, "Here I am." +022:002 He said, "Now take your son, your only son, whom you love, + even Isaac, and go into the land of Moriah. Offer him there + for a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will + tell you of." +022:003 Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his donkey, + and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son. + He split the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, + and went to the place of which God had told him. +022:004 On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw + the place far off. +022:005 Abraham said to his young men, "Stay here with the donkey. + The boy and I will go yonder. We will worship, and come + back to you." +022:006 Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on + Isaac his son. He took in his hand the fire and the knife. + They both went together. +022:007 Isaac spoke to Abraham his father, and said, "My father?" + He said, "Here I am, my son." He said, "Here is the fire + and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?" +022:008 Abraham said, "God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering, + my son." So they both went together. +022:009 They came to the place which God had told him of. + Abraham built the altar there, and laid the wood in order, + bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar, on the wood. +022:010 Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to + kill his son. +022:011 The angel of Yahweh called to him out of the sky, and said, + "Abraham, Abraham!" He said, "Here I am." +022:012 He said, "Don't lay your hand on the boy, neither do anything to him. + For now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld + your son, your only son, from me." +022:013 Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and saw that behind + him was a ram caught in the thicket by his horns. + Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt + offering instead of his son. +022:014 Abraham called the name of that place Yahweh Will Provide{or, + Yahweh-Jireh, or, Yahweh-Seeing}. As it is said to this day, + "On Yahweh's mountain, it will be provided." +022:015 The angel of Yahweh called to Abraham a second time out + of the sky, +022:016 and said, "I have sworn by myself, says Yahweh, because you + have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, + your only son, +022:017 that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your seed + greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand + which is on the seashore. Your seed will possess the gate + of his enemies. +022:018 In your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed, + because you have obeyed my voice." +022:019 So Abraham returned to his young men, and they rose up and went + together to Beersheba. Abraham lived at Beersheba. +022:020 It happened after these things, that it was told Abraham, + saying, "Behold, Milcah, she also has borne children to + your brother Nahor: +022:021 Uz his firstborn, Buz his brother, Kemuel the father of Aram, +022:022 Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel." +022:023 Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore + to Nahor, Abraham's brother. +022:024 His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore + Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah. +023:001 Sarah lived one hundred twenty-seven years. This was the length + of Sarah's life. +023:002 Sarah died in Kiriath Arba (the same is Hebron), in the land + of Canaan. Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her. +023:003 Abraham rose up from before his dead, and spoke to the children + of Heth, saying, +023:004 "I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. + Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I + may bury my dead out of my sight." +023:005 The children of Heth answered Abraham, saying to him, +023:006 "Hear us, my lord. You are a prince of God among us. + Bury your dead in the best of our tombs. None of us will + withhold from you his tomb. Bury your dead." +023:007 Abraham rose up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, + even to the children of Heth. +023:008 He talked with them, saying, "If it be your mind that I should + bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and entreat for me + to Ephron the son of Zohar, +023:009 that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he has, + which is in the end of his field. For the full price let him + give it to me among you for a possession of a burying-place." +023:010 Now Ephron was sitting in the middle of the children of Heth. + Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of + the children of Heth, even of all who went in at the gate + of his city, saying, +023:011 "No, my lord, hear me. I give you the field, and I give you + the cave that is in it. In the presence of the children + of my people I give it to you. Bury your dead." +023:012 Abraham bowed himself down before the people of the land. +023:013 He spoke to Ephron in the audience of the people of + the land, saying, "But if you will, please hear me. + I will give the price of the field. Take it from me, + and I will bury my dead there." +023:014 Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him, +023:015 "My lord, listen to me. What is a piece of land worth + four hundred shekels of silver between me and you? + Therefore bury your dead." +023:016 Abraham listened to Ephron. Abraham weighed to Ephron + the silver which he had named in the audience of the children + of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the + current merchants' standard. +023:017 So the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was + before Mamre, the field, the cave which was in it, + and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all + of its borders, were deeded +023:018 to Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children + of Heth, before all who went in at the gate of his city. +023:019 After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave + of the field of Machpelah before Mamre (that is, Hebron), + in the land of Canaan. +023:020 The field, and the cave that is in it, were deeded to Abraham + for a possession of a burying place by the children of Heth. +024:001 Abraham was old, and well stricken in age. Yahweh had blessed + Abraham in all things. +024:002 Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his house, who ruled + over all that he had, "Please put your hand under my thigh. +024:003 I will make you swear by Yahweh, the God of heaven and the God + of the earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son + of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live. +024:004 But you shall go to my country, and to my relatives, and take + a wife for my son Isaac." +024:005 The servant said to him, "What if the woman isn't willing + to follow me to this land? Must I bring your son again + to the land you came from?" +024:006 Abraham said to him, "Beware that you don't bring my + son there again. +024:007 Yahweh, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house, + and from the land of my birth, who spoke to me, and who swore + to me, saying, 'I will give this land to your seed{or, offspring}.' + He will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife + for my son from there. +024:008 If the woman isn't willing to follow you, then you shall + be clear from this my oath. Only you shall not bring my + son there again." +024:009 The servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, + and swore to him concerning this matter. +024:010 The servant took ten camels, of his master's camels, and departed, + having a variety of good things of his master's with him. + He arose, and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor. +024:011 He made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well + of water at the time of evening, the time that women go out + to draw water. +024:012 He said, "Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, please give me + success this day, and show kindness to my master Abraham. +024:013 Behold, I am standing by the spring of water. The daughters + of the men of the city are coming out to draw water. +024:014 Let it happen, that the young lady to whom I will say, + 'Please let down your pitcher, that I may drink,' and she + will say, 'Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink,'-- + let her be the one you have appointed for your servant Isaac. + By this I will know that you have shown kindness to my master." +024:015 It happened, before he had finished speaking, that behold, + Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, + the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher + on her shoulder. +024:016 The young lady was very beautiful to look at, a virgin, + neither had any man known her. She went down to the spring, + filled her pitcher, and came up. +024:017 The servant ran to meet her, and said, "Please give me a drink, + a little water from your pitcher." +024:018 She said, "Drink, my lord." She hurried, and let down her + pitcher on her hand, and gave him drink. +024:019 When she had done giving him drink, she said, "I will also draw + for your camels, until they have done drinking." +024:020 She hurried, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran + again to the well to draw, and drew for all his camels. +024:021 The man looked steadfastly at her, remaining silent, to know + whether Yahweh had made his journey prosperous or not. +024:022 It happened, as the camels had done drinking, that the man + took a golden ring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets + for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold, +024:023 and said, "Whose daughter are you? Please tell me. + Is there room in your father's house for us to lodge in?" +024:024 She said to him, "I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, + whom she bore to Nahor." +024:025 She said moreover to him, "We have both straw and provender enough, + and room to lodge in." +024:026 The man bowed his head, and worshiped Yahweh. +024:027 He said, "Blessed be Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who has + not forsaken his loving kindness and his truth toward my master. + As for me, Yahweh has led me in the way to the house of + my master's relatives." +024:028 The young lady ran, and told her mother's house about these words. +024:029 Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban. Laban ran + out to the man, to the spring. +024:030 It happened, when he saw the ring, and the bracelets on his + sister's hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah + his sister, saying, "This is what the man said to me," + that he came to the man. Behold, he was standing by the camels + at the spring. +024:031 He said, "Come in, you blessed of Yahweh. Why do you stand outside? + For I have prepared the house, and room for the camels." +024:032 The man came into the house, and he unloaded the camels. + He gave straw and provender for the camels, and water to wash + his feet and the feet of the men who were with him. +024:033 Food was set before him to eat, but he said, "I will not eat + until I have told my message." He said, "Speak on." +024:034 He said, "I am Abraham's servant. +024:035 Yahweh has blessed my master greatly. He has become great. + He has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, + male servants and female servants, and camels and donkeys. +024:036 Sarah, my master's wife, bore a son to my master when she was old. + He has given all that he has to him. +024:037 My master made me swear, saying, 'You shall not take a wife + for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose + land I live, +024:038 but you shall go to my father's house, and to my relatives, + and take a wife for my son.' +024:039 I said to my master, 'What if the woman will not follow me?' +024:040 He said to me, 'Yahweh, before whom I walk, will send his + angel with you, and prosper your way. You shall take a wife + for my son of my relatives, and of my father's house. +024:041 Then will you be clear from my oath, when you come to my relatives. + If they don't give her to you, you shall be clear from my oath.' +024:042 I came this day to the spring, and said, 'Yahweh, the God + of my master Abraham, if now you do prosper my way which I go-- +024:043 behold, I am standing by this spring of water. Let it happen, + that the maiden who comes forth to draw, to whom I will say, + "Give me, I pray you, a little water from your pitcher to drink," +024:044 and she will tell me, "Drink, and I will also draw for + your camels,"--let her be the woman whom Yahweh has appointed + for my master's son.' +024:045 Before I had done speaking in my heart, behold, Rebekah came forth + with her pitcher on her shoulder. She went down to the spring, + and drew. I said to her, 'Please let me drink.' +024:046 She hurried and let down her pitcher from her shoulder, + and said, 'Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink.' + So I drank, and she made the camels drink also. +024:047 I asked her, and said, 'Whose daughter are you?' She said, + 'The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bore to him.' + I put the ring on her nose, and the bracelets on her hands. +024:048 I bowed my head, and worshiped Yahweh, and blessed Yahweh, + the God of my master Abraham, who had led me in the right way + to take my master's brother's daughter for his son. +024:049 Now if you will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me. + If not, tell me, that I may turn to the right hand, + or to the left." +024:050 Then Laban and Bethuel answered, "The thing proceeds from Yahweh. + We can't speak to you bad or good. +024:051 Behold, Rebekah is before you. Take her, and go, and let + her be your master's son's wife, as Yahweh has spoken." +024:052 It happened that when Abraham's servant heard their words, + he bowed himself down to the earth to Yahweh. +024:053 The servant brought forth jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, + and clothing, and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave precious + things to her brother and her mother. +024:054 They ate and drank, he and the men who were with him, + and stayed all night. They rose up in the morning, and he said, + "Send me away to my master." +024:055 Her brother and her mother said, "Let the young lady stay + with us a few days, at least ten. After that she will go." +024:056 He said to them, "Don't hinder me, seeing Yahweh has prospered + my way. Send me away that I may go to my master." +024:057 They said, "We will call the young lady, and ask her." +024:058 They called Rebekah, and said to her, "Will you go with this man?" + She said, "I will go." +024:059 They sent away Rebekah, their sister, with her nurse, + Abraham's servant, and his men. +024:060 They blessed Rebekah, and said to her, "Our sister, may you + be the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let your seed + possess the gate of those who hate them." +024:061 Rebekah arose with her ladies. They rode on the camels, + and followed the man. The servant took Rebekah, and went his way. +024:062 Isaac came from the way of Beer Lahai Roi, for he lived + in the land of the South. +024:063 Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the evening. + He lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, there + were camels coming. +024:064 Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, + she dismounted from the camel. +024:065 She said to the servant, "Who is the man who is walking in + the field to meet us?" The servant said, "It is my master." + She took her veil, and covered herself. +024:066 The servant told Isaac all the things that he had done. +024:067 Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, + and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. + Isaac was comforted after his mother's death. +025:001 Abraham took another wife, and her name was Keturah. +025:002 She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. +025:003 Jokshan became the father of Sheba, and Dedan. The sons + of Dedan were Asshurim, Letushim, and Leummim. +025:004 The sons of Midian: Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. + All these were the children of Keturah. +025:005 Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac, +025:006 but to the sons of Abraham's concubines, Abraham gave gifts. + He sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, + eastward, to the east country. +025:007 These are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived: + one hundred seventy-five years. +025:008 Abraham gave up the spirit, and died in a good old age, + an old man, and full of years, and was gathered to his people. +025:009 Isaac and Ishmael, his sons, buried him in the cave of Machpelah, + in the field of Ephron, the son of Zohar the Hittite, + which is before Mamre, +025:010 the field which Abraham purchased of the children of Heth. + Abraham was buried there with Sarah, his wife. +025:011 It happened after the death of Abraham that God blessed Isaac, + his son. Isaac lived by Beer Lahai Roi. +025:012 Now this is the history of the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, + whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bore to Abraham. +025:013 These are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, + according to the order of their birth: the firstborn + of Ishmael, Nebaioth, then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam, +025:014 Mishma, Dumah, Massa, +025:015 Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. +025:016 These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, + by their villages, and by their encampments: twelve princes, + according to their nations. +025:017 These are the years of the life of Ishmael: one hundred + thirty-seven years. He gave up the spirit and died, + and was gathered to his people. +025:018 They lived from Havilah to Shur that is before Egypt, as you + go toward Assyria. He lived opposite all his relatives. +025:019 This is the history of the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son. + Abraham became the father of Isaac. +025:020 Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter + of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan Aram, the sister of Laban + the Syrian, to be his wife. +025:021 Isaac entreated Yahweh for his wife, because she was barren. + Yahweh was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived. +025:022 The children struggled together within her. She said, + "If it be so, why do I live?" She went to inquire of Yahweh. +025:023 Yahweh said to her, Two nations are in your womb. + Two peoples will be separated from your body. + The one people will be stronger than the other people. + The elder will serve the younger. +025:024 When her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were + twins in her womb. +025:025 The first came out red all over, like a hairy garment. + They named him Esau. +025:026 After that, his brother came out, and his hand had hold on + Esau's heel. He was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old + when she bore them. +025:027 The boys grew. Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field. + Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents. +025:028 Now Isaac loved Esau, because he ate his venison. + Rebekah loved Jacob. +025:029 Jacob boiled stew. Esau came in from the field, + and he was famished. +025:030 Esau said to Jacob, "Please feed me with that same red stew, + for I am famished." Therefore his name was called Edom. +025:031 Jacob said, "First, sell me your birthright." +025:032 Esau said, "Behold, I am about to die. What good is the + birthright to me?" +025:033 Jacob said, "Swear to me first." He swore to him. + He sold his birthright to Jacob. +025:034 Jacob gave Esau bread and stew of lentils. He ate and drank, + rose up, and went his way. So Esau despised his birthright. +026:001 There was a famine in the land, besides the first famine + that was in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech + king of the Philistines, to Gerar. +026:002 Yahweh appeared to him, and said, "Don't go down into Egypt. + Live in the land I will tell you about. +026:003 Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. + For to you, and to your seed, I will give all these lands, and I + will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father. +026:004 I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and will + give to your seed all these lands. In your seed will all + the nations of the earth be blessed, +026:005 because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, + my commandments, my statutes, and my laws." +026:006 Isaac lived in Gerar. +026:007 The men of the place asked him about his wife. He said, + "She is my sister," for he was afraid to say, "My wife," + lest, he thought, "the men of the place might kill me for Rebekah, + because she is beautiful to look at." +026:008 It happened, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech + king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, + and, behold, Isaac was caressing Rebekah, his wife. +026:009 Abimelech called Isaac, and said, "Behold, surely she is your wife. + Why did you say, 'She is my sister?'" Isaac said to him, + "Because I said, 'Lest I die because of her.'" +026:010 Abimelech said, "What is this you have done to us? + One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, + and you would have brought guilt on us!" +026:011 Abimelech charged all the people, saying, "He who touches this + man or his wife will surely be put to death." +026:012 Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one + hundred times what he planted. Yahweh blessed him. +026:013 The man grew great, and grew more and more until he + became very great. +026:014 He had possessions of flocks, possessions of herds, + and a great household. The Philistines envied him. +026:015 Now all the wells which his father's servants had dug in + the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped, + and filled with earth. +026:016 Abimelech said to Isaac, "Go from us, for you are much + mightier than we." +026:017 Isaac departed from there, encamped in the valley of Gerar, + and lived there. +026:018 Isaac dug again the wells of water, which they had dug in the days + of Abraham his father. For the Philistines had stopped them + after the death of Abraham. He called their names after + the names by which his father had called them. +026:019 Isaac's servants dug in the valley, and found there a well + of springing water. +026:020 The herdsmen of Gerar argued with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, + "The water is ours." He called the name of the well Esek, + because they contended with him. +026:021 They dug another well, and they argued over that, also. + He called the name of it Sitnah. +026:022 He left that place, and dug another well. They didn't + argue over that one. He called it Rehoboth. He said, + "For now Yahweh has made room for us, and we will be fruitful + in the land." +026:023 He went up from there to Beersheba. +026:024 Yahweh appeared to him the same night, and said, "I am + the God of Abraham your father. Don't be afraid, for I am + with you, and will bless you, and multiply your seed for my + servant Abraham's sake." +026:025 He built an altar there, and called on the name of Yahweh, + and pitched his tent there. There Isaac's servants dug a well. +026:026 Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, + and Phicol the captain of his army. +026:027 Isaac said to them, "Why have you come to me, since you hate me, + and have sent me away from you?" +026:028 They said, "We saw plainly that Yahweh was with you. + We said, 'Let there now be an oath between us, even between us + and you, and let us make a covenant with you, +026:029 that you will do us no harm, as we have not touched you, + and as we have done to you nothing but good, and have sent + you away in peace.' You are now the blessed of Yahweh." +026:030 He made them a feast, and they ate and drank. +026:031 They rose up some time in the morning, and swore one to another. + Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace. +026:032 It happened the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told + him concerning the well which they had dug, and said to him, + "We have found water." +026:033 He called it Shibah.{Shibah means "oath" or "seven."} Therefore + the name of the city is Beersheba{Beersheba means "well of the oath" + or "well of the seven"} to this day. +026:034 When Esau was forty years old, he took as wife Judith, + the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter + of Elon the Hittite. +026:035 They grieved Isaac's and Rebekah's spirits. +027:001 It happened, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, + so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, + and said to him, "My son?" He said to him, "Here I am." +027:002 He said, "See now, I am old. I don't know the day of my death. +027:003 Now therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, + and go out to the field, and take me venison. +027:004 Make me savory food, such as I love, and bring it to me, + that I may eat, and that my soul may bless you before I die." +027:005 Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. + Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it. +027:006 Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, "Behold, I heard + your father speak to Esau your brother, saying, +027:007 'Bring me venison, and make me savory food, that I may eat, + and bless you before Yahweh before my death.' +027:008 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which + I command you. +027:009 Go now to the flock, and get me from there two good kids + of the goats. I will make them savory food for your father, + such as he loves. +027:010 You shall bring it to your father, that he may eat, so that + he may bless you before his death." +027:011 Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, "Behold, Esau my brother + is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man. +027:012 What if my father touches me? I will seem to him as a deceiver, + and I would bring a curse on myself, and not a blessing." +027:013 His mother said to him, "Let your curse be on me, my son. + Only obey my voice, and go get them for me." +027:014 He went, and got them, and brought them to his mother. + His mother made savory food, such as his father loved. +027:015 Rebekah took the good clothes of Esau, her elder son, + which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob, + her younger son. +027:016 She put the skins of the kids of the goats on his hands, + and on the smooth of his neck. +027:017 She gave the savory food and the bread, which she had prepared, + into the hand of her son Jacob. +027:018 He came to his father, and said, "My father?" He said, "Here I am. + Who are you, my son?" +027:019 Jacob said to his father, "I am Esau your firstborn. + I have done what you asked me to do. Please arise, sit and eat + of my venison, that your soul may bless me." +027:020 Isaac said to his son, "How is it that you have found it so quickly, + my son?" He said, "Because Yahweh your God gave me success." +027:021 Isaac said to Jacob, "Please come near, that I may feel you, + my son, whether you are really my son Esau or not." +027:022 Jacob went near to Isaac his father. He felt him, and said, + "The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau." +027:023 He didn't recognize him, because his hands were hairy, + like his brother, Esau's hands. So he blessed him. +027:024 He said, "Are you really my son Esau?" He said, "I am." +027:025 He said, "Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son's venison, + that my soul may bless you." He brought it near to him, and he ate. + He brought him wine, and he drank. +027:026 His father Isaac said to him, "Come near now, and kiss me, my son." +027:027 He came near, and kissed him. He smelled the smell of his clothing, + and blessed him, and said, "Behold, the smell of my son + is as the smell of a field which Yahweh has blessed. +027:028 God give you of the dew of the sky, of the fatness of the earth, + and plenty of grain and new wine. +027:029 Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. + Be lord over your brothers. Let your mother's sons + bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you. + Blessed be everyone who blesses you." +027:030 It happened, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, + and Jacob had just gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, + that Esau his brother came in from his hunting. +027:031 He also made savory food, and brought it to his father. + He said to his father, "Let my father arise, and eat of his + son's venison, that your soul may bless me." +027:032 Isaac his father said to him, "Who are you?" He said, + "I am your son, your firstborn, Esau." +027:033 Isaac trembled violently, and said, "Who, then, is he who has + taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before + you came, and have blessed him? Yes, he will be blessed." +027:034 When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an + exceeding great and bitter cry, and said to his father, + "Bless me, even me also, my father." +027:035 He said, "Your brother came with deceit, and has taken + away your blessing." +027:036 He said, "Isn't he rightly named Jacob? For he has + supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright. + See, now he has taken away my blessing." He said, "Haven't you + reserved a blessing for me?" +027:037 Isaac answered Esau, "Behold, I have made him your lord, + and all his brothers have I given to him for servants. + With grain and new wine have I sustained him. What then + will I do for you, my son?" +027:038 Esau said to his father, "Have you but one blessing, my father? + Bless me, even me also, my father." Esau lifted up + his voice, and wept. +027:039 Isaac his father answered him, "Behold, of the fatness of the earth + will be your dwelling, and of the dew of the sky from above. +027:040 By your sword will you live, and you will serve your brother. + It will happen, when you will break loose, that you shall + shake his yoke from off your neck." +027:041 Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father + blessed him. Esau said in his heart, "The days of mourning + for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob." +027:042 The words of Esau, her elder son, were told to Rebekah. + She sent and called Jacob, her younger son, and said + to him, "Behold, your brother Esau comforts himself about you + by planning to kill you. +027:043 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban, + my brother, in Haran. +027:044 Stay with him a few days, until your brother's fury turns away; +027:045 until your brother's anger turn away from you, and he forgets what + you have done to him. Then I will send, and get you from there. + Why should I be bereaved of you both in one day?" +027:046 Rebekah said to Isaac, "I am weary of my life because of + the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters + of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, + what good will my life do me?" +028:001 Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, "You shall + not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan. +028:002 Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your + mother's father. Take a wife from there from the daughters + of Laban, your mother's brother. +028:003 May God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, + that you may be a company of peoples, +028:004 and give you the blessing of Abraham, to you, and to your seed + with you, that you may inherit the land where you travel, + which God gave to Abraham." +028:005 Isaac sent Jacob away. He went to Paddan Aram to Laban, son of + Bethuel the Syrian, Rebekah's brother, Jacob's and Esau's mother. +028:006 Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away + to Paddan Aram, to take him a wife from there, and that as + he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, "You shall not + take a wife of the daughters of Canaan," +028:007 and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone + to Paddan Aram. +028:008 Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan didn't please Isaac, + his father. +028:009 Esau went to Ishmael, and took, besides the wives that he had, + Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's son, the sister + of Nebaioth, to be his wife. +028:010 Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran. +028:011 He came to a certain place, and stayed there all night, + because the sun had set. He took one of the stones of the place, + and put it under his head, and lay down in that place to sleep. +028:012 He dreamed. Behold, a stairway set upon the earth, and the top + of it reached to heaven. Behold, the angels of God ascending + and descending on it. +028:013 Behold, Yahweh stood above it, and said, "I am Yahweh, + the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac. + The land whereon you lie, to you will I give it, and to your seed. +028:014 Your seed will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread + abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, + and to the south. In you and in your seed will all the families + of the earth be blessed. +028:015 Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, + and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you, + until I have done that which I have spoken of to you." +028:016 Jacob awakened out of his sleep, and he said, "Surely Yahweh + is in this place, and I didn't know it." +028:017 He was afraid, and said, "How dreadful is this place! + This is none other than God's house, and this is the + gate of heaven." +028:018 Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone + that he had put under his head, and set it up for a pillar, + and poured oil on the top of it. +028:019 He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city + was Luz at the first. +028:020 Jacob vowed a vow, saying, "If God will be with me, and will + keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, + and clothing to put on, +028:021 so that I come again to my father's house in peace, and Yahweh + will be my God, +028:022 then this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, will be + God's house. Of all that you will give me I will surely give + the tenth to you." +029:001 Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of + the children of the east. +029:002 He looked, and behold, a well in the field, and, behold, three flocks + of sheep lying there by it. For out of that well they watered + the flocks. The stone on the well's mouth was large. +029:003 There all the flocks were gathered. They rolled the stone + from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone + again on the well's mouth in its place. +029:004 Jacob said to them, "My relatives, where are you from?" + They said, "We are from Haran." +029:005 He said to them, "Do you know Laban, the son of Nahor?" They said, + "We know him." +029:006 He said to them, "Is it well with him?" They said, "It is well. + See, Rachel, his daughter, is coming with the sheep." +029:007 He said, "Behold, it is still the middle of the day, + not time to gather the livestock together. Water the sheep, + and go and feed them." +029:008 They said, "We can't, until all the flocks are gathered + together, and they roll the stone from the well's mouth. + Then we water the sheep." +029:009 While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her + father's sheep, for she kept them. +029:010 It happened, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban, + his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother's brother, + that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, + and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother. +029:011 Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept. +029:012 Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother, and that + he was Rebekah's son. She ran and told her father. +029:013 It happened, when Laban heard the news of Jacob, his sister's son, + that he ran to meet Jacob, and embraced him, and kissed him, + and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban all these things. +029:014 Laban said to him, Surely you are my bone and my flesh. + He lived with him for a month. +029:015 Laban said to Jacob, "Because you are my brother, should you + therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will + your wages be?" +029:016 Laban had two daughters. The name of the elder was Leah, + and the name of the younger was Rachel. +029:017 Leah's eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in + form and attractive. +029:018 Jacob loved Rachel. He said, "I will serve you seven years + for Rachel, your younger daughter." +029:019 Laban said, "It is better that I give her to you, than that I + should give her to another man. Stay with me." +029:020 Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him + but a few days, for the love he had for her. +029:021 Jacob said to Laban, "Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, + that I may go in to her." +029:022 Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast. +029:023 It happened in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, + and brought her to him. He went in to her. +029:024 Laban gave Zilpah his handmaid to his daughter Leah for a handmaid. +029:025 It happened in the morning that, behold, it was Leah. + He said to Laban, "What is this you have done to me? + Didn't I serve with you for Rachel? Why then have + you deceived me?" +029:026 Laban said, "It is not done so in our place, to give the younger + before the firstborn. +029:027 Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other + also for the service which you will serve with me yet + seven other years." +029:028 Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave him Rachel + his daughter as wife. +029:029 Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah, his handmaid, + to be her handmaid. +029:030 He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, + and served with him yet seven other years. +029:031 Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, + but Rachel was barren. +029:032 Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Reuben. + For she said, "Because Yahweh has looked at my affliction. + For now my husband will love me." +029:033 She conceived again, and bore a son, and said, "Because Yahweh has + heard that I am hated, he has therefore given me this son also." + She named him Simeon. +029:034 She conceived again, and bore a son. Said, "Now this time will my + husband be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons." + Therefore was his name called Levi. +029:035 She conceived again, and bore a son. She said, "This time + will I praise Yahweh." Therefore she named him Judah. + Then she stopped bearing. +030:001 When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied + her sister. She said to Jacob, "Give me children, or else + I will die." +030:002 Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, + "Am I in God's place, who has withheld from you the fruit + of the womb?" +030:003 She said, "Behold, my maid Bilhah. Go in to her, that she + may bear on my knees, and I also may obtain children by her." +030:004 She gave him Bilhah her handmaid as wife, and Jacob went + in to her. +030:005 Bilhah conceived, and bore Jacob a son. +030:006 Rachel said, "God has judged me, and has also heard my voice, + and has given me a son." Therefore called she his name Dan. +030:007 Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid, conceived again, and bore Jacob + a second son. +030:008 Rachel said, "With mighty wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, + and have prevailed." She named him Naphtali. +030:009 When Leah saw that she had finished bearing, she took Zilpah, + her handmaid, and gave her to Jacob as a wife. +030:010 Zilpah, Leah's handmaid, bore Jacob a son. +030:011 Leah said, "How fortunate!" She named him Gad. +030:012 Zilpah, Leah's handmaid, bore Jacob a second son. +030:013 Leah said, "Happy am I, for the daughters will call me happy." + She named him Asher. +030:014 Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes + in the field, and brought them to his mother, Leah. Then Rachel + said to Leah, "Please give me some of your son's mandrakes." +030:015 She said to her, "Is it a small matter that you have taken away + my husband? Would you take away my son's mandrakes, also?" + Rachel said, "Therefore he will lie with you tonight for + your son's mandrakes." +030:016 Jacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah went + out to meet him, and said, "You must come in to me; + for I have surely hired you with my son's mandrakes." + He lay with her that night. +030:017 God listened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob + a fifth son. +030:018 Leah said, "God has given me my hire, because I gave my handmaid + to my husband." She named him Issachar. +030:019 Leah conceived again, and bore a sixth son to Jacob. +030:020 Leah said, "God has endowed me with a good dowry. Now my + husband will live with me, because I have borne him six sons." + She named him Zebulun. +030:021 Afterwards, she bore a daughter, and named her Dinah. +030:022 God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb. +030:023 She conceived, bore a son, and said, "God has taken + away my reproach." +030:024 She named him Joseph,{Joseph means "may he add."} saying, + "May Yahweh add another son to me." +030:025 It happened, when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said + to Laban, "Send me away, that I may go to my own place, + and to my country. +030:026 Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, + and let me go; for you know my service with which I + have served you." +030:027 Laban said to him, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, + stay here, for I have divined that Yahweh has blessed me + for your sake." +030:028 He said, "Appoint me your wages, and I will give it." +030:029 He said to him, "You know how I have served you, and how your + livestock have fared with me. +030:030 For it was little which you had before I came, and it has increased + to a multitude. Yahweh has blessed you wherever I turned. + Now when will I provide for my own house also?" +030:031 He said, "What shall I give you?" Jacob said, "You shall + not give me anything. If you will do this thing for me, + I will again feed your flock and keep it. +030:032 I will pass through all your flock today, removing from there + every speckled and spotted one, and every black one among + the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats. + This will be my hire. +030:033 So my righteousness will answer for me hereafter, + when you come concerning my hire that is before you. + Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, + and black among the sheep, that might be with me, + will be counted stolen." +030:034 Laban said, "Behold, I desire it to be according to your word." +030:035 That day, he removed the male goats that were streaked and spotted, + and all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, + every one that had white in it, and all the black ones among + the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons. +030:036 He set three days' journey between himself and Jacob, + and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks. +030:037 Jacob took to himself rods of fresh poplar, almond, plane tree, + peeled white streaks in them, and made the white appear + which was in the rods. +030:038 He set the rods which he had peeled opposite the flocks in the + gutters in the watering-troughs where the flocks came to drink. + They conceived when they came to drink. +030:039 The flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought + forth streaked, speckled, and spotted. +030:040 Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks + toward the streaked and all the black in the flock of Laban: + and he put his own droves apart, and didn't put them + into Laban's flock. +030:041 It happened, whenever the stronger of the flock conceived, + that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the flock + in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods; +030:042 but when the flock were feeble, he didn't put them in. + So the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's. +030:043 The man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, + female servants and male servants, and camels and donkeys. +031:001 He heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, "Jacob has taken away + all that was our father's. From that which was our father's, + has he gotten all this wealth." +031:002 Jacob saw the expression on Laban's face, and, behold, it was + not toward him as before. +031:003 Yahweh said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your fathers, + and to your relatives, and I will be with you." +031:004 Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field to his flock, +031:005 and said to them, "I see the expression on your father's face, + that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father + has been with me. +031:006 You know that I have served your father with all of my strength. +031:007 Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, + but God didn't allow him to hurt me. +031:008 If he said this, 'The speckled will be your wages,' then all + the flock bore speckled. If he said this, 'The streaked + will be your wages,' then all the flock bore streaked. +031:009 Thus God has taken away your father's livestock, and given + them to me. +031:010 It happened during mating season that I lifted up my eyes, + and saw in a dream, and behold, the male goats which leaped + on the flock were streaked, speckled, and grizzled. +031:011 The angel of God said to me in the dream, 'Jacob,' and I said, + 'Here I am.' +031:012 He said, 'Now lift up your eyes, and behold, all the male goats + which leap on the flock are streaked, speckled, and grizzled, + for I have seen all that Laban does to you. +031:013 I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar, where you + vowed a vow to me. Now arise, get out from this land, + and return to the land of your birth.'" +031:014 Rachel and Leah answered him, "Is there yet any portion + or inheritance for us in our father's house? +031:015 Aren't we accounted by him as foreigners? For he has sold us, + and has also quite devoured our money. +031:016 For all the riches which God has taken away from our father, + that is ours and our children's. Now then, whatever God has + said to you, do." +031:017 Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives on the camels, +031:018 and he took away all his livestock, and all his possessions + which he had gathered, including the livestock which + he had gained in Paddan Aram, to go to Isaac his father, + to the land of Canaan. +031:019 Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep: and Rachel stole + the teraphim{teraphim were household idols that may have been + associated with inheritance rights to the household property.} + that were her father's. +031:020 Jacob deceived Laban the Syrian, in that he didn't tell him + that he was running away. +031:021 So he fled with all that he had. He rose up, passed over the River, + and set his face toward the mountain of Gilead. +031:022 Laban was told on the third day that Jacob had fled. +031:023 He took his relatives with him, and pursued after him + seven days' journey. He overtook him in the mountain of Gilead. +031:024 God came to Laban, the Syrian, in a dream of the night, + and said to him, "Take heed to yourself that you don't speak + to Jacob either good or bad." +031:025 Laban caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent + in the mountain, and Laban with his relatives encamped + in the mountain of Gilead. +031:026 Laban said to Jacob, "What have you done, that you have deceived me, + and carried away my daughters like captives of the sword? +031:027 Why did you flee secretly, and deceive me, and didn't tell me, + that I might have sent you away with mirth and with songs, + with tambourine and with harp; +031:028 and didn't allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? + Now have you done foolishly. +031:029 It is in the power of my hand to hurt you, but the God of your + father spoke to me last night, saying, 'Take heed to yourself + that you don't speak to Jacob either good or bad.' +031:030 Now, you want to be gone, because you greatly longed for your + father's house, but why have you stolen my gods?" +031:031 Jacob answered Laban, "Because I was afraid, for I said, + 'Lest you should take your daughters from me by force.' +031:032 Anyone you find your gods with shall not live. + Before our relatives, discern what is yours with me, and take it." + For Jacob didn't know that Rachel had stolen them. +031:033 Laban went into Jacob's tent, into Leah's tent, and into + the tent of the two female servants; but he didn't find them. + He went out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent. +031:034 Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, put them in the camel's + saddle, and sat on them. Laban felt about all the tent, + but didn't find them. +031:035 She said to her father, "Don't let my lord be angry that I + can't rise up before you; for the manner of women is on me." + He searched, but didn't find the teraphim. +031:036 Jacob was angry, and argued with Laban. Jacob answered + Laban, "What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have + hotly pursued after me? +031:037 Now that you have felt around in all my stuff, what have you found + of all your household stuff? Set it here before my relatives + and your relatives, that they may judge between us two. +031:038 These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your + female goats have not cast their young, and I haven't eaten + the rams of your flocks. +031:039 That which was torn of animals, I didn't bring to you. + I bore the loss of it. Of my hand you required it, + whether stolen by day or stolen by night. +031:040 This was my situation: in the day the drought consumed me, + and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes. +031:041 These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen + years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, + and you have changed my wages ten times. +031:042 Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear + of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me + away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, + and rebuked you last night." +031:043 Laban answered Jacob, "The daughters are my daughters, + the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks, + and all that you see is mine: and what can I do this day to + these my daughters, or to their children whom they have borne? +031:044 Now come, let us make a covenant, you and I; and let it be + for a witness between me and you." +031:045 Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar. +031:046 Jacob said to his relatives, "Gather stones." They took stones, + and made a heap. They ate there by the heap. +031:047 Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha,{"Jegar Sahadutha" + means "Witness Heap" in Aramaic.} but Jacob called + it Galeed.{"Galeed" means "Witness Heap" in Hebrew.} +031:048 Laban said, "This heap is witness between me and you this day." + Therefore it was named Galeed +031:049 and Mizpah, for he said, "Yahweh watch between me and you, + when we are absent one from another. +031:050 If you afflict my daughters, or if you take wives besides + my daughters, no man is with us; behold, God is witness + between me and you." +031:051 Laban said to Jacob, "See this heap, and see the pillar, + which I have set between me and you. +031:052 May this heap be a witness, and the pillar be a witness, + that I will not pass over this heap to you, and that you + will not pass over this heap and this pillar to me, for harm. +031:053 The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, + judge between us." Then Jacob swore by the fear of + his father, Isaac. +031:054 Jacob offered a sacrifice in the mountain, and called his + relatives to eat bread. They ate bread, and stayed all night + in the mountain. +031:055 Early in the morning, Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and + his daughters, and blessed them. Laban departed and returned + to his place. +032:001 Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him. +032:002 When he saw them, Jacob said, "This is God's army." + He called the name of that place Mahanaim. +032:003 Jacob sent messengers in front of him to Esau, his brother, + to the land of Seir, the field of Edom. +032:004 He commanded them, saying, "This is what you shall tell + my lord, Esau: 'This is what your servant, Jacob, says. + I have lived as a foreigner with Laban, and stayed until now. +032:005 I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, male servants, and female servants. + I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in your sight.'" +032:006 The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, "We came to your + brother Esau. Not only that, but he comes to meet you, + and four hundred men with him." +032:007 Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed. + He divided the people who were with him, and the flocks, + and the herds, and the camels, into two companies; +032:008 and he said, "If Esau comes to the one company, and strikes it, + then the company which is left will escape." +032:009 Jacob said, "God of my father Abraham, and God of my + father Isaac, Yahweh, who said to me, 'Return to your country, + and to your relatives, and I will do you good,' +032:010 I am not worthy of the least of all the loving kindnesses, + and of all the truth, which you have shown to your servant; + for with just my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I + have become two companies. +032:011 Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: + for I fear him, lest he come and strike me, and the mothers + with the children. +032:012 You said, 'I will surely do you good, and make your seed + as the sand of the sea, which can't be numbered because there + are so many.'" +032:013 He lodged there that night, and took from that which he had + with him, a present for Esau, his brother: +032:014 two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred + ewes and twenty rams, +032:015 thirty milk camels and their colts, forty cows, ten bulls, + twenty female donkeys and ten foals. +032:016 He delivered them into the hands of his servants, every herd + by itself, and said to his servants, "Pass over before me, + and put a space between herd and herd." +032:017 He commanded the foremost, saying, "When Esau, my brother, meets you, + and asks you, saying, 'Whose are you? Where are you going? + Whose are these before you?' +032:018 Then you shall say, 'They are your servant, Jacob's. It is a + present sent to my lord, Esau. Behold, he also is behind us.'" +032:019 He commanded also the second, and the third, and all that followed + the herds, saying, "This is how you shall speak to Esau, + when you find him. +032:020 You shall say, 'Not only that, but behold, your servant, Jacob, + is behind us.'" For, he said, "I will appease him with the present + that goes before me, and afterward I will see his face. + Perhaps he will accept me." +032:021 So the present passed over before him, and he himself lodged + that night in the camp. +032:022 He rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two handmaids, + and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford of the Jabbok. +032:023 He took them, and sent them over the stream, and sent over + that which he had. +032:024 Jacob was left alone, and wrestled with a man there until + the breaking of the day. +032:025 When he saw that he didn't prevail against him, he touched + the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Jacob's thigh + was strained, as he wrestled. +032:026 The man said, "Let me go, for the day breaks." Jacob said, + "I won't let you go, unless you bless me." +032:027 He said to him, "What is your name?" He said, "Jacob." +032:028 He said, "Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; + for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed." +032:029 Jacob asked him, "Please tell me your name." + He said, "Why is it that you ask what my name is?" + He blessed him there. +032:030 Jacob called the name of the place Peniel{Peniel means "face + of God."}: for, he said, "I have seen God face to face, + and my life is preserved." +032:031 The sun rose on him as he passed over Peniel, and he limped + because of his thigh. +032:032 Therefore the children of Israel don't eat the sinew of + the hip, which is on the hollow of the thigh, to this day, + because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew + of the hip. +033:001 Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau was coming, + and with him four hundred men. He divided the children + between Leah, Rachel, and the two handmaids. +033:002 He put the handmaids and their children in front, Leah and her + children after, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear. +033:003 He himself passed over in front of them, and bowed himself + to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother. +033:004 Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, kissed him, + and they wept. +033:005 He lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; + and said, "Who are these with you?" He said, "The children + whom God has graciously given your servant." +033:006 Then the handmaids came near with their children, + and they bowed themselves. +033:007 Leah also and her children came near, and bowed themselves. + After them, Joseph came near with Rachel, and they bowed themselves. +033:008 Esau said, "What do you mean by all this company which I met?" + Jacob said, "To find favor in the sight of my lord." +033:009 Esau said, "I have enough, my brother; let that which you + have be yours." +033:010 Jacob said, "Please, no, if I have now found favor in your sight, + then receive my present at my hand, because I have seen your face, + as one sees the face of God, and you were pleased with me. +033:011 Please take the gift that I brought to you, because God has + dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough." + He urged him, and he took it. +033:012 Esau said, "Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I + will go before you." +033:013 Jacob said to him, "My lord knows that the children are tender, + and that the flocks and herds with me have their young, + and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die. +033:014 Please let my lord pass over before his servant, and I + will lead on gently, according to the pace of the livestock + that are before me and according to the pace of the children, + until I come to my lord to Seir." +033:015 Esau said, "Let me now leave with you some of the folk who are + with me." He said, "Why? Let me find favor in the sight + of my lord." +033:016 So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir. +033:017 Jacob traveled to Succoth, built himself a house, and made + shelters for his livestock. Therefore the name of the place + is called Succoth.{succoth means shelters or booths.} +033:018 Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem, which is + in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan Aram; + and encamped before the city. +033:019 He bought the parcel of ground where he had spread his tent, + at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, + for one hundred pieces of money. +033:020 He erected an altar there, and called it El Elohe Israel.{El + Elohe Israel means "God, the God of Israel" or "The God + of Israel is mighty."} +034:001 Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out + to see the daughters of the land. +034:002 Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her. + He took her, lay with her, and humbled her. +034:003 His soul joined to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved + the young lady, and spoke kindly to the young lady. +034:004 Shechem spoke to his father, Hamor, saying, "Get me this young + lady as a wife." +034:005 Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah, his daughter; + and his sons were with his livestock in the field. + Jacob held his peace until they came. +034:006 Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to talk with him. +034:007 The sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it. + The men were grieved, and they were very angry, because he + had done folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter; + a which thing ought not to be done. +034:008 Hamor talked with them, saying, "The soul of my son, Shechem, + longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife. +034:009 Make marriages with us. Give your daughters to us, and take + our daughters for yourselves. +034:010 You shall dwell with us, and the land will be before you. + Live and trade in it, and get possessions in it." +034:011 Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, "Let me find + favor in your eyes, and whatever you will tell me I will give. +034:012 Ask me a great amount for a dowry, and I will give whatever + you ask of me, but give me the young lady as a wife." +034:013 The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit, + and spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister, +034:014 and said to them, "We can't do this thing, to give our sister + to one who is uncircumcised; for that is a reproach to us. +034:015 Only on this condition will we consent to you. If you will + be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised; +034:016 then will we give our daughters to you, and we will take + your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we + will become one people. +034:017 But if you will not listen to us, to be circumcised, then we + will take our sister,{Hebrew has, literally, "daughter"} and we + will be gone." +034:018 Their words pleased Hamor and Shechem, Hamor's son. +034:019 The young man didn't wait to do this thing, because he had delight + in Jacob's daughter, and he was honored above all the house + of his father. +034:020 Hamor and Shechem, his son, came to the gate of their city, + and talked with the men of their city, saying, +034:021 "These men are peaceful with us. Therefore let them live in the land + and trade in it. For behold, the land is large enough for them. + Let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give + them our daughters. +034:022 Only on this condition will the men consent to us to live with us, + to become one people, if every male among us is circumcised, + as they are circumcised. +034:023 Won't their livestock and their possessions and all their + animals be ours? Only let us give our consent to them, + and they will dwell with us." +034:024 All who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor, + and to Shechem his son; and every male was circumcised, + all who went out of the gate of his city. +034:025 It happened on the third day, when they were sore, + that two of Jacob's sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, + each took his sword, came upon the unsuspecting city, + and killed all the males. +034:026 They killed Hamor and Shechem, his son, with the edge of the sword, + and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went away. +034:027 Jacob's sons came on the dead, and plundered the city, + because they had defiled their sister. +034:028 They took their flocks, their herds, their donkeys, that which + was in the city, that which was in the field, +034:029 and all their wealth. They took captive all their little ones + and their wives, and took as plunder everything that was + in the house. +034:030 Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You have troubled me, + to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, + among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I am few in number. + They will gather themselves together against me and strike me, + and I will be destroyed, I and my house." +034:031 They said, "Should he deal with our sister as with a prostitute?" +035:001 God said to Jacob, "Arise, go up to Bethel, and live there. + Make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled + from the face of Esau your brother." +035:002 Then Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him, + "Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, + change your garments. +035:003 Let us arise, and go up to Bethel. I will make there + an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, + and was with me in the way which I went." +035:004 They gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hands, + and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them + under the oak which was by Shechem. +035:005 They traveled, and a terror of God was on the cities that were + around them, and they didn't pursue the sons of Jacob. +035:006 So Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land + of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him. +035:007 He built an altar there, and called the place El Beth El; + because there God was revealed to him, when he fled from + the face of his brother. +035:008 Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel + under the oak; and the name of it was called Allon Bacuth. +035:009 God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan Aram, + and blessed him. +035:010 God said to him, "Your name is Jacob. Your name shall + not be Jacob any more, but your name will be Israel." + He named him Israel. +035:011 God said to him, "I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. + A nation and a company of nations will be from you, and kings + will come out of your body. +035:012 The land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give it to you, + and to your seed after you will I give the land." +035:013 God went up from him in the place where he spoke with him. +035:014 Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he spoke with him, + a pillar of stone. He poured out a drink offering on it, + and poured oil on it. +035:015 Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him "Bethel." +035:016 They traveled from Bethel. There was still some distance + to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor. +035:017 When she was in hard labor, the midwife said to her, + "Don't be afraid, for now you will have another son." +035:018 It happened, as her soul was departing (for she died), + that she named him Benoni,{"Benoni" means "son of my + trouble."} but his father named him Benjamin.{"Benjamin" + means "son of my right hand."} +035:019 Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath + (the same is Bethlehem). +035:020 Jacob set up a pillar on her grave. The same is the Pillar + of Rachel's grave to this day. +035:021 Israel traveled, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Eder. +035:022 It happened, while Israel lived in that land, that Reuben went and + lay with Bilhah, his father's concubine, and Israel heard of it. + Now the sons of Jacob were twelve. +035:023 The sons of Leah: Reuben (Jacob's firstborn), + Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun. +035:024 The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin. +035:025 The sons of Bilhah (Rachel's handmaid): Dan and Naphtali. +035:026 The sons of Zilpah (Leah's handmaid): Gad and Asher. + These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan Aram. +035:027 Jacob came to Isaac his father, to Mamre, to Kiriath Arba + (which is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac lived as foreigners. +035:028 The days of Isaac were one hundred eighty years. +035:029 Isaac gave up the spirit, and died, and was gathered to his people, + old and full of days. Esau and Jacob, his sons, buried him. +036:001 Now this is the history of the generations of Esau + (that is, Edom). +036:002 Esau took his wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah the daughter + of Elon, the Hittite; and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, + the daughter of Zibeon, the Hivite; +036:003 and Basemath, Ishmael's daughter, sister of Nebaioth. +036:004 Adah bore to Esau Eliphaz. Basemath bore Reuel. +036:005 Oholibamah bore Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. These are the sons + of Esau, who were born to him in the land of Canaan. +036:006 Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all the members + of his household, with his livestock, all his animals, and all + his possessions, which he had gathered in the land of Canaan, + and went into a land away from his brother Jacob. +036:007 For their substance was too great for them to dwell together, + and the land of their travels couldn't bear them because + of their livestock. +036:008 Esau lived in the hill country of Seir. Esau is Edom. +036:009 This is the history of the generations of Esau the father + of the Edomites in the hill country of Seir: +036:010 these are the names of Esau's sons: Eliphaz, the son + of Adah, the wife of Esau; and Reuel, the son of Basemath, + the wife of Esau. +036:011 The sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and Kenaz. +036:012 Timna was concubine to Eliphaz, Esau's son; and she bore + to Eliphaz Amalek. These are the sons of Adah, Esau's wife. +036:013 These are the sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. + These were the sons of Basemath, Esau's wife. +036:014 These were the sons of Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah, + the daughter of Zibeon, Esau's wife: she bore to + Esau Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. +036:015 These are the chiefs of the sons of Esau: the sons of + Eliphaz the firstborn of Esau: chief Teman, chief Omar, + chief Zepho, chief Kenaz, +036:016 chief Korah, chief Gatam, chief Amalek: these are the chiefs + who came of Eliphaz in the land of Edom; these are the + sons of Adah. +036:017 These are the sons of Reuel, Esau's son: + chief Nahath, chief Zerah, chief Shammah, chief Mizzah: + these are the chiefs who came of Reuel in the land of Edom; + these are the sons of Basemath, Esau's wife. +036:018 These are the sons of Oholibamah, Esau's wife: chief Jeush, + chief Jalam, chief Korah: these are the chiefs who came + of Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, Esau's wife. +036:019 These are the sons of Esau (that is, Edom), and these + are their chiefs. +036:020 These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: + Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, +036:021 Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. These are the chiefs who came + of the Horites, the children of Seir in the land of Edom. +036:022 The children of Lotan were Hori and Heman. Lotan's sister was Timna. +036:023 These are the children of Shobal: Alvan, Manahath, Ebal, Shepho, + and Onam. +036:024 These are the children of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah. + This is Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness, + as he fed the donkeys of Zibeon his father. +036:025 These are the children of Anah: Dishon and Oholibamah, + the daughter of Anah. +036:026 These are the children of Dishon: Hemdan, Eshban, Ithran, + and Cheran. +036:027 These are the children of Ezer: Bilhan, Zaavan, and Akan. +036:028 These are the children of Dishan: Uz and Aran. +036:029 These are the chiefs who came of the Horites: chief Lotan, + chief Shobal, chief Zibeon, chief Anah, +036:030 chief Dishon, chief Ezer, and chief Dishan: these are + the chiefs who came of the Horites, according to their chiefs + in the land of Seir. +036:031 These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom, + before any king reigned over the children of Israel. +036:032 Bela, the son of Beor, reigned in Edom. The name of his + city was Dinhabah. +036:033 Bela died, and Jobab, the son of Zerah of Bozrah, + reigned in his place. +036:034 Jobab died, and Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned + in his place. +036:035 Husham died, and Hadad, the son of Bedad, who struck + Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his place. + The name of his city was Avith. +036:036 Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his place. +036:037 Samlah died, and Shaul of Rehoboth by the river, + reigned in his place. +036:038 Shaul died, and Baal Hanan, the son of Achbor reigned + in his place. +036:039 Baal Hanan the son of Achbor died, and Hadar reigned in his place. + The name of his city was Pau. His wife's name was Mehetabel, + the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab. +036:040 These are the names of the chiefs who came from Esau, according to + their families, after their places, and by their names: + chief Timna, chief Alvah, chief Jetheth, +036:041 chief Oholibamah, chief Elah, chief Pinon, +036:042 chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief Mibzar, +036:043 chief Magdiel, and chief Iram. These are the chiefs of Edom, + according to their habitations in the land of their possession. + This is Esau, the father of the Edomites. +037:001 Jacob lived in the land of his father's travels, in the + land of Canaan. +037:002 This is the history of the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being + seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. + He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. + Joseph brought an evil report of them to their father. +037:003 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, + because he was the son of his old age, and he made him a coat + of many colors. +037:004 His brothers saw that their father loved him more than + all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn't speak + peaceably to him. +037:005 Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, + and they hated him all the more. +037:006 He said to them, "Please hear this dream which I have dreamed: +037:007 for behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, + my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and behold, your sheaves + came around, and bowed down to my sheaf." +037:008 His brothers said to him, "Will you indeed reign over us? + Or will you indeed have dominion over us?" They hated him + all the more for his dreams and for his words. +037:009 He dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brothers, + and said, "Behold, I have dreamed yet another dream: + and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed + down to me." +037:010 He told it to his father and to his brothers. His father rebuked him, + and said to him, "What is this dream that you have dreamed? + Will I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow + ourselves down to you to the earth?" +037:011 His brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in mind. +037:012 His brothers went to feed their father's flock in Shechem. +037:013 Israel said to Joseph, "Aren't your brothers feeding + the flock in Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them." + He said to him, "Here I am." +037:014 He said to him, "Go now, see whether it is well with your brothers, + and well with the flock; and bring me word again." + So he sent him out of the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem. +037:015 A certain man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the field. + The man asked him, "What are you looking for?" +037:016 He said, "I am looking for my brothers. Tell me, please, + where they are feeding the flock." +037:017 The man said, "They have left here, for I heard them say, + 'Let us go to Dothan.'" Joseph went after his brothers, + and found them in Dothan. +037:018 They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, + they conspired against him to kill him. +037:019 They said one to another, "Behold, this dreamer comes. +037:020 Come now therefore, and let's kill him, and cast him into one + of the pits, and we will say, 'An evil animal has devoured him.' + We will see what will become of his dreams." +037:021 Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and said, + "Let's not take his life." +037:022 Reuben said to them, "Shed no blood. Throw him into this + pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand on him"-- + that he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him + to his father. +037:023 It happened, when Joseph came to his brothers, that they stripped + Joseph of his coat, the coat of many colors that was on him; +037:024 and they took him, and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty. + There was no water in it. +037:025 They sat down to eat bread, and they lifted up their eyes and looked, + and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, + with their camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh, + going to carry it down to Egypt. +037:026 Judah said to his brothers, "What profit is it if we kill + our brother and conceal his blood? +037:027 Come, and let's sell him to the Ishmaelites, and not let + our hand be on him; for he is our brother, our flesh." + His brothers listened to him. +037:028 Midianites who were merchants passed by, and they drew and lifted + up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites + for twenty pieces of silver. They brought Joseph into Egypt. +037:029 Reuben returned to the pit; and saw that Joseph wasn't in the pit; + and he tore his clothes. +037:030 He returned to his brothers, and said, "The child is no more; + and I, where will I go?" +037:031 They took Joseph's coat, and killed a male goat, and dipped + the coat in the blood. +037:032 They took the coat of many colors, and they brought + it to their father, and said, "We have found this. + Examine it, now, whether it is your son's coat or not." +037:033 He recognized it, and said, "It is my son's coat. + An evil animal has devoured him. Joseph is without doubt + torn in pieces." +037:034 Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his waist, + and mourned for his son many days. +037:035 All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, + but he refused to be comforted. He said, "For I will go down + to Sheol{Sheol is the place of the dead.} to my son mourning." + His father wept for him. +037:036 The Midianites sold him into Egypt to Potiphar, an officer + of Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard. +038:001 It happened at that time, that Judah went down from his brothers, + and visited a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah. +038:002 Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name + was Shua. He took her, and went in to her. +038:003 She conceived, and bore a son; and he named him Er. +038:004 She conceived again, and bore a son; and she named him Onan. +038:005 She yet again bore a son, and named him Shelah: + and he was at Chezib, when she bore him. +038:006 Judah took a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar. +038:007 Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of Yahweh. + Yahweh killed him. +038:008 Judah said to Onan, "Go in to your brother's wife, and perform + the duty of a husband's brother to her, and raise up seed + to your brother." +038:009 Onan knew that the seed wouldn't be his; and it happened, + when he went in to his brother's wife, that he spilled it + on the ground, lest he should give seed to his brother. +038:010 The thing which he did was evil in the sight of Yahweh, + and he killed him also. +038:011 Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, "Remain a widow + in your father's house, until Shelah, my son, is grown up;" + for he said, "Lest he also die, like his brothers." + Tamar went and lived in her father's house. +038:012 After many days, Shua's daughter, the wife of Judah, died. + Judah was comforted, and went up to his sheepshearers to Timnah, + he and his friend Hirah, the Adullamite. +038:013 It was told Tamar, saying, "Behold, your father-in-law is going + up to Timnah to shear his sheep." +038:014 She took off of her the garments of her widowhood, + and covered herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, + and sat in the gate of Enaim, which is by the way to Timnah; + for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she wasn't given + to him as a wife. +038:015 When Judah saw her, he thought that she was a prostitute, + for she had covered her face. +038:016 He turned to her by the way, and said, "Please come, + let me come in to you," for he didn't know that she was + his daughter-in-law. She said, "What will you give me, + that you may come in to me?" +038:017 He said, "I will send you a kid of the goats from the flock." + She said, "Will you give me a pledge, until you send it?" +038:018 He said, "What pledge will I give you?" She said, "Your signet + and your cord, and your staff that is in your hand." + He gave them to her, and came in to her, and she conceived by him. +038:019 She arose, and went away, and put off her veil from her, + and put on the garments of her widowhood. +038:020 Judah sent the kid of the goats by the hand of his friend, + the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman's hand, + but he didn't find her. +038:021 Then he asked the men of her place, saying, "Where is + the prostitute, that was at Enaim by the road?" They said, + "There has been no prostitute here." +038:022 He returned to Judah, and said, "I haven't found her; + and also the men of the place said, 'There has been + no prostitute here.'" +038:023 Judah said, "Let her keep it, lest we be shamed. Behold, I sent + this kid, and you haven't found her." +038:024 It happened about three months later, that it was told Judah, + saying, "Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has played the prostitute; + and moreover, behold, she is with child by prostitution." + Judah said, "Bring her forth, and let her be burnt." +038:025 When she was brought forth, she sent to her father-in-law, + saying, "By the man, whose these are, I am with child." + She also said, "Please discern whose are these--the signet, + and the cords, and the staff." +038:026 Judah acknowledged them, and said, "She is more righteous + than I, because I didn't give her to Shelah, my son." + He knew her again no more. +038:027 It happened in the time of her travail, that behold, + twins were in her womb. +038:028 When she travailed, one put out a hand, and the midwife took and tied + a scarlet thread on his hand, saying, "This came out first." +038:029 It happened, as he drew back his hand, that behold, his brother + came out, and she said, "Why have you made a breach for yourself?" + Therefore his name was called Perez.{Perez means "breaking out."} +038:030 Afterward his brother came out, that had the scarlet + thread on his hand, and his name was called Zerah.{Zerah + means "scarlet" or "brightness."} +039:001 Joseph was brought down to Egypt. Potiphar, an officer + of Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, + bought him from the hand of the Ishmaelites that had brought + him down there. +039:002 Yahweh was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man. + He was in the house of his master the Egyptian. +039:003 His master saw that Yahweh was with him, and that Yahweh made + all that he did prosper in his hand. +039:004 Joseph found favor in his sight. He ministered to him, + and he made him overseer over his house, and all that he had + he put into his hand. +039:005 It happened from the time that he made him overseer in his house, + and over all that he had, that Yahweh blessed the Egyptian's + house for Joseph's sake; and the blessing of Yahweh was on + all that he had, in the house and in the field. +039:006 He left all that he had in Joseph's hand. He didn't concern + himself with anything, except for the food which he ate. + Joseph was well-built and handsome. +039:007 It happened after these things, that his master's wife cast + her eyes on Joseph; and she said, "Lie with me." +039:008 But he refused, and said to his master's wife, "Behold, my master + doesn't know what is with me in the house, and he has put + all that he has into my hand. +039:009 He isn't greater in this house than I, neither has he kept + back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. + How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?" +039:010 As she spoke to Joseph day by day, he didn't listen to her, + to lie by her, or to be with her. +039:011 About this time, he went into the house to do his work, + and there were none of the men of the house inside. +039:012 She caught him by his garment, saying, "Lie with me!" + He left his garment in her hand, and ran outside. +039:013 When she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, + and had run outside, +039:014 she called to the men of her house, and spoke to them, + saying, "Behold, he has brought in a Hebrew to us to mock us. + He came in to me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice. +039:015 It happened, when he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, + that he left his garment by me, and ran outside." +039:016 She laid up his garment by her, until his master came home. +039:017 She spoke to him according to these words, saying, "The Hebrew + servant, whom you have brought to us, came in to me to mock me, +039:018 and it happened, as I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left + his garment by me, and ran outside." +039:019 It happened, when his master heard the words of his wife, + which she spoke to him, saying, "This is what your servant + did to me," that his wrath was kindled. +039:020 Joseph's master took him, and put him into the prison, + the place where the king's prisoners were bound, and he was + there in custody. +039:021 But Yahweh was with Joseph, and showed kindness to him, + and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison. +039:022 The keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand all + the prisoners who were in the prison. Whatever they did there, + he was responsible for it. +039:023 The keeper of the prison didn't look after anything that was under + his hand, because Yahweh was with him; and that which he did, + Yahweh made it prosper. +040:001 It happened after these things, that the butler of the king + of Egypt and his baker offended their lord, the king of Egypt. +040:002 Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cupbearer + and the chief baker. +040:003 He put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, + into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound. +040:004 The captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph, and he took + care of them. They stayed in prison many days. +040:005 They both dreamed a dream, each man his dream, in one night, + each man according to the interpretation of his dream, + the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were + bound in the prison. +040:006 Joseph came in to them in the morning, and saw them, and saw + that they were sad. +040:007 He asked Pharaoh's officers who were with him in custody in his + master's house, saying, "Why do you look so sad today?" +040:008 They said to him, "We have dreamed a dream, and there + is no one who can interpret it." Joseph said to them, + "Don't interpretations belong to God? Please tell it to me." +040:009 The chief cupbearer told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, + "In my dream, behold, a vine was in front of me, +040:010 and in the vine were three branches. It was as though it budded, + its blossoms shot forth, and the clusters of it brought + forth ripe grapes. +040:011 Pharaoh's cup was in my hand; and I took the grapes, + and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup, and I gave the cup + into Pharaoh's hand." +040:012 Joseph said to him, "This is the interpretation of it: + the three branches are three days. +040:013 Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head, + and restore you to your office. You will give Pharaoh's cup + into his hand, the way you did when you were his cupbearer. +040:014 But remember me when it will be well with you, and show + kindness, please, to me, and make mention of me to Pharaoh, + and bring me out of this house. +040:015 For indeed, I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews, + and here also have I done nothing that they should put me + into the dungeon." +040:016 When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, + he said to Joseph, "I also was in my dream, and behold, + three baskets of white bread were on my head. +040:017 In the uppermost basket there was all kinds of baked food + for Pharaoh, and the birds ate them out of the basket + on my head." +040:018 Joseph answered, "This is the interpretation of it. + The three baskets are three days. +040:019 Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head from + off you, and will hang you on a tree; and the birds will eat + your flesh from off you." +040:020 It happened the third day, which was Pharaoh's birthday, + that he made a feast for all his servants, and he lifted up + the head of the chief cupbearer and the head of the chief + baker among his servants. +040:021 He restored the chief cupbearer to his position again, + and he gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand; +040:022 but he hanged the chief baker, as Joseph had interpreted to them. +040:023 Yet the chief cupbearer didn't remember Joseph, but forgot him. +041:001 It happened at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: + and behold, he stood by the river. +041:002 Behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, sleek and fat, + and they fed in the marsh grass. +041:003 Behold, seven other cattle came up after them out of the river, + ugly and thin, and stood by the other cattle on the brink + of the river. +041:004 The ugly and thin cattle ate up the seven sleek and fat cattle. + So Pharaoh awoke. +041:005 He slept and dreamed a second time: and behold, seven heads + of grain came up on one stalk, healthy and good. +041:006 Behold, seven heads of grain, thin and blasted with the east wind, + sprung up after them. +041:007 The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven healthy and full ears. + Pharaoh awoke, and behold, it was a dream. +041:008 It happened in the morning that his spirit was troubled, + and he sent and called for all of Egypt's magicians and wise men. + Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was no one who could + interpret them to Pharaoh. +041:009 Then the chief cupbearer spoke to Pharaoh, saying, "I remember + my faults today. +041:010 Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and put me in custody in + the house of the captain of the guard, me and the chief baker. +041:011 We dreamed a dream in one night, I and he. We dreamed each man + according to the interpretation of his dream. +041:012 There was with us there a young man, a Hebrew, servant to the captain + of the guard, and we told him, and he interpreted to us our dreams. + To each man according to his dream he interpreted. +041:013 It happened, as he interpreted to us, so it was: + he restored me to my office, and he hanged him." +041:014 Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily + out of the dungeon. He shaved himself, changed his clothing, + and came in to Pharaoh. +041:015 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I have dreamed a dream, and there + is no one who can interpret it. I have heard it said of you, + that when you hear a dream you can interpret it." +041:016 Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, "It isn't in me. + God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace." +041:017 Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, "In my dream, behold, I stood on + the brink of the river: +041:018 and behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, + fat and sleek. They fed in the marsh grass, +041:019 and behold, seven other cattle came up after them, poor and + very ugly and thin, such as I never saw in all the land + of Egypt for ugliness. +041:020 The thin and ugly cattle ate up the first seven fat cattle, +041:021 and when they had eaten them up, it couldn't be known that they + had eaten them, but they were still ugly, as at the beginning. + So I awoke. +041:022 I saw in my dream, and behold, seven heads of grain came up + on one stalk, full and good: +041:023 and behold, seven heads of grain, withered, thin, and blasted + with the east wind, sprung up after them. +041:024 The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads of grain. + I told it to the magicians, but there was no one who could + explain it to me." +041:025 Joseph said to Pharaoh, "The dream of Pharaoh is one. + What God is about to do he has declared to Pharaoh. +041:026 The seven good cattle are seven years; and the seven good heads + of grain are seven years. The dream is one. +041:027 The seven thin and ugly cattle that came up after them are + seven years, and also the seven empty heads of grain blasted + with the east wind; they will be seven years of famine. +041:028 That is the thing which I spoke to Pharaoh. What God is about + to do he has shown to Pharaoh. +041:029 Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout + all the land of Egypt. +041:030 There will arise after them seven years of famine, + and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. + The famine will consume the land, +041:031 and the plenty will not be known in the land by reason of that + famine which follows; for it will be very grievous. +041:032 The dream was doubled to Pharaoh, because the thing is established + by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass. +041:033 "Now therefore let Pharaoh look for a discreet and wise man, + and set him over the land of Egypt. +041:034 Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint overseers over the land, + and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt's produce + in the seven plenteous years. +041:035 Let them gather all the food of these good years that come, + and lay up grain under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities, + and let them keep it. +041:036 The food will be for a store to the land against the seven + years of famine, which will be in the land of Egypt; + that the land not perish through the famine." +041:037 The thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes + of all his servants. +041:038 Pharaoh said to his servants, "Can we find such a one as this, + a man in whom is the Spirit of God?" +041:039 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Because God has shown you all of this, + there is none so discreet and wise as you. +041:040 You shall be over my house, and according to your word + will all my people be ruled. Only in the throne I will be + greater than you." +041:041 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Behold, I have set you over all + the land of Egypt." +041:042 Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand, and put it + on Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in robes of fine linen, + and put a gold chain about his neck, +041:043 and he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had. + They cried before him, "Bow the knee!" He set him over all + the land of Egypt. +041:044 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I am Pharaoh, and without you shall + no man lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt." +041:045 Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphenath-Paneah; and he gave + him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On as a wife. + Joseph went out over the land of Egypt. +041:046 Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king + of Egypt. Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, + and went throughout all the land of Egypt. +041:047 In the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth abundantly. +041:048 He gathered up all the food of the seven years which were + in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: + the food of the field, which was round about every city, + he laid up in the same. +041:049 Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, + until he stopped counting, for it was without number. +041:050 To Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came, + whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, + bore to him. +041:051 Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh,{"Manasseh" + sounds like the Hebrew for "forget."} "For," he said, "God has + made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house." +041:052 The name of the second, he called Ephraim{"Ephraim" + sounds like the Hebrew for "twice fruitful."}: "For God has + made me fruitful in the land of my affliction." +041:053 The seven years of plenty, that were in the land of Egypt, + came to an end. +041:054 The seven years of famine began to come, just as Joseph had said. + There was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt + there was bread. +041:055 When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh + for bread, and Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, "Go to Joseph. + What he says to you, do." +041:056 The famine was over all the surface of the earth. + Joseph opened all the store houses, and sold to the Egyptians. + The famine was severe in the land of Egypt. +041:057 All countries came into Egypt, to Joseph, to buy grain, + because the famine was severe in all the earth. +042:001 Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said + to his sons, "Why do you look at one another?" +042:002 He said, "Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. + Go down there, and buy for us from there, so that we may live, + and not die." +042:003 Joseph's ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt. +042:004 But Jacob didn't send Benjamin, Joseph's brother, with his brothers; + for he said, "Lest perhaps harm happen to him." +042:005 The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, + for the famine was in the land of Canaan. +042:006 Joseph was the governor over the land. It was he who sold + to all the people of the land. Joseph's brothers came, + and bowed themselves down to him with their faces to the earth. +042:007 Joseph saw his brothers, and he recognized them, but acted + like a stranger to them, and spoke roughly with them. + He said to them, "Where did you come from?" They said, + "From the land of Canaan to buy food." +042:008 Joseph recognized his brothers, but they didn't recognize him. +042:009 Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed about them, + and said to them, "You are spies! You have come to see + the nakedness of the land." +042:010 They said to him, "No, my lord, but your servants have come + to buy food. +042:011 We are all one man's sons; we are honest men. Your servants + are not spies." +042:012 He said to them, "No, but you have come to see the nakedness + of the land." +042:013 They said, "We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons + of one man in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest + is this day with our father, and one is no more." +042:014 Joseph said to them, "It is like I told you, saying, 'You are spies.' +042:015 By this you shall be tested. By the life of Pharaoh, + you shall not go forth from here, unless your youngest + brother comes here. +042:016 Send one of you, and let him get your brother, and you shall be bound, + that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you, + or else by the life of Pharaoh surely you are spies." +042:017 He put them all together into custody for three days. +042:018 Joseph said to them the third day, "Do this, and live, + for I fear God. +042:019 If you are honest men, then let one of your brothers be bound + in your prison; but you go, carry grain for the famine + of your houses. +042:020 Bring your youngest brother to me; so will your words be verified, + and you won't die." They did so. +042:021 They said one to another, "We are certainly guilty concerning + our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, + when he begged us, and we wouldn't listen. Therefore this + distress has come upon us." +042:022 Reuben answered them, saying, "Didn't I tell you, saying, + 'Don't sin against the child,' and you wouldn't listen? + Therefore also, behold, his blood is required." +042:023 They didn't know that Joseph understood them; for there was + an interpreter between them. +042:024 He turned himself away from them, and wept. Then he returned + to them, and spoke to them, and took Simeon from among them, + and bound him before their eyes. +042:025 Then Joseph gave a command to fill their bags with grain, + and to restore every man's money into his sack, and to give + them food for the way. So it was done to them. +042:026 They loaded their donkeys with their grain, and departed from there. +042:027 As one of them opened his sack to give his donkey food in the + lodging place, he saw his money. Behold, it was in the mouth + of his sack. +042:028 He said to his brothers, "My money is restored! Behold, it is + in my sack!" Their hearts failed them, and they turned + trembling one to another, saying, "What is this that God has + done to us?" +042:029 They came to Jacob their father, to the land of Canaan, + and told him all that had happened to them, saying, +042:030 "The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us, + and took us for spies of the country. +042:031 We said to him, 'We are honest men. We are no spies. +042:032 We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, + and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.' +042:033 The man, the lord of the land, said to us, 'By this I will know + that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers with me, + and take grain for the famine of your houses, and go your way. +042:034 Bring your youngest brother to me. Then I will know + that you are not spies, but that you are honest men. + So I will deliver your brother to you, and you shall trade + in the land.'" +042:035 It happened as they emptied their sacks, that behold, every man's + bundle of money was in his sack. When they and their father + saw their bundles of money, they were afraid. +042:036 Jacob, their father, said to them, "You have bereaved me + of my children! Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, + and you want to take Benjamin away. All these things + are against me." +042:037 Reuben spoke to his father, saying, "Kill my two sons, + if I don't bring him to you. Entrust him to my care, + and I will bring him to you again." +042:038 He said, "My son shall not go down with you; for his brother + is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him along + the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray + hairs with sorrow to Sheol." +043:001 The famine was severe in the land. +043:002 It happened, when they had eaten up the grain which they had + brought out of Egypt, their father said to them, "Go again, + buy us a little more food." +043:003 Judah spoke to him, saying, "The man solemnly warned us, saying, + 'You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.' +043:004 If you'll send our brother with us, we'll go down and buy you food, +043:005 but if you'll not send him, we'll not go down, for the man + said to us, 'You shall not see my face, unless your brother + is with you.'" +043:006 Israel said, "Why did you treat me so badly, telling the man + that you had another brother?" +043:007 They said, "The man asked directly concerning ourselves, + and concerning our relatives, saying, 'Is your father still alive? + Have you another brother?' We just answered his questions. + Is there any way we could know that he would say, + 'Bring your brother down?'" +043:008 Judah said to Israel, his father, "Send the boy with me, + and we'll get up and go, so that we may live, and not die, + both we, and you, and also our little ones. +043:009 I'll be collateral for him. From my hand will you require him. + If I don't bring him to you, and set him before you, + then let me bear the blame forever, +043:010 for if we hadn't delayed, surely we would have returned a second + time by now." +043:011 Their father, Israel, said to them, "If it must be so, then do this. + Take from the choice fruits of the land in your bags, and carry + down a present for the man, a little balm, a little honey, + spices and myrrh, nuts, and almonds; +043:012 and take double money in your hand, and take back + the money that was returned in the mouth of your sacks. + Perhaps it was an oversight. +043:013 Take your brother also, get up, and return to the man. +043:014 May God Almighty give you mercy before the man, + that he may release to you your other brother and Benjamin. + If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved." +043:015 The men took that present, and they took double money in + their hand, and Benjamin; and got up, went down to Egypt, + and stood before Joseph. +043:016 When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the steward of + his house, "Bring the men into the house, and butcher an animal, + and make ready; for the men will dine with me at noon." +043:017 The man did as Joseph commanded, and the man brought the men + to Joseph's house. +043:018 The men were afraid, because they were brought to Joseph's house; + and they said, "Because of the money that was returned in our + sacks at the first time, we're brought in; that he may seek + occasion against us, attack us, and seize us as slaves, + along with our donkeys." +043:019 They came near to the steward of Joseph's house, and they + spoke to him at the door of the house, +043:020 and said, "Oh, my lord, we indeed came down the first time + to buy food. +043:021 When we came to the lodging place, we opened our sacks, + and behold, every man's money was in the mouth of his sack, + our money in full weight. We have brought it back in our hand. +043:022 We have brought down other money in our hand to buy food. + We don't know who put our money in our sacks." +043:023 He said, "Peace be to you. Don't be afraid. Your God, + and the God of your father, has given you treasure in your sacks. + I received your money." He brought Simeon out to them. +043:024 The man brought the men into Joseph's house, and gave them water, + and they washed their feet. He gave their donkeys fodder. +043:025 They made ready the present for Joseph's coming at noon, + for they heard that they should eat bread there. +043:026 When Joseph came home, they brought him the present which was + in their hand into the house, and bowed themselves down to him + to the earth. +043:027 He asked them of their welfare, and said, "Is your father well, + the old man of whom you spoke? Is he yet alive?" +043:028 They said, "Your servant, our father, is well. He is still alive." + They bowed the head, and did homage. +043:029 He lifted up his eyes, and saw Benjamin, his brother, + his mother's son, and said, "Is this your youngest brother, + of whom you spoke to me?" He said, "God be gracious + to you, my son." +043:030 Joseph hurried, for his heart yearned over his brother; + and he sought a place to weep. He entered into his room, + and wept there. +043:031 He washed his face, and came out. He controlled himself, + and said, "Serve the meal." +043:032 They served him by himself, and them by themselves, + and the Egyptians, that ate with him, by themselves, + because the Egyptians don't eat bread with the Hebrews, + for that is an abomination to the Egyptians. +043:033 They sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, + and the youngest according to his youth, and the men marveled + one with another. +043:034 He sent portions to them from before him, but Benjamin's + portion was five times as much as any of theirs. + They drank, and were merry with him. +044:001 He commanded the steward of his house, saying, "Fill the men's + sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put every + man's money in his sack's mouth. +044:002 Put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack's mouth of the youngest, + with his grain money." He did according to the word that + Joseph had spoken. +044:003 As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, + they and their donkeys. +044:004 When they had gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, + Joseph said to his steward, "Up, follow after the men. + When you overtake them, ask them, 'Why have you rewarded + evil for good? +044:005 Isn't this that from which my lord drinks, and by which + he indeed divines? You have done evil in so doing.'" +044:006 He overtook them, and he spoke these words to them. +044:007 They said to him, "Why does my lord speak such words as these? + Far be it from your servants that they should do such a thing! +044:008 Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks' mouths, we brought + again to you out of the land of Canaan. How then should we + steal silver or gold out of your lord's house? +044:009 With whoever of your servants it be found, let him die, + and we also will be my lord's bondservants." +044:010 He said, "Now also let it be according to your words: + he with whom it is found will be my bondservant; and you + will be blameless." +044:011 Then they hurried, and every man took his sack down to the ground, + and every man opened his sack. +044:012 He searched, beginning with the eldest, and ending at the youngest. + The cup was found in Benjamin's sack. +044:013 Then they tore their clothes, and every man loaded his donkey, + and returned to the city. +044:014 Judah and his brothers came to Joseph's house, and he was + still there. They fell on the ground before him. +044:015 Joseph said to them, "What deed is this that you have done? + Don't you know that such a man as I can indeed divine?" +044:016 Judah said, "What will we tell my lord? What will we speak? + Or how will we clear ourselves? God has found out the iniquity + of your servants. Behold, we are my lord's bondservants, + both we, and he also in whose hand the cup is found." +044:017 He said, "Far be it from me that I should do so. The man + in whose hand the cup is found, he will be my bondservant; + but as for you, go up in peace to your father." +044:018 Then Judah came near to him, and said, "Oh, my lord, + please let your servant speak a word in my lord's ears, + and don't let your anger burn against your servant; + for you are even as Pharaoh. +044:019 My lord asked his servants, saying, 'Have you a father, + or a brother?' +044:020 We said to my lord, 'We have a father, an old man, and a child + of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, + and he alone is left of his mother; and his father loves him.' +044:021 You said to your servants, 'Bring him down to me, that I may + set my eyes on him.' +044:022 We said to my lord, 'The boy can't leave his father: + for if he should leave his father, his father would die.' +044:023 You said to your servants, 'Unless your youngest brother comes + down with you, you will see my face no more.' +044:024 It happened when we came up to your servant my father, + we told him the words of my lord. +044:025 Our father said, 'Go again, buy us a little food.' +044:026 We said, 'We can't go down. If our youngest brother is with us, + then we will go down: for we may not see the man's face, + unless our youngest brother is with us.' +044:027 Your servant, my father, said to us, 'You know that my wife + bore me two sons: +044:028 and the one went out from me, and I said, "Surely he is torn + in pieces;" and I haven't seen him since. +044:029 If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, + you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.' +044:030 Now therefore when I come to your servant my father, + and the boy is not with us; seeing that his life is bound up + in the boy's life; +044:031 it will happen, when he sees that the boy is no more, + that he will die. Your servants will bring down the gray + hairs of your servant, our father, with sorrow to Sheol. +044:032 For your servant became collateral for the boy to my father, + saying, 'If I don't bring him to you, then I will bear + the blame to my father forever.' +044:033 Now therefore, please let your servant stay instead of the boy, + a bondservant to my lord; and let the boy go up with his brothers. +044:034 For how will I go up to my father, if the boy isn't with me?-- + lest I see the evil that will come on my father." +045:001 Then Joseph couldn't control himself before all those who stood + before him, and he cried, "Cause every man to go out from me!" + No one else stood with him, while Joseph made himself known + to his brothers. +045:002 He wept aloud. The Egyptians heard, and the house of Pharaoh heard. +045:003 Joseph said to his brothers, "I am Joseph! Does my father + still live?" His brothers couldn't answer him; for they + were terrified at his presence. +045:004 Joseph said to his brothers, "Come near to me, please." + They came near. "He said, I am Joseph, your brother, + whom you sold into Egypt. +045:005 Now don't be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold + me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life. +045:006 For these two years the famine has been in the land, + and there are yet five years, in which there will be neither + plowing nor harvest. +045:007 God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant in the earth, + and to save you alive by a great deliverance. +045:008 So now it wasn't you who sent me here, but God, and he has + made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of all his house, and ruler + over all the land of Egypt. +045:009 Hurry, and go up to my father, and tell him, 'This is what + your son Joseph says, "God has made me lord of all Egypt. + Come down to me. Don't wait. +045:010 You shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you will be near + to me, you, your children, your children's children, your flocks, + your herds, and all that you have. +045:011 There I will nourish you; for there are yet five years of famine; + lest you come to poverty, you, and your household, and all + that you have."' +045:012 Behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, + that it is my mouth that speaks to you. +045:013 You shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, + and of all that you have seen. You shall hurry and bring + my father down here." +045:014 He fell on his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept, and Benjamin + wept on his neck. +045:015 He kissed all his brothers, and wept on them. After that his + brothers talked with him. +045:016 The report of it was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying, + "Joseph's brothers have come." It pleased Pharaoh well, + and his servants. +045:017 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Tell your brothers, 'Do this. + Load your animals, and go, travel to the land of Canaan. +045:018 Take your father and your households, and come to me, + and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and you + will eat the fat of the land.' +045:019 Now you are commanded: do this. Take wagons out of the land + of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring + your father, and come. +045:020 Also, don't concern yourselves about your belongings, + for the good of all of the land of Egypt is yours." +045:021 The sons of Israel did so. Joseph gave them wagons, + according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them + provision for the way. +045:022 He gave each one of them changes of clothing, but to Benjamin he gave + three hundred pieces of silver and five changes of clothing. +045:023 To his father, he sent after this manner: ten donkeys loaded + with the good things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded + with grain and bread and provision for his father by the way. +045:024 So he sent his brothers away, and they departed. + He said to them, "See that you don't quarrel on the way." +045:025 They went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan, + to Jacob their father. +045:026 They told him, saying, "Joseph is still alive, and he is + ruler over all the land of Egypt." His heart fainted, + for he didn't believe them. +045:027 They told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said to them. + When he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, + the spirit of Jacob, their father, revived. +045:028 Israel said, "It is enough. Joseph my son is still alive. + I will go and see him before I die." +046:001 Israel traveled with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, + and offered sacrifices to the God of his father, Isaac. +046:002 God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night, and said, + "Jacob, Jacob!" He said, "Here I am." +046:003 He said, "I am God, the God of your father. Don't be afraid to go + down into Egypt, for there I will make of you a great nation. +046:004 I will go down with you into Egypt. I will also surely bring + you up again. Joseph will close your eyes." +046:005 Jacob rose up from Beersheba, and the sons of Israel carried Jacob, + their father, their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons + which Pharaoh had sent to carry him. +046:006 They took their livestock, and their goods, which they had gotten + in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt--Jacob, and all + his seed with him, +046:007 his sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, + and his sons' daughters, and he brought all his seed with + him into Egypt. +046:008 These are the names of the children of Israel, who came + into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn. +046:009 The sons of Reuben: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. +046:010 The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul + the son of a Canaanite woman. +046:011 The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. +046:012 The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah; + but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. The sons of Perez + were Hezron and Hamul. +046:013 The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puvah, Iob, and Shimron. +046:014 The sons of Zebulun: Sered, Elon, and Jahleel. +046:015 These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan Aram, + with his daughter Dinah. All the souls of his sons and his + daughters were thirty-three. +046:016 The sons of Gad: Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, + and Areli. +046:017 The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and Serah + their sister. The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel. +046:018 These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah, + his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob, even sixteen souls. +046:019 The sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife: Joseph and Benjamin. +046:020 To Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, + whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, + bore to him. +046:021 The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, + Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard. +046:022 These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob: + all the souls were fourteen. +046:023 The son of Dan: Hushim. +046:024 The sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem. +046:025 These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel, his daughter, + and these she bore to Jacob: all the souls were seven. +046:026 All the souls who came with Jacob into Egypt, who were his + direct descendants, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the + souls were sixty-six. +046:027 The sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two souls. + All the souls of the house of Jacob, who came into Egypt, + were seventy. +046:028 He sent Judah before him to Joseph, to show the way before him + to Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen. +046:029 Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel, + his father, in Goshen. He presented himself to him, + and fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while. +046:030 Israel said to Joseph, "Now let me die, since I have seen + your face, that you are still alive." +046:031 Joseph said to his brothers, and to his father's house, + "I will go up, and speak with Pharaoh, and will tell him, + 'My brothers, and my father's house, who were in the land + of Canaan, have come to me. +046:032 These men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of livestock, + and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, + and all that they have.' +046:033 It will happen, when Pharaoh summons you, and will say, + 'What is your occupation?' +046:034 that you shall say, 'Your servants have been keepers of livestock + from our youth even until now, both we, and our fathers:' + that you may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd + is an abomination to the Egyptians." +047:001 Then Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, and said, "My father + and my brothers, with their flocks, their herds, and all that + they own, have come out of the land of Canaan; and behold, + they are in the land of Goshen." +047:002 From among his brothers he took five men, and presented + them to Pharaoh. +047:003 Pharaoh said to his brothers, "What is your occupation?" + They said to Pharaoh, "Your servants are shepherds, both we, + and our fathers." +047:004 They said to Pharaoh, "We have come to live as foreigners in + the land, for there is no pasture for your servants' flocks. + For the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now therefore, + please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen." +047:005 Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, "Your father and your brothers + have come to you. +047:006 The land of Egypt is before you. Make your father and your + brothers dwell in the best of the land. Let them dwell + in the land of Goshen. If you know any able men among them, + then put them in charge of my livestock." +047:007 Joseph brought in Jacob, his father, and set him before Pharaoh, + and Jacob blessed Pharaoh. +047:008 Pharaoh said to Jacob, "How many are the days of the years + of your life?" +047:009 Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my pilgrimage + are one hundred thirty years. Few and evil have been + the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained + to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days + of their pilgrimage." +047:010 Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from the presence of Pharaoh. +047:011 Joseph placed his father and his brothers, and gave them + a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, + in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded. +047:012 Joseph nourished his father, his brothers, and all of his + father's household, with bread, according to their families. +047:013 There was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very severe, + so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan fainted + by reason of the famine. +047:014 Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, + and in the land of Canaan, for the grain which they bought: + and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house. +047:015 When the money was all spent in the land of Egypt, and in + the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph, and said, + "Give us bread, for why should we die in your presence? + For our money fails." +047:016 Joseph said, "Give me your livestock; and I will give you food + for your livestock, if your money is gone." +047:017 They brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave + them bread in exchange for the horses, and for the flocks, + and for the herds, and for the donkeys: and he fed them + with bread in exchange for all their livestock for that year. +047:018 When that year was ended, they came to him the second year, + and said to him, "We will not hide from my lord how our money + is all spent, and the herds of livestock are my lord's. There + is nothing left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, + and our lands. +047:019 Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? + Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will + be servants to Pharaoh. Give us seed, that we may live, + and not die, and that the land won't be desolate." +047:020 So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, + for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine + was severe on them, and the land became Pharaoh's. +047:021 As for the people, he moved them to the cities from one end + of the border of Egypt even to the other end of it. +047:022 Only he didn't buy the land of the priests, for the priests had a + portion from Pharaoh, and ate their portion which Pharaoh gave them. + That is why they didn't sell their land. +047:023 Then Joseph said to the people, "Behold, I have bought you + and your land today for Pharaoh. Behold, here is seed for you, + and you shall sow the land. +047:024 It will happen at the harvests, that you shall give a fifth + to Pharaoh, and four parts will be your own, for seed + of the field, for your food, for them of your households, + and for food for your little ones." +047:025 They said, "You have saved our lives! Let us find favor + in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants." +047:026 Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt + to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth. + Only the land of the priests alone didn't become Pharaoh's. +047:027 Israel lived in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen; + and they got themselves possessions therein, and were fruitful, + and multiplied exceedingly. +047:028 Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. + So the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were one + hundred forty-seven years. +047:029 The time drew near that Israel must die, and he called his son Joseph, + and said to him, "If now I have found favor in your sight, please put + your hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me. + Please don't bury me in Egypt, +047:030 but when I sleep with my fathers, you shall carry me + out of Egypt, and bury me in their burying place." + He said, "I will do as you have said." +047:031 He said, "Swear to me," and he swore to him. Israel bowed + himself on the bed's head. +048:001 It happened after these things, that someone said to Joseph, "Behold, + your father is sick." He took with him his two sons, + Manasseh and Ephraim. +048:002 Someone told Jacob, and said, "Behold, your son Joseph comes to you," + and Israel strengthened himself, and sat on the bed. +048:003 Jacob said to Joseph, "God Almighty appeared to me at Luz + in the land of Canaan, and blessed me, +048:004 and said to me, 'Behold, I will make you fruitful, and multiply you, + and I will make of you a company of peoples, and will give this + land to your seed after you for an everlasting possession.' +048:005 Now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt + before I came to you into Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh, + even as Reuben and Simeon, will be mine. +048:006 Your issue, who you become the father of after them, will be yours. + They will be called after the name of their brothers + in their inheritance. +048:007 As for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died by me in the land + of Canaan in the way, when there was still some distance to come + to Ephrath, and I buried her there in the way to Ephrath + (the same is Bethlehem)." +048:008 Israel saw Joseph's sons, and said, "Who are these?" +048:009 Joseph said to his father, "They are my sons, whom God + has given me here." He said, "Please bring them to me, + and I will bless them." +048:010 Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he couldn't see. + He brought them near to him; and he kissed them, + and embraced them. +048:011 Israel said to Joseph, "I didn't think I would see your face, + and behold, God has let me see your seed also." +048:012 Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed + himself with his face to the earth. +048:013 Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel's + left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel's + right hand, and brought them near to him. +048:014 Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it on Ephraim's head, + who was the younger, and his left hand on Manasseh's head, + guiding his hands knowingly, for Manasseh was the firstborn. +048:015 He blessed Joseph, and said, "The God before whom my fathers + Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God who has fed me all my life + long to this day, +048:016 the angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads, + and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers + Abraham and Isaac. Let them grow into a multitude in the midst + of the earth." +048:017 When Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head + of Ephraim, it displeased him. He held up his father's hand, + to remove it from Ephraim's head to Manasseh's head. +048:018 Joseph said to his father, "Not so, my father; for this is + the firstborn; put your right hand on his head." +048:019 His father refused, and said, "I know, my son, I know. + He also will become a people, and he also will be great. + However, his younger brother will be greater than he, + and his seed will become a multitude of nations." +048:020 He blessed them that day, saying, "In you will Israel bless, + saying, 'God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh'" He set + Ephraim before Manasseh. +048:021 Israel said to Joseph, "Behold, I am dying, but God will be + with you, and bring you again to the land of your fathers. +048:022 Moreover I have given to you one portion above your brothers, + which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword + and with my bow." +049:001 Jacob called to his sons, and said: "Gather yourselves together, + that I may tell you that which will happen to you in the + days to come. +049:002 Assemble yourselves, and hear, you sons of Jacob. + Listen to Israel, your father. +049:003 "Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning + of my strength; excelling in dignity, and excelling in power. +049:004 Boiling over as water, you shall not excel; because you + went up to your father's bed, then defiled it. + He went up to my couch. +049:005 "Simeon and Levi are brothers. Their swords are weapons of violence. +049:006 My soul, don't come into their council. My glory, don't be + united to their assembly; for in their anger they killed men. + In their self-will they hamstrung oxen. +049:007 Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, + for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter + them in Israel. +049:008 "Judah, your brothers will praise you. Your hand will be + on the neck of your enemies. Your father's sons will bow + down before you. +049:009 Judah is a lion's cub. From the prey, my son, you have gone up. + He stooped down, he crouched as a lion, as a lioness. + Who will rouse him up? +049:010 The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff + from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs. + To him will the obedience of the peoples be. +049:011 Binding his foal to the vine, his donkey's colt to the choice vine; + he has washed his garments in wine, his robes in the + blood of grapes. +049:012 His eyes will be red with wine, his teeth white with milk. +049:013 "Zebulun will dwell at the haven of the sea. He will be for + a haven of ships. His border will be on Sidon. +049:014 "Issachar is a strong donkey, lying down between the saddlebags. +049:015 He saw a resting place, that it was good, the land, + that it was pleasant. He bows his shoulder to the burden, + and becomes a servant doing forced labor. +049:016 "Dan will judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel. +049:017 Dan will be a serpent in the way, an adder in the path, + That bites the horse's heels, so that his rider falls backward. +049:018 I have waited for your salvation, Yahweh. +049:019 "A troop will press on Gad, but he will press on their heel. +049:020 "Asher's food will be rich. He will yield royal dainties. +049:021 "Naphtali is a doe set free, who bears beautiful fawns. +049:022 "Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine by a spring. + His branches run over the wall. +049:023 The archers have sorely grieved him, shot at him, + and persecute him: +049:024 But his bow remained strong. The arms of his hands were + made strong, by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, + (from there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel), +049:025 even by the God of your father, who will help you; by the Almighty, + who will bless you, with blessings of heaven above, + blessings of the deep that lies below, blessings of the breasts, + and of the womb. +049:026 The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings + of your ancestors, above the boundaries of the ancient hills. + They will be on the head of Joseph, on the crown of the head + of him who is separated from his brothers. +049:027 "Benjamin is a ravenous wolf. In the morning he will devour + the prey. At evening he will divide the spoil." +049:028 All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this + is what their father spoke to them and blessed them. + He blessed everyone according to his blessing. +049:029 He charged them, and said to them, "I am to be gathered to my people. + Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field + of Ephron the Hittite, +049:030 in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, + in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field + from Ephron the Hittite as a burial place. +049:031 There they buried Abraham and Sarah, his wife. There they + buried Isaac and Rebekah, his wife, and there I buried Leah: +049:032 the field and the cave that is therein, which was purchased + from the children of Heth." +049:033 When Jacob made an end of charging his sons, he gathered + up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the spirit, + and was gathered to his people. +050:001 Joseph fell on his father's face, wept on him, and kissed him. +050:002 Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father; + and the physicians embalmed Israel. +050:003 Forty days were fulfilled for him, for that is how many + the days it takes to embalm. The Egyptians wept for him + for seventy days. +050:004 When the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke + to the house of Pharaoh, saying, "If now I have found favor + in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying, +050:005 'My father made me swear, saying, "Behold, I am dying. Bury me + in my grave which I have dug for myself in the land of Canaan." + Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my father, + and I will come again.'" +050:006 Pharaoh said, "Go up, and bury your father, just like he + made you swear." +050:007 Joseph went up to bury his father; and with him went up + all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, + all the elders of the land of Egypt, +050:008 all the house of Joseph, his brothers, and his father's house. + Only their little ones, their flocks, and their herds, + they left in the land of Goshen. +050:009 There went up with him both chariots and horsemen. + It was a very great company. +050:010 They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, + and there they lamented with a very great and sore lamentation. + He mourned for his father seven days. +050:011 When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning + in the floor of Atad, they said, "This is a grievous mourning + by the Egyptians." Therefore, the name of it was called + Abel Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan. +050:012 His sons did to him just as he commanded them, +050:013 for his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried + him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham + bought with the field, for a possession of a burial site, + from Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre. +050:014 Joseph returned into Egypt--he, and his brothers, and all + that went up with him to bury his father, after he had + buried his father. +050:015 When Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, + "It may be that Joseph will hate us, and will fully pay us + back for all of the evil which we did to him." +050:016 They sent a message to Joseph, saying, "Your father commanded + before he died, saying, +050:017 'You shall tell Joseph, "Now please forgive the disobedience + of your brothers, and their sin, because they did evil to you."' + Now, please forgive the disobedience of the servants of the God + of your father." Joseph wept when they spoke to him. +050:018 His brothers also went and fell down before his face; + and they said, "Behold, we are your servants." +050:019 Joseph said to them, "Don't be afraid, for am I in the place of God? +050:020 As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, + to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save many people alive. +050:021 Now therefore don't be afraid. I will nourish you and your + little ones." He comforted them, and spoke kindly to them. +050:022 Joseph lived in Egypt, he, and his father's house. + Joseph lived one hundred ten years. +050:023 Joseph saw Ephraim's children to the third generation. + The children also of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born + on Joseph's knees. +050:024 Joseph said to his brothers, "I am dying, but God will surely + visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the land + which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob." +050:025 Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, "God will + surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here." +050:026 So Joseph died, being one hundred ten years old, and they + embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt. +Book 02 Exodus +001:001 Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt + (every man and his household came with Jacob): +001:002 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, +001:003 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin, +001:004 Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher. +001:005 All the souls who came out of Jacob's body were seventy souls, + and Joseph was in Egypt already. +001:006 Joseph died, as did all his brothers, and all that generation. +001:007 The children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, + and multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land + was filled with them. +001:008 Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who didn't know Joseph. +001:009 He said to his people, "Behold, the people of the children + of Israel are more and mightier than we. +001:010 Come, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, + and it happen that when any war breaks out, they also join + themselves to our enemies, and fight against us, and escape + out of the land." +001:011 Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict + them with their burdens. They built storage cities + for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses. +001:012 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied + and the more they spread out. They were grieved because of + the children of Israel. +001:013 The Egyptians ruthlessly made the children of Israel serve, +001:014 and they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar + and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field, + all their service, in which they ruthlessly made them serve. +001:015 The king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name + of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah, +001:016 and he said, "When you perform the duty of a midwife + to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birth stool; + if it is a son, then you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, + then she shall live." +001:017 But the midwives feared God, and didn't do what the king + of Egypt commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive. +001:018 The king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said to them, + "Why have you done this thing, and have saved the boys alive?" +001:019 The midwives said to Pharaoh, "Because the Hebrew women + aren't like the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous, + and give birth before the midwife comes to them." +001:020 God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied, + and grew very mighty. +001:021 It happened, because the midwives feared God, that he + gave them families. +001:022 Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, "You shall cast every + son who is born into the river, and every daughter you + shall save alive." +002:001 A man of the house of Levi went and took a daughter of Levi + as his wife. +002:002 The woman conceived, and bore a son. When she saw that he was + a fine child, she hid him three months. +002:003 When she could no longer hide him, she took a papyrus + basket for him, and coated it with tar and with pitch. + She put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by + the river's bank. +002:004 His sister stood far off, to see what would be done to him. +002:005 Pharaoh's daughter came down to bathe at the river. + Her maidens walked along by the riverside. She saw the basket + among the reeds, and sent her handmaid to get it. +002:006 She opened it, and saw the child, and behold, the baby cried. + She had compassion on him, and said, "This is one of + the Hebrews' children." +002:007 Then his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, "Should I go + and call a nurse for you from the Hebrew women, that she + may nurse the child for you?" +002:008 Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Go." The maiden went and called + the child's mother. +002:009 Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Take this child away, + and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages." + The woman took the child, and nursed it. +002:010 The child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, + and he became her son. She named him Moses,{"Moses" + sounds like the Hebrew for "draw out".} and said, "Because I + drew him out of the water." +002:011 It happened in those days, when Moses had grown up, + that he went out to his brothers, and looked at their burdens. + He saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his brothers. +002:012 He looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there + was no one, he killed the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand. +002:013 He went out the second day, and behold, two men of the Hebrews + were fighting with each other. He said to him who did the wrong, + "Why do you strike your fellow?" +002:014 He said, "Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you plan + to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian?" Moses was afraid, + and said, "Surely this thing is known." +002:015 Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to kill Moses. + But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and lived in the land + of Midian, and he sat down by a well. +002:016 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. + They came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water + their father's flock. +002:017 The shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up + and helped them, and watered their flock. +002:018 When they came to Reuel, their father, he said, "How is it + that you have returned so early today?" +002:019 They said, "An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, + and moreover he drew water for us, and watered the flock." +002:020 He said to his daughters, "Where is he? Why is it that you + have left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread." +002:021 Moses was content to dwell with the man. He gave + Moses Zipporah, his daughter. +002:022 She bore a son, and he named him Gershom,{"Gershom" + sounds like the Hebrew for "an alien there."} for he said, + "I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land." +002:023 It happened in the course of those many days, that the king + of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of + the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God + because of the bondage. +002:024 God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant + with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. +002:025 God saw the children of Israel, and God was concerned about them. +003:001 Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, + the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the back + of the wilderness, and came to God's mountain, to Horeb. +003:002 The angel of Yahweh appeared to him in a flame of fire out + of the midst of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush + burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed. +003:003 Moses said, "I will turn aside now, and see this great sight, + why the bush is not burnt." +003:004 When Yahweh saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him + out of the midst of the bush, and said, "Moses! Moses!" He said, + "Here I am." +003:005 He said, "Don't come close. Take your sandals off of your feet, + for the place you are standing on is holy ground." +003:006 Moreover he said, "I am the God of your father, the God + of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." + Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look at God. +003:007 Yahweh said, "I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are + in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, + for I know their sorrows. +003:008 I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, + and to bring them up out of that land to a good and large land, + to a land flowing with milk and honey; to the place + of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, + the Hivite, and the Jebusite. +003:009 Now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me. + Moreover I have seen the oppression with which the + Egyptians oppress them. +003:010 Come now therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh, + that you may bring forth my people, the children of Israel, + out of Egypt." +003:011 Moses said to God, "Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh, + and that I should bring forth the children of Israel + out of Egypt?" +003:012 He said, "Certainly I will be with you. This will be the token + to you, that I have sent you: when you have brought forth + the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain." +003:013 Moses said to God, "Behold, when I come to the children + of Israel, and tell them, 'The God of your fathers has + sent me to you;' and they ask me, 'What is his name?' + What should I tell them?" +003:014 God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM," and he said, "You shall tell + the children of Israel this: 'I AM has sent me to you.'" +003:015 God said moreover to Moses, "You shall tell the children of + Israel this, 'Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, + the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.' + This is my name forever, and this is my memorial to all generations. +003:016 Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and tell them, + 'Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, + and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, "I have surely + visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt; +003:017 and I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction + of Egypt to the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, + the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, + to a land flowing with milk and honey."' +003:018 They will listen to your voice, and you shall come, you and + the elders of Israel, to the king of Egypt, and you shall + tell him, 'Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. + Now please let us go three days' journey into the wilderness, + that we may sacrifice to Yahweh, our God.' +003:019 I know that the king of Egypt won't give you permission + to go, no, not by a mighty hand. +003:020 I will put forth my hand and strike Egypt with all my wonders + which I will do in the midst of it, and after that he will + let you go. +003:021 I will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, + and it will happen that when you go, you shall not go empty-handed. +003:022 But every woman shall ask of her neighbor, and of her who visits + her house, jewels of silver, jewels of gold, and clothing; + and you shall put them on your sons, and on your daughters. + You shall despoil the Egyptians. +004:001 Moses answered, "But, behold, they will not believe me, + nor listen to my voice; for they will say, 'Yahweh has not + appeared to you.'" +004:002 Yahweh said to him, "What is that in your hand?" + He said, "A rod." +004:003 He said, "Throw it on the ground." He threw it on the ground, + and it became a snake; and Moses ran away from it. +004:004 Yahweh said to Moses, "Put forth your hand, and take it by the tail." + He put forth his hand, and laid hold of it, and it became + a rod in his hand. +004:005 "That they may believe that Yahweh, the God of their fathers, + the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, + has appeared to you." +004:006 Yahweh said furthermore to him, "Now put your hand inside + your cloak." He put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took + it out, behold, his hand was leprous, as white as snow. +004:007 He said, "Put your hand inside your cloak again." + He put his hand inside his cloak again, and when he took it out + of his cloak, behold, it had turned again as his other flesh. +004:008 "It will happen, if they will neither believe you nor listen + to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe + the voice of the latter sign. +004:009 It will happen, if they will not believe even these two signs, + neither listen to your voice, that you shall take + of the water of the river, and pour it on the dry land. + The water which you take out of the river will become blood + on the dry land." +004:010 Moses said to Yahweh, "Oh, Lord, I am not eloquent, + neither before now, nor since you have spoken to your servant; + for I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue." +004:011 Yahweh said to him, "Who made man's mouth? Or who makes one mute, + or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Isn't it I, Yahweh? +004:012 Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth, and teach + you what you shall speak." +004:013 He said, "Oh, Lord, please send someone else." +004:014 The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Moses, and he said, + "What about Aaron, your brother, the Levite? I know that he can + speak well. Also, behold, he comes forth to meet you. + When he sees you, he will be glad in his heart. +004:015 You shall speak to him, and put the words in his mouth. + I will be with your mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach + you what you shall do. +004:016 He will be your spokesman to the people; and it will happen, + that he will be to you a mouth, and you will be to him as God. +004:017 You shall take this rod in your hand, with which you shall + do the signs." +004:018 Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, + and said to him, "Please let me go and return to my brothers + who are in Egypt, and see whether they are still alive." + Jethro said to Moses, "Go in peace." +004:019 Yahweh said to Moses in Midian, "Go, return into Egypt; + for all the men who sought your life are dead." +004:020 Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them on a donkey, + and he returned to the land of Egypt. Moses took God's rod + in his hand. +004:021 Yahweh said to Moses, "When you go back into Egypt, see that you + do before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have put in your hand, + but I will harden his heart and he will not let the people go. +004:022 You shall tell Pharaoh, 'Thus says Yahweh, Israel is + my son, my firstborn, +004:023 and I have said to you, "Let my son go, that he may serve me;" + and you have refused to let him go. Behold, I will kill + your son, your firstborn.'" +004:024 It happened on the way at a lodging place, that Yahweh met + him and wanted to kill him. +004:025 Then Zipporah took a flint, and cut off the foreskin of her son, + and cast it at his feet; and she said, "Surely you are a + bridegroom of blood to me." +004:026 So he let him alone. Then she said, "You are a bridegroom + of blood," because of the circumcision. +004:027 Yahweh said to Aaron, "Go into the wilderness to meet Moses." + He went, and met him on God's mountain, and kissed him. +004:028 Moses told Aaron all the words of Yahweh with which he had + sent him, and all the signs with which he had charged him. +004:029 Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders + of the children of Israel. +004:030 Aaron spoke all the words which Yahweh had spoken to Moses, + and did the signs in the sight of the people. +004:031 The people believed, and when they heard that Yahweh had visited + the children of Israel, and that he had seen their affliction, + then they bowed their heads and worshiped. +005:001 Afterward Moses and Aaron came, and said to Pharaoh, "This is + what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, 'Let my people go, + that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness.'" +005:002 Pharaoh said, "Who is Yahweh, that I should listen to his voice + to let Israel go? I don't know Yahweh, and moreover I will + not let Israel go." +005:003 They said, "The God of the Hebrews has met with us. + Please let us go three days' journey into the wilderness, + and sacrifice to Yahweh, our God, lest he fall on us + with pestilence, or with the sword." +005:004 The king of Egypt said to them, "Why do you, Moses and Aaron, + take the people from their work? Get back to your burdens!" +005:005 Pharaoh said, "Behold, the people of the land are now many, + and you make them rest from their burdens." +005:006 The same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people, + and their officers, saying, +005:007 "You shall no longer give the people straw to make brick, as before. + Let them go and gather straw for themselves. +005:008 The number of the bricks, which they made before, you require + from them. You shall not diminish anything of it, for they + are idle; therefore they cry, saying, 'Let us go and sacrifice + to our God.' +005:009 Let heavier work be laid on the men, that they may labor therein; + and don't let them pay any attention to lying words." +005:010 The taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, + and they spoke to the people, saying, This is what Pharaoh says: + "I will not give you straw. +005:011 Go yourselves, get straw where you can find it, for nothing + of your work shall be diminished." +005:012 So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land + of Egypt to gather stubble for straw. +005:013 The taskmasters were urgent saying, "Fulfill your work quota daily, + as when there was straw!" +005:014 The officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh's + taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, + "Why haven't you fulfilled your quota both yesterday and today, + in making brick as before?" +005:015 Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried + to Pharaoh, saying, "Why do you deal this way with your servants? +005:016 No straw is given to your servants, and they tell us, + 'Make brick!' and behold, your servants are beaten; + but the fault is in your own people." +005:017 But he said, "You are idle! You are idle! Therefore you say, + 'Let us go and sacrifice to Yahweh.' +005:018 Go therefore now, and work, for no straw shall be given to you, + yet shall you deliver the same number of bricks!" +005:019 The officers of the children of Israel saw that they were + in trouble, when it was said, "You shall not diminish anything + from your daily quota of bricks!" +005:020 They met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way, as they came + forth from Pharaoh: +005:021 and they said to them, "May Yahweh look at you, and judge, + because you have made us a stench to be abhorred in the eyes + of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword + in their hand to kill us." +005:022 Moses returned to Yahweh, and said, "Lord, why have you brought + trouble on this people? Why is it that you have sent me? +005:023 For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has + brought trouble on this people; neither have you delivered + your people at all." +006:001 Yahweh said to Moses, "Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh, + for by a strong hand he shall let them go, and by a strong + hand he shall drive them out of his land." +006:002 God spoke to Moses, and said to him, "I am Yahweh; +006:003 and I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty; + but by my name Yahweh I was not known to them. +006:004 I have also established my covenant with them, to give them + the land of Canaan, the land of their travels, in which they + lived as aliens. +006:005 Moreover I have heard the groaning of the children of Israel, + whom the Egyptians keep in bondage, and I have remembered + my covenant. +006:006 Therefore tell the children of Israel, 'I am Yahweh, and I + will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, + and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem + you with an outstretched arm, and with great judgments: +006:007 and I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God; + and you shall know that I am Yahweh your God, who brings you + out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. +006:008 I will bring you into the land which I swore to give to Abraham, + to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it to you for a heritage: + I am Yahweh.'" +006:009 Moses spoke so to the children of Israel, but they didn't listen + to Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage. +006:010 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +006:011 "Go in, speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the children + of Israel go out of his land." +006:012 Moses spoke before Yahweh, saying, "Behold, the children of Israel + haven't listened to me. How then shall Pharaoh listen to me, + who am of uncircumcised lips?" +006:013 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, and gave them a charge + to the children of Israel, and to Pharaoh king of Egypt, + to bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt. +006:014 These are the heads of their fathers' houses. The sons of Reuben + the firstborn of Israel: Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi; + these are the families of Reuben. +006:015 The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, + and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman; + these are the families of Simeon. +006:016 These are the names of the sons of Levi according to + their generations: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari; and the years + of the life of Levi were one hundred thirty-seven years. +006:017 The sons of Gershon: Libni and Shimei, according to their families. +006:018 The sons of Kohath: Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, + and Uzziel; and the years of the life of Kohath were one + hundred thirty-three years. +006:019 The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families + of the Levites according to their generations. +006:020 Amram took Jochebed his father's sister to himself as wife; + and she bore him Aaron and Moses: and the years of the life + of Amram were a hundred and thirty-seven years. +006:021 The sons of Izhar: Korah, and Nepheg, and Zichri. +006:022 The sons of Uzziel: Mishael, and Elzaphan, and Sithri. +006:023 Aaron took Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab, + the sister of Nahshon, as his wife; and she bore him Nadab + and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. +006:024 The sons of Korah: Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph; + these are the families of the Korahites. +006:025 Eleazar Aaron's son took one of the daughters of Putiel as his wife; + and she bore him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers' + houses of the Levites according to their families. +006:026 These are that Aaron and Moses, to whom Yahweh said, + "Bring out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt + according to their armies." +006:027 These are those who spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt, + to bring out the children of Israel from Egypt. + These are that Moses and Aaron. +006:028 It happened on the day when Yahweh spoke to Moses in the + land of Egypt, +006:029 that Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "I am Yahweh. + Speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I speak to you." +006:030 Moses said before Yahweh, "Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips, + and how shall Pharaoh listen to me?" +007:001 Yahweh said to Moses, "Behold, I have made you as God to Pharaoh; + and Aaron your brother shall be your prophet. +007:002 You shall speak all that I command you; and Aaron your brother + shall speak to Pharaoh, that he let the children of Israel + go out of his land. +007:003 I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my signs and my + wonders in the land of Egypt. +007:004 But Pharaoh will not listen to you, and I will lay my hand on Egypt, + and bring forth my armies, my people the children of Israel, + out of the land of Egypt by great judgments. +007:005 The Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh, when I stretch + forth my hand on Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel + from among them." +007:006 Moses and Aaron did so. As Yahweh commanded them, so they did. +007:007 Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, + when they spoke to Pharaoh. +007:008 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, +007:009 "When Pharaoh speaks to you, saying, 'Perform a miracle!' + then you shall tell Aaron, 'Take your rod, and cast it down + before Pharaoh, that it become a serpent.'" +007:010 Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and they did so, as Yahweh + had commanded: and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh + and before his servants, and it became a serpent. +007:011 Then Pharaoh also called for the wise men and the sorcerers. + They also, the magicians of Egypt, did in like manner + with their enchantments. +007:012 For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: + but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods. +007:013 Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he didn't listen to them; + as Yahweh had spoken. +007:014 Yahweh said to Moses, "Pharaoh's heart is stubborn. + He refuses to let the people go. +007:015 Go to Pharaoh in the morning. Behold, he goes out to the water; + and you shall stand by the river's bank to meet him; + and the rod which was turned to a serpent you shall take + in your hand. +007:016 You shall tell him, 'Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, has sent + me to you, saying, "Let my people go, that they may serve me + in the wilderness:" and behold, until now you haven't listened. +007:017 Thus says Yahweh, "In this you shall know that I am Yahweh. + Behold, I will strike with the rod that is in my hand on the waters + which are in the river, and they shall be turned to blood. +007:018 The fish that are in the river shall die, and the river shall + become foul; and the Egyptians shall loathe to drink water + from the river."'" +007:019 Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell Aaron, 'Take your rod, + and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, + over their rivers, over their streams, and over their pools, + and over all their ponds of water, that they may become blood; + and there shall be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, + both in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.'" +007:020 Moses and Aaron did so, as Yahweh commanded; and he lifted + up the rod, and struck the waters that were in the river, + in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants; + and all the waters that were in the river were turned to blood. +007:021 The fish that were in the river died; and the river became foul, + and the Egyptians couldn't drink water from the river; + and the blood was throughout all the land of Egypt. +007:022 The magicians of Egypt did in like manner with their enchantments; + and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he didn't listen to them; + as Yahweh had spoken. +007:023 Pharaoh turned and went into his house, neither did he lay + even this to heart. +007:024 All the Egyptians dug round about the river for water to drink; + for they couldn't drink of the water of the river. +007:025 Seven days were fulfilled, after Yahweh had struck the river. +008:001 Yahweh spoke to Moses, Go in to Pharaoh, and tell him, + "This is what Yahweh says, 'Let my people go, that they + may serve me. +008:002 If you refuse to let them go, behold, I will plague all your + borders with frogs: +008:003 and the river shall swarm with frogs, which shall go up and come + into your house, and into your bedchamber, and on your bed, + and into the house of your servants, and on your people, + and into your ovens, and into your kneading troughs: +008:004 and the frogs shall come up both on you, and on your people, + and on all your servants.'" +008:005 Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell Aaron, 'Stretch forth your hand with + your rod over the rivers, over the streams, and over the pools, + and cause frogs to come up on the land of Egypt.'" +008:006 Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt; + and the frogs came up, and covered the land of Egypt. +008:007 The magicians did in like manner with their enchantments, + and brought up frogs on the land of Egypt. +008:008 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, "Entreat Yahweh, + that he take away the frogs from me, and from my people; + and I will let the people go, that they may sacrifice to Yahweh." +008:009 Moses said to Pharaoh, "I give you the honor of setting + the time that I should pray for you, and for your servants, + and for your people, that the frogs be destroyed from you + and your houses, and remain in the river only." +008:010 He said, "Tomorrow." He said, "Be it according to your word, + that you may know that there is none like Yahweh our God. +008:011 The frogs shall depart from you, and from your houses, + and from your servants, and from your people. They shall + remain in the river only." +008:012 Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, and Moses cried to Yahweh + concerning the frogs which he had brought on Pharaoh. +008:013 Yahweh did according to the word of Moses, and the frogs died + out of the houses, out of the courts, and out of the fields. +008:014 They gathered them together in heaps, and the land stank. +008:015 But when Pharaoh saw that there was a respite, he hardened + his heart, and didn't listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken. +008:016 Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell Aaron, 'Stretch out your rod, + and strike the dust of the earth, that it may become lice + throughout all the land of Egypt.'" +008:017 They did so; and Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, + and struck the dust of the earth, and there were lice on man, + and on animal; all the dust of the earth became lice throughout + all the land of Egypt. +008:018 The magicians tried with their enchantments to bring forth lice, + but they couldn't. There were lice on man, and on animal. +008:019 Then the magicians said to Pharaoh, "This is the finger of God:" + and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he didn't listen to them; + as Yahweh had spoken. +008:020 Yahweh said to Moses, "Rise up early in the morning, + and stand before Pharaoh; behold, he comes forth to the water; + and tell him, 'This is what Yahweh says, "Let my people go, + that they may serve me. +008:021 Else, if you will not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms + of flies on you, and on your servants, and on your people, + and into your houses: and the houses of the Egyptians shall be + full of swarms of flies, and also the ground whereon they are. +008:022 I will set apart in that day the land of Goshen, in which + my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there; + to the end you may know that I am Yahweh in the midst + of the earth. +008:023 I will put a division between my people and your people: + by tomorrow shall this sign be."'" +008:024 Yahweh did so; and there came grievous swarms of flies + into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants' houses: + and in all the land of Egypt the land was corrupted by reason + of the swarms of flies. +008:025 Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, "Go, sacrifice to + your God in the land!" +008:026 Moses said, "It isn't appropriate to do so; for we shall + sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to Yahweh our God. + Behold, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians + before their eyes, and won't they stone us? +008:027 We will go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice + to Yahweh our God, as he shall command us." +008:028 Pharaoh said, "I will let you go, that you may sacrifice to Yahweh + your God in the wilderness, only you shall not go very far away. + Pray for me." +008:029 Moses said, "Behold, I go out from you, and I will pray + to Yahweh that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, + from his servants, and from his people, tomorrow; only don't + let Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people + go to sacrifice to Yahweh." +008:030 Moses went out from Pharaoh, and prayed to Yahweh. +008:031 Yahweh did according to the word of Moses, and he removed the swarms + of flies from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people. + There remained not one. +008:032 Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also, and he didn't let + the people go. +009:001 Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Go in to Pharaoh, and tell him, + 'This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: + "Let my people go, that they may serve me. +009:002 For if you refuse to let them go, and hold them still, +009:003 behold, the hand of Yahweh is on your livestock which are + in the field, on the horses, on the donkeys, on the camels, + on the herds, and on the flocks with a very grievous pestilence. +009:004 Yahweh will make a distinction between the livestock of Israel + and the livestock of Egypt; and there shall nothing die + of all that belongs to the children of Israel."'" +009:005 Yahweh appointed a set time, saying, "Tomorrow Yahweh shall + do this thing in the land." +009:006 Yahweh did that thing on the next day; and all the livestock + of Egypt died, but of the livestock of the children of Israel, + not one died. +009:007 Pharaoh sent, and, behold, there was not so much as one of + the livestock of the Israelites dead. But the heart of Pharaoh + was stubborn, and he didn't let the people go. +009:008 Yahweh said to Moses and to Aaron, "Take to you handfuls + of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward + the sky in the sight of Pharaoh. +009:009 It shall become small dust over all the land of Egypt, and shall + be a boil breaking forth with boils on man and on animal, + throughout all the land of Egypt." +009:010 They took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; + and Moses sprinkled it up toward the sky; and it became a boil + breaking forth with boils on man and on animal. +009:011 The magicians couldn't stand before Moses because of the boils; + for the boils were on the magicians, and on all the Egyptians. +009:012 Yahweh hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he didn't listen + to them, as Yahweh had spoken to Moses. +009:013 Yahweh said to Moses, "Rise up early in the morning, + and stand before Pharaoh, and tell him, 'This is what Yahweh, + the God of the Hebrews, says: "Let my people go, that they + may serve me. +009:014 For this time I will send all my plagues against your heart, + against your officials, and against your people; that you + may know that there is none like me in all the earth. +009:015 For now I would have put forth my hand, and struck you and + your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off + from the earth; +009:016 but indeed for this cause I have made you stand: + to show you my power, and that my name may be declared + throughout all the earth; +009:017 as you still exalt yourself against my people, that you won't + let them go. +009:018 Behold, tomorrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very + grievous hail, such as has not been in Egypt since the day + it was founded even until now. +009:019 Now therefore command that all of your livestock and all + that you have in the field be brought into shelter. + Every man and animal that is found in the field, + and isn't brought home, the hail shall come down on them, + and they shall die."'" +009:020 Those who feared the word of Yahweh among the servants of Pharaoh + made their servants and their livestock flee into the houses. +009:021 Whoever didn't regard the word of Yahweh left his servants + and his livestock in the field. +009:022 Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch forth your hand toward the sky, + that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, on man, + and on animal, and on every herb of the field, throughout the + land of Egypt." +009:023 Moses stretched forth his rod toward the heavens, and Yahweh + sent thunder, hail, and lightning flashed down to the earth. + Yahweh rained hail on the land of Egypt. +009:024 So there was very severe hail, and lightning mixed with the hail, + such as had not been in all the land of Egypt since it + became a nation. +009:025 The hail struck throughout all the land of Egypt all that was + in the field, both man and animal; and the hail struck every + herb of the field, and broke every tree of the field. +009:026 Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, + there was no hail. +009:027 Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, + "I have sinned this time. Yahweh is righteous, and I and my + people are wicked. +009:028 Pray to Yahweh; for there has been enough of mighty thunderings + and hail. I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer." +009:029 Moses said to him, "As soon as I have gone out of the city, + I will spread abroad my hands to Yahweh. The thunders + shall cease, neither shall there be any more hail; that you + may know that the earth is Yahweh's. +009:030 But as for you and your servants, I know that you don't yet + fear Yahweh God." +009:031 The flax and the barley were struck, for the barley was in the ear, + and the flax was in bloom. +009:032 But the wheat and the spelt were not struck, for they had + not grown up. +009:033 Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread abroad + his hands to Yahweh; and the thunders and hail ceased, + and the rain was not poured on the earth. +009:034 When Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders + were ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, + he and his servants. +009:035 The heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he didn't let the children + of Israel go, just as Yahweh had spoken through Moses. +010:001 Yahweh said to Moses, "Go in to Pharaoh, for I have hardened + his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I may show + these my signs in the midst of them, +010:002 and that you may tell in the hearing of your son, + and of your son's son, what things I have done to Egypt, + and my signs which I have done among them; that you may know + that I am Yahweh." +010:003 Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, + "This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: + 'How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? + Let my people go, that they may serve me. +010:004 Or else, if you refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I + will bring locusts into your country, +010:005 and they shall cover the surface of the earth, so that one + won't be able to see the earth. They shall eat the residue + of that which has escaped, which remains to you from the hail, + and shall eat every tree which grows for you out of the field. +010:006 Your houses shall be filled, and the houses of all + your servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; + as neither your fathers nor your fathers' fathers have seen, + since the day that they were on the earth to this day.'" + He turned, and went out from Pharaoh. +010:007 Pharaoh's servants said to him, "How long will this man be a snare + to us? Let the men go, that they may serve Yahweh, their God. + Don't you yet know that Egypt is destroyed?" +010:008 Moses and Aaron were brought again to Pharaoh, and he said + to them, "Go, serve Yahweh your God; but who are those + who will go?" +010:009 Moses said, "We will go with our young and with our old; + with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with + our herds will we go; for we must hold a feast to Yahweh." +010:010 He said to them, "Yahweh be with you if I will let you go + with your little ones! See, evil is clearly before your faces. +010:011 Not so! Go now you who are men, and serve Yahweh; for that is + what you desire!" They were driven out from Pharaoh's presence. +010:012 Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the land + of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up on the land + of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that + the hail has left." +010:013 Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, + and Yahweh brought an east wind on the land all that day, + and all the night; and when it was morning, the east wind + brought the locusts. +010:014 The locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested + in all the borders of Egypt. They were very grievous. + Before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after + them shall be such. +010:015 For they covered the surface of the whole earth, so that + the land was darkened, and they ate every herb of the land, + and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left. + There remained nothing green, either tree or herb of the field, + through all the land of Egypt. +010:016 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste, and he said, + "I have sinned against Yahweh your God, and against you. +010:017 Now therefore please forgive my sin again, and pray to Yahweh + your God, that he may also take away from me this death." +010:018 He went out from Pharaoh, and prayed to Yahweh. +010:019 Yahweh turned an exceeding strong west wind, which took up + the locusts, and drove them into the Red Sea{or, Sea of Reeds}. + There remained not one locust in all the borders of Egypt. +010:020 But Yahweh hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he didn't let + the children of Israel go. +010:021 Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward the sky, + that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness + which may be felt." +010:022 Moses stretched forth his hand toward the sky, and there was + a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days. +010:023 They didn't see one another, neither did anyone rise from his + place for three days; but all the children of Israel had light + in their dwellings. +010:024 Pharaoh called to Moses, and said, "Go, serve Yahweh. + Only let your flocks and your herds stay behind. + Let your little ones also go with you." +010:025 Moses said, "You must also give into our hand sacrifices + and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice to Yahweh our God. +010:026 Our livestock also shall go with us. There shall not a hoof + be left behind, for of it we must take to serve Yahweh + our God; and we don't know with what we must serve Yahweh, + until we come there." +010:027 But Yahweh hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he wouldn't let them go. +010:028 Pharaoh said to him, "Get away from me! Be careful to see my + face no more; for in the day you see my face you shall die!" +010:029 Moses said, "You have spoken well. I will see your face + again no more." +011:001 Yahweh said to Moses, "Yet one plague more will I bring + on Pharaoh, and on Egypt; afterwards he will let you go. + When he lets you go, he will surely thrust you out altogether. +011:002 Speak now in the ears of the people, and let them ask every + man of his neighbor, and every woman of her neighbor, + jewels of silver, and jewels of gold." +011:003 Yahweh gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. + Moreover the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, + in the sight of Pharaoh's servants, and in the sight + of the people. +011:004 Moses said, "This is what Yahweh says: 'About midnight I + will go out into the midst of Egypt, +011:005 and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, + from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, even to + the firstborn of the female servant who is behind the mill; + and all the firstborn of livestock. +011:006 There shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, + such as there has not been, nor shall be any more. +011:007 But against any of the children of Israel a dog won't + even bark or move its tongue, against man or animal; + that you may know that Yahweh makes a distinction between + the Egyptians and Israel. +011:008 All these your servants shall come down to me, and bow down + themselves to me, saying, "Get out, with all the people + who follow you;" and after that I will go out.'" + He went out from Pharaoh in hot anger. +011:009 Yahweh said to Moses, "Pharaoh won't listen to you, that my + wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt." +011:010 Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh, and Yahweh + hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he didn't let the children + of Israel go out of his land. +012:001 Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, +012:002 "This month shall be to you the beginning of months. + It shall be the first month of the year to you. +012:003 Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, 'On the tenth + day of this month, they shall take to them every man a lamb, + according to their fathers' houses, a lamb for a household; +012:004 and if the household be too little for a lamb, then he and + his neighbor next to his house shall take one according + to the number of the souls; according to what everyone can + eat you shall make your count for the lamb. +012:005 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old. + You shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats: +012:006 and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month; + and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall + kill it at evening. +012:007 They shall take some of the blood, and put it on the two doorposts + and on the lintel, on the houses in which they shall eat it. +012:008 They shall eat the flesh in that night, roasted with fire, + and unleavened bread. They shall eat it with bitter herbs. +012:009 Don't eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted + with fire; with its head, its legs and its inner parts. +012:010 You shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; + but that which remains of it until the morning you shall + burn with fire. +012:011 This is how you shall eat it: with your waist girded, + your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; + and you shall eat it in haste: it is Yahweh's Passover. +012:012 For I will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and will strike + all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and animal. + Against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: + I am Yahweh. +012:013 The blood shall be to you for a token on the houses where you are: + and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and there + shall no plague be on you to destroy you, when I strike + the land of Egypt. +012:014 This day shall be to you for a memorial, and you shall keep + it a feast to Yahweh: throughout your generations you shall + keep it a feast by an ordinance forever. +012:015 "'Seven days shall you eat unleavened bread; even the first + day you shall put away yeast out of your houses, for whoever + eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, + that soul shall be cut off from Israel. +012:016 In the first day there shall be to you a holy convocation, + and in the seventh day a holy convocation; no manner of work + shall be done in them, except that which every man must eat, + that only may be done by you. +012:017 You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this + same day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: + therefore shall you observe this day throughout your generations + by an ordinance forever. +012:018 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, + you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty first day + of the month at evening. +012:019 Seven days shall there be no yeast found in your houses, + for whoever eats that which is leavened, that soul shall be cut + off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a foreigner, + or one who is born in the land. +012:020 You shall eat nothing leavened. In all your habitations you + shall eat unleavened bread.'" +012:021 Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said to them, + "Draw out, and take lambs according to your families, + and kill the Passover. +012:022 You shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that + is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two doorposts + with the blood that is in the basin; and none of you shall + go out of the door of his house until the morning. +012:023 For Yahweh will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when + he sees the blood on the lintel, and on the two doorposts, + Yahweh will pass over the door, and will not allow the destroyer + to come in to your houses to strike you. +012:024 You shall observe this thing for an ordinance to you and to + your sons forever. +012:025 It shall happen when you have come to the land which Yahweh + will give you, according as he has promised, that you shall + keep this service. +012:026 It will happen, when your children ask you, 'What do you mean + by this service?' +012:027 that you shall say, 'It is the sacrifice of Yahweh's Passover, + who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, + when he struck the Egyptians, and spared our houses.'" + The people bowed their heads and worshiped. +012:028 The children of Israel went and did so; as Yahweh had commanded + Moses and Aaron, so they did. +012:029 It happened at midnight, that Yahweh struck all the firstborn + in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his + throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon; + and all the firstborn of livestock. +012:030 Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, + and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt, + for there was not a house where there was not one dead. +012:031 He called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, "Rise up, + get out from among my people, both you and the children of Israel; + and go, serve Yahweh, as you have said! +012:032 Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have said, + and be gone; and bless me also!" +012:033 The Egyptians were urgent with the people, to send them out + of the land in haste, for they said, "We are all dead men." +012:034 The people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading + troughs being bound up in their clothes on their shoulders. +012:035 The children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; + and they asked of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels + of gold, and clothing. +012:036 Yahweh gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, + so that they let them have what they asked. + They despoiled the Egyptians. +012:037 The children of Israel traveled from Rameses to Succoth, + about six hundred thousand on foot who were men, besides children. +012:038 A mixed multitude went up also with them, with flocks, herds, + and even very much livestock. +012:039 They baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought + forth out of Egypt; for it wasn't leavened, because they + were thrust out of Egypt, and couldn't wait, neither had they + prepared for themselves any food. +012:040 Now the time that the children of Israel lived in Egypt was + four hundred thirty years. +012:041 It happened at the end of four hundred thirty years, + even the same day it happened, that all the armies of Yahweh + went out from the land of Egypt. +012:042 It is a night to be much observed to Yahweh for bringing them + out from the land of Egypt. This is that night of Yahweh, + to be much observed of all the children of Israel + throughout their generations. +012:043 Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, "This is the ordinance + of the Passover. There shall no foreigner eat of it, +012:044 but every man's servant who is bought for money, when you + have circumcised him, then shall he eat of it. +012:045 A foreigner and a hired servant shall not eat of it. +012:046 In one house shall it be eaten; you shall not carry forth + anything of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall + you break a bone of it. +012:047 All the congregation of Israel shall keep it. +012:048 When a stranger shall live as a foreigner with you, + and will keep the Passover to Yahweh, let all his males + be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; + and he shall be as one who is born in the land: + but no uncircumcised person shall eat of it. +012:049 One law shall be to him who is born at home, and to the stranger + who lives as a foreigner among you." +012:050 Thus did all the children of Israel. As Yahweh commanded + Moses and Aaron, so they did. +012:051 It happened the same day, that Yahweh brought the children + of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies. +013:001 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +013:002 "Sanctify to me all of the firstborn, whatever opens the womb + among the children of Israel, both of man and of animal. + It is mine." +013:003 Moses said to the people, "Remember this day, in which you + came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by + strength of hand Yahweh brought you out from this place. + No leavened bread shall be eaten. +013:004 This day you go forth in the month Abib. +013:005 It shall be, when Yahweh shall bring you into the land of + the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Hivite, + and the Jebusite, which he swore to your fathers to give you, + a land flowing with milk and honey, that you shall keep this + service in this month. +013:006 Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh + day shall be a feast to Yahweh. +013:007 Unleavened bread shall be eaten throughout the seven days; + and no leavened bread shall be seen with you, neither shall + there be yeast seen with you, in all your borders. +013:008 You shall tell your son in that day, saying, 'It is because of + that which Yahweh did for me when I came forth out of Egypt.' +013:009 It shall be for a sign to you on your hand, and for a memorial + between your eyes, that the law of Yahweh may be in your mouth; + for with a strong hand Yahweh has brought you out of Egypt. +013:010 You shall therefore keep this ordinance in its season from + year to year. +013:011 "It shall be, when Yahweh shall bring you into the land + of the Canaanite, as he swore to you and to your fathers, + and shall give it you, +013:012 that you shall set apart to Yahweh all that opens the womb, + and every firstborn which you have that comes from an animal. + The males shall be Yahweh's. +013:013 Every firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb; + and if you will not redeem it, then you shall break its neck; + and you shall redeem all the firstborn of man among your sons. +013:014 It shall be, when your son asks you in time to come, saying, + 'What is this?' that you shall tell him, 'By strength of hand + Yahweh brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage; +013:015 and it happened, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, + that Yahweh killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, + both the firstborn of man, and the firstborn of animal. + Therefore I sacrifice to Yahweh all that opens the womb, + being males; but all the firstborn of my sons I redeem.' +013:016 It shall be for a sign on your hand, and for symbols between + your eyes: for by strength of hand Yahweh brought us forth + out of Egypt." +013:017 It happened, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God + didn't lead them by the way of the land of the Philistines, + although that was near; for God said, "Lest perhaps the people + change their minds when they see war, and they return to Egypt;" +013:018 but God led the people around by the way of the wilderness + by the Red Sea{or, Sea of Reeds}; and the children of Israel + went up armed out of the land of Egypt. +013:019 Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for he had made + the children of Israel swear, saying, "God will surely visit you, + and you shall carry up my bones away from here with you." +013:020 They took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, + in the edge of the wilderness. +013:021 Yahweh went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, + to lead them on their way, and by night in a pillar of fire, + to give them light, that they might go by day and by night: +013:022 the pillar of cloud by day, and the pillar of fire by night, + didn't depart from before the people. +014:001 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +014:002 "Speak to the children of Israel, that they turn back and encamp + before Pihahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, before Baal Zephon. + You shall encamp opposite it by the sea. +014:003 Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, 'They are entangled + in the land. The wilderness has shut them in.' +014:004 I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and he will follow after them; + and I will get honor over Pharaoh, and over all his armies; + and the Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh." + They did so. +014:005 It was told the king of Egypt that the people had fled; + and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was changed + towards the people, and they said, "What is this we have done, + that we have let Israel go from serving us?" +014:006 He made ready his chariot, and took his army with him; +014:007 and he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots + of Egypt, and captains over all of them. +014:008 Yahweh hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, + and he pursued after the children of Israel; for the children + of Israel went out with a high hand. +014:009 The Egyptians pursued after them: all the horses and chariots + of Pharaoh, his horsemen, and his army; and overtook them + encamping by the sea, beside Pihahiroth, before Baal Zephon. +014:010 When Pharaoh drew near, the children of Israel lifted up + their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians were marching after them; + and they were very afraid. The children of Israel cried + out to Yahweh. +014:011 They said to Moses, "Because there were no graves in Egypt, + have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? + Why have you treated us this way, to bring us forth out of Egypt? +014:012 Isn't this the word that we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, + 'Leave us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians?' For it + were better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we + should die in the wilderness." +014:013 Moses said to the people, "Don't be afraid. Stand still, and see + the salvation of Yahweh, which he will work for you today: + for the Egyptians whom you have seen today, you shall never + see them again. +014:014 Yahweh will fight for you, and you shall be still." +014:015 Yahweh said to Moses, "Why do you cry to me? Speak to the children + of Israel, that they go forward. +014:016 Lift up your rod, and stretch out your hand over the sea, + and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go into + the midst of the sea on dry ground. +014:017 I, behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, + and they shall go in after them: and I will get myself honor + over Pharaoh, and over all his armies, over his chariots, + and over his horsemen. +014:018 The Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have + gotten myself honor over Pharaoh, over his chariots, + and over his horsemen." +014:019 The angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel, + moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud moved + from before them, and stood behind them. +014:020 It came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel; and there + was the cloud and the darkness, yet gave it light by night: + and the one didn't come near the other all the night. +014:021 Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and Yahweh caused + the sea to go back by a strong east wind all the night, + and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. +014:022 The children of Israel went into the midst of the sea on + the dry ground, and the waters were a wall to them on their + right hand, and on their left. +014:023 The Egyptians pursued, and went in after them into the midst + of the sea: all of Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, + and his horsemen. +014:024 It happened in the morning watch, that Yahweh looked out on + the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and of cloud, + and confused the Egyptian army. +014:025 He took off their chariot wheels, and they drove them heavily; + so that the Egyptians said, "Let's flee from the face of Israel, + for Yahweh fights for them against the Egyptians!" +014:026 Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the sea, + that the waters may come again on the Egyptians, on their chariots, + and on their horsemen." +014:027 Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned + to its strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians + fled against it. Yahweh overthrew the Egyptians in the midst + of the sea. +014:028 The waters returned, and covered the chariots and the horsemen, + even all Pharaoh's army that went in after them into the sea. + There remained not so much as one of them. +014:029 But the children of Israel walked on dry land in the midst of + the sea, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand, + and on their left. +014:030 Thus Yahweh saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; + and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore. +014:031 Israel saw the great work which Yahweh did to the Egyptians, + and the people feared Yahweh; and they believed in Yahweh, + and in his servant Moses. +015:001 Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to Yahweh, + and said, "I will sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously. + The horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea. +015:002 Yah is my strength and song. He has become my salvation. + This is my God, and I will praise him; my father's God, + and I will exalt him. +015:003 Yahweh is a man of war. Yahweh is his name. +015:004 He has cast Pharaoh's chariots and his army into the sea. + His chosen captains are sunk in the Red Sea{or, Sea of Reeds}. +015:005 The deeps cover them. They went down into the depths + like a stone. +015:006 Your right hand, Yahweh, is glorious in power. + Your right hand, Yahweh, dashes the enemy in pieces. +015:007 In the greatness of your excellency, you overthrow those + who rise up against you. You send forth your wrath. + It consumes them as stubble. +015:008 With the blast of your nostrils, the waters were piled up. + The floods stood upright as a heap. The deeps were congealed + in the heart of the sea. +015:009 The enemy said, 'I will pursue. I will overtake. + I will divide the spoil. My desire shall be satisfied on them. + I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.' +015:010 You blew with your wind. The sea covered them. + They sank like lead in the mighty waters. +015:011 Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods? Who is like you, + glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders? +015:012 You stretched out your right hand. The earth swallowed them. +015:013 "You, in your loving kindness, have led the people that you + have redeemed. You have guided them in your strength + to your holy habitation. +015:014 The peoples have heard. They tremble. Pangs have taken hold + on the inhabitants of Philistia. +015:015 Then the chiefs of Edom were dismayed. Trembling takes hold + of the mighty men of Moab. All the inhabitants of Canaan + are melted away. +015:016 Terror and dread falls on them. By the greatness of your arm + they are as still as a stone--until your people pass over, + Yahweh, until the people pass over who you have purchased. +015:017 You shall bring them in, and plant them in the mountain + of your inheritance, the place, Yahweh, which you have made + for yourself to dwell in; the sanctuary, Lord, which your + hands have established. +015:018 Yahweh shall reign forever and ever." +015:019 For the horses of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with + his horsemen into the sea, and Yahweh brought back the waters + of the sea on them; but the children of Israel walked on dry + land in the midst of the sea. +015:020 Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine + in her hand; and all the women went out after her with tambourines + and with dances. +015:021 Miriam answered them, "Sing to Yahweh, for he has + triumphed gloriously. The horse and his rider he has thrown + into the sea." +015:022 Moses led Israel onward from the Red Sea{or, Sea of Reeds}, + and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went + three days in the wilderness, and found no water. +015:023 When they came to Marah, they couldn't drink from the waters + of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore the name of it + was called Marah.{Marah means bitter.} +015:024 The people murmured against Moses, saying, "What shall we drink?" +015:025 Then he cried to Yahweh. Yahweh showed him a tree, and he threw + it into the waters, and the waters were made sweet. + There he made a statute and an ordinance for them, and there + he tested them; +015:026 and he said, "If you will diligently listen to the voice of + Yahweh your God, and will do that which is right in his eyes, + and will pay attention to his commandments, and keep all + his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you, which I + have put on the Egyptians; for I am Yahweh who heals you." +015:027 They came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water, + and seventy palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters. +016:001 They took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation + of the children of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, + which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second + month after their departing out of the land of Egypt. +016:002 The whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured + against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness; +016:003 and the children of Israel said to them, "We wish that we + had died by the hand of Yahweh in the land of Egypt, + when we sat by the meat pots, when we ate our fill of bread, + for you have brought us out into this wilderness, to kill + this whole assembly with hunger." +016:004 Then said Yahweh to Moses, "Behold, I will rain bread from + the sky for you, and the people shall go out and gather + a day's portion every day, that I may test them, whether they + will walk in my law, or not. +016:005 It shall come to pass on the sixth day, that they shall prepare + that which they bring in, and it shall be twice as much + as they gather daily." +016:006 Moses and Aaron said to all the children of Israel, "At evening, + then you shall know that Yahweh has brought you out from + the land of Egypt; +016:007 and in the morning, then you shall see the glory of Yahweh; + because he hears your murmurings against Yahweh. + Who are we, that you murmur against us?" +016:008 Moses said, "Now Yahweh shall give you meat to eat in the evening, + and in the morning bread to satisfy you; because Yahweh hears + your murmurings which you murmur against him. And who are we? + Your murmurings are not against us, but against Yahweh." +016:009 Moses said to Aaron, "Tell all the congregation of the + children of Israel, 'Come near before Yahweh, for he has + heard your murmurings.'" +016:010 It happened, as Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the + children of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, + and behold, the glory of Yahweh appeared in the cloud. +016:011 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +016:012 "I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel. + Speak to them, saying, 'At evening you shall eat meat, + and in the morning you shall be filled with bread: + and you shall know that I am Yahweh your God.'" +016:013 It happened at evening that quail came up and covered the camp; + and in the morning the dew lay around the camp. +016:014 When the dew that lay had gone, behold, on the surface of + the wilderness was a small round thing, small as the frost + on the ground. +016:015 When the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, + "What is it?" For they didn't know what it was. + Moses said to them, "It is the bread which Yahweh has given + you to eat." +016:016 This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded: + "Gather of it everyone according to his eating; an omer a head, + according to the number of your persons, shall you take it, + every man for those who are in his tent." +016:017 The children of Israel did so, and gathered some more, some less. +016:018 When they measured it with an omer, he who gathered much + had nothing over, and he who gathered little had no lack. + They gathered every man according to his eating. +016:019 Moses said to them, "Let no one leave of it until the morning." +016:020 Notwithstanding they didn't listen to Moses, but some of them left + of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and became foul: + and Moses was angry with them. +016:021 They gathered it morning by morning, everyone according + to his eating. When the sun grew hot, it melted. +016:022 It happened that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, + two omers for each one, and all the rulers of the congregation + came and told Moses. +016:023 He said to them, "This is that which Yahweh has spoken, + 'Tomorrow is a solemn rest, a holy Sabbath to Yahweh. + Bake that which you want to bake, and boil that which you + want to boil; and all that remains over lay up for yourselves + to be kept until the morning.'" +016:024 They laid it up until the morning, as Moses asked, and it + didn't become foul, neither was there any worm in it. +016:025 Moses said, "Eat that today, for today is a Sabbath to Yahweh. + Today you shall not find it in the field. +016:026 Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day is the Sabbath. + In it there shall be none." +016:027 It happened on the seventh day, that some of the people went + out to gather, and they found none. +016:028 Yahweh said to Moses, "How long do you refuse to keep my + commandments and my laws? +016:029 Behold, because Yahweh has given you the Sabbath, + therefore he gives you on the sixth day the bread of two days. + Everyone stay in his place. Let no one go out of his place + on the seventh day." +016:030 So the people rested on the seventh day. +016:031 The house of Israel called the name of it Manna,{"Manna" + means "What is it?"} and it was like coriander seed, white; + and its taste was like wafers with honey. +016:032 Moses said, "This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded, + 'Let an omer-full of it be kept throughout your generations, + that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness, + when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt.'" +016:033 Moses said to Aaron, "Take a pot, and put an omer-full + of manna in it, and lay it up before Yahweh, to be kept + throughout your generations." +016:034 As Yahweh commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, + to be kept. +016:035 The children of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they + came to an inhabited land. They ate the manna until they + came to the borders of the land of Canaan. +016:036 Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah. +017:001 All the congregation of the children of Israel traveled + from the wilderness of Sin, by their journeys, according to + Yahweh's commandment, and encamped in Rephidim; but there + was no water for the people to drink. +017:002 Therefore the people quarreled with Moses, and said, "Give us water + to drink." Moses said to them, "Why do you quarrel with me? + Why do you test Yahweh?" +017:003 The people were thirsty for water there; and the people murmured + against Moses, and said, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt, + to kill us, our children, and our livestock with thirst?" +017:004 Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, "What shall I do with these people? + They are almost ready to stone me." +017:005 Yahweh said to Moses, "Walk on before the people, and take + the elders of Israel with you, and take the rod in your hand + with which you struck the Nile, and go. +017:006 Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock in Horeb. + You shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, + that the people may drink." Moses did so in the sight + of the elders of Israel. +017:007 He called the name of the place Massah,{Massah means testing.} + and Meribah,{Meribah means quarreling.} because the children + of Israel quarreled, and because they tested Yahweh, saying, + "Is Yahweh among us, or not?" +017:008 Then Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim. +017:009 Moses said to Joshua, "Choose men for us, and go out, + fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill + with God's rod in my hand." +017:010 So Joshua did as Moses had told him, and fought with Amalek; + and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. +017:011 It happened, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed; + and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed. +017:012 But Moses' hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it + under him, and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held up his hands, + the one on the one side, and the other on the other side. + His hands were steady until sunset. +017:013 Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword. +017:014 Yahweh said to Moses, "Write this for a memorial in a book, + and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will utterly + blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky." +017:015 Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Yahweh + our Banner.{Hebrew, Yahweh Nissi} +017:016 He said, "Yah has sworn: 'Yahweh will have war with Amalek + from generation to generation.'" +018:001 Now Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, heard of + all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, + how that Yahweh had brought Israel out of Egypt. +018:002 Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, received Zipporah, Moses' wife, + after he had sent her away, +018:003 and her two sons. The name of one son was Gershom,{"Gershom" + sounds like the Hebrew for "an alien there."} for Moses said, + "I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land". +018:004 The name of the other was Eliezer,{Eliezer means "God is my + helper."} for he said, "My father's God was my help and delivered + me from Pharaoh's sword." +018:005 Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came with his sons and his + wife to Moses into the wilderness where he was encamped, + at the Mountain of God. +018:006 He said to Moses, I, your father-in-law Jethro, have come + to you with your wife, and her two sons with her. +018:007 Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and bowed and kissed him. + They asked each other of their welfare, and they came + into the tent. +018:008 Moses told his father-in-law all that Yahweh had done to Pharaoh + and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, all the hardships + that had come on them on the way, and how Yahweh delivered them. +018:009 Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which Yahweh had done + to Israel, in that he had delivered them out of the hand + of the Egyptians. +018:010 Jethro said, "Blessed be Yahweh, who has delivered you out + of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh; + who has delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians. +018:011 Now I know that Yahweh is greater than all gods because of + the thing in which they dealt arrogantly against them." +018:012 Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices + for God. Aaron came with all of the elders of Israel, + to eat bread with Moses' father-in-law before God. +018:013 It happened on the next day, that Moses sat to judge the people, + and the people stood around Moses from the morning to the evening. +018:014 When Moses' father-in-law saw all that he did to the people, + he said, "What is this thing that you do for the people? + Why do you sit alone, and all the people stand around you + from morning to evening?" +018:015 Moses said to his father-in-law, "Because the people come + to me to inquire of God. +018:016 When they have a matter, they come to me, and I judge between a man + and his neighbor, and I make them know the statutes of God, + and his laws." +018:017 Moses' father-in-law said to him, "The thing that you do + is not good. +018:018 You will surely wear away, both you, and this people + that is with you; for the thing is too heavy for you. + You are not able to perform it yourself alone. +018:019 Listen now to my voice. I will give you counsel, and God + be with you. You represent the people before God, and bring + the causes to God. +018:020 You shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and shall + show them the way in which they must walk, and the work + that they must do. +018:021 Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men, + such as fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place + such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, + rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens. +018:022 Let them judge the people at all times. It shall be that every + great matter they shall bring to you, but every small matter + they shall judge themselves. So shall it be easier for you, + and they shall share the load with you. +018:023 If you will do this thing, and God commands you so, then you + will be able to endure, and all of these people also will go + to their place in peace." +018:024 So Moses listened to the voice of his father-in-law, and did + all that he had said. +018:025 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. +018:026 They judged the people at all times. They brought the hard + causes to Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves. +018:027 Moses let his father-in-law depart, and he went his way into + his own land. +019:001 In the third month after the children of Israel had gone + forth out of the land of Egypt, on that same day they came + into the wilderness of Sinai. +019:002 When they had departed from Rephidim, and had come to + the wilderness of Sinai, they encamped in the wilderness; + and there Israel encamped before the mountain. +019:003 Moses went up to God, and Yahweh called to him out of the mountain, + saying, "This is what you shall tell the house of Jacob, + and tell the children of Israel: +019:004 'You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore + you on eagles' wings, and brought you to myself. +019:005 Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice, and keep my covenant, + then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; + for all the earth is mine; +019:006 and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation.' + These are the words which you shall speak to the children + of Israel." +019:007 Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and set + before them all these words which Yahweh commanded him. +019:008 All the people answered together, and said, "All that Yahweh + has spoken we will do." Moses reported the words of the + people to Yahweh. +019:009 Yahweh said to Moses, "Behold, I come to you in a thick cloud, + that the people may hear when I speak with you, and may also believe + you forever." Moses told the words of the people to Yahweh. +019:010 Yahweh said to Moses, "Go to the people, and sanctify them + today and tomorrow, and let them wash their garments, +019:011 and be ready against the third day; for on the third day Yahweh + will come down in the sight of all the people on Mount Sinai. +019:012 You shall set bounds to the people round about, saying, 'Be careful + that you don't go up onto the mountain, or touch its border. + Whoever touches the mountain shall be surely put to death. +019:013 No hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned or + shot through; whether it is animal or man, he shall not live.' + When the trumpet sounds long, they shall come up to the mountain." +019:014 Moses went down from the mountain to the people, and sanctified + the people; and they washed their clothes. +019:015 He said to the people, "Be ready by the third day. + Don't have sexual relations with a woman." +019:016 It happened on the third day, when it was morning, + that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud + on the mountain, and the sound of an exceedingly loud trumpet; + and all the people who were in the camp trembled. +019:017 Moses led the people out of the camp to meet God; and they + stood at the lower part of the mountain. +019:018 Mount Sinai, the whole of it, smoked, because Yahweh descended + on it in fire; and its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, + and the whole mountain quaked greatly. +019:019 When the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, + and God answered him by a voice. +019:020 Yahweh came down on Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain. + Yahweh called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up. +019:021 Yahweh said to Moses, "Go down, charge the people, lest they + break through to Yahweh to gaze, and many of them perish. +019:022 Let the priests also, who come near to Yahweh, sanctify themselves, + lest Yahweh break forth on them." +019:023 Moses said to Yahweh, "The people can't come up to Mount Sinai, + for you charged us, saying, 'Set bounds around the mountain, + and sanctify it.'" +019:024 Yahweh said to him, "Go down and you shall bring Aaron up with you, + but don't let the priests and the people break through to come + up to Yahweh, lest he break forth on them." +019:025 So Moses went down to the people, and told them. +020:001 God{After "God," the Hebrew has the two letters "Aleph Tav" + (the first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet), not as a word, + but as a grammatical marker.} spoke all these words, saying, +020:002 "I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, + out of the house of bondage. +020:003 You shall have no other gods before me. +020:004 "You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of anything + that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, + or that is in the water under the earth: +020:005 you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, + for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity + of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth + generation of those who hate me, +020:006 and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me + and keep my commandments. +020:007 "You shall not take the name of Yahweh your God in vain, + for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain. +020:008 "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. +020:009 You shall labor six days, and do all your work, +020:010 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God. + You shall not do any work in it, you, nor your son, + nor your daughter, your male servant, nor your female servant, + nor your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates; +020:011 for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, the sea, + and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; + therefore Yahweh blessed the Sabbath day, and made it holy. +020:012 "Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long + in the land which Yahweh your God gives you. +020:013 "You shall not murder. +020:014 "You shall not commit adultery. +020:015 "You shall not steal. +020:016 "You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor. +020:017 "You shall not covet your neighbor's house. You shall + not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, + nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, + nor anything that is your neighbor's." +020:018 All the people perceived the thunderings, the lightnings, + the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking. + When the people saw it, they trembled, and stayed at a distance. +020:019 They said to Moses, "Speak with us yourself, and we will listen; + but don't let God speak with us, lest we die." +020:020 Moses said to the people, "Don't be afraid, for God has + come to test you, and that his fear may be before you, + that you won't sin." +020:021 The people stayed at a distance, and Moses drew near to the thick + darkness where God was. +020:022 Yahweh said to Moses, "This is what you shall tell the children + of Israel: 'You yourselves have seen that I have talked + with you from heaven. +020:023 You shall most certainly not make alongside of me gods of silver, + or gods of gold for yourselves. +020:024 You shall make an altar of earth for me, and shall sacrifice + on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, + your sheep and your oxen. In every place where I record + my name I will come to you and I will bless you. +020:025 If you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build + it of hewn stones; for if you lift up your tool on it, + you have polluted it. +020:026 Neither shall you go up by steps to my altar, that your nakedness + may not be exposed to it.' +021:001 "Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them. +021:002 "If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years and in + the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything. +021:003 If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself. + If he is married, then his wife shall go out with him. +021:004 If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, + the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall + go out by himself. +021:005 But if the servant shall plainly say, 'I love my master, + my wife, and my children. I will not go out free;' +021:006 then his master shall bring him to God, and shall bring him + to the door or to the doorpost, and his master shall bore + his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him for ever. +021:007 "If a man sells his daughter to be a female servant, she shall + not go out as the male servants do. +021:008 If she doesn't please her master, who has married + her to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. + He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, + seeing he has dealt deceitfully with her. +021:009 If he marries her to his son, he shall deal with her after + the manner of daughters. +021:010 If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish + her food, her clothing, and her marital rights. +021:011 If he doesn't do these three things for her, she may go free + without paying any money. +021:012 "One who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be + put to death, +021:013 but not if it is unintentional, but God allows it to happen: + then I will appoint you a place where he shall flee. +021:014 If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbor + to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die. +021:015 "Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely + put to death. +021:016 "Anyone who kidnaps someone and sells him, or if he is found + in his hand, he shall surely be put to death. +021:017 "Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely + be put to death. +021:018 "If men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone, + or with his fist, and he doesn't die, but is confined to bed; +021:019 if he rises again and walks around with his staff, + then he who struck him shall be cleared: only he shall pay + for the loss of his time, and shall provide for his healing + until he is thoroughly healed. +021:020 "If a man strikes his servant or his maid with a rod, + and he dies under his hand, he shall surely be punished. +021:021 Notwithstanding, if he gets up after a day or two, he shall + not be punished, for he is his property. +021:022 "If men fight and hurt a pregnant woman so that she gives + birth prematurely, and yet no harm follows, he shall be surely + fined as much as the woman's husband demands and the judges allow. +021:023 But if any harm follows, then you must take life for life, +021:024 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, +021:025 burning for burning, wound for wound, and bruise for bruise. +021:026 "If a man strikes his servant's eye, or his maid's eye, + and destroys it, he shall let him go free for his eye's sake. +021:027 If he strikes out his male servant's tooth, or his female + servant's tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake. +021:028 "If a bull gores a man or a woman to death, the bull shall + surely be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten; + but the owner of the bull shall not be held responsible. +021:029 But if the bull had a habit of goring in the past, and it + has been testified to its owner, and he has not kept it in, + but it has killed a man or a woman, the bull shall be stoned, + and its owner shall also be put to death. +021:030 If a ransom is laid on him, then he shall give for the redemption + of his life whatever is laid on him. +021:031 Whether it has gored a son or has gored a daughter, + according to this judgment it shall be done to him. +021:032 If the bull gores a male servant or a female servant, + thirty shekels of silver shall be given to their master, + and the ox shall be stoned. +021:033 "If a man opens a pit, or if a man digs a pit and doesn't cover it, + and a bull or a donkey falls into it, +021:034 the owner of the pit shall make it good. He shall give money + to its owner, and the dead animal shall be his. +021:035 "If one man's bull injures another's, so that it dies, + then they shall sell the live bull, and divide its price; + and they shall also divide the dead animal. +021:036 Or if it is known that the bull was in the habit of goring + in the past, and its owner has not kept it in, he shall surely + pay bull for bull, and the dead animal shall be his own. +022:001 "If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it, or sells it; + he shall pay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. +022:002 If the thief is found breaking in, and is struck so that he dies, + there shall be no guilt of bloodshed for him. +022:003 If the sun has risen on him, there shall be guilt of bloodshed + for him; he shall make restitution. If he has nothing, + then he shall be sold for his theft. +022:004 If the stolen property is found in his hand alive, whether it + is ox, donkey, or sheep, he shall pay double. +022:005 "If a man causes a field or vineyard to be eaten, and lets + his animal loose, and it grazes in another man's field, + he shall make restitution from the best of his own field, + and from the best of his own vineyard. +022:006 "If fire breaks out, and catches in thorns so that the shocks + of grain, or the standing grain, or the field are consumed; + he who kindled the fire shall surely make restitution. +022:007 "If a man delivers to his neighbor money or stuff to keep, + and it is stolen out of the man's house; if the thief is found, + he shall pay double. +022:008 If the thief isn't found, then the master of the house shall + come near to God, to find out if he hasn't put his hand + to his neighbor's goods. +022:009 For every matter of trespass, whether it be for ox, for donkey, + for sheep, for clothing, or for any kind of lost thing, + about which one says, 'This is mine,' the cause of both parties + shall come before God. He whom God condemns shall pay double + to his neighbor. +022:010 "If a man delivers to his neighbor a donkey, an ox, a sheep, + or any animal to keep, and it dies or is injured, or driven away, + no man seeing it; +022:011 the oath of Yahweh shall be between them both, whether he hasn't + put his hand to his neighbor's goods; and the owner of it + shall accept it, and he shall not make restitution. +022:012 But if it is stolen from him, he shall make restitution + to the owner of it. +022:013 If it is torn in pieces, let him bring it for evidence. + He shall not make good that which was torn. +022:014 "If a man borrows anything of his neighbor's, and it is injured, + or dies, the owner of it not being with it, he shall + surely make restitution. +022:015 If the owner of it is with it, he shall not make it good. + If it is a leased thing, it came for its lease. +022:016 "If a man entices a virgin who isn't pledged to be married, + and lies with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to + be his wife. +022:017 If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall + pay money according to the dowry of virgins. +022:018 "You shall not allow a sorceress to live. +022:019 "Whoever has sex with an animal shall surely be put to death. +022:020 "He who sacrifices to any god, except to Yahweh only, + shall be utterly destroyed. +022:021 "You shall not wrong an alien, neither shall you oppress him, + for you were aliens in the land of Egypt. +022:022 "You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child. +022:023 If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, + I will surely hear their cry; +022:024 and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; + and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless. +022:025 "If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, + you shall not be to him as a creditor; neither shall you + charge him interest. +022:026 If you take your neighbor's garment as collateral, you shall + restore it to him before the sun goes down, +022:027 for that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin. + What would he sleep in? It will happen, when he cries to me, + that I will hear, for I am gracious. +022:028 "You shall not blaspheme God, nor curse a ruler of your people. +022:029 "You shall not delay to offer from your harvest and from + the outflow of your presses. "You shall give the firstborn + of your sons to me. +022:030 You shall do likewise with your oxen and with your sheep. + Seven days it shall be with its mother, then on the eighth + day you shall give it me. +022:031 "You shall be holy men to me, therefore you shall not + eat any flesh that is torn by animals in the field. + You shall cast it to the dogs. +023:001 "You shall not spread a false report. Don't join your hand + with the wicked to be a malicious witness. +023:002 You shall not follow a crowd to do evil; neither shall you + testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice; +023:003 neither shall you favor a poor man in his cause. +023:004 "If you meet your enemy's ox or his donkey going astray, + you shall surely bring it back to him again. +023:005 If you see the donkey of him who hates you fallen down under + his burden, don't leave him, you shall surely help him with it. +023:006 "You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits. +023:007 "Keep far from a false charge, and don't kill the innocent + and righteous: for I will not justify the wicked. +023:008 "You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have + sight and perverts the words of the righteous. +023:009 "You shall not oppress an alien, for you know the heart of an alien, + seeing you were aliens in the land of Egypt. +023:010 "For six years you shall sow your land, and shall gather + in its increase, +023:011 but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, + that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave + the animal of the field shall eat. In like manner you shall + deal with your vineyard and with your olive grove. +023:012 "Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you + shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may have rest, + and the son of your handmaid, and the alien may be refreshed. +023:013 "Be careful to do all things that I have said to you; + and don't invoke the name of other gods, neither let them + be heard out of your mouth. +023:014 "You shall observe a feast to me three times a year. +023:015 You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread. + Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, + at the time appointed in the month Abib (for in it you came + out from Egypt), and no one shall appear before me empty. +023:016 And the feast of harvest, the first fruits of your labors, + which you sow in the field: and the feast of harvest, + at the end of the year, when you gather in your labors out + of the field. +023:017 Three times in the year all your males shall appear before + the Lord Yahweh. +023:018 "You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread, + neither shall the fat of my feast remain all night + until the morning. +023:019 The first of the first fruits of your ground you shall bring + into the house of Yahweh your God. "You shall not boil a kid + in its mother's milk. +023:020 "Behold, I send an angel before you, to keep you by the way, + and to bring you into the place which I have prepared. +023:021 Pay attention to him, and listen to his voice. + Don't provoke him, for he will not pardon your disobedience, + for my name is in him. +023:022 But if you indeed listen to his voice, and do all that I speak, + then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and an adversary + to your adversaries. +023:023 For my angel shall go before you, and bring you in to the Amorite, + the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite, the Hivite, + and the Jebusite; and I will cut them off. +023:024 You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, + nor follow their practices, but you shall utterly overthrow + them and demolish their pillars. +023:025 You shall serve Yahweh your God, and he will bless your bread + and your water, and I will take sickness away from your midst. +023:026 No one will miscarry or be barren in your land. + I will fulfill the number of your days. +023:027 I will send my terror before you, and will confuse all the people + to whom you come, and I will make all your enemies turn + their backs to you. +023:028 I will send the hornet before you, which will drive out the Hivite, + the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before you. +023:029 I will not drive them out from before you in one year, + lest the land become desolate, and the animals of the field + multiply against you. +023:030 Little by little I will drive them out from before you, + until you have increased and inherit the land. +023:031 I will set your border from the Red Sea{or, Sea of Reeds} even to + the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River; + for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, + and you shall drive them out before you. +023:032 You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. +023:033 They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin + against me, for if you serve their gods, it will surely + be a snare to you." +024:001 He said to Moses, "Come up to Yahweh, you, and Aaron, Nadab, + and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship + from a distance. +024:002 Moses alone shall come near to Yahweh, but they shall not come near, + neither shall the people go up with him." +024:003 Moses came and told the people all the words of Yahweh, and all + the ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice, + and said, "All the words which Yahweh has spoken will we do." +024:004 Moses wrote all the words of Yahweh, and rose up early + in the morning, and built an altar under the mountain, + and twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel. +024:005 He sent young men of the children of Israel, who offered burnt + offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen to Yahweh. +024:006 Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and half + of the blood he sprinkled on the altar. +024:007 He took the book of the covenant and read it in the hearing + of the people, and they said, "All that Yahweh has spoken + will we do, and be obedient." +024:008 Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, + and said, "Look, this is the blood of the covenant, + which Yahweh has made with you concerning all these words." +024:009 Then Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of the elders + of Israel went up. +024:010 They saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was like a paved work + of sapphire{or, lapis lazuli} stone, like the skies for clearness. +024:011 He didn't lay his hand on the nobles of the children of Israel. + They saw God, and ate and drank. +024:012 Yahweh said to Moses, "Come up to me on the mountain, + and stay here, and I will give you the tables of stone + with the law and the commands that I have written, that you + may teach them." +024:013 Moses rose up with Joshua, his servant, and Moses went up + onto God's Mountain. +024:014 He said to the elders, "Wait here for us, until we come + again to you. Behold, Aaron and Hur are with you. + Whoever is involved in a dispute can go to them." +024:015 Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain. +024:016 The glory of Yahweh settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud + covered it six days. The seventh day he called to Moses + out of the midst of the cloud. +024:017 The appearance of the glory of Yahweh was like devouring fire on + the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel. +024:018 Moses entered into the midst of the cloud, and went up + on the mountain; and Moses was on the mountain forty days + and forty nights. +025:001 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +025:002 "Speak to the children of Israel, that they take an offering for me. + From everyone whose heart makes him willing you shall + take my offering. +025:003 This is the offering which you shall take from them: + gold, silver, brass, +025:004 blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats' hair, +025:005 rams' skins dyed red, sea cow hides, acacia wood, +025:006 oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for + the sweet incense, +025:007 onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod and + for the breastplate. +025:008 Let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them. +025:009 According to all that I show you, the pattern of the tent, + and the pattern of all of its furniture, even so you + shall make it. +025:010 "They shall make an ark of acacia wood. Its length shall + be two and a half cubits, its breadth a cubit and a half, + and a cubit and a half its height. +025:011 You shall overlay it with pure gold. Inside and outside shall + you overlay it, and shall make a gold molding around it. +025:012 You shall cast four rings of gold for it, and put them + in its four feet. Two rings shall be on the one side of it, + and two rings on the other side of it. +025:013 You shall make poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold. +025:014 You shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark + to carry the ark. +025:015 The poles shall be in the rings of the ark. They shall not + be taken from it. +025:016 You shall put the testimony which I shall give you into the ark. +025:017 You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold. Two and a half cubits + shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth. +025:018 You shall make two cherubim of hammered gold. You shall make + them at the two ends of the mercy seat. +025:019 Make one cherub at the one end, and one cherub at the other end. + You shall make the cherubim on its two ends of one piece + with the mercy seat. +025:020 The cherubim shall spread out their wings upward, covering the mercy + seat with their wings, with their faces toward one another. + The faces of the cherubim shall be toward the mercy seat. +025:021 You shall put the mercy seat on top of the ark, and in the ark + you shall put the testimony that I will give you. +025:022 There I will meet with you, and I will tell you from above + the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are + on the ark of the testimony, all that I command you for + the children of Israel. +025:023 "You shall make a table of acacia wood. Two cubits shall + be its length, and a cubit its breadth, and one and a half + cubits its height. +025:024 You shall overlay it with pure gold, and make a gold + molding around it. +025:025 You shall make a rim of a handbreadth around it. + You shall make a golden molding on its rim around it. +025:026 You shall make four rings of gold for it, and put the rings + in the four corners that are on its four feet. +025:027 the rings shall be close to the rim, for places for the poles + to carry the table. +025:028 You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them + with gold, that the table may be carried with them. +025:029 You shall make its dishes, its spoons, its ladles, and its bowls + to pour out offerings with. Of pure gold shall you make them. +025:030 You shall set bread of the presence on the table before me always. +025:031 "You shall make a lampstand of pure gold. Of hammered work shall + the lampstand be made, even its base, its shaft, its cups, + its buds, and its flowers, shall be of one piece with it. +025:032 There shall be six branches going out of its sides: + three branches of the lampstand out of its one side, + and three branches of the lampstand out of its other side; +025:033 three cups made like almond blossoms in one branch, a bud + and a flower; and three cups made like almond blossoms in + the other branch, a bud and a flower, so for the six branches + going out of the lampstand; +025:034 and in the lampstand four cups made like almond blossoms, + its buds and its flowers; +025:035 and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud + under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two + branches of one piece with it, for the six branches going + out of the lampstand. +025:036 Their buds and their branches shall be of one piece with it, + the whole of it one beaten work of pure gold. +025:037 You shall make its lamps seven, and they shall light its lamps + to give light to the space in front of it. +025:038 Its snuffers and its snuff dishes shall be of pure gold. +025:039 It shall be made of a talent of pure gold, with all + these accessories. +025:040 See that you make them after their pattern, which has been + shown to you on the mountain. +026:001 "Moreover you shall make the tent with ten curtains; of fine + twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, with cherubim. + The work of the skillful workman you shall make them. +026:002 The length of each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits, + and the breadth of each curtain four cubits: all the curtains + shall have one measure. +026:003 Five curtains shall be coupled together one to another; + and the other five curtains shall be coupled one to another. +026:004 You shall make loops of blue on the edge of the one curtain + from the edge in the coupling; and likewise shall you make in + the edge of the curtain that is outmost in the second coupling. +026:005 You shall make fifty loops in the one curtain, and you shall + make fifty loops in the edge of the curtain that is in the + second coupling. The loops shall be opposite one to another. +026:006 You shall make fifty clasps of gold, and couple the curtains + one to another with the clasps: and the tent shall be a unit. +026:007 "You shall make curtains of goats' hair for a covering over the tent: + eleven curtains shall you make them. +026:008 The length of each curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth + of each curtain four cubits: the eleven curtains shall + have one measure. +026:009 You shall couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains + by themselves, and shall double over the sixth curtain + in the forefront of the tent. +026:010 You shall make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain + that is outmost in the coupling, and fifty loops on the edge + of the curtain which is outmost in the second coupling. +026:011 You shall make fifty clasps of brass, and put the clasps into + the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one. +026:012 The overhanging part that remains of the curtains of the tent, + the half curtain that remains, shall hang over the back + of the tent. +026:013 The cubit on the one side, and the cubit on the other side, + of that which remains in the length of the curtains of the tent, + shall hang over the sides of the tent on this side and on + that side, to cover it. +026:014 You shall make a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, + and a covering of sea cow hides above. +026:015 "You shall make the boards for the tent of acacia wood, standing up. +026:016 Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and one and a half + cubits the breadth of each board. +026:017 There shall be two tenons in each board, joined to one another: + thus shall you make for all the boards of the tent. +026:018 You shall make the boards for the tent, twenty boards for + the south side southward. +026:019 You shall make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; + two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets + under another board for its two tenons. +026:020 For the second side of the tent, on the north side, twenty boards, +026:021 and their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, + and two sockets under another board. +026:022 For the far part of the tent westward you shall make six boards. +026:023 Two boards shall you make for the corners of the tent in + the far part. +026:024 They shall be double beneath, and in like manner they shall be entire + to the top of it to one ring: thus shall it be for them both; + they shall be for the two corners. +026:025 There shall be eight boards, and their sockets of silver, + sixteen sockets; two sockets under one board, and two sockets + under another board. +026:026 "You shall make bars of acacia wood: five for the boards + of the one side of the tent, +026:027 and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tent, + and five bars for the boards of the side of the tent, + for the far part westward. +026:028 The middle bar in the midst of the boards shall pass through + from end to end. +026:029 You shall overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings + of gold for places for the bars: and you shall overlay + the bars with gold. +026:030 You shall set up the tent according to the way that it was shown + to you on the mountain. +026:031 "You shall make a veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, + and fine twined linen, with cherubim. The work of the skillful + workman shall it be made. +026:032 You shall hang it on four pillars of acacia overlaid with gold; + their hooks shall be of gold, on four sockets of silver. +026:033 You shall hang up the veil under the clasps, and shall + bring the ark of the testimony in there within the veil: + and the veil shall separate the holy place from the most + holy for you. +026:034 You shall put the mercy seat on the ark of the testimony + in the most holy place. +026:035 You shall set the table outside the veil, and the lampstand over + against the table on the side of the tent toward the south: + and you shall put the table on the north side. +026:036 "You shall make a screen for the door of the Tent, of blue, + and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work + of the embroiderer. +026:037 You shall make for the screen five pillars of acacia, + and overlay them with gold: their hooks shall be of gold: + and you shall cast five sockets of brass for them. +027:001 "You shall make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long, + and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: + and its height shall be three cubits. +027:002 You shall make its horns on its four corners; its horns shall + be of one piece with it; and you shall overlay it with brass. +027:003 You shall make its pots to take away its ashes, its shovels, + its basins, its flesh hooks, and its fire pans: + all its vessels you shall make of brass. +027:004 You shall make a grating for it of network of brass: + and on the net you shall make four bronze rings in its four corners. +027:005 You shall put it under the ledge around the altar beneath, + that the net may reach halfway up the altar. +027:006 You shall make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, + and overlay them with brass. +027:007 Its poles shall be put into the rings, and the poles shall + be on the two sides of the altar, when carrying it. +027:008 Hollow with planks shall you make it: as it has been shown + you on the mountain, so shall they make it. +027:009 "You shall make the court of the tent: for the south side + southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined + linen one hundred cubits long for one side: +027:010 and the pillars of it shall be twenty, and their sockets twenty, + of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall + be of silver. +027:011 Likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings + one hundred cubits long, and the pillars of it twenty, + and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars, + and their fillets, of silver. +027:012 For the breadth of the court on the west side shall be hangings + of fifty cubits; their pillars ten, and their sockets ten. +027:013 The breadth of the court on the east side eastward shall + be fifty cubits. +027:014 The hangings for the one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits; + their pillars three, and their sockets three. +027:015 For the other side shall be hangings of fifteen cubits; + their pillars three, and their sockets three. +027:016 For the gate of the court shall be a screen of twenty cubits, + of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, + the work of the embroiderer; their pillars four, + and their sockets four. +027:017 All the pillars of the court round about shall be filleted + with silver; their hooks of silver, and their sockets of brass. +027:018 The length of the court shall be one hundred cubits, + and the breadth fifty every where, and the height five cubits, + of fine twined linen, and their sockets of brass. +027:019 All the instruments of the tent in all its service, + and all the pins of it, and all the pins of the court, + shall be of brass. +027:020 "You shall command the children of Israel, that they bring + to you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp + to burn continually. +027:021 In the tent of meeting, outside the veil which is before + the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall keep it in order + from evening to morning before Yahweh: it shall be a + statute forever throughout their generations on the behalf + of the children of Israel. +028:001 "Bring Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, near to you + from among the children of Israel, that he may minister to me + in the priest's office, even Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar + and Ithamar, Aaron's sons. +028:002 You shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, for glory + and for beauty. +028:003 You shall speak to all who are wise-hearted, whom I have filled + with the spirit of wisdom, that they make Aaron's garments to + sanctify him, that he may minister to me in the priest's office. +028:004 These are the garments which they shall make: a breastplate, + and an ephod, and a robe, and a coat of checker work, + a turban, and a sash: and they shall make holy garments + for Aaron your brother, and his sons, that he may minister + to me in the priest's office. +028:005 They shall take the gold, and the blue, and the purple, + and the scarlet, and the fine linen. +028:006 "They shall make the ephod of gold, of blue, and purple, scarlet, + and fine twined linen, the work of the skillful workman. +028:007 It shall have two shoulder straps joined to the two ends of it, + that it may be joined together. +028:008 The skillfully woven band, which is on it, that is on him, + shall be like its work and of the same piece; of gold, of blue, + and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen. +028:009 You shall take two onyx stones, and engrave on them the names + of the children of Israel: +028:010 six of their names on the one stone, and the names of the six + that remain on the other stone, in the order of their birth. +028:011 With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings + of a signet, shall you engrave the two stones, according to + the names of the children of Israel: you shall make them + to be enclosed in settings of gold. +028:012 You shall put the two stones on the shoulder straps of the ephod, + to be stones of memorial for the children of Israel: + and Aaron shall bear their names before Yahweh on his two + shoulders for a memorial. +028:013 You shall make settings of gold, +028:014 and two chains of pure gold; you shall make them like cords + of braided work: and you shall put the braided chains + on the settings. +028:015 "You shall make a breastplate of judgment, the work of the + skillful workman; like the work of the ephod you shall make it; + of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, + shall you make it. +028:016 It shall be square and folded double; a span{A span is the length + from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the little finger + when the hand is stretched out (about 9 inches or 22.8 cm.)} + shall be its length of it, and a span its breadth. +028:017 You shall set in it settings of stones, four rows of stones: + a row of ruby, topaz, and beryl shall be the first row; +028:018 and the second row a turquoise, a sapphire{or, lapis lazuli}, + and an emerald; +028:019 and the third row a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst; +028:020 and the fourth row a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper: + they shall be enclosed in gold in their settings. +028:021 The stones shall be according to the names of the children + of Israel, twelve, according to their names; like the engravings + of a signet, everyone according to his name, they shall + be for the twelve tribes. +028:022 You shall make on the breastplate chains like cords, of braided + work of pure gold. +028:023 You shall make on the breastplate two rings of gold, and shall + put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate. +028:024 You shall put the two braided chains of gold in the two rings + at the ends of the breastplate. +028:025 The other two ends of the two braided chains you shall put + on the two settings, and put them on the shoulder straps + of the ephod in the forepart of it. +028:026 You shall make two rings of gold, and you shall put them on + the two ends of the breastplate, on its edge, which is toward + the side of the ephod inward. +028:027 You shall make two rings of gold, and shall put them on the two + shoulder straps of the ephod underneath, in the forepart of it, + close by the coupling of it, above the skillfully woven band + of the ephod. +028:028 They shall bind the breastplate by the rings of it to the rings + of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may be on the skillfully + woven band of the ephod, and that the breastplate may not swing + out from the ephod. +028:029 Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in + the breastplate of judgment on his heart, when he goes in to + the holy place, for a memorial before Yahweh continually. +028:030 You shall put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim; + and they shall be on Aaron's heart, when he goes in before Yahweh: + and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel + on his heart before Yahweh continually. +028:031 "You shall make the robe of the ephod all of blue. +028:032 It shall have a hole for the head in the midst of it: + it shall have a binding of woven work round about the hole of it, + as it were the hole of a coat of mail, that it not be torn. +028:033 On its hem you shall make pomegranates of blue, and of purple, + and of scarlet, around its hem; and bells of gold between + them round about: +028:034 a golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, + on the hem of the robe round about. +028:035 It shall be on Aaron to minister: and the sound of it shall + be heard when he goes in to the holy place before Yahweh, + and when he comes out, that he not die. +028:036 "You shall make a plate of pure gold, and engrave on it, + like the engravings of a signet, 'HOLY TO YAHWEH.' +028:037 You shall put it on a lace of blue, and it shall be on the sash; + on the front of the sash it shall be. +028:038 It shall be on Aaron's forehead, and Aaron shall bear the iniquity + of the holy things, which the children of Israel shall make holy + in all their holy gifts; and it shall be always on his forehead, + that they may be accepted before Yahweh. +028:039 You shall weave the coat in checker work of fine linen, and you + shall make a turban of fine linen, and you shall make a sash, + the work of the embroiderer. +028:040 "You shall make coats for Aaron's sons, and you shall make + sashes for them and headbands shall you make for them, + for glory and for beauty. +028:041 You shall put them on Aaron your brother, and on his sons with him, + and shall anoint them, and consecrate them, and sanctify them, + that they may minister to me in the priest's office. +028:042 You shall make them linen breeches to cover the flesh + of their nakedness; from the waist even to the thighs + they shall reach: +028:043 They shall be on Aaron, and on his sons, when they go in to + the tent of meeting, or when they come near to the altar + to minister in the holy place; that they don't bear iniquity, + and die: it shall be a statute forever to him and to his + descendants after him. +029:001 "This is the thing that you shall do to them to make + them holy, to minister to me in the priest's office: + take one young bull and two rams without blemish, +029:002 unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, + and unleavened wafers anointed with oil: you shall make them + of fine wheat flour. +029:003 You shall put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket, + with the bull and the two rams. +029:004 You shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the tent + of meeting, and shall wash them with water. +029:005 You shall take the garments, and put on Aaron the coat, + the robe of the ephod, the ephod, and the breastplate, + and dress him with the skillfully woven band of the ephod; +029:006 and you shall set the turban on his head, and put the holy + crown on the turban. +029:007 Then you shall take the anointing oil, and pour it on his head, + and anoint him. +029:008 You shall bring his sons, and put coats on them. +029:009 You shall dress them with belts, Aaron and his sons, and bind + headbands on them: and they shall have the priesthood + by a perpetual statute: and you shall consecrate Aaron + and his sons. +029:010 "You shall bring the bull before the tent of meeting: + and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head + of the bull. +029:011 You shall kill the bull before Yahweh, at the door of the + tent of meeting. +029:012 You shall take of the blood of the bull, and put it on the horns + of the altar with your finger; and you shall pour out all + the blood at the base of the altar. +029:013 You shall take all the fat that covers the innards, the cover + of the liver, the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, + and burn them on the altar. +029:014 But the flesh of the bull, and its skin, and its dung, + you shall burn with fire outside of the camp: + it is a sin offering. +029:015 "You shall also take the one ram; and Aaron and his sons shall + lay their hands on the head of the ram. +029:016 You shall kill the ram, and you shall take its blood, + and sprinkle it around on the altar. +029:017 You shall cut the ram into its pieces, and wash its innards, + and its legs, and put them with its pieces, and with its head. +029:018 You shall burn the whole ram on the altar: it is a burnt + offering to Yahweh; it is a sweet savor, an offering made + by fire to Yahweh. +029:019 "You shall take the other ram; and Aaron and his sons shall + lay their hands on the head of the ram. +029:020 Then you shall kill the ram, and take some of its blood, + and put it on the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and on + the tip of the right ear of his sons, and on the thumb + of their right hand, and on the big toe of their right foot, + and sprinkle the blood on the altar round about. +029:021 You shall take of the blood that is on the altar, and of the + anointing oil, and sprinkle it on Aaron, and on his garments, + and on his sons, and on the garments of his sons with him: + and he shall be made holy, and his garments, and his sons, + and his sons' garments with him. +029:022 Also you shall take some of the ram's fat, the fat tail, + the fat that covers the innards, the cover of the liver, + the two kidneys, the fat that is on them, and the right thigh + (for it is a ram of consecration), +029:023 and one loaf of bread, one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer + out of the basket of unleavened bread that is before Yahweh. +029:024 You shall put all of this in Aaron's hands, and in his sons' + hands, and shall wave them for a wave offering before Yahweh. +029:025 You shall take them from their hands, and burn them on the altar + on the burnt offering, for a sweet savor before Yahweh: + it is an offering made by fire to Yahweh. +029:026 "You shall take the breast of Aaron's ram of consecration, + and wave it for a wave offering before Yahweh: + and it shall be your portion. +029:027 You shall sanctify the breast of the wave offering, and the thigh + of the wave offering, which is waved, and which is heaved up, + of the ram of consecration, even of that which is for Aaron, + and of that which is for his sons: +029:028 and it shall be for Aaron and his sons as their portion forever + from the children of Israel; for it is a wave offering: + and it shall be a wave offering from the children of Israel + of the sacrifices of their peace offerings, even their wave + offering to Yahweh. +029:029 "The holy garments of Aaron shall be for his sons after him, + to be anointed in them, and to be consecrated in them. +029:030 Seven days shall the son who is priest in his place put + them on, when he comes into the tent of meeting to minister + in the holy place. +029:031 "You shall take the ram of consecration, and boil its flesh + in a holy place. +029:032 Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and the bread + that is in the basket, at the door of the tent of meeting. +029:033 They shall eat those things with which atonement was made, + to consecrate and sanctify them: but a stranger shall not eat + of it, because they are holy. +029:034 If anything of the flesh of the consecration, or of the bread, + remains to the morning, then you shall burn the remainder with fire: + it shall not be eaten, because it is holy. +029:035 "Thus shall you do to Aaron, and to his sons, according to all + that I have commanded you. Seven days shall you consecrate them. +029:036 Every day shall you offer the bull of sin offering for atonement: + and you shall cleanse the altar, when you make atonement for it; + and you shall anoint it, to sanctify it. +029:037 Seven days you shall make atonement for the altar, and sanctify it: + and the altar shall be most holy; whatever touches the altar + shall be holy. +029:038 "Now this is that which you shall offer on the altar: + two lambs a year old day by day continually. +029:039 The one lamb you shall offer in the morning; and the other lamb + you shall offer at evening: +029:040 and with the one lamb a tenth part of an ephah of fine + flour mixed with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil, + and the fourth part of a hin of wine for a drink offering. +029:041 The other lamb you shall offer at evening, and shall do to it + according to the meal offering of the morning, and according + to its drink offering, for a sweet savor, an offering made + by fire to Yahweh. +029:042 It shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your + generations at the door of the tent of meeting before Yahweh, + where I will meet with you, to speak there to you. +029:043 There I will meet with the children of Israel; and the place + shall be sanctified by my glory. +029:044 I will sanctify the tent of meeting and the altar: + Aaron also and his sons I will sanctify, to minister to me + in the priest's office. +029:045 I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God. +029:046 They shall know that I am Yahweh their God, who brought them + forth out of the land of Egypt, that I might dwell among them: + I am Yahweh their God. +030:001 "You shall make an altar to burn incense on. You shall make + it of acacia wood. +030:002 Its length shall be a cubit, and its breadth a cubit. + It shall be square, and its height shall be two cubits. + Its horns shall be of one piece with it. +030:003 You shall overlay it with pure gold, the top of it, the sides + of it around it, and its horns; and you shall make a gold + molding around it. +030:004 You shall make two golden rings for it under its molding; + on its two ribs, on its two sides you shall make them; + and they shall be for places for poles with which to bear it. +030:005 You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay + them with gold. +030:006 You shall put it before the veil that is by the ark of the testimony, + before the mercy seat that is over the testimony, where I + will meet with you. +030:007 Aaron shall burn incense of sweet spices on it every morning. + When he tends the lamps, he shall burn it. +030:008 When Aaron lights the lamps at evening, he shall burn it, + a perpetual incense before Yahweh throughout your generations. +030:009 You shall offer no strange incense on it, nor burnt offering, + nor meal offering; and you shall pour no drink offering on it. +030:010 Aaron shall make atonement on its horns once in the year; + with the blood of the sin offering of atonement once in the year + he shall make atonement for it throughout your generations. + It is most holy to Yahweh." +030:011 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +030:012 "When you take a census of the children of Israel, according to + those who are numbered among them, then each man shall give + a ransom for his soul to Yahweh, when you number them; + that there be no plague among them when you number them. +030:013 They shall give this, everyone who passes over to those who + are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary; + (the shekel is twenty gerahs;) half a shekel for an + offering to Yahweh. +030:014 Everyone who passes over to those who are numbered, from twenty + years old and upward, shall give the offering to Yahweh. +030:015 The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, + than the half shekel, when they give the offering of Yahweh, + to make atonement for your souls. +030:016 You shall take the atonement money from the children of Israel, + and shall appoint it for the service of the tent of meeting; + that it may be a memorial for the children of Israel before Yahweh, + to make atonement for your souls." +030:017 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +030:018 "You shall also make a basin of brass, and the base of it + of brass, in which to wash. You shall put it between the tent + of meeting and the altar, and you shall put water in it. +030:019 Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet in it. +030:020 When they go into the tent of meeting, they shall wash with water, + that they not die; or when they come near to the altar to minister, + to burn an offering made by fire to Yahweh. +030:021 So they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they not die: + and it shall be a statute forever to them, even to him + and to his descendants throughout their generations." +030:022 Moreover Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +030:023 "Also take fine spices: of liquid myrrh, five hundred shekels; + and of fragrant cinnamon half as much, even two hundred and fifty; + and of fragrant cane, two hundred and fifty; +030:024 and of cassia five hundred, after the shekel of the sanctuary; + and a hin of olive oil. +030:025 You shall make it a holy anointing oil, a perfume compounded + after the art of the perfumer: it shall be a holy anointing oil. +030:026 You shall use it to anoint the tent of meeting, the ark + of the testimony, +030:027 the table and all its articles, the lampstand and its accessories, + the altar of incense, +030:028 the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the basin + with its base. +030:029 You shall sanctify them, that they may be most holy. + Whatever touches them shall be holy. +030:030 You shall anoint Aaron and his sons, and sanctify them, + that they may minister to me in the priest's office. +030:031 You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'This shall + be a holy anointing oil to me throughout your generations. +030:032 It shall not be poured on man's flesh, neither shall you make + any like it, according to its composition: it is holy. + It shall be holy to you. +030:033 Whoever compounds any like it, or whoever puts any of it + on a stranger, he shall be cut off from his people.'" +030:034 Yahweh said to Moses, "Take to yourself sweet spices, gum resin, + and onycha, and galbanum; sweet spices with pure frankincense: + of each shall there be an equal weight; +030:035 and you shall make incense of it, a perfume after the art + of the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy: +030:036 and you shall beat some of it very small, and put some of it before + the testimony in the tent of meeting, where I will meet with you. + It shall be to you most holy. +030:037 The incense which you shall make, according to its composition + you shall not make for yourselves: it shall be to you + holy for Yahweh. +030:038 Whoever shall make any like that, to smell of it, he shall + be cut off from his people." +031:001 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +031:002 "Behold, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, + the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah: +031:003 and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, + and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all + manner of workmanship, +031:004 to devise skillful works, to work in gold, and in silver, + and in brass, +031:005 and in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, + to work in all manner of workmanship. +031:006 I, behold, I have appointed with him Oholiab, the son + of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in the heart of all + who are wise-hearted I have put wisdom, that they may make + all that I have commanded you: +031:007 the tent of meeting, the ark of the testimony, the mercy seat + that is on it, all the furniture of the Tent, +031:008 the table and its vessels, the pure lampstand with all its vessels, + the altar of incense, +031:009 the altar of burnt offering with all its vessels, the basin + and its base, +031:010 the finely worked garments--the holy garments for Aaron the priest-- + the garments of his sons to minister in the priest's office, +031:011 the anointing oil, and the incense of sweet spices for + the holy place: according to all that I have commanded you + they shall do." +031:012 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +031:013 "Speak also to the children of Israel, saying, 'Most certainly + you shall keep my Sabbaths: for it is a sign between me + and you throughout your generations; that you may know that I + am Yahweh who sanctifies you. +031:014 You shall keep the Sabbath therefore; for it is holy to you. + Everyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death; + for whoever does any work therein, that soul shall be cut + off from among his people. +031:015 Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath + of solemn rest, holy to Yahweh. Whoever does any work on + the Sabbath day shall surely be put to death. +031:016 Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, + to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations, + for a perpetual covenant. +031:017 It is a sign between me and the children of Israel forever; + for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, and on the seventh + day he rested, and was refreshed.'" +031:018 He gave to Moses, when he finished speaking with him on + Mount Sinai, the two tablets of the testimony, stone tablets, + written with God's finger. +032:001 When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from + the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron, + and said to him, "Come, make us gods, which shall go before us; + for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land + of Egypt, we don't know what has become of him." +032:002 Aaron said to them, "Take off the golden rings, which are in + the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, + and bring them to me." +032:003 All the people took off the golden rings which were in their ears, + and brought them to Aaron. +032:004 He received what they handed him, and fashioned it with an + engraving tool, and made it a molten calf; and they said, + "These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of + the land of Egypt." +032:005 When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made + a proclamation, and said, "Tomorrow shall be a feast to Yahweh." +032:006 They rose up early on the next day, and offered burnt offerings, + and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat + and to drink, and rose up to play. +032:007 Yahweh spoke to Moses, "Go, get down; for your people, who you + brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves! +032:008 They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them. + They have made themselves a molten calf, and have worshiped it, + and have sacrificed to it, and said, 'These are your gods, + Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.'" +032:009 Yahweh said to Moses, "I have seen these people, and behold, + they are a stiff-necked people. +032:010 Now therefore leave me alone, that my wrath may burn hot + against them, and that I may consume them; and I will make + of you a great nation." +032:011 Moses begged Yahweh his God, and said, "Yahweh, why does your + wrath burn hot against your people, that you have brought + forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with + a mighty hand? +032:012 Why should the Egyptians speak, saying, 'He brought them forth + for evil, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them + from the surface of the earth?' Turn from your fierce wrath, + and repent of this evil against your people. +032:013 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, + to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, + 'I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and all + this land that I have spoken of I will give to your seed, + and they shall inherit it forever.'" +032:014 Yahweh repented of the evil which he said he would do + to his people. +032:015 Moses turned, and went down from the mountain, with the two + tablets of the testimony in his hand; tablets that were + written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other + they were written. +032:016 The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing + of God, engraved on the tables. +032:017 When Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, + he said to Moses, "There is the noise of war in the camp." +032:018 He said, "It isn't the voice of those who shout for victory, + neither is it the voice of those who cry for being overcome; + but the noise of those who sing that I hear." +032:019 It happened, as soon as he came near to the camp, that he saw + the calf and the dancing: and Moses' anger grew hot, + and he threw the tablets out of his hands, and broke them + beneath the mountain. +032:020 He took the calf which they had made, and burnt it with fire, + ground it to powder, and scattered it on the water, and made + the children of Israel drink of it. +032:021 Moses said to Aaron, "What did these people do to you, + that you have brought a great sin on them?" +032:022 Aaron said, "Don't let the anger of my lord grow hot. + You know the people, that they are set on evil. +032:023 For they said to me, 'Make us gods, which shall go before us; + for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land + of Egypt, we don't know what has become of him.' +032:024 I said to them, 'Whoever has any gold, let them take it off:' + so they gave it to me; and I threw it into the fire, + and out came this calf." +032:025 When Moses saw that the people had broken loose, (for Aaron + had let them loose for a derision among their enemies), +032:026 then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, "Whoever is + on Yahweh's side, come to me!" All the sons of Levi gathered + themselves together to him. +032:027 He said to them, "Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, 'Every man + put his sword on his thigh, and go back and forth from gate + to gate throughout the camp, and every man kill his brother, + and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor.'" +032:028 The sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses: + and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men. +032:029 Moses said, "Consecrate yourselves today to Yahweh, yes, every man + against his son, and against his brother; that he may bestow + on you a blessing this day." +032:030 It happened on the next day, that Moses said to the people, + "You have sinned a great sin. Now I will go up to Yahweh. + Perhaps I shall make atonement for your sin." +032:031 Moses returned to Yahweh, and said, "Oh, this people have sinned + a great sin, and have made themselves gods of gold. +032:032 Yet now, if you will, forgive their sin--and if not, please blot + me out of your book which you have written." +032:033 Yahweh said to Moses, "Whoever has sinned against me, + him will I blot out of my book. +032:034 Now go, lead the people to the place of which I have + spoken to you. Behold, my angel shall go before you. + Nevertheless in the day when I punish, I will punish them + for their sin." +032:035 Yahweh struck the people, because they made the calf, + which Aaron made. +033:001 Yahweh spoke to Moses, "Depart, go up from here, you and + the people that you have brought up out of the land of Egypt, + to the land of which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, + and to Jacob, saying, 'I will give it to your seed.' +033:002 I will send an angel before you; and I will drive out the Canaanite, + the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, + and the Jebusite: +033:003 to a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go + up in the midst of you, for you are a stiff-necked people, + lest I consume you in the way." +033:004 When the people heard this evil news, they mourned: + and no one put on his jewelry. +033:005 Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell the children of Israel, 'You are + a stiff-necked people. If I were to go up into your midst + for one moment, I would consume you. Therefore now take off + your jewelry from you, that I may know what to do to you.'" +033:006 The children of Israel stripped themselves of their jewelry + from Mount Horeb onward. +033:007 Now Moses used to take the tent and to pitch it outside the camp, + far away from the camp, and he called it "The tent of meeting." + It happened that everyone who sought Yahweh went out to the tent + of meeting, which was outside the camp. +033:008 It happened that when Moses went out to the Tent, that all + the people rose up, and stood, everyone at their tent door, + and watched Moses, until he had gone into the Tent. +033:009 It happened, when Moses entered into the Tent, that the pillar + of cloud descended, stood at the door of the Tent, + and spoke with Moses. +033:010 All the people saw the pillar of cloud stand at the door + of the Tent, and all the people rose up and worshiped, + everyone at their tent door. +033:011 Yahweh spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. + He turned again into the camp, but his servant Joshua, + the son of Nun, a young man, didn't depart out of the Tent. +033:012 Moses said to Yahweh, "Behold, you tell me, 'Bring up this people:' + and you haven't let me know whom you will send with me. + Yet you have said, 'I know you by name, and you have also found + favor in my sight.' +033:013 Now therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, + please show me now your ways, that I may know you, so that I + may find favor in your sight: and consider that this nation + is your people." +033:014 He said, "My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest." +033:015 He said to him, "If your presence doesn't go with me, + don't carry us up from here. +033:016 For how would people know that I have found favor in your sight, + I and your people? Isn't it in that you go with us, + so that we are separated, I and your people, from all the people + who are on the surface of the earth?" +033:017 Yahweh said to Moses, "I will do this thing also that you + have spoken; for you have found favor in my sight, and I know + you by name." +033:018 He said, "Please show me your glory." +033:019 He said, "I will make all my goodness pass before you, + and will proclaim the name of Yahweh before you. + I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show + mercy on whom I will show mercy." +033:020 He said, "You cannot see my face, for man may not see + me and live." +033:021 Yahweh also said, "Behold, there is a place by me, and you + shall stand on the rock. +033:022 It will happen, while my glory passes by, that I will put you + in a cleft of the rock, and will cover you with my hand until + I have passed by; +033:023 then I will take away my hand, and you will see my back; + but my face shall not be seen." +034:001 Yahweh said to Moses, "Chisel two stone tablets like the first: + and I will write on the tablets the words that were on + the first tablets, which you broke. +034:002 Be ready by the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, + and present yourself there to me on the top of the mountain. +034:003 No one shall come up with you; neither let anyone be seen + throughout all the mountain; neither let the flocks nor herds + feed before that mountain." +034:004 He chiseled two tablets of stone like the first; and Moses rose + up early in the morning, and went up to Mount Sinai, as Yahweh + had commanded him, and took in his hand two stone tablets. +034:005 Yahweh descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, + and proclaimed the name of Yahweh. +034:006 Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, "Yahweh! Yahweh, a + merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant + in loving kindness and truth, +034:007 keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity + and disobedience and sin; and that will by no means clear + the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, + and on the children's children, on the third and on + the fourth generation." +034:008 Moses hurried and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshiped. +034:009 He said, "If now I have found favor in your sight, Lord, + please let the Lord go in the midst of us; although this + is a stiff-necked people; pardon our iniquity and our sin, + and take us for your inheritance." +034:010 He said, "Behold, I make a covenant: before all your people I + will do marvels, such as have not been worked in all the earth, + nor in any nation; and all the people among which you are shall + see the work of Yahweh; for it is an awesome thing that I + do with you. +034:011 Observe that which I command you this day. Behold, I drive + out before you the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, + the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite. +034:012 Be careful, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants + of the land where you are going, lest it be for a snare + in the midst of you: +034:013 but you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces + their pillars, and you shall cut down their Asherim; +034:014 for you shall worship no other god: for Yahweh, whose name + is Jealous, is a jealous God. +034:015 Don't make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, + lest they play the prostitute after their gods, and sacrifice + to their gods, and one call you and you eat of his sacrifice; +034:016 and you take of their daughters to your sons, and their daughters + play the prostitute after their gods, and make your sons play + the prostitute after their gods. +034:017 You shall make no cast idols for yourselves. +034:018 "You shall keep the feast of unleavened bread. + Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, + at the time appointed in the month Abib; for in the month + Abib you came out from Egypt. +034:019 All that opens the womb is mine; and all your livestock + that is male, the firstborn of cow and sheep. +034:020 The firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb: + and if you will not redeem it, then you shall break its neck. + All the firstborn of your sons you shall redeem. + No one shall appear before me empty. +034:021 "Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest: + in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest. +034:022 You shall observe the feast of weeks with the first fruits + of wheat harvest, and the feast of harvest at the year's end. +034:023 Three times in the year all your males shall appear before + the Lord Yahweh, the God of Israel. +034:024 For I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your borders; + neither shall any man desire your land when you go up to appear + before Yahweh, your God, three times in the year. +034:025 "You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; + neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the Passover + be left to the morning. +034:026 You shall bring the first of the first fruits of your ground + to the house of Yahweh your God. You shall not boil a young + goat in its mother's milk." +034:027 Yahweh said to Moses, "Write you these words: + for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant + with you and with Israel." +034:028 He was there with Yahweh forty days and forty nights; + he neither ate bread, nor drank water. He wrote on the tablets + the words of the covenant, the ten commandments. +034:029 It happened, when Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two + tablets of the testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down + from the mountain, that Moses didn't know that the skin + of his face shone by reason of his speaking with him. +034:030 When Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin + of his face shone; and they were afraid to come near him. +034:031 Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the rulers of the + congregation returned to him; and Moses spoke to them. +034:032 Afterward all the children of Israel came near, and he gave + them all of the commandments that Yahweh had spoken with him + on Mount Sinai. +034:033 When Moses was done speaking with them, he put a veil on his face. +034:034 But when Moses went in before Yahweh to speak with him, + he took the veil off, until he came out; and he came out, + and spoke to the children of Israel that which he was commanded. +034:035 The children of Israel saw Moses' face, that the skin of Moses' + face shone: and Moses put the veil on his face again, + until he went in to speak with him. +035:001 Moses assembled all the congregation of the children of Israel, + and said to them, "These are the words which Yahweh has commanded, + that you should do them. +035:002 'Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall + be a holy day for you, a Sabbath of solemn rest to Yahweh: + whoever does any work in it shall be put to death. +035:003 You shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations on + the Sabbath day.'" +035:004 Moses spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, + saying, "This is the thing which Yahweh commanded, saying, +035:005 'Take from among you an offering to Yahweh. Whoever is + of a willing heart, let him bring it, Yahweh's offering: + gold, silver, brass, +035:006 blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats' hair, +035:007 rams' skins dyed red, sea cow hides, acacia wood, +035:008 oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for + the sweet incense, +035:009 onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod and + for the breastplate. +035:010 "'Let every wise-hearted man among you come, and make all + that Yahweh has commanded: +035:011 the tent, its outer covering, its roof, its clasps, its boards, + its bars, its pillars, and its sockets; +035:012 the ark, and its poles, the mercy seat, the veil of the screen; +035:013 the table with its poles and all its vessels, and the show bread; +035:014 the lampstand also for the light, with its vessels, its lamps, + and the oil for the light; +035:015 and the altar of incense with its poles, the anointing oil, + the sweet incense, the screen for the door, at the door + of the tent; +035:016 the altar of burnt offering, with its grating of brass, + it poles, and all its vessels, the basin and its base; +035:017 the hangings of the court, its pillars, their sockets, + and the screen for the gate of the court; +035:018 the pins of the tent, the pins of the court, and their cords; +035:019 the finely worked garments, for ministering in the holy place, + the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments + of his sons, to minister in the priest's office.'" +035:020 All the congregation of the children of Israel departed from + the presence of Moses. +035:021 They came, everyone whose heart stirred him up, and everyone + whom his spirit made willing, and brought Yahweh's offering, + for the work of the tent of meeting, and for all of its service, + and for the holy garments. +035:022 They came, both men and women, as many as were willing-hearted, + and brought brooches, earrings, signet rings, and armlets, + all jewels of gold; even every man who offered an offering + of gold to Yahweh. +035:023 Everyone, with whom was found blue, purple, scarlet, + fine linen, goats' hair, rams' skins dyed red, and sea + cow hides, brought them. +035:024 Everyone who did offer an offering of silver and brass brought + Yahweh's offering; and everyone, with whom was found acacia + wood for any work of the service, brought it. +035:025 All the women who were wise-hearted spun with their hands, + and brought that which they had spun, the blue, the purple, + the scarlet, and the fine linen. +035:026 All the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun + the goats' hair. +035:027 The rulers brought the onyx stones, and the stones to be set, + for the ephod and for the breastplate; +035:028 and the spice, and the oil for the light, for the anointing oil, + and for the sweet incense. +035:029 The children of Israel brought a freewill offering to Yahweh; + every man and woman, whose heart made them willing to bring + for all the work, which Yahweh had commanded to be made by Moses. +035:030 Moses said to the children of Israel, "Behold, Yahweh has + called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, + of the tribe of Judah. +035:031 He has filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, + in understanding, in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship; +035:032 and to make skillful works, to work in gold, in silver, in brass, +035:033 in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, + to work in all kinds of skillful workmanship. +035:034 He has put in his heart that he may teach, both he, and Oholiab, + the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan. +035:035 He has filled them with wisdom of heart, to work all manner + of workmanship, of the engraver, of the skillful workman, + and of the embroiderer, in blue, in purple, in scarlet, + and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of those who do + any workmanship, and of those who make skillful works. +036:001 "Bezalel and Oholiab shall work with every wise-hearted man, + in whom Yahweh has put wisdom and understanding to know + how to work all the work for the service of the sanctuary, + according to all that Yahweh has commanded." +036:002 Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab, and every wise-hearted man, + in whose heart Yahweh had put wisdom, even everyone whose + heart stirred him up to come to the work to do it: +036:003 and they received from Moses all the offering which the children + of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, + with which to make it. They brought yet to him freewill + offerings every morning. +036:004 All the wise men, who performed all the work of the sanctuary, + each came from his work which they did. +036:005 They spoke to Moses, saying, "The people bring much more than enough + for the service of the work which Yahweh commanded to make." +036:006 Moses gave commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed + throughout the camp, saying, "Let neither man nor woman + make anything else for the offering for the sanctuary." + So the people were restrained from bringing. +036:007 For the stuff they had was sufficient for all the work to make it, + and too much. +036:008 All the wise-hearted men among those who did the work made + the tent with ten curtains; of fine twined linen, blue, purple, + and scarlet, with cherubim, the work of the skillful workman, + they made them. +036:009 The length of each curtain was twenty-eight cubits, + and the breadth of each curtain four cubits. All the curtains + had one measure. +036:010 He coupled five curtains to one another, and the other five + curtains he coupled one to another. +036:011 He made loops of blue on the edge of the one curtain from + the edge in the coupling. Likewise he made in the edge + of the curtain that was outmost in the second coupling. +036:012 He made fifty loops in the one curtain, and he made fifty loops + in the edge of the curtain that was in the second coupling. + The loops were opposite one to another. +036:013 He made fifty clasps of gold, and coupled the curtains one + to another with the clasps: so the tent was a unit. +036:014 He made curtains of goats' hair for a covering over the tent. + He made them eleven curtains. +036:015 The length of each curtain was thirty cubits, and four + cubits the breadth of each curtain. The eleven curtains + had one measure. +036:016 He coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains + by themselves. +036:017 He made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that was + outmost in the coupling, and he made fifty loops on the edge + of the curtain which was outmost in the second coupling. +036:018 He made fifty clasps of brass to couple the tent together, + that it might be a unit. +036:019 He made a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, + and a covering of sea cow hides above. +036:020 He made the boards for the tent of acacia wood, standing up. +036:021 Ten cubits was the length of a board, and a cubit and a half + the breadth of each board. +036:022 Each board had two tenons, joined one to another. + He made all the boards of the tent this way. +036:023 He made the boards for the tent: twenty boards for the + south side southward. +036:024 He made forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; + two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets + under another board for its two tenons. +036:025 For the second side of the tent, on the north side, + he made twenty boards, +036:026 and their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, + and two sockets under another board. +036:027 For the far part of the tent westward he made six boards. +036:028 He made two boards for the corners of the tent in the far part. +036:029 They were double beneath, and in like manner they were all + the way to the top of it to one ring. He did thus to both + of them in the two corners. +036:030 There were eight boards, and their sockets of silver, + sixteen sockets; under every board two sockets. +036:031 He made bars of acacia wood; five for the boards of the one + side of the tent, +036:032 and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tent, and five + bars for the boards of the tent for the hinder part westward. +036:033 He made the middle bar to pass through in the midst of the boards + from the one end to the other. +036:034 He overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings of gold + for places for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold. +036:035 He made the veil of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen: + with cherubim. He made it the work of a skillful workman. +036:036 He made four pillars of acacia for it, and overlaid them with gold. + Their hooks were of gold. He cast four sockets of silver for them. +036:037 He made a screen for the door of the tent, of blue, purple, scarlet, + and fine twined linen, the work of an embroiderer; +036:038 and the five pillars of it with their hooks. He overlaid + their capitals and their fillets with gold, and their five + sockets were of brass. +037:001 Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood. Its length was two + and a half cubits, and its breadth a cubit and a half, + and a cubit and a half its height. +037:002 He overlaid it with pure gold inside and outside, and made + a molding of gold for it round about. +037:003 He cast four rings of gold for it, in its four feet; even two + rings on its one side, and two rings on its other side. +037:004 He made poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold. +037:005 He put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, + to bear the ark. +037:006 He made a mercy seat of pure gold. Its length was two and a + half cubits, and a cubit and a half its breadth. +037:007 He made two cherubim of gold. He made them of beaten work, + at the two ends of the mercy seat; +037:008 one cherub at the one end, and one cherub at the other end. + He made the cherubim of one piece with the mercy seat at + its two ends. +037:009 The cherubim spread out their wings on high, covering the mercy + seat with their wings, with their faces toward one another. + The faces of the cherubim were toward the mercy seat. +037:010 He made the table of acacia wood. Its length was two cubits, + and its breadth was a cubit, and its height was a cubit + and a half. +037:011 He overlaid it with pure gold, and made a gold molding around it. +037:012 He made a border of a handbreadth around it, and made a golden + molding on its border around it. +037:013 He cast four rings of gold for it, and put the rings in the four + corners that were on its four feet. +037:014 The rings were close by the border, the places for the poles + to carry the table. +037:015 He made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold, + to carry the table. +037:016 He made the vessels which were on the table, its dishes, + its spoons, its bowls, and its pitchers with which to pour out, + of pure gold. +037:017 He made the lampstand of pure gold. He made the lampstand + of beaten work. Its base, its shaft, its cups, its buds, + and its flowers were of one piece with it. +037:018 There were six branches going out of its sides: + three branches of the lampstand out of its one side, + and three branches of the lampstand out of its other side: +037:019 three cups made like almond blossoms in one branch, + a bud and a flower, and three cups made like almond + blossoms in the other branch, a bud and a flower: + so for the six branches going out of the lampstand. +037:020 In the lampstand were four cups made like almond blossoms, + its buds and its flowers; +037:021 and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud + under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two + branches of one piece with it, for the six branches going + out of it. +037:022 Their buds and their branches were of one piece with it. + The whole thing was one beaten work of pure gold. +037:023 He made its seven lamps, and its snuffers, and its snuff dishes, + of pure gold. +037:024 He made it of a talent of pure gold, with all its vessels. +037:025 He made the altar of incense of acacia wood. It was square: + its length was a cubit, and its breadth a cubit. + Its height was two cubits. Its horns were of one piece with it. +037:026 He overlaid it with pure gold, its top, its sides around it, + and its horns. He made a gold molding around it. +037:027 He made two golden rings for it under its molding crown, + on its two ribs, on its two sides, for places for poles + with which to carry it. +037:028 He made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold. +037:029 He made the holy anointing oil and the pure incense of sweet spices, + after the art of the perfumer. +038:001 He made the altar of burnt offering of acacia wood. It was square. + Its length was five cubits, its breadth was five cubits, + and its height was three cubits. +038:002 He made its horns on its four corners. Its horns were of one + piece with it, and he overlaid it with brass. +038:003 He made all the vessels of the altar, the pots, the shovels, + the basins, the forks, and the fire pans. He made all its + vessels of brass. +038:004 He made for the altar a grating of a network of brass, + under the ledge around it beneath, reaching halfway up. +038:005 He cast four rings for the four ends of brass grating, + to be places for the poles. +038:006 He made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with brass. +038:007 He put the poles into the rings on the sides of the altar, + with which to carry it. He made it hollow with planks. +038:008 He made the basin of brass, and its base of brass, out of + the mirrors of the ministering women who ministered at the door + of the tent of meeting. +038:009 He made the court: for the south side southward the hangings + of the court were of fine twined linen, one hundred cubits; +038:010 their pillars were twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; + the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver. +038:011 For the north side one hundred cubits, their pillars twenty, + and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars, + and their fillets, of silver. +038:012 For the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, + and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars, + and their fillets, of silver. +038:013 For the east side eastward fifty cubits. +038:014 The hangings for the one side were fifteen cubits; + their pillars three, and their sockets three; +038:015 and so for the other side: on this hand and that hand + by the gate of the court were hangings of fifteen cubits; + their pillars three, and their sockets three. +038:016 All the hangings around the court were of fine twined linen. +038:017 The sockets for the pillars were of brass. The hooks of the + pillars and their fillets were of silver; and the overlaying + of their capitals, of silver; and all the pillars of the court + were filleted with silver. +038:018 The screen for the gate of the court was the work of the embroiderer, + of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen. + Twenty cubits was the length, and the height in the breadth + was five cubits, like to the hangings of the court. +038:019 Their pillars were four, and their sockets four, of brass; + their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their capitals, + and their fillets, of silver. +038:020 All the pins of the tent, and around the court, were of brass. +038:021 This is the amount of material used for the tent, even the Tent + of the Testimony, as they were counted, according to + the commandment of Moses, for the service of the Levites, + by the hand of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest. +038:022 Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, + made all that Yahweh commanded Moses. +038:023 With him was Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, + an engraver, and a skillful workman, and an embroiderer in blue, + in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen. +038:024 All the gold that was used for the work in all the work + of the sanctuary, even the gold of the offering, + was twenty-nine talents, and seven hundred thirty shekels, + after the shekel of the sanctuary. +038:025 The silver of those who were numbered of the congregation + was one hundred talents, and one thousand seven hundred + seventy-five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary: +038:026 a beka a head, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel + of the sanctuary, for everyone who passed over to those who + were numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six + hundred three thousand five hundred fifty men. +038:027 The one hundred talents of silver were for casting the sockets + of the sanctuary, and the sockets of the veil; one hundred + sockets for the one hundred talents, a talent for a socket. +038:028 Of the one thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels + he made hooks for the pillars, overlaid their capitals, + and made fillets for them. +038:029 The brass of the offering was seventy talents, and two thousand + four hundred shekels. +038:030 With this he made the sockets to the door of the tent of meeting, + the bronze altar, the bronze grating for it, all the vessels + of the altar, +038:031 the sockets around the court, the sockets of the gate of the court, + all the pins of the tent, and all the pins around the court. +039:001 Of the blue, purple, and scarlet, they made finely worked garments, + for ministering in the holy place, and made the holy garments + for Aaron; as Yahweh commanded Moses. +039:002 He made the ephod of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine + twined linen. +039:003 They beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, + to work it in the blue, in the purple, in the scarlet, + and in the fine linen, the work of the skillful workman. +039:004 They made shoulder straps for it, joined together. + At the two ends it was joined together. +039:005 The skillfully woven band that was on it, with which to + fasten it on, was of the same piece, like its work; + of gold, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen; + as Yahweh commanded Moses. +039:006 They worked the onyx stones, enclosed in settings of gold, + engraved with the engravings of a signet, according to the names + of the children of Israel. +039:007 He put them on the shoulder straps of the ephod, to be stones + of memorial for the children of Israel, as Yahweh commanded Moses. +039:008 He made the breastplate, the work of a skillful workman, + like the work of the ephod; of gold, of blue, purple, scarlet, + and fine twined linen. +039:009 It was square. They made the breastplate double. + Its length was a span, and its breadth a span, being double. +039:010 They set in it four rows of stones. A row of ruby, topaz, + and beryl was the first row; +039:011 and the second row, a turquoise, a sapphire{or, lapis lazuli}, + and an emerald; +039:012 and the third row, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst; +039:013 and the fourth row, a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper. + They were enclosed in gold settings. +039:014 The stones were according to the names of the children of Israel, + twelve, according to their names; like the engravings of a signet, + everyone according to his name, for the twelve tribes. +039:015 They made on the breastplate chains like cords, of braided + work of pure gold. +039:016 They made two settings of gold, and two gold rings, and put + the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate. +039:017 They put the two braided chains of gold in the two rings + at the ends of the breastplate. +039:018 The other two ends of the two braided chains they put on the + two settings, and put them on the shoulder straps of the ephod, + in the front of it. +039:019 They made two rings of gold, and put them on the two ends + of the breastplate, on the edge of it, which was toward + the side of the ephod inward. +039:020 They made two rings of gold, and put them on the two shoulder + straps of the ephod underneath, in the front of it, close by + its coupling, above the skillfully woven band of the ephod. +039:021 They bound the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the ephod + with a lace of blue, that it might be on the skillfully woven + band of the ephod, and that the breastplate might not come + loose from the ephod, as Yahweh commanded Moses. +039:022 He made the robe of the ephod of woven work, all of blue. +039:023 The opening of the robe in the midst of it was like the opening + of a coat of mail, with a binding around its opening, + that it should not be torn. +039:024 They made on the skirts of the robe pomegranates of blue, + purple, scarlet, and twined linen. +039:025 They made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between + the pomegranates around the skirts of the robe, + between the pomegranates; +039:026 a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, around the + skirts of the robe, to minister in, as Yahweh commanded Moses. +039:027 They made the coats of fine linen of woven work for Aaron, + and for his sons, +039:028 and the turban of fine linen, and the linen headbands of fine linen, + and the linen breeches of fine twined linen, +039:029 and the sash of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, + the work of the embroiderer, as Yahweh commanded Moses. +039:030 They made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, + and wrote on it a writing, like the engravings of a signet: + "HOLY TO YAHWEH." +039:031 They tied to it a lace of blue, to fasten it on the turban above, + as Yahweh commanded Moses. +039:032 Thus all the work of the tent of the tent of meeting was finished. + The children of Israel did according to all that Yahweh + commanded Moses; so they did. +039:033 They brought the tent to Moses, the tent, with all its furniture, + its clasps, its boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets, +039:034 the covering of rams' skins dyed red, the covering of sea + cow hides, the veil of the screen, +039:035 the ark of the testimony with its poles, the mercy seat, +039:036 the table, all its vessels, the show bread, +039:037 the pure lampstand, its lamps, even the lamps to be set in order, + all its vessels, the oil for the light, +039:038 the golden altar, the anointing oil, the sweet incense, + the screen for the door of the Tent, +039:039 the bronze altar, its grating of brass, its poles, all of + its vessels, the basin and its base, +039:040 the hangings of the court, its pillars, its sockets, + the screen for the gate of the court, its cords, its pins, + all the instruments of the service of the tent, for the + tent of meeting, +039:041 the finely worked garments for ministering in the holy place, + the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments + of his sons, to minister in the priest's office. +039:042 According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so the children + of Israel did all the work. +039:043 Moses saw all the work, and behold, they had done it + as Yahweh had commanded, even so had they done it: + and Moses blessed them. +040:001 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +040:002 "On the first day of the first month you shall raise up the tent + of the Tent of Meeting. +040:003 You shall put the ark of the testimony in it, and you shall + screen the ark with the veil. +040:004 You shall bring in the table, and set in order the things + that are on it. You shall bring in the lampstand, and light + the lamps of it. +040:005 You shall set the golden altar for incense before the ark + of the testimony, and put the screen of the door to the tent. +040:006 You shall set the altar of burnt offering before the door + of the tent of the tent of meeting. +040:007 You shall set the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar, + and shall put water therein. +040:008 You shall set up the court around it, and hang up the screen + of the gate of the court. +040:009 You shall take the anointing oil, and anoint the tent, and all + that is in it, and shall make it holy, and all its furniture: + and it will be holy. +040:010 You shall anoint the altar of burnt offering, with all its vessels, + and sanctify the altar: and the altar will be most holy. +040:011 You shall anoint the basin and its base, and sanctify it. +040:012 You shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the tent + of meeting, and shall wash them with water. +040:013 You shall put on Aaron the holy garments; and you shall + anoint him, and sanctify him, that he may minister to me + in the priest's office. +040:014 You shall bring his sons, and put coats on them. +040:015 You shall anoint them, as you anointed their father, + that they may minister to me in the priest's office. + Their anointing shall be to them for an everlasting priesthood + throughout their generations." +040:016 Moses did so. According to all that Yahweh commanded him, + so he did. +040:017 It happened in the first month in the second year, on the first + day of the month, that the tent was raised up. +040:018 Moses raised up the tent, and laid its sockets, and set up + the boards of it, and put in the bars of it, and raised + up its pillars. +040:019 He spread the covering over the tent, and put the roof + of the tent above on it, as Yahweh commanded Moses. +040:020 He took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the poles + on the ark, and put the mercy seat above on the ark. +040:021 He brought the ark into the tent, and set up the veil + of the screen, and screened the ark of the testimony, + as Yahweh commanded Moses. +040:022 He put the table in the tent of meeting, on the side of + the tent northward, outside of the veil. +040:023 He set the bread in order on it before Yahweh, + as Yahweh commanded Moses. +040:024 He put the lampstand in the tent of meeting, opposite the table, + on the side of the tent southward. +040:025 He lit the lamps before Yahweh, as Yahweh commanded Moses. +040:026 He put the golden altar in the tent of meeting before the veil; +040:027 and he burnt incense of sweet spices on it, as Yahweh + commanded Moses. +040:028 He put up the screen of the door to the tent. +040:029 He set the altar of burnt offering at the door of the tent + of the tent of meeting, and offered on it the burnt offering + and the meal offering, as Yahweh commanded Moses. +040:030 He set the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar, + and put water therein, with which to wash. +040:031 Moses, Aaron, and his sons washed their hands and their feet there. +040:032 When they went into the tent of meeting, and when they came + near to the altar, they washed, as Yahweh commanded Moses. +040:033 He raised up the court around the tent and the altar, + and set up the screen of the gate of the court. + So Moses finished the work. +040:034 Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory + of Yahweh filled the tent. +040:035 Moses wasn't able to enter into the tent of meeting, because the + cloud stayed on it, and Yahweh's glory filled the tent. +040:036 When the cloud was taken up from over the tent, the children + of Israel went onward, throughout all their journeys; +040:037 but if the cloud wasn't taken up, then they didn't travel + until the day that it was taken up. +040:038 For the cloud of Yahweh was on the tent by day, and there was fire + in the cloud by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, + throughout all their journeys. +Book 03 Leviticus +001:001 Yahweh called to Moses, and spoke to him out of the Tent + of Meeting, saying, +001:002 "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, 'When anyone + of you offers an offering to Yahweh, you shall offer your + offering of the livestock, from the herd and from the flock. +001:003 "'If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he shall + offer a male without blemish. He shall offer it at the door + of the Tent of Meeting, that he may be accepted before Yahweh. +001:004 He shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, + and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him. +001:005 He shall kill the bull before Yahweh. Aaron's sons, the priests, + shall present the blood and sprinkle the blood around on + the altar that is at the door of the Tent of Meeting. +001:006 He shall flay the burnt offering, and cut it into pieces. +001:007 The sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire on the altar, + and lay wood in order on the fire; +001:008 and Aaron's sons, the priests, shall lay the pieces, the head, + and the fat in order on the wood that is on the fire which is + on the altar; +001:009 but its innards and its legs he shall wash with water. + The priest shall burn the whole on the altar, for a burnt offering, + an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to Yahweh. +001:010 "'If his offering is from the flock, from the sheep, + or from the goats, for a burnt offering, he shall offer + a male without blemish. +001:011 He shall kill it on the north side of the altar before Yahweh. + Aaron's sons, the priests, shall sprinkle its blood around + on the altar. +001:012 He shall cut it into its pieces, with its head and its fat. + The priest shall lay them in order on the wood that is on + the fire which is on the altar, +001:013 but the innards and the legs he shall wash with water. + The priest shall offer the whole, and burn it on the altar. + It is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a sweet + savor to Yahweh. +001:014 "'If his offering to Yahweh is a burnt offering of birds, + then he shall offer his offering of turtledoves, + or of young pigeons. +001:015 The priest shall bring it to the altar, and wring off its head, + and burn it on the altar; and its blood shall be drained + out on the side of the altar; +001:016 and he shall take away its crop with its filth, and cast it + beside the altar on the east part, in the place of the ashes. +001:017 He shall tear it by its wings, but shall not divide it apart. + The priest shall burn it on the altar, on the wood that is on + the fire. It is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, + of a sweet savor to Yahweh. +002:001 "'When anyone offers an offering of a meal offering to Yahweh, + his offering shall be of fine flour; and he shall pour oil on it, + and put frankincense on it. +002:002 He shall bring it to Aaron's sons the priests; and he shall + take his handful of its fine flour, and of its oil, + with all its frankincense; and the priest shall burn + the memorial of it on the altar, an offering made by fire, + of a sweet savor to Yahweh. +002:003 That which is left of the meal offering shall be Aaron's + and his sons'. It is a most holy thing of the offerings + of Yahweh made by fire. +002:004 "'When you offer an offering of a meal offering baked in the oven, + it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, + or unleavened wafers anointed with oil. +002:005 If your offering is a meal offering of the baking pan, + it shall be of unleavened fine flour, mixed with oil. +002:006 You shall cut it in pieces, and pour oil on it. + It is a meal offering. +002:007 If your offering is a meal offering of the frying pan, + it shall be made of fine flour with oil. +002:008 You shall bring the meal offering that is made of these things + to Yahweh: and it shall be presented to the priest, + and he shall bring it to the altar. +002:009 The priest shall take from the meal offering its memorial, + and shall burn it on the altar, an offering made by fire, + of a sweet savor to Yahweh. +002:010 That which is left of the meal offering shall be Aaron's + and his sons'. It is a thing most holy of the offerings + of Yahweh made by fire. +002:011 "'No meal offering, which you shall offer to Yahweh, shall be + made with yeast; for you shall burn no yeast, nor any honey, + as an offering made by fire to Yahweh. +002:012 As an offering of firstfruits you shall offer them to Yahweh: + but they shall not come up for a sweet savor on the altar. +002:013 Every offering of your meal offering you shall season with salt; + neither shall you allow the salt of the covenant of your God + to be lacking from your meal offering. With all your offerings + you shall offer salt. +002:014 "'If you offer a meal offering of first fruits to Yahweh, + you shall offer for the meal offering of your first fruits grain + in the ear parched with fire, bruised grain of the fresh ear. +002:015 You shall put oil on it, and lay frankincense on it: + it is a meal offering. +002:016 The priest shall burn as its memorial, part of its bruised grain, + and part of its oil, along with all its frankincense: + it is an offering made by fire to Yahweh. +003:001 "'If his offering is a sacrifice of peace offerings; + if he offers it from the herd, whether male or female, + he shall offer it without blemish before Yahweh. +003:002 He shall lay his hand on the head of his offering, and kill + it at the door of the tent of meeting: and Aaron's sons + the priests shall sprinkle the blood on the altar round about. +003:003 He shall offer of the sacrifice of peace offerings an offering + made by fire to Yahweh; the fat that covers the innards, + and all the fat that is on the innards, +003:004 and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is + by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, + he shall take away. +003:005 Aaron's sons shall burn it on the altar on the burnt offering, + which is on the wood that is on the fire: it is an offering + made by fire, of a sweet savor to Yahweh. +003:006 "'If his offering for a sacrifice of peace offerings to + Yahweh is from the flock; male or female, he shall offer + it without blemish. +003:007 If he offers a lamb for his offering, then he shall offer + it before Yahweh; +003:008 and he shall lay his hand on the head of his offering, + and kill it before the tent of meeting: and Aaron's sons + shall sprinkle its blood on the altar round about. +003:009 He shall offer from the sacrifice of peace offerings an offering + made by fire to Yahweh; its fat, the entire tail fat, he shall + take away close to the backbone; and the fat that covers + the inwards, and all the fat that is on the inwards, +003:010 and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is + by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, + he shall take away. +003:011 The priest shall burn it on the altar: it is the food + of the offering made by fire to Yahweh. +003:012 "'If his offering is a goat, then he shall offer it before Yahweh: +003:013 and he shall lay his hand on its head, and kill it before + the tent of meeting; and the sons of Aaron shall sprinkle + its blood on the altar round about. +003:014 He shall offer from it as his offering, an offering made by fire + to Yahweh; the fat that covers the innards, and all the fat + that is on the innards, +003:015 and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is + by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, + he shall take away. +003:016 The priest shall burn them on the altar: it is the food + of the offering made by fire, for a sweet savor; + all the fat is Yahweh's. +003:017 "'It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations + in all your dwellings, that you shall eat neither fat nor blood.'" +004:001 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +004:002 "Speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'If anyone + sins unintentionally, in any of the things which Yahweh has + commanded not to be done, and does any one of them: +004:003 if the anointed priest sins so as to bring guilt on the people, + then let him offer for his sin, which he has sinned, a young + bull without blemish to Yahweh for a sin offering. +004:004 He shall bring the bull to the door of the Tent of Meeting + before Yahweh; and he shall lay his hand on the head of the bull, + and kill the bull before Yahweh. +004:005 The anointed priest shall take some of the blood of the bull, + and bring it to the Tent of Meeting. +004:006 The priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle + some of the blood seven times before Yahweh, before the veil + of the sanctuary. +004:007 The priest shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar + of sweet incense before Yahweh, which is in the tent of meeting; + and he shall pour out all of rest of the blood of the bull at + the base of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door + of the Tent of Meeting. +004:008 He shall take all the fat of the bull of the sin offering + off of it; the fat that covers the innards, and all the fat + that is on the innards, +004:009 and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is + by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, + he shall take away, +004:010 as it is taken off of the ox of the sacrifice of peace offerings. + The priest shall burn them on the altar of burnt offering. +004:011 The bull's skin, all its flesh, with its head, and with its legs, + its innards, and its dung, +004:012 even the whole bull shall he carry forth outside the camp + to a clean place, where the ashes are poured out, and burn + it on wood with fire. Where the ashes are poured out it + shall be burned. +004:013 "'If the whole congregation of Israel sins, and the thing + is hidden from the eyes of the assembly, and they have done + any of the things which Yahweh has commanded not to be done, + and are guilty; +004:014 when the sin in which they have sinned is known, then the assembly + shall offer a young bull for a sin offering, and bring it + before the Tent of Meeting. +004:015 The elders of the congregation shall lay their hands on + the head of the bull before Yahweh; and the bull shall be + killed before Yahweh. +004:016 The anointed priest shall bring of the blood of the bull + to the Tent of Meeting: +004:017 and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle + it seven times before Yahweh, before the veil. +004:018 He shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar + which is before Yahweh, that is in the Tent of Meeting; + and the rest of the blood he shall pour out at the base + of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of + the Tent of Meeting. +004:019 All its fat he shall take from it, and burn it on the altar. +004:020 Thus shall he do with the bull; as he did with the bull + of the sin offering, so shall he do with this; and the priest + shall make atonement for them, and they shall be forgiven. +004:021 He shall carry forth the bull outside the camp, and burn + it as he burned the first bull. It is the sin offering + for the assembly. +004:022 "'When a ruler sins, and unwittingly does any one of all + the things which Yahweh his God has commanded not to be done, + and is guilty; +004:023 if his sin, in which he has sinned, is made known to him, + he shall bring as his offering a goat, a male without blemish. +004:024 He shall lay his hand on the head of the goat, and kill it + in the place where they kill the burnt offering before Yahweh. + It is a sin offering. +004:025 The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with + his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering. + He shall pour out the rest of its blood at the base of the altar + of burnt offering. +004:026 All its fat he shall burn on the altar, like the fat of + the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall make + atonement for him concerning his sin, and he will be forgiven. +004:027 "'If anyone of the common people sins unwittingly, in doing + any of the things which Yahweh has commanded not to be done, + and is guilty; +004:028 if his sin, which he has sinned, is made known to him, + then he shall bring for his offering a goat, a female + without blemish, for his sin which he has sinned. +004:029 He shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering, + and kill the sin offering in the place of burnt offering. +004:030 The priest shall take some of its blood with his finger, + and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering; + and the rest of its blood he shall pour out at the base + of the altar. +004:031 All its fat he shall take away, like the fat is taken + away from off of the sacrifice of peace offerings; + and the priest shall burn it on the altar for a sweet savor + to Yahweh; and the priest shall make atonement for him, + and he will be forgiven. +004:032 "'If he brings a lamb as his offering for a sin offering, + he shall bring a female without blemish. +004:033 He shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering, + and kill it for a sin offering in the place where they kill + the burnt offering. +004:034 The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with + his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering; + and all the rest of its blood he shall pour out at the base + of the altar. +004:035 All its fat he shall take away, like the fat of the lamb is taken + away from the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall + burn them on the altar, on the offerings of Yahweh made by fire; + and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin + that he has sinned, and he will be forgiven. +005:001 "'If anyone sins, in that he hears the voice of adjuration, + he being a witness, whether he has seen or known, if he doesn't + report it, then he shall bear his iniquity. +005:002 "'Or if anyone touches any unclean thing, whether it is the carcass + of an unclean animal, or the carcass of unclean livestock, + or the carcass of unclean creeping things, and it is hidden + from him, and he is unclean, then he shall be guilty. +005:003 "'Or if he touches the uncleanness of man, whatever his uncleanness + is with which he is unclean, and it is hidden from him; + when he knows of it, then he shall be guilty. +005:004 "'Or if anyone swears rashly with his lips to do evil, + or to do good, whatever it is that a man might utter rashly + with an oath, and it is hidden from him; when he knows of it, + then he shall be guilty of one of these. +005:005 It shall be, when he is guilty of one of these, he shall + confess that in which he has sinned: +005:006 and he shall bring his trespass offering to Yahweh for his sin + which he has sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a goat, + for a sin offering; and the priest shall make atonement + for him concerning his sin. +005:007 "'If he can't afford a lamb, then he shall bring his trespass + offering for that in which he has sinned, two turtledoves, + or two young pigeons, to Yahweh; one for a sin offering, + and the other for a burnt offering. +005:008 He shall bring them to the priest, who shall first offer + the one which is for the sin offering, and wring off its head + from its neck, but shall not sever it completely. +005:009 He shall sprinkle some of the blood of the sin offering on + the side of the altar; and the rest of the blood shall be + drained out at the base of the altar. It is a sin offering. +005:010 He shall offer the second for a burnt offering, according to + the ordinance; and the priest shall make atonement for him + concerning his sin which he has sinned, and he shall be forgiven. +005:011 "'But if he can't afford two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, + then he shall bring his offering for that in which he has sinned, + the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering. + He shall put no oil on it, neither shall he put any frankincense + on it, for it is a sin offering. +005:012 He shall bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take + his handful of it as the memorial portion, and burn it + on the altar, on the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. + It is a sin offering. +005:013 The priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin that + he has sinned in any of these things, and he will be forgiven; + and the rest shall be the priest's, as the meal offering.'" +005:014 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +005:015 "If anyone commits a trespass, and sins unwittingly, + in the holy things of Yahweh; then he shall bring his trespass + offering to Yahweh, a ram without blemish from the flock, + according to your estimation in silver by shekels, + after the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering. +005:016 He shall make restitution for that which he has done wrong + in the holy thing, and shall add a fifth part to it, + and give it to the priest; and the priest shall make + atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering, + and he will be forgiven. +005:017 "If anyone sins, and does any of the things which Yahweh + has commanded not to be done; though he didn't know it, + yet he is guilty, and shall bear his iniquity. +005:018 He shall bring a ram without blemish from of the flock, + according to your estimation, for a trespass offering, + to the priest; and the priest shall make atonement for him + concerning the thing in which he sinned and didn't know it, + and he will be forgiven. +005:019 It is a trespass offering. He is certainly guilty before Yahweh." +006:001 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +006:002 "If anyone sins, and commits a trespass against Yahweh, + and deals falsely with his neighbor in a matter of deposit, + or of bargain, or of robbery, or has oppressed his neighbor, +006:003 or has found that which was lost, and dealt falsely therein, + and swearing to a lie; in any of all these things that a + man does, sinning therein; +006:004 then it shall be, if he has sinned, and is guilty, he shall + restore that which he took by robbery, or the thing which he has + gotten by oppression, or the deposit which was committed to him, + or the lost thing which he found, +006:005 or any thing about which he has sworn falsely; he shall restore + it even in full, and shall add a fifth part more to it. + To him to whom it belongs he shall give it, in the day of his + being found guilty. +006:006 He shall bring his trespass offering to Yahweh, a ram without + blemish from the flock, according to your estimation, + for a trespass offering, to the priest. +006:007 The priest shall make atonement for him before Yahweh, and he will + be forgiven concerning whatever he does to become guilty." +006:008 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +006:009 "Command Aaron and his sons, saying, 'This is the law + of the burnt offering: the burnt offering shall be on + the hearth on the altar all night until the morning; + and the fire of the altar shall be kept burning on it. +006:010 The priest shall put on his linen garment, and he shall put + on his linen breeches upon his body; and he shall remove + the ashes from where the fire has consumed the burnt offering + on the altar, and he shall put them beside the altar. +006:011 He shall take off his garments, and put on other garments, + and carry the ashes outside the camp to a clean place. +006:012 The fire on the altar shall be kept burning on it, it shall not + go out; and the priest shall burn wood on it every morning: + and he shall lay the burnt offering in order upon it, + and shall burn on it the fat of the peace offerings. +006:013 Fire shall be kept burning on the altar continually; + it shall not go out. +006:014 "'This is the law of the meal offering: the sons of Aaron + shall offer it before Yahweh, before the altar. +006:015 He shall take from there his handful of the fine flour of + the meal offering, and of its oil, and all the frankincense + which is on the meal offering, and shall burn it on the altar + for a sweet savor, as its memorial, to Yahweh. +006:016 That which is left of it Aaron and his sons shall eat. + It shall be eaten without yeast in a holy place. + They shall eat it in the court of the Tent of Meeting +006:017 It shall not be baked with yeast. I have given it as their + portion of my offerings made by fire. It is most holy, + as the sin offering, and as the trespass offering. +006:018 Every male among the children of Aaron shall eat of it, + as their portion forever throughout your generations, + from the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. Whoever touches + them shall be holy.'" +006:019 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +006:020 "This is the offering of Aaron and of his sons, which they + shall offer to Yahweh in the day when he is anointed: + the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meal + offering perpetually, half of it in the morning, and half + of it in the evening. +006:021 It shall be made with oil in a baking pan. When it is soaked, + you shall bring it in. You shall offer the meal offering + in baked pieces for a sweet savor to Yahweh. +006:022 The anointed priest that will be in his place from among his + sons shall offer it. By a statute forever, it shall be wholly + burnt to Yahweh. +006:023 Every meal offering of a priest shall be wholly burned. + It shall not be eaten." +006:024 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +006:025 "Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, 'This is the law + of the sin offering: in the place where the burnt offering + is killed, the sin offering shall be killed before Yahweh. + It is most holy. +006:026 The priest who offers it for sin shall eat it. It shall be + eaten in a holy place, in the court of the Tent of Meeting. +006:027 Whatever shall touch its flesh shall be holy. When there + is any of its blood sprinkled on a garment, you shall wash + that on which it was sprinkled in a holy place. +006:028 But the earthen vessel in which it is boiled shall be broken; + and if it is boiled in a bronze vessel, it shall be scoured, + and rinsed in water. +006:029 Every male among the priests shall eat of it: it is most holy. +006:030 No sin offering, of which any of the blood is brought into the Tent + of Meeting to make atonement in the Holy Place, shall be eaten: + it shall be burned with fire. +007:001 "'This is the law of the trespass offering. It is most holy. +007:002 In the place where they kill the burnt offering, he shall + kill the trespass offering; and its blood he shall sprinkle + on the altar round about. +007:003 He shall offer all of its fat: the fat tail, and the fat + that covers the innards, +007:004 and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is + by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, + shall he take away; +007:005 and the priest shall burn them on the altar for an offering + made by fire to Yahweh: it is a trespass offering. +007:006 Every male among the priests may eat of it. It shall be eaten + in a holy place. It is most holy. +007:007 "'As is the sin offering, so is the trespass offering; + there is one law for them. The priest who makes atonement + with them shall have it. +007:008 The priest who offers any man's burnt offering, even the priest + shall have for himself the skin of the burnt offering which + he has offered. +007:009 Every meal offering that is baked in the oven, and all + that is dressed in the frying pan, and on the baking pan, + shall be the priest's who offers it. +007:010 Every meal offering, mixed with oil or dry, belongs to all + the sons of Aaron, one as well as another. +007:011 "'This is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings, + which one shall offer to Yahweh. +007:012 If he offers it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer + with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mixed + with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes + mixed with oil. +007:013 With cakes of leavened bread he shall offer his offering + with the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving. +007:014 Of it he shall offer one out of each offering for a heave + offering to Yahweh. It shall be the priest's who sprinkles + the blood of the peace offerings. +007:015 The flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for + thanksgiving shall be eaten on the day of his offering. + He shall not leave any of it until the morning. +007:016 "'But if the sacrifice of his offering is a vow, or a freewill + offering, it shall be eaten on the day that he offers his sacrifice; + and on the next day what remains of it shall be eaten: +007:017 but what remains of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third + day shall be burned with fire. +007:018 If any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings + is eaten on the third day, it will not be accepted, + neither shall it be imputed to him who offers it. + It will be an abomination, and the soul who eats any of it + will bear his iniquity. +007:019 "'The flesh that touches any unclean thing shall not be eaten. + It shall be burned with fire. As for the flesh, everyone who + is clean may eat it; +007:020 but the soul who eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace + offerings, that belongs to Yahweh, having his uncleanness on him, + that soul shall be cut off from his people. +007:021 When anyone touches any unclean thing, the uncleanness of man, + or an unclean animal, or any unclean abomination, and eats some + of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which belong + to Yahweh, that soul shall be cut off from his people.'" +007:022 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +007:023 "Speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'You shall eat no fat, + of ox, or sheep, or goat. +007:024 The fat of that which dies of itself, and the fat of that + which is torn of animals, may be used for any other service, + but you shall in no way eat of it. +007:025 For whoever eats the fat of the animal, of which men offer + an offering made by fire to Yahweh, even the soul who eats + it shall be cut off from his people. +007:026 You shall not eat any blood, whether it is of bird or of animal, + in any of your dwellings. +007:027 Whoever it is who eats any blood, that soul shall be cut off + from his people.'" +007:028 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +007:029 "Speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'He who offers + the sacrifice of his peace offerings to Yahweh shall bring his + offering to Yahweh out of the sacrifice of his peace offerings. +007:030 With his own hands he shall bring the offerings of Yahweh + made by fire. He shall bring the fat with the breast, + that the breast may be waved for a wave offering before Yahweh. +007:031 The priest shall burn the fat on the altar, but the breast + shall be Aaron's and his sons'. +007:032 The right thigh you shall give to the priest for a heave + offering out of the sacrifices of your peace offerings. +007:033 He among the sons of Aaron who offers the blood of the + peace offerings, and the fat, shall have the right thigh + for a portion. +007:034 For the waved breast and the heaved thigh I have taken from the + children of Israel out of the sacrifices of their peace offerings, + and have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons + as their portion forever from the children of Israel.'" +007:035 This is the anointing portion of Aaron, and the anointing portion + of his sons, out of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire, + in the day when he presented them to minister to Yahweh + in the priest's office; +007:036 which Yahweh commanded to be given them of the children of Israel, + in the day that he anointed them. It is their portion forever + throughout their generations. +007:037 This is the law of the burnt offering, of the meal offering, + and of the sin offering, and of the trespass offering, + and of the consecration, and of the sacrifice of peace offerings; +007:038 which Yahweh commanded Moses in Mount Sinai, in the day that + he commanded the children of Israel to offer their offerings + to Yahweh, in the wilderness of Sinai. +008:001 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +008:002 "Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments, + and the anointing oil, and the bull of the sin offering, + and the two rams, and the basket of unleavened bread; +008:003 and assemble all the congregation at the door of the + Tent of Meeting." +008:004 Moses did as Yahweh commanded him; and the congregation was + assembled at the door of the Tent of Meeting. +008:005 Moses said to the congregation, "This is the thing which Yahweh + has commanded to be done." +008:006 Moses brought Aaron and his sons, and washed them with water. +008:007 He put the coat on him, tied the sash on him, clothed him + with the robe, put the ephod on him, and he tied the skillfully + woven band of the ephod on him, and fastened it to him with it. +008:008 He placed the breastplate on him; and in the breastplate he put + the Urim and the Thummim. +008:009 He set the turban on his head; and on the turban, in front, + he set the golden plate, the holy crown; as Yahweh commanded Moses. +008:010 Moses took the anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle + and all that was in it, and sanctified them. +008:011 He sprinkled it on the altar seven times, and anointed + the altar and all its vessels, and the basin and its base, + to sanctify them. +008:012 He poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron's head, + and anointed him, to sanctify him. +008:013 Moses brought Aaron's sons, and clothed them with coats, + and tied sashes on them, and put headbands on them; + as Yahweh commanded Moses. +008:014 He brought the bull of the sin offering, and Aaron and his sons + laid their hands on the head of the bull of the sin offering. +008:015 He killed it; and Moses took the blood, and put it on the horns + of the altar round about with his finger, and purified + the altar, and poured out the blood at the base of the altar, + and sanctified it, to make atonement for it. +008:016 He took all the fat that was on the innards, and the cover + of the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat; and Moses + burned it on the altar. +008:017 But the bull, and its skin, and its flesh, and its dung, + he burned with fire outside the camp; as Yahweh commanded Moses. +008:018 He presented the ram of the burnt offering: and Aaron and his + sons laid their hands on the head of the ram. +008:019 He killed it; and Moses sprinkled the blood on the altar round about. +008:020 He cut the ram into its pieces; and Moses burned the head, + and the pieces, and the fat. +008:021 He washed the innards and the legs with water; and Moses + burned the whole ram on the altar. It was a burnt offering + for a sweet savor. It was an offering made by fire to Yahweh; + as Yahweh commanded Moses. +008:022 He presented the other ram, the ram of consecration: + and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram. +008:023 He killed it; and Moses took some of its blood, and put it on + the tip of Aaron's right ear, and on the thumb of his right hand, + and on the great toe of his right foot. +008:024 He brought Aaron's sons; and Moses put some of the blood + on the tip of their right ear, and on the thumb of their + right hand, and on the great toe of their right foot; + and Moses sprinkled the blood on the altar round about. +008:025 He took the fat, and the fat tail, and all the fat that was on + the innards, and the cover of the liver, and the two kidneys, + and their fat, and the right thigh; +008:026 and out of the basket of unleavened bread, that was before Yahweh, + he took one unleavened cake, and one cake of oiled bread, + and one wafer, and placed them on the fat, and on the right thigh. +008:027 He put all these in Aaron's hands and in his sons' hands, and waved + them for a wave offering before Yahweh. +008:028 Moses took them from their hands, and burned them on the altar on + the burnt offering. They were a consecration for a sweet savor. + It was an offering made by fire to Yahweh. +008:029 Moses took the breast, and waved it for a wave offering + before Yahweh. It was Moses' portion of the ram of consecration, + as Yahweh commanded Moses. +008:030 Moses took some of the anointing oil, and some of the blood which + was on the altar, and sprinkled it on Aaron, on his garments, + and on his sons, and on his sons' garments with him, + and sanctified Aaron, his garments, and his sons, and his sons' + garments with him. +008:031 Moses said to Aaron and to his sons, "Boil the flesh at the door + of the Tent of Meeting, and there eat it and the bread that + is in the basket of consecration, as I commanded, saying, + 'Aaron and his sons shall eat it.' +008:032 What remains of the flesh and of the bread you shall + burn with fire. +008:033 You shall not go out from the door of the Tent of Meeting + seven days, until the days of your consecration are fulfilled: + for he shall consecrate you seven days. +008:034 What has been done this day, so Yahweh has commanded to do, + to make atonement for you. +008:035 At the door of the Tent of Meeting you shall stay day and night + seven days, and keep the charge of Yahweh, that you don't die: + for so I am commanded." +008:036 Aaron and his sons did all the things which Yahweh + commanded by Moses. +009:001 It happened on the eighth day, that Moses called Aaron and his sons, + and the elders of Israel; +009:002 and he said to Aaron, "Take a calf from the herd for a sin offering, + and a ram for a burnt offering, without blemish, and offer + them before Yahweh. +009:003 You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'Take a male + goat for a sin offering; and a calf and a lamb, both a year old, + without blemish, for a burnt offering; +009:004 and an ox and a ram for peace offerings, to sacrifice + before Yahweh; and a meal offering mixed with oil: + for today Yahweh appears to you.'" +009:005 They brought what Moses commanded before the Tent of Meeting: + and all the congregation drew near and stood before Yahweh. +009:006 Moses said, "This is the thing which Yahweh commanded that you + should do: and the glory of Yahweh shall appear to you." +009:007 Moses said to Aaron, "Draw near to the altar, and offer + your sin offering, and your burnt offering, and make + atonement for yourself, and for the people; and offer + the offering of the people, and make atonement for them; + as Yahweh commanded." +009:008 So Aaron drew near to the altar, and killed the calf of + the sin offering, which was for himself. +009:009 The sons of Aaron presented the blood to him; and he dipped + his finger in the blood, and put it on the horns of the altar, + and poured out the blood at the base of the altar: +009:010 but the fat, and the kidneys, and the cover from + the liver of the sin offering, he burned upon the altar; + as Yahweh commanded Moses. +009:011 The flesh and the skin he burned with fire outside the camp. +009:012 He killed the burnt offering; and Aaron's sons delivered the blood + to him, and he sprinkled it on the altar round about. +009:013 They delivered the burnt offering to him, piece by piece, + and the head: and he burned them upon the altar. +009:014 He washed the innards and the legs, and burned them on the burnt + offering on the altar. +009:015 He presented the people's offering, and took the goat of + the sin offering which was for the people, and killed it, + and offered it for sin, like the first. +009:016 He presented the burnt offering, and offered it according + to the ordinance. +009:017 He presented the meal offering, and filled his hand from there, + and burned it upon the altar, besides the burnt offering + of the morning. +009:018 He also killed the ox and the ram, the sacrifice of peace offerings, + which was for the people: and Aaron's sons delivered to him + the blood, which he sprinkled on the altar round about, +009:019 and the fat of the ox and of the ram, the fat tail, and that + which covers the innards, and the kidneys, and the cover + of the liver: +009:020 and they put the fat upon the breasts, and he burned the fat + on the altar: +009:021 and the breasts and the right thigh Aaron waved for a wave + offering before Yahweh, as Moses commanded. +009:022 Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people, and blessed them; + and he came down from offering the sin offering, and the + burnt offering, and the peace offerings. +009:023 Moses and Aaron went into the Tent of Meeting, and came out, + and blessed the people: and the glory of Yahweh appeared + to all the people. +009:024 There came forth fire from before Yahweh, and consumed the burnt + offering and the fat upon the altar: and when all the people + saw it, they shouted, and fell on their faces. +010:001 Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer, + and put fire in it, and laid incense on it, and offered strange + fire before Yahweh, which he had not commanded them. +010:002 And fire came forth from before Yahweh, and devoured them, + and they died before Yahweh. +010:003 Then Moses said to Aaron, "This is what Yahweh spoke of, + saying, 'I will show myself holy to those who come near me, + and before all the people I will be glorified.'" + Aaron held his peace. +010:004 Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel the uncle + of Aaron, and said to them, "Draw near, carry your brothers + from before the sanctuary out of the camp." +010:005 So they drew near, and carried them in their coats out of the camp, + as Moses had said. +010:006 Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons, + "Don't let the hair of your heads go loose, neither tear + your clothes; that you don't die, and that he not be angry + with all the congregation: but let your brothers, the whole + house of Israel, bewail the burning which Yahweh has kindled. +010:007 You shall not go out from the door of the Tent of Meeting, + lest you die; for the anointing oil of Yahweh is on you." + They did according to the word of Moses. +010:008 Yahweh spoke to Aaron, saying, +010:009 "Drink no wine nor strong drink, you, nor your sons with you, + when you go into the Tent of Meeting, that you don't die: + it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations: +010:010 and that you are to make a distinction between the holy + and the common, and between the unclean and the clean; +010:011 and that you are to teach the children of Israel all the statutes + which Yahweh has spoken to them by Moses." +010:012 Moses spoke to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, + his sons who were left, "Take the meal offering that remains + of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire, and eat it without + yeast beside the altar; for it is most holy; +010:013 and you shall eat it in a holy place, because it is your portion, + and your sons' portion, of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire: + for so I am commanded. +010:014 The waved breast and the heaved thigh you shall eat in a + clean place, you, and your sons, and your daughters with you: + for they are given as your portion, and your sons' portion, out of + the sacrifices of the peace offerings of the children of Israel. +010:015 The heaved thigh and the waved breast they shall bring with + the offerings made by fire of the fat, to wave it for a wave + offering before Yahweh: and it shall be yours, and your sons' + with you, as a portion forever; as Yahweh has commanded." +010:016 Moses diligently inquired about the goat of the sin offering, + and, behold, it was burned: and he was angry with Eleazar + and with Ithamar, the sons of Aaron who were left, saying, +010:017 "Why haven't you eaten the sin offering in the place of + the sanctuary, seeing it is most holy, and he has given it you + to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement + for them before Yahweh? +010:018 Behold, its blood was not brought into the inner part of + the sanctuary: you certainly should have eaten it in the sanctuary, + as I commanded." +010:019 Aaron spoke to Moses, "Behold, this day they have offered + their sin offering and their burnt offering before Yahweh; + and such things as these have happened to me: and if I had + eaten the sin offering today, would it have been pleasing + in the sight of Yahweh?" +010:020 When Moses heard that, it was pleasing in his sight. +011:001 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying to them, +011:002 "Speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'These are the living + things which you may eat among all the animals that are + on the earth. +011:003 Whatever parts the hoof, and is cloven-footed, and chews + the cud among the animals, that you may eat. +011:004 "'Nevertheless these you shall not eat of those that chew + the cud, or of those who part the hoof: the camel, + because he chews the cud but doesn't have a parted hoof, + he is unclean to you. +011:005 The coney, because he chews the cud but doesn't have a parted hoof, + he is unclean to you. +011:006 The hare, because she chews the cud but doesn't part the hoof, + she is unclean to you. +011:007 The pig, because he has a split hoof, and is cloven-footed, + but doesn't chew the cud, he is unclean to you. +011:008 Of their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you + shall not touch; they are unclean to you. +011:009 "'These you may eat of all that are in the waters: + whatever has fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, + and in the rivers, that you may eat. +011:010 All that don't have fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, + of all that move in the waters, and of all the living creatures + that are in the waters, they are an abomination to you, +011:011 and you detest them. You shall not eat of their flesh, + and you shall detest their carcasses. +011:012 Whatever has no fins nor scales in the waters, that is an + abomination to you. +011:013 "'These you shall detest among the birds; they shall not be eaten, + they are an abomination: the eagle, and the vulture, + and the black vulture, +011:014 and the red kite, any kind of black kite, +011:015 any kind of raven, +011:016 the horned owl, the screech owl, and the gull, any kind of hawk, +011:017 the little owl, the cormorant, the great owl, +011:018 the white owl, the desert owl, the osprey, +011:019 the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat. +011:020 "'All flying insects that walk on all fours are an + abomination to you. +011:021 Yet you may eat these: of all winged creeping things + that go on all fours, which have legs above their feet, + with which to hop on the earth. +011:022 Even of these you may eat: any kind of locust, any kind of katydid, + any kind of cricket, and any kind of grasshopper. +011:023 But all winged creeping things which have four feet, + are an abomination to you. +011:024 "'By these you will become unclean: whoever touches the carcass + of them shall be unclean until the evening. +011:025 Whoever carries any part of their carcass shall wash his clothes, + and be unclean until the evening. +011:026 "'Every animal which parts the hoof, and is not cloven-footed, + nor chews the cud, is unclean to you. Everyone who touches + them shall be unclean. +011:027 Whatever goes on its paws, among all animals that go on all fours, + they are unclean to you. Whoever touches their carcass shall + be unclean until the evening. +011:028 He who carries their carcass shall wash his clothes, and be + unclean until the evening. They are unclean to you. +011:029 "'These are they which are unclean to you among the creeping + things that creep on the earth: the weasel, the rat, + any kind of great lizard, +011:030 the gecko, and the monitor lizard, the wall lizard, the skink, + and the chameleon. +011:031 These are they which are unclean to you among all that creep. + Whoever touches them when they are dead, shall be unclean + until the evening. +011:032 On whatever any of them falls when they are dead, it shall be unclean; + whether it is any vessel of wood, or clothing, or skin, or sack, + whatever vessel it is, with which any work is done, it must + be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the evening; + then it will be clean. +011:033 Every earthen vessel, into which any of them falls, all that is + in it shall be unclean, and you shall break it. +011:034 All food which may be eaten, that on which water comes, + shall be unclean; and all drink that may be drunk in every + such vessel shall be unclean. +011:035 Everything whereupon part of their carcass falls shall be unclean; + whether oven, or range for pots, it shall be broken in pieces: + they are unclean, and shall be unclean to you. +011:036 Nevertheless a spring or a cistern in which water is a gathered + shall be clean: but that which touches their carcass + shall be unclean. +011:037 If part of their carcass falls on any sowing seed which is + to be sown, it is clean. +011:038 But if water is put on the seed, and part of their carcass + falls on it, it is unclean to you. +011:039 "'If any animal, of which you may eat, dies; he who touches + its carcass shall be unclean until the evening. +011:040 He who eats of its carcass shall wash his clothes, and be + unclean until the evening. He also who carries its carcass + shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. +011:041 "'Every creeping thing that creeps on the earth is an abomination. + It shall not be eaten. +011:042 Whatever goes on its belly, and whatever goes on all fours, + or whatever has many feet, even all creeping things + that creep on the earth, them you shall not eat; for they + are an abomination. +011:043 You shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping + thing that creeps, neither shall you make yourselves unclean + with them, that you should be defiled thereby. +011:044 For I am Yahweh your God. Sanctify yourselves therefore, + and be holy; for I am holy: neither shall you defile yourselves + with any kind of creeping thing that moves on the earth. +011:045 For I am Yahweh who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, + to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy. +011:046 "'This is the law of the animal, and of the bird, and of every + living creature that moves in the waters, and of every creature + that creeps on the earth, +011:047 to make a distinction between the unclean and the clean, + and between the living thing that may be eaten and the living + thing that may not be eaten.'" +012:001 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +012:002 "Speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'If a woman conceives, + and bears a male child, then she shall be unclean seven days; + as in the days of her monthly period she shall be unclean. +012:003 In the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised. +012:004 She shall continue in the blood of purification thirty-three days. + She shall not touch any holy thing, nor come into the sanctuary, + until the days of her purifying are completed. +012:005 But if she bears a female child, then she shall be unclean + two weeks, as in her period; and she shall continue in the blood + of purification sixty-six days. +012:006 "'When the days of her purification are completed, for a son, + or for a daughter, she shall bring to the priest at the door + of the Tent of Meeting, a year old lamb for a burnt offering, + and a young pigeon, or a turtledove, for a sin offering: +012:007 and he shall offer it before Yahweh, and make atonement for her; + and she shall be cleansed from the fountain of her blood. + "'This is the law for her who bears, whether a male or a female. +012:008 If she cannot afford a lamb, then she shall take two turtledoves, + or two young pigeons; the one for a burnt offering, + and the other for a sin offering: and the priest shall make + atonement for her, and she shall be clean.'" +013:001 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, +013:002 "When a man shall have a rising in his body's skin, or a scab, + or a bright spot, and it becomes in the skin of his body + the plague of leprosy, then he shall be brought to Aaron + the priest, or to one of his sons the priests: +013:003 and the priest shall examine the plague in the skin of the body: + and if the hair in the plague has turned white, and the + appearance of the plague is deeper than the body's skin, + it is the plague of leprosy; and the priest shall examine him, + and pronounce him unclean. +013:004 If the bright spot is white in the skin of his body, + and the appearance of it isn't deeper than the skin, + and the hair of it hasn't turned white, then the priest shall + isolate the infected person for seven days. +013:005 The priest shall examine him on the seventh day, and, behold, + if in his eyes the plague is arrested, and the plague hasn't + spread in the skin, then the priest shall isolate him for + seven more days. +013:006 The priest shall examine him again on the seventh day; + and behold, if the plague has faded, and the plague hasn't + spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean. + It is a scab. He shall wash his clothes, and be clean. +013:007 But if the scab spreads on the skin, after he has shown himself + to the priest for his cleansing, he shall show himself + to the priest again. +013:008 The priest shall examine him; and behold, if the scab has spread + on the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. + It is leprosy. +013:009 "When the plague of leprosy is in a man, then he shall be + brought to the priest; +013:010 and the priest shall examine him. Behold, if there is a white + rising in the skin, and it has turned the hair white, + and there is raw flesh in the rising, +013:011 it is a chronic leprosy in the skin of his body, and the priest + shall pronounce him unclean. He shall not isolate him, + for he is unclean. +013:012 "If the leprosy breaks out all over the skin, and the leprosy + covers all the skin of the infected person from his head + even to his feet, as far as it appears to the priest; +013:013 then the priest shall examine him; and, behold, if the leprosy has + covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce him clean of the plague. + It has all turned white: he is clean. +013:014 But whenever raw flesh appears in him, he shall be unclean. +013:015 The priest shall examine the raw flesh, and pronounce him unclean: + the raw flesh is unclean. It is leprosy. +013:016 Or if the raw flesh turns again, and is changed to white, + then he shall come to the priest; +013:017 and the priest shall examine him; and, behold, if the plague + has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce him clean + of the plague. He is clean. +013:018 "When the body has a boil on its skin, and it has healed, +013:019 and in the place of the boil there is a white rising, + or a bright spot, reddish-white, then it shall be shown + to the priest; +013:020 and the priest shall examine it; and behold, if the appearance + of it is lower than the skin, and the hair of it has + turned white, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. + It is the plague of leprosy. It has broken out in the boil. +013:021 But if the priest examines it, and behold, there are no white + hairs in it, and it isn't deeper than the skin, but is dim, + then the priest shall isolate him seven days. +013:022 If it spreads in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce + him unclean. It is a plague. +013:023 But if the bright spot stays in its place, and hasn't spread, + it is the scar from the boil; and the priest shall + pronounce him clean. +013:024 "Or when the body has a burn from fire on its skin, and the raw + flesh of the burn becomes a bright spot, reddish-white, or white, +013:025 then the priest shall examine it; and behold, if the hair + in the bright spot has turned white, and the appearance of it + is deeper than the skin; it is leprosy. It has broken out + in the burning, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean. + It is the plague of leprosy. +013:026 But if the priest examines it, and behold, there is no white + hair in the bright spot, and it isn't lower than the skin, + but is faded; then the priest shall isolate him seven days. +013:027 The priest shall examine him on the seventh day. If it has spread + in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. + It is the plague of leprosy. +013:028 If the bright spot stays in its place, and hasn't spread + in the skin, but is faded, it is the swelling from the burn, + and the priest shall pronounce him clean; for it is the scar + from the burn. +013:029 "When a man or woman has a plague on the head or on the beard, +013:030 then the priest shall examine the plague; and behold, if the + appearance of it is deeper than the skin, and the hair in it + is yellow and thin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: + it is an itch, it is leprosy of the head or of the beard. +013:031 If the priest examines the plague of itching, and behold, + its appearance isn't deeper than the skin, and there is no + black hair in it, then the priest shall isolate him the person + infected with itching seven days. +013:032 On the seventh day the priest shall examine the plague; and behold, + if the itch hasn't spread, and there is no yellow hair in it, + and the appearance of the itch isn't deeper than the skin, +013:033 then he shall be shaved, but he shall not shave the itch; + and the priest shall shut him up who has the itch seven more days. +013:034 On the seventh day, the priest shall examine the itch; and behold, + if the itch hasn't spread in the skin, and its appearance isn't + deeper than the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean. + He shall wash his clothes, and be clean. +013:035 But if the itch spreads in the skin after his cleansing, +013:036 then the priest shall examine him; and behold, if the itch has + spread in the skin, the priest shall not look for the yellow hair; + he is unclean. +013:037 But if in his eyes the itch is arrested, and black hair + has grown in it; the itch is healed, he is clean. + The priest shall pronounce him clean. +013:038 "When a man or a woman has bright spots in the skin of the body, + even white bright spots; +013:039 then the priest shall examine them; and behold, if the bright + spots on the skin of their body are a dull white, + it is a harmless rash, it has broken out in the skin; + he is clean. +013:040 "If a man's hair has fallen from his head, he is bald. + He is clean. +013:041 If his hair has fallen off from the front part of his head, + he is forehead bald. He is clean. +013:042 But if there is in the bald head, or the bald forehead, + a reddish-white plague; it is leprosy breaking out in his + bald head, or his bald forehead. +013:043 Then the priest shall examine him; and, behold, if the rising + of the plague is reddish-white in his bald head, or in his + bald forehead, like the appearance of leprosy in the skin + of the flesh, +013:044 he is a leprous man. He is unclean. The priest shall surely + pronounce him unclean. His plague is on his head. +013:045 "The leper in whom the plague is shall wear torn clothes, + and the hair of his head shall hang loose. He shall cover + his upper lip, and shall cry, 'Unclean! Unclean!' +013:046 All the days in which the plague is in him he shall be unclean. + He is unclean. He shall dwell alone. Outside of the camp + shall be his dwelling. +013:047 "The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it + is a woolen garment, or a linen garment; +013:048 whether it is in warp, or woof; of linen, or of wool; + whether in a skin, or in anything made of skin; +013:049 if the plague is greenish or reddish in the garment, or in the skin, + or in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything made of skin; + it is the plague of leprosy, and shall be shown to the priest. +013:050 The priest shall examine the plague, and isolate the + plague seven days. +013:051 He shall examine the plague on the seventh day. + If the plague has spread in the garment, either in the warp, + or in the woof, or in the skin, whatever use the skin + is used for, the plague is a destructive mildew. + It is unclean. +013:052 He shall burn the garment, whether the warp or the woof, in wool + or in linen, or anything of skin, in which the plague is: + for it is a destructive mildew. It shall be burned in the fire. +013:053 "If the priest examines it, and behold, the plague hasn't + spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, + or in anything of skin; +013:054 then the priest shall command that they wash the thing in which + the plague is, and he shall isolate it seven more days. +013:055 Then the priest shall examine it, after the plague is washed; + and behold, if the plague hasn't changed its color, and the plague + hasn't spread, it is unclean; you shall burn it in the fire. + It is a mildewed spot, whether the bareness is inside or outside. +013:056 If the priest looks, and behold, the plague has faded after + it is washed, then he shall tear it out of the garment, + or out of the skin, or out of the warp, or out of the woof: +013:057 and if it appears again in the garment, either in the warp, + or in the woof, or in anything of skin, it is spreading. + You shall burn with fire that in which the plague is. +013:058 The garment, either the warp, or the woof, or whatever thing + of skin it is, which you shall wash, if the plague has + departed from them, then it shall be washed the second time, + and it will be clean." +013:059 This is the law of the plague of mildew in a garment of wool + or linen, either in the warp, or the woof, or in anything of skin, + to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean. +014:001 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +014:002 "This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing. + He shall be brought to the priest, +014:003 and the priest shall go forth out of the camp. The priest shall + examine him, and behold, if the plague of leprosy is healed + in the leper, +014:004 then the priest shall command them to take for him who is + to be cleansed two living clean birds, and cedar wood, + and scarlet, and hyssop. +014:005 The priest shall command them to kill one of the birds in an + earthen vessel over running water. +014:006 As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, + and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and + the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed + over the running water. +014:007 He shall sprinkle on him who is to be cleansed from the leprosy + seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let + the living bird go into the open field. +014:008 "He who is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off + all his hair, and bathe himself in water; and he shall be clean. + After that he shall come into the camp, but shall dwell + outside his tent seven days. +014:009 It shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his + hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all + his hair he shall shave off. He shall wash his clothes, + and he shall bathe his body in water, then he shall be clean. +014:010 "On the eighth day he shall take two male lambs without blemish, + and one ewe lamb a year old without blemish, and three tenths + of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering, mingled with oil, + and one log of oil. +014:011 The priest who cleanses him shall set the man who is to + be cleansed, and those things, before Yahweh, at the door + of the Tent of Meeting. +014:012 "The priest shall take one of the male lambs, and offer him + for a trespass offering, with the log of oil, and wave them + for a wave offering before Yahweh. +014:013 He shall kill the male lamb in the place where they kill + the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the place + of the sanctuary; for as the sin offering is the priest's, + so is the trespass offering. It is most holy. +014:014 The priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, + and the priest shall put it on the tip of the right ear of him + who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, + and on the big toe of his right foot. +014:015 The priest shall take some of the log of oil, and pour it + into the palm of his own left hand. +014:016 The priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that is in his + left hand, and shall sprinkle some of the oil with his finger + seven times before Yahweh. +014:017 The priest shall put some of the rest of the oil that is in his + hand on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, + and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his + right foot, upon the blood of the trespass offering. +014:018 The rest of the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall put + on the head of him who is to be cleansed, and the priest + shall make atonement for him before Yahweh. +014:019 "The priest shall offer the sin offering, and make atonement + for him who is to be cleansed because of his uncleanness: + and afterward he shall kill the burnt offering; +014:020 and the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the meal + offering on the altar. The priest shall make atonement for him, + and he shall be clean. +014:021 "If he is poor, and can't afford so much, then he shall + take one male lamb for a trespass offering to be waved, + to make atonement for him, and one tenth of an ephah of fine + flour mingled with oil for a meal offering, and a log of oil; +014:022 and two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, such as he is able + to afford; and the one shall be a sin offering, and the other + a burnt offering. +014:023 "On the eighth day he shall bring them for his cleansing to + the priest, to the door of the Tent of Meeting, before Yahweh. +014:024 The priest shall take the lamb of the trespass offering, + and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them for a wave + offering before Yahweh. +014:025 He shall kill the lamb of the trespass offering. + The priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass + offering and put it on the tip of the right ear of him + who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, + and on the big toe of his right foot. +014:026 The priest shall pour some of the oil into the palm of his + own left hand; +014:027 and the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger some of + the oil that is in his left hand seven times before Yahweh. +014:028 Then the priest shall put some of the oil that is in his hand + on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, + and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his + right foot, on the place of the blood of the trespass offering. +014:029 The rest of the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall put + on the head of him who is to be cleansed, to make atonement + for him before Yahweh. +014:030 He shall offer one of the turtledoves, or of the young pigeons, + such as he is able to afford, +014:031 even such as he is able to afford, the one for a sin offering, + and the other for a burnt offering, with the meal offering. + The priest shall make atonement for him who is to be + cleansed before Yahweh." +014:032 This is the law for him in whom is the plague of leprosy, + who is not able to afford the sacrifice for his cleansing. +014:033 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, +014:034 "When you have come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you + for a possession, and I put a spreading mildew in a house + in the land of your possession, +014:035 then he who owns the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, + 'There seems to me to be some sort of plague in the house.' +014:036 The priest shall command that they empty the house, + before the priest goes in to examine the plague, + that all that is in the house not be made unclean: + and afterward the priest shall go in to inspect the house. +014:037 He shall examine the plague; and behold, if the plague is in + the walls of the house with hollow streaks, greenish or reddish, + and it appears to be deeper than the wall; +014:038 then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house, + and shut up the house seven days. +014:039 The priest shall come again on the seventh day, and look. + If the plague has spread in the walls of the house, +014:040 then the priest shall command that they take out the stones + in which is the plague, and cast them into an unclean place + outside of the city: +014:041 and he shall cause the inside of the house to be scraped round about, + and they shall pour out the mortar, that they scraped off, + outside of the city into an unclean place. +014:042 They shall take other stones, and put them in the place + of those stones; and he shall take other mortar, and shall + plaster the house. +014:043 "If the plague comes again, and breaks out in the house, + after he has taken out the stones, and after he has scraped + the house, and after it was plastered; +014:044 then the priest shall come in and look; and behold, if the plague + has spread in the house, it is a destructive mildew in the house. + It is unclean. +014:045 He shall break down the house, its stones, and its timber, + and all the house's mortar. He shall carry them out of the city + into an unclean place. +014:046 "Moreover he who goes into the house while it is shut up shall + be unclean until the evening. +014:047 He who lies down in the house shall wash his clothes; + and he who eats in the house shall wash his clothes. +014:048 "If the priest shall come in, and examine it, and behold, + the plague hasn't spread in the house, after the house + was plastered, then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, + because the plague is healed. +014:049 To cleanse the house he shall take two birds, and cedar wood, + and scarlet, and hyssop. +014:050 He shall kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel + over running water. +014:051 He shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, + and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird, + and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times. +014:052 He shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with + the running water, with the living bird, with the cedar wood, + with the hyssop, and with the scarlet; +014:053 but he shall let the living bird go out of the city into + the open field. So shall he make atonement for the house; + and it shall be clean." +014:054 This is the law for any plague of leprosy, and for an itch, +014:055 and for the destructive mildew of a garment, and for a house, +014:056 and for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot; +014:057 to teach when it is unclean, and when it is clean. + This is the law of leprosy. +015:001 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, +015:002 "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, 'When any + man has a discharge from his body, because of his discharge + he is unclean. +015:003 This shall be his uncleanness in his discharge: + whether his body runs with his discharge, or his body has + stopped from his discharge, it is his uncleanness. +015:004 "'Every bed whereon he who has the discharge lies shall be unclean; + and everything he sits on shall be unclean. +015:005 Whoever touches his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe + himself in water, and be unclean until the evening. +015:006 He who sits on anything whereon the man who has the discharge + sat shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, + and be unclean until the evening. +015:007 "'He who touches the body of him who has the discharge shall + wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean + until the evening. +015:008 "'If he who has the discharge spits on him who is clean, + then he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, + and be unclean until the evening. +015:009 "'Whatever saddle he who has the discharge rides on + shall be unclean. +015:010 Whoever touches anything that was under him shall be unclean + until the evening. He who carries those things shall wash + his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean + until the evening. +015:011 "'Whoever he who has the discharge touches, without having + rinsed his hands in water, he shall wash his clothes, + and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening. +015:012 "'The earthen vessel, which he who has the discharge touches, + shall be broken; and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water. +015:013 "'When he who has a discharge is cleansed of his discharge, + then he shall count to himself seven days for his cleansing, + and wash his clothes; and he shall bathe his flesh in running water, + and shall be clean. +015:014 "'On the eighth day he shall take two turtledoves, or two + young pigeons, and come before Yahweh to the door of the Tent + of Meeting, and give them to the priest: +015:015 and the priest shall offer them, the one for a sin offering, + and the other for a burnt offering. The priest shall make + atonement for him before Yahweh for his discharge. +015:016 "'If any man has an emission of semen, then he shall bathe + all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the evening. +015:017 Every garment, and every skin, whereon the semen is, shall be + washed with water, and be unclean until the evening. +015:018 If a man lies with a woman and there is an emission of semen, + they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean + until the evening. +015:019 "'If a woman has a discharge, and her discharge in her + flesh is blood, she shall be in her impurity seven days: + and whoever touches her shall be unclean until the evening. +015:020 "'Everything that she lies on in her impurity shall be unclean. + Everything also that she sits on shall be unclean. +015:021 Whoever touches her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe + himself in water, and be unclean until the evening. +015:022 Whoever touches anything that she sits on shall wash his clothes, + and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening. +015:023 If it is on the bed, or on anything whereon she sits, + when he touches it, he shall be unclean until the evening. +015:024 "'If any man lies with her, and her monthly flow is on him, + he shall be unclean seven days; and every bed whereon he lies + shall be unclean. +015:025 "'If a woman has a discharge of her blood many days not + in the time of her period, or if she has a discharge beyond + the time of her period; all the days of the discharge + of her uncleanness shall be as in the days of her period: + she is unclean. +015:026 Every bed whereon she lies all the days of her discharge shall + be to her as the bed of her period: and everything whereon + she sits shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her period. +015:027 Whoever touches these things shall be unclean, and shall wash + his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean + until the evening. +015:028 "'But if she is cleansed of her discharge, then she shall count + to herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean. +015:029 On the eighth day she shall take two turtledoves, or two + young pigeons, and bring them to the priest, to the door + of the Tent of Meeting. +015:030 The priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other + for a burnt offering; and the priest shall make atonement + for her before Yahweh for the uncleanness of her discharge. +015:031 "'Thus you shall separate the children of Israel from + their uncleanness, so they will not die in their uncleanness, + when they defile my tabernacle that is in their midst.'" +015:032 This is the law of him who has a discharge, and of him who has + an emission of semen, so that he is unclean thereby; +015:033 and of her who has her period, and of a man or woman who has + a discharge, and of him who lies with her who is unclean. +016:001 Yahweh spoke to Moses, after the death of the two sons of Aaron, + when they drew near before Yahweh, and died; +016:002 and Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell Aaron your brother, not to come + at all times into the Most Holy Place within the veil, + before the mercy seat which is on the ark; lest he die: + for I will appear in the cloud on the mercy seat. +016:003 "Herewith shall Aaron come into the sanctuary: with a young + bull for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering. +016:004 He shall put on the holy linen coat, and he shall have the linen + breeches on his body, and shall put on the linen sash, and he shall + be dressed with the linen turban. They are the holy garments. + He shall bathe his body in water, and put them on. +016:005 He shall take from the congregation of the children of Israel two + male goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt offering. +016:006 "Aaron shall offer the bull of the sin offering, which is + for himself, and make atonement for himself and for his house. +016:007 He shall take the two goats, and set them before Yahweh at + the door of the Tent of Meeting. +016:008 Aaron shall cast lots for the two goats; one lot for Yahweh, + and the other lot for the scapegoat. +016:009 Aaron shall present the goat on which the lot fell for Yahweh, + and offer him for a sin offering. +016:010 But the goat, on which the lot fell for the scapegoat, shall be + presented alive before Yahweh, to make atonement for him, + to send him away for the scapegoat into the wilderness. +016:011 "Aaron shall present the bull of the sin offering, + which is for himself, and shall make atonement for himself + and for his house, and shall kill the bull of the sin offering + which is for himself. +016:012 He shall take a censer full of coals of fire from off the altar + before Yahweh, and two handfuls of sweet incense beaten small, + and bring it within the veil: +016:013 and he shall put the incense on the fire before Yahweh, + that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat that is + on the testimony, so that he will not die. +016:014 He shall take some of the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it + with his finger on the mercy seat on the east; and before + the mercy seat he shall sprinkle some of the blood with his + finger seven times. +016:015 "Then he shall kill the goat of the sin offering, that is + for the people, and bring his blood within the veil, + and do with his blood as he did with the blood of the bull, + and sprinkle it on the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat: +016:016 and he shall make atonement for the Holy Place, + because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, + and because of their transgressions, even all their sins; + and so he shall do for the Tent of Meeting, that dwells + with them in the midst of their uncleanness. +016:017 There shall be no one in the Tent of Meeting when he enters + to make atonement in the Holy Place, until he comes out, + and has made atonement for himself and for his household, + and for all the assembly of Israel. +016:018 "He shall go out to the altar that is before Yahweh and make + atonement for it, and shall take some of the bull's blood, + and some of the goat's blood, and put it on the horns + of the altar round about. +016:019 He shall sprinkle some of the blood on it with his finger + seven times, and cleanse it, and make it holy from the uncleanness + of the children of Israel. +016:020 "When he has made an end of atoning for the Holy Place, the Tent + of Meeting, and the altar, he shall present the live goat. +016:021 Aaron shall lay both his hands on the head of the live goat, + and confess over him all the iniquities of the children + of Israel, and all their transgressions, even all their sins; + and he shall put them on the head of the goat, and shall + send him away into the wilderness by the hand of a man + who is in readiness. +016:022 The goat shall carry all their iniquities on himself to a + solitary land, and he shall let the goat go in the wilderness. +016:023 "Aaron shall come into the Tent of Meeting, and shall take + off the linen garments, which he put on when he went into + the Holy Place, and shall leave them there. +016:024 Then he shall bathe himself in water in a holy place, and put + on his garments, and come out and offer his burnt offering + and the burnt offering of the people, and make atonement + for himself and for the people. +016:025 The fat of the sin offering he shall burn on the altar. +016:026 "He who lets the goat go for the scapegoat shall wash his clothes, + and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come + into the camp. +016:027 The bull for the sin offering, and the goat for the sin offering, + whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the Holy Place, + shall be carried forth outside the camp; and they shall burn + their skins, their flesh, and their dung with fire. +016:028 He who burns them shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh + in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp. +016:029 "It shall be a statute to you forever: in the seventh month, + on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls, + and shall do no manner of work, the native-born, or the stranger + who lives as a foreigner among you: +016:030 for on this day shall atonement be made for you, to cleanse you; + from all your sins you shall be clean before Yahweh. +016:031 It is a Sabbath of solemn rest to you, and you shall afflict + your souls; it is a statute forever. +016:032 The priest, who is anointed and who is consecrated to be + priest in his father's place, shall make the atonement, + and shall put on the linen garments, even the holy garments. +016:033 Then he shall make atonement for the Holy Sanctuary; and he shall + make atonement for the Tent of Meeting and for the altar; + and he shall make atonement for the priests and for all + the people of the assembly. +016:034 "This shall be an everlasting statute for you, to make atonement for + the children of Israel once in the year because of all their sins." + It was done as Yahweh commanded Moses. +017:001 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +017:002 "Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel, + and say to them: 'This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded, +017:003 Whatever man there is of the house of Israel, who kills an ox, + or lamb, or goat, in the camp, or who kills it outside the camp, +017:004 and hasn't brought it to the door of the Tent of Meeting, to offer + it as an offering to Yahweh before the tabernacle of Yahweh: + blood shall be imputed to that man. He has shed blood; + and that man shall be cut off from among his people. +017:005 This is to the end that the children of Israel may bring + their sacrifices, which they sacrifice in the open field, + that they may bring them to Yahweh, to the door of the Tent + of Meeting, to the priest, and sacrifice them for sacrifices + of peace offerings to Yahweh. +017:006 The priest shall sprinkle the blood on the altar of Yahweh at + the door of the Tent of Meeting, and burn the fat for a sweet + savor to Yahweh. +017:007 They shall no more sacrifice their sacrifices to the goat idols, + after which they play the prostitute. This shall be a statute + forever to them throughout their generations.' +017:008 "You shall say to them, 'Any man there is of the house of Israel, + or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, + who offers a burnt offering or sacrifice, +017:009 and doesn't bring it to the door of the Tent of Meeting, + to sacrifice it to Yahweh; that man shall be cut off + from his people. +017:010 "'Any man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live + as foreigners among them, who eats any kind of blood, + I will set my face against that soul who eats blood, + and will cut him off from among his people. +017:011 For the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given + it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls: + for it is the blood that makes atonement by reason of the life. +017:012 Therefore I have said to the children of Israel, "No person + among you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger who lives + as a foreigner among you eat blood." +017:013 "'Whatever man there is of the children of Israel, + or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, + who takes in hunting any animal or bird that may be eaten; + he shall pour out its blood, and cover it with dust. +017:014 For as to the life of all flesh, its blood is with its life: + therefore I said to the children of Israel, "You shall not eat + the blood of any kind of flesh; for the life of all flesh + is its blood. Whoever eats it shall be cut off." +017:015 "'Every person that eats what dies of itself, or that which is + torn by animals, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, + he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, + and be unclean until the evening: then he shall be clean. +017:016 But if he doesn't wash them, or bathe his flesh, then he shall + bear his iniquity.'" +018:001 Yahweh said to Moses, +018:002 "Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, 'I am + Yahweh your God. +018:003 You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived: + and you shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I + am bringing you; neither shall you walk in their statutes. +018:004 You shall do my ordinances, and you shall keep my statutes, + and walk in them: I am Yahweh your God. +018:005 You shall therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances; + which if a man does, he shall live in them: I am Yahweh. +018:006 "'None of you shall approach anyone who are his close relatives, + to uncover their nakedness: I am Yahweh. +018:007 "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, + nor the nakedness of your mother: she is your mother. + You shall not uncover her nakedness. +018:008 "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife: + it is your father's nakedness. +018:009 "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your sister, + the daughter of your father, or the daughter of your mother, + whether born at home, or born abroad. +018:010 "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your son's daughter, + or of your daughter's daughter, even their nakedness: + for theirs is your own nakedness. +018:011 "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's + wife's daughter, conceived by your father, since she + is your sister. +018:012 "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's sister: + she is your father's near kinswoman. +018:013 "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister: + for she is your mother's near kinswoman. +018:014 "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's brother, + you shall not approach his wife: she is your aunt. +018:015 "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law: + she is your son's wife. You shall not uncover her nakedness. +018:016 "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother's wife: + it is your brother's nakedness. +018:017 "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter. + You shall not take her son's daughter, or her daughter's daughter, + to uncover her nakedness; they are near kinswomen: + it is wickedness. +018:018 "'You shall not take a wife to her sister, to be a rival, + to uncover her nakedness, while her sister is yet alive. +018:019 "'You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness, + as long as she is impure by her uncleanness. +018:020 "'You shall not lie carnally with your neighbor's wife, + and defile yourself with her. +018:021 "'You shall not give any of your children to sacrifice to Molech; + neither shall you profane the name of your God: I am Yahweh. +018:022 "'You shall not lie with a man, as with a woman. + That is detestable. +018:023 "'You shall not lie with any animal to defile yourself with it; + neither shall any woman give herself to an animal, to lie + down with it: it is a perversion. +018:024 "'Don't defile yourselves in any of these things: + for in all these the nations which I am casting out before + you were defiled. +018:025 The land was defiled: therefore I punished its iniquity, + and the land vomited out her inhabitants. +018:026 You therefore shall keep my statutes and my ordinances, and shall + not do any of these abominations; neither the native-born, + nor the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you; +018:027 (for all these abominations have the men of the land done, + that were before you, and the land became defiled); +018:028 that the land not vomit you out also, when you defile it, + as it vomited out the nation that was before you. +018:029 "'For whoever shall do any of these abominations, even the souls + that do them shall be cut off from among their people. +018:030 Therefore you shall keep my charge, that you do not practice + any of these abominable customs, which were practiced + before you, and that you do not defile yourselves with them: + I am Yahweh your God.'" +019:001 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +019:002 "Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, + and tell them, 'You shall be holy; for I Yahweh your God am holy. +019:003 "'Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. + You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God. +019:004 "'Don't turn to idols, nor make molten gods for yourselves. + I am Yahweh your God. +019:005 "'When you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to Yahweh, + you shall offer it so that you may be accepted. +019:006 It shall be eaten the same day you offer it, and on the next day: + and if anything remains until the third day, it shall be + burned with fire. +019:007 If it is eaten at all on the third day, it is an abomination. + It will not be accepted; +019:008 but everyone who eats it shall bear his iniquity, because he has + profaned the holy thing of Yahweh, and that soul shall be cut + off from his people. +019:009 "'When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly + reap the corners of your field, neither shall you gather + the gleanings of your harvest. +019:010 You shall not glean your vineyard, neither shall you gather + the fallen grapes of your vineyard; you shall leave them + for the poor and for the foreigner. I am Yahweh your God. +019:011 "'You shall not steal; neither shall you deal falsely, + nor lie to one another. +019:012 "'You shall not swear by my name falsely, and profane the name + of your God. I am Yahweh. +019:013 "'You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. + The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all + night until the morning. +019:014 "'You shall not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling + block before the blind; but you shall fear your God. + I am Yahweh. +019:015 "'You shall do no injustice in judgment: you shall not be + partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; + but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor. +019:016 "'You shall not go up and down as a slanderer among your people; + neither shall you stand against the life{literally, + "blood"} of your neighbor. I am Yahweh. +019:017 "'You shall not hate your brother in your heart. + You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin + because of him. +019:018 "'You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against + the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor + as yourself. I am Yahweh. +019:019 "'You shall keep my statutes. "'You shall not crossbreed + different kinds of animals. "'you shall not sow your field + with two kinds of seed; "'neither shall there come upon on you + a garment made of two kinds of material. +019:020 "'If a man lies carnally with a woman who is a slave girl, + pledged to be married to another man, and not ransomed, + or given her freedom; they shall be punished. They shall + not be put to death, because she was not free. +019:021 He shall bring his trespass offering to Yahweh, to the door + of the Tent of Meeting, even a ram for a trespass offering. +019:022 The priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the trespass + offering before Yahweh for his sin which he has committed: + and the sin which he has committed shall be forgiven him. +019:023 "'When you come into the land, and have planted all kinds of trees + for food, then you shall count their fruit as forbidden.{literally, + "uncircumcised"} Three years shall they be forbidden to you. + It shall not be eaten. +019:024 But in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy, for giving + praise to Yahweh. +019:025 In the fifth year you shall eat its fruit, that it may yield + its increase to you. I am Yahweh your God. +019:026 "'You shall not eat any meat with the blood still in it; + neither shall you use enchantments, nor practice sorcery. +019:027 "'You shall not cut the hair on the sides of your heads, + neither shall you clip off the edge of your beard. +019:028 "'You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, + nor tattoo any marks on you. I am Yahweh. +019:029 "'Don't profane your daughter, to make her a prostitute; + lest the land fall to prostitution, and the land become + full of wickedness. +019:030 "'You shall keep my Sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary; + I am Yahweh. +019:031 "'Don't turn to those who are mediums, nor to the wizards. + Don't seek them out, to be defiled by them. I am Yahweh your God. +019:032 "'You shall rise up before the gray head, and honor + the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God. + I am Yahweh. +019:033 "'If a stranger lives as a foreigner with you in your land, + you shall not do him wrong. +019:034 The stranger who lives as a foreigner with you shall be to you + as the native-born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; + for you lived as foreigners in the land of Egypt. + I am Yahweh your God. +019:035 "'You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures + of length, of weight, or of quantity. +019:036 Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, + shall you have. I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out + of the land of Egypt. +019:037 You shall observe all my statutes, and all my ordinances, + and do them. I am Yahweh.'" +020:001 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +020:002 "Moreover, you shall tell the children of Israel, 'Anyone of + the children of Israel, or of the strangers who live as + foreigners in Israel, who gives any of his seed to Molech; + he shall surely be put to death. The people of the land + shall stone him with stones. +020:003 I also will set my face against that person, and will cut him off + from among his people because he has given of his seed to Molech, + to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name. +020:004 If the people of the land all hide their eyes from that person, + when he gives of his seed to Molech, and don't put him to death; +020:005 then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, + and will cut him off, and all who play the prostitute after him, + to play the prostitute with Molech, from among their people. +020:006 "'The person that turns to those who are mediums, + and to the wizards, to play the prostitute after them, + I will even set my face against that person, and will cut + him off from among his people. +020:007 "'Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am + Yahweh your God. +020:008 You shall keep my statutes, and do them. I am Yahweh + who sanctifies you. +020:009 "'For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely + be put to death: he has cursed his father or his mother; + his blood shall be upon him. +020:010 "'The man who commits adultery with another man's wife, + even he who commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, + the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death. +020:011 The man who lies with his father's wife has uncovered his + father's nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; + their blood shall be upon them. +020:012 "'If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall + surely be put to death: they have committed a perversion; + their blood shall be upon them. +020:013 "'If a man lies with a male, as with a woman, both of them have + committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; + their blood shall be upon them. +020:014 "'If a man takes a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: + they shall be burned with fire, both he and they; that there + may be no wickedness among you. +020:015 "'If a man lies with an animal, he shall surely be put to death; + and you shall kill the animal. +020:016 "'If a woman approaches any animal, and lies down with it, + you shall kill the woman, and the animal: they shall surely + be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. +020:017 "'If a man takes his sister, his father's daughter, + or his mother's daughter, and sees her nakedness, and she + sees his nakedness; it is a shameful thing; and they shall + be cut off in the sight of the children of their people: + he has uncovered his sister's nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity. +020:018 "'If a man lies with a woman having her monthly period, + and uncovers her nakedness; he has made naked her fountain, + and she has uncovered the fountain of her blood: + and both of them shall be cut off from among their people. +020:019 "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister, nor of + your father's sister; for he has made naked his close relative: + they shall bear their iniquity. +020:020 If a man lies with his uncle's wife, he has uncovered + his uncle's nakedness: they shall bear their sin; + they shall die childless. +020:021 "'If a man takes his brother's wife, it is an impurity: + he has uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless. +020:022 "'You shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my ordinances, + and do them; that the land, where I am bringing you to dwell, + may not vomit you out. +020:023 You shall not walk in the customs of the nation, which I am + casting out before you: for they did all these things, + and therefore I abhorred them. +020:024 But I have said to you, "You shall inherit their land, and I will + give it to you to possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey." + I am Yahweh your God, who has separated you from the peoples. +020:025 "'You shall therefore make a distinction between the clean animal + and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the clean: + and you shall not make yourselves abominable by animal, + or by bird, or by anything with which the ground teems, + which I have separated from you as unclean for you. +020:026 You shall be holy to me: for I, Yahweh, am holy, and have set + you apart from the peoples, that you should be mine. +020:027 "'A man or a woman that is a medium, or is a wizard, + shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones; + their blood shall be upon them.'" +021:001 Yahweh said to Moses, "Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, + and say to them, 'A priest shall not defile himself for the dead + among his people; +021:002 except for his relatives that are near to him: for his mother, + for his father, for his son, for his daughter, for his brother, +021:003 and for his virgin sister who is near to him, who has had no husband; + for her he may defile himself. +021:004 He shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people, + to profane himself. +021:005 "'They shall not shave their heads, neither shall they shave + off the corners of their beards, nor make any cuttings + in their flesh. +021:006 They shall be holy to their God, and not profane the name of + their God; for they offer the offerings of Yahweh made by fire, + the bread of their God; therefore they shall be holy. +021:007 "'They shall not marry a woman who is a prostitute, or profane; + neither shall they marry a woman divorced from her husband: + for he is holy to his God. +021:008 You shall sanctify him therefore; for he offers the bread + of your God: he shall be holy to you: for I Yahweh, + who sanctify you, am holy. +021:009 "'The daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself + by playing the prostitute, she profanes her father: + she shall be burned with fire. +021:010 "'He who is the high priest among his brothers, upon whose head + the anointing oil is poured, and that is consecrated to put + on the garments, shall not let the hair of his head hang loose, + nor tear his clothes; +021:011 neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself + for his father, or for his mother; +021:012 neither shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane + the sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the anointing oil + of his God is upon him. I am Yahweh. +021:013 "'He shall take a wife in her virginity. +021:014 A widow, or one divorced, or a woman who has been defiled, + or a prostitute, these he shall not marry: but a virgin + of his own people shall he take as a wife. +021:015 He shall not profane his seed among his people: + for I am Yahweh who sanctifies him.'" +021:016 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +021:017 "Say to Aaron, 'None of your seed throughout their generations + who has a blemish, may approach to offer the bread of his God. +021:018 For whatever man he is that has a blemish, he shall not draw near: + a blind man, or a lame, or he who has a flat nose, + or any deformity, +021:019 or a man who has an injured foot, or an injured hand, +021:020 or hunchbacked, or a dwarf, or one who has a defect in his eye, + or an itching disease, or scabs, or who has damaged testicles; +021:021 no man of the seed of Aaron the priest, who has a blemish, + shall come near to offer the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. + Since has a blemish, he shall not come near to offer the bread + of his God. +021:022 He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, + and of the holy. +021:023 He shall not come near to the veil, nor come near to the altar, + because he has a blemish; that he may not profane my sanctuaries, + for I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.'" +021:024 So Moses spoke to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the + children of Israel. +022:001 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +022:002 "Tell Aaron and his sons to separate themselves from the holy + things of the children of Israel, which they make holy to me, + and that they not profane my holy name. I am Yahweh. +022:003 "Tell them, 'If anyone of all your seed throughout your + generations approaches the holy things, which the children + of Israel make holy to Yahweh, having his uncleanness + on him, that soul shall be cut off from before me. + I am Yahweh. +022:004 "'Whoever of the seed of Aaron is a leper or has an issue; + he shall not eat of the holy things, until he is clean. + Whoever touches anything that is unclean by the dead, + or a man whose seed goes from him; +022:005 or whoever touches any creeping thing, whereby he may be + made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness, + whatever uncleanness he has; +022:006 the person that touches any such shall be unclean until the evening, + and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he bathe his + body in water. +022:007 When the sun is down, he shall be clean; and afterward he shall + eat of the holy things, because it is his bread. +022:008 That which dies of itself, or is torn by animals, he shall + not eat, defiling himself by it. I am Yahweh. +022:009 "'They shall therefore keep my charge, lest they bear + sin for it, and die therein, if they profane it. + I am Yahweh who sanctifies them. +022:010 "'No stranger shall eat of the holy thing: a foreigner + living with the priests, or a hired servant, shall not eat + of the holy thing. +022:011 But if a priest buys a slave, purchased by his money, + he shall eat of it; and such as are born in his house, + they shall eat of his bread. +022:012 If a priest's daughter is married to an outsider, she shall + not eat of the heave offering of the holy things. +022:013 But if a priest's daughter is a widow, or divorced, + and has no child, and has returned to her father's house, + as in her youth, she may eat of her father's bread: + but no stranger shall eat any of it. +022:014 "'If a man eats something holy unwittingly, then he shall add + the fifth part of its value to it, and shall give the holy + thing to the priest. +022:015 The priests shall not profane the holy things of the children + of Israel, which they offer to Yahweh, +022:016 and so cause them to bear the iniquity that brings guilt, + when they eat their holy things: for I am Yahweh + who sanctifies them.'" +022:017 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +022:018 "Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children + of Israel, and say to them, 'Whoever is of the house of Israel, + or of the foreigners in Israel, who offers his offering, + whether it be any of their vows, or any of their freewill offerings, + which they offer to Yahweh for a burnt offering; +022:019 that you may be accepted, you shall offer a male without blemish, + of the bulls, of the sheep, or of the goats. +022:020 But whatever has a blemish, that you shall not offer: + for it shall not be acceptable for you. +022:021 Whoever offers a sacrifice of peace offerings to Yahweh + to accomplish a vow, or for a freewill offering, of the herd + or of the flock, it shall be perfect to be accepted; + there shall be no blemish therein. +022:022 Blind, injured, maimed, having a wart, festering, or having + a running sore, you shall not offer these to Yahweh, nor make + an offering by fire of them on the altar to Yahweh. +022:023 Either a bull or a lamb that has any deformity or lacking + in his parts, that you may offer for a freewill offering; + but for a vow it shall not be accepted. +022:024 That which has its testicles bruised, crushed, broken, or cut, + you shall not offer to Yahweh; neither shall you do thus + in your land. +022:025 Neither from the hand of a foreigner shall you offer the bread + of your God of any of these; because their corruption is in them. + There is a blemish in them. They shall not be accepted for you.'" +022:026 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +022:027 "When a bull, or a sheep, or a goat, is born, then it shall + remain seven days with its mother; and from the eighth + day and thenceforth it shall be accepted for the offering + of an offering made by fire to Yahweh. +022:028 Whether it is a cow or ewe, you shall not kill it and its young + both in one day. +022:029 "When you sacrifice a sacrifice of thanksgiving to Yahweh, + you shall sacrifice it so that you may be accepted. +022:030 It shall be eaten on the same day; you shall leave none of it + until the morning. I am Yahweh. +022:031 "Therefore you shall keep my commandments, and do them. + I am Yahweh. +022:032 You shall not profane my holy name, but I will be made holy + among the children of Israel. I am Yahweh who makes you holy, +022:033 who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. + I am Yahweh." +023:001 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +023:002 "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, 'The set feasts + of Yahweh, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, + even these are my set feasts. +023:003 "'Six days shall work be done: but on the seventh day is a Sabbath + of solemn rest, a holy convocation; you shall do no manner of work. + It is a Sabbath to Yahweh in all your dwellings. +023:004 "'These are the set feasts of Yahweh, even holy convocations, + which you shall proclaim in their appointed season. +023:005 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month + in the evening, is Yahweh's Passover. +023:006 On the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened + bread to Yahweh. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. +023:007 In the first day you shall have a holy convocation. + You shall do no regular work. +023:008 But you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh + seven days. In the seventh day is a holy convocation: + you shall do no regular work.'" +023:009 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +023:010 "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, 'When you + have come into the land which I give to you, and shall reap + its the harvest, then you shall bring the sheaf of the first + fruits of your harvest to the priest: +023:011 and he shall wave the sheaf before Yahweh, to be accepted for you. + On the next day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it. +023:012 On the day when you wave the sheaf, you shall offer a male lamb + without blemish a year old for a burnt offering to Yahweh. +023:013 The meal offering with it shall be two tenth parts of an ephah + of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire + to Yahweh for a sweet savor; and the drink offering with it + shall be of wine, the fourth part of a hin. +023:014 You shall eat neither bread, nor roasted grain, nor fresh grain, + until this same day, until you have brought the offering + of your God. This is a statute forever throughout your + generations in all your dwellings. +023:015 "'You shall count from the next day after the Sabbath, + from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering; + seven Sabbaths shall be completed: +023:016 even to the next day after the seventh Sabbath you shall number + fifty days; and you shall offer a new meal offering to Yahweh. +023:017 You shall bring out of your habitations two loaves of bread for a + wave offering made of two tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour. + They shall be baked with yeast, for first fruits to Yahweh. +023:018 You shall present with the bread seven lambs without blemish + a year old, one young bull, and two rams. They shall + be a burnt offering to Yahweh, with their meal offering, + and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, + of a sweet aroma to Yahweh. +023:019 You shall offer one male goat for a sin offering, and two male + lambs a year old for a sacrifice of peace offerings. +023:020 The priest shall wave them with the bread of the first fruits + for a wave offering before Yahweh, with the two lambs. + They shall be holy to Yahweh for the priest. +023:021 You shall make proclamation on the same day: there shall + be a holy convocation to you; you shall do no regular work. + This is a statute forever in all your dwellings + throughout your generations. +023:022 "'When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall + not wholly reap into the corners of your field, + neither shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest: + you shall leave them for the poor, and for the foreigner. + I am Yahweh your God.'" +023:023 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +023:024 "Speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'In the seventh month, + on the first day of the month, shall be a solemn rest to you, + a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation. +023:025 You shall do no regular work; and you shall offer an offering + made by fire to Yahweh.'" +023:026 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +023:027 "However on the tenth day of this seventh month is the day + of atonement: it shall be a holy convocation to you, and you + shall afflict yourselves; and you shall offer an offering + made by fire to Yahweh. +023:028 You shall do no manner of work in that same day; for it is a day + of atonement, to make atonement for you before Yahweh your God. +023:029 For whoever it is who shall not deny himself in that same day; + shall be cut off from his people. +023:030 Whoever it is who does any manner of work in that same day, + that person I will destroy from among his people. +023:031 You shall do no manner of work: it is a statute forever + throughout your generations in all your dwellings. +023:032 It shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for you, and you shall + deny yourselves. In the ninth day of the month at evening, + from evening to evening, you shall keep your Sabbath." +023:033 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +023:034 "Speak to the children of Israel, and say, 'On the fifteenth + day of this seventh month is the feast of tents for seven + days to Yahweh. +023:035 On the first day shall be a holy convocation: you shall + do no regular work. +023:036 Seven days you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh. + On the eighth day shall be a holy convocation to you; + and you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh. + It is a solemn assembly; you shall do no regular work. +023:037 "'These are the appointed feasts of Yahweh, which you shall + proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made + by fire to Yahweh, a burnt offering, and a meal offering, + a sacrifice, and drink offerings, each on its own day; +023:038 besides the Sabbaths of Yahweh, and besides your gifts, + and besides all your vows, and besides all your freewill offerings, + which you give to Yahweh. +023:039 "'So on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have + gathered in the fruits of the land, you shall keep the feast + of Yahweh seven days: on the first day shall be a solemn rest, + and on the eighth day shall be a solemn rest. +023:040 You shall take on the first day the fruit of goodly trees, + branches of palm trees, and boughs of thick trees, + and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before Yahweh + your God seven days. +023:041 You shall keep it a feast to Yahweh seven days in the year: + it is a statute forever throughout your generations; + you shall keep it in the seventh month. +023:042 You shall dwell in booths seven days. All who are native-born + in Israel shall dwell in booths, +023:043 that your generations may know that I made the children of Israel + to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. + I am Yahweh your God.'" +023:044 Moses declared to the children of Israel the appointed + feasts of Yahweh. +024:001 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +024:002 "Command the children of Israel, that they bring to you pure olive + oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually. +024:003 Outside of the veil of the Testimony, in the Tent of Meeting, + shall Aaron keep it in order from evening to morning + before Yahweh continually: it shall be a statute forever + throughout your generations. +024:004 He shall keep in order the lamps on the pure gold lampstand + before Yahweh continually. +024:005 "You shall take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes of it: + two tenth parts of an ephah shall be in one cake. +024:006 You shall set them in two rows, six on a row, on the pure gold + table before Yahweh. +024:007 You shall put pure frankincense on each row, that it may + be to the bread for a memorial, even an offering made + by fire to Yahweh. +024:008 Every Sabbath day he shall set it in order before + Yahweh continually. It is on the behalf of the children + of Israel an everlasting covenant. +024:009 It shall be for Aaron and his sons; and they shall eat it + in a holy place: for it is most holy to him of the offerings + of Yahweh made by fire by a perpetual statute." +024:010 The son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, + went out among the children of Israel; and the son of the Israelite + woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp. +024:011 The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name, and cursed; + and they brought him to Moses. His mother's name was Shelomith, + the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan. +024:012 They put him in custody, until the will of Yahweh should be + declared to them. +024:013 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +024:014 "Bring out of the camp him who cursed; and let all who heard him lay + their hands on his head, and let all the congregation stone him. +024:015 You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'Whoever curses + his God shall bear his sin. +024:016 He who blasphemes the name of Yahweh, he shall surely be put + to death; all the congregation shall certainly stone him: + the foreigner as well as the native-born, when he blasphemes + the Name, shall be put to death. +024:017 "'He who strikes any man mortally shall surely be put to death. +024:018 He who strikes an animal mortally shall make it good, + life for life. +024:019 If anyone injures his neighbor; as he has done, so shall it + be done to him: +024:020 fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; + as he has injured someone, so shall it be done to him. +024:021 He who kills an animal shall make it good; and he who kills + a man shall be put to death. +024:022 You shall have one kind of law, for the foreigner as well + as the native-born: for I am Yahweh your God.'" +024:023 Moses spoke to the children of Israel; and they brought forth him + who had cursed out of the camp, and stoned him with stones. + The children of Israel did as Yahweh commanded Moses. +025:001 Yahweh said to Moses in Mount Sinai, +025:002 "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, 'When you + come into the land which I give you, then the land shall keep + a Sabbath to Yahweh. +025:003 Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall + prune your vineyard, and gather in its fruits; +025:004 but in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn + rest for the land, a Sabbath to Yahweh. You shall not sow + your field or prune your vineyard. +025:005 What grows of itself in your harvest you shall not reap, + and the grapes of your undressed vine you shall not gather. + It shall be a year of solemn rest for the land. +025:006 The Sabbath of the land shall be for food for you; for yourself, + for your servant, for your maid, for your hired servant, + and for your stranger, who lives as a foreigner with you. +025:007 For your livestock also, and for the animals that are in your land, + shall all the increase of it be for food. +025:008 "'You shall count off seven Sabbaths of years, seven times + seven years; and there shall be to you the days of seven + Sabbaths of years, even forty-nine years. +025:009 Then you shall sound the loud trumpet on the tenth day of + the seventh month. On the Day of Atonement you shall sound + the trumpet throughout all your land. +025:010 You shall make the fiftieth year holy, and proclaim liberty + throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee + to you; and each of you shall return to his own property, + and each of you shall return to his family. +025:011 That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee to you. In it you + shall not sow, neither reap that which grows of itself, + nor gather from the undressed vines. +025:012 For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You shall eat + of its increase out of the field. +025:013 "'In this Year of Jubilee each of you shall return to his property. +025:014 "'If you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy from your neighbor, + you shall not wrong one another. +025:015 According to the number of years after the Jubilee you shall + buy from your neighbor. According to the number of years + of the crops he shall sell to you. +025:016 According to the length of the years you shall increase the price + of it, and according to the shortness of the years you shall + diminish the price of it; for he is selling the number + of the crops to you. +025:017 You shall not wrong one another; but you shall fear your God: + for I am Yahweh your God. +025:018 "'Therefore you shall do my statutes, and keep my ordinances + and do them; and you shall dwell in the land in safety. +025:019 The land shall yield its fruit, and you shall eat your fill, + and dwell therein in safety. +025:020 If you said, "What shall we eat the seventh year? + Behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase;" +025:021 then I will command my blessing on you in the sixth year, + and it shall bring forth fruit for the three years. +025:022 You shall sow the eighth year, and eat of the fruits, + the old store; until the ninth year, until its fruits come in, + you shall eat the old store. +025:023 "'The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; + for you are strangers and live as foreigners with me. +025:024 In all the land of your possession you shall grant a redemption + for the land. +025:025 "'If your brother becomes poor, and sells some of his possessions, + then his kinsman who is next to him shall come, and redeem + that which his brother has sold. +025:026 If a man has no one to redeem it, and he becomes prosperous + and finds sufficient means to redeem it; +025:027 then let him reckon the years since the sale of it, + and restore the surplus to the man to whom he sold it; + and he shall return to his property. +025:028 But if he isn't able to get it back for himself, then what he has + sold shall remain in the hand of him who has bought it until + the Year of Jubilee: and in the Jubilee it shall be released, + and he shall return to his property. +025:029 "'If a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may + redeem it within a whole year after it has been sold. + For a full year he shall have the right of redemption. +025:030 If it isn't redeemed within the space of a full year, + then the house that is in the walled city shall be made sure + in perpetuity to him who bought it, throughout his generations. + It shall not be released in the Jubilee. +025:031 But the houses of the villages which have no wall round + about them shall be reckoned with the fields of the country: + they may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the Jubilee. +025:032 "'Nevertheless the cities of the Levites, the houses in the cities + of their possession, the Levites may redeem at any time. +025:033 The Levites may redeem the house that was sold, and the city + of his possession, and it shall be released in the Jubilee; + for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession + among the children of Israel. +025:034 But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold; + for it is their perpetual possession. +025:035 "'If your brother has become poor, and his hand can't + support him among you; then you shall uphold him. + As a stranger and a sojourner he shall live with you. +025:036 Take no interest from him or profit, but fear your God; + that your brother may live among you. +025:037 You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him + your food for profit. +025:038 I am Yahweh your God, who brought you forth out of the land + of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God. +025:039 "'If your brother has grown poor among you, and sells himself + to you; you shall not make him to serve as a slave. +025:040 As a hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with you; + he shall serve with you until the Year of Jubilee: +025:041 then he shall go out from you, he and his children with him, + and shall return to his own family, and to the possession + of his fathers. +025:042 For they are my servants, whom I brought forth out of the land + of Egypt. They shall not be sold as slaves. +025:043 You shall not rule over him with harshness, but shall + fear your God. +025:044 "'As for your male and your female slaves, whom you may have; + of the nations that are around you, from them you may buy + male and female slaves. +025:045 Moreover of the children of the strangers who sojourn among you, + of them you may buy, and of their families who are with you, + which they have conceived in your land; and they will + be your property. +025:046 You may make them an inheritance for your children after you, + to hold for a possession; of them may you take your slaves forever: + but over your brothers the children of Israel you shall not rule, + one over another, with harshness. +025:047 "'If a stranger or sojourner with you becomes rich, + and your brother beside him has grown poor, and sells himself + to the stranger or foreigner living among you, or to a member + of the stranger's family; +025:048 after he is sold he may be redeemed. One of his brothers + may redeem him; +025:049 or his uncle, or his uncle's son, may redeem him, or any + who is a close relative to him of his family may redeem him; + or if he has grown rich, he may redeem himself. +025:050 He shall reckon with him who bought him from the year + that he sold himself to him to the Year of Jubilee: + and the price of his sale shall be according to the number + of years; according to the time of a hired servant shall + he be with him. +025:051 If there are yet many years, according to them he shall + give back the price of his redemption out of the money + that he was bought for. +025:052 If there remain but a few years to the year of jubilee, + then he shall reckon with him; according to his years of service + he shall give back the price of his redemption. +025:053 As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him: + he shall not rule with harshness over him in your sight. +025:054 If he isn't redeemed by these means, then he shall be released + in the Year of Jubilee, he, and his children with him. +025:055 For to me the children of Israel are servants; they are my + servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt. + I am Yahweh your God. +026:001 "'You shall make for yourselves no idols, neither shall you + raise up an engraved image or a pillar, neither shall you + place any figured stone in your land, to bow down to it: + for I am Yahweh your God. +026:002 "'You shall keep my Sabbaths, and have reverence for my sanctuary. + I am Yahweh. +026:003 "'If you walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, + and do them; +026:004 then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land + shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall + yield their fruit. +026:005 Your threshing shall reach to the vintage, and the vintage + shall reach to the sowing time; and you shall eat your bread + to the full, and dwell in your land safely. +026:006 "'I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, + and no one will make you afraid; and I will remove evil animals + out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land. +026:007 You shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you + by the sword. +026:008 Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall + chase ten thousand; and your enemies shall fall before you + by the sword. +026:009 "'I will have respect for you, and make you fruitful, + and multiply you, and will establish my covenant with you. +026:010 You shall eat old store long kept, and you shall move out + the old because of the new. +026:011 I will set my tent among you: and my soul won't abhor you. +026:012 I will walk among you, and will be your God, and you will + be my people. +026:013 I am Yahweh your God, who brought you forth out of the land + of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves; and I have + broken the bars of your yoke, and made you go upright. +026:014 "'But if you will not listen to me, and will not do + all these commandments; +026:015 and if you shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhors + my ordinances, so that you will not do all my commandments, + but break my covenant; +026:016 I also will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you, + even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, + and make the soul to pine away; and you will sow your seed + in vain, for your enemies will eat it. +026:017 I will set my face against you, and you will be struck + before your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you; + and you will flee when no one pursues you. +026:018 "'If you in spite of these things will not listen to me, + then I will chastise you seven times more for your sins. +026:019 I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your sky + like iron, and your soil like brass; +026:020 and your strength will be spent in vain; for your land won't + yield its increase, neither will the trees of the land + yield their fruit. +026:021 "'If you walk contrary to me, and won't listen to me, + then I will bring seven times more plagues on you according + to your sins. +026:022 I will send the wild animals among you, which will rob you + of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few + in number; and your roads will become desolate. +026:023 "'If by these things you won't be reformed to me, but will walk + contrary to me; +026:024 then I will also walk contrary to you; and I will strike you, + even I, seven times for your sins. +026:025 I will bring a sword upon you, that will execute the vengeance + of the covenant; and you will be gathered together within + your cities: and I will send the pestilence among you; + and you will be delivered into the hand of the enemy. +026:026 When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread + in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight: + and you shall eat, and not be satisfied. +026:027 "'If you in spite of this won't listen to me, but walk + contrary to me; +026:028 then I will walk contrary to you in wrath; and I also will + chastise you seven times for your sins. +026:029 You will eat the flesh of your sons, and you will eat the flesh + of your daughters. +026:030 I will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, + and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; + and my soul will abhor you. +026:031 I will lay your cities waste, and will bring your sanctuaries + to desolation, and I will not take delight in the sweet + fragrance of your offerings. +026:032 I will bring the land into desolation; and your enemies + that dwell therein will be astonished at it. +026:033 I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw out + the sword after you: and your land will be a desolation, + and your cities shall be a waste. +026:034 Then the land will enjoy its sabbaths as long as it lies + desolate and you are in your enemies' land. Even then the land + will rest and enjoy its sabbaths. +026:035 As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, even the rest + which it didn't have in your sabbaths, when you lived on it. +026:036 "'As for those of you who are left, I will send a faintness + into their hearts in the lands of their enemies: + and the sound of a driven leaf will put them to flight; + and they shall flee, as one flees from the sword; and they + will fall when no one pursues. +026:037 They will stumble over one another, as it were before the sword, + when no one pursues: and you will have no power to stand + before your enemies. +026:038 You will perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies + will eat you up. +026:039 Those of you who are left will pine away in their iniquity + in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their + fathers shall they pine away with them. +026:040 "'If they confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, + in their trespass which they trespassed against me, and also that, + because they walked contrary to me, +026:041 I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land + of their enemies: if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, + and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity; +026:042 then I will remember my covenant with Jacob; and also my + covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham; + and I will remember the land. +026:043 The land also will be left by them, and will enjoy its sabbaths + while it lies desolate without them: and they will accept + the punishment of their iniquity; because, even because they + rejected my ordinances, and their soul abhorred my statutes. +026:044 Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, + I will not reject them, neither will I abhor them, + to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them; + for I am Yahweh their God; +026:045 but I will for their sake remember the covenant of their + ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt + in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God. + I am Yahweh.'" +026:046 These are the statutes, ordinances and laws, which Yahweh made + between him and the children of Israel in Mount Sinai by Moses. +027:001 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +027:002 "Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, 'When a man + makes a vow, the persons shall be for Yahweh by your valuation. +027:003 Your valuation shall be of a male from twenty years old even + to sixty years old, even your valuation shall be fifty shekels + of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary. +027:004 If it is a female, then your valuation shall be thirty shekels. +027:005 If the person is from five years old even to twenty years old, + then your valuation shall be for a male twenty shekels, + and for a female ten shekels. +027:006 If the person is from a month old even to five years old, + then your valuation shall be for a male five shekels of silver, + and for a female your valuation shall be three shekels of silver. +027:007 If the person is from sixty years old and upward; if it + is a male, then your valuation shall be fifteen shekels, + and for a female ten shekels. +027:008 But if he is poorer than your valuation, then he shall be set + before the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to + the ability of him who vowed shall the priest value him. +027:009 "'If it is an animal, of which men offer an offering to Yahweh, + all that any man gives of such to Yahweh becomes holy. +027:010 He shall not alter it, nor change it, a good for a bad, or a bad + for a good: and if he shall at all change animal for animal, + then both it and that for which it is changed shall be holy. +027:011 If it is any unclean animal, of which they do not offer + as an offering to Yahweh, then he shall set the animal + before the priest; +027:012 and the priest shall value it, whether it is good or bad. + As you the priest values it, so shall it be. +027:013 But if he will indeed redeem it, then he shall add the fifth + part of it to its valuation. +027:014 "'When a man dedicates his house to be holy to Yahweh, + then the priest shall evaluate it, whether it is good or bad: + as the priest shall evaluate it, so shall it stand. +027:015 If he who dedicates it will redeem his house, then he shall + add the fifth part of the money of your valuation to it, + and it shall be his. +027:016 "'If a man dedicates to Yahweh part of the field of his possession, + then your valuation shall be according to the seed for it: + the sowing of a homer of barley shall be valued at fifty + shekels of silver. +027:017 If he dedicates his field from the Year of Jubilee, + according to your valuation it shall stand. +027:018 But if he dedicates his field after the Jubilee, then the priest + shall reckon to him the money according to the years that + remain to the Year of Jubilee; and an abatement shall be made + from your valuation. +027:019 If he who dedicated the field will indeed redeem it, then he shall + add the fifth part of the money of your valuation to it, + and it shall remain his. +027:020 If he will not redeem the field, or if he has sold the field + to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more; +027:021 but the field, when it goes out in the Jubilee, shall be holy + to Yahweh, as a field devoted; it shall be owned by the priests. +027:022 "'If he dedicates to Yahweh a field which he has bought, + which is not of the field of his possession, +027:023 then the priest shall reckon to him the worth of your valuation + up to the Year of Jubilee; and he shall give your valuation + on that day, as a holy thing to Yahweh. +027:024 In the Year of Jubilee the field shall return to him from + whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession + of the land belongs. +027:025 All your valuations shall be according to the shekel of + the sanctuary: twenty gerahs to the shekel. +027:026 "'Only the firstborn among animals, which is made a firstborn + to Yahweh, no man may dedicate it; whether an ox or sheep, + it is Yahweh's. +027:027 If it is an unclean animal, then he shall buy it back according + to your valuation, and shall add to it the fifth part of it: + or if it isn't redeemed, then it shall be sold according + to your valuation. +027:028 "'Notwithstanding, no devoted thing, that a man shall devote + to Yahweh of all that he has, whether of man or animal, + or of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: + every devoted thing is most holy to Yahweh. +027:029 "'No one devoted, who shall be devoted from among men, + shall be ransomed; he shall surely be put to death. +027:030 "'All the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land + or of the fruit of the trees, is Yahweh's. It is holy to Yahweh. +027:031 If a man redeems anything of his tithe, he shall add a fifth + part to it. +027:032 All the tithe of the herds or the flocks, whatever passes + under the rod, the tenth shall be holy to Yahweh. +027:033 He shall not search whether it is good or bad, + neither shall he change it: and if he changes it at all, + then both it and that for which it is changed shall be holy. + It shall not be redeemed.'" +027:034 These are the commandments which Yahweh commanded Moses + for the children of Israel on Mount Sinai. +Book 04 Numbers +001:001 Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the Tent + of Meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second + year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying, +001:002 "Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, + by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to + the number of the names, every male, one by one; +001:003 from twenty years old and upward, all who are able to go + out to war in Israel. You and Aaron shall number them + by their divisions. +001:004 With you there shall be a man of every tribe; everyone head + of his fathers' house. +001:005 These are the names of the men who shall stand with you: + Of Reuben: Elizur the son of Shedeur. +001:006 Of Simeon: Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai. +001:007 Of Judah: Nahshon the son of Amminadab. +001:008 Of Issachar: Nethanel the son of Zuar. +001:009 Of Zebulun: Eliab the son of Helon. +001:010 Of the children of Joseph: Of Ephraim: Elishama the son of Ammihud. + Of Manasseh: Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur. +001:011 Of Benjamin: Abidan the son of Gideoni. +001:012 Of Dan: Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai. +001:013 Of Asher: Pagiel the son of Ochran. +001:014 Of Gad: Eliasaph the son of Deuel. +001:015 Of Naphtali: Ahira the son of Enan." +001:016 These are those who were called of the congregation, + the princes of the tribes of their fathers; they were the heads + of the thousands of Israel. +001:017 Moses and Aaron took these men who are mentioned by name. +001:018 They assembled all the congregation together on the first + day of the second month; and they declared their ancestry + by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to + the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, + one by one. +001:019 As Yahweh commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the + wilderness of Sinai. +001:020 The children of Reuben, Israel's firstborn, their generations, + by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to + the number of the names, one by one, every male from twenty + years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war; +001:021 those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Reuben, + were forty-six thousand five hundred. +001:022 Of the children of Simeon, their generations, by their families, + by their fathers' houses, those who were numbered of it, + according to the number of the names, one by one, every male + from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go + out to war; +001:023 those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Simeon, + were fifty-nine thousand three hundred. +001:024 Of the children of Gad, their generations, by their families, + by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, + from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go + out to war; +001:025 those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Gad, + were forty-five thousand six hundred fifty. +001:026 Of the children of Judah, their generations, by their families, + by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, + from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go + out to war; +001:027 those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Judah, + were sixty-four thousand six hundred. +001:028 Of the children of Issachar, their generations, by their families, + by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, + from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go + out to war; +001:029 those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Issachar, + were fifty-four thousand four hundred. +001:030 Of the children of Zebulun, their generations, by their families, + by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, + from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go + out to war; +001:031 those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Zebulun, + were fifty-seven thousand four hundred. +001:032 Of the children of Joseph, of the children of Ephraim, + their generations, by their families, by their fathers' + houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty + years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war; +001:033 those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Ephraim, + were forty thousand five hundred. +001:034 Of the children of Manasseh, their generations, by their families, + by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, + from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go + out to war; +001:035 those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Manasseh, + were thirty-two thousand two hundred. +001:036 Of the children of Benjamin, their generations, by their families, + by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, + from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go + out to war; +001:037 those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Benjamin, + were thirty-five thousand four hundred. +001:038 Of the children of Dan, their generations, by their families, + by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, + from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go + forth to war; +001:039 those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Dan, + were sixty-two thousand seven hundred. +001:040 Of the children of Asher, their generations, by their families, + by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, + from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go + forth to war; +001:041 those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Asher, + were forty-one thousand five hundred. +001:042 Of the children of Naphtali, their generations, by their families, + by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, + from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go + forth to war; +001:043 those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Naphtali, + were fifty-three thousand four hundred. +001:044 These are those who were numbered, whom Moses and Aaron + numbered, and the princes of Israel, being twelve men: + they were each one for his fathers' house. +001:045 So all those who were numbered of the children of Israel + by their fathers' houses, from twenty years old and upward, + all who were able to go out to war in Israel; +001:046 even all those who were numbered were six hundred three thousand + five hundred fifty. +001:047 But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not + numbered among them. +001:048 For Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +001:049 "Only the tribe of Levi you shall not number, neither shall + you take a census of them among the children of Israel; +001:050 but appoint the Levites over the Tabernacle of the Testimony, + and over all its furnishings, and over all that belongs to it. + They shall carry the tabernacle, and all its furnishings; + and they shall take care of it, and shall encamp around it. +001:051 When the tabernacle is to move, the Levites shall take it down; + and when the tabernacle is to be set up, the Levites shall set + it up. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death. +001:052 The children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man + by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, + according to their divisions. +001:053 But the Levites shall encamp around the Tabernacle of the Testimony, + that there may be no wrath on the congregation of the children + of Israel: and the Levites shall be responsible for the Tabernacle + of the Testimony." +001:054 Thus the children of Israel did. According to all that Yahweh + commanded Moses, so they did. +002:001 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, +002:002 "The children of Israel shall encamp every man by his own standard, + with the banners of their fathers' houses: at a distance + from the tent of meeting shall they encamp around it." +002:003 Those who encamp on the east side toward the sunrise shall be of + the standard of the camp of Judah, according to their divisions: + and the prince of the children of Judah shall be Nahshon + the son of Amminadab. +002:004 His division, and those who were numbered of them, + were seventy-four thousand six hundred. +002:005 Those who encamp next to him shall be the tribe of Issachar: + and the prince of the children of Issachar shall be Nethanel + the son of Zuar. +002:006 His division, and those who were numbered of it, were fifty-four + thousand four hundred. +002:007 The tribe of Zebulun: and the prince of the children of Zebulun + shall be Eliab the son of Helon. +002:008 His division, and those who were numbered of it, were fifty-seven + thousand four hundred. +002:009 All who were numbered of the camp of Judah were one hundred + eighty-six thousand four hundred, according to their divisions. + They shall set out first. +002:010 "On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben + according to their divisions. The prince of the children + of Reuben shall be Elizur the son of Shedeur. +002:011 His division, and those who were numbered of it, were forty-six + thousand five hundred. +002:012 "Those who encamp next to him shall be the tribe of Simeon. + The prince of the children of Simeon shall be Shelumiel + the son of Zurishaddai. +002:013 His division, and those who were numbered of them, were fifty-nine + thousand three hundred. +002:014 "The tribe of Gad: and the prince of the children of Gad + shall be Eliasaph the son of Reuel. +002:015 His division, and those who were numbered of them, were forty-five + thousand six hundred fifty. +002:016 "All who were numbered of the camp of Reuben were one hundred + fifty-one thousand four hundred fifty, according to their armies. + They shall set out second. +002:017 "Then the tent of meeting shall set out, with the camp + of the Levites in the midst of the camps. As they encamp, + so shall they set out, every man in his place, by their standards. +002:018 "On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim + according to their divisions: and the prince of the children + of Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud. +002:019 His division, and those who were numbered of them, were forty + thousand five hundred. +002:020 "Next to him shall be the tribe of Manasseh: and the prince + of the children of Manasseh shall be Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur. +002:021 His division, and those who were numbered of them, were thirty-two + thousand two hundred. +002:022 "The tribe of Benjamin: and the prince of the children + of Benjamin shall be Abidan the son of Gideoni. +002:023 His army, and those who were numbered of them, were thirty-five + thousand four hundred. +002:024 "All who were numbered of the camp of Ephraim were one hundred + eight thousand one hundred, according to their divisions. + They shall set out third. +002:025 "On the north side shall be the standard of the camp of Dan + according to their divisions: and the prince of the children + of Dan shall be Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai. +002:026 His division, and those who were numbered of them, were sixty-two + thousand seven hundred. +002:027 "Those who encamp next to him shall be the tribe of Asher: + and the prince of the children of Asher shall be Pagiel + the son of Ochran. +002:028 His division, and those who were numbered of them, were forty-one + thousand and five hundred. +002:029 "The tribe of Naphtali: and the prince of the children + of Naphtali shall be Ahira the son of Enan. +002:030 His division, and those who were numbered of them, were fifty-three + thousand four hundred. +002:031 "All who were numbered of the camp of Dan were one hundred + fifty-seven thousand six hundred. They shall set out last + by their standards." +002:032 These are those who were numbered of the children of Israel + by their fathers' houses. All who were numbered of the camps + according to their armies were six hundred three thousand + five hundred fifty. +002:033 But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel; + as Yahweh commanded Moses. +002:034 Thus the children of Israel did. According to all that Yahweh + commanded Moses, so they encamped by their standards, + and so they set out, everyone by their families, according to + their fathers' houses. +003:001 Now this is the history of the generations of Aaron and Moses + in the day that Yahweh spoke with Moses in Mount Sinai. +003:002 These are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the firstborn, + and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. +003:003 These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests + who were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in + the priest's office. +003:004 Nadab and Abihu died before Yahweh, when they offered strange + fire before Yahweh, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had + no children. Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest's + office in the presence of Aaron their father. +003:005 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +003:006 "Bring the tribe of Levi near, and set them before Aaron + the priest, that they may minister to him. +003:007 They shall keep his charge, and the charge of the whole + congregation before the Tent of Meeting, to do the service + of the tabernacle. +003:008 They shall keep all the furnishings of the Tent of Meeting, + and the obligations of the children of Israel, to do the service + of the tabernacle. +003:009 You shall give the Levites to Aaron and to his sons. They are + wholly given to him on the behalf of the children of Israel. +003:010 You shall appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall keep + their priesthood. The stranger who comes near shall be + put to death." +003:011 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +003:012 "Behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children + of Israel instead of all the firstborn who open the womb among + the children of Israel; and the Levites shall be mine: +003:013 for all the firstborn are mine. On the day that I struck + down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I made holy + to me all the firstborn in Israel, both man and animal. + They shall be mine. I am Yahweh." +003:014 Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying, +003:015 "Number the children of Levi by their fathers' houses, + by their families: every male from a month old and upward + shall you number." +003:016 Moses numbered them according to the word of Yahweh, + as he was commanded. +003:017 These were the sons of Levi by their names: Gershon, and Kohath, + and Merari. +003:018 These are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families: + Libni and Shimei. +003:019 The sons of Kohath by their families: Amram, and Izhar, Hebron, + and Uzziel. +003:020 The sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. + These are the families of the Levites according to + their fathers' houses. +003:021 Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites, and the family + of the Shimeites: these are the families of the Gershonites. +003:022 Those who were numbered of them, according to the number of all + the males, from a month old and upward, even those who were + numbered of them were seven thousand five hundred. +003:023 The families of the Gershonites shall encamp behind + the tabernacle westward. +003:024 The prince of the fathers' house of the Gershonites shall + be Eliasaph the son of Lael. +003:025 The charge of the sons of Gershon in the Tent of Meeting shall + be the tabernacle, and the tent, its covering, and the screen + for the door of the Tent of Meeting, +003:026 and the hangings of the court, and the screen for the door + of the court, which is by the tabernacle, and around the altar, + and its cords for all of its service. +003:027 Of Kohath was the family of the Amramites, and the family + of the Izharites, and the family of the Hebronites, + and the family of the Uzzielites: these are the families + of the Kohathites. +003:028 According to the number of all the males, from a month + old and upward, there were eight thousand six hundred, + keeping the charge of the sanctuary. +003:029 The families of the sons of Kohath shall encamp on the south + side of the tabernacle. +003:030 The prince of the fathers' house of the families of the Kohathites + shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel. +003:031 Their charge shall be the ark, the table, the lamp stand, + the altars, the vessels of the sanctuary with which they minister, + and the screen, and all its service. +003:032 Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be prince of the princes + of the Levites, with the oversight of those who keep the charge + of the sanctuary. +003:033 Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites, and the family + of the Mushites. These are the families of Merari. +003:034 Those who were numbered of them, according to the number + of all the males, from a month old and upward, were six + thousand two hundred. +003:035 The prince of the fathers' house of the families of Merari + was Zuriel the son of Abihail. They shall encamp on the north + side of the tabernacle. +003:036 The appointed charge of the sons of Merari shall be the + tabernacle's boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets, + all its instruments, all its service, +003:037 the pillars of the court around it, their sockets, their pins, + and their cords. +003:038 Those who encamp before the tabernacle eastward, + in front of the Tent of Meeting toward the sunrise, + shall be Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the charge + of the sanctuary for the charge of the children of Israel. + The stranger who comes near shall be put to death. +003:039 All who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered + at the commandment of Yahweh, by their families, all the males + from a month old and upward, were twenty-two thousand. +003:040 Yahweh said to Moses, "Number all the firstborn males + of the children of Israel from a month old and upward, + and take the number of their names. +003:041 You shall take the Levites for me (I am Yahweh) + instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel; + and the livestock of the Levites instead of all the firstborn + among the livestock of the children of Israel." +003:042 Moses numbered, as Yahweh commanded him, all the firstborn + among the children of Israel. +003:043 All the firstborn males according to the number of names, + from a month old and upward, of those who were numbered of them, + were twenty-two thousand two hundred seventy-three. +003:044 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +003:045 "Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among + the children of Israel, and the livestock of the Levites + instead of their livestock; and the Levites shall be mine. + I am Yahweh. +003:046 For the redemption of the two hundred seventy-three of the + firstborn of the children of Israel, who exceed the number + of the Levites, +003:047 you shall take five shekels apiece for each one; + after the shekel of the sanctuary you shall take them + (the shekel is twenty gerahs): +003:048 and you shall give the money, with which the remainder of them + is redeemed, to Aaron and to his sons." +003:049 Moses took the redemption money from those who exceeded + the number of those who were redeemed by the Levites; +003:050 from the firstborn of the children of Israel he took the money, + one thousand three hundred sixty-five shekels, after the shekel + of the sanctuary: +003:051 and Moses gave the redemption money to Aaron and to his sons, + according to the word of Yahweh, as Yahweh commanded Moses. +004:001 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, +004:002 "Take a census of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, + by their families, by their fathers' houses, +004:003 from thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, + all who enter into the service, to do the work in the + Tent of Meeting. +004:004 This is the service of the sons of Kohath in the Tent of Meeting, + the most holy things. +004:005 When the camp moves 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, +004:006 and shall put a covering of sealskin on it, and shall spread + over it a cloth all of blue, and shall put in its poles. +004:007 On the table of show bread they shall spread a blue cloth, + and put on it the dishes, the spoons, the bowls, and the cups + with which to pour out; and the continual bread shall be on it. +004:008 They shall spread on them a scarlet cloth, and cover the same + with a covering of sealskin, and shall put in its poles. +004:009 They shall take a blue cloth, and cover the lampstand of the light, + and its lamps, and its snuffers, and its snuff dishes, + and all its oil vessels, with which they minister to it. +004:010 They shall put it and all its vessels within a covering of sealskin, + and shall put it on the frame. +004:011 On the golden altar they shall spread a blue cloth, and cover + it with a covering of sealskin, and shall put in its poles. +004:012 They shall take all the vessels of ministry, with which they + minister in the sanctuary, and put them in a blue cloth, + and cover them with a covering of sealskin, and shall put + them on the frame. +004:013 They shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread + a purple cloth on it. +004:014 They shall put on it all its vessels, with which they minister + about it, the fire pans, the flesh hooks, the shovels, + and the basins; all the vessels of the altar; and they shall + spread on it a covering of sealskin, and put in its poles. +004:015 "When Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary, + and all the furniture of the sanctuary, as the camp moves forward; + after that, the sons of Kohath shall come to carry it: + but they shall not touch the sanctuary, lest they die. + These things are the burden of the sons of Kohath in the + Tent of Meeting. +004:016 "The charge of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be the oil + for the light, the sweet incense, the continual meal offering, + and the anointing oil, the charge of all the tabernacle, + and of all that is in it, the sanctuary, and its furnishings." +004:017 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, +004:018 "Don't cut off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites + from among the Levites; +004:019 but thus do to them, that they may live, and not die, when they + approach to the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in, + and appoint them everyone to his service and to his burden; +004:020 but they shall not go in to see the sanctuary even for a moment, + lest they die." +004:021 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +004:022 "Take a census of the sons of Gershon also, by their fathers' + houses, by their families; +004:023 from thirty years old and upward until fifty years old shall + you number them; all who enter in to wait on the service, + to do the work in the Tent of Meeting. +004:024 This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, + in serving and in bearing burdens: +004:025 they shall carry the curtains of the tabernacle, and the Tent + of Meeting, its covering, and the covering of sealskin that is + above on it, and the screen for the door of the Tent of Meeting, +004:026 and the hangings of the court, and the screen for the door + of the gate of the court, which is by the tabernacle and + around the altar, and their cords, and all the instruments + of their service, and whatever shall be done with them. + Therein shall they serve. +004:027 At the commandment of Aaron and his sons shall be all the + service of the sons of the Gershonites, in all their burden, + and in all their service; and you shall appoint to them + in charge all their burden. +004:028 This is the service of the families of the sons of the Gershonites + in the Tent of Meeting: and their charge shall be under + the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest. +004:029 "As for the sons of Merari, you shall number them by their families, + by their fathers' houses; +004:030 from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old + shall you number them, everyone who enters on the service, + to do the work of the Tent of Meeting. +004:031 This is the charge of their burden, according to all their + service in the Tent of Meeting: the tabernacle's boards, + its bars, its pillars, its sockets, +004:032 and the pillars of the court around it, and their sockets, + and their pins, and their cords, with all their instruments, + and with all their service: and by name you shall appoint + the instruments of the charge of their burden. +004:033 This is the service of the families of the sons of Merari, + according to all their service, in the Tent of Meeting, + under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest." +004:034 Moses and Aaron and the princes of the congregation + numbered the sons of the Kohathites by their families, + and by their fathers' houses, +004:035 from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, + everyone who entered into the service, for work in the + Tent of Meeting. +004:036 Those who were numbered of them by their families were two + thousand seven hundred fifty. +004:037 These are those who were numbered of the families of the Kohathites, + all who served in the Tent of Meeting, whom Moses and Aaron + numbered according to the commandment of Yahweh by Moses. +004:038 Those who were numbered of the sons of Gershon, their families, + and by their fathers' houses, +004:039 from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, + everyone who entered into the service, for work in the + Tent of Meeting, +004:040 even those who were numbered of them, by their families, + by their fathers' houses, were two thousand six hundred thirty. +004:041 These are those who were numbered of the families of the sons + of Gershon, all who served in the Tent of Meeting, whom Moses + and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of Yahweh. +004:042 Those who were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, + by their families, by their fathers' houses, +004:043 from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, + everyone who entered into the service, for work in the + Tent of Meeting, +004:044 even those who were numbered of them by their families, + were three thousand two hundred. +004:045 These are those who were numbered of the families of the sons + of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the + commandment of Yahweh by Moses. +004:046 All those who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and + Aaron and the princes of Israel numbered, by their families, + and by their fathers' houses, +004:047 from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, + everyone who entered in to do the work of service, and the work + of bearing burdens in the Tent of Meeting, +004:048 even those who were numbered of them, were eight thousand + five hundred eighty. +004:049 According to the commandment of Yahweh they were numbered by Moses, + everyone according to his service, and according to his burden. + Thus were they numbered by him, as Yahweh commanded Moses. +005:001 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +005:002 "Command the children of Israel that they put out of the camp + every leper, and everyone who has an issue, and whoever + is unclean by the dead. +005:003 Both male and female shall you put out, outside of the camp + shall you put them; that they not defile their camp, + in the midst of which I dwell." +005:004 The children of Israel did so, and put them out outside of the camp; + as Yahweh spoke to Moses, so did the children of Israel. +005:005 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +005:006 "Speak to the children of Israel: When a man or woman commits + any sin that men commit, so as to trespass against Yahweh, + and that soul is guilty; +005:007 then he shall confess his sin which he has done, and he shall + make restitution for his guilt in full, and add to it + the fifth part of it, and give it to him in respect of whom + he has been guilty. +005:008 But if the man has no kinsman to whom restitution may be made + for the guilt, the restitution for guilt which is made to Yahweh + shall be the priest's; besides the ram of the atonement, + by which atonement shall be made for him. +005:009 Every heave offering of all the holy things of the children + of Israel, which they present to the priest, shall be his. +005:010 Every man's holy things shall be his: whatever any man gives + the priest, it shall be his." +005:011 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +005:012 "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them: + If any man's wife goes astray, and is unfaithful to him, +005:013 and a man lies with her carnally, and it is hidden from the eyes + of her husband, and is kept close, and she is defiled, + and there is no witness against her, and she isn't taken + in the act; +005:014 and the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous + of his wife, and she is defiled: or if the spirit + of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife, + and she isn't defiled: +005:015 then the man shall bring his wife to the priest, and shall bring + her offering for her: the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal. + He shall pour no oil on it, nor put frankincense on it, for it + is a meal offering of jealousy, a meal offering of memorial, + bringing iniquity to memory. +005:016 The priest shall bring her near, and set her before Yahweh; +005:017 and the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; + and of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle + the priest shall take, and put it into the water. +005:018 The priest shall set the woman before Yahweh, and let the hair + of the woman's head go loose, and put the meal offering of + memorial in her hands, which is the meal offering of jealousy. + The priest shall have in his hand the water of bitterness + that brings a curse. +005:019 The priest shall cause her to swear, and shall tell the woman, + 'If no man has lain with you, and if you haven't gone aside + to uncleanness, being under your husband, be free from this + water of bitterness that brings a curse. +005:020 But if you have gone astray, being under your husband, + and if you are defiled, and some man has lain with you + besides your husband:' +005:021 then the priest shall cause the woman to swear with the oath + of cursing, and the priest shall tell the woman, 'Yahweh make + you a curse and an oath among your people, when Yahweh allows + your thigh to fall away, and your body to swell; +005:022 and this water that brings a curse will go into your bowels, + and make your body swell, and your thigh fall away.' + The woman shall say, 'Amen, Amen.' +005:023 "The priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall + blot them out into the water of bitterness. +005:024 He shall make the woman drink the water of bitterness that causes + the curse; and the water that causes the curse shall enter + into her and become bitter. +005:025 The priest shall take the meal offering of jealousy out of the + woman's hand, and shall wave the meal offering before Yahweh, + and bring it to the altar. +005:026 The priest shall take a handful of the meal offering, + as the memorial of it, and burn it on the altar, and afterward + shall make the woman drink the water. +005:027 When he has made her drink the water, then it shall happen, + if she is defiled, and has committed a trespass against + her husband, that the water that causes the curse will + enter into her and become bitter, and her body will swell, + and her thigh will fall away: and the woman will be a curse + among her people. +005:028 If the woman isn't defiled, but is clean; then she shall be free, + and shall conceive seed. +005:029 "This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband, + goes astray, and is defiled; +005:030 or when the spirit of jealousy comes on a man, and he is jealous + of his wife; then he shall set the woman before Yahweh, + and the priest shall execute on her all this law. +005:031 The man shall be free from iniquity, and that woman shall + bear her iniquity." +006:001 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +006:002 "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them: When either + man or woman shall make a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, + to separate himself to Yahweh, +006:003 he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink. + He shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of fermented drink, + neither shall he drink any juice of grapes, nor eat fresh + grapes or dried. +006:004 All the days of his separation he shall eat nothing that is + made of the grapevine, from the seeds even to the skins. +006:005 "All the days of his vow of separation there shall no + razor come on his head, until the days are fulfilled, + in which he separates himself to Yahweh. He shall be holy. + He shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow long. +006:006 "All the days that he separates himself to Yahweh he shall + not go near a dead body. +006:007 He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for + his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die; + because his separation to God is on his head. +006:008 All the days of his separation he is holy to Yahweh. +006:009 "If any man dies very suddenly beside him, and he defiles the head + of his separation; then he shall shave his head in the day + of his cleansing. On the seventh day he shall shave it. +006:010 On the eighth day he shall bring two turtledoves or two young + pigeons to the priest, to the door of the Tent of Meeting. +006:011 The priest shall offer one for a sin offering, and the other + for a burnt offering, and make atonement for him, because he + sinned by reason of the dead, and shall make his head holy + that same day. +006:012 He shall separate to Yahweh the days of his separation, + and shall bring a male lamb a year old for a trespass offering; + but the former days shall be void, because his separation + was defiled. +006:013 "This is the law of the Nazirite: when the days of his + separation are fulfilled, he shall be brought to the door + of the Tent of Meeting, +006:014 and he shall offer his offering to Yahweh, one male lamb + a year old without blemish for a burnt offering, and one + ewe lamb a year old without blemish for a sin offering, + and one ram without blemish for peace offerings, +006:015 and a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour + mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, + and their meal offering, and their drink offerings. +006:016 The priest shall present them before Yahweh, and shall offer + his sin offering, and his burnt offering. +006:017 He shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings + to Yahweh, with the basket of unleavened bread. The priest + shall offer also its meal offering, and its drink offering. +006:018 The Nazirite shall shave the head of his separation at the door + of the Tent of Meeting, and shall take the hair of the head + of his separation, and put it on the fire which is under + the sacrifice of peace offerings. +006:019 The priest shall take the boiled shoulder of the ram, and one + unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, + and shall put them on the hands of the Nazirite, after he has + shaved the head of his separation; +006:020 and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before Yahweh. + This is holy for the priest, together with the breast that is + waved and the thigh that is offered. After that the Nazirite + may drink wine. +006:021 "This is the law of the Nazirite who vows, and of his offering + to Yahweh for his separation, besides that which he is able to get. + According to his vow which he vows, so he must do after the law + of his separation." +006:022 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +006:023 "Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, 'This is how you + shall bless the children of Israel.' You shall tell them, +006:024 'Yahweh bless you, and keep you. +006:025 Yahweh make his face to shine on you, and be gracious to you. +006:026 Yahweh lift up his face toward you, and give you peace.' +006:027 "So they shall put my name on the children of Israel; + and I will bless them." +007:001 It happened on the day that Moses had finished setting up + the tabernacle, and had anointed it and sanctified it, + with all its furniture, and the altar with all its vessels, + and had anointed and sanctified them; +007:002 that the princes of Israel, the heads of their fathers' + houses, offered. These were the princes of the tribes. + These are they who were over those who were numbered: +007:003 and they brought their offering before Yahweh, six covered wagons, + and twelve oxen; a wagon for every two of the princes, and for + each one an ox: and they presented them before the tabernacle. +007:004 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +007:005 "Accept these from them, that they may be used in doing the service + of the Tent of Meeting; and you shall give them to the Levites, + to every man according to his service." +007:006 Moses took the wagons and the oxen, and gave them to the Levites. +007:007 He gave two wagons and four oxen to the sons of Gershon, + according to their service: +007:008 and he gave four wagons and eight oxen to the sons of Merari, + according to their service, under the direction of Ithamar + the son of Aaron the priest. +007:009 But to the sons of Kohath he gave none, because the service + of the sanctuary belonged to them; they carried it + on their shoulders. +007:010 The princes gave offerings for the dedication of the altar + in the day that it was anointed, even the princes gave their + offerings before the altar. +007:011 Yahweh said to Moses, "They shall offer their offering, + each prince on his day, for the dedication of the altar." +007:012 He who offered his offering the first day was Nahshon the son + of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah, +007:013 and his offering was: one silver platter, the weight of which was + one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, + after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine + flour mixed with oil for a meal offering; +007:014 one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense; +007:015 one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, + for a burnt offering; +007:016 one male goat for a sin offering; +007:017 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, + five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. + This was the offering of Nahshon the son of Amminadab. +007:018 On the second day Nethanel the son of Zuar, prince of Issachar, + gave his offering. +007:019 He offered for his offering: one silver platter, the weight + of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl + of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; + both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering; +007:020 one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense; +007:021 one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, + for a burnt offering; +007:022 one male goat for a sin offering; +007:023 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, + five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old. + This was the offering of Nethanel the son of Zuar. +007:024 On the third day Eliab the son of Helon, prince of the + children of Zebulun +007:025 gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was + a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, + after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine + flour mixed with oil for a meal offering; +007:026 one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense; +007:027 one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, + for a burnt offering; +007:028 one male goat for a sin offering; +007:029 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, + five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. + This was the offering of Eliab the son of Helon. +007:030 On the fourth day Elizur the son of Shedeur, prince of the + children of Reuben +007:031 gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was + one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, + after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine + flour mixed with oil for a meal offering; +007:032 one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense; +007:033 one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, + for a burnt offering; +007:034 one male goat for a sin offering; +007:035 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, + five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. + This was the offering of Elizur the son of Shedeur. +007:036 On the fifth day Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai, prince of + the children of Simeon +007:037 gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was + one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, + after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine + flour mixed with oil for a meal offering; +007:038 one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense; +007:039 one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, + for a burnt offering; +007:040 one male goat for a sin offering; +007:041 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, + five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old: + this was the offering of Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai. +007:042 On the sixth day, Eliasaph the son of Deuel, prince of the + children of Gad +007:043 gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was + one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, + after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine + flour mixed with oil for a meal offering; +007:044 one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense; +007:045 one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, + for a burnt offering; +007:046 one male goat for a sin offering; +007:047 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, + five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. + This was the offering of Eliasaph the son of Deuel. +007:048 On the seventh day Elishama the son of Ammihud, prince of + the children of Ephraim +007:049 gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was + one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, + after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine + flour mixed with oil for a meal offering; +007:050 one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense; +007:051 one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, + for a burnt offering; +007:052 one male goat for a sin offering; +007:053 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, + five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. + This was the offering of Elishama the son of Ammihud. +007:054 On the eighth day Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur, prince of + the children of Manasseh +007:055 gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was + one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, + after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine + flour mixed with oil for a meal offering; +007:056 one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense; +007:057 one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, + for a burnt offering; +007:058 one male goat for a sin offering; +007:059 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, + five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. + This was the offering of Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur. +007:060 On the ninth day Abidan the son of Gideoni, prince of the + children of Benjamin +007:061 gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was + one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, + after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine + flour mixed with oil for a meal offering; +007:062 one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense; +007:063 one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, + for a burnt offering; +007:064 one male goat for a sin offering; +007:065 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, + five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. + This was the offering of Abidan the son of Gideoni. +007:066 On the tenth day Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai, prince of + the children of Dan +007:067 gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was + one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, + after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine + flour mixed with oil for a meal offering; +007:068 one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense; +007:069 one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, + for a burnt offering; +007:070 one male goat for a sin offering; +007:071 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, + five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. + This was the offering of Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai. +007:072 On the eleventh day Pagiel the son of Ochran, prince of + the children of Asher +007:073 gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was + one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, + after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine + flour mixed with oil for a meal offering; +007:074 one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense; +007:075 one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, + for a burnt offering; +007:076 one male goat for a sin offering; +007:077 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, + five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. + This was the offering of Pagiel the son of Ochran. +007:078 On the twelfth day Ahira the son of Enan, prince of the + children of Naphtali +007:079 gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was + one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, + after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine + flour mixed with oil for a meal offering; +007:080 one golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense; +007:081 one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, + for a burnt offering; +007:082 one male goat for a sin offering; +007:083 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, + five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. + This was the offering of Ahira the son of Enan. +007:084 This was the dedication of the altar, on the day when it + was anointed, by the princes of Israel: twelve silver platters, + twelve silver bowls, twelve golden ladles; +007:085 each silver platter weighing one hundred thirty shekels, + and each bowl seventy; all the silver of the vessels two thousand + four hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; +007:086 the twelve golden ladles, full of incense, weighing ten + shekels apiece, after the shekel of the sanctuary; + all the gold of the ladles weighed one hundred twenty shekels; +007:087 all the oxen for the burnt offering twelve bulls, the rams twelve, + the male lambs a year old twelve, and their meal offering; + and the male goats for a sin offering twelve; +007:088 and all the oxen for the sacrifice of peace offerings + twenty-four bulls, the rams sixty, the male goats sixty, + the male lambs a year old sixty. This was the dedication + of the altar, after it was anointed. +007:089 When Moses went into the Tent of Meeting to speak with Yahweh, + he heard his voice speaking to him from above the mercy seat that + was on the ark of the Testimony, from between the two cherubim: + and he spoke to him. +008:001 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +008:002 "Speak to Aaron, and tell him, 'When you light the lamps, + the seven lamps shall give light in front of the lampstand.'" +008:003 Aaron did so. He lit its lamps to light the area in front + of the lampstand, as Yahweh commanded Moses. +008:004 This was the workmanship of the lampstand, beaten work of gold. + From its base to its flowers, it was beaten work: + according to the pattern which Yahweh had shown Moses, + so he made the lampstand. +008:005 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +008:006 "Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, + and cleanse them. +008:007 Thus shall you do to them, to cleanse them: sprinkle the water + of cleansing on them, let them shave their whole bodies with a razor, + and let them wash their clothes, and cleanse themselves. +008:008 Then let them take a young bull, and its meal offering, + fine flour mixed with oil; and another young bull you shall + take for a sin offering. +008:009 You shall present the Levites before the Tent of Meeting. + You shall assemble the whole congregation of the children of Israel. +008:010 You shall present the Levites before Yahweh. The children + of Israel shall lay their hands on the Levites, +008:011 and Aaron shall offer the Levites before Yahweh for a wave offering, + on the behalf of the children of Israel, that it may be theirs + to do the service of Yahweh. +008:012 The Levites shall lay their hands on the heads of the bulls, + and you shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for + a burnt offering to Yahweh, to make atonement for the Levites. +008:013 You shall set the Levites before Aaron, and before his sons, + and offer them as a wave offering to Yahweh. +008:014 Thus you shall separate the Levites from among the children + of Israel, and the Levites shall be mine. +008:015 "After that, the Levites shall go in to do the service of + the Tent of Meeting: and you shall cleanse them, and offer + them as a wave offering. +008:016 For they are wholly given to me from among the children of Israel; + instead of all who open the womb, even the firstborn of all + the children of Israel, I have taken them to me. +008:017 For all the firstborn among the children of Israel are mine, + both man and animal. On the day that I struck all the firstborn + in the land of Egypt, I sanctified them for myself. +008:018 I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn among + the children of Israel. +008:019 I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons + from among the children of Israel, to do the service of + the children of Israel in the Tent of Meeting, and to make + atonement for the children of Israel; that there be no plague + among the children of Israel, when the children of Israel + come near to the sanctuary." +008:020 Thus did Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children + of Israel, to the Levites. According to all that Yahweh + commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so the children + of Israel did to them. +008:021 The Levites purified themselves from sin, and they washed + their clothes; and Aaron offered them for a wave offering + before Yahweh; and Aaron made atonement for them to cleanse them. +008:022 After that, the Levites went in to do their service in + the Tent of Meeting before Aaron, and before his sons: + as Yahweh had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, + so they did to them. +008:023 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +008:024 "This is that which belongs to the Levites: from twenty-five + years old and upward they shall go in to wait on the service + in the work of the Tent of Meeting; +008:025 and from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting + on the work, and shall serve no more, +008:026 but shall minister with their brothers in the Tent + of Meeting, to keep the charge, and shall do no service. + Thus shall you do to the Levites concerning their duties." +009:001 Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first + month of the second year after they had come out of the land + of Egypt, saying, +009:002 "Moreover let the children of Israel keep the Passover + in its appointed season. +009:003 On the fourteenth day of this month, at evening, you shall keep + it in its appointed season--according to all its statutes, + and according to all its ordinances, you shall keep it." +009:004 Moses spoke to the children of Israel, that they should + keep the Passover. +009:005 They kept the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth + day of the month, at evening, in the wilderness of Sinai. + According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so the children + of Israel did. +009:006 There were certain men, who were unclean because of the dead body + of a man, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day, + and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day. +009:007 Those men said to him, "We are unclean because of the dead + body of a man. Why are we kept back, that we may not offer + the offering of Yahweh in its appointed season among + the children of Israel?" +009:008 Moses answered them, "Wait, that I may hear what Yahweh will + command concerning you." +009:009 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +009:010 "Say to the children of Israel, 'If any man of you or of your + generations is unclean by reason of a dead body, or is on a + journey far away, he shall still keep the Passover to Yahweh. +009:011 In the second month, on the fourteenth day at evening they + shall keep it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread + and bitter herbs. +009:012 They shall leave none of it until the morning, nor break a bone + of it. According to all the statute of the Passover they + shall keep it. +009:013 But the man who is clean, and is not on a journey, and fails + to keep the Passover, that soul shall be cut off from his people. + Because he didn't offer the offering of Yahweh in its + appointed season, that man shall bear his sin. +009:014 If a foreigner lives among you, and desires to keep the Passover + to Yahweh; according to the statute of the Passover, + and according to its ordinance, so shall he do. + You shall have one statute, both for the foreigner, and for him + who is born in the land.'" +009:015 On the day that the tabernacle was raised up, the cloud + covered the tabernacle, even the Tent of the Testimony: + and at evening it was over the tabernacle as it were + the appearance of fire, until morning. +009:016 So it was continually. The cloud covered it, and the appearance + of fire by night. +009:017 Whenever the cloud was taken up from over the Tent, then after + that the children of Israel traveled; and in the place where + the cloud remained, there the children of Israel encamped. +009:018 At the commandment of Yahweh, the children of Israel traveled, + and at the commandment of Yahweh they encamped. As long + as the cloud remained on the tabernacle they remained encamped. +009:019 When the cloud stayed on the tabernacle many days, + then the children of Israel kept the charge of Yahweh, + and didn't travel. +009:020 Sometimes the cloud was a few days on the tabernacle; + then according to the commandment of Yahweh they remained encamped, + and according to the commandment of Yahweh they traveled. +009:021 Sometimes the cloud was from evening until morning; + and when the cloud was taken up in the morning, they traveled: + or by day and by night, when the cloud was taken up, they traveled. +009:022 Whether it was two days, or a month, or a year that the cloud + stayed on the tabernacle, remaining on it, the children + of Israel remained encamped, and didn't travel; but when it + was taken up, they traveled. +009:023 At the commandment of Yahweh they encamped, and at the commandment + of Yahweh they traveled. They kept the charge of Yahweh, + at the commandment of Yahweh by Moses. +010:001 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +010:002 Make you two trumpets of silver; of beaten work shall you make them: + and you shall use them for the calling of the congregation, + and for the journeying of the camps. +010:003 When they shall blow them, all the congregation shall gather + themselves to you at the door of the tent of meeting. +010:004 If they blow but one, then the princes, the heads of the thousands + of Israel, shall gather themselves to you. +010:005 When you blow an alarm, the camps that lie on the east side + shall take their journey. +010:006 When you blow an alarm the second time, the camps that lie + on the south side shall take their journey: they shall blow + an alarm for their journeys. +010:007 But when the assembly is to be gathered together, you shall blow, + but you shall not sound an alarm. +010:008 The sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets; and they + shall be to you for a statute forever throughout your generations. +010:009 When you go to war in your land against the adversary who + oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets; + and you shall be remembered before Yahweh your God, and you + shall be saved from your enemies. +010:010 Also in the day of your gladness, and in your set feasts, + and in the beginnings of your months, you shall blow the trumpets + over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your + peace offerings; and they shall be to you for a memorial + before your God: I am Yahweh your God. +010:011 It happened in the second year, in the second month, + on the twentieth day of the month, that the cloud was taken + up from over the tent of the testimony. +010:012 The children of Israel set forward according to their journeys + out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud abode in + the wilderness of Paran. +010:013 They first took their journey according to the commandment + of Yahweh by Moses. +010:014 In the first [place] the standard of the camp of the children + of Judah set forward according to their armies: + and over his army was Nahshon the son of Amminadab. +010:015 Over the army of the tribe of the children of Issachar was + Nethanel the son of Zuar. +010:016 Over the army of the tribe of the children of Zebulun was Eliab + the son of Helon. +010:017 The tent was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons + of Merari, who bore the tent, set forward. +010:018 The standard of the camp of Reuben set forward according to + their armies: and over his army was Elizur the son of Shedeur. +010:019 Over the army of the tribe of the children of Simeon was + Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai. +010:020 Over the army of the tribe of the children of Gad was Eliasaph + the son of Deuel. +010:021 The Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary: + and [the others] did set up the tent against their coming. +010:022 The standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set forward + according to their armies: and over his army was Elishama + the son of Ammihud. +010:023 Over the army of the tribe of the children of Manasseh was + Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur. +010:024 Over the army of the tribe of the children of Benjamin was + Abidan the son of Gideoni. +010:025 The standard of the camp of the children of Dan, which was the + rearward of all the camps, set forward according to their armies: + and over his army was Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai. +010:026 Over the army of the tribe of the children of Asher was Pagiel + the son of Ochran. +010:027 Over the army of the tribe of the children of Naphtali was Ahira + the son of Enan. +010:028 Thus were the travels of the children of Israel according + to their armies; and they set forward. +010:029 Moses said to Hobab, the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses' + father-in-law, We are journeying to the place of which Yahweh said, + I will give it to you: come you with us, and we will do you good; + for Yahweh has spoken good concerning Israel. +010:030 He said to him, I will not go; but I will depart to my own land, + and to my relatives. +010:031 He said, Don't leave us, please; because you know how we + are to encamp in the wilderness, and you shall be to us + instead of eyes. +010:032 It shall be, if you go with us, yes, it shall be, that whatever + good Yahweh shall do to us, the same will we do to you. +010:033 They set forward from the Mount of Yahweh three days' journey; + and the ark of the covenant of Yahweh went before them + three days' journey, to seek out a resting place for them. +010:034 The cloud of Yahweh was over them by day, when they set forward + from the camp. +010:035 It happened, when the ark set forward, that Moses said, + Rise up, Yahweh, and let your enemies be scattered; + and let those who hate you flee before you. +010:036 When it rested, he said, Return, Yahweh, to the ten thousands + of the thousands of Israel. +011:001 The people were as murmurers, [speaking] evil in the ears of Yahweh: + and when Yahweh heard it, his anger was kindled; and the fire + of Yahweh burnt among them, and devoured in the uttermost + part of the camp. +011:002 The people cried to Moses; and Moses prayed to Yahweh, + and the fire abated. +011:003 The name of that place was called Taberah, because the fire + of Yahweh burnt among them. +011:004 The mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly: + and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, + Who shall give us flesh to eat? +011:005 We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt for nothing; + the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, + and the garlic: +011:006 but now our soul is dried away; there is nothing at all save + this manna to look on. +011:007 The manna was like coriander seed, and the appearance of it + as the appearance of bdellium. +011:008 The people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, + or beat it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes of it: + and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil. +011:009 When the dew fell on the camp in the night, the manna fell on it. +011:010 Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, + every man at the door of his tent: and the anger of Yahweh + was kindled greatly; and Moses was displeased. +011:011 Moses said to Yahweh, Why have you dealt ill with your servant? + and why haven't I found favor in your sight, that you lay + the burden of all this people on me? +011:012 Have I conceived all this people? Have I brought them forth, + that you should tell me, Carry them in your bosom, + as a nurse carries a nursing infant, to the land which you + swore to their fathers? +011:013 Where should I get meat to give to all this people? for they + weep to me, saying, Give us meat, that we may eat. +011:014 I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is + too heavy for me. +011:015 If you deal thus with me, please kill me out of hand, if I have + found favor in your sight; and let me not see my wretchedness. +011:016 Yahweh said to Moses, Gather to me seventy men of the elders + of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people, + and officers over them; and bring them to the tent of meeting, + that they may stand there with you. +011:017 I will come down and talk with you there: and I will take + of the Spirit which is on you, and will put it on them; + and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, + that you not bear it yourself alone. +011:018 Say you to the people, Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow, + and you shall eat flesh; for you have wept in the ears + of Yahweh, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for it was + well with us in Egypt: therefore Yahweh will give you flesh, + and you shall eat. +011:019 You shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, + neither ten days, nor twenty days, +011:020 but a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it + be loathsome to you; because that you have rejected Yahweh + who is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came + we forth out of Egypt? +011:021 Moses said, The people, among whom I am, are six hundred + thousand footmen; and you have said, I will give them flesh, + that they may eat a whole month. +011:022 Shall flocks and herds be slain for them, to suffice them? + or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, + to suffice them? +011:023 Yahweh said to Moses, Has Yahweh's hand grown short? now shall + you see whether my word shall happen to you or not. +011:024 Moses went out, and told the people the words of Yahweh: + and he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people, + and set them round about the Tent. +011:025 Yahweh came down in the cloud, and spoke to him, and took of + the Spirit that was on him, and put it on the seventy elders: + and it happened that when the Spirit rested on them, + they prophesied, but they did so no more. +011:026 But there remained two men in the camp, the name of the one was Eldad, + and the name of the other Medad: and the Spirit rested on them; + and they were of those who were written, but had not gone + out to the Tent; and they prophesied in the camp. +011:027 There ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad + do prophesy in the camp. +011:028 Joshua the son of Nun, the minister of Moses, one of his + chosen men, answered, My lord Moses, forbid them. +011:029 Moses said to him, Are you jealous for my sake? + I wish that all Yahweh's people were prophets, that Yahweh + would put his Spirit on them! +011:030 Moses got him into the camp, he and the elders of Israel. +011:031 There went forth a wind from Yahweh, and brought quails + from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, about a day's + journey on this side, and a day's journey on the other side, + round about the camp, and about two cubits above the surface + of the earth. +011:032 The people rose up all that day, and all the night, + and all the next day, and gathered the quails: + he who gathered least gathered ten homers: and they spread + them all abroad for themselves round about the camp. +011:033 While the flesh was yet between their teeth, before it was chewed, + the anger of Yahweh was kindled against the people, and Yahweh + struck the people with a very great plague. +011:034 The name of that place was called Kibrothhattaavah, because there + they buried the people who lusted. +011:035 From Kibrothhattaavah the people traveled to Hazeroth; + and they abode at Hazeroth. +012:001 Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite + woman whom he had married; for he had married a Cushite woman. +012:002 They said, Has Yahweh indeed spoken only with Moses? Hasn't he + spoken also with us? Yahweh heard it. +012:003 Now the man Moses was very humble, above all the men who were + on the surface of the earth. +012:004 Yahweh spoke suddenly to Moses, and to Aaron, + and to Miriam, Come out you three to the tent of meeting. + They three came out. +012:005 Yahweh came down in a pillar of cloud, and stood at the door of + the Tent, and called Aaron and Miriam; and they both came forth. +012:006 He said, Hear now my words: if there be a prophet among you, + I Yahweh will make myself known to him in a vision, I will + speak with him in a dream. +012:007 My servant Moses is not so; he is faithful in all my house: +012:008 with him will I speak mouth to mouth, even manifestly, + and not in dark speeches; and the form of Yahweh shall he see: + why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant, + against Moses? +012:009 The anger of Yahweh was kindled against them; and he departed. +012:010 The cloud removed from over the Tent; and behold, Miriam was leprous, + as [white as] snow: and Aaron looked at Miriam, and behold, + she was leprous. +012:011 Aaron said to Moses, Oh, my lord, please don't lay sin on us, + for that we have done foolishly, and for that we have sinned. +012:012 Let her not, I pray, be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half + consumed when he comes out of his mother's womb. +012:013 Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, Heal her, God, I beg you. +012:014 Yahweh said to Moses, If her father had but spit in her face, + shouldn't she be ashamed seven days? let her be shut up + outside of the camp seven days, and after that she shall + be brought in again. +012:015 Miriam was shut up outside of the camp seven days: + and the people didn't travel until Miriam was brought in again. +012:016 Afterward the people traveled from Hazeroth, and encamped + in the wilderness of Paran. +013:001 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +013:002 Send you men, that they may spy out the land of Canaan, + which I give to the children of Israel: of every tribe of their + fathers shall you send a man, everyone a prince among them. +013:003 Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran according to + the commandment of Yahweh: all of them men who were heads + of the children of Israel. +013:004 These were their names: Of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the + son of Zaccur. +013:005 Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori. +013:006 Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh. +013:007 Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph. +013:008 Of the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun. +013:009 Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu. +013:010 Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi. +013:011 Of the tribe of Joseph, [namely], of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi + the son of Susi. +013:012 Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli. +013:013 Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael. +013:014 Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi. +013:015 Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi. +013:016 These are the names of the men who Moses sent to spy out the land. + Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua. +013:017 Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said to them, + Go up this way by the South, and go up into the hill country: +013:018 and see the land, what it is; and the people who dwell therein, + whether they are strong or weak, whether they are few or many; +013:019 and what the land is that they dwell in, whether it is good or bad; + and what cities they are that they dwell in, whether in camps, + or in strongholds; +013:020 and what the land is, whether it is fat or lean, + whether there is wood therein, or not. Be of good courage, + and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the time + of the first-ripe grapes. +013:021 So they went up, and spied out the land from the wilderness + of Zin to Rehob, to the entrance of Hamath. +013:022 They went up by the South, and came to Hebron; + and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there. + (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.) +013:023 They came to the valley of Eshcol, and cut down from there + a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bore it on + a staff between two; [they brought] also of the pomegranates, + and of the figs. +013:024 That place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster + which the children of Israel cut down from there. +013:025 They returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days. +013:026 They went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation + of the children of Israel, to the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; + and brought back word to them, and to all the congregation, + and shown them the fruit of the land. +013:027 They told him, and said, We came to the land where you sent us; + and surely it flows with milk and honey; and this is + the fruit of it. +013:028 However the people who dwell in the land are strong, + and the cities are fortified, [and] very great: + and moreover we saw the children of Anak there. +013:029 Amalek dwells in the land of the South: and the Hittite, + and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, dwell in the hill country; + and the Canaanite dwells by the sea, and along by the side + of the Jordan. +013:030 Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up + at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it. +013:031 But the men who went up with him said, We aren't able to go + up against the people; for they are stronger than we. +013:032 They brought up an evil report of the land which they had + spied out to the children of Israel, saying, The land, + through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that eats + up the inhabitants of it; and all the people who we saw in it + are men of great stature. +013:033 There we saw the Nephilim, the sons of Anak, who come of + the Nephilim: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, + and so we were in their sight. +014:001 All the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; + and the people wept that night. +014:002 All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: + and the whole congregation said to them, Would that we + had died in the land of Egypt! or would that we had died + in this wilderness! +014:003 Why does Yahweh bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? + Our wives and our little ones will be a prey: wouldn't it + be better for us to return into Egypt? +014:004 They said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us + return into Egypt. +014:005 Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly + of the congregation of the children of Israel. +014:006 Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, + who were of those who spied out the land, tore their clothes: +014:007 and they spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, + saying, The land, which we passed through to spy it out, + is an exceeding good land. +014:008 If Yahweh delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, + and give it to us; a land which flows with milk and honey. +014:009 Only don't rebel against Yahweh, neither fear the people + of the land; for they are bread for us: their defense + is removed from over them, and Yahweh is with us: + don't fear them. +014:010 But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. + The glory of Yahweh appeared in the tent of meeting to all + the children of Israel. +014:011 Yahweh said to Moses, How long will this people despise me? + and how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs + which I have worked among them? +014:012 I will strike them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, + and will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they. +014:013 Moses said to Yahweh, Then the Egyptians will hear it; + for you brought up this people in your might from among them; +014:014 and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. + They have heard that you Yahweh are in the midst of this people; + for you Yahweh are seen face to face, and your cloud stands + over them, and you go before them, in a pillar of cloud by day, + and in a pillar of fire by night. +014:015 Now if you shall kill this people as one man, then the nations + which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying, +014:016 Because Yahweh was not able to bring this people into + the land which he swore to them, therefore he has slain them + in the wilderness. +014:017 Now please let the power of the Lord be great, according as you + have spoken, saying, +014:018 Yahweh is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, + forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and that will by no means + clear [the guilty], visiting the iniquity of the fathers + on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation. +014:019 Pardon, Please, the iniquity of this people according to + the greatness of your loving kindness, and according as you + have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now. +014:020 Yahweh said, I have pardoned according to your word: +014:021 but in very deed, as I live, and as all the earth shall be + filled with the glory of Yahweh; +014:022 because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, + which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted + me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice; +014:023 surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, + neither shall any of those who despised me see it: +014:024 but my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, + and has followed me fully, him will I bring into the land + into which he went; and his seed shall possess it. +014:025 Now the Amalekite and the Canaanite dwell in the valley: + tomorrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way + to the Red Sea{or, Sea of Reeds}. +014:026 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, +014:027 How long [shall I bear] with this evil congregation, that murmur + against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children + of Israel, which they murmur against me. +014:028 Tell them, As I live, says Yahweh, surely as you have spoken + in my ears, so will I do to you: +014:029 your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all + who were numbered of you, according to your whole number, + from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me, +014:030 surely you shall not come into the land, concerning which I + swore that I would make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son + of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun. +014:031 But your little ones, that you said should be a prey, + them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which + you have rejected. +014:032 But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness. +014:033 Your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, + and shall bear your prostitution, until your dead bodies + be consumed in the wilderness. +014:034 After the number of the days in which you spied out the land, + even forty days, for every day a year, shall you bear your + iniquities, even forty years, and you shall know my alienation. +014:035 I, Yahweh, have spoken, surely this will I do to all this + evil congregation, who are gathered together against me: + in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there + they shall die. +014:036 The men, whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned, + and made all the congregation to murmur against him, + by bringing up an evil report against the land, +014:037 even those men who did bring up an evil report of the land, + died by the plague before Yahweh. +014:038 But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, + remained alive of those men who went to spy out the land. +014:039 Moses told these words to all the children of Israel: + and the people mourned greatly. +014:040 They rose up early in the morning, and got them up + to the top of the mountain, saying, Behold, we are here, + and will go up to the place which Yahweh has promised: + for we have sinned. +014:041 Moses said, Why now do you disobey the commandment of Yahweh, + seeing it shall not prosper? +014:042 Don't go up, for Yahweh isn't among you; that you not be struck + down before your enemies. +014:043 For there the Amalekite and the Canaanite are before you, + and you shall fall by the sword: because you are turned back + from following Yahweh, therefore Yahweh will not be with you. +014:044 But they presumed to go up to the top of the mountain: + nevertheless the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, and Moses, + didn't depart out of the camp. +014:045 Then the Amalekite came down, and the Canaanite who lived + in that mountain, and struck them and beat them down, + even to Hormah. +015:001 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +015:002 Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, When you are + come into the land of your habitations, which I give to you, +015:003 and will make an offering by fire to Yahweh, a burnt offering, + or a sacrifice, to accomplish a vow, or as a freewill offering, + or in your set feasts, to make a sweet savor to Yahweh, + of the herd, or of the flock; +015:004 then shall he who offers his offering offer to Yahweh a meal + offering of a tenth part [of an ephah] of fine flour mixed + with the fourth part of a hin of oil: +015:005 and wine for the drink offering, the fourth part of a hin, + shall you prepare with the burnt offering, or for the sacrifice, + for each lamb. +015:006 Or for a ram, you shall prepare for a meal offering two tenth + parts [of an ephah] of fine flour mixed with the third part + of a hin of oil: +015:007 and for the drink offering you shall offer the third part + of a hin of wine, of a sweet savor to Yahweh. +015:008 When you prepare a bull for a burnt offering, or for a sacrifice, + to accomplish a vow, or for peace offerings to Yahweh; +015:009 then shall he offer with the bull a meal offering of three tenth + parts [of an ephah] of fine flour mixed with half a hin of oil: +015:010 and you shall offer for the drink offering half a hin of wine, + for an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to Yahweh. +015:011 Thus shall it be done for each bull, or for each ram, + or for each of the male lambs, or of the young goats. +015:012 According to the number that you shall prepare, so shall you + do to everyone according to their number. +015:013 All who are native-born shall do these things after this manner, + in offering an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to Yahweh. +015:014 If a stranger lives as a foreigner with you, or whoever may + be among you throughout your generations, and will offer + an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to Yahweh; + as you do, so he shall do. +015:015 For the assembly, there shall be one statute for you, + and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner [with you], + a statute forever throughout your generations: as you are, + so shall the foreigner be before Yahweh. +015:016 One law and one ordinance shall be for you, and for the stranger + who lives as a foreigner with you. +015:017 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +015:018 Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, When you come + into the land where I bring you, +015:019 then it shall be that when you eat of the bread of the land, + you shall offer up a wave offering to Yahweh. +015:020 Of the first of your dough you shall offer up a cake for a + wave offering: as the wave offering of the threshing floor, + so shall you heave it. +015:021 Of the first of your dough you shall give to Yahweh a wave + offering throughout your generations. +015:022 When you shall err, and not observe all these commandments, + which Yahweh has spoken to Moses, +015:023 even all that Yahweh has commanded you by Moses, from the day that + Yahweh gave commandment, and onward throughout your generations; +015:024 then it shall be, if it be done unwittingly, without the knowledge + of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one + young bull for a burnt offering, for a sweet savor to Yahweh, + with the meal offering of it, and the drink offering of it, + according to the ordinance, and one male goat for a sin offering. +015:025 The priest shall make atonement for all the congregation + of the children of Israel, and they shall be forgiven; + for it was an error, and they have brought their offering, + an offering made by fire to Yahweh, and their sin offering + before Yahweh, for their error: +015:026 and all the congregation of the children of Israel shall + be forgiven, and the stranger who lives as a foreigner among them; + for in respect of all the people it was done unwittingly. +015:027 If one person sins unwittingly, then he shall offer a female + goat a year old for a sin offering. +015:028 The priest shall make atonement for the soul who errs, + when he sins unwittingly, before Yahweh, to make atonement for him; + and he shall be forgiven. +015:029 You shall have one law for him who does anything unwittingly, + for him who is native-born among the children of Israel, + and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner among them. +015:030 But the soul who does anything with a high hand, whether he is + native-born or a foreigner, the same blasphemes Yahweh; + and that soul shall be cut off from among his people. +015:031 Because he has despised the word of Yahweh, and has broken + his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; + his iniquity shall be on him. +015:032 While the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found + a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day. +015:033 Those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses + and Aaron, and to all the congregation. +015:034 They put him in custody, because it had not been declared + what should be done to him. +015:035 Yahweh said to Moses, The man shall surely be put to death: + all the congregation shall stone him with stones outside + of the camp. +015:036 All the congregation brought him outside of the camp, and stoned + him to death with stones; as Yahweh commanded Moses. +015:037 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +015:038 Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them that they + should make them fringes{or, tassels (Hebrew tzitzit)} in + the borders of their garments throughout their generations, + and that they put on the fringe{or, tassel} of each border + a cord of blue: +015:039 and it shall be to you for a fringe{or, tassel}, that you may look + on it, and remember all the commandments of Yahweh, and do them; + and that you not follow after your own heart and your own eyes, + after which you use to play the prostitute; +015:040 that you may remember and do all my commandments, and be holy + to your God. +015:041 I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, + to be your God: I am Yahweh your God. +016:001 Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, + with Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son + of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took [men]: +016:002 and they rose up before Moses, with certain of the children + of Israel, two hundred fifty princes of the congregation, + called to the assembly, men of renown; +016:003 and they assembled themselves together against Moses and + against Aaron, and said to them, You take too much on you, + seeing all the congregation are holy, everyone of them, + and Yahweh is among them: why then lift yourselves up above + the assembly of Yahweh? +016:004 When Moses heard it, he fell on his face: +016:005 and he spoke to Korah and to all his company, saying, In the + morning Yahweh will show who are his, and who is holy, + and will cause him to come near to him: even him whom he shall + choose he will cause to come near to him. +016:006 This do: take you censers, Korah, and all his company; +016:007 and put fire in them, and put incense on them before Yahweh tomorrow: + and it shall be that the man whom Yahweh does choose, he [shall + be] holy: you take too much on you, you sons of Levi. +016:008 Moses said to Korah, Hear now, you sons of Levi: +016:009 [seems it but] a small thing to you, that the God of Israel + has separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring + you near to himself, to do the service of the tent of Yahweh, + and to stand before the congregation to minister to them; +016:010 and that he has brought you near, and all your brothers the sons + of Levi with you? and seek you the priesthood also? +016:011 Therefore you and all your company are gathered together + against Yahweh: and Aaron, what is he who you murmur against him? +016:012 Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab; + and they said, We won't come up: +016:013 is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land + flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, + but you must needs make yourself also a prince over us? +016:014 Moreover you haven't brought us into a land flowing with milk + and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: + will you put out the eyes of these men? we won't come up. +016:015 Moses was very angry, and said to Yahweh, "Don't respect + their offering: I have not taken one donkey from them, + neither have I hurt one of them." +016:016 Moses said to Korah, You and all your company go before Yahweh, + you, and they, and Aaron, tomorrow: +016:017 and take every man his censer, and put incense on them, + and bring you before Yahweh every man his censer, two hundred + fifty censers; you also, and Aaron, each his censer. +016:018 They took every man his censer, and put fire in them, + and laid incense thereon, and stood at the door of the tent + of meeting with Moses and Aaron. +016:019 Korah assembled all the congregation against them to the door + of the tent of meeting: and the glory of Yahweh appeared + to all the congregation. +016:020 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, +016:021 Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may + consume them in a moment. +016:022 They fell on their faces, and said, God, the God of the spirits + of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry + with all the congregation? +016:023 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +016:024 Speak to the congregation, saying, Get away from around the tent + of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. +016:025 Moses rose up and went to Dathan and Abiram; and the elders + of Israel followed him. +016:026 He spoke to the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, + from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, + lest you be consumed in all their sins. +016:027 So they got them up from the tent of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, + on every side: and Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood + at the door of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, + and their little ones. +016:028 Moses said, Hereby you shall know that Yahweh has sent me to do + all these works; for [I have] not [done them] of my own mind. +016:029 If these men die the common death of all men, or if they + be visited after the visitation of all men; then Yahweh + hasn't sent me. +016:030 But if Yahweh make a new thing, and the ground open its mouth, + and swallow them up, with all that appertain to them, + and they go down alive into Sheol; then you shall understand + that these men have despised Yahweh. +016:031 It happened, as he made an end of speaking all these words, + that the ground split apart that was under them; +016:032 and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, + and their households, and all the men who appertained to Korah, + and all their goods. +016:033 So they, and all that appertained to them, went down alive + into Sheol: and the earth closed on them, and they perished + from among the assembly. +016:034 All Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them; + for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up. +016:035 Fire came forth from Yahweh, and devoured the two hundred + fifty men who offered the incense. +016:036 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +016:037 Speak to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up + the censers out of the burning, and scatter you the fire yonder; + for they are holy, +016:038 even the censers of these sinners against their own lives; + and let them be made beaten plates for a covering of the altar: + for they offered them before Yahweh; therefore they are holy; + and they shall be a sign to the children of Israel. +016:039 Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers, which those who + were burnt had offered; and they beat them out for a covering + of the altar, +016:040 to be a memorial to the children of Israel, to the end that + no stranger, who isn't of the seed of Aaron, comes near to burn + incense before Yahweh; that he not be as Korah, and as his company: + as Yahweh spoke to him by Moses. +016:041 But on the next day all the congregation of the children of Israel + murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, You have + killed the people of Yahweh. +016:042 It happened, when the congregation was assembled against Moses + and against Aaron, that they looked toward the tent of meeting: + and behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of Yahweh appeared. +016:043 Moses and Aaron came to the front of the tent of meeting. +016:044 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +016:045 Get away from among this congregation, that I may consume them + in a moment. They fell on their faces. +016:046 Moses said to Aaron, Take your censer, and put fire therein + from off the altar, and lay incense thereon, and carry it + quickly to the congregation, and make atonement for them: + for there is wrath gone out from Yahweh; the plague is begun. +016:047 Aaron took as Moses spoke, and ran into the midst of the assembly; + and behold, the plague was begun among the people: + and he put on the incense, and made atonement for the people. +016:048 He stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed. +016:049 Now those who died by the plague were fourteen thousand and + seven hundred, besides those who died about the matter of Korah. +016:050 Aaron returned to Moses to the door of the tent of meeting: + and the plague was stayed. +017:001 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +017:002 Speak to the children of Israel, and take of them rods, + one for each fathers' house, of all their princes according + to their fathers' houses, twelve rods: write you every man's + name on his rod. +017:003 You shall write Aaron's name on the rod of Levi; for there + shall be one rod for each head of their fathers' houses. +017:004 You shall lay them up in the tent of meeting before the testimony, + where I meet with you. +017:005 It shall happen, that the rod of the man whom I shall choose + shall bud: and I will make to cease from me the murmurings + of the children of Israel, which they murmur against you. +017:006 Moses spoke to the children of Israel; and all their princes + gave him rods, for each prince one, according to their fathers' + houses, even twelve rods: and the rod of Aaron was + among their rods. +017:007 Moses laid up the rods before Yahweh in the tent of the testimony. +017:008 It happened on the next day, that Moses went into the tent + of the testimony; and behold, the rod of Aaron for the house + of Levi was budded, and put forth buds, and produced blossoms, + and bore ripe almonds. +017:009 Moses brought out all the rods from before Yahweh to all + the children of Israel: and they looked, and took every + man his rod. +017:010 Yahweh said to Moses, Put back the rod of Aaron before the testimony, + to be kept for a token against the children of rebellion; + that you may make an end of their murmurings against me, + that they not die. +017:011 Thus did Moses: as Yahweh commanded him, so did he. +017:012 The children of Israel spoke to Moses, saying, Behold, we perish, + we are undone, we are all undone. +017:013 Everyone who comes near, who comes near to the tent of Yahweh, dies: + shall we perish all of us? +018:001 Yahweh said to Aaron, You and your sons and your fathers' + house with you shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary; + and you and your sons with you shall bear the iniquity + of your priesthood. +018:002 Your brothers also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, + bring you near with you, that they may be joined to you, + and minister to you: but you and your sons with you shall + be before the tent of the testimony. +018:003 They shall keep your charge, and the charge of all the Tent: + only they shall not come near to the vessels of the sanctuary + and to the altar, that they not die, neither they, nor you. +018:004 They shall be joined to you, and keep the charge of + the tent of meeting, for all the service of the Tent: + and a stranger shall not come near to you. +018:005 You shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of + the altar; that there be wrath no more on the children of Israel. +018:006 I, behold, I have taken your brothers the Levites from among + the children of Israel: to you they are a gift, given to Yahweh, + to do the service of the tent of meeting. +018:007 You and your sons with you shall keep your priesthood for + everything of the altar, and for that within the veil; and you + shall serve: I give you the priesthood as a service of gift: + and the stranger who comes near shall be put to death. +018:008 Yahweh spoke to Aaron, I, behold, I have given you the charge + of my wave offerings, even all the holy things of the children + of Israel; to you have I given them by reason of the anointing, + and to your sons, as a portion forever. +018:009 This shall be your of the most holy things, [reserved] from the fire: + every offering of theirs, even every meal offering of theirs, + and every sin offering of theirs, and every trespass offering + of theirs, which they shall render to me, shall be most holy + for you and for your sons. +018:010 As the most holy things shall you eat of it; every male shall + eat of it: it shall be holy to you. +018:011 This is your: the wave offering of their gift, even all + the wave offerings of the children of Israel; I have given + them to you, and to your sons and to your daughters with you, + as a portion forever; everyone who is clean in your house + shall eat of it. +018:012 All the best of the oil, and all the best of the vintage, + and of the grain, the first fruits of them which they give + to Yahweh, to you have I given them. +018:013 The first-ripe fruits of all that is in their land, which they + bring to Yahweh, shall be yours; everyone who is clean in your + house shall eat of it. +018:014 Everything devoted in Israel shall be yours. +018:015 Everything that opens the womb, of all flesh which they + offer to Yahweh, both of man and animal shall be yours: + nevertheless the firstborn of man shall you surely redeem, + and the firstborn of unclean animals shall you redeem. +018:016 Those who are to be redeemed of them from a month old shall + you redeem, according to your estimation, for the money + of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary + (the same is twenty gerahs). +018:017 But the firstborn of a cow, or the firstborn of a sheep, + or the firstborn of a goat, you shall not redeem; they are holy: + you shall sprinkle their blood on the altar, and shall + burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet + savor to Yahweh. +018:018 The flesh of them shall be your, as the wave offering breast + and as the right thigh, it shall be yours. +018:019 All the wave offerings of the holy things, which the children + of Israel offer to Yahweh, have I given you, and your + sons and your daughters with you, as a portion forever: + it is a covenant of salt forever before Yahweh to you and to + your seed with you. +018:020 Yahweh said to Aaron, You shall have no inheritance in their land, + neither shall you have any portion among them: I am your + portion and your inheritance among the children of Israel. +018:021 To the children of Levi, behold, I have given all the tithe + in Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service + which they serve, even the service of the tent of meeting. +018:022 Henceforth the children of Israel shall not come near the tent + of meeting, lest they bear sin, and die. +018:023 But the Levites shall do the service of the tent of meeting, + and they shall bear their iniquity: it shall be a statute + forever throughout your generations; and among the children + of Israel they shall have no inheritance. +018:024 For the tithe of the children of Israel, which they offer as a wave + offering to Yahweh, I have given to the Levites for an inheritance: + therefore I have said to them, Among the children of Israel + they shall have no inheritance. +018:025 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +018:026 Moreover you shall speak to the Levites, and tell them, + When you take of the children of Israel the tithe which I + have given you from them for your inheritance, then you + shall offer up a wave offering of it for Yahweh, a tithe + of the tithe. +018:027 Your wave offering shall be reckoned to you, as though it + were the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fullness + of the winepress. +018:028 Thus you also shall offer a wave offering to Yahweh of all + your tithes, which you receive of the children of Israel; + and of it you shall give Yahweh's wave offering to Aaron the priest. +018:029 Out of all your gifts you shall offer every wave offering + of Yahweh, of all the best of it, even the holy part of it + out of it. +018:030 Therefore you shall tell them, When you heave the best of it + from it, then it shall be reckoned to the Levites as the increase + of the threshing floor, and as the increase of the winepress. +018:031 You shall eat it in every place, you and your households: + for it is your reward in return for your service in the + tent of meeting. +018:032 You shall bear no sin by reason of it, when you have heaved + from it the best of it: and you shall not profane the holy + things of the children of Israel, that you not die. +019:001 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, +019:002 This is the statute of the law which Yahweh has commanded, + saying, Speak to the children of Israel, that they bring + you a red heifer without spot, in which is no blemish, + [and] on which never came yoke. +019:003 You shall give her to Eleazar the priest, and he shall bring + her forth outside of the camp, and one shall kill her + before his face: +019:004 and Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger, + and sprinkle her blood toward the front of the tent of + meeting seven times. +019:005 One shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, + and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn: +019:006 and the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, + and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer. +019:007 Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe + his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp, + and the priest shall be unclean until the even. +019:008 He who burns her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe + his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even. +019:009 A man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, + and lay them up outside of the camp in a clean place; + and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children + of Israel for a water for impurity: it is a sin offering. +019:010 He who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, + and be unclean until the even: and it shall be to the children + of Israel, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner + among them, for a statute forever. +019:011 He who touches the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days: +019:012 the same shall purify himself therewith on the third day, + and on the seventh day he shall be clean: but if he doesn't + purify himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall + not be clean. +019:013 Whoever touches a dead person, the body of a man who has died, + and doesn't purify himself, defiles the tent of Yahweh; + and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water + for impurity was not sprinkled on him, he shall be unclean; + his uncleanness is yet on him. +019:014 This is the law when a man dies in a tent: everyone who comes + into the tent, and everyone who is in the tent, shall be + unclean seven days. +019:015 Every open vessel, which has no covering bound on it, is unclean. +019:016 Whoever in the open field touches one who is slain with a sword, + or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be + unclean seven days. +019:017 For the unclean they shall take of the ashes of the burning + of the sin offering; and running water shall be put thereto + in a vessel: +019:018 and a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, + and sprinkle it on the tent, and on all the vessels, and on + the persons who were there, and on him who touched the bone, + or the slain, or the dead, or the grave: +019:019 and the clean person shall sprinkle on the unclean on the third day, + and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he shall purify him; + and he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, + and shall be clean at even. +019:020 But the man who shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, + that soul shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly, + because he has defiled the sanctuary of Yahweh: + the water for impurity has not been sprinkled on him; + he is unclean. +019:021 It shall be a perpetual statute to them: and he who sprinkles + the water for impurity shall wash his clothes, and he who + touches the water for impurity shall be unclean until even. +019:022 Whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; + and the soul that touches it shall be unclean until even. +020:001 The children of Israel, even the whole congregation, + came into the wilderness of Zin in the first month: + and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, + and was buried there. +020:002 There was no water for the congregation: and they assembled + themselves together against Moses and against Aaron. +020:003 The people strove with Moses, and spoke, saying, Would that we + had died when our brothers died before Yahweh! +020:004 Why have you brought the assembly of Yahweh into this wilderness, + that we should die there, we and our animals? +020:005 Why have you made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us + in to this evil place? it is no place of seed, or of figs, + or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any + water to drink. +020:006 Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to + the door of the tent of meeting, and fell on their faces: + and the glory of Yahweh appeared to them. +020:007 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +020:008 Take the rod, and assemble the congregation, you, and Aaron + your brother, and speak you to the rock before their eyes, + that it give forth its water; and you shall bring forth to them + water out of the rock; so you shall give the congregation + and their livestock drink. +020:009 Moses took the rod from before Yahweh, as he commanded him. +020:010 Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, + and he said to them, Hear now, you rebels; shall we bring + you forth water out of this rock? +020:011 Moses lifted up his hand, and struck the rock with his rod twice: + and water came forth abundantly, and the congregation drank, + and their livestock. +020:012 Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, Because you didn't believe + in me, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, + therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land + which I have given them. +020:013 These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel + strove with Yahweh, and he was sanctified in them. +020:014 Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, Thus says + your brother Israel, You know all the travail that has + happened to us: +020:015 how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we lived in + Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians dealt ill with us, + and our fathers: +020:016 and when we cried to Yahweh, he heard our voice, and sent + an angel, and brought us forth out of Egypt: and behold, + we are in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of your border. +020:017 Please let us pass through your land: we will not pass + through field or through vineyard, neither will we drink of + the water of the wells: we will go along the king's highway; + we will not turn aside to the right hand nor to the left, + until we have passed your border. +020:018 Edom said to him, You shall not pass through me, lest I come + out with the sword against you. +020:019 The children of Israel said to him, We will go up by the highway; + and if we drink of your water, I and my livestock, then will I give + the price of it: let me only, without [doing] anything [else], + pass through on my feet. +020:020 He said, You shall not pass through. Edom came out against him + with much people, and with a strong hand. +020:021 Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border: + why Israel turned away from him. +020:022 They traveled from Kadesh: and the children of Israel, + even the whole congregation, came to Mount Hor. +020:023 Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron in Mount Hor, by the border + of the land of Edom, saying, +020:024 Aaron shall be gathered to his people; for he shall not enter + into the land which I have given to the children of Israel, + because you rebelled against my word at the waters of Meribah. +020:025 Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up to Mount Hor; +020:026 and strip Aaron of his garments, and put them on Eleazar his son: + and Aaron shall be gathered [to his people], and shall die there. +020:027 Moses did as Yahweh commanded: and they went up into Mount Hor + in the sight of all the congregation. +020:028 Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them on Eleazar + his son; and Aaron died there on the top of the mountain: + and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain. +020:029 When all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they wept + for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel. +021:001 The Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the South, + heard tell that Israel came by the way of Atharim; + and he fought against Israel, and took some of them captive. +021:002 Israel vowed a vow to Yahweh, and said, If you will indeed + deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly + destroy their cities. +021:003 Yahweh listened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up + the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities: + and the name of the place was called Hormah. +021:004 They traveled from Mount Hor by the way to the Red Sea{or, Sea + of Reeds}, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul + of the people was much discouraged because of the way. +021:005 The people spoke against God, and against Moses, Why have you + brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there + is no bread, and there is no water; and our soul loathes + this light bread. +021:006 Yahweh sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; + and much people of Israel died. +021:007 The people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, + because we have spoken against Yahweh, and against you; + pray to Yahweh, that he take away the serpents from us. + Moses prayed for the people. +021:008 Yahweh said to Moses, Make you a fiery serpent, and set it on + a standard: and it shall happen, that everyone who is bitten, + when he sees it, shall live. +021:009 Moses made a serpent of brass, and set it on the standard: + and it happened, that if a serpent had bitten any man, + when he looked to the serpent of brass, he lived. +021:010 The children of Israel traveled, and encamped in Oboth. +021:011 They traveled from Oboth, and encamped at Iyeabarim, + in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrise. +021:012 From there they traveled, and encamped in the valley of Zered. +021:013 From there they traveled, and encamped on the other side + of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness, that comes out of + the border of the Amorites: for the Arnon is the border of Moab, + between Moab and the Amorites. +021:014 Therefore it is said in the book of the Wars of Yahweh, "Vaheb + in Suphah, the valleys of the Arnon, +021:015 the slope of the valleys that incline toward the dwelling of Ar, + leans on the border of Moab." +021:016 From there they traveled to Beer: that is the well of + which Yahweh said to Moses, Gather the people together, + and I will give them water. +021:017 Then sang Israel this song: "Spring up, well; sing to it: +021:018 the well, which the princes dug, which the nobles of + the people dug, with the scepter, and with their poles." + From the wilderness [they traveled] to Mattanah; +021:019 and from Mattanah to Nahaliel; and from Nahaliel to Bamoth; +021:020 and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of Moab, + to the top of Pisgah, which looks down on the desert. +021:021 Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying, +021:022 Let me pass through your land: we will not turn aside into field, + or into vineyard; we will not drink of the water of the wells: + we will go by the king's highway, until we have passed your border. +021:023 Sihon would not allow Israel to pass through his border: + but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out + against Israel into the wilderness, and came to Jahaz; + and he fought against Israel. +021:024 Israel struck him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his + land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, even to the children of Ammon; + for the border of the children of Ammon was strong. +021:025 Israel took all these cities: and Israel lived in all the cities + of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all the towns of it. +021:026 For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, + who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken + all his land out of his hand, even to the Arnon. +021:027 Therefore those who speak in proverbs say, "Come to Heshbon. + Let the city of Sihon be built and established; +021:028 for a fire has gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon. + It has devoured Ar of Moab, The lords of the high places + of the Arnon. +021:029 Woe to you, Moab! You are undone, people of Chemosh! He has + given his sons as fugitives, and his daughters into captivity, + to Sihon king of the Amorites. +021:030 We have shot at them. Heshbon has perished even to Dibon. + We have laid waste even to Nophah, Which reaches to Medeba." +021:031 Thus Israel lived in the land of the Amorites. +021:032 Moses sent to spy out Jazer; and they took the towns of it, + and drove out the Amorites who were there. +021:033 They turned and went up by the way of Bashan: and Og the king + of Bashan went out against them, he and all his people, + to battle at Edrei. +021:034 Yahweh said to Moses, Don't fear him: for I have delivered + him into your hand, and all his people, and his land; + and you shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, + who lived at Heshbon. +021:035 So they struck him, and his sons and all his people, until there + was none left him remaining: and they possessed his land. +022:001 The children of Israel traveled, and encamped in the plains + of Moab beyond the Jordan at Jericho. +022:002 Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done + to the Amorites. +022:003 Moab was sore afraid of the people, because they were many: + and Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel. +022:004 Moab said to the elders of Midian, Now will this multitude lick + up all that is round about us, as the ox licks up the grass + of the field. Balak the son of Zippor was king of Moab + at that time. +022:005 He sent messengers to Balaam the son of Beor, to Pethor, + which is by the River, to the land of the children of his people, + to call him, saying, Behold, there is a people come out + from Egypt: behold, they cover the surface of the earth, + and they abide over against me. +022:006 Please come now therefore curse me this people; for they are + too mighty for me: peradventure I shall prevail, that we + may strike them, and that I may drive them out of the land; + for I know that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom + you curse is cursed. +022:007 The elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the + rewards of divination in their hand; and they came to Balaam, + and spoke to him the words of Balak. +022:008 He said to them, Lodge here this night, and I will bring you + word again, as Yahweh shall speak to me: and the princes + of Moab abode with Balaam. +022:009 God came to Balaam, and said, What men are these with you? +022:010 Balaam said to God, Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, + has sent to me, [saying], +022:011 Behold, the people that is come out of Egypt, it covers + the surface of the earth: now, come curse me them; + peradventure I shall be able to fight against them, and shall + drive them out. +022:012 God said to Balaam, You shall not go with them; you shall + not curse the people; for they are blessed. +022:013 Balaam rose up in the morning, and said to the princes + of Balak, Get you into your land; for Yahweh refuses to give + me leave to go with you. +022:014 The princes of Moab rose up, and they went to Balak, and said, + Balaam refuses to come with us. +022:015 Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honorable than they. +022:016 They came to Balaam, and said to him, Thus says Balak the son + of Zippor, Please let nothing hinder you from coming to me: +022:017 for I will promote you to very great honor, and whatever you + say to me I will do. Please come therefore, and curse this + people for me. +022:018 Balaam answered the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me + his house full of silver and gold, I can't go beyond the word + of Yahweh my God, to do less or more. +022:019 Now therefore, please wait also here this night, that I may + know what Yahweh will speak to me more. +022:020 God came to Balaam at night, and said to him, If the men are + come to call you, rise up, go with them; but only the word + which I speak to you, that shall you do. +022:021 Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his donkey, + and went with the princes of Moab. +022:022 God's anger was kindled because he went; and the angel of Yahweh + placed himself in the way for an adversary against him. + Now he was riding on his donkey, and his two servants + were with him. +022:023 The donkey saw the angel of Yahweh standing in the way, + with his sword drawn in his hand; and the donkey + turned aside out of the way, and went into the field: + and Balaam struck the donkey, to turn her into the way. +022:024 Then the angel of Yahweh stood in a narrow path between the vineyards, + a wall being on this side, and a wall on that side. +022:025 The donkey saw the angel of Yahweh, and she thrust herself + to the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall: + and he struck her again. +022:026 The angel of Yahweh went further, and stood in a narrow place, + where was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left. +022:027 The donkey saw the angel of Yahweh, and she lay down under Balaam: + and Balaam's anger was kindled, and he struck the donkey + with his staff. +022:028 Yahweh opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said + to Balaam, What have I done to you, that you have struck me + these three times? +022:029 Balaam said to the donkey, Because you have mocked me, I would + there were a sword in my hand, for now I had killed you. +022:030 The donkey said to Balaam, Am I not your donkey, on which you + have ridden all your life long to this day? was I ever wont + to do so to you? and he said, No. +022:031 Then Yahweh opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel + of Yahweh standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand; + and he bowed his head, and fell on his face. +022:032 The angel of Yahweh said to him, Why have you struck your donkey + these three times? behold, I am come forth for an adversary, + because your way is perverse before me: +022:033 and the donkey saw me, and turned aside before me these three times: + unless she had turned aside from me, surely now I had even + slain you, and saved her alive. +022:034 Balaam said to the angel of Yahweh, I have sinned; + for I didn't know that you stood in the way against me: + now therefore, if it displease you, I will get me back again. +022:035 The angel of Yahweh said to Balaam, Go with the men; but only + the word that I shall speak to you, that you shall speak. + So Balaam went with the princes of Balak. +022:036 When Balak heard that Balaam was come, he went out to meet him + to the City of Moab, which is on the border of the Arnon, + which is in the utmost part of the border. +022:037 Balak said to Balaam, Didn't I earnestly send to you to call + you? why didn't you come to me? am I not able indeed to promote + you to honor? +022:038 Balaam said to Balak, Behold, I have come to you: + have I now any power at all to speak anything? the word + that God puts in my mouth, that shall I speak. +022:039 Balaam went with Balak, and they came to Kiriath Huzoth. +022:040 Balak sacrificed oxen and sheep, and sent to Balaam, + and to the princes who were with him. +022:041 It happened in the morning, that Balak took Balaam, and brought + him up into the high places of Baal; and he saw from there + the utmost part of the people. +023:001 Balaam said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare + me here seven bulls and seven rams. +023:002 Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered + on every altar a bull and a ram. +023:003 Balaam said to Balak, Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go: + perhaps Yahweh will come to meet me; and whatever he shows + me I will tell you. He went to a bare height. +023:004 God met Balaam: and he said to him, I have prepared the seven altars, + and I have offered up a bull and a ram on every altar. +023:005 Yahweh put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return to Balak, + and thus you shall speak. +023:006 He returned to him, and behold, he was standing by his + burnt offering, he, and all the princes of Moab. +023:007 He took up his parable, and said, From Aram has Balak brought me, + The king of Moab from the mountains of the East: Come, curse + me Jacob, Come, defy Israel. +023:008 How shall I curse, whom God has not cursed? How shall I defy, + whom Yahweh has not defied? +023:009 For from the top of the rocks I see him, From the hills I see him: + behold, it is a people that dwells alone, And shall not be + reckoned among the nations. +023:010 Who can count the dust of Jacob, Or number the fourth + part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, + Let my last end be like his! +023:011 Balak said to Balaam, What have you done to me? + I took you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have + blessed them altogether. +023:012 He answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which + Yahweh puts in my mouth? +023:013 Balak said to him, Please come with me to another place, + from whence you may see them; you shall see but the utmost + part of them, and shall not see them all: and curse me + them from there. +023:014 He took him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, + and built seven altars, and offered up a bull and a ram + on every altar. +023:015 He said to Balak, Stand here by your burnt offering, while I + meet [Yahweh] yonder. +023:016 Yahweh met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, + Return to Balak, and thus shall you speak. +023:017 He came to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, + and the princes of Moab with him. Balak said to him, + What has Yahweh spoken? +023:018 He took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear! + Listen to me, you son of Zippor. +023:019 God is not a man, that he should lie, nor the son of man, + that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? + Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good? +023:020 Behold, I have received a command to bless. He has blessed, + and I can't reverse it. +023:021 He has not seen iniquity in Jacob. Neither has he seen + perverseness in Israel. Yahweh his God is with him. + The shout of a king is among them. +023:022 God brings them out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength + of the wild ox. +023:023 Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob; Neither is there + any divination with Israel. Now it shall be said of Jacob + and of Israel, What has God done! +023:024 Behold, the people rises up as a lioness, As a lion he lifts + himself up. He shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, + and drinks the blood of the slain. +023:025 Balak said to Balaam, Neither curse them at all, nor bless + them at all. +023:026 But Balaam answered Balak, Didn't I tell you, saying, All that + Yahweh speaks, that I must do? +023:027 Balak said to Balaam, Come now, I will take you to another place; + peradventure it will please God that you may curse me + them from there. +023:028 Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks down + on the desert. +023:029 Balaam said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare + me here seven bulls and seven rams. +023:030 Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered up a bull and a ram + on every altar. +024:001 When Balaam saw that it pleased Yahweh to bless Israel, + he didn't go, as at the other times, to meet with enchantments, + but he set his face toward the wilderness. +024:002 Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel dwelling according + to their tribes; and the Spirit of God came on him. +024:003 He took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor says, + the man whose eye was closed says; +024:004 he says, who hears the words of God, who sees the vision + of the Almighty, falling down, and having his eyes open: +024:005 How goodly are your tents, Jacob, and your tents, Israel! +024:006 As valleys they are spread forth, as gardens by the riverside, + as aloes which Yahweh has planted, as cedar trees beside the waters. +024:007 Water shall flow from his buckets. His seed shall be + in many waters. His king shall be higher than Agag. + His kingdom shall be exalted. +024:008 God brings him out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength + of the wild ox. He shall eat up the nations his adversaries, + shall break their bones in pieces, and pierce them with his arrows. +024:009 He couched, he lay down as a lion, as a lioness; who shall + rouse him up? Everyone who blesses you is blessed. + Everyone who curses you is cursed. +024:010 Balak's anger was kindled against Balaam, and he struck + his hands together; and Balak said to Balaam, I called you + to curse my enemies, and, behold, you have altogether blessed + them these three times. +024:011 Therefore now flee you to your place: I thought to promote + you to great honor; but, behold, Yahweh has kept you + back from honor. +024:012 Balaam said to Balak, Didn't I also tell your messengers + who you sent to me, saying, +024:013 If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, + I can't go beyond the word of Yahweh, to do either good or bad + of my own mind; what Yahweh speaks, that will I speak? +024:014 Now, behold, I go to my people: come, [and] I will advertise you + what this people shall do to your people in the latter days. +024:015 He took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor says, + the man whose eye was closed says; +024:016 he says, who hears the words of God, knows the knowledge of the + Most High, and who sees the vision of the Almighty, Falling down, + and having his eyes open: +024:017 I see him, but not now. I see him, but not near. + A star will come out of Jacob. A scepter will rise out + of Israel, and shall strike through the corners of Moab, + and break down all the sons of Sheth. +024:018 Edom shall be a possession. Seir, his enemies, also shall + be a possession, while Israel does valiantly. +024:019 Out of Jacob shall one have dominion, and shall destroy + the remnant from the city. +024:020 He looked at Amalek, and took up his parable, and said, + Amalek was the first of the nations, But his latter end shall + come to destruction. +024:021 He looked at the Kenite, and took up his parable, and said, + Your dwelling place is strong. Your nest is set in the rock. +024:022 Nevertheless Kain shall be wasted, until Asshur carries + you away captive. +024:023 He took up his parable, and said, Alas, who shall live when + God does this? +024:024 But ships [shall come] from the coast of Kittim. + They shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber. + He also shall come to destruction. +024:025 Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his place; and Balak + also went his way. +025:001 Israel abode in Shittim; and the people began to play + the prostitute with the daughters of Moab: +025:002 for they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods; + and the people ate, and bowed down to their gods. +025:003 Israel joined himself to Baal Peor: and the anger of Yahweh + was kindled against Israel. +025:004 Yahweh said to Moses, Take all the chiefs of the people, + and hang them up to Yahweh before the sun, that the fierce + anger of Yahweh may turn away from Israel. +025:005 Moses said to the judges of Israel, Kill you everyone his men + who have joined themselves to Baal Peor. +025:006 Behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought to his + brothers a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses, and in + the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, + while they were weeping at the door of the tent of meeting. +025:007 When Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, + saw it, he rose up from the midst of the congregation, + and took a spear in his hand; +025:008 and he went after the man of Israel into the pavilion, + and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, + and the woman through her body. So the plague was stayed + from the children of Israel. +025:009 Those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand. +025:010 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +025:011 Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, + has turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, + in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I + didn't consume the children of Israel in my jealousy. +025:012 Therefore say, Behold, I give to him my covenant of peace: +025:013 and it shall be to him, and to his seed after him, the covenant + of an everlasting priesthood; because he was jealous for his God, + and made atonement for the children of Israel. +025:014 Now the name of the man of Israel that was slain, who was + slain with the Midianite woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, + a prince of a fathers' house among the Simeonites. +025:015 The name of the Midianite woman who was slain was Cozbi, + the daughter of Zur; he was head of the people of a fathers' + house in Midian. +025:016 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +025:017 Vex the Midianites, and strike them; +025:018 for they vex you with their wiles, with which they have deceived + you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, + the daughter of the prince of Midian, their sister, who was + slain on the day of the plague in the matter of Peor. +026:001 It happened after the plague, that Yahweh spoke to Moses + and to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying, +026:002 Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, + from twenty years old and upward, by their fathers' + houses, all who are able to go forth to war in Israel. +026:003 Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them in the plains + of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying, +026:004 [Take the sum of the people], from twenty years old and upward; + as Yahweh commanded Moses and the children of Israel, + that came forth out of the land of Egypt. +026:005 Reuben, the firstborn of Israel; the sons of Reuben: + [of] Hanoch, the family of the Hanochites; of Pallu, + the family of the Palluites; +026:006 of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; of Carmi, the family + of the Carmites. +026:007 These are the families of the Reubenites; and those who were + numbered of them were forty-three thousand seven hundred thirty. +026:008 The sons of Pallu: Eliab. +026:009 The sons of Eliab: Nemuel, and Dathan, and Abiram. These are + that Dathan and Abiram, who were called of the congregation, + who strove against Moses and against Aaron in the company + of Korah, when they strove against Yahweh, +026:010 and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up together + with Korah, when that company died; what time the fire devoured + two hundred fifty men, and they became a sign. +026:011 Notwithstanding, the sons of Korah didn't die. +026:012 The sons of Simeon after their families: of Nemuel, the family + of the Nemuelites; of Jamin, the family of the Jaminites; + of Jachin, the family of the Jachinites; +026:013 of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites; of Shaul, the family + of the Shaulites. +026:014 These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty-two thousand + two hundred. +026:015 The sons of Gad after their families: of Zephon, the family + of the Zephonites; of Haggi, the family of the Haggites; + of Shuni, the family of the Shunites; +026:016 of Ozni, the family of the Oznites; of Eri, the family + of the Erites; +026:017 of Arod, the family of the Arodites; of Areli, the family + of the Arelites. +026:018 These are the families of the sons of Gad according to those + who were numbered of them, forty thousand and five hundred. +026:019 The sons of Judah: Er and Onan; and Er and Onan died in + the land of Canaan. +026:020 The sons of Judah after their families were: of Shelah, + the family of the Shelanites; of Perez, the family of the Perezites; + of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites. +026:021 The sons of Perez were: of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; + of Hamul, the family of the Hamulites. +026:022 These are the families of Judah according to those who were + numbered of them, seventy-six thousand five hundred. +026:023 The sons of Issachar after their families: [of] Tola, + the family of the Tolaites; of Puvah, the family of the Punites; +026:024 of Jashub, the family of the Jashubites; of Shimron, the family + of the Shimronites. +026:025 These are the families of Issachar according to those who were + numbered of them, sixty-four thousand three hundred. +026:026 The sons of Zebulun after their families: of Sered, the family + of the Seredites; of Elon, the family of the Elonites; + of Jahleel, the family of the Jahleelites. +026:027 These are the families of the Zebulunites according to those + who were numbered of them, sixty thousand five hundred. +026:028 The sons of Joseph after their families: Manasseh and Ephraim. +026:029 The sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites; + and Machir became the father of Gilead; of Gilead, the family + of the Gileadites. +026:030 These are the sons of Gilead: [of] Iezer, the family of + the Iezerites; of Helek, the family of the Helekites; +026:031 and [of] Asriel, the family of the Asrielites; and [of] Shechem, + the family of the Shechemites; +026:032 and [of] Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites; and [of] Hepher, + the family of the Hepherites. +026:033 Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters: + and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, + and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. +026:034 These are the families of Manasseh; and those who were numbered + of them were fifty-two thousand seven hundred. +026:035 These are the sons of Ephraim after their families: + of Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthelahites; of Becher, + the family of the Becherites; of Tahan, the family + of the Tahanites. +026:036 These are the sons of Shuthelah: of Eran, the family + of the Eranites. +026:037 These are the families of the sons of Ephraim according to those + who were numbered of them, thirty-two thousand five hundred. + These are the sons of Joseph after their families. +026:038 The sons of Benjamin after their families: of Bela, the family + of the Belaites; of Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites; + of Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites; +026:039 of Shephupham, the family of the Shuphamites; of Hupham, + the family of the Huphamites. +026:040 The sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman: [of Ard], the family + of the Ardites; of Naaman, the family of the Naamites. +026:041 These are the sons of Benjamin after their families; + and those who were numbered of them were forty-five + thousand six hundred. +026:042 These are the sons of Dan after their families: of Shuham, + the family of the Shuhamites. These are the families of Dan + after their families. +026:043 All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those who were + numbered of them, were sixty-four thousand four hundred. +026:044 The sons of Asher after their families: of Imnah, the family + of the Imnites; of Ishvi, the family of the Ishvites; + of Beriah, the family of the Berites. +026:045 Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the family of the Heberites; + of Malchiel, the family of the Malchielites. +026:046 The name of the daughter of Asher was Serah. +026:047 These are the families of the sons of Asher according + to those who were numbered of them, fifty-three thousand + and four hundred. +026:048 The sons of Naphtali after their families: of Jahzeel, + the family of the Jahzeelites; of Guni, the family of the Gunites; +026:049 of Jezer, the family of the Jezerites; of Shillem, the family + of the Shillemites. +026:050 These are the families of Naphtali according to their families; + and those who were numbered of them were forty-five + thousand four hundred. +026:051 These are those who were numbered of the children of Israel, + six hundred one thousand seven hundred thirty. +026:052 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +026:053 To these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according + to the number of names. +026:054 To the more you shall give the more inheritance, + and to the fewer you shall give the less inheritance: + to everyone according to those who were numbered of him shall + his inheritance be given. +026:055 Notwithstanding, the land shall be divided by lot: + according to the names of the tribes of their fathers + they shall inherit. +026:056 According to the lot shall their inheritance be divided between + the more and the fewer. +026:057 These are those who were numbered of the Levites after + their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites; + of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites; of Merari, the family + of the Merarites. +026:058 These are the families of Levi: the family of the Libnites, + the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, + the family of the Mushites, the family of the Korahites. + Kohath became the father of Amram. +026:059 The name of Amram's wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, + who was born to Levi in Egypt: and she bore to Amram Aaron + and Moses, and Miriam their sister. +026:060 To Aaron were born Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. +026:061 Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before Yahweh. +026:062 Those who were numbered of them were twenty-three thousand, + every male from a month old and upward: for they were not + numbered among the children of Israel, because there was no + inheritance given them among the children of Israel. +026:063 These are those who were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, + who numbered the children of Israel in the plains of Moab + by the Jordan at Jericho. +026:064 But among these there was not a man of them who were numbered + by Moses and Aaron the priest, who numbered the children + of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai. +026:065 For Yahweh had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. + There was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, + and Joshua the son of Nun. +027:001 Then drew near the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, + the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, + of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph; and these + are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, + and Milcah, and Tirzah. +027:002 They stood before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, + and before the princes and all the congregation, at the door + of the tent of meeting, saying, +027:003 Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not among + the company of those who gathered themselves together against + Yahweh in the company of Korah: but he died in his own sin; + and he had no sons. +027:004 Why should the name of our father be taken away from among + his family, because he had no son? Give to us a possession + among the brothers of our father. +027:005 Moses brought their cause before Yahweh. +027:006 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +027:007 The daughters of Zelophehad speak right: you shall surely give + them a possession of an inheritance among their father's brothers; + and you shall cause the inheritance of their father to + pass to them. +027:008 You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, If a man die, + and have no son, then you shall cause his inheritance to pass + to his daughter. +027:009 If he have no daughter, then you shall give his inheritance + to his brothers. +027:010 If he have no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance + to his father's brothers. +027:011 If his father have no brothers, then you shall give his + inheritance to his kinsman who is next to him of his family, + and he shall possess it: and it shall be to the children + of Israel a statute [and] ordinance, as Yahweh commanded Moses. +027:012 Yahweh said to Moses, Go up into this mountain of Abarim, + and see the land which I have given to the children of Israel. +027:013 When you have seen it, you also shall be gathered to your people, + as Aaron your brother was gathered; +027:014 because you rebelled against my word in the wilderness of Zin, + in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the waters + before their eyes. (These are the waters of Meribah of Kadesh + in the wilderness of Zin.) +027:015 Moses spoke to Yahweh, saying, +027:016 Let Yahweh, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man + over the congregation, +027:017 who may go out before them, and who may come in before them, + and who may lead them out, and who may bring them in; + that the congregation of Yahweh not be as sheep which + have no shepherd. +027:018 Yahweh said to Moses, Take Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom + is the Spirit, and lay your hand on him; +027:019 and set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all + the congregation; and give him a charge in their sight. +027:020 You shall put of your honor on him, that all the congregation + of the children of Israel may obey. +027:021 He shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire + for him by the judgment of the Urim before Yahweh: + at his word shall they go out, and at his word they shall + come in, both he, and all the children of Israel with him, + even all the congregation. +027:022 Moses did as Yahweh commanded him; and he took Joshua, and set + him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation: +027:023 and he laid his hands on him, and gave him a charge, as Yahweh + spoke by Moses. +028:001 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +028:002 Command the children of Israel, and tell them, My offering, + my food for my offerings made by fire, of a sweet savor to me, + shall you observe to offer to me in their due season. +028:003 You shall tell them, This is the offering made by fire which you + shall offer to Yahweh: male lambs a year old without blemish, + two day by day, for a continual burnt offering. +028:004 The one lamb shall you offer in the morning, and the other lamb + shall you offer at even; +028:005 and the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering, + mixed with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil. +028:006 It is a continual burnt offering, which was ordained in Mount Sinai + for a sweet savor, an offering made by fire to Yahweh. +028:007 The drink offering of it shall be the fourth part of a hin + for the one lamb: in the holy place shall you pour out a drink + offering of strong drink to Yahweh. +028:008 The other lamb shall you offer at even: as the meal offering + of the morning, and as the drink offering of it, you shall + offer it, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to Yahweh. +028:009 On the Sabbath day two male lambs a year old without blemish, + and two tenth parts [of an ephah] of fine flour for a meal offering, + mixed with oil, and the drink offering of it: +028:010 this is the burnt offering of every Sabbath, besides the continual + burnt offering, and the drink offering of it. +028:011 In the beginnings of your months you shall offer a burnt + offering to Yahweh: two young bulls, and one ram, seven male + lambs a year old without blemish; +028:012 and three tenth parts [of an ephah] of fine flour for a + meal offering, mixed with oil, for each bull; and two tenth + parts of fine flour for a meal offering, mixed with oil, + for the one ram; +028:013 and a tenth part of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal + offering to every lamb; for a burnt offering of a sweet savor, + an offering made by fire to Yahweh. +028:014 Their drink offerings shall be half a hin of wine for a bull, + and the third part of a hin for the ram, and the fourth part + of a hin for a lamb: this is the burnt offering of every + month throughout the months of the year. +028:015 One male goat for a sin offering to Yahweh; it shall be + offered besides the continual burnt offering, and the drink + offering of it. +028:016 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, + is Yahweh's Passover. +028:017 On the fifteenth day of this month shall be a feast: + seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten. +028:018 In the first day shall be a holy convocation: you shall + do no servile work; +028:019 but you shall offer an offering made by fire, a burnt offering + to Yahweh: two young bulls, and one ram, and seven male + lambs a year old; they shall be to you without blemish; +028:020 and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil: + three tenth parts shall you offer for a bull, and two tenth + parts for the ram; +028:021 a tenth part shall you offer for every lamb of the seven lambs; +028:022 and one male goat for a sin offering, to make atonement for you. +028:023 You shall offer these besides the burnt offering of the morning, + which is for a continual burnt offering. +028:024 After this manner you shall offer daily, for seven days, the food + of the offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to Yahweh: + it shall be offered besides the continual burnt offering, + and the drink offering of it. +028:025 On the seventh day you shall have a holy convocation: + you shall do no servile work. +028:026 Also in the day of the first fruits, when you offer a new meal + offering to Yahweh in your [feast of] weeks, you shall have + a holy convocation; you shall do no servile work; +028:027 but you shall offer a burnt offering for a sweet savor to Yahweh: + two young bulls, one ram, seven male lambs a year old; +028:028 and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three tenth + parts for each bull, two tenth parts for the one ram, +028:029 a tenth part for every lamb of the seven lambs; +028:030 one male goat, to make atonement for you. +028:031 Besides the continual burnt offering, and the meal offering of it, + you shall offer them (they shall be to you without blemish), + and their drink offerings. +029:001 In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall + have a holy convocation; you shall do no servile work: + it is a day of blowing of trumpets to you. +029:002 You shall offer a burnt offering for a sweet savor to Yahweh: + one young bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without blemish; +029:003 and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three tenth + parts for the bull, two tenth parts for the ram, +029:004 and one tenth part for every lamb of the seven lambs; +029:005 and one male goat for a sin offering, to make atonement for you; +029:006 besides the burnt offering of the new moon, and the meal offering + of it, and the continual burnt offering and the meal offering + of it, and their drink offerings, according to their ordinance, + for a sweet savor, an offering made by fire to Yahweh. +029:007 On the tenth day of this seventh month you shall have + a holy convocation; and you shall afflict your souls: + you shall do no manner of work; +029:008 but you shall offer a burnt offering to Yahweh for a sweet savor: + one young bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old; + they shall be to you without blemish; +029:009 and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three tenth + parts for the bull, two tenth parts for the one ram, +029:010 a tenth part for every lamb of the seven lambs: +029:011 one male goat for a sin offering; besides the sin offering + of atonement, and the continual burnt offering, and the meal + offering of it, and their drink offerings. +029:012 On the fifteenth day of the seventh month you shall have + a holy convocation; you shall do no servile work, and you + shall keep a feast to Yahweh seven days: +029:013 and you shall offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, + of a sweet savor to Yahweh; thirteen young bulls, two rams, + fourteen male lambs a year old; they shall be without blemish; +029:014 and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil, + three tenth parts for every bull of the thirteen bulls, + two tenth parts for each ram of the two rams, +029:015 and a tenth part for every lamb of the fourteen lambs; +029:016 and one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual + burnt offering, the meal offering of it, and the drink + offering of it. +029:017 On the second day [you shall offer] twelve young bulls, + two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish; +029:018 and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, + for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, + after the ordinance; +029:019 and one male goat for a sin offering; besides the + continual burnt offering, and the meal offering of it, + and their drink offerings. +029:020 On the third day eleven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs + a year old without blemish; +029:021 and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, + for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, + after the ordinance; +029:022 and one male goat for a sin offering; besides the continual + burnt offering, and the meal offering of it, and the drink + offering of it. +029:023 On the fourth day ten bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs + a year old without blemish; +029:024 their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, + for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, + after the ordinance; +029:025 and one male goat for a sin offering; besides the continual + burnt offering, the meal offering of it, and the drink + offering of it. +029:026 On the fifth day nine bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs + a year old without blemish; +029:027 and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, + for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, + after the ordinance; +029:028 and one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual + burnt offering, and the meal offering of it, and the drink + offering of it. +029:029 On the sixth day eight bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs + a year old without blemish; +029:030 and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, + for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, + after the ordinance; +029:031 and one male goat for a sin offering; besides the continual + burnt offering, the meal offering of it, and the drink + offerings of it. +029:032 On the seventh day seven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs + a year old without blemish; +029:033 and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, + for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, + after the ordinance; +029:034 and one male goat for a sin offering; besides the continual + burnt offering, the meal offering of it, and the drink + offering of it. +029:035 On the eighth day you shall have a solemn assembly: + you shall do no servile work; +029:036 but you shall offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, + of a sweet savor to Yahweh: one bull, one ram, seven male + lambs a year old without blemish; +029:037 their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bull, + for the ram, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, + after the ordinance: +029:038 and one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual + burnt offering, and the meal offering of it, and the drink + offering of it. +029:039 These you shall offer to Yahweh in your set feasts, besides your vows, + and your freewill offerings, for your burnt offerings, + and for your meal offerings, and for your drink offerings, + and for your peace offerings. +029:040 Moses told the children of Israel according to all that + Yahweh commanded Moses. +030:001 Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes of the children of Israel, + saying, This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded. +030:002 When a man vows a vow to Yahweh, or swears an oath to bind + his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word; he shall + do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth. +030:003 Also when a woman vows a vow to Yahweh, and binds herself + by a bond, being in her father's house, in her youth, +030:004 and her father hears her vow, and her bond with which she + has bound her soul, and her father holds his peace at her; + then all her vows shall stand, and every bond with which she + has bound her soul shall stand. +030:005 But if her father disallow her in the day that he hears, + none of her vows, or of her bonds with which she has bound + her soul, shall stand: and Yahweh will forgive her, + because her father disallowed her. +030:006 If she be [married] to a husband, while her vows are on her, + or the rash utterance of her lips, with which she has + bound her soul, +030:007 and her husband hear it, and hold his peace at her in the day + that he hears it; then her vows shall stand, and her bonds + with which she has bound her soul shall stand. +030:008 But if her husband disallow her in the day that he hears it, + then he shall make void her vow which is on her, and the rash + utterance of her lips, with which she has bound her soul: + and Yahweh will forgive her. +030:009 But the vow of a widow, or of her who is divorced, + [even] everything with which she has bound her soul, + shall stand against her. +030:010 If she vowed in her husband's house, or bound her soul by a bond + with an oath, +030:011 and her husband heard it, and held his peace at her, + and didn't disallow her; then all her vows shall stand, + and every bond with which she bound her soul shall stand. +030:012 But if her husband made them null and void in the day that he + heard them, then whatever proceeded out of her lips concerning + her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand: + her husband has made them void; and Yahweh will forgive her. +030:013 Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, + her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void. +030:014 But if her husband altogether hold his peace at her from day + to day, then he establishes all her vows, or all her bonds, + which are on her: he has established them, because he held + his peace at her in the day that he heard them. +030:015 But if he shall make them null and void after that he has + heard them, then he shall bear her iniquity. +030:016 These are the statutes, which Yahweh commanded Moses, + between a man and his wife, between a father and his daughter, + being in her youth, in her father's house. +031:001 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +031:002 Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: + afterward you shall be gathered to your people. +031:003 Moses spoke to the people, saying, Arm you men from among you + for the war, that they may go against Midian, to execute + Yahweh's vengeance on Midian. +031:004 Of every tribe one thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, + shall you send to the war. +031:005 So there were delivered, out of the thousands of Israel, + a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war. +031:006 Moses sent them, one thousand of every tribe, to the war, + them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, + with the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for the alarm + in his hand. +031:007 They warred against Midian, as Yahweh commanded Moses; + and they killed every male. +031:008 They killed the kings of Midian with the rest of their slain: + Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, the five + kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of Beor they killed + with the sword. +031:009 The children of Israel took captive the women of Midian and their + little ones; and all their livestock, and all their flocks, + and all their goods, they took for a prey. +031:010 All their cities in the places in which they lived, and all + their encampments, they burnt with fire. +031:011 They took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of man + and of animal. +031:012 They brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, + to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation + of the children of Israel, to the camp at the plains of Moab, + which are by the Jordan at Jericho. +031:013 Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of + the congregation, went forth to meet them outside of the camp. +031:014 Moses was angry with the officers of the army, the captains + of thousands and the captains of hundreds, who came from + the service of the war. +031:015 Moses said to them, Have you saved all the women alive? +031:016 Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel + of Balaam, to commit trespass against Yahweh in the matter of Peor, + and so the plague was among the congregation of Yahweh. +031:017 Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill + every woman who has known man by lying with him. +031:018 But all the girls, who have not known man by lying with him, + keep alive for yourselves. +031:019 Encamp you outside of the camp seven days: whoever has + killed any person, and whoever has touched any slain, + purify yourselves on the third day and on the seventh day, + you and your captives. +031:020 As to every garment, and all that is made of skin, + and all work of goats' [hair], and all things made of wood, + you shall purify yourselves. +031:021 Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who went to the battle, + This is the statute of the law which Yahweh has commanded Moses: +031:022 however the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, + and the lead, +031:023 everything that may abide the fire, you shall make to go + through the fire, and it shall be clean; nevertheless it + shall be purified with the water for impurity: + and all that doesn't withstand the fire you shall make to go + through the water. +031:024 You shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall + be clean; and afterward you shall come into the camp. +031:025 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +031:026 Take the sum of the prey that was taken, both of man and of animal, + you, and Eleazar the priest, and the heads of the fathers' + [houses] of the congregation; +031:027 and divide the prey into two parts: between the men skilled + in war, who went out to battle, and all the congregation. +031:028 Levy a tribute to Yahweh of the men of war who went out to battle: + one soul of five hundred, [both] of the persons, and of the oxen, + and of the donkeys, and of the flocks: +031:029 take it of their half, and give it to Eleazar the priest, + for Yahweh's wave offering. +031:030 Of the children of Israel's half, you shall take one drawn out + of every fifty, of the persons, of the oxen, of the donkeys, + and of the flocks, [even] of all the livestock, and give them + to the Levites, who keep the charge of the tent of Yahweh. +031:031 Moses and Eleazar the priest did as Yahweh commanded Moses. +031:032 Now the prey, over and above the booty which the men of war took, + was six hundred seventy-five thousand sheep, +031:033 and seventy-two thousand oxen, +031:034 and sixty-one thousand donkeys, +031:035 and thirty-two thousand persons in all, of the women who had + not known man by lying with him. +031:036 The half, which was the portion of those who went out to war, + was in number three hundred thirty-seven thousand + five hundred sheep: +031:037 and Yahweh's tribute of the sheep was six hundred seventy-five. +031:038 The oxen were thirty-six thousand; of which Yahweh's + tribute was seventy-two. +031:039 The donkeys were thirty thousand five hundred; of which Yahweh's + tribute was sixty-one. +031:040 The persons were sixteen thousand; of whom Yahweh's tribute + was thirty-two persons. +031:041 Moses gave the tribute, which was Yahweh's wave offering, + to Eleazar the priest, as Yahweh commanded Moses. +031:042 Of the children of Israel's half, which Moses divided off + from the men who warred +031:043 (now the congregation's half was three hundred thirty-seven + thousand five hundred sheep, +031:044 and thirty-six thousand oxen, +031:045 and thirty thousand five hundred donkeys, +031:046 and sixteen thousand persons), +031:047 even of the children of Israel's half, Moses took one drawn + out of every fifty, both of man and of animal, and gave them + to the Levites, who kept the charge of the tent of Yahweh; + as Yahweh commanded Moses. +031:048 The officers who were over the thousands of the army, + the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, + came near to Moses; +031:049 and they said to Moses, Your servants have taken the sum + of the men of war who are under our charge, and there lacks + not one man of us. +031:050 We have brought Yahweh's offering, what every man has gotten, + of jewels of gold, armlets, and bracelets, signet rings, earrings, + and necklaces, to make atonement for our souls before Yahweh. +031:051 Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of them, + even all worked jewels. +031:052 All the gold of the wave offering that they offered up to Yahweh, + of the captains of thousands, and of the captains of hundreds, + was sixteen thousand seven hundred fifty shekels. +031:053 ([For] the men of war had taken booty, every man for himself.) +031:054 Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains of + thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the tent of meeting, + for a memorial for the children of Israel before Yahweh. +032:001 Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had + a very great multitude of livestock: and when they saw + the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that behold, + the place was a place for livestock; +032:002 the children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spoke + to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the princes + of the congregation, saying, +032:003 Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, + and Elealeh, and Sebam, and Nebo, and Beon, +032:004 the land which Yahweh struck before the congregation of Israel, + is a land for livestock; and your servants have livestock. +032:005 They said, If we have found favor in your sight, let this land + be given to your servants for a possession; don't bring us + over the Jordan. +032:006 Moses said to the children of Gad, and to the children + of Reuben, Shall your brothers go to the war, and shall + you sit here? +032:007 Why discourage you the heart of the children of Israel from + going over into the land which Yahweh has given them? +032:008 Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea + to see the land. +032:009 For when they went up to the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, + they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they + should not go into the land which Yahweh had given them. +032:010 Yahweh's anger was kindled in that day, and he swore, saying, +032:011 Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years + old and upward, shall see the land which I swore to Abraham, + to Isaac, and to Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me: +032:012 save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, and Joshua + the son of Nun; because they have wholly followed Yahweh. +032:013 Yahweh's anger was kindled against Israel, and he made + them wander back and forth in the wilderness forty years, + until all the generation, who had done evil in the sight + of Yahweh, was consumed. +032:014 Behold, you are risen up in your fathers' place, an increase + of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of + Yahweh toward Israel. +032:015 For if you turn away from after him, he will yet again leave + them in the wilderness; and you will destroy all this people. +032:016 They came near to him, and said, We will build sheepfolds + here for our livestock, and cities for our little ones: +032:017 but we ourselves will be ready armed to go before the children + of Israel, until we have brought them to their place: + and our little ones shall dwell in the fortified cities + because of the inhabitants of the land. +032:018 We will not return to our houses, until the children of Israel + have inherited every man his inheritance. +032:019 For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan, + and forward; because our inheritance is fallen to us on this + side of the Jordan eastward. +032:020 Moses said to them, If you will do this thing, if you will arm + yourselves to go before Yahweh to the war, +032:021 and every armed man of you will pass over the Jordan before Yahweh, + until he has driven out his enemies from before him, +032:022 and the land is subdued before Yahweh; then afterward you + shall return, and be guiltless towards Yahweh, and towards Israel; + and this land shall be to you for a possession before Yahweh. +032:023 But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against Yahweh; + and be sure your sin will find you out. +032:024 Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; + and do that which has proceeded out of your mouth. +032:025 The children of Gad and the children of Reuben spoke to Moses, + saying, Your servants will do as my lord commands. +032:026 Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our livestock, + shall be there in the cities of Gilead; +032:027 but your servants will pass over, every man who is armed for war, + before Yahweh to battle, as my lord says. +032:028 So Moses gave charge concerning them to Eleazar the priest, + and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of the fathers' + [houses] of the tribes of the children of Israel. +032:029 Moses said to them, If the children of Gad and the children + of Reuben will pass with you over the Jordan, every man + who is armed to battle, before Yahweh, and the land shall + be subdued before you; then you shall give them the land + of Gilead for a possession: +032:030 but if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall + have possessions among you in the land of Canaan. +032:031 The children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying, + As Yahweh has said to your servants, so will we do. +032:032 We will pass over armed before Yahweh into the land of Canaan, + and the possession of our inheritance [shall remain] with us + beyond the Jordan. +032:033 Moses gave to them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children + of Reuben, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, + the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom + of Og king of Bashan, the land, according to the cities of it + with [their] borders, even the cities of the land round about. +032:034 The children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer, +032:035 and Atrothshophan, and Jazer, and Jogbehah, +032:036 and Beth Nimrah, and Beth Haran: fortified cities, + and folds for sheep. +032:037 The children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kiriathaim, +032:038 and Nebo, and Baal Meon, (their names being changed), and Sibmah: + and they gave other names to the cities which they built. +032:039 The children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, + and took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were therein. +032:040 Moses gave Gilead to Machir the son of Manasseh; + and he lived therein. +032:041 Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the towns of it, + and called them Havvoth Jair. +032:042 Nobah went and took Kenath, and the villages of it, and called + it Nobah, after his own name. +033:001 These are the journeys of the children of Israel, when they + went forth out of the land of Egypt by their armies under + the hand of Moses and Aaron. +033:002 Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys + by the commandment of Yahweh: and these are their journeys + according to their goings out. +033:003 They traveled from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth + day of the first month; on the next day after the Passover + the children of Israel went out with a high hand in the sight + of all the Egyptians, +033:004 while the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn, + whom Yahweh had struck among them: on their gods also + Yahweh executed judgments. +033:005 The children of Israel traveled from Rameses, and encamped + in Succoth. +033:006 They traveled from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, which is + in the edge of the wilderness. +033:007 They traveled from Etham, and turned back to Pihahiroth, + which is before Baal Zephon: and they encamped before Migdol. +033:008 They traveled from before Hahiroth, and passed through the midst + of the sea into the wilderness: and they went three days' + journey in the wilderness of Etham, and encamped in Marah. +033:009 They traveled from Marah, and came to Elim: and in Elim + were twelve springs of water, and seventy palm trees; + and they encamped there. +033:010 They traveled from Elim, and encamped by the Red Sea{or, Sea of + Reeds}. +033:011 They traveled from the Red Sea{or, Sea of Reeds}, and encamped + in the wilderness of Sin. +033:012 They traveled from the wilderness of Sin, and encamped in Dophkah. +033:013 They traveled from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush. +033:014 They traveled from Alush, and encamped in Rephidim, where was + no water for the people to drink. +033:015 They traveled from Rephidim, and encamped in the wilderness of Sinai. +033:016 They traveled from the wilderness of Sinai, and encamped + in Kibroth Hattaavah. +033:017 They traveled from Kibroth Hattaavah, and encamped in Hazeroth. +033:018 They traveled from Hazeroth, and encamped in Rithmah. +033:019 They traveled from Rithmah, and encamped in Rimmon Perez. +033:020 They traveled from Rimmon Perez, and encamped in Libnah. +033:021 They traveled from Libnah, and encamped in Rissah. +033:022 They traveled from Rissah, and encamped in Kehelathah. +033:023 They traveled from Kehelathah, and encamped in Mount Shepher. +033:024 They traveled from Mount Shepher, and encamped in Haradah. +033:025 They traveled from Haradah, and encamped in Makheloth. +033:026 They traveled from Makheloth, and encamped in Tahath. +033:027 They traveled from Tahath, and encamped in Terah. +033:028 They traveled from Terah, and encamped in Mithkah. +033:029 They traveled from Mithkah, and encamped in Hashmonah. +033:030 They traveled from Hashmonah, and encamped in Moseroth. +033:031 They traveled from Moseroth, and encamped in Bene Jaakan. +033:032 They traveled from Bene Jaakan, and encamped in Hor Haggidgad. +033:033 They traveled from Hor Haggidgad, and encamped in Jotbathah. +033:034 They traveled from Jotbathah, and encamped in Abronah. +033:035 They traveled from Abronah, and encamped in Ezion Geber. +033:036 They traveled from Ezion Geber, and encamped in the wilderness + of Zin (the same is Kadesh). +033:037 They traveled from Kadesh, and encamped in Mount Hor, + in the edge of the land of Edom. +033:038 Aaron the priest went up into Mount Hor at the commandment + of Yahweh, and died there, in the fortieth year after + the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, + in the fifth month, on the first day of the month. +033:039 Aaron was one hundred twenty-three years old when he died + in Mount Hor. +033:040 The Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the South in the land + of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel. +033:041 They traveled from Mount Hor, and encamped in Zalmonah. +033:042 They traveled from Zalmonah, and encamped in Punon. +033:043 They traveled from Punon, and encamped in Oboth. +033:044 They traveled from Oboth, and encamped in Iye Abarim, + in the border of Moab. +033:045 They traveled from Iyim, and encamped in Dibon Gad. +033:046 They traveled from Dibon Gad, and encamped in Almon Diblathaim. +033:047 They traveled from Almon Diblathaim, and encamped in the mountains + of Abarim, before Nebo. +033:048 They traveled from the mountains of Abarim, and encamped + in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho. +033:049 They encamped by the Jordan, from Beth Jeshimoth even to + Abel Shittim in the plains of Moab. +033:050 Yahweh spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan + at Jericho, saying, +033:051 Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, When you pass + over the Jordan into the land of Canaan, +033:052 then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land + from before you, and destroy all their figured [stones], + and destroy all their molten images, and demolish all + their high places: +033:053 and you shall take possession of the land, and dwell therein; + for to you have I given the land to possess it. +033:054 You shall inherit the land by lot according to your families; + to the more you shall give the more inheritance, + and to the fewer you shall give the less inheritance: + wherever the lot falls to any man, that shall be his; + according to the tribes of your fathers shall you inherit. +033:055 But if you will not drive out the inhabitants of the land + from before you, then shall those who you let remain of them + be as pricks in your eyes, and as thorns in your sides, + and they shall vex you in the land in which you dwell. +033:056 It shall happen that as I thought to do to them, so will I + do to you. +034:001 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +034:002 Command the children of Israel, and tell them, When you come + into the land of Canaan (this is the land that shall fall + to you for an inheritance, even the land of Canaan according + to the borders of it), +034:003 then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin + along by the side of Edom, and your south border shall be + from the end of the Salt Sea eastward; +034:004 and your border shall turn about southward of the ascent + of Akrabbim, and pass along to Zin; and the goings out of it + shall be southward of Kadesh Barnea; and it shall go forth + to Hazar Addar, and pass along to Azmon; +034:005 and the border shall turn about from Azmon to the brook of Egypt, + and the goings out of it shall be at the sea. +034:006 For the western border, you shall have the great sea and + the border [of it]: this shall be your west border. +034:007 This shall be your north border: from the great sea you shall + mark out for you Mount Hor; +034:008 from Mount Hor you shall mark out to the entrance of Hamath; + and the goings out of the border shall be at Zedad; +034:009 and the border shall go forth to Ziphron, and the goings out of it + shall be at Hazar Enan: this shall be your north border. +034:010 You shall mark out your east border from Hazar Enan to Shepham; +034:011 and the border shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, + on the east side of Ain; and the border shall go down, + and shall reach to the side of the sea of Chinnereth eastward; +034:012 and the border shall go down to the Jordan, and the goings + out of it shall be at the Salt Sea. This shall be your land + according to the borders of it round about. +034:013 Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, This is the land + which you shall inherit by lot, which Yahweh has commanded + to give to the nine tribes, and to the half-tribe; +034:014 for the tribe of the children of Reuben according to their fathers' + houses, and the tribe of the children of Gad according + to their fathers' houses, have received, and the half-tribe + of Manasseh have received, their inheritance: +034:015 the two tribes and the half-tribe have received their inheritance + beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, toward the sunrise. +034:016 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +034:017 These are the names of the men who shall divide the land + to you for inheritance: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua + the son of Nun. +034:018 You shall take one prince of every tribe, to divide + the land for inheritance. +034:019 These are the names of the men: Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the + son of Jephunneh. +034:020 Of the tribe of the children of Simeon, Shemuel the son of Ammihud. +034:021 Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chislon. +034:022 Of the tribe of the children of Dan a prince, Bukki the + son of Jogli. +034:023 Of the children of Joseph: of the tribe of the children + of Manasseh a prince, Hanniel the son of Ephod. +034:024 Of the tribe of the children of Ephraim a prince, Kemuel the + son of Shiphtan. +034:025 Of the tribe of the children of Zebulun a prince, Elizaphan the + son of Parnach. +034:026 Of the tribe of the children of Issachar a prince, + Paltiel the son of Azzan. +034:027 Of the tribe of the children of Asher a prince, Ahihud the + son of Shelomi. +034:028 Of the tribe of the children of Naphtali a prince, + Pedahel the son of Ammihud. +034:029 These are they whom Yahweh commanded to divide the inheritance + to the children of Israel in the land of Canaan. +035:001 Yahweh spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan + at Jericho, saying, +035:002 Command the children of Israel that they give to the Levites + of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; + and suburbs for the cities round about them shall you give + to the Levites. +035:003 The cities shall they have to dwell in; and their suburbs + shall be for their livestock, and for their substance, + and for all their animals. +035:004 The suburbs of the cities, which you shall give to the Levites, + shall be from the wall of the city and outward one thousand + cubits round about. +035:005 You shall measure outside of the city for the east side two + thousand cubits, and for the south side two thousand cubits, + and for the west side two thousand cubits, and for the north + side two thousand cubits, the city being in the midst. + This shall be to them the suburbs of the cities. +035:006 The cities which you shall give to the Levites, they shall be the six + cities of refuge, which you shall give for the manslayer to flee to: + and besides them you shall give forty-two cities. +035:007 All the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be + forty-eight cities; them [shall you give] with their suburbs. +035:008 Concerning the cities which you shall give of the possession + of the children of Israel, from the many you shall take many; + and from the few you shall take few: everyone according + to his inheritance which he inherits shall give of his cities + to the Levites. +035:009 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, +035:010 Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, When you pass + over the Jordan into the land of Canaan, +035:011 then you shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge + for you, that the manslayer who kills any person unwittingly + may flee there. +035:012 The cities shall be to you for refuge from the avenger, + that the manslayer not die, until he stands before the + congregation for judgment. +035:013 The cities which you shall give shall be for you six + cities of refuge. +035:014 You shall give three cities beyond the Jordan, and three + cities shall you give in the land of Canaan; they shall + be cities of refuge. +035:015 For the children of Israel, and for the stranger and for the foreigner + living among them, shall these six cities be for refuge; + that everyone who kills any person unwittingly may flee there. +035:016 But if he struck him with an instrument of iron, so that he died, + he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death. +035:017 If he struck him with a stone in the hand, by which a man may die, + and he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely + be put to death. +035:018 Or if he struck him with a weapon of wood in the hand, + by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer: + the murderer shall surely be put to death. +035:019 The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death: + when he meets him, he shall put him to death. +035:020 If he thrust him of hatred, or hurled at him, lying in wait, + so that he died, +035:021 or in enmity struck him with his hand, so that he died; + he who struck him shall surely be put to death; he is a murderer: + the avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death, + when he meets him. +035:022 But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or hurled on him + anything without lying in wait, +035:023 or with any stone, by which a man may die, not seeing him, + and cast it on him, so that he died, and he was not his enemy, + neither sought his harm; +035:024 then the congregation shall judge between the striker and + the avenger of blood according to these ordinances; +035:025 and the congregation shall deliver the manslayer out of + the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall + restore him to his city of refuge, where he was fled: + and he shall dwell therein until the death of the high priest, + who was anointed with the holy oil. +035:026 But if the manslayer shall at any time go beyond the border + of his city of refuge, where he flees, +035:027 and the avenger of blood find him outside of the border of his + city of refuge, and the avenger of blood kill the manslayer; + he shall not be guilty of blood, +035:028 because he should have remained in his city of refuge + until the death of the high priest: but after the death + of the high priest the manslayer shall return into the land + of his possession. +035:029 These things shall be for a statute [and] ordinance to you + throughout your generations in all your dwellings. +035:030 Whoever kills any person, the murderer shall be slain at + the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify + against any person that he die. +035:031 Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer + who is guilty of death; but he shall surely be put to death. +035:032 You shall take no ransom for him who is fled to his city + of refuge, that he may come again to dwell in the land, + until the death of the priest. +035:033 So you shall not pollute the land in which you are: + for blood, it pollutes the land; and no expiation can + be made for the land for the blood that is shed therein, + but by the blood of him who shed it. +035:034 You shall not defile the land which you inhabit, in the midst + of which I dwell: for I, Yahweh, dwell in the midst of + the children of Israel. +036:001 The heads of the fathers' [houses] of the family of the + children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, + of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near, and spoke + before Moses, and before the princes, the heads of the fathers' + [houses] of the children of Israel: +036:002 and they said, Yahweh commanded my lord to give the land + for inheritance by lot to the children of Israel: + and my lord was commanded by Yahweh to give the inheritance + of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters. +036:003 If they be married to any of the sons of the [other] tribes + of the children of Israel, then will their inheritance be taken + away from the inheritance of our fathers, and will be added + to the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they shall belong: + so will it be taken away from the lot of our inheritance. +036:004 When the jubilee of the children of Israel shall be, then will + their inheritance be added to the inheritance of the tribe + whereunto they shall belong: so will their inheritance be + taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers. +036:005 Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the word + of Yahweh, saying, The tribe of the sons of Joseph speaks right. +036:006 This is the thing which Yahweh does command concerning + the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them be married + to whom they think best; only into the family of the tribe + of their father shall they be married. +036:007 So shall no inheritance of the children of Israel remove + from tribe to tribe; for the children of Israel shall cleave + everyone to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers. +036:008 Every daughter, who possesses an inheritance in any tribe + of the children of Israel, shall be wife to one of the family + of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may + possess every man the inheritance of his fathers. +036:009 So shall no inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe; + for the tribes of the children of Israel shall cleave everyone + to his own inheritance. +036:010 Even as Yahweh commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad: +036:011 for Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters + of Zelophehad, were married to their father's brothers' sons. +036:012 They were married into the families of the sons of Manasseh + the son of Joseph; and their inheritance remained in the tribe + of the family of their father. +036:013 These are the commandments and the ordinances which Yahweh + commanded by Moses to the children of Israel in the plains + of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho. +Book 05 Deuteronomy +001:001 These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel beyond + the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah over against Suph, + between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab. +001:002 It is eleven days' [journey] from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir + to Kadesh Barnea. +001:003 It happened in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, + on the first day of the month, that Moses spoke to the children + of Israel, according to all that Yahweh had given him + in commandment to them; +001:004 after he had struck Sihon the king of the Amorites, + who lived in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who lived + in Ashtaroth, at Edrei. +001:005 Beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to declare + this law, saying, +001:006 Yahweh our God spoke to us in Horeb, saying, You have lived + long enough in this mountain: +001:007 turn, and take your journey, and go to the hill country of + the Amorites, and to all [the places] near there, in the Arabah, + in the hill country, and in the lowland, and in the South, + and by the seashore, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, + as far as the great river, the river Euphrates. +001:008 Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land + which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, + and to Jacob, to give to them and to their seed after them. +001:009 I spoke to you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear + you myself alone: +001:010 Yahweh your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are this + day as the stars of the sky for multitude. +001:011 Yahweh, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times + as many as you are, and bless you, as he has promised you! +001:012 How can I myself alone bear your encumbrance, and your burden, + and your strife? +001:013 Take wise men of understanding and well known according + to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you. +001:014 You answered me, and said, The thing which you have spoken + is good [for us] to do. +001:015 So I took the heads of your tribes, wise men, and known, + and made them heads over you, captains of thousands, and captains + of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens, + and officers, according to your tribes. +001:016 I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear [the causes] + between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man + and his brother, and the foreigner who is living with him. +001:017 You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small + and the great alike; you shall not be afraid of the face of man; + for the judgment is God's: and the cause that is too hard + for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it. +001:018 I commanded you at that time all the things which you should do. +001:019 We traveled from Horeb, and went through all that great and + terrible wilderness which you saw, by the way to the hill + country of the Amorites, as Yahweh our God commanded us; + and we came to Kadesh Barnea. +001:020 I said to you, You are come to the hill country of the Amorites, + which Yahweh our God gives to us. +001:021 Behold, Yahweh your God has set the land before you: + go up, take possession, as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, + has spoken to you; don't be afraid, neither be dismayed. +001:022 You came near to me everyone of you, and said, Let us send + men before us, that they may search the land for us, + and bring us word again of the way by which we must go up, + and the cities to which we shall come. +001:023 The thing pleased me well; and I took twelve men of you, + one man for every tribe: +001:024 and they turned and went up into the hill country, and came + to the valley of Eshcol, and spied it out. +001:025 They took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought + it down to us, and brought us word again, and said, + It is a good land which Yahweh our God gives to us. +001:026 Yet you wouldn't go up, but rebelled against the commandment + of Yahweh your God: +001:027 and you murmured in your tents, and said, Because Yahweh + hated us, he has brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, + to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us. +001:028 Where are we going up? our brothers have made our heart + to melt, saying, The people are greater and taller than we; + the cities are great and fortified up to the sky; and moreover + we have seen the sons of the Anakim there. +001:029 Then I said to you, Don't dread, neither be afraid of them. +001:030 Yahweh your God who goes before you, he will fight for you, + according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes, +001:031 and in the wilderness, where you have seen how that Yahweh + your God bore you, as a man does bear his son, in all the way + that you went, until you came to this place. +001:032 Yet in this thing you didn't believe Yahweh your God, +001:033 who went before you in the way, to seek you out a place to pitch + your tents in, in fire by night, to show you by what way you + should go, and in the cloud by day. +001:034 Yahweh heard the voice of your words, and was angry, + and swore, saying, +001:035 Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation + see the good land, which I swore to give to your fathers, +001:036 save Caleb the son of Jephunneh: he shall see it; and to him + will I give the land that he has trodden on, and to his children, + because he has wholly followed Yahweh. +001:037 Also Yahweh was angry with me for your sakes, saying, You also + shall not go in there: +001:038 Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, he shall go in there: + encourage you him; for he shall cause Israel to inherit it. +001:039 Moreover your little ones, whom you said should be a prey, + and your children, who this day have no knowledge of good + or evil, they shall go in there, and to them will I give it, + and they shall possess it. +001:040 But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness + by the way to the Red Sea{or, Sea of Reeds}. +001:041 Then you answered and said to me, We have sinned against Yahweh, + we will go up and fight, according to all that Yahweh our God + commanded us. You girded on every man his weapons of war, + and were forward to go up into the hill country. +001:042 Yahweh said to me, Tell them, Don't go up, neither fight; + for I am not among you; lest you be struck before your enemies. +001:043 So I spoke to you, and you didn't listen; but you rebelled + against the commandment of Yahweh, and were presumptuous, + and went up into the hill country. +001:044 The Amorites, who lived in that hill country, came out against you, + and chased you, as bees do, and beat you down in Seir, + even to Hormah. +001:045 You returned and wept before Yahweh; but Yahweh didn't listen + to your voice, nor gave ear to you. +001:046 So you abode in Kadesh many days, according to the days + that you abode [there]. +002:001 Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by + the way to the Red Sea{or, Sea of Reeds}, as Yahweh spoke to me; + and we compassed Mount Seir many days. +002:002 Yahweh spoke to me, saying, +002:003 You have compassed this mountain long enough: + turn you northward. +002:004 Command you the people, saying, You are to pass through + the border of your brothers the children of Esau, + who dwell in Seir; and they will be afraid of you: + take good heed to yourselves therefore; +002:005 don't contend with them; for I will not give you of their land, + no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on; + because I have given Mount Seir to Esau for a possession. +002:006 You shall purchase food of them for money, that you may eat; + and you shall also buy water of them for money, that you may drink. +002:007 For Yahweh your God has blessed you in all the work of your hand; + he has known your walking through this great wilderness: + these forty years Yahweh your God has been with you; + you have lacked nothing. +002:008 So we passed by from our brothers the children of Esau, who dwell + in Seir, from the way of the Arabah from Elath and from Ezion Geber. + We turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab. +002:009 Yahweh said to me, Don't bother Moab, neither contend with them + in battle; for I will not give you of his land for a possession; + because I have given Ar to the children of Lot for a possession. +002:010 (The Emim lived therein before, a people great, and many, + and tall, as the Anakim: +002:011 these also are accounted Rephaim, as the Anakim; but the Moabites + call them Emim. +002:012 The Horites also lived in Seir before, but the children of Esau + succeeded them; and they destroyed them from before them, + and lived in their place; as Israel did to the land of + his possession, which Yahweh gave to them.) +002:013 Now rise up, and get you over the brook Zered. We went over + the brook Zered. +002:014 The days in which we came from Kadesh Barnea, until we + were come over the brook Zered, were thirty-eight years; + until all the generation of the men of war were consumed + from the midst of the camp, as Yahweh swore to them. +002:015 Moreover the hand of Yahweh was against them, to destroy them + from the midst of the camp, until they were consumed. +002:016 So it happened, when all the men of war were consumed and dead + from among the people, +002:017 that Yahweh spoke to me, saying, +002:018 You are this day to pass over Ar, the border of Moab: +002:019 and when you come near over against the children of Ammon, + don't bother them, nor contend with them; for I will not give + you of the land of the children of Ammon for a possession; + because I have given it to the children of Lot for a possession. +002:020 (That also is accounted a land of Rephaim: Rephaim lived + therein before; but the Ammonites call them Zamzummim, +002:021 a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim; + but Yahweh destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, + and lived in their place; +002:022 as he did for the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, + when he destroyed the Horites from before them; and they + succeeded them, and lived in their place even to this day: +002:023 and the Avvim, who lived in villages as far as Gaza, + the Caphtorim, who came forth out of Caphtor, destroyed them, + and lived in their place.) +002:024 Rise up, take your journey, and pass over the valley of the Arnon: + behold, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, + king of Heshbon, and his land; begin to possess it, and contend + with him in battle. +002:025 This day will I begin to put the dread of you and the fear + of you on the peoples who are under the whole sky, who shall + hear the report of you, and shall tremble, and be in anguish + because of you. +002:026 I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon + king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying, +002:027 Let me pass through your land: I will go along by the highway, + I will turn neither to the right hand nor to the left. +002:028 You shall sell me food for money, that I may eat; and give me + water for money, that I may drink: only let me pass through + on my feet, +002:029 as the children of Esau who dwell in Seir, and the Moabites + who dwell in Ar, did to me; until I shall pass over the Jordan + into the land which Yahweh our God gives us. +002:030 But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him; + for Yahweh your God hardened his spirit, and made his + heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into your hand, + as at this day. +002:031 Yahweh said to me, Behold, I have begun to deliver up Sihon + and his land before you: begin to possess, that you may + inherit his land. +002:032 Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, + to battle at Jahaz. +002:033 Yahweh our God delivered him up before us; and we struck him, + and his sons, and all his people. +002:034 We took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed + every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones; + we left none remaining: +002:035 only the livestock we took for a prey to ourselves, + with the spoil of the cities which we had taken. +002:036 From Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, + and [from] the city that is in the valley, even to Gilead, + there was not a city too high for us; Yahweh our God delivered + up all before us: +002:037 only to the land of the children of Ammon you didn't come near; + all the side of the river Jabbok, and the cities of the hill country, + and wherever Yahweh our God forbade us. +003:001 Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan: and Og the king + of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, + to battle at Edrei. +003:002 Yahweh said to me, Don't fear him; for I have delivered him, + and all his people, and his land, into your hand; and you + shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, + who lived at Heshbon. +003:003 So Yahweh our God delivered into our hand Og also, the king + of Bashan, and all his people: and we struck him until none + was left to him remaining. +003:004 We took all his cities at that time; there was not a city which we + didn't take from them; sixty cities, all the region of Argob, + the kingdom of Og in Bashan. +003:005 All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars; + besides the unwalled towns a great many. +003:006 We utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon, + utterly destroying every inhabited city, with the women + and the little ones. +003:007 But all the livestock, and the spoil of the cities, we took + for a prey to ourselves. +003:008 We took the land at that time out of the hand of the two kings + of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, from the valley + of the Arnon to Mount Hermon; +003:009 ([which] Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion, and the Amorites + call it Senir;) +003:010 all the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, + to Salecah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan. +003:011 (For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of + the Rephaim; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; + isn't it in Rabbah of the children of Ammon? nine cubits + was the length of it, and four cubits the breadth of it, + after the cubit of a man.) +003:012 This land we took in possession at that time: from Aroer, + which is by the valley of the Arnon, and half the hill country + of Gilead, and the cities of it, gave I to the Reubenites + and to the Gadites: +003:013 and the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, + gave I to the half-tribe of Manasseh; all the region of Argob, + even all Bashan. (The same is called the land of Rephaim. +003:014 Jair the son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob, + to the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, + and called them, even Bashan, after his own name, Havvoth Jair, + to this day.) +003:015 I gave Gilead to Machir. +003:016 To the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave from Gilead + even to the valley of the Arnon, the middle of the valley, + and the border [of it], even to the river Jabbok, which is + the border of the children of Ammon; +003:017 the Arabah also, and the Jordan and the border [of it], + from Chinnereth even to the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, + under the slopes of Pisgah eastward. +003:018 I commanded you at that time, saying, Yahweh your God has given + you this land to possess it: you shall pass over armed before + your brothers the children of Israel, all the men of valor. +003:019 But your wives, and your little ones, and your livestock, + (I know that you have much livestock), shall abide in your + cities which I have given you, +003:020 until Yahweh give rest to your brothers, as to you, and they + also possess the land which Yahweh your God gives them beyond + the Jordan: then shall you return every man to his possession, + which I have given you. +003:021 I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, Your eyes have seen + all that Yahweh your God has done to these two kings: + so shall Yahweh do to all the kingdoms where you go over. +003:022 You shall not fear them; for Yahweh your God, he it is who + fights for you. +003:023 I begged Yahweh at that time, saying, +003:024 Lord Yahweh, you have begun to show your servant your greatness, + and your strong hand: for what god is there in heaven or + in earth, that can do according to your works, and according + to your mighty acts? +003:025 Please let me go over and see the good land that is beyond + the Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon. +003:026 But Yahweh was angry with me for your sakes, and didn't + listen to me; and Yahweh said to me, Let it suffice you; + speak no more to me of this matter. +003:027 Go up to the top of Pisgah, and lift up your eyes westward, + and northward, and southward, and eastward, and see with your eyes: + for you shall not go over this Jordan. +003:028 But charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him; + for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause + them to inherit the land which you shall see. +003:029 So we abode in the valley over against Beth Peor. +004:001 Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and to the ordinances, which I + teach you, to do them; that you may live, and go in and possess + the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, gives you. +004:002 You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall + you diminish from it, that you may keep the commandments + of Yahweh your God which I command you. +004:003 Your eyes have seen what Yahweh did because of Baal Peor; + for all the men who followed Baal Peor, Yahweh your God has + destroyed them from the midst of you. +004:004 But you who did cleave to Yahweh your God are alive everyone + of you this day. +004:005 Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as Yahweh + my God commanded me, that you should do so in the midst + of the land where you go in to possess it. +004:006 Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your + understanding in the sight of the peoples, who shall hear all + these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise + and understanding people. +004:007 For what great nation is there, that has a god so near to them, + as Yahweh our God is whenever we call on him? +004:008 What great nation is there, that has statutes and ordinances + so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day? +004:009 Only take heed to yourself, and keep your soul diligently, + lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they + depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make + them known to your children and your children's children; +004:010 the day that you stood before Yahweh your God in Horeb, + when Yahweh said to me, Assemble me the people, and I + will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear + me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they + may teach their children. +004:011 You came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain + burned with fire to the heart of the sky, with darkness, + cloud, and thick darkness. +004:012 Yahweh spoke to you out of the midst of the fire: + you heard the voice of words, but you saw no form; only [you + heard] a voice. +004:013 He declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you + to perform, even the ten commandments; and he wrote them + on two tables of stone. +004:014 Yahweh commanded me at that time to teach you statutes + and ordinances, that you might do them in the land where you + go over to possess it. +004:015 Take therefore good heed to yourselves; for you saw no manner + of form on the day that Yahweh spoke to you in Horeb out + of the midst of the fire. +004:016 Lest you corrupt yourselves, and make yourself an engraved image + in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female, +004:017 the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness + of any winged bird that flies in the sky, +004:018 the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness + of any fish that is in the water under the earth; +004:019 and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see + the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the army of the sky, + you are drawn away and worship them, and serve them, + which Yahweh your God has allotted to all the peoples under + the whole sky. +004:020 But Yahweh has taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron + furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, + as at this day. +004:021 Furthermore Yahweh was angry with me for your sakes, + and swore that I should not go over the Jordan, and that I + should not go in to that good land, which Yahweh your God + gives you for an inheritance: +004:022 but I must die in this land, I must not go over the Jordan; + but you shall go over, and possess that good land. +004:023 Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of Yahweh + your God, which he made with you, and make you an engraved image + in the form of anything which Yahweh your God has forbidden you. +004:024 For Yahweh your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God. +004:025 When you shall father children, and children's children, and you + shall have been long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, + and make an engraved image in the form of anything, and shall + do that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh your God, + to provoke him to anger; +004:026 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, + that you shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto + you go over the Jordan to possess it; you shall not prolong + your days on it, but shall utterly be destroyed. +004:027 Yahweh will scatter you among the peoples, and you shall + be left few in number among the nations, where Yahweh shall + lead you away. +004:028 There you shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, + which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell. +004:029 But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you shall + find him, when you search after him with all your heart + and with all your soul. +004:030 When you are in oppression, and all these things are come on you, + in the latter days you shall return to Yahweh your God, + and listen to his voice: +004:031 for Yahweh your God is a merciful God; he will not fail you, + neither destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers + which he swore to them. +004:032 For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, + since the day that God created man on the earth, and from + the one end of the sky to the other, whether there has + been [any such thing] as this great thing is, or has been + heard like it? +004:033 Did ever a people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst + of the fire, as you have heard, and live? +004:034 Or has God tried to go and take him a nation from the midst + of [another] nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, + and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by an outstretched arm, + and by great terrors, according to all that Yahweh your God + did for you in Egypt before your eyes? +004:035 To you it was shown, that you might know that Yahweh he is God; + there is none else besides him. +004:036 Out of heaven he made you to hear his voice, that he might + instruct you: and on earth he made you to see his great fire; + and you heard his words out of the midst of the fire. +004:037 Because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their + seed after them, and brought you out with his presence, + with his great power, out of Egypt; +004:038 to drive out nations from before you greater and mightier than you, + to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, + as at this day. +004:039 Know therefore this day, and lay it to your heart, that Yahweh + he is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; + there is none else. +004:040 You shall keep his statutes, and his commandments, which I + command you this day, that it may go well with you, and with + your children after you, and that you may prolong your days + in the land, which Yahweh your God gives you, forever. +004:041 Then Moses set apart three cities beyond the Jordan + toward the sunrise; +004:042 that the manslayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unawares, + and didn't hate him in time past; and that fleeing to one + of these cities he might live: +004:043 [namely], Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, + for the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, for the Gadites; + and Golan in Bashan, for the Manassites. +004:044 This is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel: +004:045 these are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances, + which Moses spoke to the children of Israel, when they came + forth out of Egypt, +004:046 beyond the Jordan, in the valley over against Beth Peor, + in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon, + whom Moses and the children of Israel struck, when they came + forth out of Egypt. +004:047 They took his land in possession, and the land of Og king + of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond + the Jordan toward the sunrise; +004:048 from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, + even to Mount Sion (the same is Hermon), +004:049 and all the Arabah beyond the Jordan eastward, even to the sea + of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah. +005:001 Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, Hear, Israel, + the statutes and the ordinances which I speak in your ears + this day, that you may learn them, and observe to do them. +005:002 Yahweh our God made a covenant with us in Horeb. +005:003 Yahweh didn't make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, + even us, who are all of us here alive this day. +005:004 Yahweh spoke with you face to face on the mountain out of + the midst of the fire, +005:005 (I stood between Yahweh and you at that time, to show you + the word of Yahweh: for you were afraid because of the fire, + and didn't go up onto the mountain;) saying, +005:006 "I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, + out of the house of bondage. +005:007 You shall have no other gods before me. +005:008 "You shall not make an engraved image for yourself, + [nor] any likeness [of anything] that is in heaven above, + or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water + under the earth: +005:009 you shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them; + for I, Yahweh, your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity + of the fathers on the children, and on the third and on + the fourth generation of those who hate me; +005:010 and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me + and keep my commandments. +005:011 "You shall not take the name of Yahweh your God in vain: + for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain. +005:012 "Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as Yahweh your + God commanded you. +005:013 Six days shall you labor, and do all your work; +005:014 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God: + [in it] you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, + nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, + nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your livestock, + nor your stranger who is within your gates; that your male + servant and your female servant may rest as well as you. +005:015 You shall remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, + and Yahweh your God brought you out of there by a mighty + hand and by an outstretched arm: therefore Yahweh your God + commanded you to keep the Sabbath day. +005:016 "Honor your father and your mother, as Yahweh your God commanded you; + that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you, + in the land which Yahweh your God gives you. +005:017 "You shall not murder. +005:018 "Neither shall you commit adultery. +005:019 "Neither shall you steal. +005:020 "Neither shall you give false testimony against your neighbor. +005:021 "Neither shall you covet your neighbor's wife; neither shall you + desire your neighbor's house, his field, or his male servant, + or his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything + that is your neighbor's." +005:022 These words Yahweh spoke to all your assembly on the mountain + out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the + thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. + He wrote them on two tables of stone, and gave them to me. +005:023 It happened, when you heard the voice out of the midst + of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, + that you came near to me, even all the heads of your tribes, + and your elders; +005:024 and you said, Behold, Yahweh our God has shown us his glory + and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst + of the fire: we have seen this day that God does speak with man, + and he lives. +005:025 Now therefore why should we die? for this great fire will + consume us: if we hear the voice of Yahweh our God any more, + then we shall die. +005:026 For who is there of all flesh, that has heard the voice + of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, + as we have, and lived? +005:027 Go you near, and hear all that Yahweh our God shall say: + and speak you to us all that Yahweh our God shall speak to you; + and we will hear it, and do it. +005:028 Yahweh heard the voice of your words, when you spoke to me; + and Yahweh said to me, I have heard the voice of the words + of this people, which they have spoken to you: + they have well said all that they have spoken. +005:029 Oh that there were such a heart in them, that they would fear me, + and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well + with them, and with their children forever! +005:030 Go tell them, Return you to your tents. +005:031 But as for you, stand you here by me, and I will speak to you + all the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, + which you shall teach them, that they may do them in the land + which I give them to possess it. +005:032 You shall observe to do therefore as Yahweh your God has + commanded you: you shall not turn aside to the right hand + or to the left. +005:033 You shall walk in all the way which Yahweh your God has + commanded you, that you may live, and that it may be well + with you, and that you may prolong your days in the land + which you shall possess. +006:001 Now this is the commandment, the statutes, and the ordinances, + which Yahweh your God commanded to teach you, that you might + do them in the land where you go over to possess it; +006:002 that you might fear Yahweh your God, to keep all his statutes + and his commandments, which I command you, you, and your son, + and your son's son, all the days of your life; and that your + days may be prolonged. +006:003 Hear therefore, Israel, and observe to do it; that it + may be well with you, and that you may increase mightily, + as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has promised to you, + in a land flowing with milk and honey. +006:004 Hear, Israel: Yahweh is our God; Yahweh is one: +006:005 and you shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, + and with all your soul, and with all your might. +006:006 These words, which I command you this day, shall be on your heart; +006:007 and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall + talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk + by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up. +006:008 You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall + be for symbols between your eyes. +006:009 You shall write them on the door posts of your house, + and on your gates. +006:010 It shall be, when Yahweh your God shall bring you into + the land which he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, + to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you, great and goodly cities, + which you didn't build, +006:011 and houses full of all good things, which you didn't fill, + and cisterns dug out, which you didn't dig, vineyards and + olive trees, which you didn't plant, and you shall eat + and be full; +006:012 then beware lest you forget Yahweh, who brought you forth + out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. +006:013 You shall fear Yahweh your God; and him shall you serve, + and shall swear by his name. +006:014 You shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples + who are round about you; +006:015 for Yahweh your God in the midst of you is a jealous God; + lest the anger of Yahweh your God be kindled against you, + and he destroy you from off the face of the earth. +006:016 You shall not tempt Yahweh your God, as you tempted him in Massah. +006:017 You shall diligently keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, + and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you. +006:018 You shall do that which is right and good in the sight of Yahweh; + that it may be well with you, and that you may go in and possess + the good land which Yahweh swore to your fathers, +006:019 to thrust out all your enemies from before you, as Yahweh has spoken. +006:020 When your son asks you in time to come, saying, What mean + the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances, + which Yahweh our God has commanded you? +006:021 then you shall tell your son, We were Pharaoh's bondservants + in Egypt: and Yahweh brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand; +006:022 and Yahweh showed great and awesome signs and wonders on Egypt, + on Pharaoh, and on all his house, before our eyes; +006:023 and he brought us out from there, that he might bring us in, + to give us the land which he swore to our fathers. +006:024 Yahweh commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear Yahweh + our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, + as at this day. +006:025 It shall be righteousness to us, if we observe to do all this + commandment before Yahweh our God, as he has commanded us. +007:001 When Yahweh your God shall bring you into the land where you + go to possess it, and shall cast out many nations before you, + the Hittite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, + and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, + seven nations greater and mightier than you; +007:002 and when Yahweh your God shall deliver them up before you, + and you shall strike them; then you shall utterly destroy them: + you shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them; +007:003 neither shall you make marriages with them; your daughter you + shall not give to his son, nor his daughter shall you take + to your son. +007:004 For he will turn away your son from following me, that they + may serve other gods: so will the anger of Yahweh be kindled + against you, and he will destroy you quickly. +007:005 But thus shall you deal with them: you shall break down their altars, + and dash in pieces their pillars, and hew down their Asherim, + and burn their engraved images with fire. +007:006 For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God: Yahweh your + God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, + above all peoples who are on the face of the earth. +007:007 Yahweh didn't set his love on you, nor choose you, because you + were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest + of all peoples: +007:008 but because Yahweh loves you, and because he would keep the oath + which he swore to your fathers, has Yahweh brought you out with + a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, + from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. +007:009 Know therefore that Yahweh your God, he is God, the faithful God, + who keeps covenant and loving kindness with them who love + him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations, +007:010 and repays those who hate him to their face, to destroy them: + he will not be slack to him who hates him, he will repay him + to his face. +007:011 You shall therefore keep the commandment, and the statutes, + and the ordinances, which I command you this day, to do them. +007:012 It shall happen, because you listen to these ordinances, + and keep and do them, that Yahweh your God will keep with + you the covenant and the loving kindness which he swore + to your fathers: +007:013 and he will love you, and bless you, and multiply you; + he will also bless the fruit of your body and the fruit + of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, + the increase of your livestock and the young of your flock, + in the land which he swore to your fathers to give you. +007:014 You shall be blessed above all peoples: there shall not be + male or female barren among you, or among your livestock. +007:015 Yahweh will take away from you all sickness; and none of the evil + diseases of Egypt, which you know, he will put on you, + but will lay them on all those who hate you. +007:016 You shall consume all the peoples whom Yahweh your God + shall deliver to you; your eye shall not pity them: + neither shall you serve their gods; for that will be a + snare to you. +007:017 If you shall say in your heart, These nations are more than I; + how can I dispossess them? +007:018 you shall not be afraid of them: you shall well remember + what Yahweh your God did to Pharaoh, and to all Egypt; +007:019 the great trials which your eyes saw, and the signs, + and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, + by which Yahweh your God brought you out: so shall Yahweh + your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid. +007:020 Moreover Yahweh your God will send the hornet among them, + until those who are left, and hide themselves, + perish from before you. +007:021 You shall not be scared of them; for Yahweh your God is in + the midst of you, a great and awesome God. +007:022 Yahweh your God will cast out those nations before you + by little and little: you may not consume them at once, + lest the animals of the field increase on you. +007:023 But Yahweh your God will deliver them up before you, and will + confuse them with a great confusion, until they be destroyed. +007:024 He will deliver their kings into your hand, and you + shall make their name to perish from under the sky: + there shall no man be able to stand before you, until you + have destroyed them. +007:025 The engraved images of their gods shall you burn with fire: + you shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, + nor take it to you, lest you be snared therein; for it is + an abomination to Yahweh your God. +007:026 You shall not bring an abomination into your house, and become + a devoted thing like it: you shall utterly detest it, + and you shall utterly abhor it; for it is a devoted thing. +008:001 All the commandment which I command you this day shall you + observe to do, that you may live, and multiply, and go + in and possess the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers. +008:002 You shall remember all the way which Yahweh your God has led you + these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, + to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you + would keep his commandments, or not. +008:003 He humbled you, and allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna, + which you didn't know, neither did your fathers know; + that he might make you know that man does not live by bread only, + but by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of Yahweh + does man live. +008:004 Your clothing didn't grow old on you, neither did your foot swell, + these forty years. +008:005 You shall consider in your heart that as a man chastens his son, + so Yahweh your God chastens you. +008:006 You shall keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, to walk + in his ways, and to fear him. +008:007 For Yahweh your God brings you into a good land, a land + of brooks of water, of springs, and underground water flowing + into valleys and hills; +008:008 a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig trees and pomegranates; + a land of olive trees and honey; +008:009 a land in which you shall eat bread without scarceness, + you shall not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, + and out of whose hills you may dig copper. +008:010 You shall eat and be full, and you shall bless Yahweh your God + for the good land which he has given you. +008:011 Beware lest you forget Yahweh your God, in not keeping + his commandments, and his ordinances, and his statutes, + which I command you this day: +008:012 lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built + goodly houses, and lived therein; +008:013 and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver + and your gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied; +008:014 then your heart be lifted up, and you forget Yahweh your God, + who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, out of + the house of bondage; +008:015 who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, + [in which were] fiery serpents and scorpions, and thirsty + ground where was no water; who brought you forth water out + of the rock of flint; +008:016 who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers + didn't know; that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, + to do you good at your latter end: +008:017 and [lest] you say in your heart, My power and the might of my + hand has gotten me this wealth. +008:018 But you shall remember Yahweh your God, for it is he who gives + you power to get wealth; that he may establish his covenant + which he swore to your fathers, as at this day. +008:019 It shall be, if you shall forget Yahweh your God, and walk + after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify + against you this day that you shall surely perish. +008:020 As the nations that Yahweh makes to perish before you, + so shall you perish; because you wouldn't listen to the voice + of Yahweh your God. +009:001 Hear, Israel: you are to pass over the Jordan this day, to go + in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, + cities great and fortified up to the sky, +009:002 a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom you know, + and of whom you have heard say, Who can stand before + the sons of Anak? +009:003 Know therefore this day, that Yahweh your God is he who goes + over before you as a devouring fire; he will destroy them, + and he will bring them down before you: so shall you drive + them out, and make them to perish quickly, as Yahweh has + spoken to you. +009:004 Don't speak in your heart, after that Yahweh your God + has thrust them out from before you, saying, For my + righteousness Yahweh has brought me in to possess this land; + whereas for the wickedness of these nations Yahweh does drive + them out from before you. +009:005 Not for your righteousness, or for the uprightness of your heart, + do you go in to possess their land; but for the wickedness + of these nations Yahweh your God does drive them out from + before you, and that he may establish the word which Yahweh + swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. +009:006 Know therefore, that Yahweh your God doesn't give you this + good land to possess it for your righteousness; for you are + a stiff-necked people. +009:007 Remember, don't forget, how you provoked Yahweh your God + to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that you went forth + out of the land of Egypt, until you came to this place, + you have been rebellious against Yahweh. +009:008 Also in Horeb you provoked Yahweh to wrath, and Yahweh was angry + with you to destroy you. +009:009 When I was gone up onto the mountain to receive the tables of stone, + even the tables of the covenant which Yahweh made with you, + then I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights; + I did neither eat bread nor drink water. +009:010 Yahweh delivered to me the two tables of stone written + with the finger of God; and on them [was written] according + to all the words, which Yahweh spoke with you on the mountain + out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly. +009:011 It came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, + that Yahweh gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables + of the covenant. +009:012 Yahweh said to me, Arise, get you down quickly from hence; + for your people whom you have brought forth out of Egypt + have corrupted themselves; they have quickly turned aside + out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them + a molten image. +009:013 Furthermore Yahweh spoke to me, saying, I have seen this people, + and behold, it is a stiff-necked people: +009:014 let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name + from under the sky; and I will make of you a nation mightier + and greater than they. +009:015 So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain + was burning with fire: and the two tables of the covenant + were in my two hands. +009:016 I looked, and behold, you had sinned against Yahweh your God; + you had made you a molten calf: you had turned aside quickly + out of the way which Yahweh had commanded you. +009:017 I took hold of the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, + and broke them before your eyes. +009:018 I fell down before Yahweh, as at the first, forty days + and forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water; + because of all your sin which you sinned, in doing that which + was evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger. +009:019 For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, + with which Yahweh was angry against you to destroy you. + But Yahweh listened to me that time also. +009:020 Yahweh was very angry with Aaron to destroy him: + and I prayed for Aaron also at the same time. +009:021 I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burnt it + with fire, and stamped it, grinding it very small, until it + was as fine as dust: and I cast the dust of it into the brook + that descended out of the mountain. +009:022 At Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth Hattaavah, + you provoked Yahweh to wrath. +009:023 When Yahweh sent you from Kadesh Barnea, saying, Go up and possess + the land which I have given you; then you rebelled against + the commandment of Yahweh your God, and you didn't believe him, + nor listen to his voice. +009:024 You have been rebellious against Yahweh from the day that + I knew you. +009:025 So I fell down before Yahweh the forty days and forty nights + that I fell down, because Yahweh had said he would destroy you. +009:026 I prayed to Yahweh, and said, Lord Yahweh, don't destroy your + people and your inheritance, that you have redeemed through + your greatness, that you have brought forth out of Egypt + with a mighty hand. +009:027 Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; don't look + to the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, + nor to their sin, +009:028 lest the land whence you brought us out say, Because Yahweh was + not able to bring them into the land which he promised to them, + and because he hated them, he has brought them out to kill + them in the wilderness. +009:029 Yet they are your people and your inheritance, which you brought + out by your great power and by your outstretched arm. +010:001 At that time Yahweh said to me, Hew you two tables of stone + like the first, and come up to me onto the mountain, + and make an ark of wood. +010:002 I will write on the tables the words that were on the first + tables which you broke, and you shall put them in the ark. +010:003 So I made an ark of acacia wood, and hewed two tables + of stone like the first, and went up onto the mountain, + having the two tables in my hand. +010:004 He wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, + the ten commandments, which Yahweh spoke to you on the mountain + out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: + and Yahweh gave them to me. +010:005 I turned and came down from the mountain, and put the tables + in the ark which I had made; and there they are as + Yahweh commanded me. +010:006 (The children of Israel traveled from Beeroth Bene Jaakan to Moserah. + There Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son + ministered in the priest's office in his place. +010:007 From there they traveled to Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah + to Jotbathah, a land of brooks of water. +010:008 At that time Yahweh set apart the tribe of Levi, to bear + the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, to stand before Yahweh + to minister to him, and to bless in his name, to this day. +010:009 Therefore Levi has no portion nor inheritance with his brothers; + Yahweh is his inheritance, according as Yahweh your God + spoke to him.) +010:010 I stayed on the mountain, as at the first time, forty days + and forty nights: and Yahweh listened to me that time also; + Yahweh would not destroy you. +010:011 Yahweh said to me, Arise, take your journey before the people; + and they shall go in and possess the land, which I swore + to their fathers to give to them. +010:012 Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, + but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, + and to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your + heart and with all your soul, +010:013 to keep the commandments of Yahweh, and his statutes, which I + command you this day for your good? +010:014 Behold, to Yahweh your God belongs heaven and the heaven + of heavens, the earth, with all that is therein. +010:015 Only Yahweh had a delight in your fathers to love them, + and he chose their seed after them, even you above all peoples, + as at this day. +010:016 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be + no more stiff-necked. +010:017 For Yahweh your God, he is God of gods, and Lord of lords, + the great God, the mighty, and the awesome, who doesn't + regard persons, nor takes reward. +010:018 He does execute justice for the fatherless and widow, + and loves the foreigner, in giving him food and clothing. +010:019 Therefore love the foreigner; for you were foreigners in + the land of Egypt. +010:020 You shall fear Yahweh your God; him shall you serve; + and to him shall you cleave, and by his name shall you swear. +010:021 He is your praise, and he is your God, who has done for you + these great and awesome things, which your eyes have seen. +010:022 Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; + and now Yahweh your God has made you as the stars of the + sky for multitude. +011:001 Therefore you shall love Yahweh your God, and keep his charge, + and his statutes, and his ordinances, and his commandments, always. +011:002 Know you this day: for I don't speak with your children + who have not known, and who have not seen the chastisement + of Yahweh your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, + and his outstretched arm, +011:003 and his signs, and his works, which he did in the midst of Egypt + to Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and to all his land; +011:004 and what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses, and to + their chariots; how he made the water of the Red Sea{or, Sea of + Reeds} to overflow them as they pursued after you, and how + Yahweh has destroyed them to this day; +011:005 and what he did to you in the wilderness, until you came + to this place; +011:006 and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, + the son of Reuben; how the earth opened its mouth, + and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, + and every living thing that followed them, in the midst + of all Israel: +011:007 but your eyes have seen all the great work of Yahweh which he did. +011:008 Therefore shall you keep all the commandment which I command + you this day, that you may be strong, and go in and possess + the land, where you go over to possess it; +011:009 and that you may prolong your days in the land, which Yahweh + swore to your fathers to give to them and to their seed, + a land flowing with milk and honey. +011:010 For the land, where you go in to possess it, isn't as the land + of Egypt, from whence you came out, where you sowed your seed, + and watered it with your foot, as a garden of herbs; +011:011 but the land, where you go over to possess it, is a land of hills + and valleys, [and] drinks water of the rain of the sky, +011:012 a land which Yahweh your God cares for: the eyes of Yahweh + your God are always on it, from the beginning of the year + even to the end of the year. +011:013 It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to my commandments + which I command you this day, to love Yahweh your God, + and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, +011:014 that I will give the rain of your land in its season, the former + rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, + and your new wine, and your oil. +011:015 I will give grass in your fields for your livestock, and you + shall eat and be full. +011:016 Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and you + turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them; +011:017 and the anger of Yahweh be kindled against you, and he shut + up the sky, so that there shall be no rain, and the land + shall not yield its fruit; and you perish quickly from off + the good land which Yahweh gives you. +011:018 Therefore shall you lay up these my words in your heart and in + your soul; and you shall bind them for a sign on your hand, + and they shall be for symbols between your eyes. +011:019 You shall teach them your children, talking of them, + when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, + and when you lie down, and when you rise up. +011:020 You shall write them on the door posts of your house, + and on your gates; +011:021 that your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, + in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give them, + as the days of the heavens above the earth. +011:022 For if you shall diligently keep all this commandment which I + command you, to do it, to love Yahweh your God, to walk + in all his ways, and to cleave to him; +011:023 then will Yahweh drive out all these nations from before you, and you + shall dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves. +011:024 Every place whereon the sole of your foot shall tread shall + be yours: from the wilderness, and Lebanon, from the river, + the river Euphrates, even to the hinder sea shall be your border. +011:025 There shall no man be able to stand before you: + Yahweh your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread + of you on all the land that you shall tread on, as he has + spoken to you. +011:026 Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse: +011:027 the blessing, if you shall listen to the commandments of Yahweh + your God, which I command you this day; +011:028 and the curse, if you shall not listen to the commandments + of Yahweh your God, but turn aside out of the way which I + command you this day, to go after other gods, which you + have not known. +011:029 It shall happen, when Yahweh your God shall bring you into + the land where you go to possess it, that you shall set + the blessing on Mount Gerizim, and the curse on Mount Ebal. +011:030 Aren't they beyond the Jordan, behind the way of the going + down of the sun, in the land of the Canaanites who dwell + in the Arabah, over against Gilgal, beside the oaks of Moreh? +011:031 For you are to pass over the Jordan to go in to possess the land + which Yahweh your God gives you, and you shall possess it, + and dwell therein. +011:032 You shall observe to do all the statutes and the ordinances + which I set before you this day. +012:001 These are the statutes and the ordinances which you shall observe + to do in the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, + has given you to possess it, all the days that you live + on the earth. +012:002 You shall surely destroy all the places in which the nations that + you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains, + and on the hills, and under every green tree: +012:003 and you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces + their pillars, and burn their Asherim with fire; + and you shall cut down the engraved images of their gods; + and you shall destroy their name out of that place. +012:004 You shall not do so to Yahweh your God. +012:005 But to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose out of all + your tribes, to put his name there, even to his habitation + shall you seek, and there you shall come; +012:006 and there you shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, + and your tithes, and the wave offering of your hand, + and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstborn + of your herd and of your flock: +012:007 and there you shall eat before Yahweh your God, and you shall + rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and your households, + in which Yahweh your God has blessed you. +012:008 You shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, + every man whatever is right in his own eyes; +012:009 for you haven't yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, + which Yahweh your God gives you. +012:010 But when you go over the Jordan, and dwell in the land which + Yahweh your God causes you to inherit, and he gives you rest + from all your enemies round about, so that you dwell in safety; +012:011 then it shall happen that to the place which Yahweh your God + shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, there shall + you bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings, + and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the wave offering of + your hand, and all your choice vows which you vow to Yahweh. +012:012 You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God, you, and your sons, + and your daughters, and your male servants, and your + female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, + because he has no portion nor inheritance with you. +012:013 Take heed to yourself that you don't offer your burnt offerings + in every place that you see; +012:014 but in the place which Yahweh shall choose in one of your tribes, + there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you + shall do all that I command you. +012:015 Notwithstanding, you may kill and eat flesh within all + your gates, after all the desire of your soul, according to + the blessing of Yahweh your God which he has given you: + the unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle, + and as of the hart. +012:016 Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it out on + the earth as water. +012:017 You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain, + or of your new wine, or of your oil, or the firstborn of your + herd or of your flock, nor any of your vows which you vow, + nor your freewill offerings, nor the wave offering of your hand; +012:018 but you shall eat them before Yahweh your God in the place + which Yahweh your God shall choose, you, and your son, + and your daughter, and your male servant, and your + female servant, and the Levite who is within your gates: + and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God in all that you + put your hand to. +012:019 Take heed to yourself that you don't forsake the Levite as long + as you live in your land. +012:020 When Yahweh your God shall enlarge your border, as he has + promised you, and you shall say, I will eat flesh, + because your soul desires to eat flesh; you may eat flesh, + after all the desire of your soul. +012:021 If the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to put + his name there, be too far from you, then you shall kill + of your herd and of your flock, which Yahweh has given you, + as I have commanded you; and you may eat within your gates, + after all the desire of your soul. +012:022 Even as the gazelle and as the hart is eaten, so you shall eat of it: + the unclean and the clean may eat of it alike. +012:023 Only be sure that you don't eat the blood: for the blood + is the life; and you shall not eat the life with the flesh. +012:024 You shall not eat it; you shall pour it out on the earth as water. +012:025 You shall not eat it; that it may go well with you, and with + your children after you, when you shall do that which is + right in the eyes of Yahweh. +012:026 Only your holy things which you have, and your vows, you shall take, + and go to the place which Yahweh shall choose: +012:027 and you shall offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, + on the altar of Yahweh your God; and the blood of your + sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of Yahweh your God; + and you shall eat the flesh. +012:028 Observe and hear all these words which I command you, that it + may go well with you, and with your children after you forever, + when you do that which is good and right in the eyes of + Yahweh your God. +012:029 When Yahweh your God shall cut off the nations from before you, + where you go in to dispossess them, and you dispossess them, + and dwell in their land; +012:030 take heed to yourself that you not be ensnared to follow them, + after that they are destroyed from before you; and that you + not inquire after their gods, saying, How do these nations + serve their gods? even so will I do likewise. +012:031 You shall not do so to Yahweh your God: for every abomination + to Yahweh, which he hates, have they done to their gods; + for even their sons and their daughters do they burn in the fire + to their gods. +012:032 Whatever thing I command you, that shall you observe to do: + you shall not add thereto, nor diminish from it. +013:001 If there arise in the midst of you a prophet, or a dreamer + of dreams, and he give you a sign or a wonder, +013:002 and the sign or the wonder come to pass, of which he spoke + to you, saying, Let us go after other gods, which you have + not known, and let us serve them; +013:003 you shall not listen to the words of that prophet, or to + that dreamer of dreams: for Yahweh your God proves you, + to know whether you love Yahweh your God with all your heart + and with all your soul. +013:004 You shall walk after Yahweh your God, and fear him, and keep + his commandments, and obey his voice, and you shall serve him, + and cleave to him. +013:005 That prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death, + because he has spoken rebellion against Yahweh your God, + who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed + you out of the house of bondage, to draw you aside out + of the way which Yahweh your God commanded you to walk in. + So shall you put away the evil from the midst of you. +013:006 If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, + or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend, + who is as your own soul, entice you secretly, saying, Let us + go and serve other gods, which you have not known, you, + nor your fathers; +013:007 of the gods of the peoples who are round about you, near to you, + or far off from you, from the one end of the earth even + to the other end of the earth; +013:008 you shall not consent to him, nor listen to him; neither shall + your eye pity him, neither shall you spare, neither shall + you conceal him: +013:009 but you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first on him + to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. +013:010 You shall stone him to death with stones, because he has + sought to draw you away from Yahweh your God, who brought + you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. +013:011 All Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall not do any more + such wickedness as this is in the midst of you. +013:012 If you shall hear tell concerning one of your cities, + which Yahweh your God gives you to dwell there, saying, +013:013 Certain base fellows are gone out from the midst of you, + and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us + go and serve other gods, which you have not known; +013:014 then shall you inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; + and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, + that such abomination is done in the midst of you, +013:015 you shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge + of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein + and the livestock of it, with the edge of the sword. +013:016 You shall gather all the spoil of it into the midst + of the street of it, and shall burn with fire the city, + and all the spoil of it every whit, to Yahweh your God: + and it shall be a heap forever; it shall not be built again. +013:017 There shall cleave nothing of the devoted thing to your hand; + that Yahweh may turn from the fierceness of his anger, + and show you mercy, and have compassion on you, and multiply you, + as he has sworn to your fathers; +013:018 when you shall listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, + to keep all his commandments which I command you this day, + to do that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh your God. +014:001 You are the children of Yahweh your God: you shall not + cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes + for the dead. +014:002 For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God, and Yahweh + has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, + above all peoples who are on the face of the earth. +014:003 You shall not eat any abominable thing. +014:004 These are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, + and the goat, +014:005 the hart, and the gazelle, and the roebuck, and the wild goat, + and the ibex, and the antelope, and the chamois. +014:006 Every animal that parts the hoof, and has the hoof cloven in two, + [and] chews the cud, among the animals, that may you eat. +014:007 Nevertheless these you shall not eat of them that chew the cud, + or of those who have the hoof cloven: the camel, and the hare, + and the rabbit; because they chew the cud but don't part the hoof, + they are unclean to you. +014:008 The pig, because it has a split hoof but doesn't chew the cud, + is unclean to you: of their flesh you shall not eat, + and their carcasses you shall not touch. +014:009 These you may eat of all that are in the waters: + whatever has fins and scales may you eat; +014:010 and whatever doesn't have fins and scales you shall not eat; + it is unclean to you. +014:011 Of all clean birds you may eat. +014:012 But these are they of which you shall not eat: the eagle, + and the vulture, and the osprey, +014:013 and the red kite, and the falcon, and the kite after its kind, +014:014 and every raven after its kind, +014:015 and the ostrich, and the owl, and the seagull, and the hawk + after its kind, +014:016 the little owl, and the great owl, and the horned owl, +014:017 and the pelican, and the vulture, and the cormorant, +014:018 and the stork, and the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe, + and the bat. +014:019 All winged creeping things are unclean to you: they shall + not be eaten. +014:020 Of all clean birds you may eat. +014:021 You shall not eat of anything that dies of itself: + you may give it to the foreigner living among you who is + within your gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it + to a foreigner: for you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. + You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk. +014:022 You shall surely tithe all the increase of your seed, + that which comes forth from the field year by year. +014:023 You shall eat before Yahweh your God, in the place + which he shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, + the tithe of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, + and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock; that you + may learn to fear Yahweh your God always. +014:024 If the way be too long for you, so that you are not able + to carry it, because the place is too far from you, + which Yahweh your God shall choose, to set his name there, + when Yahweh your God shall bless you; +014:025 then shall you turn it into money, and bind up the money + in your hand, and shall go to the place which Yahweh your + God shall choose: +014:026 and you shall bestow the money for whatever your soul desires, + for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, + or for whatever your soul asks of you; and you shall eat + there before Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice, + you and your household. +014:027 The Levite who is within your gates, you shall not forsake him; + for he has no portion nor inheritance with you. +014:028 At the end of every three years you shall bring forth all + the tithe of your increase in the same year, and shall lay + it up within your gates: +014:029 and the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, + and the foreigner living among you, and the fatherless, + and the widow, who are within your gates, shall come, + and shall eat and be satisfied; that Yahweh your God may bless + you in all the work of your hand which you do. +015:001 At the end of every seven years you shall make a release. +015:002 This is the manner of the release: every creditor + shall release that which he has lent to his neighbor; + he shall not exact it of his neighbor and his brother; + because Yahweh's release has been proclaimed. +015:003 Of a foreigner you may exact it: but whatever of your is + with your brother your hand shall release. +015:004 However there shall be no poor with you; (for Yahweh will + surely bless you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you + for an inheritance to possess it;) +015:005 if only you diligently listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, + to observe to do all this commandment which I command + you this day. +015:006 For Yahweh your God will bless you, as he promised you: + and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow; + and you shall rule over many nations, but they shall not + rule over you. +015:007 If there be with you a poor man, one of your brothers, + within any of your gates in your land which Yahweh your God + gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand + from your poor brother; +015:008 but you shall surely open your hand to him, and shall surely + lend him sufficient for his need [in that] which he wants. +015:009 Beware that there not be a base thought in your heart, saying, + The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and your eye + be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; + and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you. +015:010 You shall surely give him, and your heart shall not be grieved + when you give to him; because that for this thing Yahweh + your God will bless you in all your work, and in all that you + put your hand to. +015:011 For the poor will never cease out of the land: + therefore I command you, saying, You shall surely open + your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, + in your land. +015:012 If your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, be sold to you, + and serve you six years; then in the seventh year you shall + let him go free from you. +015:013 When you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty: +015:014 you shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, + and out of your threshing floor, and out of your winepress; + as Yahweh your God has blessed you, you shall give to him. +015:015 You shall remember that you were a bondservant in the land + of Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you: therefore I + command you this thing today. +015:016 It shall be, if he tell you, I will not go out from you; + because he loves you and your house, because he is well with you; +015:017 then you shall take an awl, and thrust it through his ear + to the door, and he shall be your servant forever. + Also to your female servant you shall do likewise. +015:018 It shall not seem hard to you, when you let him go free from you; + for to the double of the hire of a hireling has he served + you six years: and Yahweh your God will bless you in all + that you do. +015:019 All the firstborn males that are born of your herd and + of your flock you shall sanctify to Yahweh your God: + you shall do no work with the firstborn of your herd, + nor shear the firstborn of your flock. +015:020 You shall eat it before Yahweh your God year by year in the place + which Yahweh shall choose, you and your household. +015:021 If it have any blemish, [as if it be] lame or blind, any ill + blemish whatever, you shall not sacrifice it to Yahweh your God. +015:022 You shall eat it within your gates: the unclean and the clean + [shall eat it] alike, as the gazelle, and as the hart. +015:023 Only you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it out on + the ground as water. +016:001 Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to Yahweh your God; + for in the month of Abib Yahweh your God brought you forth + out of Egypt by night. +016:002 You shall sacrifice the Passover to Yahweh your God, of the flock + and the herd, in the place which Yahweh shall choose, + to cause his name to dwell there. +016:003 You shall eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shall you + eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; + for you came forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: + that you may remember the day when you came forth out of the land + of Egypt all the days of your life. +016:004 There shall be no yeast seen with you in all your borders + seven days; neither shall any of the flesh, which you sacrifice + the first day at even, remain all night until the morning. +016:005 You may not sacrifice the Passover within any of your gates, + which Yahweh your God gives you; +016:006 but at the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause + his name to dwell in, there you shall sacrifice the Passover + at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that you + came forth out of Egypt. +016:007 You shall roast and eat it in the place which Yahweh your God + shall choose: and you shall turn in the morning, and go + to your tents. +016:008 Six days you shall eat unleavened bread; and on the seventh + day shall be a solemn assembly to Yahweh your God; you shall + do no work [therein]. +016:009 Seven weeks shall you number to you: from the time you begin + to put the sickle to the standing grain shall you begin + to number seven weeks. +016:010 You shall keep the feast of weeks to Yahweh your God with a tribute + of a freewill offering of your hand, which you shall give, + according as Yahweh your God blesses you: +016:011 and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God, you, and your son, + and your daughter, and your male servant, and your female servant, + and the Levite who is within your gates, and the foreigner, + and the fatherless, and the widow, who are in the midst of you, + in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause + his name to dwell there. +016:012 You shall remember that you were a bondservant in Egypt: + and you shall observe and do these statutes. +016:013 You shall keep the feast of tents seven days, after that you have + gathered in from your threshing floor and from your winepress: +016:014 and you shall rejoice in your feast, you, and your son, + and your daughter, and your male servant, and your female servant, + and the Levite, and the foreigner, and the fatherless, + and the widow, who are within your gates. +016:015 Seven days shall you keep a feast to Yahweh your God in the place + which Yahweh shall choose; because Yahweh your God will bless + you in all your increase, and in all the work of your hands, + and you shall be altogether joyful. +016:016 Three times in a year shall all your males appear before + Yahweh your God in the place which he shall choose: + in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, + and in the feast of tents; and they shall not appear + before Yahweh empty: +016:017 every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing + of Yahweh your God which he has given you. +016:018 Judges and officers shall you make you in all your gates, + which Yahweh your God gives you, according to your tribes; + and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment. +016:019 You shall not wrest justice: you shall not respect persons; + neither shall you take a bribe; for a bribe does blind the eyes + of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous. +016:020 That which is altogether just shall you follow, that you may live, + and inherit the land which Yahweh your God gives you. +016:021 You shall not plant you an Asherah of any kind of tree beside + the altar of Yahweh your God, which you shall make you. +016:022 Neither shall you set yourself up a pillar; which Yahweh + your God hates. +017:001 You shall not sacrifice to Yahweh your God an ox, or a sheep, + in which is a blemish, [or] anything evil; for that is an + abomination to Yahweh your God. +017:002 If there be found in the midst of you, within any of your + gates which Yahweh your God gives you, man or woman, + who does that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh your God, + in transgressing his covenant, +017:003 and has gone and served other gods, and worshiped them, + or the sun, or the moon, or any of the army of the sky, + which I have not commanded; +017:004 and it be told you, and you have heard of it, then shall you + inquire diligently; and behold, if it be true, and the thing certain, + that such abomination is done in Israel, +017:005 then shall you bring forth that man or that woman, who has done + this evil thing, to your gates, even the man or the woman; + and you shall stone them to death with stones. +017:006 At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he who is + to die be put to death; at the mouth of one witness he shall + not be put to death. +017:007 The hand of the witnesses shall be first on him to put + him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. + So you shall put away the evil from the midst of you. +017:008 If there arise a matter too hard for you in judgment, + between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke + and stroke, being matters of controversy within your gates; + then shall you arise, and go up to the place which Yahweh + your God shall choose; +017:009 and you shall come to the priests the Levites, and to the judge + who shall be in those days: and you shall inquire; + and they shall show you the sentence of judgment. +017:010 You shall do according to the tenor of the sentence which they + shall show you from that place which Yahweh shall choose; + and you shall observe to do according to all that they + shall teach you: +017:011 according to the tenor of the law which they shall teach you, + and according to the judgment which they shall tell you, + you shall do; you shall not turn aside from the sentence + which they shall show you, to the right hand, nor to the left. +017:012 The man who does presumptuously, in not listening to the priest + who stands to minister there before Yahweh your God, + or to the judge, even that man shall die: and you shall put + away the evil from Israel. +017:013 All the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously. +017:014 When you are come to the land which Yahweh your God gives you, + and shall possess it, and shall dwell therein, and shall say, + I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are + round about me; +017:015 you shall surely set him king over you, whom Yahweh your + God shall choose: one from among your brothers shall you + set king over you; you may not put a foreigner over you, + who is not your brother. +017:016 Only he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people + to return to Egypt, to the end that he may multiply horses; + because Yahweh has said to you, You shall henceforth return + no more that way. +017:017 Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart + not turn away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself + silver and gold. +017:018 It shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, + that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book, + out of [that which is] before the priests the Levites: +017:019 and it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days + of his life; that he may learn to fear Yahweh his God, + to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, + to do them; +017:020 that his heart not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he not + turn aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left: + to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, + he and his children, in the midst of Israel. +018:001 The priests the Levites, [even] all the tribe of Levi, + shall have no portion nor inheritance with Israel: + they shall eat the offerings of Yahweh made by fire, + and his inheritance. +018:002 They shall have no inheritance among their brothers: + Yahweh is their inheritance, as he has spoken to them. +018:003 This shall be the priests' due from the people, from those + who offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep, that they + shall give to the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, + and the maw. +018:004 The first fruits of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, + and the first of the fleece of your sheep, shall you give him. +018:005 For Yahweh your God has chosen him out of all your tribes, + to stand to minister in the name of Yahweh, him and his + sons for ever. +018:006 If a Levite comes from any of your gates out of all Israel, + where he lives as a foreigner, and comes with all the desire + of his soul to the place which Yahweh shall choose; +018:007 then he shall minister in the name of Yahweh his God, as all + his brothers the Levites do, who stand there before Yahweh. +018:008 They shall have like portions to eat, besides that which comes + of the sale of his patrimony. +018:009 When you are come into the land which Yahweh your God gives you, + you shall not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. +018:010 There shall not be found with you anyone who makes his son or his + daughter to pass through the fire, one who uses divination, + one who practices sorcery, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer, +018:011 or a charmer, or a consulter with a familiar spirit, or a wizard, + or a necromancer. +018:012 For whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh: + and because of these abominations Yahweh your God does drive + them out from before you. +018:013 You shall be perfect with Yahweh your God. +018:014 For these nations, that you shall dispossess, listen to those + who practice sorcery, and to diviners; but as for you, + Yahweh your God has not allowed you so to do. +018:015 Yahweh your God will raise up to you a prophet from the midst + of you, of your brothers, like me; to him you shall listen; +018:016 according to all that you desired of Yahweh your God in Horeb + in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again + the voice of Yahweh my God, neither let me see this great fire + any more, that I not die. +018:017 Yahweh said to me, They have well said that which they have spoken. +018:018 I will raise them up a prophet from among their brothers, + like you; and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall + speak to them all that I shall command him. +018:019 It shall happen, that whoever will not listen to my words + which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him. +018:020 But the prophet, who shall speak a word presumptuously in my name, + which I have not commanded him to speak, or who shall speak + in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die. +018:021 If you say in your heart, How shall we know the word which Yahweh + has not spoken? +018:022 when a prophet speaks in the name of Yahweh, if the thing + doesn't follow, nor happen, that is the thing which Yahweh + has not spoken: the prophet has spoken it presumptuously, + you shall not be afraid of him. +019:001 When Yahweh your God shall cut off the nations, whose land + Yahweh your God gives you, and you succeed them, and dwell + in their cities, and in their houses; +019:002 you shall set apart three cities for you in the midst of your land, + which Yahweh your God gives you to possess it. +019:003 You shall prepare you the way, and divide the borders of your land, + which Yahweh your God causes you to inherit, into three parts, + that every manslayer may flee there. +019:004 This is the case of the manslayer, that shall flee there and live: + whoever kills his neighbor unawares, and didn't hate him + in time past; +019:005 as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to hew wood, + and his hand fetches a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, + and the head slips from the handle, and lights on his neighbor, + so that he dies; he shall flee to one of these cities and live: +019:006 lest the avenger of blood pursue the manslayer, while his + heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, + and strike him mortally; whereas he was not worthy of death, + inasmuch as he didn't hate him in time past. +019:007 Therefore I command you, saying, You shall set apart three + cities for you. +019:008 If Yahweh your God enlarge your border, as he has sworn + to your fathers, and give you all the land which he promised + to give to your fathers; +019:009 if you shall keep all this commandment to do it, which I command + you this day, to love Yahweh your God, and to walk ever + in his ways; then shall you add three cities more for you, + besides these three: +019:010 that innocent blood not be shed in the midst of your land, + which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, + and so blood be on you. +019:011 But if any man hate his neighbor, and lie in wait for him, + and rise up against him, and strike him mortally so that he dies, + and he flee into one of these cities; +019:012 then the elders of his city shall send and bring him there, + and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, + that he may die. +019:013 Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall put away the innocent + blood from Israel, that it may go well with you. +019:014 You shall not remove your neighbor's landmark, which they of old + time have set, in your inheritance which you shall inherit, + in the land that Yahweh your God gives you to possess it. +019:015 One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, + or for any sin, in any sin that he sins: at the mouth + of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, + shall a matter be established. +019:016 If an unrighteous witness rise up against any man to testify + against him of wrong-doing, +019:017 then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand + before Yahweh, before the priests and the judges who shall + be in those days; +019:018 and the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, + if the witness is a false witness, and has testified falsely + against his brother; +019:019 then shall you do to him, as he had thought to do to his brother: + so shall you put away the evil from the midst of you. +019:020 Those who remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth + commit no more any such evil in the midst of you. +019:021 Your eyes shall not pity; life [shall go] for life, eye for eye, + tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. +020:001 When you go forth to battle against your enemies, and see horses, + and chariots, [and] a people more than you, you shall + not be afraid of them; for Yahweh your God is with you, + who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. +020:002 It shall be, when you draw near to the battle, that the priest + shall approach and speak to the people, +020:003 and shall tell them, Hear, Israel, you draw near this day + to battle against your enemies: don't let your heart faint; + don't be afraid, nor tremble, neither be scared of them; +020:004 for Yahweh your God is he who goes with you, to fight for you + against your enemies, to save you. +020:005 The officers shall speak to the people, saying, What man is + there who has built a new house, and has not dedicated it? let + him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, + and another man dedicate it. +020:006 What man is there who has planted a vineyard, and has not + used the fruit of it? let him go and return to his house, + lest he die in the battle, and another man use the fruit of it. +020:007 What man is there who has pledged to be married a wife, + and has not taken her? let him go and return to his house, + lest he die in the battle, and another man take her. +020:008 The officers shall speak further to the people, and they shall say, + What man is there who is fearful and faint-hearted? let him + go and return to his house, lest his brother's heart melt + as his heart. +020:009 It shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking + to the people, that they shall appoint captains of armies + at the head of the people. +020:010 When you draw near to a city to fight against it, then proclaim + peace to it. +020:011 It shall be, if it make you answer of peace, and open to you, + then it shall be, that all the people who are found therein + shall become tributary to you, and shall serve you. +020:012 If it will make no peace with you, but will make war against you, + then you shall besiege it: +020:013 and when Yahweh your God delivers it into your hand, you shall + strike every male of it with the edge of the sword: +020:014 but the women, and the little ones, and the livestock, + and all that is in the city, even all the spoil of it, + shall you take for a prey to yourself; and you shall eat + the spoil of your enemies, which Yahweh your God has given you. +020:015 Thus shall you do to all the cities which are very far off + from you, which are not of the cities of these nations. +020:016 But of the cities of these peoples, that Yahweh your God gives you + for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes; +020:017 but you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittite, and the Amorite, + the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; + as Yahweh your God has commanded you; +020:018 that they not teach you to do after all their abominations, + which they have done to their gods; so would you sin against + Yahweh your God. +020:019 When you shall besiege a city a long time, in making war + against it to take it, you shall not destroy the trees of it + by wielding an axe against them; for you may eat of them, + and you shall not cut them down; for is the tree of the field man, + that it should be besieged of you? +020:020 Only the trees of which you know that they are not trees + for food, you shall destroy and cut them down; and you shall + build bulwarks against the city that makes war with you, + until it fall. +021:001 If one be found slain in the land which Yahweh your God gives + you to possess it, lying in the field, and it isn't known + who has struck him; +021:002 then your elders and your judges shall come forth, and they shall + measure to the cities which are round about him who is slain: +021:003 and it shall be, that the city which is nearest to the slain man, + even the elders of that city shall take a heifer of the herd, + which hasn't been worked with, and which has not drawn + in the yoke; +021:004 and the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer to a + valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, + and shall break the heifer's neck there in the valley. +021:005 The priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them Yahweh + your God has chosen to minister to him, and to bless in the name + of Yahweh; and according to their word shall every controversy + and every stroke be. +021:006 All the elders of that city, who are nearest to the slain man, + shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken + in the valley; +021:007 and they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, + neither have our eyes seen it. +021:008 Forgive, Yahweh, your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, + and don't allow innocent blood [to remain] in the midst + of your people Israel. The blood shall be forgiven them. +021:009 So shall you put away the innocent blood from the midst of you, + when you shall do that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh. +021:010 When you go forth to battle against your enemies, and Yahweh + your God delivers them into your hands, and you carry + them away captive, +021:011 and see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you have + a desire to her, and would take her to you as wife; +021:012 then you shall bring her home to your house; and she shall + shave her head, and pare her nails; +021:013 and she shall put the clothing of her captivity from off her, + and shall remain in your house, and bewail her father and her + mother a full month: and after that you shall go in to her, + and be her husband, and she shall be your wife. +021:014 It shall be, if you have no delight in her, then you shall + let her go where she will; but you shall not sell her at + all for money, you shall not deal with her as a slave, + because you have humbled her. +021:015 If a man have two wives, the one beloved, and the other hated, + and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; + and if the firstborn son be hers who was hated; +021:016 then it shall be, in the day that he causes his sons + to inherit that which he has, that he may not make the son + of the beloved the firstborn before the son of the hated, + who is the firstborn: +021:017 but he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the hated, + by giving him a double portion of all that he has; for he is + the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his. +021:018 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey + the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, + though they chasten him, will not listen to them; +021:019 then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, + and bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate + of his place; +021:020 and they shall tell the elders of his city, This our son + is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; + he is a glutton, and a drunkard. +021:021 All the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones: + so shall you put away the evil from the midst of you; + and all Israel shall hear, and fear. +021:022 If a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be put + to death, and you hang him on a tree; +021:023 his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall + surely bury him the same day; for he who is hanged is accursed + of God; that you don't defile your land which Yahweh your God + gives you for an inheritance. +022:001 You shall not see your brother's ox or his sheep go astray, + and hide yourself from them: you shall surely bring them + again to your brother. +022:002 If your brother isn't near to you, or if you don't know him, + then you shall bring it home to your house, and it shall + be with you until your brother seek after it, and you shall + restore it to him. +022:003 So shall you do with his donkey; and so shall you do with + his garment; and so shall you do with every lost thing + of your brother's, which he has lost, and you have found: + you may not hide yourself. +022:004 You shall not see your brother's donkey or his ox + fallen down by the way, and hide yourself from them: + you shall surely help him to lift them up again. +022:005 A woman shall not wear men's clothing, neither shall a man + put on women's clothing; for whoever does these things is + an abomination to Yahweh your God. +022:006 If a bird's nest chance to be before you in the way, + in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, + and the hen sitting on the young, or on the eggs, you shall + not take the hen with the young: +022:007 you shall surely let the hen go, but the young you may take + to yourself; that it may be well with you, and that you may + prolong your days. +022:008 When you build a new house, then you shall make a battlement + for your roof, that you don't bring blood on your house, + if any man fall from there. +022:009 You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, + lest the whole fruit be forfeited, the seed which you have sown, + and the increase of the vineyard. +022:010 You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together. +022:011 You shall not wear a mixed stuff, wool and linen together. +022:012 You shall make yourselves fringes{or, tassles} on the four + borders of your cloak, with which you cover yourself. +022:013 If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, and hates her, +022:014 and accuses her of shameful things, and brings up an evil name + on her, and says, I took this woman, and when I came near to her, + I didn't find in her the tokens of virginity; +022:015 then shall the father of the young lady, and her mother, + take and bring forth the tokens of the young lady's virginity + to the elders of the city in the gate; +022:016 and the young lady's father shall tell the elders, I gave + my daughter to this man to wife, and he hates her; +022:017 and behold, he has laid shameful things [to her charge], saying, + I didn't find in your daughter the tokens of virginity; + and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. + They shall spread the garment before the elders of the city. +022:018 The elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him; +022:019 and they shall fine him one hundred [shekels] of silver, + and give them to the father of the young lady, because he has + brought up an evil name on a virgin of Israel: and she shall + be his wife; he may not put her away all his days. +022:020 But if this thing be true, that the tokens of virginity were + not found in the young lady; +022:021 then they shall bring out the young lady to the door + of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone + her to death with stones, because she has done folly + in Israel, to play the prostitute in her father's house: + so shall you put away the evil from the midst of you. +022:022 If a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband, + then they shall both of them die, the man who lay with the woman, + and the woman: so shall you put away the evil from Israel. +022:023 If there be a young lady who is a virgin pledged to be married + to a husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her; +022:024 then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, + and you shall stone them to death with stones; + the lady, because she didn't cry, being in the city; + and the man, because he has humbled his neighbor's wife: + so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you. +022:025 But if the man find the lady who is pledged to be married + in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her; + then the man only who lay with her shall die: +022:026 but to the lady you shall do nothing; there is in the lady no sin + worthy of death: for as when a man rises against his neighbor, + and kills him, even so is this matter; +022:027 for he found her in the field, the pledged to be married + lady cried, and there was none to save her. +022:028 If a man find a lady who is a virgin, who is not pledged + to be married, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, + and they be found; +022:029 then the man who lay with her shall give to the lady's father + fifty [shekels] of silver, and she shall be his wife, + because he has humbled her; he may not put her away all his days. +022:030 A man shall not take his father's wife, and shall not uncover + his father's skirt. +023:001 He who is wounded in the stones, or has his privy member cut off, + shall not enter into the assembly of Yahweh. +023:002 A bastard shall not enter into the assembly of Yahweh; + even to the tenth generation shall none of his enter into + the assembly of Yahweh. +023:003 An Ammonite or a Moabite shall not enter into the assembly + of Yahweh; even to the tenth generation shall none belonging + to them enter into the assembly of Yahweh forever: +023:004 because they didn't meet you with bread and with water in the way, + when you came forth out of Egypt, and because they hired + against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, + to curse you. +023:005 Nevertheless Yahweh your God wouldn't listen to Balaam; + but Yahweh your God turned the curse into a blessing to you, + because Yahweh your God loved you. +023:006 You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all + your days forever. +023:007 You shall not abhor an Edomite; for he is your brother: + you shall not abhor an Egyptian, because you lived as a foreigner + in his land. +023:008 The children of the third generation who are born to them + shall enter into the assembly of Yahweh. +023:009 When you go forth in camp against your enemies, then you shall + keep you from every evil thing. +023:010 If there be among you any man, who is not clean by reason + of that which happens him by night, then shall he go abroad + out of the camp, he shall not come within the camp: +023:011 but it shall be, when evening comes on, he shall bathe + himself in water; and when the sun is down, he shall come + within the camp. +023:012 You shall have a place also outside of the camp, where you + shall go forth abroad: +023:013 and you shall have a paddle among your weapons; and it shall be, + when you sit down abroad, you shall dig therewith, and shall + turn back and cover that which comes from you: +023:014 for Yahweh your God walks in the midst of your camp, + to deliver you, and to give up your enemies before you; + therefore shall your camp be holy, that he may not see + an unclean thing in you, and turn away from you. +023:015 You shall not deliver to his master a servant who is escaped + from his master to you: +023:016 he shall dwell with you, in the midst of you, in the place which + he shall choose within one of your gates, where it pleases him best: + you shall not oppress him. +023:017 There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, + neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel. +023:018 You shall not bring the hire of a prostitute, or the wages + of a dog, into the house of Yahweh your God for any vow: + for even both these are an abomination to Yahweh your God. +023:019 You shall not lend on interest to your brother; interest of money, + interest of food, interest of anything that is lent on interest: +023:020 to a foreigner you may lend on interest; but to your brother + you shall not lend on interest, that Yahweh your God may bless + you in all that you put your hand to, in the land where you + go in to possess it. +023:021 When you shall vow a vow to Yahweh your God, you shall not be slack + to pay it: for Yahweh your God will surely require it of you; + and it would be sin in you. +023:022 But if you shall forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in you. +023:023 That which is gone out of your lips you shall observe and do; + according as you have vowed to Yahweh your God, a freewill offering, + which you have promised with your mouth. +023:024 When you come into your neighbor's vineyard, then you may eat + of grapes your fill at your own pleasure; but you shall not + put any in your vessel. +023:025 When you come into your neighbor's standing grain, then you + may pluck the ears with your hand; but you shall not move + a sickle to your neighbor's standing grain. +024:001 When a man takes a wife, and marries her, then it shall be, + if she find no favor in his eyes, because he has found some + unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, + and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house. +024:002 When she is departed out of his house, she may go and be + another man's [wife]. +024:003 If the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorce, + and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house; + or if the latter husband die, who took her to be his wife; +024:004 her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again + to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination + before Yahweh: and you shall not cause the land to sin, + which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance. +024:005 When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army, + neither shall he be charged with any business: + he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife + whom he has taken. +024:006 No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; + for he takes [a man's] life to pledge. +024:007 If a man be found stealing any of his brothers of the children + of Israel, and he deal with him as a slave, or sell him; + then that thief shall die: so shall you put away the evil + from the midst of you. +024:008 Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that you observe diligently, + and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall + teach you: as I commanded them, so you shall observe to do. +024:009 Remember what Yahweh your God did to Miriam, by the way as you + came forth out of Egypt. +024:010 When you do lend your neighbor any manner of loan, you shall + not go into his house to get his pledge. +024:011 You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you do lend shall + bring forth the pledge outside to you. +024:012 If he be a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge; +024:013 you shall surely restore to him the pledge when the sun + goes down, that he may sleep in his garment, and bless you: + and it shall be righteousness to you before Yahweh your God. +024:014 You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, + whether he be of your brothers, or of your foreigners who are + in your land within your gates: +024:015 in his day you shall give him his hire, neither shall the sun + go down on it; for he is poor, and sets his heart on it: + lest he cry against you to Yahweh, and it be sin to you. +024:016 The 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. +024:017 You shall not wrest the justice [due] to the foreigner, + [or] to the fatherless, nor take the widow's clothing to pledge; +024:018 but you shall remember that you were a bondservant in Egypt, + and Yahweh your God redeemed you there: therefore I command + you to do this thing. +024:019 When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgot + a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it: + it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for + the widow; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work + of your hands. +024:020 When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the + boughs again: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, + and for the widow. +024:021 When you gather [the grapes of] your vineyard, you shall + not glean it after you: it shall be for the foreigner, + for the fatherless, and for the widow. +024:022 You shall remember that you were a bondservant in the land of Egypt: + therefore I command you to do this thing. +025:001 If there be a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, + and [the judges] judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, + and condemn the wicked; +025:002 and it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, + that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten + before his face, according to his wickedness, by number. +025:003 Forty stripes he may give him, he shall not exceed; lest, if he + should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, + then your brother should seem vile to you. +025:004 You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out [the grain]. +025:005 If brothers dwell together, and one of them die, and have no son, + the wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger: + her husband's brother shall go in to her, and take her to him + as wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her. +025:006 It shall be, that the firstborn whom she bears shall succeed + in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name not be + blotted out of Israel. +025:007 If the man doesn't want to take his brother's wife, then his + brother's wife shall go up to the gate to the elders, and say, + My husband's brother refuses to raise up to his brother + a name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of a husband's + brother to me. +025:008 Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him: + and if he stand, and say, I don't want to take her; +025:009 then his brother's wife shall come to him in the presence + of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit + in his face; and she shall answer and say, So shall it be done + to the man who does not build up his brother's house. +025:010 His name shall be called in Israel, The house of him who has + his shoe untied. +025:011 When men strive together one with another, and the wife + of the one draws near to deliver her husband out of the hand + of him who strikes him, and puts forth her hand, and takes + him by the secrets; +025:012 then you shall cut off her hand, your eye shall have no pity. +025:013 You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, a great + and a small. +025:014 You shall not have in your house diverse measures, a great + and a small. +025:015 A perfect and just weight shall you have; a perfect and just + measure shall you have: that your days may be long in the land + which Yahweh your God gives you. +025:016 For all who do such things, [even] all who do unrighteously, + are an abomination to Yahweh your God. +025:017 Remember what Amalek did to you by the way as you came forth + out of Egypt; +025:018 how he met you by the way, and struck the hindmost of you, + all who were feeble behind you, when you were faint and weary; + and he didn't fear God. +025:019 Therefore it shall be, when Yahweh your God has given you + rest from all your enemies round about, in the land which + Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it, + that you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky; + you shall not forget. +026:001 It shall be, when you are come in to the land which Yahweh + your God gives you for an inheritance, and possess it, + and dwell therein, +026:002 that you shall take of the first of all the fruit of the ground, + which you shall bring in from your land that Yahweh your God + gives you; and you shall put it in a basket, and shall go + to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause + his name to dwell there. +026:003 You shall come to the priest who shall be in those days, + and tell him, I profess this day to Yahweh your God, + that I am come to the land which Yahweh swore to our fathers + to give us. +026:004 The priest shall take the basket out of your hand, and set it + down before the altar of Yahweh your God. +026:005 You shall answer and say before Yahweh your God, A Syrian + ready to perish 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. +026:006 The Egyptians dealt ill with us, and afflicted us, and laid + on us hard bondage: +026:007 and we cried to Yahweh, the God of our fathers, and Yahweh + heard our voice, and saw our affliction, and our toil, + and our oppression; +026:008 and Yahweh brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, + and with an outstretched arm, and with great terror, + and with signs, and with wonders; +026:009 and he has brought us into this place, and has given us this land, + a land flowing with milk and honey. +026:010 Now, behold, I have brought the first of the fruit of the ground, + which you, Yahweh, have given me. You shall set it down + before Yahweh your God, and worship before Yahweh your God. +026:011 You shall rejoice in all the good which Yahweh your God + has given to you, and to your house, you, and the Levite, + and the foreigner who is in the midst of you. +026:012 When you have made an end of tithing all the tithe of your + increase in the third year, which is the year of tithing, + then you shall give it to the Levite, to the foreigner, + to the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat within + your gates, and be filled. +026:013 You shall say before Yahweh your God, I have put away the holy + things out of my house, and also have given them to the Levite, + and to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, + according to all your commandment which you have commanded me: + I have not transgressed any of your commandments, neither have + I forgotten them: +026:014 I have not eaten of it in my mourning, neither have I put + away of it, being unclean, nor given of it for the dead: + I have listened to the voice of Yahweh my God; I have done + according to all that you have commanded me. +026:015 Look down from your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless + your people Israel, and the ground which you have given us, + as you swore to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey. +026:016 This day Yahweh your God commands you to do these statutes + and ordinances: you shall therefore keep and do them with all + your heart, and with all your soul. +026:017 You have declared Yahweh this day to be your God, and that you would + walk in his ways, and keep his statutes, and his commandments, + and his ordinances, and listen to his voice: +026:018 and Yahweh has declared you this day to be a people for his + own possession, as he has promised you, and that you should + keep all his commandments; +026:019 and to make you high above all nations that he has made, + in praise, and in name, and in honor; and that you may be + a holy people to Yahweh your God, as he has spoken. +027:001 Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, + Keep all the commandment which I command you this day. +027:002 It shall be on the day when you shall pass over the Jordan + to the land which Yahweh your God gives you, that you shall + set yourself up great stones, and plaster them with plaster: +027:003 and you shall write on them all the words of this law, when you + are passed over; that you may go in to the land which Yahweh + your God gives you, a land flowing with milk and honey, + as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has promised you. +027:004 It shall be, when you are passed over the Jordan, that you + shall set up these stones, which I command you this day, + in Mount Ebal, and you shall plaster them with plaster. +027:005 There shall you build an altar to Yahweh your God, an altar + of stones: you shall lift up no iron [tool] on them. +027:006 You shall build the altar of Yahweh your God of uncut stones; + and you shall offer burnt offerings thereon to Yahweh your God: +027:007 and you shall sacrifice peace offerings, and shall eat there; + and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God. +027:008 You shall write on the stones all the words of this + law very plainly. +027:009 Moses and the priests the Levites spoke to all Israel, saying, + Keep silence, and listen, Israel: this day you are become + the people of Yahweh your God. +027:010 You shall therefore obey the voice of Yahweh your God, + and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command + you this day. +027:011 Moses charged the people the same day, saying, +027:012 These shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people, + when you are passed over the Jordan: Simeon, and Levi, + and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin. +027:013 These shall stand on Mount Ebal for the curse: Reuben, Gad, + and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali. +027:014 The Levites shall answer, and tell all the men of Israel + with a loud voice, +027:015 Cursed be the man who makes an engraved or molten image, + an abomination to Yahweh, the work of the hands of the craftsman, + and sets it up in secret. All the people shall answer + and say, Amen. +027:016 Cursed be he who sets light by his father or his mother. + All the people shall say, Amen. +027:017 Cursed be he who removes his neighbor's landmark. + All the people shall say, Amen. +027:018 Cursed be he who makes the blind to wander out of the way. + All the people shall say, Amen. +027:019 Cursed be he who wrests the justice [due] to the foreigner, + fatherless, and widow. All the people shall say, Amen. +027:020 Cursed be he who lies with his father's wife, because he has + uncovered his father's skirt. All the people shall say, Amen. +027:021 Cursed be he who lies with any manner of animal. + All the people shall say, Amen. +027:022 Cursed be he who lies with his sister, the daughter of his father, + or the daughter of his mother. All the people shall say, Amen. +027:023 Cursed be he who lies with his mother-in-law. All the people + shall say, Amen. +027:024 Cursed be he who strikes his neighbor in secret. + All the people shall say, Amen. +027:025 Cursed be he who takes a bribe to kill an innocent person. + All the people shall say, Amen. +027:026 Cursed be he who doesn't confirm the words of this law to do them. + All the people shall say, Amen. +028:001 It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to the voice + of Yahweh your God, to observe to do all his commandments + which I command you this day, that Yahweh your God will set + you on high above all the nations of the earth: +028:002 and all these blessings shall come on you, and overtake you, + if you shall listen to the voice of Yahweh your God. +028:003 Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be + in the field. +028:004 Blessed shall be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your ground, + and the fruit of your animals, the increase of your livestock, + and the young of your flock. +028:005 Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading trough. +028:006 Blessed shall you be when you come in, and blessed shall you + be when you go out. +028:007 Yahweh will cause your enemies who rise up against you to be + struck before you: they shall come out against you one way, + and shall flee before you seven ways. +028:008 Yahweh will command the blessing on you in your barns, + and in all that you put your hand to; and he will bless you + in the land which Yahweh your God gives you. +028:009 Yahweh will establish you for a holy people to himself, + as he has sworn to you; if you shall keep the commandments + of Yahweh your God, and walk in his ways. +028:010 All the peoples of the earth shall see that you are called + by the name of Yahweh; and they shall be afraid of you. +028:011 Yahweh will make you plenteous for good, in the fruit of your body, + and in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, + in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give you. +028:012 Yahweh will open to you his good treasure in the sky, + to give the rain of your land in its season, and to bless all + the work of your hand: and you shall lend to many nations, + and you shall not borrow. +028:013 Yahweh will make you the head, and not the tail; + and you shall be above only, and you shall not be beneath; + if you shall listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, + which I command you this day, to observe and to do [them], +028:014 and shall not turn aside from any of the words which I + command you this day, to the right hand, or to the left, + to go after other gods to serve them. +028:015 But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to the voice + of Yahweh your God, to observe to do all his commandments + and his statutes which I command you this day, that all + these curses shall come on you, and overtake you. +028:016 Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be + in the field. +028:017 Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading trough. +028:018 Cursed shall be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your ground, + the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock. +028:019 Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you + be when you go out. +028:020 Yahweh will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke, + in all that you put your hand to do, until you are destroyed, + and until you perish quickly; because of the evil of your doings, + by which you have forsaken me. +028:021 Yahweh will make the pestilence cleave to you, until he has + consumed you from off the land, where you go in to possess it. +028:022 Yahweh will strike you with consumption, and with fever, + and with inflammation, and with fiery heat, and with the sword, + and with blight, and with mildew; and they shall pursue you + until you perish. +028:023 Your sky that is over your head shall be brass, and the earth + that is under you shall be iron. +028:024 Yahweh will make the rain of your land powder and dust: + from the sky shall it come down on you, until you are destroyed. +028:025 Yahweh will cause you to be struck before your enemies; + you shall go out one way against them, and shall flee seven + ways before them: and you shall be tossed back and forth + among all the kingdoms of the earth. +028:026 Your dead body shall be food to all birds of the sky, + and to the animals of the earth; and there shall be none + to frighten them away. +028:027 Yahweh will strike you with the boil of Egypt, and with the tumors, + and with the scurvy, and with the itch, of which you can + not be healed. +028:028 Yahweh will strike you with madness, and with blindness, + and with astonishment of heart; +028:029 and you shall grope at noonday, as the blind gropes + in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways: + and you shall be only oppressed and robbed always, and there + shall be none to save you. +028:030 You shall betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: + you shall build a house, and you shall not dwell therein: + you shall plant a vineyard, and shall not use the fruit of it. +028:031 Your ox shall be slain before your eyes, and you shall + not eat of it: your donkey shall be violently taken away + from before your face, and shall not be restored to you: + your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and you shall + have none to save you. +028:032 Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people; + and your eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all + the day: and there shall be nothing in the power of your hand. +028:033 The fruit of your ground, and all your labors, shall a nation + which you don't know eat up; and you shall be only oppressed + and crushed always; +028:034 so that you shall be mad for the sight of your eyes which + you shall see. +028:035 Yahweh will strike you in the knees, and in the legs, + with a sore boil, of which you can not be healed, from the sole + of your foot to the crown of your head. +028:036 Yahweh will bring you, and your king whom you shall set over you, + to a nation that you have not known, you nor your fathers; + and there shall you serve other gods, wood and stone. +028:037 You shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, + among all the peoples where Yahweh shall lead you away. +028:038 You shall carry much seed out into the field, and shall gather + little in; for the locust shall consume it. +028:039 You shall plant vineyards and dress them, but you shall + neither drink of the wine, nor gather [the grapes]; + for the worm shall eat them. +028:040 You shall have olive trees throughout all your borders, + but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil; for your olive + shall cast [its fruit]. +028:041 You shall father sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours; + for they shall go into captivity. +028:042 All your trees and the fruit of your ground shall the locust possess. +028:043 The foreigner who is in the midst of you shall mount up above + you higher and higher; and you shall come down lower and lower. +028:044 He shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him: + he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail. +028:045 All these curses shall come on you, and shall pursue you, + and overtake you, until you are destroyed; because you didn't + listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, to keep his commandments + and his statutes which he commanded you: +028:046 and they shall be on you for a sign and for a wonder, + and on your seed forever. +028:047 Because you didn't serve Yahweh your God with joyfulness, + and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance + of all things; +028:048 therefore shall you serve your enemies whom Yahweh shall send + against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, + and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron + on your neck, until he have destroyed you. +028:049 Yahweh will bring a nation against you from far, from the end + of the earth, as the eagle flies; a nation whose language + you shall not understand; +028:050 a nation of fierce facial expressions, that shall not regard + the person of the old, nor show favor to the young, +028:051 and shall eat the fruit of your livestock, and the fruit of + your ground, until you are destroyed; that also shall not leave + you grain, new wine, or oil, the increase of your livestock, + or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish. +028:052 They shall besiege you in all your gates, until your high + and fortified walls come down, in which you trusted, + throughout all your land; and they shall besiege you in all + your gates throughout all your land, which Yahweh your God + has given you. +028:053 You shall eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons + and of your daughters, whom Yahweh your God has given you, + in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies + shall distress you. +028:054 The man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall + be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, + and toward the remnant of his children whom he has remaining; +028:055 so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his + children whom he shall eat, because he has nothing left him, + in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall + distress you in all your gates. +028:056 The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not adventure + to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness + and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband + of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter, +028:057 and toward her young one who comes out from between her feet, + and toward her children whom she shall bear; for she shall + eat them for want of all things secretly, in the siege + and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you + in your gates. +028:058 If you will not observe to do all the words of this law that + are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious + and fearful name, YAHWEH YOUR GOD; +028:059 then Yahweh will make your plagues wonderful, and the plagues + of your seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, + and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance. +028:060 He will bring on you again all the diseases of Egypt, + which you were afraid of; and they shall cleave to you. +028:061 Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written + in the book of this law, them will Yahweh bring on you, + until you are destroyed. +028:062 You shall be left few in number, whereas you were as the stars + of the sky for multitude; because you didn't listen to the voice + of Yahweh your God. +028:063 It shall happen that as Yahweh rejoiced over you to do you good, + and to multiply you, so Yahweh will rejoice over you to cause + you to perish, and to destroy you; and you shall be plucked + from off the land where you go in to possess it. +028:064 Yahweh will scatter you among all peoples, from the one + end of the earth even to the other end of the earth; + and there you shall serve other gods, which you have not known, + you nor your fathers, even wood and stone. +028:065 Among these nations shall you find no ease, and there + shall be no rest for the sole of your foot: but Yahweh + will give you there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, + and pining of soul; +028:066 and your life shall hang in doubt before you; and you shall + fear night and day, and shall have no assurance of your life. +028:067 In the morning you shall say, Would it were even! and at even + you shall say, Would it were morning! for the fear of your + heart which you shall fear, and for the sight of your eyes + which you shall see. +028:068 Yahweh will bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the way + of which I said to you, You shall see it no more again: + and there you shall sell yourselves to your enemies for + bondservants and for bondmaids, and no man shall buy you. +029:001 These are the words of the covenant which Yahweh commanded + Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, + besides the covenant which he made with them in Horeb. +029:002 Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, You have seen + all that Yahweh did before your eyes in the land of Egypt + to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land; +029:003 the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, + and those great wonders: +029:004 but Yahweh has not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, + and ears to hear, to this day. +029:005 I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes + have not grown old on you, and your shoe has not grown old + on your foot. +029:006 You have not eaten bread, neither have you drunk wine or strong drink; + that you may know that I am Yahweh your God. +029:007 When you came to this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, + and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us to battle, + and we struck them: +029:008 and we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance + to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe + of the Manassites. +029:009 Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, + that you may prosper in all that you do. +029:010 You stand this day all of you before Yahweh your God; + your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, + even all the men of Israel, +029:011 your little ones, your wives, and your foreigner who is + in the midst of your camps, from the one who cuts your wood + to the one who draws your water; +029:012 that you may enter into the covenant of Yahweh your God, + and into his oath, which Yahweh your God makes with you this day; +029:013 that he may establish you this day to himself for a people, + and that he may be to you a God, as he spoke to you, + and as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, + and to Jacob. +029:014 Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath, +029:015 but with him who stands here with us this day before Yahweh + our God, and also with him who is not here with us this day +029:016 (for you know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we came + through the midst of the nations through which you passed; +029:017 and you have seen their abominations, and their idols, + wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them); +029:018 lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, + or tribe, whose heart turns away this day from Yahweh our God, + to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should + be among you a root that bears gall and wormwood; +029:019 and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, + that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, + though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy + the moist with the dry. +029:020 Yahweh will not pardon him, but then the anger of Yahweh + and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all + the curse that is written in this book shall lie on him, + and Yahweh will blot out his name from under the sky. +029:021 Yahweh will set him apart to evil out of all the tribes of Israel, + according to all the curses of the covenant that is written + in this book of the law. +029:022 The generation to come, your children who shall rise up after you, + and the foreigner who shall come from a far land, shall say, + when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses + with which Yahweh has made it sick; +029:023 [and that] the whole land of it is sulfur, and salt, [and] a burning, + [that] it is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows therein, + like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, + which Yahweh overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath: +029:024 even all the nations shall say, Why has Yahweh done thus + to this land? what means the heat of this great anger? +029:025 Then men shall say, Because they forsook the covenant of Yahweh, + the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought + them forth out of the land of Egypt, +029:026 and went and served other gods, and worshiped them, gods that + they didn't know, and that he had not given to them: +029:027 therefore the anger of Yahweh was kindled against this land, + to bring on it all the curse that is written in this book; +029:028 and Yahweh rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, + and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, + as at this day. +029:029 The secret things belong to Yahweh our God; but the things + that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, + that we may do all the words of this law. +030:001 It shall happen, when all these things are come on you, + the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, + and you shall call them to mind among all the nations, + where Yahweh your God has driven you, +030:002 and shall return to Yahweh your God, and shall obey his voice + according to all that I command you this day, you and your children, + with all your heart, and with all your soul; +030:003 that then Yahweh your God will turn your captivity, and have + compassion on you, and will return and gather you from all + the peoples, where Yahweh your God has scattered you. +030:004 If [any of] your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of + the heavens, from there will Yahweh your God gather you, + and from there he will bring you back: +030:005 and Yahweh your God will bring you into the land which your + fathers possessed, and you shall possess it; and he will do + you good, and multiply you above your fathers. +030:006 Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart + of your seed, to love Yahweh your God with all your heart, + and with all your soul, that you may live. +030:007 Yahweh your God will put all these curses on your enemies, + and on those who hate you, who persecuted you. +030:008 You shall return and obey the voice of Yahweh, and do all his + commandments which I command you this day. +030:009 Yahweh your God will make you plenteous in all the work + of your hand, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit + of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, for good: + for Yahweh will again rejoice over you for good, as he rejoiced + over your fathers; +030:010 if you shall obey the voice of Yahweh your God, to keep his + commandments and his statutes which are written in this book + of the law; if you turn to Yahweh your God with all your heart, + and with all your soul. +030:011 For this commandment which I command you this day, it is not + too hard for you, neither is it far off. +030:012 It is not in heaven, that you should say, Who shall go up + for us to heaven, and bring it to us, and make us to hear it, + that we may do it? +030:013 Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, Who shall go + over the sea for us, and bring it to us, and make us to hear it, + that we may do it? +030:014 But the word is very near to you, in your mouth, and in your heart, + that you may do it. +030:015 Behold, I have set before you this day life and good, + and death and evil; +030:016 in that I command you this day to love Yahweh your God, + to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his + statutes and his ordinances, that you may live and multiply, + and that Yahweh your God may bless you in the land where you + go in to possess it. +030:017 But if your heart turn away, and you will not hear, but shall + be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them; +030:018 I denounce to you this day, that you shall surely perish; + you shall not prolong your days in the land, where you pass + over the Jordan to go in to possess it. +030:019 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I + have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse: + therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your seed; +030:020 to love Yahweh your God, to obey his voice, and to cleave to him; + for he is your life, and the length of your days; that you + may dwell in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers, + to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them. +031:001 Moses went and spoke these words to all Israel. +031:002 He said to them, I am one hundred twenty years old this day; + I can no more go out and come in: and Yahweh has said to me, + You shall not go over this Jordan. +031:003 Yahweh your God, he will go over before you; he will destroy + these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess them: + [and] Joshua, he shall go over before you, as Yahweh has spoken. +031:004 Yahweh will do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings + of the Amorites, and to their land; whom he destroyed. +031:005 Yahweh will deliver them up before you, and you shall do to them + according to all the commandment which I have commanded you. +031:006 Be strong and of good courage, don't be afraid, nor be scared + of them: for Yahweh your God, he it is who does go with you; + he will not fail you, nor forsake you. +031:007 Moses called to Joshua, and said to him in the sight of + all Israel, Be strong and of good courage: for you shall + go with this people into the land which Yahweh has sworn + to their fathers to give them; and you shall cause them + to inherit it. +031:008 Yahweh, he it is who does go before you; he will be with you, + he will not fail you, neither forsake you: don't be afraid, + neither be dismayed. +031:009 Moses wrote this law, and delivered it to the priests the sons + of Levi, who bore the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, + and to all the elders of Israel. +031:010 Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of [every] seven years, + in the set time of the year of release, in the feast of tents, +031:011 when all Israel is come to appear before Yahweh your God + in the place which he shall choose, you shall read this law + before all Israel in their hearing. +031:012 Assemble the people, the men and the women and the little ones, + and your foreigner who is within your gates, that they + may hear, and that they may learn, and fear Yahweh your God, + and observe to do all the words of this law; +031:013 and that their children, who have not known, may hear, + and learn to fear Yahweh your God, as long as you live + in the land where you go over the Jordan to possess it. +031:014 Yahweh said to Moses, Behold, your days approach that you must die: + call Joshua, and present yourselves in the tent of meeting, + that I may give him a charge. Moses and Joshua went, + and presented themselves in the tent of meeting. +031:015 Yahweh appeared in the Tent in a pillar of cloud: + and the pillar of cloud stood over the door of the Tent. +031:016 Yahweh said to Moses, Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers; + and this people will rise up, and play the prostitute after + the strange gods of the land, where they go to be among them, + and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have + made with them. +031:017 Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, + and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, + and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles + shall come on them; so that they will say in that day, + Haven't these evils come on us because our God is not among us? +031:018 I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evil which they + shall have worked, in that they are turned to other gods. +031:019 Now therefore write you this song for you, and teach you it + the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this + song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel. +031:020 For when I shall have brought them into the land which I + swore to their fathers, flowing with milk and honey, + and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and grown fat; + then will they turn to other gods, and serve them, and despise me, + and break my covenant. +031:021 It shall happen, when many evils and troubles are come on them, + that this song shall testify before them as a witness; + for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: + for I know their imagination which they frame this day, + before I have brought them into the land which I swore. +031:022 So Moses wrote this song the same day, and taught it + the children of Israel. +031:023 He gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said, + Be strong and of good courage; for you shall bring + the children of Israel into the land which I swore to them: + and I will be with you. +031:024 It happened, when Moses had made an end of writing the words + of this law in a book, until they were finished, +031:025 that Moses commanded the Levites, who bore the ark of the covenant + of Yahweh, saying, +031:026 Take this book of the law, and put it by the side of the ark + of the covenant of Yahweh your God, that it may be there + for a witness against you. +031:027 For I know your rebellion, and your stiff neck: behold, while I + am yet alive with you this day, you have been rebellious + against Yahweh; and how much more after my death? +031:028 Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, + that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven + and earth to witness against them. +031:029 For I know that after my death you will utterly corrupt yourselves, + and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; + and evil will happen to you in the latter days; because you + will do that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke + him to anger through the work of your hands. +031:030 Moses spoke in the ears of all the assembly of Israel the words + of this song, until they were finished. +032:001 Give ear, you heavens, and I will speak. Let the earth hear + the words of my mouth. +032:002 My doctrine shall drop as the rain. My speech shall + condense as the dew, as the small rain on the tender grass, + as the showers on the herb. +032:003 For I will proclaim the name of Yahweh. Ascribe greatness + to our God! +032:004 The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice: + a God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and right is he. +032:005 They have dealt corruptly with him, [they are] not + his children, [it is] their blemish. [They are] a perverse + and crooked generation. +032:006 Do you thus requite Yahweh, foolish people and unwise? + Isn't he your father who has bought you? He has made you, + and established you. +032:007 Remember the days of old. Consider the years of many generations. + Ask your father, and he will show you; your elders, and they + will tell you. +032:008 When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, + when he separated the children of men, he set the bounds of + the peoples according to the number of the children of Israel. +032:009 For Yahweh's portion is his people. Jacob is the lot + of his inheritance. +032:010 He found him in a desert land, in the waste howling wilderness. + He surrounded him. He cared for him. He kept him as the apple + of his eye. +032:011 As an eagle that stirs up her nest, that flutters over her young, + he spread abroad his wings, he took them, he bore them + on his feathers. +032:012 Yahweh alone led him. There was no foreign god with him. +032:013 He made him ride on the high places of the earth. + He ate the increase of the field. He caused him to suck + honey out of the rock, oil out of the flinty rock; +032:014 Butter of the herd, and milk of the flock, with fat of lambs, rams of + the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the finest of the wheat. + Of the blood of the grape you drank wine. +032:015 But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. + You have grown thick. You have become sleek. + Then he forsook God who made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock + of his salvation. +032:016 They moved him to jealousy with strange [gods]. They provoked + him to anger with abominations. +032:017 They sacrificed to demons, [which were] no God, to gods + that they didn't know, to new [gods] that came up of late, + which your fathers didn't dread. +032:018 Of the Rock who became your father, you are unmindful, + and have forgotten God who gave you birth. +032:019 Yahweh saw [it], and abhorred [them], because of the provocation + of his sons and his daughters. +032:020 He said, I will hide my face from them. I will see what their + end shall be; for they are a very perverse generation, + children in whom is no faithfulness. +032:021 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God. + They have provoked me to anger with their vanities. + I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people. + I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation. +032:022 For a fire is kindled in my anger, Burns to the lowest + Sheol, Devours the earth with its increase, and sets + the foundations of the mountains on fire. +032:023 I will heap evils on them. I will spend my arrows on them. +032:024 [They shall be] wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning + heat and bitter destruction. I will send the teeth of animals + on them, With the poison of crawling things of the dust. +032:025 Outside the sword shall bereave, and in the chambers, terror; on both + young man and virgin, The suckling with the gray-haired man. +032:026 I said, I would scatter them afar. I would make the memory + of them to cease from among men; +032:027 were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, + lest their adversaries should judge wrongly, lest they should say, + Our hand is exalted, Yahweh has not done all this. +032:028 For they are a nation void of counsel. There is no + understanding in them. +032:029 Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they + would consider their latter end! +032:030 How could one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand + to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and Yahweh had + delivered them up? +032:031 For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies + themselves being judges. +032:032 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, of the fields of Gomorrah. + Their grapes are grapes of gall, Their clusters are bitter. +032:033 Their wine is the poison of serpents, The cruel venom of asps. +032:034 Isn't this laid up in store with me, sealed up among my treasures? +032:035 Vengeance is mine, and recompense, at the time when their + foot slides; for the day of their calamity is at hand. + The things that are to come on them shall make haste. +032:036 For Yahweh will judge his people, and have compassion + on his servants, when he sees that [their] power is gone, + There is none [remaining], shut up or left at large. +032:037 He will say, Where are their gods, The rock in which + they took refuge; +032:038 Which ate the fat of their sacrifices, And drank the wine + of their drink offering? Let them rise up and help you! + Let them be your protection. +032:039 See now that I, even I, am he, There is no god with me. + I kill, and I make alive. I wound, and I heal. + There is no one who can deliver out of my hand. +032:040 For I lift up my hand to heaven, And say, As I live forever, +032:041 if I whet my glittering sword, My hand take hold on judgment; + I will render vengeance to my adversaries, and will recompense + those who hate me. +032:042 I will make my arrows drunk with blood. My sword shall + devour flesh with the blood of the slain and the captives, + from the head of the leaders of the enemy. +032:043 Rejoice, you nations, [with] his people, for he will avenge + the blood of his servants. He will render vengeance + to his adversaries, And will make expiation for his land, + for his people. +032:044 Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the ears + of the people, he and Joshua the son of Nun. +032:045 Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel; +032:046 He said to them, Set your heart to all the words which I + testify to you this day, which you shall command your children + to observe to do, [even] all the words of this law. +032:047 For it is no vain thing for you; because it is your life, + and through this thing you shall prolong your days in the land, + where you go over the Jordan to possess it. +032:048 Yahweh spoke to Moses that same day, saying, +032:049 Go up into this mountain of Abarim, to Mount Nebo, + which is in the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho; + and see the land of Canaan, which I give to the children + of Israel for a possession; +032:050 and die on the mountain where you go up, and be gathered + to your people, as Aaron your brother died on Mount Hor, + and was gathered to his people: +032:051 because you trespassed against me in the midst of the children + of Israel at the waters of Meribah of Kadesh, in the wilderness + of Zin; because you didn't sanctify me in the midst of + the children of Israel. +032:052 For you shall see the land before you; but you shall not go + there into the land which I give the children of Israel. +033:001 This is the blessing, with which Moses the man of God blessed + the children of Israel before his death. +033:002 He said, Yahweh came from Sinai, And rose from Seir to them. + He shone forth from Mount Paran. He came from the ten thousands + of holy ones. At his right hand was a fiery law for them. +033:003 Yes, he loves the people. All his saints are in your hand. + They sat down at your feet; [Everyone] shall receive + of your words. +033:004 Moses commanded us a law, An inheritance for the assembly of Jacob. +033:005 He was king in Jeshurun, When the heads of the people were gathered, + All the tribes of Israel together. +033:006 Let Reuben live, and not die; Nor let his men be few. +033:007 This is [the blessing] of Judah: and he said, Hear, Yahweh, + the voice of Judah. Bring him in to his people. + With his hands he contended for himself. You shall be a help + against his adversaries. +033:008 Of Levi he said, Your Thummim and your Urim are with your + godly one, whom you proved at Massah, with whom you strove + at the waters of Meribah; +033:009 who said of his father, and of his mother, I have not seen him; + Neither did he acknowledge his brothers, Nor did he know + his own children: For they have observed your word, + and keep your covenant. +033:010 They shall teach Jacob your ordinances, and Israel your law. + They shall put incense before you, and whole burnt offering + on your altar. +033:011 Yahweh, bless his substance. Accept the work of his hands. + Strike through the hips of those who rise up against him, + of those who hate him, that they not rise again. +033:012 Of Benjamin he said, The beloved of Yahweh shall dwell + in safety by him. He covers him all the day long. + He dwells between his shoulders. +033:013 Of Joseph he said, His land is blessed by Yahweh, for the + precious things of the heavens, for the dew, for the deep + that couches beneath, +033:014 for the precious things of the fruits of the sun, for the precious + things of the growth of the moons, +033:015 for the chief things of the ancient mountains, for the precious + things of the everlasting hills, +033:016 for the precious things of the earth and its fullness, + the good will of him who lived in the bush{i. e. + the burning bush of Exodus 3:3-4.}. Let [the blessing] come + on the head of Joseph, On the crown of the head of him who was + separate from his brothers. +033:017 The firstborn of his herd, majesty is his. His horns are + the horns of the wild ox. With them he shall push the peoples + all of them, [even] the ends of the earth: They are the ten + thousands of Ephraim. They are the thousands of Manasseh. +033:018 Of Zebulun he said, Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going out; + and Issachar, in your tents. +033:019 They shall call the peoples to the mountain. There they will + offer sacrifices of righteousness, for they shall draw out + the abundance of the seas, the hidden treasures of the sand. +033:020 Of Gad he said, He who enlarges Gad is blessed. + He dwells as a lioness, and tears the arm, yes, the crown + of the head. +033:021 He provided the first part for himself, for there was the lawgiver's + portion reserved. He came [with] the heads of the people. + He executed the righteousness of Yahweh, His ordinances with Israel. +033:022 Of Dan he said, Dan is a lion's cub that leaps out of Bashan. +033:023 Of Naphtali he said, Naphtali, satisfied with favor, full of + the blessing of Yahweh, Possess the west and the south. +033:024 Of Asher he said, Asher is blessed with children. + Let him be acceptable to his brothers. Let him dip his + foot in oil. +033:025 Your bars shall be iron and brass. As your days, so shall + your strength be. +033:026 There is none like God, Jeshurun, who rides on the heavens + for your help, In his excellency on the skies. +033:027 The eternal God is [your] dwelling place. Underneath are + the everlasting arms. He thrust out the enemy from before you, + and said, Destroy. +033:028 Israel dwells in safety; the fountain of Jacob alone, In a land + of grain and new wine. Yes, his heavens drop down dew. +033:029 You are happy, Israel. Who is like you, a people saved by Yahweh, + the shield of your help, the sword of your excellency! + Your enemies shall submit themselves to you. You shall tread + on their high places. +034:001 Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, + to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. + Yahweh showed him all the land of Gilead, to Dan, +034:002 and all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, + and all the land of Judah, to the hinder sea, +034:003 and the South, and the Plain of the valley of Jericho the city + of palm trees, to Zoar. +034:004 Yahweh said to him, This is the land which I swore to Abraham, + to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, I will give it to your seed: + I have caused you to see it with your eyes, but you shall + not go over there. +034:005 So Moses the servant of Yahweh died there in the land of Moab, + according to the word of Yahweh. +034:006 He buried him in the valley in the land of Moab over against + Beth Peor: but no man knows of his tomb to this day. +034:007 Moses was one hundred twenty years old when he died: + his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated. +034:008 The children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab + thirty days: so the days of weeping in the mourning for + Moses were ended. +034:009 Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; + for Moses had laid his hands on him: and the children of Israel + listened to him, and did as Yahweh commanded Moses. +034:010 There has not arisen a prophet since in Israel like Moses, + whom Yahweh knew face to face, +034:011 in all the signs and the wonders, which Yahweh sent him to do + in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, + and to all his land, +034:012 and in all the mighty hand, and in all the great terror, + which Moses worked in the sight of all Israel. +Book 06 Joshua +001:001 Now it happened after the death of Moses the servant of Yahweh, + that Yahweh spoke to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' servant, saying, +001:002 Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, + you, and all this people, to the land which I give to them, + even to the children of Israel. +001:003 I have given you every place that the sole of your foot will + tread on, as I told Moses. +001:004 From the wilderness, and this Lebanon, even to the great river, + the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, + and to the great sea toward the going down of the sun, + shall be your border. +001:005 No man will be able to stand before you all the days of your life. + As I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not fail + you nor forsake you. +001:006 Be strong and of good courage; for you shall cause this + people to inherit the land which I swore to their fathers + to give them. +001:007 Only be strong and very courageous, to observe to do according + to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded you. + Don't turn from it to the right hand or to the left, + that you may have good success wherever you go. +001:008 This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth, + but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may + observe to do according to all that is written therein: + for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you + shall have good success. +001:009 Haven't I commanded you? Be strong and of good courage. + Don't be afraid, neither be dismayed: for Yahweh your God + is with you wherever you go. +001:010 Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people, saying, +001:011 "Pass through the midst of the camp, and command the people, + saying, 'Prepare food; for within three days you are to pass + over this Jordan, to go in to possess the land, which Yahweh + your God gives you to possess it.'" +001:012 Joshua spoke to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to + the half-tribe of Manasseh, saying, +001:013 "Remember the word which Moses the servant of Yahweh + commanded you, saying, 'Yahweh your God gives you rest, + and will give you this land. +001:014 Your wives, your little ones, and your livestock, shall live + in the land which Moses gave you beyond the Jordan; but you + shall pass over before your brothers armed, all the mighty + men of valor, and shall help them +001:015 until Yahweh has given your brothers rest, as he has given you, + and they have also possessed the land which Yahweh your God + gives them. Then you shall return to the land of your possession, + and possess it, which Moses the servant of Yahweh gave you + beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise.'" +001:016 They answered Joshua, saying, "All that you have commanded us + we will do, and wherever you send us we will go. +001:017 Just as we listened to Moses in all things, so will we listen to you. + Only may Yahweh your God be with you, as he was with Moses. +001:018 Whoever rebels against your commandment, and doesn't listen to your + words in all that you command him, he shall be put to death. + Only be strong and of good courage." +002:001 Joshua the son of Nun secretly sent two men out of Shittim + as spies, saying, "Go, view the land, and Jericho." + They went and came into the house of a prostitute whose name + was Rahab, and slept there. +002:002 The king of Jericho was told, "Behold, men of the children + of Israel came in here tonight to spy out the land." +002:003 The king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying, "Bring out the men + who have come to you, who have entered into your house; + for they have come to spy out all the land." +002:004 The woman took the two men and hid them. Then she said, "Yes, + the men came to me, but I didn't know where they came from. +002:005 It happened about the time of the shutting of the gate, when it + was dark, that the men went out. Where the men went, I don't know. + Pursue them quickly; for you will overtake them." +002:006 But she had brought them up to the roof, and hid them with + the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order on the roof. +002:007 The men pursued them the way to the Jordan to the fords: + and as soon as those who pursued them had gone out, + they shut the gate. +002:008 Before they had laid down, she came up to them on the roof; +002:009 and she said to the men, "I know that Yahweh has given + you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen on us, + and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you. +002:010 For we have heard how Yahweh dried up the water of the + Red Sea{or, Sea of Reeds} before you, when you came out of Egypt; + and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond + the Jordan, to Sihon and to Og, whom you utterly destroyed. +002:011 As soon as we had heard it, our hearts melted, neither did + there remain any more spirit in any man, because of you: + for Yahweh your God, he is God in heaven above, + and on earth beneath. +002:012 Now therefore, please swear to me by Yahweh, since I have dealt + kindly with you, that you also will deal kindly with my + father's house, and give me a true token; +002:013 and that you will save alive my father, my mother, my brothers, + and my sisters, and all that they have, and will deliver + our lives from death." +002:014 The men said to her, "Our life for yours, if you don't talk + about this business of ours; and it shall be, when Yahweh gives + us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with you." +002:015 Then she let them down by a cord through the window; + for her house was on the side of the wall, and she lived + on the wall. +002:016 She said to them, "Go to the mountain, lest the pursuers find you; + and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers + have returned. Afterward, you may go your way." +002:017 The men said to her, "We will be guiltless of this your oath + which you have made us to swear. +002:018 Behold, when we come into the land, you shall bind this line + of scarlet thread in the window which you did let us down by. + You shall gather to yourself into the house your father, + your mother, your brothers, and all your father's household. +002:019 It shall be that whoever goes out of the doors of your house into + the street, his blood will be on his head, and we will be guiltless. + Whoever is with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head, + if any hand is on him. +002:020 But if you talk about this business of ours, then we shall + be guiltless of your oath which you have made us to swear." +002:021 She said, "According to your words, so be it." She sent them away, + and they departed. She tied the scarlet line in the window. +002:022 They went, and came to the mountain, and stayed there three days, + until the pursuers had returned. The pursuers sought them + throughout all the way, but didn't find them. +002:023 Then the two men returned, descended from the mountain, + passed over, and came to Joshua the son of Nun; and they told + him all that had happened to them. +002:024 They said to Joshua, "Truly Yahweh has delivered into our hands + all the land. Moreover, all the inhabitants of the land melt + away before us." +003:001 Joshua rose up early in the morning; and they moved from Shittim, + and came to the Jordan, he and all the children of Israel. + They lodged there before they passed over. +003:002 It happened after three days, that the officers went through + the midst of the camp; +003:003 and they commanded the people, saying, "When you see the ark + of the covenant of Yahweh your God, and the priests + the Levites bearing it, then you shall move from your place, + and follow it. +003:004 Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two + thousand cubits by measure. Don't come near to it, that you + may know the way by which you must go; for you have not passed + this way before." +003:005 Joshua said to the people, "Sanctify yourselves; for tomorrow + Yahweh will do wonders among you." +003:006 Joshua spoke to the priests, saying, "Take up the ark + of the covenant, and pass over before the people." + They took up the ark of the covenant, and went before the people. +003:007 Yahweh said to Joshua, "Today I will begin to magnify you + in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that as I + was with Moses, so I will be with you. +003:008 You shall command the priests who bear the ark of the covenant, + saying, 'When you come to the brink of the waters of the Jordan, + you shall stand still in the Jordan.'" +003:009 Joshua said to the children of Israel, "Come here, and hear + the words of Yahweh your God." +003:010 Joshua said, "Hereby you shall know that the living God is + among you, and that he will without fail drive the Canaanite, + and the Hittite, and the Hivite, and the Perizzite, + and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Jebusite out + from before you. +003:011 Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth + passes over before you into the Jordan. +003:012 Now therefore take twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, + for every tribe a man. +003:013 It shall come to pass, when the soles of the feet of the priests + who bear the ark of Yahweh, the Lord of all the earth, + rest in the waters of the Jordan, that the waters of the Jordan + will be cut off, even the waters that come down from above; + and they shall stand in one heap." +003:014 It happened, when the people moved from their tents to pass + over the Jordan, the priests who bore the ark of the covenant + being before the people, +003:015 and when those who bore the ark had come to the Jordan, + and the feet of the priests who bore the ark had dipped + in the edge of the water (for the Jordan overflows all its + banks all the time of harvest), +003:016 that the waters which came down from above stood, and rose + up in one heap, a great way off, at Adam, the city that is + beside Zarethan; and those that went down toward the sea + of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, were wholly cut off. + Then the people passed over right against Jericho. +003:017 The priests who bore the ark of the covenant of Yahweh + stood firm on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan; + and all Israel passed over on dry ground, until all the nation + had passed completely over the Jordan. +004:001 It happened, when all the nation had completely passed over + the Jordan, that Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying, +004:002 "Take twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man, +004:003 and command them, saying, 'Take from out of the middle of + the Jordan, out of the place where the priests' feet stood firm, + twelve stones, and carry them over with you, and lay them + down in the lodging place, where you will lodge tonight.'" +004:004 Then Joshua called the twelve men, whom he had prepared + of the children of Israel, out of every tribe a man. +004:005 Joshua said to them, "Pass over before the ark of Yahweh your + God into the middle of the Jordan, and each of you pick up + a stone and put it on your shoulder, according to the number + of the tribes of the children of Israel; +004:006 that this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask + in time to come, saying, 'What do you mean by these stones?' +004:007 then you shall tell them, 'Because the waters of the Jordan + were cut off before the ark of the covenant of Yahweh. + When it passed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were + cut off. These stones shall be for a memorial to the children + of Israel forever.'" +004:008 The children of Israel did as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve + stones out of the middle of the Jordan, as Yahweh spoke to Joshua, + according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel; + and they carried them over with them to the place where they lodged, + and laid them down there. +004:009 Joshua set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan, + in the place where the feet of the priests who bore the ark + of the covenant stood; and they are there to this day. +004:010 For the priests who bore the ark stood in the middle of the Jordan, + until everything was finished that Yahweh commanded Joshua to speak + to the people, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua; + and the people hurried and passed over. +004:011 It happened, when all the people had completely passed over, + that the ark of Yahweh passed over, with the priests, + in the presence of the people. +004:012 The children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and the half-tribe + of Manasseh, passed over armed before the children of Israel, + as Moses spoke to them. +004:013 About forty thousand men, ready and armed for war passed + over before Yahweh to battle, to the plains of Jericho. +004:014 On that day, Yahweh magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel; + and they feared him, as they feared Moses, all the days + of his life. +004:015 Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying, +004:016 "Command the priests who bear the ark of the testimony, + that they come up out of the Jordan." +004:017 Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, "Come up out + of the Jordan!" +004:018 It happened, when the priests who bore the ark of the covenant + of Yahweh had come up out of the middle of the Jordan, + and the soles of the priests' feet were lifted up to the dry ground, + that the waters of the Jordan returned to their place, + and went over all its banks, as before. +004:019 The people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth day + of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, on the east + border of Jericho. +004:020 Joshua set up those twelve stones, which they took out of + the Jordan, n Gilgal. +004:021 He spoke to the children of Israel, saying, "When your + children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, 'What do + these stones mean?' +004:022 Then you shall let your children know, saying, 'Israel came + over this Jordan on dry land. +004:023 For Yahweh your God dried up the waters of the Jordan from + before you, until you had passed over, as Yahweh your God + did to the Red Sea{or, Sea of Reeds}, which he dried up + from before us, until we had passed over; +004:024 that all the peoples of the earth may know the hand of Yahweh, + that it is mighty; that you may fear Yahweh your God forever.'" +005:001 It happened, when all the kings of the Amorites, who were beyond + the Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, + who were by the sea, heard how that Yahweh had dried up + the waters of the Jordan from before the children of Israel, + until we had passed over, that their heart melted, neither was + there spirit in them any more, because of the children of Israel. +005:002 At that time, Yahweh said to Joshua, "Make flint knives, + and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time." +005:003 Joshua made himself flint knives, and circumcised the children + of Israel at the hill of the foreskins. +005:004 This is the reason Joshua circumcised: all the people who came + out of Egypt, who were males, even all the men of war, + died in the wilderness by the way, after they came out of Egypt. +005:005 For all the people who came out were circumcised; but all + the people who were born in the wilderness by the way as they + came out of Egypt had not been circumcised. +005:006 For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, + until all the nation, even the men of war who came out of Egypt, + were consumed, because they didn't listen to the voice of Yahweh. + Yahweh swore to them that he wouldn't let them see the land + which Yahweh swore to their fathers that he would give us, + a land flowing with milk and honey. +005:007 Their children, whom he raised up in their place, + were circumcised by Joshua; for they were uncircumcised, + because they had not circumcised them on the way. +005:008 It happened, when they were done circumcising all the nation, + that they stayed in their places in the camp until + they were healed. +005:009 Yahweh said to Joshua, "Today I have rolled away the reproach + of Egypt from off you." Therefore the name of that place + was called Gilgal,{"Gilgal" sounds like the Hebrew for "roll." + } to this day. +005:010 The children of Israel encamped in Gilgal. They kept + the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at evening + in the plains of Jericho. +005:011 They ate unleavened cakes and parched grain of the produce + of the land on the next day after the Passover, in the same day. +005:012 The manna ceased on the next day, after they had eaten of the produce + of the land. The children of Israel didn't have manna any more; + but they ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year. +005:013 It happened, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up + his eyes and looked, and behold, a man stood in front of him + with his sword drawn in his hand. Joshua went to him, + and said to him, "Are you for us, or for our adversaries?" +005:014 He said, "No; but I have come now as commander of Yahweh's army." + Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and worshipped, + and said to him, "What does my lord say to his servant?" +005:015 The prince of Yahweh's army said to Joshua, "Take your shoes + off of your feet; for the place on which you stand is holy." + Joshua did so. +006:001 Now Jericho was tightly shut up because of the children of Israel. + No one went out, and no one came in. +006:002 Yahweh said to Joshua, "Behold, I have given Jericho into your hand, + with its king and the mighty men of valor. +006:003 All your men of war shall march around the city, going around + the city once. You shall do this six days. +006:004 Seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before + the ark. On the seventh day, you shall march around the city + seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets. +006:005 It shall be that when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, + and when you hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people + shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city + shall fall down flat, and the people shall go up every man + straight before him." +006:006 Joshua the son of Nun called the priests, and said to them, + "Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests bear + seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of Yahweh." +006:007 They said to the people, "Advance! March around the city, + and let the armed men pass on before Yahweh's ark." +006:008 It was so, that when Joshua had spoken to the people, + the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' + horns before Yahweh advanced, and blew the trumpets; + and the ark of the covenant of Yahweh followed them. +006:009 The armed men went before the priests who blew the trumpets, + and the ark went after them. The trumpets sounded as they went. +006:010 Joshua commanded the people, saying, "You shall not shout, + nor let your voice be heard, neither shall any word proceed + out of your mouth, until the day I tell you to shout. + Then you shall shout." +006:011 So he caused the ark of Yahweh to go around the city, + going about it once. Then they came into the camp, and lodged + in the camp. +006:012 Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up + the ark of Yahweh. +006:013 The seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' + horns before the ark of Yahweh went on continually, + and blew the trumpets: and the armed men went before them. + The rear guard came after the ark of Yahweh. The trumpets + sounded as they went. +006:014 The second day they marched around the city once, and returned + into the camp. They did this six days. +006:015 It happened on the seventh day, that they rose early at the dawning + of the day, and marched around the city in the same way seven times. + Only on this day they marched around the city seven times. +006:016 It happened at the seventh time, when the priests blew the trumpets, + Joshua said to the people, "Shout, for Yahweh has given + you the city! +006:017 The city shall be devoted, even it and all that is in it, to Yahweh. + Only Rahab the prostitute shall live, she and all who are with + her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent. +006:018 But as for you, only keep yourselves from the devoted thing, + lest when you have devoted it, you take of the devoted thing; + so would you make the camp of Israel accursed, and trouble it. +006:019 But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, + are holy to Yahweh. They shall come into Yahweh's treasury." +006:020 So the people shouted, and the priests blew the trumpets. + It happened, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, + that the people shouted with a great shout, and the wall + fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, + every man straight before him, and they took the city. +006:021 They utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man + and woman, both young and old, and ox, and sheep, and donkey, + with the edge of the sword. +006:022 Joshua said to the two men who had spied out the land, + "Go into the prostitute's house, and bring out from there + the woman and all that she has, as you swore to her." +006:023 The young men who were spies went in, and brought out Rahab + with her father, her mother, her brothers, and all that she had. + They also brought out all her relatives, and they set them + outside of the camp of Israel. +006:024 They burnt the city with fire, and all that was in it. + Only they put the silver, the gold, and the vessels of brass + and of iron into the treasury of Yahweh's house. +006:025 But Rahab the prostitute, her father's household, and all + that she had, Joshua saved alive. She lived in the midst + of Israel to this day, because she hid the messengers, + whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho. +006:026 Joshua charged them with an oath at that time, saying, "Cursed be + the man before Yahweh, who rises up and builds this city Jericho. + With the loss of his firstborn shall he lay its foundation, + and with the loss of his youngest son shall he set up its gates." +006:027 So Yahweh was with Joshua; and his fame was in all the land. +007:001 But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the devoted thing; + for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son + of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the devoted thing: + and the anger of Yahweh was kindled against the children of Israel. +007:002 Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Beth Aven, + on the east side of Bethel, and spoke to them, saying, Go up + and spy out the land. The men went up and spied out Ai. +007:003 They returned to Joshua, and said to him, Don't let all + the people go up; but let about two or three thousand men go + up and strike Ai; don't make all the people to toil there; + for they are but few. +007:004 So there went up there of the people about three thousand men: + and they fled before the men of Ai. +007:005 The men of Ai struck of them about thirty-six men; and they + chased them [from] before the gate even to Shebarim, and struck + them at the descent; and the hearts of the people melted, + and became as water. +007:006 Joshua tore his clothes, and fell to the earth on his face before + the ark of Yahweh until the evening, he and the elders of Israel; + and they put dust on their heads. +007:007 Joshua said, Alas, Lord Yahweh, why have you at all brought + this people over the Jordan, to deliver us into the hand + of the Amorites, to cause us to perish? would that we had been + content and lived beyond the Jordan! +007:008 Oh, Lord, what shall I say, after that Israel has turned + their backs before their enemies! +007:009 For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will + hear of it, and will compass us round, and cut off our name + from the earth: and what will you do for your great name? +007:010 Yahweh said to Joshua, Get you up; why are you thus fallen + on your face? +007:011 Israel has sinned; yes, they have even transgressed my + covenant which I commanded them: yes, they have even taken + of the devoted thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also; + and they have even put it among their own stuff. +007:012 Therefore the children of Israel can't stand before their enemies; + they turn their backs before their enemies, because they + are become accursed: I will not be with you any more, + except you destroy the devoted thing from among you. +007:013 Up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves + against tomorrow: for thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, There is + a devoted thing in the midst of you, Israel; you can not stand + before your enemies, until you take away the devoted thing + from among you. +007:014 In the morning therefore you shall be brought near by your tribes: + and it shall be, that the tribe which Yahweh takes shall come + near by families; and the family which Yahweh shall take + shall come near by households; and the household which Yahweh + shall take shall come near man by man. +007:015 It shall be, that he who is taken with the devoted thing shall + be burnt with fire, he and all that he has; because he has + transgressed the covenant of Yahweh, and because he has done + folly in Israel. +007:016 So Joshua rose up early in the morning, and brought Israel + near by their tribes; and the tribe of Judah was taken: +007:017 and he brought near the family of Judah; and he took the family + of the Zerahites: and he brought near the family of the Zerahites + man by man; and Zabdi was taken: +007:018 and he brought near his household man by man; and Achan, + the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, + of the tribe of Judah, was taken. +007:019 Joshua said to Achan, My son, please give glory to Yahweh, + the God of Israel, and make confession to him; and tell me + now what you have done; don't hide it from me. +007:020 Achan answered Joshua, and said, Of a truth I have sinned + against Yahweh, the God of Israel, and thus and thus have I done: +007:021 when I saw among the spoil a goodly Babylonian mantle, + and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold + of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; + and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, + and the silver under it. +007:022 So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent; and, behold, + it was hid in his tent, and the silver under it. +007:023 They took them from the midst of the tent, and brought them + to Joshua, and to all the children of Israel; and they laid + them down before Yahweh. +007:024 Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, + and the silver, and the mantle, and the wedge of gold, + and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his donkeys, + and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: + and they brought them up to the valley of Achor. +007:025 Joshua said, Why have you troubled us? Yahweh shall + trouble you this day. All Israel stoned him with stones; + and they burned them with fire, and stoned them with stones. +007:026 They raised over him a great heap of stones, to this day; + and Yahweh turned from the fierceness of his anger. + Therefore the name of that place was called "The valley of Achor" + to this day. +008:001 Yahweh said to Joshua, Don't be afraid, neither be dismayed: + take all the people of war with you, and arise, go up + to Ai; behold, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, + and his people, and his city, and his land; +008:002 You shall do to Ai and her king as you did to Jericho and her king: + only the spoil of it, and the livestock of it, shall you + take for a prey to yourselves: set you an ambush for the + city behind it. +008:003 So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up to Ai: + and Joshua chose out thirty thousand men, the mighty men of valor, + and sent them forth by night. +008:004 He commanded them, saying, Behold, you shall lie in ambush against + the city, behind the city; don't go very far from the city, + but be all ready: +008:005 and I, and all the people who are with me, will approach to the city. + It shall happen, when they come out against us, as at the first, + that we will flee before them; +008:006 and they will come out after us, until we have drawn them + away from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, + as at the first: so we will flee before them; +008:007 and you shall rise up from the ambush, and take possession of + the city: for Yahweh your God will deliver it into your hand. +008:008 It shall be, when you have seized on the city, that you shall set + the city on fire; according to the word of Yahweh shall you do: + behold, I have commanded you. +008:009 Joshua sent them forth; and they went to set up the ambush, + and stayed between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai: + but Joshua lodged that night among the people. +008:010 Joshua arose up early in the morning, and mustered the people, + and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai. +008:011 All the people, [even] the [men of] war who were with him, + went up, and drew near, and came before the city, and encamped + on the north side of Ai: now there was a valley between + him and Ai. +008:012 He took about five thousand men, and set them in ambush between + Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city. +008:013 So they set the people, even all the army who was on the north + of the city, and their ambush on the west of the city; + and Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley. +008:014 It happened, when the king of Ai saw it, that they hurried + and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against + Israel to battle, he and all his people, at the time appointed, + before the Arabah; but he didn't know that there was an ambush + against him behind the city. +008:015 Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, + and fled by the way of the wilderness. +008:016 All the people who were in the city were called together + to pursue after them: and they pursued after Joshua, + and were drawn away from the city. +008:017 There was not a man left in Ai or Beth El, who didn't + go out after Israel: and they left the city open, + and pursued after Israel. +008:018 Yahweh said to Joshua, Stretch out the javelin that is in + your hand toward Ai; for I will give it into your hand. + Joshua stretched out the javelin that was in his hand + toward the city. +008:019 The ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon + as he had stretched out his hand, and entered into the city, + and took it; and they hurried and set the city on fire. +008:020 When the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and behold, + the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no + power to flee this way or that way: and the people who fled + to the wilderness turned back on the pursuers. +008:021 When Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, + and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned again, + and killed the men of Ai. +008:022 The others came forth out of the city against them; + so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side, + and some on that side: and they struck them, so that they + let none of them remain or escape. +008:023 The king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua. +008:024 It happened, when Israel had made an end of killing all the + inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness in which they + pursued them, and they were all fallen by the edge of the sword, + until they were consumed, that all Israel returned to Ai, + and struck it with the edge of the sword. +008:025 All that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, + even all the men of Ai. +008:026 For Joshua didn't draw back his hand, with which he stretched + out the javelin, until he had utterly destroyed all the + inhabitants of Ai. +008:027 Only the livestock and the spoil of that city Israel took + for prey to themselves, according to the word of Yahweh + which he commanded Joshua. +008:028 So Joshua burnt Ai, and made it a heap forever, even a desolation, + to this day. +008:029 The king of Ai he hanged on a tree until the evening: + and at the going down of the sun Joshua commanded, and they + took his body down from the tree, and cast it at the entrance + of the gate of the city, and raised thereon a great heap + of stones, to this day. +008:030 Then Joshua built an altar to Yahweh, the God of Israel, + in Mount Ebal, +008:031 as Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded the children of Israel, + as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar + of uncut stones, on which no man had lifted up any iron: + and they offered thereon burnt offerings to Yahweh, + and sacrificed peace offerings. +008:032 He wrote there on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, + which he wrote, in the presence of the children of Israel. +008:033 All Israel, and their elders and officers, and their judges, + stood on this side of the ark and on that side before the priests + the Levites, who bore the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, + as well the foreigner as the native; half of them in front + of Mount Gerizim, and half of them in front of Mount Ebal; + as Moses the servant of Yahweh had commanded at the first, + that they should bless the people of Israel. +008:034 Afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessing + and the curse, according to all that is written in the book + of the law. +008:035 There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua + didn't read before all the assembly of Israel, and the women, + and the little ones, and the foreigners who were among them. +009:001 It happened, when all the kings who were beyond the Jordan, + in the hill country, and in the lowland, and on all the shore + of the great sea in front of Lebanon, the Hittite, and the Amorite, + the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, + heard of it; +009:002 that they gathered themselves together, to fight with Joshua + and with Israel, with one accord. +009:003 But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done + to Jericho and to Ai, +009:004 they also resorted to a ruse, and went and made as if they + had been ambassadors, and took old sacks on their donkeys, + and wineskins, old and torn and bound up, +009:005 and old and patched shoes on their feet, and old garments on them; + and all the bread of their provision was dry and was become moldy. +009:006 They went to Joshua to the camp at Gilgal, and said to him, + and to the men of Israel, We are come from a far country: + now therefore make you a covenant with us. +009:007 The men of Israel said to the Hivites, What if you dwell among us; + and how shall we make a covenant with you? +009:008 They said to Joshua, We are your servants. Joshua said to them, + Who are you? and from whence come you? +009:009 They said to him, From a very far country your servants + are come because of the name of Yahweh your God: + for we have heard the fame of him, and all that he did in Egypt, +009:010 and all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites, + who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon king of Heshbon, + and to Og king of Bashan, who was at Ashtaroth. +009:011 Our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spoke + to us, saying, Take provision in your hand for the journey, + and go to meet them, and tell them, We are your servants: + and now make you a covenant with us. +009:012 This our bread we took hot for our provision out of our houses + on the day we came forth to go to you; but now, behold, it is dry, + and is become moldy: +009:013 and these wineskins, which we filled, were new; and behold, + they are torn: and these our garments and our shoes are become + old by reason of the very long journey. +009:014 The men took of their provision, and didn't ask counsel at + the mouth of Yahweh. +009:015 Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them, + to let them live: and the princes of the congregation + swore to them. +009:016 It happened at the end of three days after they had made a covenant + with them, that they heard that they were their neighbors, + and that they lived among them. +009:017 The children of Israel traveled, and came to their cities on + the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, and Chephirah, + and Beeroth, and Kiriath Jearim. +009:018 The children of Israel didn't strike them, because the princes + of the congregation had sworn to them by Yahweh, the God of Israel. + All the congregation murmured against the princes. +009:019 But all the princes said to all the congregation, + We have sworn to them by Yahweh, the God of Israel: + now therefore we may not touch them. +009:020 This we will do to them, and let them live; lest wrath be on us, + because of the oath which we swore to them. +009:021 The princes said to them, Let them live: so they became + wood cutters and drawers of water to all the congregation, + as the princes had spoken to them. +009:022 Joshua called for them, and he spoke to them, saying, + Why have you deceived us, saying, We are very far from you; + when you dwell among us? +009:023 Now therefore you are cursed, and there shall never fail to be + of you bondservants, both wood cutters and drawers of water + for the house of my God. +009:024 They answered Joshua, and said, Because it was certainly + told your servants, how that Yahweh your God commanded + his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to + destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you; + therefore we were sore afraid for our lives because of you, + and have done this thing. +009:025 Now, behold, we are in your hand: as it seems good and right + to you to do to us, do. +009:026 So did he to them, and delivered them out of the hand of + the children of Israel, that they didn't kill them. +009:027 That day Joshua made those wood cutters and drawers of water + for the congregation, and for the altar of Yahweh, to this day, + in the place which he should choose. +010:001 Now it happened, when Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem heard how Joshua + had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it; as he had done + to Jericho and her king, so he had done to Ai and her king; + and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel, + and were among them; +010:002 that they feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, + as one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, + and all the men of it were mighty. +010:003 Therefore Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem sent to Hoham king of Hebron, + and to Piram king of Jarmuth, and to Japhia king of Lachish, + and to Debir king of Eglon, saying, +010:004 Come up to me, and help me, and let us strike Gibeon; for it + has made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel. +010:005 Therefore the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, + the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, + the king of Eglon, gathered themselves together, and went up, + they and all their armies, and encamped against Gibeon, + and made war against it. +010:006 The men of Gibeon sent to Joshua to the camp to Gilgal, + saying, Don't slack your hand from your servants; + come up to us quickly, and save us, and help us: + for all the kings of the Amorites that dwell in the hill + country are gathered together against us. +010:007 So Joshua went up from Gilgal, he, and all the people of war + with him, and all the mighty men of valor. +010:008 Yahweh said to Joshua, Don't fear them: for I have delivered + them into your hands; there shall not a man of them + stand before you. +010:009 Joshua therefore came on them suddenly; [for] he went up + from Gilgal all the night. +010:010 Yahweh confused them before Israel, and he killed them + with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them by the way + of the ascent of Beth Horon, and struck them to Azekah, + and to Makkedah. +010:011 It happened, as they fled from before Israel, while they + were at the descent of Beth Horon, that Yahweh cast down + great stones from the sky on them to Azekah, and they died: + they were more who died with the hailstones than they whom + the children of Israel killed with the sword. +010:012 Then spoke Joshua to Yahweh in the day when Yahweh + delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel; + and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand you still + on Gibeon; You, Moon, in the valley of Aijalon. +010:013 The sun stood still, and the moon stayed, Until the nation + had avenged themselves of their enemies. Isn't this written + in the book of Jashar? The sun stayed in the midst of the sky, + and didn't hurry to go down about a whole day. +010:014 There was no day like that before it or after it, that Yahweh + listened to the voice of a man: for Yahweh fought for Israel. +010:015 Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp to Gilgal. +010:016 These five kings fled, and hid themselves in the cave at Makkedah. +010:017 It was told Joshua, saying, The five kings are found, + hidden in the cave at Makkedah. +010:018 Joshua said, Roll great stones to the mouth of the cave, + and set men by it to keep them: +010:019 but don't stay; pursue after your enemies, and strike the hindmost + of them; don't allow them to enter into their cities: + for Yahweh your God has delivered them into your hand. +010:020 It happened, when Joshua and the children of Israel had + made an end of killing them with a very great slaughter, + until they were consumed, and the remnant which remained + of them had entered into the fortified cities, +010:021 that all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at + Makkedah in peace: none moved his tongue against any of + the children of Israel. +010:022 Then said Joshua, Open the mouth of the cave, and bring forth + those five kings to me out of the cave. +010:023 They did so, and brought forth those five kings to him out + of the cave, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, + the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, the king of Eglon. +010:024 It happened, when they brought forth those kings to Joshua, + that Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said + to the chiefs of the men of war who went with him, + Come near, put your feet on the necks of these kings. + They came near, and put their feet on the necks of them. +010:025 Joshua said to them, Don't be afraid, nor be dismayed; + be strong and of good courage: for thus shall Yahweh do + to all your enemies against whom you fight. +010:026 Afterward Joshua struck them, and put them to death, and hanged + them on five trees: and they were hanging on the trees + until the evening. +010:027 It happened at the time of the going down of the sun, + that Joshua commanded, and they took them down off the trees, + and cast them into the cave in which they had hidden themselves, + and laid great stones on the mouth of the cave, to this very day. +010:028 Joshua took Makkedah on that day, and struck it with the edge + of the sword, and the king of it: he utterly destroyed them + and all the souls who were therein; he left none remaining; + and he did to the king of Makkedah as he had done to the + king of Jericho. +010:029 Joshua passed from Makkedah, and all Israel with him, to Libnah, + and fought against Libnah: +010:030 and Yahweh delivered it also, and the king of it, into the hand + of Israel; and he struck it with the edge of the sword, + and all the souls who were therein; he left none remaining in it; + and he did to the king of it as he had done to the king of Jericho. +010:031 Joshua passed from Libnah, and all Israel with him, to Lachish, + and encamped against it, and fought against it: +010:032 and Yahweh delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel; + and he took it on the second day, and struck it with + the edge of the sword, and all the souls who were therein, + according to all that he had done to Libnah. +010:033 Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua + struck him and his people, until he had left him none remaining. +010:034 Joshua passed from Lachish, and all Israel with him, to Eglon; + and they encamped against it, and fought against it; +010:035 and they took it on that day, and struck it with the edge + of the sword; and all the souls who were therein he utterly + destroyed that day, according to all that he had done to Lachish. +010:036 Joshua went up from Eglon, and all Israel with him, to Hebron; + and they fought against it: +010:037 and they took it, and struck it with the edge of the sword, + and the king of it, and all the cities of it, and all the souls + who were therein; he left none remaining, according to all + that he had done to Eglon; but he utterly destroyed it, + and all the souls who were therein. +010:038 Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to Debir, + and fought against it: +010:039 and he took it, and the king of it, and all the cities of it; + and they struck them with the edge of the sword, and utterly + destroyed all the souls who were therein; he left none remaining: + as he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir, and to the king of it; + as he had done also to Libnah, and to the king of it. +010:040 So Joshua struck all the land, the hill country, and the South, + and the lowland, and the slopes, and all their kings: + he left none remaining, but he utterly destroyed all that breathed, + as Yahweh, the God of Israel, commanded. +010:041 Joshua struck them from Kadesh Barnea even to Gaza, and all + the country of Goshen, even to Gibeon. +010:042 All these kings and their land did Joshua take at one time, + because Yahweh, the God of Israel, fought for Israel. +010:043 Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp to Gilgal. +011:001 It happened, when Jabin king of Hazor heard of it, that he sent + to Jobab king of Madon, and to the king of Shimron, + and to the king of Achshaph, +011:002 and to the kings who were on the north, in the hill country, + and in the Arabah south of Chinneroth, and in the lowland, + and in the heights of Dor on the west, +011:003 to the Canaanite on the east and on the west, and the Amorite, + and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite in the + hill country, and the Hivite under Hermon in the land of Mizpah. +011:004 They went out, they and all their armies with them, much people, + even as the sand that is on the seashore in multitude, + with horses and chariots very many. +011:005 All these kings met together; and they came and encamped + together at the waters of Merom, to fight with Israel. +011:006 Yahweh said to Joshua, Don't be afraid because of them; + for tomorrow at this time will I deliver them up all slain + before Israel: you shall hamstring their horses, and burn + their chariots with fire. +011:007 So Joshua came, and all the people of war with him, against them + by the waters of Merom suddenly, and fell on them. +011:008 Yahweh delivered them into the hand of Israel, and they struck them, + and chased them to great Sidon, and to Misrephoth Maim, + and to the valley of Mizpeh eastward; and they struck them, + until they left them none remaining. +011:009 Joshua did to them as Yahweh bade him: he hamstrung their horses, + and burnt their chariots with fire. +011:010 Joshua turned back at that time, and took Hazor, and struck + the king of it with the sword: for Hazor before was the head + of all those kingdoms. +011:011 They struck all the souls who were therein with the edge of the sword, + utterly destroying them; there was none left who breathed: + and he burnt Hazor with fire. +011:012 All the cities of those kings, and all the kings of them, + did Joshua take, and he struck them with the edge of + the sword, and utterly destroyed them; as Moses the servant + of Yahweh commanded. +011:013 But as for the cities that stood on their mounds, Israel burned + none of them, save Hazor only; that did Joshua burn. +011:014 All the spoil of these cities, and the livestock, the children + of Israel took for a prey to themselves; but every man they + struck with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them, + neither left they any who breathed. +011:015 As Yahweh commanded Moses his servant, so did Moses command Joshua: + and so did Joshua; he left nothing undone of all that + Yahweh commanded Moses. +011:016 So Joshua took all that land, the hill country, and all the South, + and all the land of Goshen, and the lowland, and the Arabah, + and the hill country of Israel, and the lowland of the same; +011:017 from Mount Halak, that goes up to Seir, even to Baal Gad + in the valley of Lebanon under Mount Hermon: and all their + kings he took, and struck them, and put them to death. +011:018 Joshua made war a long time with all those kings. +011:019 There was not a city that made peace with the children + of Israel, save the Hivites the inhabitants of Gibeon: + they took all in battle. +011:020 For it was of Yahweh to harden their hearts, to come against + Israel in battle, that he might utterly destroy them, + that they might have no favor, but that he might destroy them, + as Yahweh commanded Moses. +011:021 Joshua came at that time, and cut off the Anakim from the + hill country, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from + all the hill country of Judah, and from all the hill country + of Israel: Joshua utterly destroyed them with their cities. +011:022 There was none of the Anakim left in the land of the children + of Israel: only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, + did some remain. +011:023 So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that Yahweh + spoke to Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance + to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. + The land had rest from war. +012:001 Now these are the kings of the land, whom the children of + Israel struck, and possessed their land beyond the Jordan toward + the sunrise, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon, + and all the Arabah eastward: +012:002 Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and ruled + from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, + and [the city that is in] the middle of the valley, and half Gilead, + even to the river Jabbok, the border of the children of Ammon; +012:003 and the Arabah to the sea of Chinneroth, eastward, and to + the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, eastward, the way + to Beth Jeshimoth; and on the south, under the slopes of Pisgah: +012:004 and the border of Og king of Bashan, of the remnant of the Rephaim, + who lived at Ashtaroth and at Edrei, +012:005 and ruled in Mount Hermon, and in Salecah, and in all Bashan, + to the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, + and half Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon. +012:006 Moses the servant of Yahweh and the children of Israel struck them: + and Moses the servant of Yahweh gave it for a possession to + the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh. +012:007 These are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the children + of Israel struck beyond the Jordan westward, from Baal Gad in + the valley of Lebanon even to Mount Halak, that goes up to Seir; + and Joshua gave it to the tribes of Israel for a possession + according to their divisions; +012:008 in the hill country, and in the lowland, and in the Arabah, + and in the slopes, and in the wilderness, and in the South; + the Hittite, the Amorite, and the Canaanite, the Perizzite, + the Hivite, and the Jebusite: +012:009 the king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is beside Bethel, one; +012:010 the king of Jerusalem, one; the king of Hebron, one; +012:011 the king of Jarmuth, one; the king of Lachish, one; +012:012 the king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one; +012:013 the king of Debir, one; the king of Geder, one; +012:014 the king of Hormah, one; the king of Arad, one; +012:015 the king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one; +012:016 the king of Makkedah, one; the king of Bethel, one; +012:017 the king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, one; +012:018 the king of Aphek, one; the king of Lassharon, one; +012:019 the king of Madon, one; the king of Hazor, one; +012:020 the king of Shimron Meron, one; the king of Achshaph, one; +012:021 the king of Taanach, one; the king of Megiddo, one; +012:022 the king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam in Carmel, one; +012:023 the king of Dor in the height of Dor, one; the king of Goiim + in Gilgal, one; +012:024 the king of Tirzah, one: all the kings thirty-one. +013:001 Now Joshua was old and well stricken in years; and Yahweh said + to him, You are old and well stricken in years, and there + remains yet very much land to be possessed. +013:002 This is the land that yet remains: all the regions of + the Philistines, and all the Geshurites; +013:003 from the Shihor, which is before Egypt, even to the border + of Ekron northward, [which] is reckoned to the Canaanites; + the five lords of the Philistines; the Gazites, and the Ashdodites, + the Ashkelonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; + also the Avvim, +013:004 on the south; all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah + that belongs to the Sidonians, to Aphek, to the border + of the Amorites; +013:005 and the land of the Gebalites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrise, + from Baal Gad under Mount Hermon to the entrance of Hamath; +013:006 all the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon to + Misrephoth Maim, even all the Sidonians; them will I drive + out from before the children of Israel: only allot you it + to Israel for an inheritance, as I have commanded you. +013:007 Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance to the nine tribes, + and the half-tribe of Manasseh. +013:008 With him the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance, + which Moses gave them, beyond the Jordan eastward, even as Moses + the servant of Yahweh gave them: +013:009 from Aroer, that is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, + and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all + the plain of Medeba to Dibon; +013:010 and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned + in Heshbon, to the border of the children of Ammon; +013:011 and Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites, + and all Mount Hermon, and all Bashan to Salecah; +013:012 all the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth + and in Edrei (the same was left of the remnant of the Rephaim); + for these did Moses strike, and drove them out. +013:013 Nevertheless the children of Israel didn't drive out the Geshurites, + nor the Maacathites: but Geshur and Maacath dwell in the midst + of Israel to this day. +013:014 Only to the tribe of Levi he gave no inheritance; the offerings + of Yahweh, the God of Israel, made by fire are his inheritance, + as he spoke to him. +013:015 Moses gave to the tribe of the children of Reuben according + to their families. +013:016 Their border was from Aroer, that is on the edge of the valley + of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, + and all the plain by Medeba; +013:017 Heshbon, and all its cities that are in the plain; Dibon, + and Bamoth Baal, and Beth Baal Meon, +013:018 and Jahaz, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath, +013:019 and Kiriathaim, and Sibmah, and Zereth Shahar in the mount + of the valley, +013:020 and Beth Peor, and the slopes of Pisgah, and Beth Jeshimoth, +013:021 and all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdom of Sihon + king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses struck + with the chiefs of Midian, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, + and Reba, the princes of Sihon, who lived in the land. +013:022 Balaam also the son of Beor, the soothsayer, did the children + of Israel kill with the sword among the rest of their slain. +013:023 The border of the children of Reuben was the Jordan, and the border + [of it]. This was the inheritance of the children of Reuben + according to their families, the cities and the villages of it. +013:024 Moses gave to the tribe of Gad, to the children of Gad, + according to their families. +013:025 Their border was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, + and half the land of the children of Ammon, to Aroer that + is before Rabbah; +013:026 and from Heshbon to Ramath Mizpeh, and Betonim; and from Mahanaim + to the border of Debir; +013:027 and in the valley, Beth Haram, and Beth Nimrah, and Succoth, + and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, + the Jordan and the border [of it], to the uttermost part + of the sea of Chinnereth beyond the Jordan eastward. +013:028 This is the inheritance of the children of Gad according + to their families, the cities and the villages of it. +013:029 Moses gave [inheritance] to the half-tribe of Manasseh: + and it was for the half-tribe of the children of Manasseh + according to their families. +013:030 Their border was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom + of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which are + in Bashan, sixty cities: +013:031 and half Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, the cities of + the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were for the children of Machir + the son of Manasseh, even for the half of the children + of Machir according to their families. +013:032 These are the inheritances which Moses distributed in the plains + of Moab, beyond the Jordan at Jericho, eastward. +013:033 But to the tribe of Levi Moses gave no inheritance: Yahweh, the God + of Israel, is their inheritance, as he spoke to them. +014:001 These are the inheritances which the children of Israel + took in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, + and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers' + [houses] of the tribes of the children of Israel, + distributed to them, +014:002 by the lot of their inheritance, as Yahweh commanded by Moses, + for the nine tribes, and for the half-tribe. +014:003 For Moses had given the inheritance of the two tribes and + the half-tribe beyond the Jordan: but to the Levites he gave + no inheritance among them. +014:004 For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim: + and they gave no portion to the Levites in the land, + save cities to dwell in, with the suburbs of it for their + livestock and for their substance. +014:005 As Yahweh commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did; + and they divided the land. +014:006 Then the children of Judah drew near to Joshua in Gilgal: + and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, + You know the thing that Yahweh spoke to Moses the man of God + concerning me and concerning you in Kadesh Barnea. +014:007 Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of Yahweh sent + me from Kadesh Barnea to spy out the land; and I brought him + word again as it was in my heart. +014:008 Nevertheless my brothers who went up with me made the heart + of the people melt; but I wholly followed Yahweh my God. +014:009 Moses swore on that day, saying, Surely the land whereon + your foot has trodden shall be an inheritance to you and + to your children forever, because you have wholly followed + Yahweh my God. +014:010 Now, behold, Yahweh has kept me alive, as he spoke, + these forty-five years, from the time that Yahweh spoke + this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness: + and now, behold, I am this day eighty-five years old. +014:011 As yet I am as strong this day as I as in the day that Moses sent me: + as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, + and to go out and to come in. +014:012 Now therefore give me this hill country, of which Yahweh spoke + in that day; for you heard in that day how the Anakim were there, + and cities great and fortified: it may be that Yahweh will + be with me, and I shall drive them out, as Yahweh spoke. +014:013 Joshua blessed him; and he gave Hebron to Caleb the son + of Jephunneh for an inheritance. +014:014 Therefore Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son + of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day; because that he wholly + followed Yahweh, the God of Israel. +014:015 Now the name of Hebron before was Kiriath Arba; + [which Arba was] the greatest man among the Anakim. + The land had rest from war. +015:001 The lot for the tribe of the children of Judah according to their + families was to the border of Edom, even to the wilderness + of Zin southward, at the uttermost part of the south. +015:002 Their south border was from the uttermost part of the Salt Sea, + from the bay that looks southward; +015:003 and it went out southward of the ascent of Akrabbim, and passed + along to Zin, and went up by the south of Kadesh Barnea, + and passed along by Hezron, and went up to Addar, and turned + about to Karka; +015:004 and it passed along to Azmon, and went out at the brook + of Egypt; and the goings out of the border were at the sea: + this shall be your south border. +015:005 The east border was the Salt Sea, even to the end of the Jordan. + The border of the north quarter was from the bay of the sea + at the end of the Jordan; +015:006 and the border went up to Beth Hoglah, and passed along by + the north of Beth Arabah; and the border went up to the stone + of Bohan the son of Reuben; +015:007 and the border went up to Debir from the valley of Achor, + and so northward, looking toward Gilgal, that is over against + the ascent of Adummim, which is on the south side of the river; + and the border passed along to the waters of En Shemesh, + and the goings out of it were at En Rogel; +015:008 and the border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom + to the side of the Jebusite southward (the same is Jerusalem); + and the border went up to the top of the mountain that lies + before the valley of Hinnom westward, which is at the uttermost + part of the valley of Rephaim northward; +015:009 and the border extended from the top of the mountain + to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah, and went out to + the cities of Mount Ephron; and the border extended to Baalah + (the same is Kiriath Jearim); +015:010 and the border turned about from Baalah westward to Mount Seir, + and passed along to the side of Mount Jearim on the north + (the same is Chesalon), and went down to Beth Shemesh, + and passed along by Timnah; +015:011 and the border went out to the side of Ekron northward; + and the border extended to Shikkeron, and passed along + to Mount Baalah, and went out at Jabneel; and the goings + out of the border were at the sea. +015:012 The west border was to the great sea, and the border [of it]. + This is the border of the children of Judah round about + according to their families. +015:013 To Caleb the son of Jephunneh he gave a portion among the children + of Judah, according to the commandment of Yahweh to Joshua, + even Kiriath Arba, [which Arba was] the father of Anak + (the same is Hebron). +015:014 Caleb drove out there the three sons of Anak: Sheshai, and Ahiman, + and Talmai, the children of Anak. +015:015 He went up there against the inhabitants of Debir: + now the name of Debir before was Kiriath Sepher. +015:016 Caleb said, He who strikes Kiriath Sepher, and takes it, + to him will I give Achsah my daughter as wife. +015:017 Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took it: + and he gave him Achsah his daughter as wife. +015:018 It happened, when she came [to him], that she moved him to ask + of her father a field: and she alighted from off her donkey; + and Caleb said, What would you? +015:019 She said, Give me a blessing; for that you have set me + in the land of the South, give me also springs of water. + He gave her the upper springs and the lower springs. +015:020 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Judah + according to their families. +015:021 The uttermost cities of the tribe of the children of Judah + toward the border of Edom in the South were Kabzeel, + and Eder, and Jagur, +015:022 and Kinah, and Dimonah, and Adadah, +015:023 and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Ithnan, +015:024 Ziph, and Telem, and Bealoth, +015:025 Hazor Hadattah, Kerioth, Hezron (the same is Hazor), +015:026 Amam, and Shema, and Moladah, +015:027 and Hazar Gaddah, and Heshmon, and Beth Pelet, +015:028 and Hazar Shual, and Beersheba, and Biziothiah, +015:029 Baalah, and Iim, and Ezem, +015:030 and Eltolad, and Chesil, and Hormah, +015:031 and Ziklag, and Madmannah, and Sansannah, +015:032 and Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon: all the cities + are twenty-nine, with their villages. +015:033 In the lowland, Eshtaol, and Zorah, and Ashnah, +015:034 and Zanoah, and En Gannim, Tappuah, and Enam, +015:035 Jarmuth, and Adullam, Socoh, and Azekah, +015:036 and Shaaraim, and Adithaim, and Gederah, and Gederothaim; + fourteen cities with their villages. +015:037 Zenan, and Hadashah, and Migdal Gad, +015:038 and Dilean, and Mizpeh, and Joktheel, +015:039 Lachish, and Bozkath, and Eglon, +015:040 and Cabbon, and Lahmam, and Chitlish, +015:041 and Gederoth, Beth Dagon, and Naamah, and Makkedah; + sixteen cities with their villages. +015:042 Libnah, and Ether, and Ashan, +015:043 and Iphtah, and Ashnah, and Nezib, +015:044 and Keilah, and Achzib, and Mareshah; nine cities + with their villages. +015:045 Ekron, with its towns and its villages; +015:046 from Ekron even to the sea, all that were by the side of Ashdod, + with their villages. +015:047 Ashdod, its towns and its villages; Gaza, its towns and + its villages; to the brook of Egypt, and the great sea, + and the border [of it]. +015:048 In the hill country, Shamir, and Jattir, and Socoh, +015:049 and Dannah, and Kiriath Sannah (the same is Debir), +015:050 and Anab, and Eshtemoh, and Anim, +015:051 and Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with their villages. +015:052 Arab, and Dumah, and Eshan, +015:053 and Janim, and Beth Tappuah, and Aphekah, +015:054 and Humtah, and Kiriath Arba (the same is Hebron), and Zior; + nine cities with their villages. +015:055 Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Jutah, +015:056 and Jezreel, and Jokdeam, and Zanoah, +015:057 Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities with their villages. +015:058 Halhul, Beth Zur, and Gedor, +015:059 and Maarath, and Beth Anoth, and Eltekon; six cities + with their villages. +015:060 Kiriath Baal (the same is Kiriath Jearim), and Rabbah; + two cities with their villages. +015:061 In the wilderness, Beth Arabah, Middin, and Secacah, +015:062 and Nibshan, and the City of Salt, and En Gedi; six cities + with their villages. +015:063 As for the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children + of Judah couldn't drive them out: but the Jebusites dwell + with the children of Judah at Jerusalem to this day. +016:001 The lot came out for the children of Joseph from the Jordan + at Jericho, at the waters of Jericho on the east, + even the wilderness, going up from Jericho through the hill + country to Bethel; +016:002 and it went out from Bethel to Luz, and passed along to the border + of the Archites to Ataroth; +016:003 and it went down westward to the border of the Japhletites, + to the border of Beth Horon the lower, even to Gezer; + and the goings out of it were at the sea. +016:004 The children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their inheritance. +016:005 The border of the children of Ephraim according to their + families was [thus]: the border of their inheritance eastward + was Ataroth Addar, to Beth Horon the upper; +016:006 and the border went out westward at Michmethath on the north; + and the border turned about eastward to Taanath Shiloh, + and passed along it on the east of Janoah; +016:007 and it went down from Janoah to Ataroth, and to Naarah, + and reached to Jericho, and went out at the Jordan. +016:008 From Tappuah the border went along westward to the brook + of Kanah; and the goings out of it were at the sea. + This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephraim + according to their families; +016:009 together with the cities which were set apart for the children + of Ephraim in the midst of the inheritance of the children + of Manasseh, all the cities with their villages. +016:010 They didn't drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer: + but the Canaanites dwell in the midst of Ephraim to this day, + and are become servants to do forced labor. +017:001 [This] was the lot for the tribe of Manasseh; for he was + the firstborn of Joseph. As for Machir the firstborn + of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, because he was a man of war, + therefore he had Gilead and Bashan. +017:002 So [the lot] was for the rest of the children of Manasseh + according to their families: for the children of Abiezer, + and for the children of Helek, and for the children of Asriel, + and for the children of Shechem, and for the children of Hepher, + and for the children of Shemida: these were the male children + of Manasseh the son of Joseph according to their families. +017:003 But Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, + the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons, + but daughters: and these are the names of his daughters: + Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. +017:004 They came near before Eleazar the priest, and before Joshua + the son of Nun, and before the princes, saying, Yahweh commanded + Moses to give us an inheritance among our brothers: + therefore according to the commandment of Yahweh he gave them + an inheritance among the brothers of their father. +017:005 There fell ten parts to Manasseh, besides the land of Gilead + and Bashan, which is beyond the Jordan; +017:006 because the daughters of Manasseh had an inheritance among his sons. + The land of Gilead belonged to the rest of the sons of Manasseh. +017:007 The border of Manasseh was from Asher to Michmethath, which is + before Shechem; and the border went along to the right hand, + to the inhabitants of En Tappuah. +017:008 The land of Tappuah belonged to Manasseh; but Tappuah on + the border of Manasseh belonged to the children of Ephraim. +017:009 The border went down to the brook of Kanah, southward of the brook: + these cities belonged to Ephraim among the cities of Manasseh: + and the border of Manasseh was on the north side of the brook, + and the goings out of it were at the sea: +017:010 southward it was Ephraim's, and northward it was Manasseh's, + and the sea was his border; and they reached to Asher on the north, + and to Issachar on the east. +017:011 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 Endor and its towns, + and the inhabitants of Taanach and its towns, and the inhabitants + of Megiddo and its towns, even the three heights. +017:012 Yet the children of Manasseh couldn't drive out [the inhabitants + of] those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land. +017:013 It happened, when the children of Israel had grown strong, + that they put the Canaanites to forced labor, and didn't + utterly drive them out. +017:014 The children of Joseph spoke to Joshua, saying, Why have you + given me but one lot and one part for an inheritance, seeing I + am a great people, because hitherto Yahweh has blessed me? +017:015 Joshua said to them, If you are a great people, go up to the forest, + and cut down for yourself there in the land of the Perizzites + and of the Rephaim; since the hill country of Ephraim is too + narrow for you. +017:016 The children of Joseph said, The hill country is not enough for us: + and all the Canaanites who dwell in the land of the valley have + chariots of iron, both they who are in Beth Shean and its towns, + and they who are in the valley of Jezreel. +017:017 Joshua spoke to the house of Joseph, even to Ephraim and + to Manasseh, saying, You are a great people, and have great power; + you shall not have one lot only: +017:018 but the hill country shall be yours; for though it is a forest, + you shall cut it down, and the goings out of it shall be yours; + for you shall drive out the Canaanites, though they have + chariots of iron, and though they are strong. +018:001 The whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled themselves + together at Shiloh, and set up the tent of meeting there: + and the land was subdued before them. +018:002 There remained among the children of Israel seven tribes, + which had not yet divided their inheritance. +018:003 Joshua said to the children of Israel, How long are you slack to go + in to possess the land, which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, + has given you? +018:004 Appoint for you three men of each tribe: and I will send them, + and they shall arise, and walk through the land, and describe + it according to their inheritance; and they shall come to me. +018:005 They shall divide it into seven portions: Judah shall abide + in his border on the south, and the house of Joseph shall + abide in their border on the north. +018:006 You shall describe the land into seven portions, and bring + [the description] here to me; and I will cast lots for you + here before Yahweh our God. +018:007 For the Levites have no portion among you; for the priesthood + of Yahweh is their inheritance: and Gad and Reuben and + the half-tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance + beyond the Jordan eastward, which Moses the servant of + Yahweh gave them. +018:008 The men arose, and went: and Joshua charged those who went + to describe the land, saying, Go and walk through the land, + and describe it, and come again to me; and I will cast lots + for you here before Yahweh in Shiloh. +018:009 The men went and passed through the land, and described it + by cities into seven portions in a book; and they came + to Joshua to the camp at Shiloh. +018:010 Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before Yahweh: + and there Joshua divided the land to the children of Israel + according to their divisions. +018:011 The lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin came up + according to their families: and the border of their lot went + out between the children of Judah and the children of Joseph. +018:012 Their border on the north quarter was from the Jordan; + and the border went up to the side of Jericho on the north, + and went up through the hill country westward; and the goings + out of it were at the wilderness of Beth Aven. +018:013 The border passed along from there to Luz, to the side of Luz + (the same is Bethel), southward; and the border went down + to Ataroth Addar, by the mountain that lies on the south + of Beth Horon the lower. +018:014 The border extended [there], and turned about on the west + quarter southward, from the mountain that lies before + Beth Horon southward; and the goings out of it were at Kiriath Baal + (the same is Kiriath Jearim), a city of the children of Judah: + this was the west quarter. +018:015 The south quarter was from the uttermost part of Kiriath Jearim; + and the border went out westward, and went out to the spring + of the waters of Nephtoah; +018:016 and the border went down to the uttermost part of the mountain + that lies before the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is + in the valley of Rephaim northward; and it went down to + the valley of Hinnom, to the side of the Jebusite southward, + and went down to En Rogel; +018:017 and it extended northward, and went out at En Shemesh, and went + out to Geliloth, which is over against the ascent of Adummim; + and it went down to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben; +018:018 and it passed along to the side over against the Arabah northward, + and went down to the Arabah; +018:019 and the border passed along to the side of Beth Hoglah northward; + and the goings out of the border were at the north + bay of the Salt Sea, at the south end of the Jordan: + this was the south border. +018:020 The Jordan was the border of it on the east quarter. + This was the inheritance of the children of Benjamin, + by the borders of it round about, according to their families. +018:021 Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin + according to their families were Jericho, and Beth Hoglah, + and Emek Keziz, +018:022 and Beth Arabah, and Zemaraim, and Bethel, +018:023 and Avvim, and Parah, and Ophrah, +018:024 and Chephar Ammoni, and Ophni, and Geba; twelve cities + with their villages: +018:025 Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth, +018:026 and Mizpeh, and Chephirah, and Mozah, +018:027 and Rekem, and Irpeel, and Taralah, +018:028 and Zelah, Eleph, and the Jebusite (the same is Jerusalem), Gibeath, + [and] Kiriath; fourteen cities with their villages. + This is the inheritance of the children of Benjamin according + to their families. +019:001 The second lot came out for Simeon, even for the tribe + of the children of Simeon according to their families: + and their inheritance was in the midst of the inheritance + of the children of Judah. +019:002 They had for their inheritance Beersheba, or Sheba, and Moladah, +019:003 and Hazar Shual, and Balah, and Ezem, +019:004 and Eltolad, and Bethul, and Hormah, +019:005 and Ziklag, and Beth Marcaboth, and Hazar Susah, +019:006 and Beth Lebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities with their villages: +019:007 Ain, Rimmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities with their villages: +019:008 and all the villages that were round about these cities to + Baalath Beer, Ramah of the South. This is the inheritance of + the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families. +019:009 Out of the part of the children of Judah was the inheritance + of the children of Simeon; for the portion of the children + of Judah was too much for them: therefore the children + of Simeon had inheritance in the midst of their inheritance. +019:010 The third lot came up for the children of Zebulun according + to their families; and the border of their inheritance + was to Sarid; +019:011 and their border went up westward, even to Maralah, and reached + to Dabbesheth; and it reached to the brook that is before Jokneam; +019:012 and it turned from Sarid eastward toward the sunrise to + the border of Chisloth Tabor; and it went out to Daberath, + and went up to Japhia; +019:013 and from there it passed along eastward to Gath Hepher, to Ethkazin; + and it went out at Rimmon which stretches to Neah; +019:014 and the border turned about it on the north to Hannathon; + and the goings out of it were at the valley of Iphtah El; +019:015 and Kattath, and Nahalal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and Bethlehem: + twelve cities with their villages. +019:016 This is the inheritance of the children of Zebulun according + to their families, these cities with their villages. +019:017 The fourth lot came out for Issachar, even for the children + of Issachar according to their families. +019:018 Their border was to Jezreel, and Chesulloth, and Shunem, +019:019 and Hapharaim, and Shion, and Anaharath, +019:020 and Rabbith, and Kishion, and Ebez, +019:021 and Remeth, and Engannim, and En Haddah, and Beth Pazzez, +019:022 and the border reached to Tabor, and Shahazumah, and Beth Shemesh; + and the goings out of their border were at the Jordan: + sixteen cities with their villages. +019:023 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Issachar + according to their families, the cities with their villages. +019:024 The fifth lot came out for the tribe of the children of Asher + according to their families. +019:025 Their border was Helkath, and Hali, and Beten, and Achshaph, +019:026 and Allammelech, and Amad, and Mishal; and it reached to + Carmel westward, and to Shihorlibnath; +019:027 and it turned toward the sunrise to Beth Dagon, and reached + to Zebulun, and to the valley of Iphtah El northward to Beth Emek + and Neiel; and it went out to Cabul on the left hand, +019:028 and Ebron, and Rehob, and Hammon, and Kanah, even to great Sidon; +019:029 and the border turned to Ramah, and to the fortified city of Tyre; + and the border turned to Hosah; and the goings out of it + were at the sea by the region of Achzib; +019:030 Ummah also, and Aphek, and Rehob: twenty-two cities + with their villages. +019:031 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Asher + according to their families, these cities with their villages. +019:032 The sixth lot came out for the children of Naphtali, even for + the children of Naphtali according to their families. +019:033 Their border was from Heleph, from the oak in Zaanannim, + and Adaminekeb, and Jabneel, to Lakkum; and the goings out + of it were at the Jordan; +019:034 and the border turned westward to Aznoth Tabor, and went out + from there to Hukkok; and it reached to Zebulun on the south, + and reached to Asher on the west, and to Judah at the Jordan + toward the sunrise. +019:035 The fortified cities were Ziddim, Zer, and Hammath, Rakkath, + and Chinnereth, +019:036 and Adamah, and Ramah, and Hazor, +019:037 and Kedesh, and Edrei, and En Hazor, +019:038 Iron, and Migdal El, Horem, and Beth Anath, and Beth Shemesh; + nineteen cities with their villages. +019:039 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Naphtali + according to their families, the cities with their villages. +019:040 The seventh lot came out for the tribe of the children of Dan + according to their families. +019:041 The border of their inheritance was Zorah, and Eshtaol, and Irshemesh, +019:042 and Shaalabbin, and Aijalon, and Ithlah, +019:043 and Elon, and Timnah, and Ekron, +019:044 and Eltekeh, and Gibbethon, and Baalath, +019:045 and Jehud, and Bene Berak, and Gath Rimmon, +019:046 and Me Jarkon, and Rakkon, with the border over against Joppa. +019:047 The border of the children of Dan went out beyond them; + for the children of Dan went up and fought against Leshem, + and took it, and struck it with the edge of the sword, + and possessed it, and lived therein, and called Leshem, Dan, + after the name of Dan their father. +019:048 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Dan + according to their families, these cities with their villages. +019:049 So they made an end of distributing the land for inheritance + by the borders of it; and the children of Israel gave an + inheritance to Joshua the son of Nun in the midst of them: +019:050 according to the commandment of Yahweh they gave him the city + which he asked, even Timnathserah in the hill country of Ephraim; + and he built the city, and lived therein. +019:051 These are the inheritances, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua + the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the tribes + of the children of Israel, distributed for inheritance by lot + in Shiloh before Yahweh, at the door of the tent of meeting. + So they made an end of dividing the land. +020:001 Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying, +020:002 Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Assign you the cities + of refuge, of which I spoke to you by Moses, +020:003 that the manslayer who kills any person unwittingly [and] + unawares may flee there: and they shall be to you for a refuge + from the avenger of blood. +020:004 He shall flee to one of those cities, and shall stand at + the entrance of the gate of the city, and declare his cause + in the ears of the elders of that city; and they shall + take him into the city to them, and give him a place, + that he may dwell among them. +020:005 If the avenger of blood pursue after him, then they shall + not deliver up the manslayer into his hand; because he struck + his neighbor unawares, and didn't hate him before. +020:006 He shall dwell in that city, until he stand before the + congregation for judgment, until the death of the high priest + that shall be in those days: then shall the manslayer return, + and come to his own city, and to his own house, to the city + from whence he fled. +020:007 They set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, + and Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath Arba + (the same is Hebron) in the hill country of Judah. +020:008 Beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer + in the wilderness in the plain out of the tribe of Reuben, + and Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan + in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh. +020:009 These were the appointed cities for all the children + of Israel, and for the stranger who sojourns among them, + that whoever kills any person unwittingly might flee there, + and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stood + before the congregation. +021:001 Then came near the heads of fathers' [houses] of the Levites + to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, + and to the heads of fathers' [houses] of the tribes of + the children of Israel; +021:002 and they spoke to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, + saying, Yahweh commanded Moses to give us cities to dwell in, + with the suburbs of it for our livestock. +021:003 The children of Israel gave to the Levites out of their inheritance, + according to the commandment of Yahweh, these cities + with their suburbs. +021:004 The lot came out for the families of the Kohathites: + and the children of Aaron the priest, who were of the Levites, + had by lot out of the tribe of Judah, and out of the tribe of + the Simeonites, and out of the tribe of Benjamin, thirteen cities. +021:005 The rest of the children of Kohath had by lot out of the families + of the tribe of Ephraim, and out of the tribe of Dan, + and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, ten cities. +021:006 The children of Gershon had by lot out of the families + of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, + and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the half-tribe + of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities. +021:007 The children of Merari according to their families had + out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, + and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities. +021:008 The children of Israel gave by lot to the Levites these cities + with their suburbs, as Yahweh commanded by Moses. +021:009 They gave out of the tribe of the children of Judah, + and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, these cities + which are [here] mentioned by name: +021:010 and they were for the children of Aaron, of the families + of the Kohathites, who were of the children of Levi; + for theirs was the first lot. +021:011 They gave them Kiriath Arba, [which Arba was] the father of Anak + (the same is Hebron), in the hill country of Judah, + with the suburbs of it round about it. +021:012 But the fields of the city, and the villages of it, gave they + to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession. +021:013 To the children of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron + with its suburbs, the city of refuge for the manslayer, + and Libnah with its suburbs, +021:014 and Jattir with its suburbs, and Eshtemoa with its suburbs, +021:015 and Holon with its suburbs, and Debir with its suburbs, +021:016 and Ain with its suburbs, and Juttah with its suburbs, + [and] Beth Shemesh with its suburbs; nine cities out of + those two tribes. +021:017 Out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with its suburbs, + Geba with its suburbs, +021:018 Anathoth with its suburbs, and Almon with its suburbs; four cities. +021:019 All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, + were thirteen cities with their suburbs. +021:020 The families of the children of Kohath, the Levites, + even the rest of the children of Kohath, they had the cities + of their lot out of the tribe of Ephraim. +021:021 They gave them Shechem with its suburbs in the hill country + of Ephraim, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Gezer + with its suburbs, +021:022 and Kibzaim with its suburbs, and Beth Horon with its suburbs; + four cities. +021:023 Out of the tribe of Dan, Elteke with its suburbs, + Gibbethon with its suburbs, +021:024 Aijalon with its suburbs, Gath Rimmon with its suburbs; four cities. +021:025 Out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Taanach with its suburbs, + and Gath Rimmon with its suburbs; two cities. +021:026 All the cities of the families of the rest of the children + of Kohath were ten with their suburbs. +021:027 To the children of Gershon, of the families of the Levites, + out of the half-tribe of Manasseh [they gave] Golan in Bashan + with its suburbs, the city of refuge for the manslayer, + and Be Eshterah with its suburbs; two cities. +021:028 Out of the tribe of Issachar, Kishion with its suburbs, + Daberath with its suburbs, +021:029 Jarmuth with its suburbs, En Gannim with its suburbs; four cities. +021:030 Out of the tribe of Asher, Mishal with its suburbs, + Abdon with its suburbs, +021:031 Helkath with its suburbs, and Rehob with its suburbs; four cities. +021:032 Out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its suburbs, + the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Hammothdor with + its suburbs, and Kartan with its suburbs; three cities. +021:033 All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families + were thirteen cities with their suburbs. +021:034 To the families of the children of Merari, the rest of the Levites, + out of the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam with its suburbs, + and Kartah with its suburbs, +021:035 Dimnah with its suburbs, Nahalal with its suburbs; four cities. +021:036 Out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with its suburbs, and Jahaz + with its suburbs, +021:037 Kedemoth with its suburbs, and Mephaath with its suburbs; + four cities. +021:038 Out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with its suburbs, + the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Mahanaim with its suburbs, +021:039 Heshbon with its suburbs, Jazer with its suburbs; + four cities in all. +021:040 All [these were] the cities of the children of Merari according + to their families, even the rest of the families of the Levites; + and their lot was twelve cities. +021:041 All the cities of the Levites in the midst of the possession + of the children of Israel were forty-eight cities + with their suburbs. +021:042 These cities were every one with their suburbs round about them: + thus it was with all these cities. +021:043 So Yahweh gave to Israel all the land which he swore to give + to their fathers; and they possessed it, and lived therein. +021:044 Yahweh gave them rest round about, according to all that he swore + to their fathers: and there stood not a man of all their + enemies before them; Yahweh delivered all their enemies + into their hand. +021:045 There failed not anything of any good thing which Yahweh had + spoken to the house of Israel; all came to pass. +022:001 Then Joshua called the Reubenites, and the Gadites, + and the half-tribe of Manasseh, +022:002 and said to them, You have kept all that Moses the servant + of Yahweh commanded you, and have listened to my voice in all + that I commanded you: +022:003 you have not left your brothers these many days to this day, + but have kept the charge of the commandment of Yahweh your God. +022:004 Now Yahweh your God has given rest to your brothers, as he spoke + to them: therefore now turn you, and get you to your tents, + to the land of your possession, which Moses the servant + of Yahweh gave you beyond the Jordan. +022:005 Only take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law which Moses + the servant of Yahweh commanded you, to love Yahweh your God, + and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, + and to cleave to him, and to serve him with all your heart + and with all your soul. +022:006 So Joshua blessed them, and sent them away; and they went + to their tents. +022:007 Now to the one half-tribe of Manasseh Moses had given + [inheritance] in Bashan; but to the other half gave + Joshua among their brothers beyond the Jordan westward; + moreover when Joshua sent them away to their tents, + he blessed them, +022:008 and spoke to them, saying, Return with much wealth to your tents, + and with very much livestock, with silver, and with gold, + and with brass, and with iron, and with very much clothing: + divide the spoil of your enemies with your brothers. +022:009 The children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe + of Manasseh returned, and departed from the children of Israel + out of Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan, to go to the land + of Gilead, to the land of their possession, which they owned, + according to the commandment of Yahweh by Moses. +022:010 When they came to the region about the Jordan, that is in the land + of Canaan, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and + the half-tribe of Manasseh built there an altar by the Jordan, + a great altar to look on. +022:011 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 pertains + to the children of Israel. +022:012 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. +022:013 The children of Israel sent to the children of Reuben, + and to the children of Gad, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, + into the land of Gilead, Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, +022:014 and with him ten princes, one prince of a fathers' house for + each of the tribes of Israel; and they were everyone of them + head of their fathers' houses among the thousands of Israel. +022:015 They came to the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, + and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, to the land of Gilead, + and they spoke with them, saying, +022:016 Thus says the whole congregation of Yahweh, What trespass + is this that you have committed against the God of Israel, + to turn away this day from following Yahweh, in that you + have built you an altar, to rebel this day against Yahweh? +022:017 Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we + have not cleansed ourselves to this day, although there came + a plague on the congregation of Yahweh, +022:018 that you must turn away this day from following Yahweh? and it + will be, seeing you rebel today against Yahweh, that tomorrow + he will be angry with the whole congregation of Israel. +022:019 However, if the land of your possession be unclean, + then pass over to the land of the possession of Yahweh, + in which Yahweh's tent dwells, and take possession among us: + but don't rebel against Yahweh, nor rebel against us, + in building you an altar besides the altar of Yahweh our God. +022:020 Didn't Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the devoted thing, + and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? and that man + didn't perish alone in his iniquity. +022:021 Then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and + the half-tribe of Manasseh answered, and spoke to the heads + of the thousands of Israel, +022:022 The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, the Mighty One, God, Yahweh, he knows; + and Israel he shall know: if it be in rebellion, or if in + trespass against Yahweh (don't save us this day), +022:023 that we have built us an altar to turn away from following Yahweh; + or if to offer thereon burnt offering or meal offering, + or if to offer sacrifices of peace offerings thereon, + let Yahweh himself require it; +022:024 and if we have not [rather] out of carefulness done this, + [and] of purpose, saying, In time to come your children might + speak to our children, saying, What have you to do with Yahweh, + the God of Israel? +022:025 for Yahweh has made the Jordan a border between us and you, + you children of Reuben and children of Gad; you have no portion + in Yahweh: so might your children make our children cease + from fearing Yahweh. +022:026 Therefore we said, Let us now prepare to build us an altar, + not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice: +022:027 but it shall be a witness between us and you, and between our + generations after us, that we may do the service of Yahweh + before him with our burnt offerings, and with our sacrifices, + and with our peace offerings; that your children may not tell + our children in time to come, You have no portion in Yahweh. +022:028 Therefore said we, It shall be, when they so tell us + or to our generations in time to come, that we shall say, + Behold the pattern of the altar of Yahweh, which our + fathers made, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice; + but it is a witness between us and you. +022:029 Far be it from us that we should rebel against Yahweh, + and turn away this day from following Yahweh, to build an altar + for burnt offering, for meal offering, or for sacrifice, + besides the altar of Yahweh our God that is before his tent. +022:030 When Phinehas the priest, and the princes of the congregation, + even the heads of the thousands of Israel that were with him, + heard the words that the children of Reuben and the children + of Gad and the children of Manasseh spoke, it pleased them well. +022:031 Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said to the children + of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the children + of Manasseh, This day we know that Yahweh is in the midst of us, + because you have not committed this trespass against Yahweh: + now have you delivered the children of Israel out of the + hand of Yahweh. +022:032 Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, and the princes, + returned from the children of Reuben, and from the children + of Gad, out of the land of Gilead, to the land of Canaan, + to the children of Israel, and brought them word again. +022:033 The thing pleased the children of Israel; and the children of + Israel blessed God, and spoke no more of going up against them + to war, to destroy the land in which the children of Reuben + and the children of Gad lived. +022:034 The children of Reuben and the children of Gad called + the altar [Ed]: For, [said they], it is a witness between us + that Yahweh is God. +023:001 It happened after many days, when Yahweh had given rest + to Israel from all their enemies round about, and Joshua + was old and well stricken in years; +023:002 that Joshua called for all Israel, for their elders and for + their heads, and for their judges and for their officers, + and said to them, I am old and well stricken in years: +023:003 and you have seen all that Yahweh your God has done to all + these nations because of you; for Yahweh your God, he it + is that has fought for you. +023:004 Behold, I have allotted to you these nations that remain, + to be an inheritance for your tribes, from the Jordan, + with all the nations that I have cut off, even to the great + sea toward the going down of the sun. +023:005 Yahweh your God, he will thrust them out from before you, + and drive them from out of your sight; and you shall possess + their land, as Yahweh your God spoke to you. +023:006 Therefore be you very courageous to keep and to do all that is + written in the book of the law of Moses, that you not turn + aside from it to the right hand or to the left; +023:007 that you not come among these nations, these that remain + among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, + nor cause to swear [by them], neither serve them, nor bow + down yourselves to them; +023:008 but cleave to Yahweh your God, as you have done to this day. +023:009 For Yahweh has driven out from before you great nations and strong: + but as for you, no man has stood before you to this day. +023:010 One man of you shall chase a thousand; for Yahweh your God, + he it is who fights for you, as he spoke to you. +023:011 Take good heed therefore to yourselves, that you love + Yahweh your God. +023:012 Else if you do at all go back, and cleave to the remnant + of these nations, even these who remain among you, and make + marriages with them, and go in to them, and they to you; +023:013 know for a certainty that Yahweh your God will no more drive + these nations from out of your sight; but they shall be + a snare and a trap to you, and a scourge in your sides, + and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this + good land which Yahweh your God has given you. +023:014 Behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth: + and you know in all your hearts and in all your souls, + that not one thing has failed of all the good things which + Yahweh your God spoke concerning you; all are happen to you, + not one thing has failed of it. +023:015 It shall happen, that as all the good things are come on you + of which Yahweh your God spoke to you, so will Yahweh bring + on you all the evil things, until he have destroyed you from + off this good land which Yahweh your God has given you. +023:016 When you disobey the covenant of Yahweh your God, + which he commanded you, and go and serve other gods, + and bow down yourselves to them; then will the anger of Yahweh + be kindled against you, and you shall perish quickly from off + the good land which he has given to you. +024:001 Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, + and called for the elders of Israel, and for their heads, + and for their judges, and for their officers; and they + presented themselves before God. +024:002 Joshua said to all the people, Thus says Yahweh, the God + of Israel, Your fathers lived of old time beyond the River, + even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor: + and they served other gods. +024:003 I took your father Abraham from beyond the River, and led him + throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, + and gave him Isaac. +024:004 I gave to Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave to Esau Mount Seir, + to possess it: and Jacob and his children went down into Egypt. +024:005 I sent Moses and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according to + that which I did in the midst of it: and afterward I + brought you out. +024:006 I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and you came to the sea; + and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers with chariots + and with horsemen to the Red Sea{or, Sea of Reeds}. +024:007 When they cried out to Yahweh, he put darkness between + you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea on them, + and covered them; and your eyes saw what I did in Egypt: + and you lived in the wilderness many days. +024:008 I brought you into the land of the Amorites, that lived beyond + the Jordan: and they fought with you; and I gave them into + your hand, and you possessed their land; and I destroyed them + from before you. +024:009 Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and fought + against Israel: and he sent and called Balaam the son of Beor + to curse you; +024:010 but I would not listen to Balaam; therefore he blessed you still: + so I delivered you out of his hand. +024:011 You went over the Jordan, and came to Jericho: and the men + of Jericho fought against you, the Amorite, and the Perizzite, + and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Girgashite, the Hivite, + and the Jebusite; and I delivered them into your hand. +024:012 I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out from before you, + even the two kings of the Amorites; not with your sword, + nor with your bow. +024:013 I gave you a land whereon you had not labored, and cities + which you didn't build, and you dwell therein; of vineyards + and olive groves which you didn't plant do you eat. +024:014 Now therefore fear Yahweh, and serve him in sincerity and in truth; + and put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, + and in Egypt; and serve you Yahweh. +024:015 If it seem evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose you this day whom + you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served + that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, + in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, + we will serve Yahweh. +024:016 The people answered, Far be it from us that we should forsake Yahweh, + to serve other gods; +024:017 for Yahweh our God, he it is who brought us and our fathers + up out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, + and who did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us + in all the way in which we went, and among all the peoples + through the midst of whom we passed; +024:018 and Yahweh drove out from before us all the peoples, even the Amorites + who lived in the land: therefore we also will serve Yahweh; + for he is our God. +024:019 Joshua said to the people, You can't serve Yahweh; + for he is a holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive + your disobedience nor your sins. +024:020 If you forsake Yahweh, and serve foreign gods, then he will + turn and do you evil, and consume you, after that he has + done you good. +024:021 The people said to Joshua, No; but we will serve Yahweh. +024:022 Joshua said to the people, You are witnesses against + yourselves that you have chosen you Yahweh, to serve him. + They said, We are witnesses. +024:023 Now therefore put away, [said he], the foreign gods which are + among you, and incline your heart to Yahweh, the God of Israel. +024:024 The people said to Joshua, Yahweh our God will we serve, + and to his voice will we listen. +024:025 So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set + them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem. +024:026 Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God; + and he took a great stone, and set it up there under the oak + that was by the sanctuary of Yahweh. +024:027 Joshua said to all the people, Behold, this stone shall be + a witness against us; for it has heard all the words of Yahweh + which he spoke to us: it shall be therefore a witness against you, + lest you deny your God. +024:028 So Joshua sent the people away, every man to his inheritance. +024:029 It happened after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, + the servant of Yahweh, died, being one hundred ten years old. +024:030 They buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathserah, + which is in the hill country of Ephraim, on the north + of the mountain of Gaash. +024:031 Israel served Yahweh all the days of Joshua, and all the days + of the elders who outlived Joshua, and had known all the work + of Yahweh, that he had worked for Israel. +024:032 The bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought + up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in the parcel + of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor + the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of money: + and they became the inheritance of the children of Joseph. +024:033 Eleazar the son of Aaron died; and they buried him in the hill + of Phinehas his son, which was given him in the hill + country of Ephraim. +Book 07 Judges +001:001 It happened after the death of Joshua, the children of Israel + asked of Yahweh, saying, Who shall go up for us first against + the Canaanites, to fight against them? +001:002 Yahweh said, Judah shall go up: behold, I have delivered + the land into his hand. +001:003 Judah said to Simeon his brother, Come up with me into my lot, + that we may fight against the Canaanites; and I likewise + will go with you into your lot. So Simeon went with him. +001:004 Judah went up; and Yahweh delivered the Canaanites and the + Perizzites into their hand: and they struck of them in Bezek + ten thousand men. +001:005 They found Adoni-Bezek in Bezek; and they fought against him, + and they struck the Canaanites and the Perizzites. +001:006 But Adoni-Bezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, + and cut off his thumbs and his great toes. +001:007 Adoni-Bezek said, "Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their + great toes cut off, gathered [their food] under my table: + as I have done, so God has requited me." They brought him + to Jerusalem, and he died there. +001:008 The children of Judah fought against Jerusalem, and took it, + and struck it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire. +001:009 Afterward the children of Judah went down to fight against + the Canaanites who lived in the hill country, and in the South, + and in the lowland. +001:010 Judah went against the Canaanites who lived in Hebron + (now the name of Hebron before was Kiriath Arba); and they + struck Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai. +001:011 From there he went against the inhabitants of Debir. + (Now the name of Debir before was Kiriath Sepher.) +001:012 Caleb said, He who strikes Kiriath Sepher, and takes it, + to him will I give Achsah my daughter as wife. +001:013 Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother, took it: + and he gave him Achsah his daughter as wife. +001:014 It happened, when she came [to him], that she moved him to ask + of her father a field: and she alighted from off her donkey; + and Caleb said to her, What would you? +001:015 She said to him, Give me a blessing; for that you have set me + in the land of the South, give me also springs of water. + Caleb gave her the upper springs and the lower springs. +001:016 The children of the Kenite, Moses' brother-in-law, went up + out of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah + into the wilderness of Judah, which is in the south of Arad; + and they went and lived with the people. +001:017 Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they struck the + Canaanites who inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it. + The name of the city was called Hormah. +001:018 Also Judah took Gaza with the border of it, and Ashkelon + with the border of it, and Ekron with the border of it. +001:019 Yahweh was with Judah; and drove out [the inhabitants of] + the hill country; for he could not drive out the inhabitants + of the valley, because they had chariots of iron. +001:020 They gave Hebron to Caleb, as Moses had spoken: + and he drove out there the three sons of Anak. +001:021 The children of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites who + inhabited Jerusalem; but the Jebusites dwell with the children + of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day. +001:022 The house of Joseph, they also went up against Bethel; + and Yahweh was with them. +001:023 The house of Joseph sent to spy out Bethel. (Now the name + of the city before was Luz.) +001:024 The watchers saw a man come forth out of the city, and they + said to him, Show us, we pray you, the entrance into the city, + and we will deal kindly with you. +001:025 He shown them the entrance into the city; and they struck + the city with the edge of the sword; but they let the man go + and all his family. +001:026 The man went into the land of the Hittites, and built a city, + and called the name of it Luz, which is the name of it + to this day. +001:027 Manasseh did not drive out [the inhabitants of] Beth Shean and + its towns, nor [of] Taanach and its towns, nor the inhabitants + of Dor and its towns, nor the inhabitants of Ibleam and + its towns, nor the inhabitants of Megiddo and its towns; + but the Canaanites would dwell in that land. +001:028 It happened, when Israel had grown strong, that they put + the Canaanites to forced labor, and did not utterly + drive them out. +001:029 Ephraim didn't drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer; + but the Canaanites lived in Gezer among them. +001:030 Zebulun didn't drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, nor the + inhabitants of Nahalol; but the Canaanites lived among them, + and became subject to forced labor. +001:031 Asher didn't drive out the inhabitants of Acco, nor the inhabitants + of Sidon, nor of Ahlab, nor of Achzib, nor of Helbah, + nor of Aphik, nor of Rehob; +001:032 but the Asherites lived among the Canaanites, the inhabitants + of the land; for they did not drive them out. +001:033 Naphtali didn't drive out the inhabitants of Beth Shemesh, + nor the inhabitants of Beth Anath; but he lived + among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: + nevertheless the inhabitants of Beth Shemesh and of Beth Anath + became subject to forced labor. +001:034 The Amorites forced the children of Dan into the hill country; + for they would not allow them to come down to the valley; +001:035 but the Amorites would dwell in Mount Heres, in Aijalon, + and in Shaalbim: yet the hand of the house of Joseph prevailed, + so that they became subject to forced labor. +001:036 The border of the Amorites was from the ascent of Akrabbim, + from the rock, and upward. +002:001 The angel of Yahweh came up from Gilgal to Bochim. + He said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought + you to the land which I swore to your fathers; and I said, + I will never break my covenant with you: +002:002 and you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; + you shall break down their altars. But you have not listened + to my voice: why have you done this? +002:003 Therefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; + but they shall be [as thorns] in your sides, and their gods + shall be a snare to you. +002:004 It happened, when the angel of Yahweh spoke these words + to all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up + their voice, and wept. +002:005 They called the name of that place Bochim: and they sacrificed + there to Yahweh. +002:006 Now when Joshua had sent the people away, the children of Israel + went every man to his inheritance to possess the land. +002:007 The people served Yahweh all the days of Joshua, and all + the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen + all the great work of Yahweh that he had worked for Israel. +002:008 Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Yahweh, died, being one + hundred ten years old. +002:009 They buried him in the border of his inheritance in + Timnath Heres, in the hill country of Ephraim, on the north + of the mountain of Gaash. +002:010 Also all that generation were gathered to their fathers: + and there arose another generation after them, who didn't + know Yahweh, nor yet the work which he had worked for Israel. +002:011 The children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight + of Yahweh, and served the Baals; +002:012 and they forsook Yahweh, the God of their fathers, who brought + them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, + of the gods of the peoples who were round about them, and bowed + themselves down to them: and they provoked Yahweh to anger. +002:013 They forsook Yahweh, and served Baal and the Ashtaroth. +002:014 The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel, and he delivered + them into the hands of spoilers who despoiled them; + and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, + so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies. +002:015 Wherever they went out, the hand of Yahweh was against them + for evil, as Yahweh had spoken, and as Yahweh had sworn to them: + and they were sore distressed. +002:016 Yahweh raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand + of those who despoiled them. +002:017 Yet they didn't listen to their judges; for they played the + prostitute after other gods, and bowed themselves down to them: + they turned aside quickly out of the way in which their + fathers walked, obeying the commandments of Yahweh; + [but] they didn't do so. +002:018 When Yahweh raised them up judges, then Yahweh was with the judge, + and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days + of the judge: for it grieved Yahweh because of their groaning + by reason of those who oppressed them and vexed them. +002:019 But it happened, when the judge was dead, that they turned back, + and dealt more corruptly than their fathers, in following + other gods to serve them, and to bow down to them; they didn't + cease from their doings, nor from their stubborn way. +002:020 The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel; and he said, + Because this nation have transgressed my covenant which I + commanded their fathers, and have not listened to my voice; +002:021 I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them + of the nations that Joshua left when he died; +002:022 that by them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep + the way of Yahweh to walk therein, as their fathers did + keep it, or not. +002:023 So Yahweh left those nations, without driving them out hastily; + neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua. +003:001 Now these are the nations which Yahweh left, to prove Israel + by them, even as many [of Israel] as had not known all + the wars of Canaan; +003:002 only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, + to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing of it: +003:003 [namely], the five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, + and the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived on Mount Lebanon, + from Mount Baal Hermon to the entrance of Hamath. +003:004 They were [left], to prove Israel by them, to know whether they + would listen to the commandments of Yahweh, which he commanded + their fathers by Moses. +003:005 The children of Israel lived among the Canaanites, the Hittites, + and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, + and the Jebusites: +003:006 and they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave + their own daughters to their sons and served their gods. +003:007 The children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight + of Yahweh, and forgot Yahweh their God, and served the Baals + and the Asheroth. +003:008 Therefore the anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel, and he sold + them into the hand of Cushan Rishathaim king of Mesopotamia: + and the children of Israel served Cushan Rishathaim eight years. +003:009 When the children of Israel cried to Yahweh, Yahweh raised + up a savior to the children of Israel, who saved them, + even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother. +003:010 The Spirit of Yahweh came on him, and he judged Israel; + and he went out to war, and Yahweh delivered Cushan Rishathaim + king of Mesopotamia into his hand: and his hand prevailed + against Cushan Rishathaim. +003:011 The land had rest forty years. Othniel the son of Kenaz died. +003:012 The children of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight + of Yahweh: and Yahweh strengthened Eglon the king of Moab + against Israel, because they had done that which was evil + in the sight of Yahweh. +003:013 He gathered to him the children of Ammon and Amalek; + and he went and struck Israel, and they possessed the city + of palm trees. +003:014 The children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years. +003:015 But when the children of Israel cried to Yahweh, Yahweh raised + them up a savior, Ehud the son of Gera, the Benjamite, + a man left-handed. The children of Israel sent tribute by him + to Eglon the king of Moab. +003:016 Ehud made him a sword which had two edges, a cubit in length; + and he girded it under his clothing on his right thigh. +003:017 He offered the tribute to Eglon king of Moab: now Eglon was + a very fat man. +003:018 When he had made an end of offering the tribute, he sent away + the people who bore the tribute. +003:019 But he himself turned back from the quarries that were by Gilgal, + and said, I have a secret errand to you, king. He said, + Keep silence. All who stood by him went out from him. +003:020 Ehud came to him; and he was sitting by himself alone in the cool + upper room. Ehud said, I have a message from God to you. + He arose out of his seat. +003:021 Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the sword from his + right thigh, and thrust it into his body: +003:022 and the haft also went in after the blade; and the fat closed + on the blade, for he didn't draw the sword out of his body; + and it came out behind. +003:023 Then Ehud went forth into the porch, and shut the doors + of the upper room on him, and locked them. +003:024 Now when he was gone out, his servants came; and they saw, + and behold, the doors of the upper room were locked; and they said, + Surely he is covering his feet in the upper chamber. +003:025 They waited until they were ashamed; and behold, he didn't open + the doors of the upper room: therefore they took the key, + and opened [them], and behold, their lord was fallen down dead + on the earth. +003:026 Ehud escaped while they waited, and passed beyond the quarries, + and escaped to Seirah. +003:027 It happened, when he had come, that he blew a trumpet in + the hill country of Ephraim; and the children of Israel went + down with him from the hill country, and he before them. +003:028 He said to them, Follow after me; for Yahweh has delivered your + enemies the Moabites into your hand. They went down after him, + and took the fords of the Jordan against the Moabites, + and didn't allow a man to pass over. +003:029 They struck of Moab at that time about ten thousand men, + every lusty man, and every man of valor; and there escaped + not a man. +003:030 So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. + The land had rest eighty years. +003:031 After him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who struck + of the Philistines six hundred men with an oxgoad: + and he also saved Israel. +004:001 The children of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight + of Yahweh, when Ehud was dead. +004:002 Yahweh sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, + who reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose army was Sisera, + who lived in Harosheth of the Gentiles. +004:003 The children of Israel cried to Yahweh: for he had nine hundred + chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed + the children of Israel. +004:004 Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, she judged + Israel at that time. +004:005 She lived under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel + in the hill country of Ephraim: and the children of Israel + came up to her for judgment. +004:006 She sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of + Kedesh Naphtali, and said to him, Hasn't Yahweh, the God + of Israel, commanded, [saying], Go and draw to Mount Tabor, + and take with you ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali + and of the children of Zebulun? +004:007 I will draw to you, to the river Kishon, Sisera, the captain + of Jabin's army, with his chariots and his multitude; + and I will deliver him into your hand. +004:008 Barak said to her, If you will go with me, then I will go; + but if you will not go with me, I will not go. +004:009 She said, I will surely go with you: notwithstanding, the journey + that you take shall not be for your honor; for Yahweh + will sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. Deborah arose, + and went with Barak to Kedesh. +004:010 Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali together to Kedesh; + and there went up ten thousand men at his feet: + and Deborah went up with him. +004:011 Now Heber the Kenite had separated himself from the Kenites, + even from the children of Hobab the brother-in-law of Moses, + and had pitched his tent as far as the oak in Zaanannim, + which is by Kedesh. +004:012 They told Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam was gone up + to Mount Tabor. +004:013 Sisera gathered together all his chariots, even nine hundred + chariots of iron, and all the people who were with him, + from Harosheth of the Gentiles, to the river Kishon. +004:014 Deborah said to Barak, Up; for this is the day in which Yahweh has + delivered Sisera into your hand; hasn't Yahweh gone out before you? + So Barak went down from Mount Tabor, and ten thousand + men after him. +004:015 Yahweh confused Sisera, and all his chariots, and all his army, + with the edge of the sword before Barak; and Sisera alighted + from his chariot, and fled away on his feet. +004:016 But Barak pursued after the chariots, and after the army, + to Harosheth of the Gentiles: and all the army of Sisera + fell by the edge of the sword; there was not a man left. +004:017 However Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael + the wife of Heber the Kenite; for there was peace between Jabin + the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite. +004:018 Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said to him, Turn in, my lord, + turn in to me; don't be afraid. He came in to her into the tent, + and she covered him with a rug. +004:019 He said to her, Please give me a little water to drink; + for I am thirsty. She opened a bottle of milk, and gave + him drink, and covered him. +004:020 He said to her, Stand in the door of the tent, and it shall be, + when any man does come and inquire of you, and say, Is there + any man here? that you shall say, No. +004:021 Then Jael Heber's wife took a tent peg, and took a hammer + in her hand, and went softly to him, and struck the pin + into his temples, and it pierced through into the ground; + for he was in a deep sleep; so he swooned and died. +004:022 Behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, + and said to him, Come, and I will show you the man whom you seek. + He came to her; and behold, Sisera lay dead, and the tent + peg was in his temples. +004:023 So God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan before + the children of Israel. +004:024 The hand of the children of Israel prevailed more and more + against Jabin the king of Canaan, until they had destroyed + Jabin king of Canaan. +005:001 Then Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam sang on that day, saying, +005:002 Because the leaders took the lead in Israel, because the people + offered themselves willingly, be blessed, Yahweh! +005:003 Hear, you kings! Give ear, you princes! I, [even] I, + will sing to Yahweh. I will sing praise to Yahweh, + the God of Israel. +005:004 Yahweh, when you went forth out of Seir, when you marched out + of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, the sky also dropped. + Yes, the clouds dropped water. +005:005 The mountains quaked at the presence of Yahweh, even Sinai, + at the presence of Yahweh, the God of Israel. +005:006 In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, + the highways were unoccupied. The travelers walked through byways. +005:007 The rulers ceased in Israel. They ceased until I, Deborah, arose; + Until I arose a mother in Israel. +005:008 They chose new gods. Then war was in the gates. Was there + a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel? +005:009 My heart is toward the governors of Israel, who offered + themselves willingly among the people. Bless Yahweh! +005:010 Tell [of it], you who ride on white donkeys, you who sit + on rich carpets, and you who walk by the way. +005:011 Far from the noise of archers, in the places of drawing + water, there they will rehearse the righteous acts + of Yahweh, [Even] the righteous acts of his rule in Israel. + Then the people of Yahweh went down to the gates. +005:012 Awake, awake, Deborah! Awake, awake, utter a song! + Arise, Barak, and lead away your captives, you son of Abinoam. +005:013 Then a remnant of the nobles [and] the people came down. + Yahweh came down for me against the mighty. +005:014 Those whose root is in Amalek came out of Ephraim, after you, + Benjamin, among your peoples. Governors come down out of Machir. + Those who handle the marshal's staff came out of Zebulun. +005:015 The princes of Issachar were with Deborah. As was Issachar, + so was Barak. They rushed into the valley at his feet. + By the watercourses of Reuben, there were great resolves of heart. +005:016 Why did you sit among the sheepfolds, To hear the whistling + for the flocks? At the watercourses of Reuben There were + great searchings of heart. +005:017 Gilead lived beyond the Jordan. Why did Dan remain in ships? + Asher sat still at the haven of the sea, and lived by his creeks. +005:018 Zebulun was a people that jeopardized their lives to the deaths; + Naphtali also, on the high places of the field. +005:019 The kings came and fought, then the kings of Canaan fought at + Taanach by the waters of Megiddo. They took no plunder of silver. +005:020 From the sky the stars fought. From their courses, + they fought against Sisera. +005:021 The river Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, + the river Kishon. My soul, march on with strength. +005:022 Then the horse hoofs stamped because of the prancings, + the prancings of their strong ones. +005:023 Curse Meroz, said the angel of Yahweh. Curse bitterly + its inhabitants, because they didn't come to help Yahweh, + to help Yahweh against the mighty. +005:024 Jael shall be blessed above women, the wife of Heber the Kenite; + blessed shall she be above women in the tent. +005:025 He asked for water. She gave him milk. She brought him butter + in a lordly dish. +005:026 She put her hand to the tent peg, and her right hand to + the workmen's hammer. With the hammer she struck Sisera. + She struck through his head. Yes, she pierced and struck + through his temples. +005:027 At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay. At her feet he bowed, + he fell. Where he bowed, there he fell down dead. +005:028 Through the window she looked out, and cried: Sisera's mother + looked through the lattice. Why is his chariot so long in coming? + Why do the wheels of his chariots wait? +005:029 Her wise ladies answered her, Yes, she returned answer to herself, +005:030 Have they not found, have they not divided the spoil? A lady, + two ladies to every man; to Sisera a spoil of dyed garments, + A spoil of dyed garments embroidered, Of dyed garments + embroidered on both sides, on the necks of the spoil? +005:031 So let all your enemies perish, Yahweh, but let those who love + him be as the sun when it rises forth in its strength. + The land had rest forty years. +006:001 The children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight + of Yahweh: and Yahweh delivered them into the hand of + Midian seven years. +006:002 The hand of Midian prevailed against Israel; and because of + Midian the children of Israel made them the dens which are + in the mountains, and the caves, and the strongholds. +006:003 So it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, + and the Amalekites, and the children of the east; they came + up against them; +006:004 and they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase + of the earth, until you come to Gaza, and left no sustenance + in Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor donkey. +006:005 For they came up with their livestock and their tents; + they came in as locusts for multitude; both they and their + camels were without number: and they came into the land + to destroy it. +006:006 Israel was brought very low because of Midian; and the children + of Israel cried to Yahweh. +006:007 It happened, when the children of Israel cried to Yahweh + because of Midian, +006:008 that Yahweh sent a prophet to the children of Israel: + and he said to them, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, I + brought you up from Egypt, and brought you forth out of + the house of bondage; +006:009 and I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, + and out of the hand of all who oppressed you, and drove them + out from before you, and gave you their land; +006:010 and I said to you, I am Yahweh your God; you shall not + fear the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. + But you have not listened to my voice. +006:011 The angel of Yahweh came, and sat under the oak which + was in Ophrah, that pertained to Joash the Abiezrite: + and his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the winepress, + to hide it from the Midianites. +006:012 The angel of Yahweh appeared to him, and said to him, + Yahweh is with you, you mighty man of valor. +006:013 Gideon said to him, Oh, my lord, if Yahweh is with us, why then + has all this happened to us? and where are all his wondrous + works which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not Yahweh + bring us up from Egypt? but now Yahweh has cast us off, + and delivered us into the hand of Midian. +006:014 Yahweh looked at him, and said, Go in this your might, + and save Israel from the hand of Midian: have not I sent you? +006:015 He said to him, Oh, Lord, with which shall I save Israel? behold, + my family is the poorest in Manasseh, and I am the least + in my father's house. +006:016 Yahweh said to him, Surely I will be with you, and you shall + strike the Midianites as one man. +006:017 He said to him, If now I have found favor in your sight, + then show me a sign that it is you who talk with me. +006:018 Please don't go away, until I come to you, and bring out + my present, and lay it before you. He said, I will wait + until you come again. +006:019 Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and unleavened cakes + of an ephah of meal: the flesh he put in a basket, and he put + the broth in a pot, and brought it out to him under the oak, + and presented it. +006:020 The angel of God said to him, Take the flesh and the unleavened + cakes, and lay them on this rock, and pour out the broth. + He did so. +006:021 Then the angel of Yahweh put forth the end of the staff that was + in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes; + and there went up fire out of the rock, and consumed the flesh + and the unleavened cakes; and the angel of Yahweh departed + out of his sight. +006:022 Gideon saw that he was the angel of Yahweh; and Gideon said, + Alas, Lord Yahweh! because I have seen the angel of Yahweh + face to face. +006:023 Yahweh said to him, Peace be to you; don't be afraid: + you shall not die. +006:024 Then Gideon built an altar there to Yahweh, and called it + Yahweh is Peace{or, Yahweh Shalom}: to this day it is still + in Ophrah of the Abiezrites. +006:025 It happened the same night, that Yahweh said to him, + Take your father's bull, even the second bull seven years old, + and throw down the altar of Baal that your father has, + and cut down the Asherah that is by it; +006:026 and build an altar to Yahweh your God on the top of this stronghold, + in the orderly manner, and take the second bull, and offer + a burnt offering with the wood of the Asherah which you + shall cut down. +006:027 Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as Yahweh + had spoken to him: and it happened, because he feared his + father's household and the men of the city, so that he could + not do it by day, that he did it by night. +006:028 When the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold, + the altar of Baal was broken down, and the Asherah was cut + down that was by it, and the second bull was offered on + the altar that was built. +006:029 They said one to another, Who has done this thing? + When they inquired and asked, they said, Gideon the son + of Joash has done this thing. +006:030 Then the men of the city said to Joash, Bring out your son, + that he may die, because he has broken down the altar of Baal, + and because he has cut down the Asherah that was by it. +006:031 Joash said to all who stood against him, Will you contend + for Baal? Or will you save him? he who will contend for him, + let him be put to death while [it is yet] morning: + if he be a god, let him contend for himself, because one has + broken down his altar. +006:032 Therefore on that day he named him Jerubbaal, saying, Let Baal + contend against him, because he has broken down his altar. +006:033 Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the children + of the east assembled themselves together; and they passed over, + and encamped in the valley of Jezreel. +006:034 But the Spirit of Yahweh came on Gideon; and he blew a trumpet; + and Abiezer was gathered together after him. +006:035 He sent messengers throughout all Manasseh; and they also were + gathered together after him: and he sent messengers to Asher, + and to Zebulun, and to Naphtali; and they came up to meet them. +006:036 Gideon said to God, If you will save Israel by my hand, + as you have spoken, +006:037 behold, I will put a fleece of wool on the threshing floor; + if there be dew on the fleece only, and it be dry on all the ground, + then shall I know that you will save Israel by my hand, + as you have spoken. +006:038 It was so; for he rose up early on the next day, and pressed + the fleece together, and wrung the dew out of the fleece, + a bowl full of water. +006:039 Gideon said to God, Don't let your anger be kindled against me, + and I will speak but this once: Please let me make a trial + just this once with the fleece; let it now be dry only on + the fleece, and on all the ground let there be dew. +006:040 God did so that night: for it was dry on the fleece only, + and there was dew on all the ground. +007:001 Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people who were with him, + rose up early, and encamped beside the spring of Harod: + and the camp of Midian was on the north side of them, + by the hill of Moreh, in the valley. +007:002 Yahweh said to Gideon, The people who are with you are + too many for me to give the Midianites into their hand, + lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, My own hand + has saved me. +007:003 Now therefore proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whoever is + fearful and trembling, let him return and depart from Mount Gilead. + There returned of the people twenty-two thousand; and there + remained ten thousand. +007:004 Yahweh said to Gideon, The people are yet too many; bring them + down to the water, and I will try them for you there: + and it shall be, that of whom I tell you, This shall go with you, + the same shall go with you; and of whoever I tell you, + This shall not go with you, the same shall not go. +007:005 So he brought down the people to the water: and Yahweh said + to Gideon, Everyone who laps of the water with his tongue, + as a dog laps, him shall you set by himself; likewise everyone + who bows down on his knees to drink. +007:006 The number of those who lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, + was three hundred men: but all the rest of the people bowed + down on their knees to drink water. +007:007 Yahweh said to Gideon, By the three hundred men who lapped + will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into your hand; + and let all the people go every man to his place. +007:008 So the people took food in their hand, and their trumpets; + and he sent all the men of Israel every man to his tent, + but retained the three hundred men: and the camp of Midian + was beneath him in the valley. +007:009 It happened the same night, that Yahweh said to him, Arise, get you + down into the camp; for I have delivered it into your hand. +007:010 But if you fear to go down, go you with Purah your servant + down to the camp: +007:011 and you shall hear what they say; and afterward shall + your hands be strengthened to go down into the camp. + Then went he down with Purah his servant to the outermost + part of the armed men who were in the camp. +007:012 The Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of + the east lay along in the valley like locusts for multitude; + and their camels were without number, as the sand which is + on the seashore for multitude. +007:013 When Gideon had come, behold, there was a man telling a dream + to his fellow; and he said, Behold, I dreamed a dream; + and behold, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp + of Midian, and came to the tent, and struck it so that it fell, + and turned it upside down, so that the tent lay flat. +007:014 His fellow answered, This is nothing else save the sword + of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel: into his hand + God has delivered Midian, and all the army. +007:015 It was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, + and the interpretation of it, that he worshiped; and he returned + into the camp of Israel, and said, Arise; for Yahweh has + delivered into your hand the army of Midian. +007:016 He divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put + into the hands of all of them trumpets, and empty pitchers, + with torches within the pitchers. +007:017 He said to them, Look on me, and do likewise: and behold, + when I come to the outermost part of the camp, it shall be that, + as I do, so shall you do. +007:018 When I blow the trumpet, I and all who are with me, then blow + you the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say, + For Yahweh and for Gideon. +007:019 So Gideon, and the hundred men who were with him, + came to the outermost part of the camp in the beginning + of the middle watch, when they had but newly set the watch: + and they blew the trumpets, and broke in pieces the pitchers + that were in their hands. +007:020 The three companies blew the trumpets, and broke the pitchers, + and held the torches in their left hands, and the trumpets + in their right hands with which to blow; and they cried, + The sword of Yahweh and of Gideon. +007:021 They stood every man in his place round about the camp; + and all the army ran; and they shouted, and put [them] to flight. +007:022 They blew the three hundred trumpets, and Yahweh set every + man's sword against his fellow, and against all the army; + and the army fled as far as Beth Shittah toward Zererah, + as far as the border of Abel Meholah, by Tabbath. +007:023 The men of Israel were gathered together out of Naphtali, and out + of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued after Midian. +007:024 Gideon sent messengers throughout all the hill country + of Ephraim, saying, Come down against Midian, and take before + them the waters, as far as Beth Barah, even the Jordan. + So all the men of Ephraim were gathered together, and took + the waters as far as Beth Barah, even the Jordan. +007:025 They took the two princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb; + and they killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and Zeeb they + killed at the winepress of Zeeb, and pursued Midian: + and they brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon + beyond the Jordan. +008:001 The men of Ephraim said to him, Why have you served us thus, that you + didn't call us, when you went to fight with Midian? They did + chide with him sharply. +008:002 He said to them, What have I now done in comparison with you? + Isn't the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than + the vintage of Abiezer? +008:003 God has delivered into your hand the princes of Midian, Oreb + and Zeeb: and what was I able to do in comparison with you? + Then their anger was abated toward him, when he had said that. +008:004 Gideon came to the Jordan, [and] passed over, he, and the three + hundred men who were with him, faint, yet pursuing. +008:005 He said to the men of Succoth, Please give loaves of bread + to the people who follow me; for they are faint, and I am + pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian. +008:006 The princes of Succoth said, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna + now in your hand, that we should give bread to your army? +008:007 Gideon said, Therefore when Yahweh has delivered Zebah and Zalmunna + into my hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns + of the wilderness and with briers. +008:008 He went up there to Penuel, and spoke to them in like manner; + and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of + Succoth had answered. +008:009 He spoke also to the men of Penuel, saying, When I come again + in peace, I will break down this tower. +008:010 Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their armies with them, + about fifteen thousand men, all who were left of all the army + of the children of the east; for there fell one hundred twenty + thousand men who drew sword. +008:011 Gideon went up by the way of those who lived in tents + on the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and struck the army; + for the army was secure. +008:012 Zebah and Zalmunna fled; and he pursued after them; + and he took the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, + and confused all the army. +008:013 Gideon the son of Joash returned from the battle from + the ascent of Heres. +008:014 He caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and inquired of him: + and he described for him the princes of Succoth, and the elders + of it, seventy-seven men. +008:015 He came to the men of Succoth, and said, See Zebah and Zalmunna, + concerning whom you did taunt me, saying, Are the hands + of Zebah and Zalmunna now in your hand, that we should give + bread to your men who are weary? +008:016 He took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness + and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth. +008:017 He broke down the tower of Penuel, and killed the men of the city. +008:018 Then said he to Zebah and Zalmunna, What manner of men were + they whom you killed at Tabor? They answered, As you are, + so were they; each one resembled the children of a king. +008:019 He said, They were my brothers, the sons of my mother: + as Yahweh lives, if you had saved them alive, I would + not kill you. +008:020 He said to Jether his firstborn, Up, and kill them. + But the youth didn't draw his sword; for he feared, + because he was yet a youth. +008:021 Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, Rise you, and fall on us; + for as the man is, so is his strength. Gideon arose, + and killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and took the crescents that + were on their camels' necks. +008:022 Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, Rule you over us, + both you, and your son, and your son's son also; for you + have saved us out of the hand of Midian. +008:023 Gideon said to them, I will not rule over you, neither shall + my son rule over you: Yahweh shall rule over you. +008:024 Gideon said to them, I would make a request of you, + that you would give me every man the earrings of his spoil. + (For they had golden earrings, because they were Ishmaelites.) +008:025 They answered, We will willingly give them. They spread a garment, + and did cast therein every man the earrings of his spoil. +008:026 The weight of the golden earrings that he requested was one thousand + and seven hundred [shekels] of gold, besides the crescents, + and the pendants, and the purple clothing that was on + the kings of Midian, and besides the chains that were about + their camels' necks. +008:027 Gideon made an ephod of it, and put it in his city, even in Ophrah: + and all Israel played the prostitute after it there; + and it became a snare to Gideon, and to his house. +008:028 So Midian was subdued before the children of Israel, and they + lifted up their heads no more. The land had rest forty years + in the days of Gideon. +008:029 Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and lived in his own house. +008:030 Gideon had seventy sons conceived from his body; + for he had many wives. +008:031 His concubine who was in Shechem, she also bore him a son, + and he named him Abimelech. +008:032 Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried + in the tomb of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites. +008:033 It happened, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of + Israel turned again, and played the prostitute after the Baals, + and made Baal Berith their god. +008:034 The children of Israel didn't remember Yahweh their God, + who had delivered them out of the hand of all their enemies + on every side; +008:035 neither shown they kindness to the house of Jerubbaal, + [who is] Gideon, according to all the goodness which he had + shown to Israel. +009:001 Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem to his + mother's brothers, and spoke with them, and with all the family + of the house of his mother's father, saying, +009:002 Please speak in the ears of all the men of Shechem, Whether is + better for you, that all the sons of Jerubbaal, who are + seventy persons, rule over you, or that one rule over you? + Remember also that I am your bone and your flesh. +009:003 His mother's brothers spoke of him in the ears of all the men + of Shechem all these words: and their hearts inclined + to follow Abimelech; for they said, He is our brother. +009:004 They gave him seventy [pieces] of silver out of the house of + Baal Berith, with which Abimelech hired vain and light fellows, + who followed him. +009:005 He went to his father's house at Ophrah, and killed his brothers + the sons of Jerubbaal, being seventy persons, on one stone: + but Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left; + for he hid himself. +009:006 All the men of Shechem assembled themselves together, + and all the house of Millo, and went and made Abimelech king, + by the oak of the pillar that was in Shechem. +009:007 When they told it to Jotham, he went and stood on the top + of Mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, and cried, + and said to them, Listen to me, you men of Shechem, that God + may listen to you. +009:008 The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; + and they said to the olive tree, Reign you over us. +009:009 But the olive tree said to them, Should I leave my fatness, + with which by me they honor God and man, and go to wave back + and forth over the trees? +009:010 The trees said to the fig tree, Come you, and reign over us. +009:011 But the fig tree said to them, Should I leave my sweetness, + and my good fruit, and go to wave back and forth over the trees? +009:012 The trees said to the vine, Come you, and reign over us. +009:013 The vine said to them, Should I leave my new wine, which cheers + God and man, and go to wave back and forth over the trees? +009:014 Then said all the trees to the bramble, Come you, + and reign over us. +009:015 The bramble said to the trees, If in truth you anoint me + king over you, then come and take refuge in my shade; + and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour + the cedars of Lebanon. +009:016 Now therefore, if you have dealt truly and righteously, + in that you have made Abimelech king, and if you have dealt + well with Jerubbaal and his house, and have done to him + according to the deserving of his hands +009:017 (for my father fought for you, and adventured his life, + and delivered you out of the hand of Midian: +009:018 and you are risen up against my father's house this day, + and have slain his sons, seventy persons, on one stone, + and have made Abimelech, the son of his female servant, + king over the men of Shechem, because he is your brother); +009:019 if you then have dealt truly and righteously with Jerubbaal + and with his house this day, then rejoice you in Abimelech, + and let him also rejoice in you: +009:020 but if not, let fire come out from Abimelech, and devour + the men of Shechem, and the house of Millo; and let fire come + out from the men of Shechem, and from the house of Millo, + and devour Abimelech. +009:021 Jotham ran away, and fled, and went to Beer, and lived there, + for fear of Abimelech his brother. +009:022 Abimelech was prince over Israel three years. +009:023 God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of Shechem; + and the men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech: +009:024 that the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come, + and that their blood might be laid on Abimelech their brother, + who killed them, and on the men of Shechem, who strengthened + his hands to kill his brothers. +009:025 The men of Shechem set an ambush for him on the tops of the mountains, + and they robbed all who came along that way by them: + and it was told Abimelech. +009:026 Gaal the son of Ebed came with his brothers, and went over + to Shechem; and the men of Shechem put their trust in him. +009:027 They went out into the field, and gathered their vineyards, + and trod [the grapes], and held festival, and went into the house + of their god, and did eat and drink, and cursed Abimelech. +009:028 Gaal the son of Ebed said, Who is Abimelech, and who is Shechem, + that we should serve him? Isn't he the son of Jerubbaal? and Zebul + his officer? serve you the men of Hamor the father of Shechem: + but why should we serve him? +009:029 Would that this people were under my hand! then would I + remove Abimelech. He said to Abimelech, Increase your army, + and come out. +009:030 When Zebul the ruler of the city heard the words of Gaal + the son of Ebed, his anger was kindled. +009:031 He sent messengers to Abimelech craftily, saying, Behold, Gaal the + son of Ebed and his brothers are come to Shechem; and behold, + they constrain the city [to take part] against you. +009:032 Now therefore, up by night, you and the people who are with you, + and lie in wait in the field: +009:033 and it shall be, that in the morning, as soon as the sun is up, + you shall rise early, and rush on the city; and behold, + when he and the people who are with him come out against you, + then may you do to them as you shall find occasion. +009:034 Abimelech rose up, and all the people who were with him, by night, + and they laid wait against Shechem in four companies. +009:035 Gaal the son of Ebed went out, and stood in the entrance of + the gate of the city: and Abimelech rose up, and the people + who were with him, from the ambush. +009:036 When Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, Behold, there come + people down from the tops of the mountains. Zebul said to him, + You see the shadow of the mountains as if they were men. +009:037 Gaal spoke again and said, Behold, there come people down + by the middle of the land, and one company comes by the way + of the oak of Meonenim. +009:038 Then said Zebul to him, Where is now your mouth, that you said, + Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him? is not this + the people that you have despised? go out now, I pray, + and fight with them. +009:039 Gaal went out before the men of Shechem, and fought with Abimelech. +009:040 Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him, and there fell + many wounded, even to the entrance of the gate. +009:041 Abimelech lived at Arumah: and Zebul drove out Gaal and + his brothers, that they should not dwell in Shechem. +009:042 It happened on the next day, that the people went out into the field; + and they told Abimelech. +009:043 He took the people, and divided them into three companies, + and laid wait in the field; and he looked, and behold, + the people came forth out of the city; He rose up against them, + and struck them. +009:044 Abimelech, and the companies that were with him, rushed forward, + and stood in the entrance of the gate of the city: + and the two companies rushed on all who were in the field, + and struck them. +009:045 Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took + the city, and killed the people who were therein: + and he beat down the city, and sowed it with salt. +009:046 When all the men of the tower of Shechem heard of it, + they entered into the stronghold of the house of Elberith. +009:047 It was told Abimelech that all the men of the tower of Shechem + were gathered together. +009:048 Abimelech got him up to Mount Zalmon, he and all the people + who were with him; and Abimelech took an axe in his hand, + and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it up, + and laid it on his shoulder: and he said to the people + who were with him, What you have seen me do, make haste, + and do as I have done. +009:049 All the people likewise cut down every man his bough, + and followed Abimelech, and put them to the stronghold, + and set the stronghold on fire on them; so that all the men + of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women. +009:050 Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, + and took it. +009:051 But there was a strong tower within the city, and there fled + all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut + themselves in, and got them up to the roof of the tower. +009:052 Abimelech came to the tower, and fought against it, and drew + near to the door of the tower to burn it with fire. +009:053 A certain woman cast an upper millstone on Abimelech's head, + and broke his skull. +009:054 Then he called hastily to the young man his armor bearer, + and said to him, Draw your sword, and kill me, that men not say + of me, A woman killed him. His young man thrust him through, + and he died. +009:055 When the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they departed + every man to his place. +009:056 Thus God requited the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did + to his father, in killing his seventy brothers; +009:057 and all the wickedness of the men of Shechem did God requite + on their heads: and on them came the curse of Jotham + the son of Jerubbaal. +010:001 After Abimelech there arose to save Israel Tola the son of Puah, + the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he lived in Shamir + in the hill country of Ephraim. +010:002 He judged Israel twenty-three years, and died, and was + buried in Shamir. +010:003 After him arose Jair, the Gileadite; and he judged + Israel twenty-two years. +010:004 He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkey colts, and they + had thirty cities, which are called Havvoth Jair to this day, + which are in the land of Gilead. +010:005 Jair died, and was buried in Kamon. +010:006 The children of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight + of Yahweh, and served the Baals, and the Ashtaroth, and the gods + of Syria, and the gods of Sidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods + of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines; + and they forsook Yahweh, and didn't serve him. +010:007 The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel, and he sold + them into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand + of the children of Ammon. +010:008 They vexed and oppressed the children of Israel that year: + eighteen years [oppressed they] all the children of Israel + that were beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorites, + which is in Gilead. +010:009 The children of Ammon passed over the Jordan to fight also + against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house + of Ephraim; so that Israel was sore distressed. +010:010 The children of Israel cried to Yahweh, saying, We have + sinned against you, even because we have forsaken our God, + and have served the Baals. +010:011 Yahweh said to the children of Israel, Didn't I save you from + the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon, + and from the Philistines? +010:012 The Sidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, + did oppress you; and you cried to me, and I saved you out + of their hand. +010:013 Yet you have forsaken me, and served other gods: + therefore I will save you no more. +010:014 Go and cry to the gods which you have chosen; let them save + you in the time of your distress. +010:015 The children of Israel said to Yahweh, We have sinned: + do you to us whatever seems good to you; only deliver us, + we pray you, this day. +010:016 They put away the foreign gods from among them, and served Yahweh; + and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel. +010:017 Then the children of Ammon were gathered together, and encamped + in Gilead. The children of Israel assembled themselves together, + and encamped in Mizpah. +010:018 The people, the princes of Gilead, said one to another, + What man is he who will begin to fight against the children + of Ammon? he shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead. +011:001 Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valor, + and he was the son of a prostitute: and Gilead became + the father of Jephthah. +011:002 Gilead's wife bore him sons; and when his wife's sons grew up, + they drove out Jephthah, and said to him, You shall not inherit + in our father's house; for you are the son of another woman. +011:003 Then Jephthah fled from his brothers, and lived in the land of Tob: + and there were gathered vain fellows to Jephthah, and they + went out with him. +011:004 It happened after a while, that the children of Ammon made + war against Israel. +011:005 It was so, that when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, + the elders of Gilead went to get Jephthah out of the land of Tob; +011:006 and they said to Jephthah, Come and be our chief, that we + may fight with the children of Ammon. +011:007 Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, Didn't you hate me, + and drive me out of my father's house? and why are you come + to me now when you are in distress? +011:008 The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, Therefore are we + turned again to you now, that you may go with us, and fight + with the children of Ammon; and you shall be our head over + all the inhabitants of Gilead. +011:009 Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, If you bring me home + again to fight with the children of Ammon, and Yahweh deliver + them before me, shall I be your head? +011:010 The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, Yahweh shall be witness + between us; surely according to your word so will we do. +011:011 Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people + made him head and chief over them: and Jephthah spoke all + his words before Yahweh in Mizpah. +011:012 Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the children of Ammon, + saying, What have you to do with me, that you are come to me + to fight against my land? +011:013 The king of the children of Ammon answered to the messengers + of Jephthah, Because Israel took away my land, when he came up out + of Egypt, from the Arnon even to the Jabbok, and to the Jordan: + now therefore restore those [lands] again peaceably. +011:014 Jephthah sent messengers again to the king of the children of Ammon; +011:015 and he said to him, Thus says Jephthah: Israel didn't take + away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon, +011:016 but when they came up from Egypt, and Israel went + through the wilderness to the Red Sea{or, Sea of Reeds}, + and came to Kadesh; +011:017 then Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, Please let + me pass through your land; but the king of Edom didn't listen. + In the same way, he sent to the king of Moab; but he would not: + and Israel abode in Kadesh. +011:018 Then they went through the wilderness, and went around the land + of Edom, and the land of Moab, and came by the east side + of the land of Moab, and they encamped on the other side + of the Arnon; but they didn't come within the border of Moab, + for the Arnon was the border of Moab. +011:019 Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, + the king of Heshbon; and Israel said to him, Let us pass, + we pray you, through your land to my place. +011:020 But Sihon didn't trust Israel to pass through his border; + but Sihon gathered all his people together, and encamped in Jahaz, + and fought against Israel. +011:021 Yahweh, the God of Israel, delivered Sihon and all his + people into the hand of Israel, and they struck them: + so Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants + of that country. +011:022 They possessed all the border of the Amorites, from the Arnon + even to the Jabbok, and from the wilderness even to the Jordan. +011:023 So now Yahweh, the God of Israel, has dispossessed the Amorites + from before his people Israel, and should you possess them? +011:024 Won't you possess that which Chemosh your god gives you to possess? + So whoever Yahweh our God has dispossessed from before us, + them will we possess. +011:025 Now are you anything better than Balak the son of Zippor, + king of Moab? did he ever strive against Israel, or did + he ever fight against them? +011:026 While Israel lived in Heshbon and its towns, and in Aroer + and its towns, and in all the cities that are along by the side + of the Arnon, three hundred years; why didn't you recover + them within that time? +011:027 I therefore have not sinned against you, but you do me wrong + to war against me: Yahweh, the Judge, be judge this day + between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon. +011:028 However the king of the children of Ammon didn't listen + to the words of Jephthah which he sent him. +011:029 Then the Spirit of Yahweh came on Jephthah, and he passed + over Gilead and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead, + and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over to the children of Ammon. +011:030 Jephthah vowed a vow to Yahweh, and said, If you will indeed + deliver the children of Ammon into my hand, +011:031 then it shall be, that whatever comes forth from the doors + of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children + of Ammon, it shall be Yahweh's, and I will offer it up + for a burnt offering. +011:032 So Jephthah passed over to the children of Ammon to fight + against them; and Yahweh delivered them into his hand. +011:033 He struck them from Aroer until you come to Minnith, even twenty + cities, and to Abelcheramim, with a very great slaughter. + So the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel. +011:034 Jephthah came to Mizpah to his house; and behold, his daughter + came out to meet him with tambourines and with dances: + and she was his only child; besides her he had neither + son nor daughter. +011:035 It happened, when he saw her, that he tore his clothes, + and said, Alas, my daughter! you have brought me very low, + and you are one of those who trouble me; for I have opened + my mouth to Yahweh, and I can't go back. +011:036 She said to him, My father, you have opened your mouth to Yahweh; + do to me according to that which has proceeded out of your mouth, + because Yahweh has taken vengeance for you on your enemies, + even on the children of Ammon. +011:037 She said to her father, Let this thing be done for me: + let me alone two months, that I may depart and go down on + the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my companions. +011:038 He said, Go. He sent her away for two months: + and she departed, she and her companions, and mourned her + virginity on the mountains. +011:039 It happened at the end of two months, that she returned to her father, + who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed: + and she was a virgin. It was a custom in Israel, +011:040 that the daughters of Israel went yearly to celebrate the daughter + of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year. +012:001 The men of Ephraim were gathered together, and passed northward; + and they said to Jephthah, Why did you pass over to fight + against the children of Ammon, and didn't call us to go + with you? we will burn your house on you with fire. +012:002 Jephthah said to them, I and my people were at great strife + with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, you didn't + save me out of their hand. +012:003 When I saw that you didn't save me, I put my life in my hand, + and passed over against the children of Ammon, and Yahweh + delivered them into my hand: why then are you come up to me + this day, to fight against me? +012:004 Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, + and fought with Ephraim; and the men of Gilead struck Ephraim, + because they said, You are fugitives of Ephraim, you Gileadites, + in the midst of Ephraim, [and] in the midst of Manasseh. +012:005 The Gileadites took the fords of the Jordan against the Ephraimites. + It was so, that when [any of] the fugitives of Ephraim said, + Let me go over, the men of Gilead said to him, Are you + an Ephraimite? If he said, No; +012:006 then said they to him, Say now Shibboleth; and he said Sibboleth; + for he couldn't manage to pronounce it right: then they laid + hold on him, and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. + There fell at that time of Ephraim forty-two thousand. +012:007 Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then died Jephthah the Gileadite, + and was buried in [one of] the cities of Gilead. +012:008 After him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel. +012:009 He had thirty sons; and thirty daughters he sent abroad, + and thirty daughters he brought in from abroad for his sons. + He judged Israel seven years. +012:010 Ibzan died, and was buried at Bethlehem. +012:011 After him Elon the Zebulunite judged Israel; and he judged + Israel ten years. +012:012 Elon the Zebulunite died, and was buried in Aijalon in the + land of Zebulun. +012:013 After him Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite judged Israel. +012:014 He had forty sons and thirty sons' sons, who rode on seventy + donkey colts: and he judged Israel eight years. +012:015 Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and was buried + in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the hill country + of the Amalekites. +013:001 The children of Israel again did that which was evil in + the sight of Yahweh; and Yahweh delivered them into the hand + of the Philistines forty years. +013:002 There was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, + whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and didn't bear. +013:003 The angel of Yahweh appeared to the woman, and said to her, + See now, you are barren, and don't bear; but you shall conceive, + and bear a son. +013:004 Now therefore please beware and drink no wine nor strong drink, + and don't eat any unclean thing: +013:005 for, behold, you shall conceive, and bear a son; and no razor + shall come on his head; for the child shall be a Nazirite + to God from the womb: and he shall begin to save Israel + out of the hand of the Philistines. +013:006 Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of God + came to me, and his face was like the face of the angel + of God, very awesome; and I didn't ask him whence he was, + neither did he tell me his name: +013:007 but he said to me, Behold, you shall conceive, and bear a son; + and now drink no wine nor strong drink, and eat not any + unclean thing; for the child shall be a Nazirite to God + from the womb to the day of his death. +013:008 Then Manoah entreated Yahweh, and said, Oh, Lord, please let + the man of God whom you did send come again to us, and teach + us what we shall do to the child who shall be born. +013:009 God listened to the voice of Manoah; and the angel of God + came again to the woman as she sat in the field: + but Manoah, her husband, wasn't with her. +013:010 The woman made haste, and ran, and told her husband, and said + to him, Behold, the man has appeared to me, who came to me + the [other] day. +013:011 Manoah arose, and went after his wife, and came to the man, + and said to him, Are you the man who spoke to the woman? + He said, I am. +013:012 Manoah said, Now let your words happen: what shall be the ordering + of the child, and [how] shall we do to him? +013:013 The angel of Yahweh said to Manoah, Of all that I said + to the woman let her beware. +013:014 She may not eat of anything that comes of the vine, neither let + her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing; + all that I commanded her let her observe. +013:015 Manoah said to the angel of Yahweh, I pray you, let us detain you, + that we may make ready a kid for you. +013:016 The angel of Yahweh said to Manoah, Though you detain me, + I won't eat of your bread; and if you will make ready + a burnt offering, you must offer it to Yahweh. + For Manoah didn't know that he was the angel of Yahweh. +013:017 Manoah said to the angel of Yahweh, What is your name, + that when your words happen, we may honor you? +013:018 The angel of Yahweh said to him, Why do you ask after my name, + seeing it is wonderful? +013:019 So Manoah took the kid with the meal offering, and offered + it on the rock to Yahweh: and [the angel] did wondrously, + and Manoah and his wife looked on. +013:020 For it happened, when the flame went up toward the sky + from off the altar, that the angel of Yahweh ascended in + the flame of the altar: and Manoah and his wife looked on; + and they fell on their faces to the ground. +013:021 But the angel of Yahweh did no more appear to Manoah or to his wife. + Then Manoah knew that he was the angel of Yahweh. +013:022 Manoah said to his wife, We shall surely die, because we + have seen God. +013:023 But his wife said to him, If Yahweh were pleased to kill us, + he wouldn't have received a burnt offering and a meal offering + at our hand, neither would he have shown us all these things, + nor would at this time have told such things as these. +013:024 The woman bore a son, and named him Samson: and the child grew, + and Yahweh blessed him. +013:025 The Spirit of Yahweh began to move him in Mahaneh Dan, + between Zorah and Eshtaol. +014:001 Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah of + the daughters of the Philistines. +014:002 He came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, + I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines: + now therefore get her for me as wife. +014:003 Then his father and his mother said to him, Is there + never a woman among the daughters of your brothers, + or among all my people, that you go to take a wife of + the uncircumcised Philistines? Samson said to his father, + Get her for me; for she pleases me well. +014:004 But his father and his mother didn't know that it was of Yahweh; + for he sought an occasion against the Philistines. + Now at that time the Philistines had rule over Israel. +014:005 Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, + to Timnah, and came to the vineyards of Timnah: and behold, + a young lion roared against him. +014:006 The Spirit of Yahweh came mightily on him, and he tore him + as he would have torn a kid; and he had nothing in his hand: + but he didn't tell his father or his mother what he had done. +014:007 He went down, and talked with the woman, and she pleased Samson well. +014:008 After a while he returned to take her; and he turned aside + to see the carcass of the lion: and behold, there was a swarm + of bees in the body of the lion, and honey. +014:009 He took it into his hands, and went on, eating as he went; + and he came to his father and mother, and gave to them, + and they ate: but he didn't tell them that he had taken + the honey out of the body of the lion. +014:010 His father went down to the woman: and Samson made there a feast; + for so used the young men to do. +014:011 It happened, when they saw him, that they brought thirty + companions to be with him. +014:012 Samson said to them, Let me now put forth a riddle to you: + if you can declare it to me within the seven days of the feast, + and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments + and thirty changes of clothing; +014:013 but if you can't declare it to me, then shall you give me + thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing. + They said to him, Put forth your riddle, that we may hear it. +014:014 He said to them, Out of the eater came forth food. + Out of the strong came forth sweetness. They couldn't + in three days declare the riddle. +014:015 It happened on the seventh day, that they said to Samson's wife, + Entice your husband, that he may declare to us the riddle, + lest we burn you and your father's house with fire: + have you called us to impoverish us? is it not [so]? +014:016 Samson's wife wept before him, and said, You do but hate me, + and don't love me: you have put forth a riddle + to the children of my people, and haven't told it me. + He said to her, Behold, I haven't told it my father nor my mother, + and shall I tell you? +014:017 She wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted: + and it happened on the seventh day, that he told her, + because she pressed him sore; and she told the riddle + to the children of her people. +014:018 The men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun + went down, What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than + a lion? He said to them, If you hadn't plowed with my heifer, + you wouldn't have found out my riddle. +014:019 The Spirit of Yahweh came mightily on him, and he went down + to Ashkelon, and struck thirty men of them, and took their spoil, + and gave the changes [of clothing] to those who declared the riddle. + His anger was kindled, and he went up to his father's house. +014:020 But Samson's wife was [given] to his companion, whom he had + used as his friend. +015:001 But it happened after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, + that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, + I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father + wouldn't allow him to go in. +015:002 Her father said, I most certainly thought that you had + utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to your companion: + isn't her younger sister more beautiful than she? + Please take her, instead. +015:003 Samson said to them, This time shall I be blameless in regard + of the Philistines, when I do them a mischief. +015:004 Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, + and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst + between every two tails. +015:005 When he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into + the standing grain of the Philistines, and burnt up both + the shocks and the standing grain, and also the olive groves. +015:006 Then the Philistines said, Who has done this? They said, Samson, + the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife, + and given her to his companion. The Philistines came up, + and burnt her and her father with fire. +015:007 Samson said to them, If you do after this manner, surely I + will be avenged of you, and after that I will cease. +015:008 He struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: + and he went down and lived in the cleft of the rock of Etam. +015:009 Then the Philistines went up, and encamped in Judah, and spread + themselves in Lehi. +015:010 The men of Judah said, Why are you come up against us? + They said, To bind Samson are we come up, to do to him + as he has done to us. +015:011 Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock + of Etam, and said to Samson, "Don't you know that the Philistines + are rulers over us? What then is this that you have done to us?" + He said to them, As they did to me, so have I done to them. +015:012 They said to him, We have come down to bind you, that we + may deliver you into the hand of the Philistines. + Samson said to them, Swear to me that you will not fall + on me yourselves. +015:013 They spoke to him, saying, No; but we will bind you fast, + and deliver you into their hand: but surely we will not kill you. + They bound him with two new ropes, and brought him up + from the rock. +015:014 When he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him: + and the Spirit of Yahweh came mightily on him, and the ropes + that were on his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, + and his bands dropped from off his hands. +015:015 He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, and put forth his hand, + and took it, and struck a thousand men therewith. +015:016 Samson said, With the jawbone of a donkey, heaps on heaps, + With the jawbone of a donkey I have struck a thousand men. +015:017 It happened, when he had made an end of speaking, that he cast + away the jawbone out of his hand; and that place was + called Ramath Lehi. +015:018 He was very thirsty, and called on Yahweh, and said, You have + given this great deliverance by the hand of your servant; + and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand + of the uncircumcised. +015:019 But God split the hollow place that is in Lehi, and water came out + of it. When he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: + therefore the name of it was called En Hakkore, which is in Lehi, + to this day. +015:020 He judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years. +016:001 Samson went to Gaza, and saw there a prostitute, and went + in to her. +016:002 [It was told] the Gazites, saying, Samson is come here. + They compassed him in, and laid wait for him all night in the gate + of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, [Let be] + until morning light, then we will kill him. +016:003 Samson lay until midnight, and arose at midnight, and laid + hold of the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, + and plucked them up, bar and all, and put them on his shoulders, + and carried them up to the top of the mountain that + is before Hebron. +016:004 It came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley + of Sorek, whose name was Delilah. +016:005 The lords of the Philistines came up to her, and said to her, + Entice him, and see in which his great strength lies, + and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind + him to afflict him: and we will each give you of us eleven + hundred [pieces] of silver. +016:006 Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, Please, in which your great + strength lies, and with which you might be bound to afflict you. +016:007 Samson said to her, If they bind me with seven green cords + that were never dried, then shall I become weak, and be + as another man. +016:008 Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green + cords which had not been dried, and she bound him with them. +016:009 Now she had an ambush waiting in the inner chamber. + She said to him, "The Philistines are on you, Samson!" He broke + the cords, as a string of tow is broken when it touches the fire. + So his strength was not known. +016:010 Delilah said to Samson, Behold, you have mocked me, and told me lies: + now tell me, Please, with which you might be bound. +016:011 He said to her, If they only bind me with new ropes with + which no work has been done, then shall I become weak, + and be as another man. +016:012 So Delilah took new ropes, and bound him therewith, + and said to him, The Philistines are on you, Samson. + The ambush was waiting in the inner chamber. He broke them + off his arms like a thread. +016:013 Delilah said to Samson, Hitherto you have mocked me, + and told me lies: tell me with which you might be bound. + He said to her, If you weave the seven locks of my head + with the web. +016:014 She fastened it with the pin, and said to him, The Philistines + are on you, Samson. He awakened out of his sleep, and plucked + away the pin of the beam, and the web. +016:015 She said to him, How can you say, I love you, when your heart + is not with me? you have mocked me these three times, + and have not told me in which your great strength lies. +016:016 It happened, when she pressed him daily with her words, + and urged him, that his soul was vexed to death. +016:017 He told her all his heart, and said to her, "No razor has ever + come on my head; for I have been a Nazirite to God from my + mother's womb. If I am shaved, then my strength will go from me, + and I will become weak, and be like any other man." +016:018 When Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, + she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, + Come up this once, for he has told me all his heart. + Then the lords of the Philistines came up to her, and brought + the money in their hand. +016:019 She made him sleep on her knees; and she called for a man, + and shaved off the seven locks of his head; and she began + to afflict him, and his strength went from him. +016:020 She said, The Philistines are on you, Samson. He awoke out + of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times, + and shake myself free. But he didn't know that Yahweh had + departed from him. +016:021 The Philistines laid hold on him, and put out his eyes; and they + brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; + and he ground at the mill in the prison. +016:022 However the hair of his head began to grow again after + he was shaved. +016:023 The lords of the Philistines gathered them together to offer + a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and to rejoice; + for they said, Our god has delivered Samson our enemy + into our hand. +016:024 When the people saw him, they praised their god; for they said, + Our god has delivered into our hand our enemy, and the destroyer + of our country, who has slain many of us. +016:025 It happened, when their hearts were merry, that they said, + Call for Samson, that he may make us sport. They called + for Samson out of the prison; and he made sport before them. + They set him between the pillars: +016:026 and Samson said to the boy who held him by the hand, Allow me + that I may feel the pillars whereupon the house rests, + that I may lean on them. +016:027 Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords + of the Philistines were there; and there were on the roof about + three thousand men and women, who saw while Samson made sport. +016:028 Samson called to Yahweh, and said, Lord Yahweh, remember me, + Please, and strengthen me, Please, only this once, God, that I + may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes. +016:029 Samson took hold of the two middle pillars on which the + house rested, and leaned on them, the one with his right hand, + and the other with his left. +016:030 Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. + He bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell + on the lords, and on all the people who were therein. + So the dead that he killed at his death were more than those + who he killed in his life. +016:031 Then his brothers and all the house of his father came down, + and took him, and brought him up, and buried him between + Zorah and Eshtaol in the burial site of Manoah his father. + He judged Israel twenty years. +017:001 There was a man of the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Micah. +017:002 He said to his mother, The eleven hundred [pieces] of silver + that were taken from you, about which you did utter a curse, + and did also speak it in my ears, behold, the silver is with me; + I took it. His mother said, Blessed be my son of Yahweh. +017:003 He restored the eleven hundred [pieces] of silver to his mother; + and his mother said, I most certainly dedicate the silver + to Yahweh from my hand for my son, to make an engraved image + and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it to you. +017:004 When he restored the money to his mother, his mother took + two hundred [pieces] of silver, and gave them to the founder, + who made of it an engraved image and a molten image: + and it was in the house of Micah. +017:005 The man Micah had a house of gods, and he made an ephod, and teraphim, + and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest. +017:006 In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did + that which was right in his own eyes. +017:007 There was a young man out of Bethlehem Judah, of the family + of Judah, who was a Levite; and he sojourned there. +017:008 The man departed out of the city, out of Bethlehem Judah, + to sojourn where he could find [a place], and he came + to the hill country of Ephraim to the house of Micah, + as he traveled. +017:009 Micah said to him, Whence come you? He said to him, I am + a Levite of Bethlehem Judah, and I go to sojourn where I + may find [a place]. +017:010 Micah said to him, Dwell with me, and be to me a father + and a priest, and I will give you ten [pieces] of silver + by the year, and a suit of clothing, and your food. + So the Levite went in. +017:011 The Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young + man was to him as one of his sons. +017:012 Micah consecrated the Levite, and the young man became his priest, + and was in the house of Micah. +017:013 Then said Micah, Now know I that Yahweh will do me good, + seeing I have a Levite to my priest. +018:001 In those days there was no king in Israel: and in those days + the tribe of the Danites sought them an inheritance to dwell in; + for to that day [their] inheritance had not fallen to them + among the tribes of Israel. +018:002 The children of Dan sent of their family five men from their + whole number, men of valor, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, + to spy out the land, and to search it; and they said to them, + Go, search the land. They came to the hill country of Ephraim, + to the house of Micah, and lodged there. +018:003 When they were by the house of Micah, they knew the voice + of the young man the Levite; and they turned aside there, + and said to him, Who brought you here? and what do you in this + place? and what have you here? +018:004 He said to them, Thus and thus has Micah dealt with me, + and he has hired me, and I am become his priest. +018:005 They said to him, Ask counsel, we pray you, of God, that we + may know whether our way which we go shall be prosperous. +018:006 The priest said to them, Go in peace: before Yahweh is your + way wherein you go. +018:007 Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw + the people who were therein, how they lived in security, + after the manner of the Sidonians, quiet and secure; + for there was none in the land, possessing authority, + that might put [them] to shame in anything, and they were far + from the Sidonians, and had no dealings with any man. +018:008 They came to their brothers to Zorah and Eshtaol: + and their brothers said to them, What [say] you? +018:009 They said, Arise, and let us go up against them; + for we have seen the land, and behold, it is very good: + and are you still? don't be slothful to go and to enter + in to possess the land. +018:010 When you go, you shall come to a people secure, and the land + is large; for God has given it into your hand, a place + where there is no want of anything that is in the earth. +018:011 There set forth from there of the family of the Danites, + out of Zorah and out of Eshtaol, six hundred men girt with + weapons of war. +018:012 They went up, and encamped in Kiriath Jearim, in Judah: + therefore they called that place Mahaneh Dan, to this day; + behold, it is behind Kiriath Jearim. +018:013 They passed there to the hill country of Ephraim, and came + to the house of Micah. +018:014 Then the five men who went to spy out the country of Laish answered, + and said to their brothers, Do you know that there is in + these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and an engraved image, + and a molten image? now therefore consider what you have to do. +018:015 They turned aside there, and came to the house of the young + man the Levite, even to the house of Micah, and asked him + of his welfare. +018:016 The six hundred men girt with their weapons of war, who were + of the children of Dan, stood by the entrance of the gate. +018:017 The five men who went to spy out the land went up, and came + in there, and took the engraved image, and the ephod, + and the teraphim, and the molten image: and the priest stood + by the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men girt + with weapons of war. +018:018 When these went into Micah's house, and fetched the engraved image, + the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image, the priest + said to them, What do you? +018:019 They said to him, Hold your peace, lay your hand on your mouth, + and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest: + is it better for you to be priest to the house of one man, + or to be priest to a tribe and a family in Israel? +018:020 The priest's heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and the teraphim, + and the engraved image, and went in the midst of the people. +018:021 So they turned and departed, and put the little ones and + the livestock and the goods before them. +018:022 When they were a good way from the house of Micah, the men who + were in the houses near to Micah's house were gathered together, + and overtook the children of Dan. +018:023 They cried to the children of Dan. They turned their faces, + and said to Micah, What ails you, that you come with + such a company? +018:024 He said, you have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest, + and are gone away, and what have I more? and how then say + you to me, What ails you? +018:025 The children of Dan said to him, "Don't let your voice be heard + among us, lest angry fellows fall on you, and you lose your life, + with the lives of your household." +018:026 The children of Dan went their way: and when Micah saw + that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back + to his house. +018:027 They took that which Micah had made, and the priest whom + he had, and came to Laish, to a people quiet and secure, + and struck them with the edge of the sword; and they burnt + the city with fire. +018:028 There was no deliverer, because it was far from Sidon, + and they had no dealings with any man; and it was in + the valley that lies by Beth Rehob. They built the city, + and lived therein. +018:029 They called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan + their father, who was born to Israel: however the name + of the city was Laish at the first. +018:030 The children of Dan set up for themselves the engraved image: + and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, he and his + sons were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the day + of the captivity of the land. +018:031 So they set them up Micah's engraved image which he made, + all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh. +019:001 It happened in those days, when there was no king in Israel, + that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the farther side + of the hill country of Ephraim, who took to him a concubine + out of Bethlehem Judah. +019:002 His concubine played the prostitute against him, and went + away from him to her father's house to Bethlehem Judah, + and was there the space of four months. +019:003 Her husband arose, and went after her, to speak kindly to her, + to bring her again, having his servant with him, and a couple + of donkeys: and she brought him into her father's house; + and when the father of the young lady saw him, he rejoiced + to meet him. +019:004 His father-in-law, the young lady's father, retained him; + and he abode with him three days: so they ate and drink, + and lodged there. +019:005 It happened on the fourth day, that they arose early in the morning, + and he rose up to depart: and the young lady's father said + to his son-in-law, Strengthen your heart with a morsel of bread, + and afterward you shall go your way. +019:006 So they sat down, ate, and drank, both of them together: + and the young lady's father said to the man, Please be pleased + to stay all night, and let your heart be merry. +019:007 The man rose up to depart; but his father-in-law urged him, + and he lodged there again. +019:008 He arose early in the morning on the fifth day to depart; + and the young lady's father said, Please strengthen your heart + and stay until the day declines; and they ate, both of them. +019:009 When the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, + and his servant, his father-in-law, the young lady's father, + said to him, Behold, now the day draws toward evening, + please stay all night: behold, the day grows to an end, + lodge here, that your heart may be merry; and tomorrow get + you early on your way, that you may go home. +019:010 But the man wouldn't stay that night, but he rose up and departed, + and came over against Jebus (the same is Jerusalem): + and there were with him a couple of donkeys saddled; + his concubine also was with him. +019:011 When they were by Jebus, the day was far spent; and the servant + said to his master, Please come and let us turn aside into + this city of the Jebusites, and lodge in it. +019:012 His master said to him, We won't turn aside into the city + of a foreigner, that is not of the children of Israel; + but we will pass over to Gibeah. +019:013 He said to his servant, Come and let us draw near to one + of these places; and we will lodge in Gibeah, or in Ramah. +019:014 So they passed on and went their way; and the sun went down + on them near to Gibeah, which belongs to Benjamin. +019:015 They turned aside there, to go in to lodge in Gibeah: + and he went in, and sat him down in the street of the city; + for there was no man who took them into his house to lodge. +019:016 Behold, there came an old man from his work out of the field at even: + now the man was of the hill country of Ephraim, and he sojourned + in Gibeah; but the men of the place were Benjamites. +019:017 He lifted up his eyes, and saw the wayfaring man in the street + of the city; and the old man said, Where go you? and + whence come you? +019:018 He said to him, We are passing from Bethlehem Judah to the farther + side of the hill country of Ephraim; from there am I, and I went + to Bethlehem Judah: and I am [now] going to the house of Yahweh; + and there is no man who takes me into his house. +019:019 Yet there is both straw and provender for our donkeys; + and there is bread and wine also for me, and for your handmaid, + and for the young man who is with your servants: + there is no want of anything. +019:020 The old man said, Peace be to you; howsoever let all your wants + lie on me; only don't lodge in the street. +019:021 So he brought him into his house, and gave the donkeys fodder; + and they washed their feet, and ate and drink. +019:022 As 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 who came into your house, + that we may know him. +019:023 The man, the master of the house, went out to them, and said + to them, No, my brothers, please don't act so wickedly; + seeing that this man is come into my house, don't do this folly. +019:024 Behold, here is my daughter a virgin, and his concubine; + them I will bring out now, and humble you them, and do + with them what seems good to you: but to this man don't + do any such folly. +019:025 But the men wouldn't listen to him: so the man laid hold + on his concubine, and brought her forth to them; and they + knew her, and abused her all the night until the morning: + and when the day began to spring, they let her go. +019:026 Then came the woman in the dawning of the day, and fell + down at the door of the man's house where her lord was, + until it was light. +019:027 Her lord rose up in the morning, and opened the doors of + the house, and went out to go his way; and behold, the woman + his concubine was fallen down at the door of the house, + with her hands on the threshold. +019:028 He said to her, Up, and let us be going; but none answered: + then he took her up on the donkey; and the man rose up, + and got him to his place. +019:029 When he was come into his house, he took a knife, and laid hold on + his concubine, and divided her, limb by limb, into twelve pieces, + and sent her throughout all the borders of Israel. +019:030 It was so, that all who saw it said, There was no such deed + done nor seen from the day that the children of Israel came + up out of the land of Egypt to this day: consider it, + take counsel, and speak. +020:001 Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation + was assembled as one man, from Dan even to Beersheba, + with the land of Gilead, to Yahweh at Mizpah. +020:002 The chiefs of all the people, even of all the tribes of Israel, + presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, + four hundred thousand footmen who drew sword. +020:003 (Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel + had gone up to Mizpah.) The children of Israel said, Tell us, + how was this wickedness brought to pass? +020:004 The Levite, the husband of the woman who was murdered, + answered, I came into Gibeah that belongs to Benjamin, I and + my concubine, to lodge. +020:005 The men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the house + round about me by night; me they thought to have slain, + and my concubine they forced, and she is dead. +020:006 I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her + throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel; + for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel. +020:007 Behold, you children of Israel, all of you, give here your + advice and counsel. +020:008 All the people arose as one man, saying, We will not any of us + go to his tent, neither will we any of us turn to his house. +020:009 But now this is the thing which we will do to Gibeah: + [we will go up] against it by lot; +020:010 and we will take ten men of one hundred throughout all + the tribes of Israel, and one hundred of one thousand, + and a thousand out of ten thousand, to get food for the people, + that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, + according to all the folly that they have worked in Israel. +020:011 So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, + knit together as one man. +020:012 The tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, + saying, What wickedness is this that is happen among you? +020:013 Now therefore deliver up the men, the base fellows, who are in Gibeah, + that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel. + But Benjamin would not listen to the voice of their brothers + the children of Israel. +020:014 The children of Benjamin gathered themselves together + out of the cities to Gibeah, to go out to battle against + the children of Israel. +020:015 The children of Benjamin were numbered on that day out + of the cities twenty-six thousand men who drew the sword, + besides the inhabitants of Gibeah, who were numbered seven + hundred chosen men. +020:016 Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen + men left-handed; everyone could sling stones at a hair-breadth, + and not miss. +020:017 The men of Israel, besides Benjamin, were numbered four hundred + thousand men who drew sword: all these were men of war. +020:018 The children of Israel arose, and went up to Bethel, and asked + counsel of God; and they said, Who shall go up for us first + to battle against the children of Benjamin? Yahweh said, + Judah [shall go up] first. +020:019 The children of Israel rose up in the morning, + and encamped against Gibeah. +020:020 The men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; + and the men of Israel set the battle in array against + them at Gibeah. +020:021 The children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, + and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites on that day + Twenty-two thousand men. +020:022 The people, the men of Israel, encouraged themselves, + and set the battle again in array in the place where they + set themselves in array the first day. +020:023 The children of Israel went up and wept before Yahweh until even; + and they asked of Yahweh, saying, Shall I again draw near + to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother? + Yahweh said, Go up against him. +020:024 The children of Israel came near against the children of Benjamin + the second day. +020:025 Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the second day, + and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel + again eighteen thousand men; all these drew the sword. +020:026 Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up, + and came to Bethel, and wept, and sat there before Yahweh, + and fasted that day until even; and they offered burnt + offerings and peace offerings before Yahweh. +020:027 The children of Israel asked of Yahweh (for the ark of the covenant + of God was there in those days, +020:028 and Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before + it in those days), saying, Shall I yet again go out to battle + against the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease? + Yahweh said, Go up; for tomorrow I will deliver him + into your hand. +020:029 Israel set ambushes all around Gibeah. +020:030 The children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin + on the third day, and set themselves in array against Gibeah, + as at other times. +020:031 The children of Benjamin went out against the people, + and were drawn away from the city; and they began to strike + and kill of the people, as at other times, in the highways, + of which one goes up to Bethel, and the other to Gibeah, + in the field, about thirty men of Israel. +020:032 The children of Benjamin said, They are struck down before us, + as at the first. But the children of Israel said, Let us flee, + and draw them away from the city to the highways. +020:033 All the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and set + themselves in array at Baal Tamar: and the ambushers of Israel + broke forth out of their place, even out of Maareh Geba. +020:034 There came over against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out + of all Israel, and the battle was sore; but they didn't know + that evil was close on them. +020:035 Yahweh struck Benjamin before Israel; and the children of Israel + destroyed of Benjamin that day twenty-five thousand one hundred men: + all these drew the sword. +020:036 So the children of Benjamin saw that they were struck; + for the men of Israel gave place to Benjamin, because they + trusted the ambushers whom they had set against Gibeah. +020:037 The ambushers hurried, and rushed on Gibeah; and the ambushers + drew themselves along, and struck all the city with the edge + of the sword. +020:038 Now the appointed sign between the men of Israel and the ambushers + was that they should make a great cloud of smoke rise up + out of the city. +020:039 The men of Israel turned in the battle, and Benjamin began + to strike and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons; + for they said, Surely they are struck down before us, + as in the first battle. +020:040 But when the cloud began to arise up out of the city in a pillar + of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them; and behold, + the whole of the city went up in smoke to the sky. +020:041 The men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were dismayed; + for they saw that evil had come on them. +020:042 Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel + to the way of the wilderness; but the battle followed hard + after them; and those who came out of the cities destroyed + them in the midst of it. +020:043 They enclosed the Benjamites round about, [and] chased them, + [and] trod them down at [their] resting place, as far as over + against Gibeah toward the sunrise. +020:044 There fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these [were] + men of valor. +020:045 They turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon: + and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men, + and followed hard after them to Gidom, and struck of them + two thousand men. +020:046 So that all who fell that day of Benjamin were twenty-five + thousand men who drew the sword; all these [were] men of valor. +020:047 But six hundred men turned and fled toward the wilderness to + the rock of Rimmon, and abode in the rock of Rimmon four months. +020:048 The men of Israel turned again on the children of Benjamin, + and struck them with the edge of the sword, both the + entire city, and the livestock, and all that they found: + moreover all the cities which they found they set on fire. +021:001 Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpah, saying, There shall + not any of us give his daughter to Benjamin as wife. +021:002 The people came to Bethel, and sat there until evening before God, + and lifted up their voices, and wept sore. +021:003 They said, Yahweh, the God of Israel, why has this happened in Israel, + that there should be today one tribe lacking in Israel? +021:004 It happened on the next day that the people rose early, + and built there an altar, and offered burnt offerings + and peace offerings. +021:005 The children of Israel said, Who is there among all the tribes + of Israel who didn't come up in the assembly to Yahweh? For they + had made a great oath concerning him who didn't come up + to Yahweh to Mizpah, saying, He shall surely be put to death. +021:006 The children of Israel grieved for Benjamin their brother, + and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day. +021:007 How shall we do for wives for those who remain, seeing we + have sworn by Yahweh that we will not give them of our + daughters to wives? +021:008 They said, What one is there of the tribes of Israel who didn't + come up to Yahweh to Mizpah? Behold, there came none + to the camp from Jabesh Gilead to the assembly. +021:009 For when the people were numbered, behold, there were none + of the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead there. +021:010 The congregation sent there twelve thousand men of the most valiant, + and commanded them, saying, Go and strike the inhabitants + of Jabesh Gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women + and the little ones. +021:011 This is the thing that you shall do: you shall utterly destroy + every male, and every woman who has lain by man. +021:012 They found among the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead four hundred + young virgins, who had not known man by lying with him; + and they brought them to the camp to Shiloh, which is in + the land of Canaan. +021:013 The whole congregation sent and spoke to the children of Benjamin + who were in the rock of Rimmon, and proclaimed peace to them. +021:014 Benjamin returned at that time; and they gave them the women + whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh Gilead: + and yet so they weren't enough for them. +021:015 The people grieved for Benjamin, because that Yahweh had made + a breach in the tribes of Israel. +021:016 Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for + wives for those who remain, seeing the women are destroyed + out of Benjamin? +021:017 They said, There must be an inheritance for those who are escaped + of Benjamin, that a tribe not be blotted out from Israel. +021:018 However we may not give them wives of our daughters, + for the children of Israel had sworn, saying, Cursed be + he who gives a wife to Benjamin. +021:019 They said, Behold, there is a feast of Yahweh from year to year + in Shiloh, which is on the north of Bethel, on the east + side of the highway that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, + and on the south of Lebonah. +021:020 They commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, Go and lie + in wait in the vineyards, +021:021 and see, and behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out + to dance in the dances, then come you out of the vineyards, + and catch you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, + and go to the land of Benjamin. +021:022 It shall be, when their fathers or their brothers come to complain + to us, that we will say to them, Grant them graciously to us, + because we didn't take for each man his wife in battle, + neither did you give them to them, else would you now be guilty. +021:023 The children of Benjamin did so, and took them wives, according to + their number, of those who danced, whom they carried off: + and they went and returned to their inheritance, and built + the cities, and lived in them. +021:024 The children of Israel departed there at that time, every man + to his tribe and to his family, and they went out from there + every man to his inheritance. +021:025 In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did + that which was right in his own eyes. +Book 08 Ruth +001:001 It happened in the days when the judges judged, that there + was a famine in the land. A certain man of Bethlehem Judah + went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, + and his two sons. +001:002 The name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, + and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of + Bethlehem Judah. They came into the country of Moab, + and continued there. +001:003 Elimelech, Naomi's husband, died; and she was left, + and her two sons. +001:004 They took them wives of the women of Moab; the name + of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: + and they lived there about ten years. +001:005 Mahlon and Chilion died both of them; and the woman was left + of her two children and of her husband. +001:006 Then she arose with her daughters-in-law, that she might return + from the country of Moab: for she had heard in the country of Moab + how that Yahweh had visited his people in giving them bread. +001:007 She went forth out of the place where she was, and her two + daughters-in-law with her; and they went on the way to return + to the land of Judah. +001:008 Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, Go, return each + of you to her mother's house: Yahweh deal kindly with you, + as you have dealt with the dead, and with me. +001:009 Yahweh grant you that you may find rest, each of you in the house + of her husband. Then she kissed them, and they lifted up + their voice, and wept. +001:010 They said to her, No, but we will return with you to your people. +001:011 Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters: why will you go with me? + have I yet sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands? +001:012 Turn again, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have + a husband. If I should say, I have hope, if I should even + have a husband tonight, and should also bear sons; +001:013 would you therefore wait until they were grown? would you + therefore stay from having husbands? nay, my daughters, + for it grieves me much for your sakes, for the hand of Yahweh + is gone forth against me. +001:014 They lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed + her mother-in-law, but Ruth joined with her. +001:015 She said, Behold, your sister-in-law is gone back to her people, + and to her god: return you after your sister-in-law. +001:016 Ruth said, "Don't entreat me to leave you, and to return + from following after you, for where you go, I will go; + and where you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, + and your God my God; +001:017 where you die, will I die, and there will I be buried: + Yahweh do so to me, and more also, if anything but death part + you and me." +001:018 When she saw that she was steadfastly minded to go with her, + she left off speaking to her. +001:019 So they two went until they came to Bethlehem. It happened, + when they were come to Bethlehem, that all the city was moved + about them, and [the women] said, Is this Naomi? +001:020 She said to them, "Don't call me Naomi, call me Mara; + for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me. +001:021 I went out full, and Yahweh has brought me home again empty; + why do you call me Naomi, seeing Yahweh has testified against me, + and the Almighty has afflicted me?" +001:022 So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, + with her, who returned out of the country of Moab: + and they came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest. +002:001 Naomi had a kinsman of her husband's, a mighty man of wealth, + of the family of Elimelech, and his name was Boaz. +002:002 Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, Let me now go to the field, + and glean among the ears of grain after him in whose sight + I shall find favor. She said to her, Go, my daughter. +002:003 She went, and came and gleaned in the field after the reapers: + and she happened to come to the portion of the field belonging + to Boaz, who was of the family of Elimelech. +002:004 Behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said to the reapers, + Yahweh be with you. They answered him, Yahweh bless you. +002:005 Then said Boaz to his servant who was set over the reapers, + Whose young lady is this? +002:006 The servant who was set over the reapers answered, It is the Moabite + lady who came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab: +002:007 She said, Please let me glean and gather after the reapers + among the sheaves. So she came, and has continued even + from the morning until now, except that she stayed a little + in the house. +002:008 Then said Boaz to Ruth, Don't you hear, my daughter? + Don't go to glean in another field, neither pass from hence, + but abide here fast by my maidens. +002:009 Let your eyes be on the field that they reap, and go after them: + haven't I charged the young men that they shall not touch + you? and when you are thirsty, go to the vessels, and drink + of that which the young men have drawn. +002:010 Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, + and said to him, Why have I found favor in your sight, + that you should take knowledge of me, seeing I am a foreigner? +002:011 Boaz answered her, It has fully been shown me, all that you + have done to your mother-in-law since the death of your husband; + and how you have left your father and your mother, + and the land of your birth, and have come to a people that you + didn't know before. +002:012 Yahweh recompense your work, and a full reward be given you + of Yahweh, the God of Israel, under whose wings you are come + to take refuge. +002:013 Then she said, Let me find favor in your sight, my lord, + because you have comforted me, and because you have spoken kindly + to your handmaid, though I am not as one of your handmaidens. +002:014 At meal time Boaz said to her, Come here, and eat of the bread, + and dip your morsel in the vinegar. She sat beside the reapers, + and they reached her parched grain, and she ate, and was sufficed, + and left of it. +002:015 When she was risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his + young men, saying, Let her glean even among the sheaves, + and don't reproach her. +002:016 Also pull out some for her from the bundles, and leave it, + and let her glean, and don't rebuke her. +002:017 So she gleaned in the field until even; and she beat out that + which she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley. +002:018 She took it up, and went into the city; and her mother-in-law + saw what she had gleaned: and she brought forth and gave + to her that which she had left after she was sufficed. +002:019 Her mother-in-law said to her, Where have you gleaned today? and + where have you worked? blessed be he who did take knowledge of you. + She shown her mother-in-law with whom she had worked, and said, + The man's name with whom I worked today is Boaz. +002:020 Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, Blessed be he of Yahweh, + who has not left off his kindness to the living and to the dead. + Naomi said to her, The man is a close relative to us, + one of our near kinsmen. +002:021 Ruth the Moabitess said, Yes, he said to me, You shall keep + fast by my young men, until they have ended all my harvest. +002:022 Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, It is good, my daughter, + that you go out with his maidens, and that they not meet you + in any other field. +002:023 So she kept fast by the maidens of Boaz, to glean to the end + of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and she lived + with her mother-in-law. +003:001 Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, My daughter, shall I + not seek rest for you, that it may be well with you? +003:002 Now isn't Boaz our kinsman, with whose maidens you were? + Behold, he winnows barley tonight in the threshing floor. +003:003 Wash yourself therefore, and anoint you, and put your clothing + on you, and get you down to the threshing floor, but don't + make yourself known to the man, until he shall have done + eating and drinking. +003:004 It shall be, when he lies down, that you shall mark the place + where he shall lie, and you shall go in, and uncover his feet, + and lay you down; and he will tell you what you shall do. +003:005 She said to her, All that you say I will do. +003:006 She went down to the threshing floor, and did according to all + that her mother-in-law told her. +003:007 When Boaz had eaten and drunk, and his heart was merry, + he went to lie down at the end of the heap of grain: + and she came softly, and uncovered his feet, and laid her down. +003:008 It happened at midnight, that the man was afraid, and turned himself; + and behold, a woman lay at his feet. +003:009 He said, Who are you? She answered, I am Ruth your handmaid: + spread therefore your skirt over your handmaid; for you are + a near kinsman. +003:010 He said, Blessed are you by Yahweh, my daughter: + you have shown more kindness in the latter end than at + the beginning, inasmuch as you didn't follow young men, + whether poor or rich. +003:011 Now, my daughter, don't be afraid; I will do to you all that + you say; for all the city of my people does know that you + are a worthy woman. +003:012 Now it is true that I am a near kinsman; however there is + a kinsman nearer than I. +003:013 Stay this night, and it shall be in the morning, that if he will + perform to you the part of a kinsman, well; let him do the + kinsman's part: but if he will not do the part of a kinsman to you, + then will I do the part of a kinsman to you, as Yahweh lives: + lie down until the morning. +003:014 She lay at his feet until the morning. She rose up before + one could discern another. For he said, Let it not be known + that the woman came to the threshing floor. +003:015 He said, Bring the mantle that is on you, and hold it; + and she held it; and he measured six [measures] of barley, + and laid it on her: and he went into the city. +003:016 When she came to her mother-in-law, she said, Who are you, + my daughter? She told her all that the man had done to her. +003:017 She said, These six [measures] of barley gave he me; for he said, + "Don't go empty to your mother-in-law." +003:018 Then said she, "Sit still, my daughter, until you know how + the matter will fall; for the man will not rest, until he has + finished the thing this day." +004:001 Now Boaz went up to the gate, and sat him down there: + and behold, the near kinsman of whom Boaz spoke came by; + to whom he said, Ho, such a one! turn aside, sit down here. + He turned aside, and sat down. +004:002 He took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, Sit you + down here. They sat down. +004:003 He said to the near kinsman, Naomi, who has come back out + of the country of Moab, is selling the parcel of land, + which was our brother Elimelech's: +004:004 I thought to disclose it to you, saying, Buy it before + those who sit here, and before the elders of my people. + If you will redeem it, redeem it: but if you will not + redeem it, then tell me, that I may know; for there + is none to redeem it besides you; and I am after you. + He said, I will redeem it. +004:005 Then said Boaz, What day you buy the field of the hand of Naomi, + you must buy it also of Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, + to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance. +004:006 The near kinsman said, I can't redeem it for myself, lest I + mar my own inheritance: take my right of redemption on you; + for I can't redeem it. +004:007 Now this was [the custom] in former time in Israel concerning + redeeming and concerning exchanging, to confirm all things: + a man drew off his shoe, and gave it to his neighbor; + and this was the [manner of] attestation in Israel. +004:008 So the near kinsman said to Boaz, Buy it for yourself. + He drew off his shoe. +004:009 Boaz said to the elders, and to all the people, You are witnesses + this day, that I have bought all that was Elimelech's, + and all that was Chilion's and Mahlon's, of the hand of Naomi. +004:010 Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I + purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead + on his inheritance, that the name of the dead not be cut off + from among his brothers, and from the gate of his place: + you are witnesses this day. +004:011 All the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, We + are witnesses. Yahweh make the woman who has come into your house + like Rachel and like Leah, which two built the house of Israel: + and do you worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Bethlehem: +004:012 and let your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar + bore to Judah, of the seed which Yahweh shall give you + of this young woman. +004:013 So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife; and he went in to her, + and Yahweh gave her conception, and she bore a son. +004:014 The women said to Naomi, Blessed be Yahweh, who has not left + you this day without a near kinsman; and let his name be + famous in Israel. +004:015 He shall be to you a restorer of life, and sustain you + in your old age, for your daughter-in-law, who loves you, + who is better to you than seven sons, has borne him. +004:016 Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became + nurse to it. +004:017 The women her neighbors gave it a name, saying, There is a son + born to Naomi; and they named him Obed: he is the father + of Jesse, the father of David. +004:018 Now this is the history of the generations of Perez: Perez became + the father of Hezron, +004:019 and Hezron became the father of Ram, and Ram became + the father of Amminadab, +004:020 and Amminadab became the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon became + the father of Salmon, +004:021 and Salmon became the father of Boaz, and Boaz became + the father of Obed, +004:022 and Obed became the father of Jesse, and Jesse became + the father of David. +Book 09 1 Samuel +001:001 Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim Zophim, + of the hill country of Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, + the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, + the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite: +001:002 and he had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, + and the name of other Peninnah: and Peninnah had children, + but Hannah had no children. +001:003 This man went up out of his city from year to year to worship + and to sacrifice to Yahweh of Armies in Shiloh. The two sons + of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, priests to Yahweh, were there. +001:004 When the day came that Elkanah sacrificed, he gave to Peninnah + his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions: +001:005 but to Hannah he gave a double portion; for he loved Hannah, + but Yahweh had shut up her womb. +001:006 Her rival provoked her sore, to make her fret, because Yahweh + had shut up her womb. +001:007 [as] he did so year by year, when she went up to the house + of Yahweh, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, + and did not eat. +001:008 Elkanah her husband said to her, Hannah, why weep you? and why + don't you eat? and why is your heart grieved? am I not better + to you than ten sons? +001:009 So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after + they had drunk. Now Eli the priest was sitting on his seat + by the doorpost of the temple of Yahweh. +001:010 She was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to Yahweh, + and wept sore. +001:011 She vowed a vow, and said, Yahweh of Armies, if you will indeed + look on the affliction of your handmaid, and remember me, + and not forget your handmaid, but will give to your handmaid + a boy, then I will give him to Yahweh all the days of his life, + and there shall no razor come on his head. +001:012 It happened, as she continued praying before Yahweh, that Eli + marked her mouth. +001:013 Now Hannah, she spoke in her heart; only her lips moved, + but her voice was not heard: therefore Eli thought she + had been drunken. +001:014 Eli said to her, How long will you be drunken? put away your + wine from you. +001:015 Hannah answered, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: + I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but I poured + out my soul before Yahweh. +001:016 Don't count your handmaid for a wicked woman; for out + of the abundance of my complaint and my provocation have + I spoken hitherto. +001:017 Then Eli answered, Go in peace; and the God of Israel grant + your petition that you have asked of him. +001:018 She said, Let your handmaid find favor in your sight. + So the woman went her way, and ate; and her facial expression + wasn't sad any more. +001:019 They rose up in the morning early, and worshiped before Yahweh, + and returned, and came to their house to Ramah: + and Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and Yahweh remembered her. +001:020 It happened, when the time was come about, that Hannah conceived, + and bore a son; and she named him Samuel, [saying], Because I + have asked him of Yahweh. +001:021 The man Elkanah, and all his house, went up to offer to Yahweh + the yearly sacrifice, and his vow. +001:022 But Hannah didn't go up; for she said to her husband, [I will not + go up] until the child be weaned; and then I will bring him, + that he may appear before Yahweh, and there abide forever. +001:023 Elkanah her husband said to her, Do what seems you good; + wait until you have weaned him; only Yahweh establish his word. + So the woman waited and nursed her son, until she weaned him. +001:024 When she had weaned him, she took him up with her, + with three bulls, and one ephah of meal, and a bottle + of wine, and brought him to the house of Yahweh in Shiloh: + and the child was young. +001:025 They killed the bull, and brought the child to Eli. +001:026 She said, Oh, my lord, as your soul lives, my lord, I am + the woman who stood by you here, praying to Yahweh. +001:027 For this child I prayed; and Yahweh has given me my petition + which I asked of him: +001:028 therefore also I have granted him to Yahweh; as long as he lives + he is granted to Yahweh. He worshiped Yahweh there. +002:001 Hannah prayed, and said: My heart exults in Yahweh! My horn + is exalted in Yahweh. My mouth is enlarged over my enemies, + because I rejoice in your salvation. +002:002 There is no one as holy as Yahweh, For there is no one besides you, + nor is there any rock like our God. +002:003 Talk no more so exceeding proudly. Don't let arrogance + come out of your mouth, For Yahweh is a God of knowledge. + By him actions are weighed. +002:004 The bows of the mighty men are broken. Those who stumbled + are girded with strength. +002:005 Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread. + Those who were hungry have ceased [to hunger]. Yes, the barren + has borne seven. She who has many children languishes. +002:006 Yahweh kills, and makes alive. He brings down to Sheol, + and brings up. +002:007 Yahweh makes poor, and makes rich. He brings low, + he also lifts up. +002:008 He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy + from the dunghill, To make them sit with princes, and inherit + the throne of glory, for the pillars of the earth are Yahweh's. + He has set the world on them. +002:009 He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked shall be put + to silence in darkness; for no man shall prevail by strength. +002:010 Those who strive with Yahweh shall be broken to pieces. + He will thunder against them in the sky. Yahweh will judge + the ends of the earth. He will give strength to his king, + and exalt the horn of his anointed. +002:011 Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. The child did minister + to Yahweh before Eli the priest. +002:012 Now the sons of Eli were base men; they didn't know Yahweh. +002:013 The custom of the priests with the people was that when any man + offered sacrifice, the priest's servant came, while the flesh + was boiling, with a fork of three teeth in his hand; +002:014 and he struck it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; + all that the fork brought up the priest took therewith. + So they did in Shiloh to all the Israelites who came there. +002:015 Yes, before they burnt the fat, the priest's servant came, and said + to the man who sacrificed, Give flesh to roast for the priest; + for he will not have boiled flesh of you, but raw. +002:016 If the man said to him, They will surely burn the fat first, + and then take as much as your soul desires; then he would say, + No, but you shall give it me now: and if not, I will take + it by force. +002:017 The sin of the young men was very great before Yahweh; + for the men despised the offering of Yahweh. +002:018 But Samuel ministered before Yahweh, being a child, + girded with a linen ephod. +002:019 Moreover his mother made him a little robe, and brought it + to him from year to year, when she came up with her husband + to offer the yearly sacrifice. +002:020 Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, Yahweh give you seed + of this woman for the petition which was asked of Yahweh. + They went to their own home. +002:021 Yahweh visited Hannah, and she conceived, and bore three sons + and two daughters. The child Samuel grew before Yahweh. +002:022 Now Eli was very old; and he heard all that his sons did + to all Israel, and how that they lay with the women who served + at the door of the tent of meeting. +002:023 He said to them, Why do you such things? for I hear of your + evil dealings from all this people. +002:024 No, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: + you make Yahweh's people to disobey. +002:025 If one man sin against another, God shall judge him; + but if a man sin against Yahweh, who shall entreat for him? + Notwithstanding, they didn't listen to the voice of their father, + because Yahweh was minded to kill them. +002:026 The child Samuel grew on, and increased in favor both with Yahweh, + and also with men. +002:027 There came a man of God to Eli, and said to him, Thus says + Yahweh, Did I reveal myself to the house of your father, + when they were in Egypt [in bondage] to Pharaoh's house? +002:028 and did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be + my priest, to go up to my altar, to burn incense, to wear + an ephod before me? and did I give to the house of your father + all the offerings of the children of Israel made by fire? +002:029 Why kick you at my sacrifice and at my offering, which I have + commanded in [my] habitation, and honor your sons above me, + to make yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings + of Israel my people? +002:030 Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, I said indeed + that your house, and the house of your father, should walk + before me forever: but now Yahweh says, Be it far from me; + for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise + me shall be lightly esteemed. +002:031 Behold, the days come, that I will cut off your arm, and the arm + of your father's house, that there shall not be an old man + in your house. +002:032 You shall see the affliction of [my] habitation, in all the wealth + which [God] shall give Israel; and there shall not be an old + man in your house forever. +002:033 The man of yours, [whom] I shall not cut off from my altar, + [shall be] to consume your eyes, and to grieve your heart; + and all the increase of your house shall die in the flower + of their age. +002:034 This shall be the sign to you, that shall come on your two sons, + on Hophni and Phinehas: in one day they shall die both of them. +002:035 I will raise me up a faithful priest, that shall do + according to that which is in my heart and in my mind: + and I will build him a sure house; and he shall walk before + my anointed forever. +002:036 It shall happen, that everyone who is left in your house shall + come and bow down to him for a piece of silver and a loaf + of bread, and shall say, Please put me into one of the priests' + offices, that I may eat a morsel of bread. +003:001 The child Samuel ministered to Yahweh before Eli. + The word of Yahweh was precious in those days; there was + no frequent vision. +003:002 It happened at that time, when Eli was laid down in his place + (now his eyes had begun to grow dim, so that he could not see), +003:003 and the lamp of God hadn't yet gone out, and Samuel had laid + down [to sleep], in the temple of Yahweh, where the ark + of God was; +003:004 that Yahweh called Samuel; and he said, Here am I. +003:005 He ran to Eli, and said, Here am I; for you called me. + He said, I didn't call; lie down again. He went and lay down. +003:006 Yahweh called yet again, Samuel. Samuel arose and went to Eli, + and said, Here am I; for you called me. He answered, + I didn't call, my son; lie down again. +003:007 Now Samuel didn't yet know Yahweh, neither was the word + of Yahweh yet revealed to him. +003:008 Yahweh called Samuel again the third time. He arose + and went to Eli, and said, Here am I; for you called me. + Eli perceived that Yahweh had called the child. +003:009 Therefore Eli said to Samuel, Go, lie down: and it shall be, + if he call you, that you shall say, Speak, Yahweh; for your + servant hears. So Samuel went and lay down in his place. +003:010 Yahweh came, and stood, and called as at other times, Samuel, Samuel. + Then Samuel said, Speak; for your servant hears. +003:011 Yahweh said to Samuel, Behold, I will do a thing in Israel, + at which both the ears of everyone who hears it shall tingle. +003:012 In that day I will perform against Eli all that I have spoken + concerning his house, from the beginning even to the end. +003:013 For I have told him that I will judge his house forever, + for the iniquity which he knew, because his sons did bring + a curse on themselves, and he didn't restrain them. +003:014 Therefore I have sworn to the house of Eli, that the iniquity + of Eli's house shall not be expiated with sacrifice + nor offering forever. +003:015 Samuel lay until the morning, and opened the doors of the house + of Yahweh. Samuel feared to show Eli the vision. +003:016 Then Eli called Samuel, and said, Samuel, my son. + He said, Here am I. +003:017 He said, "What is the thing that [Yahweh] has spoken to you? + Please don't hide it from me. God do so to you, and more also, + if you hide anything from me of all the things that he + spoke to you." +003:018 Samuel told him every whit, and hid nothing from him. + He said, It is Yahweh: let him do what seems him good. +003:019 Samuel grew, and Yahweh was with him, and did let none of his + words fall to the ground. +003:020 All Israel from Dan even to Beersheba knew that Samuel was + established to be a prophet of Yahweh. +003:021 Yahweh appeared again in Shiloh; for Yahweh revealed himself + to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of Yahweh. +004:001 The word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out + against the Philistines to battle, and encamped beside Ebenezer: + and the Philistines encamped in Aphek. +004:002 The Philistines put themselves in array against Israel: + and when they joined battle, Israel was struck before + the Philistines; and they killed of the army in the field + about four thousand men. +004:003 When the people were come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, + Why has Yahweh struck us today before the Philistines? Let us + get the ark of the covenant of Yahweh out of Shiloh to us, + that it may come among us, and save us out of the hand + of our enemies. +004:004 So the people sent to Shiloh; and they brought from there the ark + of the covenant of Yahweh of Armies, who sits [above] the cherubim: + and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there + with the ark of the covenant of God. +004:005 When the ark of the covenant of Yahweh came into the camp, + all Israel shouted with a great shout, so that the earth rang again. +004:006 When the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they said, + What means the noise of this great shout in the camp of + the Hebrews? They understood that the ark of Yahweh was come + into the camp. +004:007 The Philistines were afraid, for they said, God is come + into the camp. They said, Woe to us! for there has not been + such a thing heretofore. +004:008 Woe to us! who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty + gods? these are the gods that struck the Egyptians with all + manner of plagues in the wilderness. +004:009 Be strong, and behave yourselves like men, O you Philistines, + that you not be servants to the Hebrews, as they have been to you: + quit yourselves like men, and fight. +004:010 The Philistines fought, and Israel was struck, and they fled + every man to his tent: and there was a very great slaughter; + for there fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen. +004:011 The ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni + and Phinehas, were slain. +004:012 There ran a man of Benjamin out of the army, and came to Shiloh + the same day, with his clothes torn, and with earth on his head. +004:013 When he came, behold, Eli was sitting on his seat by the + road watching; for his heart trembled for the ark of God. + When the man came into the city, and told it, all the + city cried out. +004:014 When Eli heard the noise of the crying, he said, What means + the noise of this tumult? The man hurried, and came + and told Eli. +004:015 Now Eli was ninety-eight years old; and his eyes were set, + so that he could not see. +004:016 The man said to Eli, I am he who came out of the army, and I fled + today out of the army. He said, How went the matter, my son? +004:017 He who brought the news answered, Israel is fled before + the Philistines, and there has been also a great slaughter + among the people, and your two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, + are dead, and the ark of God is taken. +004:018 It happened, when he made mention of the ark of God, that [Eli] + fell from off his seat backward by the side of the gate; + and his neck broke, and he died: for he was an old man, and heavy. + He had judged Israel forty years. +004:019 His daughter-in-law, Phinehas' wife, was with child, + near to be delivered: and when she heard the news that + the ark of God was taken, and that her father-in-law and her + husband were dead, she bowed herself and brought forth; + for her pains came on her. +004:020 About the time of her death the women who stood by her said + to her, Don't be afraid; for you have brought forth a son. + But she didn't answer, neither did she regard it. +004:021 She named the child Ichabod, saying, The glory is departed + from Israel; because the ark of God was taken, and because + of her father-in-law and her husband. +004:022 She said, The glory is departed from Israel; for the ark + of God is taken. +005:001 Now the Philistines had taken the ark of God, and they brought + it from Ebenezer to Ashdod. +005:002 The Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it into + the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon. +005:003 When they of Ashdod arose early on the next day, behold, Dagon was + fallen on his face to the ground before the ark of Yahweh. + They took Dagon, and set him in his place again. +005:004 When they arose early on the next day morning, behold, Dagon was + fallen on his face to the ground before the ark of Yahweh; + and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands [lay] + cut off on the threshold; only [the stump of] Dagon was + left to him. +005:005 Therefore neither the priests of Dagon, nor any who come into + Dagon's house, tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod, + to this day. +005:006 But the hand of Yahweh was heavy on them of Ashdod, + and he destroyed them, and struck them with tumors, even Ashdod + and the borders of it. +005:007 When the men of Ashdod saw that it was so, they said, + The ark of the God of Israel shall not abide with us; + for his hand is sore on us, and on Dagon our god. +005:008 They sent therefore and gathered all the lords of the Philistines + to them, and said, What shall we do with the ark of the God + of Israel? They answered, Let the ark of the God of Israel + be carried about to Gath. They carried the ark of the God + of Israel [there]. +005:009 It was so, that after they had carried it about, the hand + of Yahweh was against the city with a very great confusion: + and he struck the men of the city, both small and great; + and tumors broke out on them. +005:010 So they sent the ark of God to Ekron. It happened, as the ark + of God came to Ekron, that the Ekronites cried out, saying, + They have brought about the ark of the God of Israel to us, + to kill us and our people. +005:011 They sent therefore and gathered together all the lords of + the Philistines, and they said, Send away the ark of the God + of Israel, and let it go again to its own place, that it + not kill us and our people. For there was a deadly confusion + throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy there. +005:012 The men who didn't die were struck with the tumors; + and the cry of the city went up to heaven. +006:001 The ark of Yahweh was in the country of the Philistines seven months. +006:002 The Philistines called for the priests and the diviners, + saying, "What shall we do with the ark of Yahweh? Show us + with which we shall send it to its place." +006:003 They said, "If you send away the ark of the God of Israel, don't send + it empty; but by all means return him a trespass offering: + then you shall be healed, and it shall be known to you why + his hand is not removed from you." +006:004 Then they said, "What shall be the trespass offering which we + shall return to him?" They said, "Five golden tumors, + and five golden mice, [according to] the number of the lords + of the Philistines; for one plague was on you all, + and on your lords. +006:005 Therefore you shall make images of your tumors, and images of your + mice that mar the land; and you shall give glory to the God + of Israel: peradventure he will lighten his hand from off you, + and from off your gods, and from off your land. +006:006 Why then do you harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh + hardened their hearts? When he had worked wonderfully among them, + didn't they let the people go, and they departed? +006:007 Now therefore take and prepare yourselves a new cart, + and two milk cows, on which there has come no yoke; and tie + the cows to the cart, and bring their calves home from them; +006:008 and take the ark of Yahweh, and lay it on the cart; and put + the jewels of gold, which you return him for a trespass offering, + in a coffer by the side of it; and send it away, that it may go. +006:009 Behold; if it goes up by the way of its own border to + Beth Shemesh, then he has done us this great evil: but if not, + then we shall know that it is not his hand that struck us; + it was a chance that happened to us." +006:010 The men did so, and took two milk cows, and tied them to the cart, + and shut up their calves at home; +006:011 and they put the ark of Yahweh on the cart, and the coffer + with the mice of gold and the images of their tumors. +006:012 The cows took the straight way by the way to Beth Shemesh; + they went along the highway, lowing as they went, + and didn't turn aside to the right hand or to the left; + and the lords of the Philistines went after them to the border + of Beth Shemesh. +006:013 They of Beth Shemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley; + and they lifted up their eyes, and saw the ark, and rejoiced + to see it. +006:014 The cart came into the field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh, + and stood there, where there was a great stone: + and they split the wood of the cart, and offered up the cows + for a burnt offering to Yahweh. +006:015 The Levites took down the ark of Yahweh, and the coffer that + was with it, in which the jewels of gold were, and put them + on the great stone: and the men of Beth Shemesh offered burnt + offerings and sacrificed sacrifices the same day to Yahweh. +006:016 When the five lords of the Philistines had seen it, they returned + to Ekron the same day. +006:017 These are the golden tumors which the Philistines returned for + a trespass offering to Yahweh: for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, + for Ashkelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one; +006:018 and the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities + of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both of fortified + cities and of country villages, even to the great stone, + whereon they set down the ark of Yahweh, [which stone remains] + to this day in the field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh. +006:019 He struck of the men of Beth Shemesh, because they had looked + into the ark of Yahweh, he struck of the people fifty thousand + seventy men; and the people mourned, because Yahweh had struck + the people with a great slaughter. +006:020 The men of Beth Shemesh said, Who is able to stand before Yahweh, + this holy God? and to whom shall he go up from us? +006:021 They sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kiriath Jearim, + saying, The Philistines have brought back the ark of Yahweh; + come you down, and bring it up to you. +007:001 The men of Kiriath Jearim came, and fetched up the ark of Yahweh, + and brought it into the house of Abinadab in the hill, + and sanctified Eleazar his son to keep the ark of Yahweh. +007:002 It happened, from the day that the ark abode in Kiriath Jearim, + that the time was long; for it was twenty years: + and all the house of Israel lamented after Yahweh. +007:003 Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, If you + do return to Yahweh with all your heart, then put away + the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, + and direct your hearts to Yahweh, and serve him only; + and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines. +007:004 Then the children of Israel did put away the Baals and the Ashtaroth, + and served Yahweh only. +007:005 Samuel said, "Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray + for you to Yahweh." +007:006 They gathered together to Mizpah, and drew water, and poured + it out before Yahweh, and fasted on that day, and said there, + "We have sinned against Yahweh." Samuel judged the children + of Israel in Mizpah. +007:007 When the Philistines heard that the children of Israel were + gathered together at Mizpah, the lords of the Philistines went + up against Israel. When the children of Israel heard it, + they were afraid of the Philistines. +007:008 The children of Israel said to Samuel, "Don't cease to cry + to Yahweh our God for us, that he will save us out of the hand + of the Philistines." +007:009 Samuel took a sucking lamb, and offered it for a whole burnt + offering to Yahweh: and Samuel cried to Yahweh for Israel; + and Yahweh answered him. +007:010 As Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines + drew near to battle against Israel; but Yahweh thundered with a + great thunder on that day on the Philistines, and confused them; + and they were struck down before Israel. +007:011 The men of Israel went out of Mizpah, and pursued the Philistines, + and struck them, until they came under Beth Kar. +007:012 Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpah and Shen, + and called the name of it Ebenezer, saying, Hitherto has + Yahweh helped us. +007:013 So the Philistines were subdued, and they came no more within + the border of Israel: and the hand of Yahweh was against + the Philistines all the days of Samuel. +007:014 The cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel were + restored to Israel, from Ekron even to Gath; and the border + of it did Israel deliver out of the hand of the Philistines. + There was peace between Israel and the Amorites. +007:015 Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life. +007:016 He went from year to year in circuit to Bethel and Gilgal, + and Mizpah; and he judged Israel in all those places. +007:017 His return was to Ramah, for there was his house; and there + he judged Israel: and he built there an altar to Yahweh. +008:001 It happened, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons + judges over Israel. +008:002 Now the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the name of + his second, Abijah: they were judges in Beersheba. +008:003 His sons didn't walk in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, + and took bribes, and perverted justice. +008:004 Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, + and came to Samuel to Ramah; +008:005 and they said to him, Behold, you are old, and your sons + don't walk in your ways: now make us a king to judge us + like all the nations. +008:006 But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king + to judge us. Samuel prayed to Yahweh. +008:007 Yahweh said to Samuel, Listen to the voice of the people + in all that they tell you; for they have not rejected you, + but they have rejected me, that I should not be king over them. +008:008 According to all the works which they have done since the day + that I brought them up out of Egypt even to this day, + in that they have forsaken me, and served other gods, + so do they also to you. +008:009 Now therefore listen to their voice: however you shall protest + solemnly to them, and shall show them the manner of the king + who shall reign over them. +008:010 Samuel told all the words of Yahweh to the people who asked + of him a king. +008:011 He said, This will be the manner of the king who shall reign + over you: he will take your sons, and appoint them to him, + for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and they shall run + before his chariots; +008:012 and he will appoint them to him for captains of thousands, + and captains of fifties; and [he will set some] to plow his ground, + and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, + and the instruments of his chariots. +008:013 He will take your daughters to be perfumers, and to be cooks, + and to be bakers. +008:014 He will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your olive groves, + even the best of them, and give them to his servants. +008:015 He will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, + and give to his officers, and to his servants. +008:016 He will take your male servants, and your female servants, + and your best young men, and your donkeys, and put them + to his work. +008:017 He will take the tenth of your flocks: and you shall + be his servants. +008:018 You shall cry out in that day because of your king whom you shall + have chosen you; and Yahweh will not answer you in that day. +008:019 But the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel; + and they said, No: but we will have a king over us, +008:020 that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king + may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles. +008:021 Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed + them in the ears of Yahweh. +008:022 Yahweh said to Samuel, Listen to their voice, and make them a king. + Samuel said to the men of Israel, Go you every man to his city. +009:001 Now there was a man of Benjamin, whose name was Kish, the son + of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Becorath, the son + of Aphiah, the son of a Benjamite, a mighty man of valor. +009:002 He had a son, whose name was Saul, an impressive young man; + and there was not among the children of Israel a better + person than he. From his shoulders and upward he was higher + than any of the people. +009:003 The donkeys of Kish, Saul's father, were lost. Kish said + to Saul his son, Take now one of the servants with you, + and arise, go seek the donkeys. +009:004 He passed through the hill country of Ephraim, and passed + through the land of Shalishah, but they didn't find them: + then they passed through the land of Shaalim, and there they + weren't there: and he passed through the land of the Benjamites, + but they didn't find them. +009:005 When they had come to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant + who was with him, Come, and let us return, lest my father + leave off caring for the donkeys, and be anxious for us. +009:006 He said to him, See now, there is in this city a man of God, + and he is a man who is held in honor; all that he says comes + surely to pass: now let us go there; peradventure he can + tell us concerning our journey whereon we go. +009:007 Then said Saul to his servant, But, behold, if we go, what shall + we bring the man? for the bread is spent in our vessels, + and there is not a present to bring to the man of God: + what have we? +009:008 The servant answered Saul again, and said, Behold, I have + in my hand the fourth part of a shekel of silver: + that will I give to the man of God, to tell us our way. +009:009 (In earlier times in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, + thus he said, Come, and let us go to the seer; for he who is + now called a Prophet was before called a Seer.) +009:010 Then said Saul to his servant, Well said; come, let us go. + So they went to the city where the man of God was. +009:011 As they went up the ascent to the city, they found young maidens + going out to draw water, and said to them, Is the seer here? +009:012 They answered them, and said, He is; behold, [he is] before you: + make haste now, for he is come today into the city; + for the people have a sacrifice today in the high place: +009:013 as soon as you are come into the city, you shall immediately + find him, before he goes up to the high place to eat; + for the people will not eat until he come, because he does bless + the sacrifice; [and] afterwards they eat who are invited. + Now therefore get you up; for at this time you shall find him. +009:014 They went up to the city; [and] as they came within the city, + behold, Samuel came out toward them, to go up to the high place. +009:015 Now Yahweh had revealed to Samuel a day before Saul came, saying, +009:016 Tomorrow about this time I will send you a man out of the land + of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be prince over my + people Israel; and he shall save my people out of the hand + of the Philistines: for I have looked on my people, + because their cry is come to me. +009:017 When Samuel saw Saul, Yahweh said to him, Behold, the man + of whom I spoke to you! this same shall have authority + over my people. +009:018 Then Saul drew near to Samuel in the gate, and said, + Tell me, Please, where the seer's house is. +009:019 Samuel answered Saul, and said, I am the seer; go up before + me to the high place, for you shall eat with me today: + and in the morning I will let you go, and will tell you all + that is in your heart. +009:020 As for your donkeys who were lost three days ago, + don't set your mind on them; for they are found. + For whom is all that is desirable in Israel? Is it not for you, + and for all your father's house? +009:021 Saul answered, Am I not a Benjamite, of the smallest + of the tribes of Israel? and my family the least of all + the families of the tribe of Benjamin? why then speak you + to me after this manner? +009:022 Samuel took Saul and his servant, and brought them into + the guest room, and made them sit in the best place among + those who were invited, who were about thirty persons. +009:023 Samuel said to the cook, Bring the portion which I gave you, + of which I said to you, Set it by you. +009:024 The cook took up the thigh, and that which was on it, and set it + before Saul. [Samuel] said, Behold, that which has been reserved! + set it before you and eat; because to the appointed time has + it been kept for you, for I said, I have invited the people. + So Saul ate with Samuel that day. +009:025 When they were come down from the high place into the city, + he talked with Saul on the housetop. +009:026 They arose early: and it happened about the spring of the day, + that Samuel called to Saul on the housetop, saying, Up, that I + may send you away. Saul arose, and they went out both of them, + he and Samuel, abroad. +009:027 As they were going down at the end of the city, Samuel said + to Saul, Bid the servant pass on before us (and he passed on), + but stand you still first, that I may cause you to hear + the word of God. +010:001 Then Samuel took the vial of oil, and poured it on his head, + and kissed him, and said, Isn't it that Yahweh has anointed + you to be prince over his inheritance? +010:002 When you are departed from me today, then you shall find two men + by Rachel's tomb, in the border of Benjamin at Zelzah; and they + will tell you, The donkeys which you went to seek are found; + and behold, your father has left off caring for the donkeys, + and is anxious for you, saying, What shall I do for my son? +010:003 Then shall you go on forward from there, and you shall + come to the oak of Tabor; and there shall meet you there + three men going up to God to Bethel, one carrying three kids, + and another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying + a bottle of wine: +010:004 and they will greet you, and give you two loaves of bread, + which you shall receive of their hand. +010:005 After that you shall come to the hill of God, where is + the garrison of the Philistines: and it shall happen, + when you are come there to the city, that you shall meet a band + of prophets coming down from the high place with a psaltery, + and a tambourine, and a pipe, and a harp, before them; + and they will be prophesying: +010:006 and the Spirit of Yahweh will come mightily on you, and you shall + prophesy with them, and shall be turned into another man. +010:007 Let it be, when these signs are come to you, that you do + as occasion shall serve you; for God is with you. +010:008 You shall go down before me to Gilgal; and behold, I will come + down to you, to offer burnt offerings, and to sacrifice + sacrifices of peace offerings: seven days shall you wait, + until I come to you, and show you what you shall do. +010:009 It was so, that when he had turned his back to go + from Samuel, God gave him another heart: and all those signs + happened that day. +010:010 When they came there to the hill, behold, a band of prophets + met him; and the Spirit of God came mightily on him, + and he prophesied among them. +010:011 It happened, when all who knew him before saw that, behold, + he prophesied with the prophets, then the people said one + to another, What is this that is come to the son of Kish? Is Saul + also among the prophets? +010:012 One of the same place answered, Who is their father? + Therefore it became a proverb, Is Saul also among the prophets? +010:013 When he had made an end of prophesying, he came to the high place. +010:014 Saul's uncle said to him and to his servant, Where went you? + He said, To seek the donkeys; and when we saw that they + were not found, we came to Samuel. +010:015 Saul's uncle said, Tell me, Please, what Samuel said to you. +010:016 Saul said to his uncle, He told us plainly that the donkeys + were found. But concerning the matter of the kingdom, + of which Samuel spoke, he didn't tell him. +010:017 Samuel called the people together to Yahweh to Mizpah; +010:018 and he said to the children of Israel, Thus says Yahweh, + the God of Israel, I brought up Israel out of Egypt, + and I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, + and out of the hand of all the kingdoms that oppressed you: +010:019 but you have this day rejected your God, who himself saves + you out of all your calamities and your distresses; + and you have said to him, [No], but set a king over us. + Now therefore present yourselves before Yahweh by your tribes, + and by your thousands. +010:020 So Samuel brought all the tribes of Israel near, and the tribe + of Benjamin was taken. +010:021 He brought the tribe of Benjamin near by their families; + and the family of the Matrites was taken; and Saul the son + of Kish was taken: but when they sought him, he could + not be found. +010:022 Therefore they asked of Yahweh further, Is there yet a man + to come here? Yahweh answered, Behold, he has hid himself + among the baggage. +010:023 They ran and fetched him there; and when he stood among + the people, he was higher than any of the people from his + shoulders and upward. +010:024 Samuel said to all the people, "You see him whom Yahweh + has chosen, that there is none like him among all the people?" + All the people shouted, and said, [Long] live the king. +010:025 Then Samuel told the people the manner of the kingdom, + and wrote it in a book, and laid it up before Yahweh. + Samuel sent all the people away, every man to his house. +010:026 Saul also went to his house to Gibeah; and there went with him + the army, whose hearts God had touched. +010:027 But certain worthless fellows said, How shall this man save us? + They despised him, and brought him no present. + But he held his peace. +011:001 Then Nahash the Ammonite came up, and encamped against Jabesh Gilead: + and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, Make a covenant + with us, and we will serve you. +011:002 Nahash the Ammonite said to them, On this condition will I + make it with you, that all your right eyes be put out; + and I will lay it for a reproach on all Israel. +011:003 The elders of Jabesh said to him, Give us seven days' respite, that we + may send messengers to all the borders of Israel; and then, + if there be none to save us, we will come out to you. +011:004 Then came the messengers to Gibeah of Saul, and spoke these + words in the ears of the people: and all the people lifted + up their voice, and wept. +011:005 Behold, Saul came following the oxen out of the field; + and Saul said, What ails the people that they weep? + They told him the words of the men of Jabesh. +011:006 The Spirit of God came mightily on Saul when he heard those words, + and his anger was kindled greatly. +011:007 He took a yoke of oxen, and cut them in pieces, and sent + them throughout all the borders of Israel by the hand + of messengers, saying, Whoever doesn't come forth after + Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done to his oxen. + The dread of Yahweh fell on the people, and they came out + as one man. +011:008 He numbered them in Bezek; and the children of Israel were + three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand. +011:009 They said to the messengers who came, Thus shall you tell + the men of Jabesh Gilead, Tomorrow, by the time the sun is hot, + you shall have deliverance. The messengers came and told + the men of Jabesh; and they were glad. +011:010 Therefore the men of Jabesh said, Tomorrow we will come out to you, + and you shall do with us all that seems good to you. +011:011 It was so on the next day, that Saul put the people in + three companies; and they came into the midst of the camp in the + morning watch, and struck the Ammonites until the heat of the day: + and it happened, that those who remained were scattered, + so that no two of them were left together. +011:012 The people said to Samuel, Who is he who said, Shall Saul reign + over us? bring the men, that we may put them to death. +011:013 Saul said, There shall not a man be put to death this day; + for today Yahweh has worked deliverance in Israel. +011:014 Then said Samuel to the people, Come, and let us go to Gilgal, + and renew the kingdom there. +011:015 All the people went to Gilgal; and there they made Saul king + before Yahweh in Gilgal; and there they offered sacrifices + of peace offerings before Yahweh; and there Saul and all + the men of Israel rejoiced greatly. +012:001 Samuel said to all Israel, Behold, I have listened to your voice + in all that you said to me, and have made a king over you. +012:002 Now, behold, the king walks before you; and I am old + and gray-headed; and behold, my sons are with you: + and I have walked before you from my youth to this day. +012:003 Here I am: witness against me before Yahweh, and before + his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose donkey have I + taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? + or of whose hand have I taken a ransom to blind my eyes + therewith? and I will restore it you. +012:004 They said, You have not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, + neither have you taken anything of any man's hand. +012:005 He said to them, Yahweh is witness against you, and his anointed + is witness this day, that you have not found anything in my hand. + They said, He is witness. +012:006 Samuel said to the people, It is Yahweh who appointed Moses and Aaron, + and that brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt. +012:007 Now therefore stand still, that I may plead with you + before Yahweh concerning all the righteous acts of Yahweh, + which he did to you and to your fathers. +012:008 When Jacob was come into Egypt, and your fathers cried to Yahweh, + then Yahweh sent Moses and Aaron, who brought forth your + fathers out of Egypt, and made them to dwell in this place. +012:009 But they forgot Yahweh their God; and he sold them into the hand + of Sisera, captain of the army of Hazor, and into the hand + of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab; + and they fought against them. +012:010 They cried to Yahweh, and said, We have sinned, because we have + forsaken Yahweh, and have served the Baals and the Ashtaroth: + but now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, and we + will serve you. +012:011 Yahweh sent Jerubbaal, and Bedan, and Jephthah, and Samuel, + and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side; + and you lived in safety. +012:012 When you saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon came + against you, you said to me, No, but a king shall reign over us; + when Yahweh your God was your king. +012:013 Now therefore see the king whom you have chosen, and whom you + have asked for: and behold, Yahweh has set a king over you. +012:014 If you will fear Yahweh, and serve him, and listen to his voice, + and not rebel against the commandment of Yahweh, and both you + and also the king who reigns over you are followers of Yahweh + your God, [well]: +012:015 but if you will not listen to the voice of Yahweh, but rebel + against the commandment of Yahweh, then will the hand of Yahweh + be against you, as it was against your fathers. +012:016 Now therefore stand still and see this great thing, which Yahweh + will do before your eyes. +012:017 Isn't it wheat harvest today? I will call to Yahweh, + that he may send thunder and rain; and you shall know and see + that your wickedness is great, which you have done in the sight + of Yahweh, in asking you a king. +012:018 So Samuel called to Yahweh; and Yahweh sent thunder and rain + that day: and all the people greatly feared Yahweh and Samuel. +012:019 All the people said to Samuel, Pray for your servants to Yahweh + your God, that we not die; for we have added to all our sins + [this] evil, to ask us a king. +012:020 Samuel said to the people, "Don't be afraid; you have indeed + done all this evil; yet don't turn aside from following Yahweh, + but serve Yahweh with all your heart: +012:021 and don't turn aside; for [then would you go] after vain things + which can't profit nor deliver, for they are vain. +012:022 For Yahweh will not forsake his people for his great name's sake, + because it has pleased Yahweh to make you a people to himself. +012:023 Moreover as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against + Yahweh in ceasing to pray for you: but I will instruct you + in the good and the right way. +012:024 Only fear Yahweh, and serve him in truth with all your heart; + for consider how great things he has done for you. +012:025 But if you shall still do wickedly, you shall be consumed, + both you and your king." +013:001 Saul was [forty] years old when he began to reign; + and when he had reigned two years over Israel, +013:002 Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel, of which two + thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in the Mount of Bethel, + and one thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: + and the rest of the people he sent every man to his tent. +013:003 Jonathan struck the garrison of the Philistines that was in Geba: + and the Philistines heard of it. Saul blew the trumpet + throughout all the land, saying, Let the Hebrews hear. +013:004 All Israel heard say that Saul had struck the garrison of + the Philistines, and also that Israel was had in abomination + with the Philistines. The people were gathered together + after Saul to Gilgal. +013:005 The Philistines assembled themselves together to fight with Israel, + thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, + and people as the sand which is on the seashore in multitude: + and they came up, and encamped in Michmash, eastward of Beth Aven. +013:006 When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait + (for the people were distressed), then the people did + hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, + and in coverts, and in pits. +013:007 Now some of the Hebrews had gone over the Jordan to the land + of Gad and Gilead; but as for Saul, he was yet in Gilgal, + and all the people followed him trembling. +013:008 He stayed seven days, according to the set time that Samuel + [had appointed]: but Samuel didn't come to Gilgal; + and the people were scattered from him. +013:009 Saul said, Bring here the burnt offering to me, and the + peace offerings. He offered the burnt offering. +013:010 It came to pass that as soon as he had made an end of offering + the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came; and Saul went out + to meet him, that he might greet him. +013:011 Samuel said, What have you done? Saul said, Because I saw + that the people were scattered from me, and that you didn't + come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines + assembled themselves together at Michmash; +013:012 therefore said I, Now will the Philistines come down on me + to Gilgal, and I haven't entreated the favor of Yahweh: I forced + myself therefore, and offered the burnt offering. +013:013 Samuel said to Saul, You have done foolishly; you have not kept + the commandment of Yahweh your God, which he commanded you: + for now would Yahweh have established your kingdom + on Israel forever. +013:014 But now your kingdom shall not continue: Yahweh has sought + him a man after his own heart, and Yahweh has appointed him + to be prince over his people, because you have not kept + that which Yahweh commanded you. +013:015 Samuel arose, and got him up from Gilgal to Gibeah of Benjamin. + Saul numbered the people who were present with him, + about six hundred men. +013:016 Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people who were present + with them, abode in Geba of Benjamin: but the Philistines + encamped in Michmash. +013:017 The spoilers came out of the camp of the Philistines in + three companies: one company turned to the way that leads + to Ophrah, to the land of Shual; +013:018 and another company turned the way to Beth Horon; + and another company turned the way of the border that looks + down on the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness. +013:019 Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel; + for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them + swords or spears: +013:020 but all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen + every man his plowshare, mattock, axe, and sickle; +013:021 yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the plowshares, + and for the forks, and for the axes, and to set the goads. +013:022 So it came to pass in the day of battle, that there was neither + sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people who + were with Saul and Jonathan: but with Saul and with Jonathan + his son was there found. +013:023 The garrison of the Philistines went out to the pass of Michmash. +014:001 Now it fell on a day, that Jonathan the son of Saul said + to the young man who bore his armor, Come, and let us go + over to the Philistines' garrison, that is on yonder side. + But he didn't tell his father. +014:002 Saul abode in the uttermost part of Gibeah under the pomegranate + tree which is in Migron: and the people who were with him + were about six hundred men; +014:003 and Ahijah, the son of Ahitub, Ichabod's brother, the son of Phinehas, + the son of Eli, the priest of Yahweh in Shiloh, wearing an ephod. + The people didn't know that Jonathan was gone. +014:004 Between the passes, by which Jonathan sought to go over to + the Philistines' garrison, there was a rocky crag on the one side, + and a rocky crag on the other side: and the name of the one + was Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh. +014:005 The one crag rose up on the north in front of Michmash, + and the other on the south in front of Geba. +014:006 Jonathan said to the young man who bore his armor, Come, + and let us go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised: + it may be that Yahweh will work for us; for there is no + restraint to Yahweh to save by many or by few. +014:007 His armor bearer said to him, Do all that is in your heart: + turn you, behold, I am with you according to your heart. +014:008 Then said Jonathan, Behold, we will pass over to the men, + and we will disclose ourselves to them. +014:009 If they say thus to us, Wait until we come to you; then we + will stand still in our place, and will not go up to them. +014:010 But if they say thus, Come up to us; then we will go up; + for Yahweh has delivered them into our hand: and this shall + be the sign to us. +014:011 Both of them disclosed themselves to the garrison of the Philistines: + and the Philistines said, Behold, the Hebrews come forth + out of the holes where they had hid themselves. +014:012 The men of the garrison answered Jonathan and his armor bearer, + and said, Come up to us, and we will show you a thing. + Jonathan said to his armor bearer, Come up after me; + for Yahweh has delivered them into the hand of Israel. +014:013 Jonathan climbed up on his hands and on his feet, and his + armor bearer after him: and they fell before Jonathan; + and his armor bearer killed them after him. +014:014 That first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armor bearer made, + was about twenty men, within as it were half a furrow's length + in an acre of land. +014:015 There was a trembling in the camp, in the field, and among all + the people; the garrison, and the spoilers, they also trembled; + and the earth quaked: so there was an exceeding great trembling. +014:016 The watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked; and behold, + the multitude melted away, and they went [here] and there. +014:017 Then said Saul to the people who were with him, Number now, + and see who is gone from us. When they had numbered, behold, + Jonathan and his armor bearer were not there. +014:018 Saul said to Ahijah, Bring here the ark of God. For the ark + of God was [there] at that time with the children of Israel. +014:019 It happened, while Saul talked to the priest, that the tumult + that was in the camp of the Philistines went on and increased: + and Saul said to the priest, Withdraw your hand. +014:020 Saul and all the people who were with him were gathered together, + and came to the battle: and behold, every man's sword was + against his fellow, [and there was] a very great confusion. +014:021 Now the Hebrews who were with the Philistines as before, + and who went up with them into the camp, [from the country] + round about, even they also [turned] to be with the Israelites + who were with Saul and Jonathan. +014:022 Likewise all the men of Israel who had hid themselves in the hill + country of Ephraim, when they heard that the Philistines fled, + even they also followed hard after them in the battle. +014:023 So Yahweh saved Israel that day: and the battle passed over + by Beth Aven. +014:024 The men of Israel were distressed that day; for Saul had + adjured the people, saying, Cursed be the man who eats any + food until it be evening, and I be avenged on my enemies. + So none of the people tasted food. +014:025 All the people came into the forest; and there was honey + on the ground. +014:026 When the people were come to the forest, behold, the honey dropped: + but no man put his hand to his mouth; for the people + feared the oath. +014:027 But Jonathan didn't hear when his father charged the people + with the oath: therefore he put forth the end of the rod + who was in his hand, and dipped it in the honeycomb, and put + his hand to his mouth; and his eyes were enlightened. +014:028 Then answered one of the people, and said, Your father directly + charged the people with an oath, saying, Cursed be the man + who eats food this day. The people were faint. +014:029 Then said Jonathan, My father has troubled the land. + Please look how my eyes have been enlightened, because I + tasted a little of this honey. +014:030 How much more, if haply the people had eaten freely today + of the spoil of their enemies which they found? for now has + there been no great slaughter among the Philistines. +014:031 They struck of the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon. + The people were very faint; +014:032 and the people flew on the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, + and calves, and killed them on the ground; and the people + ate them with the blood. +014:033 Then they told Saul, saying, Behold, the people sin + against Yahweh, in that they eat with the blood. + He said, you have dealt treacherously: roll a great stone + to me this day. +014:034 Saul said, Disperse yourselves among the people, and tell them, + Bring me here every man his ox, and every man his sheep, + and kill them here, and eat; and don't sin against Yahweh + in eating with the blood. All the people brought every man + his ox with him that night, and killed them there. +014:035 Saul built an altar to Yahweh: the same was the first altar + that he built to Yahweh. +014:036 Saul said, Let us go down after the Philistines by night, + and take spoil among them until the morning light, and let us not + leave a man of them. They said, Do whatever seems good to you. + Then said the priest, Let us draw near here to God. +014:037 Saul asked counsel of God, Shall I go down after the Philistines? + will you deliver them into the hand of Israel? But he didn't + answer him that day. +014:038 Saul said, Draw near here, all you chiefs of the people; + and know and see in which this sin has been this day. +014:039 For, as Yahweh lives, who saves Israel, though it be in Jonathan + my son, he shall surely die. But there was not a man among + all the people who answered him. +014:040 Then said he to all Israel, Be you on one side, + and I and Jonathan my son will be on the other side. + The people said to Saul, Do what seems good to you. +014:041 Therefore Saul said to Yahweh, the God of Israel, Show the right. + Jonathan and Saul were taken [by lot]; but the people escaped. +014:042 Saul said, Cast [lots] between me and Jonathan my son. + Jonathan was taken. +014:043 Then Saul said to Jonathan, Tell me what you have done. + Jonathan told him, and said, I did certainly taste a little + honey with the end of the rod that was in my hand; and behold, + I must die. +014:044 Saul said, God do so and more also; for you shall + surely die, Jonathan. +014:045 The people said to Saul, Shall Jonathan die, who has + worked this great salvation in Israel? Far from it: + as Yahweh lives, there shall not one hair of his head + fall to the ground; for he has worked with God this day. + So the people rescued Jonathan, that he didn't die. +014:046 Then Saul went up from following the Philistines; + and the Philistines went to their own place. +014:047 Now when Saul had taken the kingdom over Israel, he fought + against all his enemies on every side, against Moab, + and against the children of Ammon, and against Edom, + and against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines: + and wherever he turned himself, he put [them] to the worse. +014:048 He did valiantly, and struck the Amalekites, and delivered + Israel out of the hands of those who despoiled them. +014:049 Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, and Ishvi, and Malchishua; + and the names of his two daughters were these: the name + of the firstborn Merab, and the name of the younger Michal: +014:050 and the name of Saul's wife was Ahinoam the daughter of Ahimaaz. + The name of the captain of his army was Abner the son + of Ner, Saul's uncle. +014:051 Kish was the father of Saul; and Ner the father of Abner was + the son of Abiel. +014:052 There was sore war against the Philistines all the days of Saul: + and when Saul saw any mighty man, or any valiant man, + he took him to him. +015:001 Samuel said to Saul, Yahweh sent me to anoint you to be king + over his people, over Israel: now therefore listen you + to the voice of the words of Yahweh. +015:002 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, I have marked that which Amalek + did to Israel, how he set himself against him in the way, + when he came up out of Egypt. +015:003 Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, + and don't spare them; but kill both man and woman, + infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and donkey. +015:004 Saul summoned the people, and numbered them in Telaim, + two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah. +015:005 Saul came to the city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley. +015:006 Saul said to the Kenites, Go, depart, get you down from among + the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them; for you shown kindness + to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. + So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites. +015:007 Saul struck the Amalekites, from Havilah as you go to Shur, + that is before Egypt. +015:008 He took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly + destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword. +015:009 But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, + and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all + that was good, and wouldn't utterly destroy them: but everything + that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly. +015:010 Then came the word of Yahweh to Samuel, saying, +015:011 It grieves me that I have set up Saul to be king; for he is turned + back from following me, and has not performed my commandments. + Samuel was angry; and he cried to Yahweh all night. +015:012 Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning; and it + was told Samuel, saying, Saul came to Carmel, and behold, + he set him up a monument, and turned, and passed on, + and went down to Gilgal. +015:013 Samuel came to Saul; and Saul said to him, Blessed are you + by Yahweh: I have performed the commandment of Yahweh. +015:014 Samuel said, What means then this bleating of the sheep in my ears, + and the lowing of the oxen which I hear? +015:015 Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites: + for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, + to sacrifice to Yahweh your God; and the rest we + have utterly destroyed. +015:016 Then Samuel said to Saul, Stay, and I will tell you what Yahweh + has said to me this night. He said to him, Say on. +015:017 Samuel said, "Though you were little in your own sight, + weren't you made the head of the tribes of Israel? Yahweh anointed + you king over Israel; +015:018 and Yahweh sent you on a journey, and said, 'Go, and utterly + destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them + until they are consumed.' +015:019 Why then didn't you obey the voice of Yahweh, but flew on the spoil, + and did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh?" +015:020 Saul said to Samuel, Yes, I have obeyed the voice of Yahweh, + and have gone the way which Yahweh sent me, and have brought Agag + the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites. +015:021 But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief + of the devoted things, to sacrifice to Yahweh your God in Gilgal. +015:022 Samuel said, Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings + and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of Yahweh? Behold, to obey + is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams. +015:023 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is + as idolatry and teraphim. Because you have rejected the word + of Yahweh, he has also rejected you from being king. +015:024 Saul said to Samuel, I have sinned; for I have transgressed + the commandment of Yahweh, and your words, because I feared + the people, and obeyed their voice. +015:025 Now therefore, please pardon my sin, and turn again with me, + that I may worship Yahweh. +015:026 Samuel said to Saul, I will not return with you; for you + have rejected the word of Yahweh, and Yahweh has rejected + you from being king over Israel. +015:027 As Samuel turned about to go away, [Saul] laid hold on the skirt + of his robe, and it tore. +015:028 Samuel said to him, Yahweh has torn the kingdom of Israel + from you this day, and has given it to a neighbor of yours + who is better than you. +015:029 Also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent; + for he is not a man, that he should repent. +015:030 Then he said, I have sinned: yet honor me now, Please, before the + elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn again with me, + that I may worship Yahweh your God. +015:031 So Samuel turned again after Saul; and Saul worshiped Yahweh. +015:032 Then said Samuel, Bring you here to me Agag the king + of the Amalekites. Agag came to him cheerfully. + Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past. +015:033 Samuel said, As your sword has made women childless, so shall + your mother be childless among women. Samuel hewed Agag + in pieces before Yahweh in Gilgal. +015:034 Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house + to Gibeah of Saul. +015:035 Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death; + for Samuel mourned for Saul: and Yahweh grieved that he had + made Saul king over Israel. +016:001 Yahweh said to Samuel, How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing I + have rejected him from being king over Israel? fill your horn + with oil, and go: I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite; + for I have provided me a king among his sons. +016:002 Samuel said, How can I go? if Saul hear it, he will kill me. + Yahweh said, Take a heifer with you, and say, I am come + to sacrifice to Yahweh. +016:003 Call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do: + and you shall anoint to me him whom I name to you. +016:004 Samuel did that which Yahweh spoke, and came to Bethlehem. + The elders of the city came to meet him trembling, and said, + Come you peaceably? +016:005 He said, Peaceably; I am come to sacrifice to Yahweh: + sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice. + He sanctified Jesse and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice. +016:006 It happened, when they had come, that he looked at Eliab, + and said, Surely Yahweh's anointed is before him. +016:007 But Yahweh said to Samuel, "Don't look on his face, or on + the height of his stature; because I have rejected him: + for [Yahweh sees] not as man sees; for man looks at the + outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart." +016:008 Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. + He said, Neither has Yahweh chosen this. +016:009 Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by. He said, Neither has + Yahweh chosen this. +016:010 Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before Samuel. + Samuel said to Jesse, Yahweh has not chosen these. +016:011 Samuel said to Jesse, Are here all your children? + He said, There remains yet the youngest, and behold, he is + keeping the sheep. Samuel said to Jesse, Send and get him; + for we will not sit down until he come here. +016:012 He sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, + and withal of a beautiful face, and goodly to look on. + Yahweh said, Arise, anoint him; for this is he. +016:013 Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst + of his brothers: and the Spirit of Yahweh came mightily + on David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, + and went to Ramah. +016:014 Now the Spirit of Yahweh departed from Saul, and an evil spirit + from Yahweh troubled him. +016:015 Saul's servants said to him, See now, an evil spirit from + God troubles you. +016:016 Let our lord now command your servants who are before you, + to seek out a man who is a skillful player on the harp: + and it shall happen, when the evil spirit from God is on you, + that he shall play with his hand, and you shall be well. +016:017 Saul said to his servants, Provide me now a man who can play well, + and bring him to me. +016:018 Then answered one of the young men, and said, Behold, I have seen + a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, who is skillful in playing, + and a mighty man of valor, and a man of war, and prudent + in speech, and a comely person; and Yahweh is with him. +016:019 Therefore Saul sent messengers to Jesse, and said, Send me + David your son, who is with the sheep. +016:020 Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread, and a bottle of wine, + and a kid, and sent them by David his son to Saul. +016:021 David came to Saul, and stood before him: and he loved him greatly; + and he became his armor bearer. +016:022 Saul sent to Jesse, saying, Please let David stand before me; + for he has found favor in my sight. +016:023 It happened, when the [evil] spirit from God was on Saul, + that David took the harp, and played with his hand: + so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit + departed from him. +017:001 Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle; + and they were gathered together at Socoh, which belongs to Judah, + and encamped between Socoh and Azekah, in Ephesdammim. +017:002 Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, + and encamped in the valley of Elah, and set the battle in array + against the Philistines. +017:003 The Philistines stood on the mountain on the one side, + and Israel stood on the mountain on the other side: + and there was a valley between them. +017:004 There went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, + named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span. +017:005 He had a helmet of brass on his head, and he was clad with a + coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand + shekels of brass. +017:006 He had brass shin armor on his legs, and a javelin of brass + between his shoulders. +017:007 The staff of his spear was like a weaver's beam; + and his spear's head [weighed] six hundred shekels of iron: + and his shield bearer went before him. +017:008 He stood and cried to the armies of Israel, and said to them, + Why are you come out to set your battle in array? am I not + a Philistine, and you servants to Saul? choose you a man for you, + and let him come down to me. +017:009 If he be able to fight with me, and kill me, then will we + be your servants; but if I prevail against him, and kill him, + then shall you be our servants, and serve us. +017:010 The Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day; + give me a man, that we may fight together. +017:011 When Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine, + they were dismayed, and greatly afraid. +017:012 Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehem Judah, + whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons: and the man was + an old man in the days of Saul, stricken [in years] among men. +017:013 The three eldest sons of Jesse had gone after Saul to the battle: + and the names of his three sons who went to the battle + were Eliab the firstborn, and next to him Abinadab, + and the third Shammah. +017:014 David was the youngest; and the three eldest followed Saul. +017:015 Now David went back and forth from Saul to feed his father's + sheep at Bethlehem. +017:016 The Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented + himself forty days. +017:017 Jesse said to David his son, Take now for your brothers + an ephah of this parched grain, and these ten loaves, + and carry [them] quickly to the camp to your brothers; +017:018 and bring these ten cheeses to the captain of their thousand, + and look how your brothers fare, and take their pledge. +017:019 Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel, were in the valley + of Elah, fighting with the Philistines. +017:020 David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with + a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; + and he came to the place of the wagons, as the army which was + going forth to the fight shouted for the battle. +017:021 Israel and the Philistines put the battle in array, + army against army. +017:022 David left his baggage in the hand of the keeper of the baggage, + and ran to the army, and came and greeted his brothers. +017:023 As he talked with them, behold, there came up the champion, + the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, out of the ranks + of the Philistines, and spoke according to the same words: + and David heard them. +017:024 All the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, + and were sore afraid. +017:025 The men of Israel said, Have you seen this man who is come + up? surely to defy Israel is he come up: and it shall be, + that the man who kills him, the king will enrich him + with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and make + his father's house free in Israel. +017:026 David spoke to the men who stood by him, saying, What shall + be done to the man who kills this Philistine, and takes away + the reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, + that he should defy the armies of the living God? +017:027 The people answered him after this manner, saying, So shall + it be done to the man who kills him. +017:028 Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab's + anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why are you come down? + and with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? + I know your pride, and the naughtiness of your heart; + for you have come down that you might see the battle. +017:029 David said, What have I now done? Is there not a cause? +017:030 He turned away from him toward another, and spoke after + the same manner: and the people answered him again after + the former manner. +017:031 When the words were heard which David spoke, they rehearsed + them before Saul; and he sent for him. +017:032 David said to Saul, Let no man's heart fail because of him; + your servant will go and fight with this Philistine. +017:033 Saul said to David, You are not able to go against this + Philistine to fight with him; for you are but a youth, + and he a man of war from his youth. +017:034 David said to Saul, Your servant was keeping his father's sheep; + and when there came a lion, or a bear, and took a lamb out + of the flock, +017:035 I went out after him, and struck him, and delivered it out + of his mouth; and when he arose against me, I caught him + by his beard, and struck him, and killed him. +017:036 Your servant struck both the lion and the bear: + and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, + seeing he has defied the armies of the living God. +017:037 David said, Yahweh who delivered me out of the paw of the lion, + and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand + of this Philistine. Saul said to David, Go, and Yahweh shall + be with you. +017:038 Saul clad David with his clothing, and he put a helmet of brass + on his head, and he clad him with a coat of mail. +017:039 David girded his sword on his clothing, and he tried to go; + for he had not proved it. David said to Saul, I can't go with these; + for I have not proved them. David put them off him. +017:040 He took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth stones + out of the brook, and put them in the shepherd's bag which + he had, even in his wallet; and his sling was in his hand: + and he drew near to the Philistine. +017:041 The Philistine came on and drew near to David; and the man + who bore the shield went before him. +017:042 When the Philistine looked about, and saw David, he disdained him; + for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and withal of a fair face. +017:043 The Philistine said to David, Am I a dog, that you come to me + with sticks? The Philistine cursed David by his gods. +017:044 The Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give + your flesh to the birds of the sky, and to the animals + of the field. +017:045 Then said David to the Philistine, You come to me with a sword, + and with a spear, and with a javelin: but I come to you in + the name of Yahweh of Armies, the God of the armies of Israel, + whom you have defied. +017:046 This day will Yahweh deliver you into my hand; and I will + strike you, and take your head from off you; and I will give + the dead bodies of the army of the Philistines this day + to the birds of the sky, and to the wild animals of the earth; + that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel, +017:047 and that all this assembly may know that Yahweh doesn't + save with sword and spear: for the battle is Yahweh's, + and he will give you into our hand. +017:048 It happened, when the Philistine arose, and came and drew near + to meet David, that David hurried, and ran toward the army + to meet the Philistine. +017:049 David put his hand in his bag, and took there a stone, + and slang it, and struck the Philistine in his forehead; + and the stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face + to the earth. +017:050 So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and + with a stone, and struck the Philistine, and killed him; + but there was no sword in the hand of David. +017:051 Then David ran, and stood over the Philistine, and took his sword, + and drew it out of the sheath of it, and killed him, + and cut off his head therewith. When the Philistines saw + that their champion was dead, they fled. +017:052 The men of Israel and of Judah arose, and shouted, and pursued + the Philistines, until you come to Gai, and to the gates of Ekron. + The wounded of the Philistines fell down by the way to Shaaraim, + even to Gath, and to Ekron. +017:053 The children of Israel returned from chasing after the Philistines, + and they plundered their camp. +017:054 David took the head of the Philistine, and brought it to Jerusalem; + but he put his armor in his tent. +017:055 When Saul saw David go forth against the Philistine, he said to Abner, + the captain of the army, Abner, whose son is this youth? + Abner said, As your soul lives, O king, I can't tell. +017:056 The king said, "Inquire whose son the young man is!" +017:057 As David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abner + took him, and brought him before Saul with the head of + the Philistine in his hand. +017:058 Saul said to him, Whose son are you, you young man? + David answered, I am the son of your servant Jesse the Bethlehemite. +018:001 It happened, when he had made an end of speaking to Saul, + that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, + and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. +018:002 Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more home + to his father's house. +018:003 Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him + as his own soul. +018:004 Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was on him, + and gave it to David, and his clothing, even to his sword, + and to his bow, and to his sash. +018:005 David went out wherever Saul sent him, [and] behaved himself wisely: + and Saul set him over the men of war, and it was good in the sight + of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul's servants. +018:006 It happened as they came, when David returned from the slaughter + of the Philistine, that the women came out of all the cities + of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, + with tambourines, with joy, and with instruments of music. +018:007 The women sang one to another as they played, and said, + Saul has slain his thousands, David his ten thousands. +018:008 Saul was very angry, and this saying displeased him; + and he said, They have ascribed to David ten thousands, + and to me they have ascribed but thousands: and what can + he have more but the kingdom? +018:009 Saul eyed David from that day and forward. +018:010 It happened on the next day, that an evil spirit from God came + mightily on Saul, and he prophesied in the midst of the house: + and David played with his hand, as he did day by day. + Saul had his spear in his hand; +018:011 and Saul cast the spear; for he said, I will strike David + even to the wall. David avoided out of his presence twice. +018:012 Saul was afraid of David, because Yahweh was with him, + and was departed from Saul. +018:013 Therefore Saul removed him from him, and made him his captain + over a thousand; and he went out and came in before the people. +018:014 David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and Yahweh + was with him. +018:015 When Saul saw that he behaved himself very wisely, he stood + in awe of him. +018:016 But all Israel and Judah loved David; for he went out and came + in before them. +018:017 Saul said to David, Behold, my elder daughter Merab, her will I give + you as wife: only be valiant for me, and fight Yahweh's battles. + For Saul said, Don't let my hand be on him, but let the hand + of the Philistines be on him. +018:018 David said to Saul, Who am I, and what is my life, [or] my + father's family in Israel, that I should be son-in-law + to the king? +018:019 But it happened at the time when Merab, Saul's daughter, + should have been given to David, that she was given to Adriel + the Meholathite as wife. +018:020 Michal, Saul's daughter, loved David: and they told Saul, + and the thing pleased him. +018:021 Saul said, I will give her to him, that she may be a snare to him, + and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. + Therefore Saul said to David, You shall this day be my son-in-law + a second time. +018:022 Saul commanded his servants, [saying], Commune with David secretly, + and say, Behold, the king has delight in you, and all his + servants love you: now therefore be the king's son-in-law. +018:023 Saul's servants spoke those words in the ears of David. + David said, Seems it to you a light thing to be the king's + son-in-law, seeing that I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed? +018:024 The servants of Saul told him, saying, On this manner spoke David. +018:025 Saul said, Thus shall you tell David, The king desires + no dowry except one hundred foreskins of the Philistines, + to be avenged of the king's enemies. Now Saul thought to make + David fall by the hand of the Philistines. +018:026 When his servants told David these words, it pleased David + well to be the king's son-in-law. The days were not expired; +018:027 and David arose and went, he and his men, and killed + of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought + their foreskins, and they gave them in full number to the king, + that he might be the king's son-in-law. Saul gave him Michal + his daughter as wife. +018:028 Saul saw and knew that Yahweh was with David; + and Michal, Saul's daughter, loved him. +018:029 Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul was + David's enemy continually. +018:030 Then the princes of the Philistines went forth: + and it happened, as often as they went forth, that David + behaved himself more wisely than all the servants of Saul; + so that his name was much set by. +019:001 Saul spoke to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, + that they should kill David. But Jonathan, Saul's son, + delighted much in David. +019:002 Jonathan told David, saying, Saul my father seeks to kill you: + now therefore, please take care of yourself in the morning, + and live in a secret place, and hide yourself: +019:003 and I will go out and stand beside my father in the field + where you are, and I will commune with my father of you; + and if I see anything, I will tell you. +019:004 Jonathan spoke good of David to Saul his father, and said to him, + Don't let the king sin against his servant, against David; + because he has not sinned against you, and because his works + have been very good toward you: +019:005 for he put his life in his hand, and struck the Philistine, + and Yahweh worked a great victory for all Israel: you saw it, + and did rejoice; why then will you sin against innocent blood, + to kill David without a cause? +019:006 Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan: and Saul swore, + As Yahweh lives, he shall not be put to death. +019:007 Jonathan called David, and Jonathan showed him all those things. + Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence, + as before. +019:008 There was war again: and David went out, and fought with + the Philistines, and killed them with a great slaughter; + and they fled before him. +019:009 An evil spirit from Yahweh was on Saul, as he sat in his house + with his spear in his hand; and David was playing with his hand. +019:010 Saul sought to strike David even to the wall with the spear; + but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he struck + the spear into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night. +019:011 Saul sent messengers to David's house, to watch him, + and to kill him in the morning: and Michal, David's wife, + told him, saying, If you don't save your life tonight, + tomorrow you will be slain. +019:012 So Michal let David down through the window: and he went, + and fled, and escaped. +019:013 Michal took the teraphim, and laid it in the bed, and put + a pillow of goats' [hair] at the head of it, and covered it + with the clothes. +019:014 When Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, He is sick. +019:015 Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, Bring him up + to me in the bed, that I may kill him. +019:016 When the messengers came in, behold, the teraphim was in the bed, + with the pillow of goats' [hair] at the head of it. +019:017 Saul said to Michal, Why have you deceived me thus, and let my + enemy go, so that he is escaped? Michal answered Saul, He said + to me, Let me go; why should I kill you? +019:018 Now David fled, and escaped, and came to Samuel to Ramah, + and told him all that Saul had done to him. He and Samuel + went and lived in Naioth. +019:019 It was told Saul, saying, Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah. +019:020 Saul sent messengers to take David: and when they saw the company + of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as head + over them, the Spirit of God came on the messengers of Saul, + and they also prophesied. +019:021 When it was told Saul, he sent other messengers, and they + also prophesied. Saul sent messengers again the third time, + and they also prophesied. +019:022 Then went he also to Ramah, and came to the great well + that is in Secu: and he asked and said, Where are Samuel + and David? One said, Behold, they are at Naioth in Ramah. +019:023 He went there to Naioth in Ramah: and the Spirit of God came + on him also, and he went on, and prophesied, until he came + to Naioth in Ramah. +019:024 He also stripped off his clothes, and he also prophesied + before Samuel, and lay down naked all that day and all that night. + Therefore they say, "Is Saul also among the prophets?" +020:001 David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said + before Jonathan, "What have I done? What is my iniquity?" + and "What is my sin before your father, that he seeks my life?" +020:002 He said to him, "Far from it; you shall not die: behold, my father + does nothing either great or small, but that he discloses it + to me; and why should my father hide this thing from me? + It is not so." +020:003 David swore moreover, and said, "Your father knows + well that I have found favor in your eyes; and he says, + 'Don't let Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved:' + but truly as Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, there is + but a step between me and death." +020:004 Then said Jonathan to David, "Whatever your soul desires, + I will even do it for you." +020:005 David said to Jonathan, "Behold, tomorrow is the new moon, + and I should not fail to dine with the king; but let me go, + that I may hide myself in the field to the third day at evening. +020:006 If your father miss me at all, then say, 'David earnestly + asked leave of me that he might run to Bethlehem his city; + for it is the yearly sacrifice there for all the family.' +020:007 If he says, 'It is well;' your servant shall have peace: + but if he be angry, then know that evil is determined by him. +020:008 Therefore deal kindly with your servant; for you have + brought your servant into a covenant of Yahweh with you: + but if there be in me iniquity, kill me yourself; for why + should you bring me to your father?" +020:009 Jonathan said, "Far be it from you; for if I should at all + know that evil were determined by my father to come on you, + then wouldn't I tell you that?" +020:010 Then said David to Jonathan, "Who shall tell me if perchance + your father answer you roughly?" +020:011 Jonathan said to David, "Come, and let us go out into the field." + They both went out into the field. +020:012 Jonathan said to David, "Yahweh, the God of Israel, [be witness]: + when I have sounded my father about this time tomorrow, + [or] the third day, behold, if there be good toward David, + shall I not then send to you, and disclose it to you? +020:013 Yahweh do so to Jonathan, and more also, should it please my + father to do you evil, if I don't disclose it to you, and send + you away, that you may go in peace: and Yahweh be with you, + as he has been with my father. +020:014 You shall not only while yet I live show me the loving kindness + of Yahweh, that I not die; +020:015 but also you shall not cut off your kindness from my house forever; + no, not when Yahweh has cut off the enemies of David everyone + from the surface of the earth." +020:016 So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, [saying], + Yahweh will require it at the hand of David's enemies. +020:017 Jonathan caused David to swear again, for the love that he had + to him; for he loved him as he loved his own soul. +020:018 Then Jonathan said to him, Tomorrow is the new moon: + and you will be missed, because your seat will be empty. +020:019 When you have stayed three days, you shall go down quickly, + and come to the place where you did hide yourself when the + business was in hand, and shall remain by the stone Ezel. +020:020 I will shoot three arrows on the side of it, as though I shot + at a mark. +020:021 Behold, I will send the boy, [saying], Go, find the arrows. + If I tell the boy, Behold, the arrows are on this side of you; + take them, and come; for there is peace to you and no hurt, + as Yahweh lives. +020:022 But if I say thus to the boy, Behold, the arrows are beyond you; + go your way; for Yahweh has sent you away. +020:023 As touching the matter which you and I have spoken of, behold, + Yahweh is between you and me forever. +020:024 So David hid himself in the field: and when the new moon was come, + the king sat him down to eat food. +020:025 The king sat on his seat, as at other times, even on the seat + by the wall; and Jonathan stood up, and Abner sat by Saul's side: + but David's place was empty. +020:026 Nevertheless Saul didn't say anything that day: + for he thought, Something has happened to him. He is not clean. + Surely he is not clean. +020:027 It happened on the next day after the new moon, [which was] + the second [day], that David's place was empty: and Saul said + to Jonathan his son, Why doesn't the son of Jesse come to meat, + neither yesterday, nor today? +020:028 Jonathan answered Saul, David earnestly asked leave of me + to go to Bethlehem: +020:029 and he said, Please let me go, for our family has a sacrifice + in the city; and my brother, he has commanded me [to + be there]: and now, if I have found favor in your eyes, + let me get away, I pray you, and see my brothers. + Therefore he is not come to the king's table. +020:030 Then Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said + to him, You son of a perverse rebellious woman, don't I know + that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame, + and to the shame of your mother's nakedness? +020:031 For as long as the son of Jesse lives on the earth, you shall + not be established, nor your kingdom. Therefore now send + and bring him to me, for he shall surely die. +020:032 Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said to him, "Why should + he be put to death? What has he done?" +020:033 Saul cast his spear at him to strike him. By this Jonathan + knew that his father was determined to put David to death. +020:034 So Jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger, and ate no food + the second day of the month; for he was grieved for David, + because his father had done him shame. +020:035 It happened in the morning, that Jonathan went out into the field + at the time appointed with David, and a little boy with him. +020:036 He said to his boy, Run, find now the arrows which I shoot. + As the boy ran, he shot an arrow beyond him. +020:037 When the boy was come to the place of the arrow which + Jonathan had shot, Jonathan cried after the boy, and said, + Isn't the arrow beyond you? +020:038 Jonathan cried after the boy, Go fast! Hurry! Don't delay! + Jonathan's boy gathered up the arrows, and came to his master. +020:039 But the boy didn't know anything: only Jonathan and David + knew the matter. +020:040 Jonathan gave his weapons to his boy, and said to him, Go, + carry them to the city. +020:041 As soon as the boy was gone, David arose out of [a place] + toward the South, and fell on his face to the ground, + and bowed himself three times: and they kissed one another, + and wept one with another, until David exceeded. +020:042 Jonathan said to David, Go in peace, because we have sworn + both of us in the name of Yahweh, saying, Yahweh shall be + between me and you, and between my seed and your seed, forever. + He arose and departed: and Jonathan went into the city. +021:001 Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest: + and Ahimelech came to meet David trembling, and said to him, + Why are you alone, and no man with you? +021:002 David said to Ahimelech the priest, The king has commanded me + a business, and has said to me, Let no man know anything of the + business about which I send you, and what I have commanded you: + and I have appointed the young men to such and such a place. +021:003 Now therefore what is under your hand? give me five loaves + of bread in my hand, or whatever there is present. +021:004 The priest answered David, and said, There is no common bread + under my hand, but there is holy bread; if only the young + men have kept themselves from women. +021:005 David answered the priest, and said to him, Of a truth + women have been kept from us about these three days; + when I came out, the vessels of the young men were holy, + though it was but a common journey; how much more then today + shall their vessels be holy? +021:006 So the priest gave him holy [bread]; for there was no bread + there but the show bread, that was taken from before Yahweh, + to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away. +021:007 Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, + detained before Yahweh; and his name was Doeg the Edomite, + the best of the herdsmen who belonged to Saul. +021:008 David said to Ahimelech, Isn't there here under your hand spear + or sword? for I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons + with me, because the king's business required haste. +021:009 The priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, + whom you killed in the valley of Elah, behold, it is here + wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod: if you will take that, + take it; for there is no other except that here. + David said, There is none like that; give it me. +021:010 David arose, and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went + to Achish the king of Gath. +021:011 The servants of Achish said to him, "Isn't this David + the king of the land? Didn't they sing one to another + about him in dances, saying, 'Saul has slain his thousands, + David his ten thousands?'" +021:012 David laid up these words in his heart, and was very afraid + of Achish the king of Gath. +021:013 He changed his behavior before them, and feigned himself mad + in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, + and let his spittle fall down on his beard. +021:014 Then said Achish to his servants, Look, you see the man is mad; + why then have you brought him to me? +021:015 Do I lack madmen, that you have brought this fellow to play + the madman in my presence? shall this fellow come into my house? +022:001 David therefore departed there, and escaped to the cave of Adullam: + and when his brothers and all his father's house heard it, + they went down there to him. +022:002 Everyone who was in distress, and everyone who was in debt, + and everyone who was discontented, gathered themselves to him; + and he became captain over them: and there were with him + about four hundred men. +022:003 David went there to Mizpeh of Moab: and he said to the king + of Moab, Please let my father and my mother come forth, + [and be] with you, until I know what God will do for me. +022:004 He brought them before the king of Moab: and they lived + with him all the while that David was in the stronghold. +022:005 The prophet Gad said to David, Don't stay in the stronghold; + depart, and get you into the land of Judah. Then David departed, + and came into the forest of Hereth. +022:006 Saul heard that David was discovered, and the men who were with him: + now Saul was sitting in Gibeah, under the tamarisk tree + in Ramah, with his spear in his hand, and all his servants + were standing about him. +022:007 Saul said to his servants who stood about him, Hear now, + you Benjamites; will the son of Jesse give everyone of you + fields and vineyards, will he make you all captains of thousands + and captains of hundreds, +022:008 that all of you have conspired against me, and there is none + who discloses to me when my son makes a league with the son + of Jesse, and there is none of you who is sorry for me, + or discloses to me that my son has stirred up my servant + against me, to lie in wait, as at this day? +022:009 Then answered Doeg the Edomite, who stood by the servants + of Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, + to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub. +022:010 He inquired of Yahweh for him, and gave him food, and gave + him the sword of Goliath the Philistine. +022:011 Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, + and all his father's house, the priests who were in Nob: + and they came all of them to the king. +022:012 Saul said, Hear now, you son of Ahitub. He answered, + Here I am, my lord. +022:013 Saul said to him, Why have you conspired against me, + you and the son of Jesse, in that you have given him bread, + and a sword, and have inquired of God for him, that he should + rise against me, to lie in wait, as at this day? +022:014 Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, Who among all your + servants is so faithful as David, who is the king's son-in-law, + and is taken into your council, and is honorable in your house? +022:015 Have I today begun to inquire of God for him? be it far from me: + don't let the king impute anything to his servant, nor to + all the house of my father; for your servant knows nothing + of all this, less or more. +022:016 The king said, You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you, and all + your father's house. +022:017 The king said to the guard who stood about him, Turn, and kill + the priests of Yahweh; because their hand also is with David, + and because they knew that he fled, and didn't disclose it to me. + But the servants of the king wouldn't put forth their hand + to fall on the priests of Yahweh. +022:018 The king said to Doeg, Turn you, and fall on the priests. + Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell on the priests, + and he killed on that day eighty-five persons who wore + a linen ephod. +022:019 Nob, the city of the priests, struck he with the edge of + the sword, both men and women, children and nursing babies, + and oxen and donkeys and sheep, with the edge of the sword. +022:020 One of the sons of Ahimelech, the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, + escaped, and fled after David. +022:021 Abiathar told David that Saul had slain Yahweh's priests. +022:022 David said to Abiathar, I knew on that day, when Doeg the Edomite + was there, that he would surely tell Saul: I have occasioned + [the death] of all the persons of your father's house. +022:023 Abide you with me, don't be afraid; for he who seeks my life + seeks your life: for with me you shall be in safeguard. +023:001 They told David, saying, Behold, the Philistines are fighting + against Keilah, and are robbing the threshing floors. +023:002 Therefore David inquired of Yahweh, saying, Shall I go and strike + these Philistines? Yahweh said to David, Go, and strike + the Philistines, and save Keilah. +023:003 David's men said to him, Behold, we are afraid here in Judah: + how much more then if we go to Keilah against the armies + of the Philistines? +023:004 Then David inquired of Yahweh yet again. Yahweh answered him, + and said, Arise, go down to Keilah; for I will deliver + the Philistines into your hand. +023:005 David and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the Philistines, + and brought away their livestock, and killed them with a + great slaughter. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah. +023:006 It happened, when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David + to Keilah, that he came down with an ephod in his hand. +023:007 It was told Saul that David was come to Keilah. Saul said, + God has delivered him into my hand; for he is shut in, + by entering into a town that has gates and bars. +023:008 Saul summoned all the people to war, to go down to Keilah, + to besiege David and his men. +023:009 David knew that Saul was devising mischief against him; + and he said to Abiathar the priest, Bring here the ephod. +023:010 Then said David, O Yahweh, the God of Israel, your servant has + surely heard that Saul seeks to come to Keilah, to destroy + the city for my sake. +023:011 Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? + will Saul come down, as your servant has heard? + Yahweh, the God of Israel, I beg you, tell your servant. + Yahweh said, He will come down. +023:012 Then said David, Will the men of Keilah deliver up to me + and my men into the hand of Saul? Yahweh said, They will + deliver you up. +023:013 Then David and his men, who were about six hundred, arose and + departed out of Keilah, and went wherever they could go. + It was told Saul that David was escaped from Keilah; + and he gave up going there. +023:014 David abode in the wilderness in the strongholds, + and remained in the hill country in the wilderness of Ziph. + Saul sought him every day, but God didn't deliver him + into his hand. +023:015 David saw that Saul had come out to seek his life: + and David was in the wilderness of Ziph in the wood. +023:016 Jonathan, Saul's son, arose, and went to David into the wood, + and strengthened his hand in God. +023:017 He said to him, Don't be afraid; for the hand of Saul my father + shall not find you; and you shall be king over Israel, and I + shall be next to you; and that also Saul my father knows. +023:018 They two made a covenant before Yahweh: and David abode + in the wood, and Jonathan went to his house. +023:019 Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doesn't David + hide himself with us in the strongholds in the wood, + in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of the desert? +023:020 Now therefore, O king, come down, according to all the desire + of your soul to come down; and our part shall be to deliver + him up into the king's hand. +023:021 Saul said, Blessed be you of Yahweh; for you have had + compassion on me. +023:022 Please go make yet more sure, and know and see his place + where his haunt is, [and] who has seen him there; for it + is told me that he deals very subtly. +023:023 See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places + where he hides himself, and come you again to me of a certainty, + and I will go with you: and it shall happen, if he be in the land, + that I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah. +023:024 They arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: but David and his men + were in the wilderness of Maon, in the Arabah on the south + of the desert. +023:025 Saul and his men went to seek him. When David was told, + he went down to the rock, and stayed in the wilderness of Maon. + When Saul heard [that], he pursued after David in the + wilderness of Maon. +023:026 Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men + on that side of the mountain: and David made haste to get + away for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men compassed David + and his men round about to take them. +023:027 But there came a messenger to Saul, saying, Haste you, and come; + for the Philistines have made a raid on the land. +023:028 So Saul returned from pursuing after David, and went + against the Philistines: therefore they called that + place Sela Hammahlekoth. +023:029 David went up from there, and lived in the strongholds + of En Gedi. +024:001 It happened, when Saul was returned from following the Philistines, + that it was told him, saying, Behold, David is in the wilderness + of En Gedi. +024:002 Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, + and went to seek David and his men on the rocks of the wild goats. +024:003 He came to the sheep pens by the way, where was a cave; + and Saul went in to relieve himself. Now David and his men + were abiding in the innermost parts of the cave. +024:004 The men of David said to him, Behold, the day of which Yahweh + said to you, Behold, I will deliver your enemy into your hand, + and you shall do to him as it shall seem good to you. + Then David arose, and cut off the skirt of Saul's robe secretly. +024:005 It happened afterward, that David's heart struck him, + because he had cut off Saul's skirt. +024:006 He said to his men, Yahweh forbid that I should do this thing + to my lord, Yahweh's anointed, to put forth my hand against him, + seeing he is Yahweh's anointed. +024:007 So David checked his men with these words, and didn't allow + them to rise against Saul. Saul rose up out of the cave, + and went on his way. +024:008 David also arose afterward, and went out of the cave, + and cried after Saul, saying, My lord the king. When Saul + looked behind him, David bowed with his face to the earth, + and did obeisance. +024:009 David said to Saul, Why listen you to men's words, saying, + Behold, David seeks your hurt? +024:010 Behold, this day your eyes have seen how that Yahweh + had delivered you today into my hand in the cave: + and some bade me kill you; but [my eye] spared you; + and I said, I will not put forth my hand against my lord; + for he is Yahweh's anointed. +024:011 Moreover, my father, behold, yes, see the skirt of your robe + in my hand; for in that I cut off the skirt of your robe, + and didn't kill you, know you and see that there is neither evil + nor disobedience in my hand, and I have not sinned against you, + though you hunt after my life to take it. +024:012 Yahweh judge between me and you, and Yahweh avenge me of you; + but my hand shall not be on you. +024:013 As says the proverb of the ancients, Out of the wicked comes + forth wickedness; but my hand shall not be on you. +024:014 After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom do you + pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea. +024:015 Yahweh therefore be judge, and give sentence between me and you, + and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of your hand. +024:016 It came to pass, when David had made an end of speaking + these words to Saul, that Saul said, Is this your voice, + my son David? Saul lifted up his voice, and wept. +024:017 He said to David, You are more righteous than I; for you have + rendered to me good, whereas I have rendered to you evil. +024:018 You have declared this day how that you have dealt well with me, + because when Yahweh had delivered me up into your hand, + you didn't kill me. +024:019 For if a man finds his enemy, will he let him go away unharmed? + Therefore may Yahweh reward you good for that which you + have done to me this day. +024:020 Now, behold, I know that you shall surely be king, and that + the kingdom of Israel shall be established in your hand. +024:021 Swear now therefore to me by Yahweh, that you will not cut + off my seed after me, and that you will not destroy my name + out of my father's house. +024:022 David swore to Saul. Saul went home; but David and his men + got them up to the stronghold. +025:001 Samuel died; and all Israel gathered themselves together, + and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. + David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran. +025:002 There was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; + and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep, + and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel. +025:003 Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail; + and the woman was of good understanding, and of a beautiful face: + but the man was churlish and evil in his doings; and he was + of the house of Caleb. +025:004 David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep. +025:005 David sent ten young men, and David said to the young men, + Go up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name: +025:006 and thus shall you tell him who lives [in prosperity], + Peace be to you, and peace be to your house, and peace be + to all that you have. +025:007 Now I have heard that you have shearers: your shepherds have + now been with us, and we did them no hurt, neither was there + anything missing to them, all the while they were in Carmel. +025:008 Ask your young men, and they will tell you: therefore let + the young men find favor in your eyes; for we come in a good day. + Please give whatever comes to your hand, to your servants, + and to your son David. +025:009 When David's young men came, they spoke to Nabal according + to all those words in the name of David, and ceased. +025:010 Nabal answered David's servants, and said, Who is David? + and who is the son of Jesse? there are many servants who break + away from their masters these days. +025:011 Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my meat that I + have killed for my shearers, and give it to men who I don't + know where they come from? +025:012 So David's young men turned on their way, and went back, + and came and told him according to all these words. +025:013 David said to his men, Gird you on every man his sword. + They girded on every man his sword; and David also girded on + his sword: and there went up after David about four hundred men; + and two hundred abode by the baggage. +025:014 But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife, + saying, Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness + to Greet our master; and he railed at them. +025:015 But the men were very good to us, and we were not hurt, + neither missed we anything, as long as we went with them, + when we were in the fields: +025:016 they were a wall to us both by night and by day, all the while we + were with them keeping the sheep. +025:017 Now therefore know and consider what you will do; for evil + is determined against our master, and against all his house: + for he is such a worthless fellow that one can't speak to him. +025:018 Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, + and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five + measures of parched grain, and one hundred clusters of raisins, + and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on donkeys. +025:019 She said to her young men, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. + But she didn't tell her husband, Nabal. +025:020 It was so, as she rode on her donkey, and came down by the covert + of the mountain, that behold, David and his men came down + toward her; and she met them. +025:021 Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this + fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all + that pertained to him: and he has returned me evil for good. +025:022 God do so to the enemies of David, and more also, if I leave + of all that belongs to him by the morning light so much + as one who urinates on a wall.{or, male.} +025:023 When Abigail saw David, she hurried, and alighted from her donkey, + and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself + to the ground. +025:024 She fell at his feet, and said, On me, my lord, on me be + the iniquity; and please let your handmaid speak in your ears. + Hear the words of your handmaid. +025:025 Please don't let my lord regard this worthless fellow, even Nabal; + for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly + is with him: but I your handmaid didn't see the young men + of my lord, whom you did send. +025:026 Now therefore, my lord, as Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, + seeing Yahweh has withheld you from blood guiltiness, + and from avenging yourself with your own hand, now therefore + let your enemies, and those who seek evil to my lord, + be as Nabal. +025:027 Now this present which your servant has brought to my lord, + let it be given to the young men who follow my lord. +025:028 Please forgive the trespass of your handmaid: for Yahweh + will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord + fights the battles of Yahweh; and evil shall not be found + in you all your days. +025:029 Though men be risen up to pursue you, and to seek your soul, + yet the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life + with Yahweh your God; and the souls of your enemies, + them shall he sling out, as from the hollow of a sling. +025:030 It shall come to pass, when Yahweh shall have done to my lord + according to all the good that he has spoken concerning you, + and shall have appointed you prince over Israel, +025:031 that this shall be no grief to you, nor offense of heart + to my lord, either that you have shed blood without cause, + or that my lord has avenged himself. When Yahweh shall + have dealt well with my lord, then remember your handmaid. +025:032 David said to Abigail, Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, + who sent you this day to meet me: +025:033 and blessed be your discretion, and blessed be you, that have + kept me this day from blood guiltiness, and from avenging + myself with my own hand. +025:034 For in very deed, as Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, who has + withheld me from hurting you, except you had hurried + and come to meet me, surely there wouldn't have been left + to Nabal by the morning light so much as one who urinates + on a wall.{or, male.} +025:035 So David received of her hand that which she had brought him: + and he said to her, Go up in peace to your house; behold, I have + listened to your voice, and have accepted your person. +025:036 Abigail came to Nabal; and behold, he held a feast in his house, + like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, + for he was very drunken: therefore she told him nothing, + less or more, until the morning light. +025:037 It happened in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, + that his wife told him these things, and his heart died + within him, and he became as a stone. +025:038 It happened about ten days after, that Yahweh struck Nabal, + so that he died. +025:039 When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be Yahweh, + who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand + of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from evil: + and the evil-doing of Nabal has Yahweh returned on his own head. + David sent and spoke concerning Abigail, to take her to + him as wife. +025:040 When the servants of David were come to Abigail to Carmel, + they spoke to her, saying, David has sent us to you, to take + you to him as wife. +025:041 She arose, and bowed herself with her face to the earth, + and said, Behold, your handmaid is a servant to wash the feet + of the servants of my lord. +025:042 Abigail hurried, and arose, and rode on a donkey, with five ladies + of hers who followed her; and she went after the messengers + of David, and became his wife. +025:043 David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they became both + of them his wives. +025:044 Now Saul had given Michal his daughter, David's wife, + to Palti the son of Laish, who was of Gallim. +026:001 The Ziphites came to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doesn't David hide + himself in the hill of Hachilah, which is before the desert? +026:002 Then Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, + having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek + David in the wilderness of Ziph. +026:003 Saul encamped in the hill of Hachilah, which is before the desert, + by the way. But David abode in the wilderness, and he saw + that Saul came after him into the wilderness. +026:004 David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul was + come of a certainty. +026:005 David arose, and came to the place where Saul had encamped; + and David saw the place where Saul lay, and Abner the son of Ner, + the captain of his army: and Saul lay within the place + of the wagons, and the people were encamped round about him. +026:006 Then answered David and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, + and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother to Joab, + saying, Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp? + Abishai said, I will go down with you. +026:007 So David and Abishai came to the people by night: + and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the place of the wagons, + with his spear stuck in the ground at his head; and Abner + and the people lay round about him. +026:008 Then said Abishai to David, God has delivered up your enemy + into your hand this day: now therefore please let me strike + him with the spear to the earth at one stroke, and I will + not strike him the second time. +026:009 David said to Abishai, Don't destroy him; for who can put forth + his hand against Yahweh's anointed, and be guiltless? +026:010 David said, As Yahweh lives, Yahweh will strike him; or his day + shall come to die; or he shall go down into battle and perish. +026:011 Yahweh forbid that I should put forth my hand against + Yahweh's anointed: but now please take the spear that is at + his head, and the jar of water, and let us go. +026:012 So David took the spear and the jar of water from Saul's head; + and they got them away: and no man saw it, nor knew it, + neither did any awake; for they were all asleep, because a deep + sleep from Yahweh was fallen on them. +026:013 Then David went over to the other side, and stood on the top + of the mountain afar off; a great space being between them; +026:014 and David cried to the people, and to Abner the son of Ner, + saying, Don't you answer, Abner? Then Abner answered, + Who are you who cries to the king? +026:015 David said to Abner, Aren't you a [valiant] man? and who is like + you in Israel? why then have you not kept watch over your lord, + the king? for there came one of the people in to destroy + the king your lord. +026:016 This thing isn't good that you have done. As Yahweh lives, + you are worthy to die, because you have not kept watch over + your lord, Yahweh's anointed. Now see where the king's spear is, + and the jar of water that was at his head. +026:017 Saul knew David's voice, and said, Is this your voice, + my son David? David said, It is my voice, my lord, O king. +026:018 He said, Why does my lord pursue after his servant? for what + have I done? or what evil is in my hand? +026:019 Now therefore, please let my lord the king hear the words + of his servant. If it be Yahweh that has stirred you + up against me, let him accept an offering: but if it + be the children of men, cursed be they before Yahweh: + for they have driven me out this day that I shouldn't cling + to Yahweh's inheritance, saying, Go, serve other gods. +026:020 Now therefore, don't let my blood fall to the earth away + from the presence of Yahweh: for the king of Israel is + come out to seek a flea, as when one does hunt a partridge + in the mountains. +026:021 Then said Saul, I have sinned: return, my son David; + for I will no more do you harm, because my life was precious + in your eyes this day: behold, I have played the fool, + and have erred exceedingly. +026:022 David answered, Behold the spear, O king! let then one of + the young men come over and get it. +026:023 Yahweh will render to every man his righteousness and + his faithfulness; because Yahweh delivered you into my hand today, + and I wouldn't put forth my hand against Yahweh's anointed. +026:024 Behold, as your life was much set by this day in my eyes, + so let my life be much set by in the eyes of Yahweh, and let + him deliver me out of all oppression. +026:025 Then Saul said to David, Blessed be you, my son David: + you shall both do mightily, and shall surely prevail. + So David went his way, and Saul returned to his place. +027:001 David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand + of Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I should + escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair + of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Israel: + so shall I escape out of his hand. +027:002 David arose, and passed over, he and the six hundred men + who were with him, to Achish the son of Maoch, king of Gath. +027:003 David lived with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man + with his household, even David with his two wives, Ahinoam + the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal's wife. +027:004 It was told Saul that David was fled to Gath: and he sought + no more again for him. +027:005 David said to Achish, If now I have found favor in your eyes, + let them give me a place in one of the cities in the country, + that I may dwell there: for why should your servant dwell + in the royal city with you? +027:006 Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day: why Ziklag pertains + to the kings of Judah to this day. +027:007 The number of the days that David lived in the country + of the Philistines was a full year and four months. +027:008 David and his men went up, and made a raid on the Geshurites, + and the Girzites, and the Amalekites; for those [nations] were + the inhabitants of the land, who were of old, as you go to Shur, + even to the land of Egypt. +027:009 David struck the land, and saved neither man nor woman alive, + and took away the sheep, and the oxen, and the donkeys, + and the camels, and the clothing; and he returned, + and came to Achish. +027:010 Achish said, Against whom have you made a raid today? + David said, Against the South of Judah, and against the South + of the Jerahmeelites, and against the South of the Kenites. +027:011 David saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring them to Gath, + saying, Lest they should tell of us, saying, So did David, + and so has been his manner all the while he has lived + in the country of the Philistines. +027:012 Achish believed David, saying, He has made his people Israel + utterly to abhor him; therefore he shall be my servant forever. +028:001 It happened in those days, that the Philistines gathered + their armies together for warfare, to fight with Israel. + Achish said to David, Know you assuredly, that you shall go + out with me in the army, you and your men. +028:002 David said to Achish, Therefore you shall know what your servant + will do. Achish said to David, Therefore will I make you + keeper of my head for ever. +028:003 Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, + and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. Saul had + put away those who had familiar spirits, and the wizards, + out of the land. +028:004 The Philistines gathered themselves together, and came and + encamped in Shunem: and Saul gathered all Israel together, + and they encamped in Gilboa. +028:005 When Saul saw the army of the Philistines, he was afraid, + and his heart trembled greatly. +028:006 When Saul inquired of Yahweh, Yahweh didn't answer him, + neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets. +028:007 Then said Saul to his servants, Seek me a woman who has + a familiar spirit, that I may go to her, and inquire of her. + His servants said to him, Behold, there is a woman who has + a familiar spirit at Endor. +028:008 Saul disguised himself, and put on other clothing, and went, + he and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night: + and he said, Please divine to me by the familiar spirit, + and bring me up whoever I shall name to you. +028:009 The woman said to him, Behold, you know what Saul has done, + how he has cut off those who have familiar spirits, and the wizards, + out of the land: why then lay you a snare for my life, + to cause me to die? +028:010 Saul swore to her by Yahweh, saying, As Yahweh lives, + there shall no punishment happen to you for this thing. +028:011 Then said the woman, Whom shall I bring up to you? + He said, Bring me up Samuel. +028:012 When the woman saw Samuel, she cried with a loud voice; + and the woman spoke to Saul, saying, Why have you deceived + me? for you are Saul. +028:013 The king said to her, Don't be afraid: for what do you see? + The woman said to Saul, I see a god coming up out of the earth. +028:014 He said to her, What form is he of? She said, An old man + comes up; and he is covered with a robe. Saul perceived + that it was Samuel, and he bowed with his face to the ground, + and did obeisance. +028:015 Samuel said to Saul, Why have you disquieted me, to bring me up? + Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the Philistines + make war against me, and God is departed from me, + and answers me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams: + therefore I have called you, that you may make known to me + what I shall do. +028:016 Samuel said, Why then do you ask of me, seeing Yahweh is departed + from you, and is become your adversary? +028:017 Yahweh has done to you, as he spoke by me: and Yahweh has torn + the kingdom out of your hand, and given it to your neighbor, + even to David. +028:018 Because you didn't obey the voice of Yahweh, and didn't execute + his fierce wrath on Amalek, therefore has Yahweh done this + thing to you this day. +028:019 Moreover Yahweh will deliver Israel also with you into the hand + of the Philistines; and tomorrow shall you and your sons be with me: + Yahweh will deliver the army of Israel also into the hand + of the Philistines. +028:020 Then Saul fell immediately his full length on the earth, + and was sore afraid, because of the words of Samuel: + and there was no strength in him; for he had eaten no bread + all the day, nor all the night. +028:021 The woman came to Saul, and saw that he was sore troubled, + and said to him, Behold, your handmaid has listened to your voice, + and I have put my life in my hand, and have listened to your + words which you spoke to me. +028:022 Now therefore, please listen also to the voice of your handmaid, + and let me set a morsel of bread before you; and eat, + that you may have strength, when you go on your way. +028:023 But he refused, and said, I will not eat. But his servants, + together with the woman, constrained him; and he listened + to their voice. So he arose from the earth, and sat on the bed. +028:024 The woman had a fattened calf in the house; and she hurried, + and killed it; and she took flour, and kneaded it, and did + bake unleavened bread of it: +028:025 and she brought it before Saul, and before his servants; + and they ate. Then they rose up, and went away that night. +029:001 Now the Philistines gathered together all their armies to Aphek: + and the Israelites encamped by the spring which is in Jezreel. +029:002 The lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds, and by thousands; + and David and his men passed on in the rearward with Achish. +029:003 Then said the princes of the Philistines, What [do] + these Hebrews [here]? Achish said to the princes of + the Philistines, Isn't this David, the servant of Saul the king + of Israel, who has been with me these days, or [rather] + these years, and I have found no fault in him since he fell + away [to me] to this day? +029:004 But the princes of the Philistines were angry with him; + and the princes of the Philistines said to him, + Make the man return, that he may go back to his place + where you have appointed him, and let him not go down with us + to battle, lest in the battle he become an adversary to us: + for with what should this [fellow] reconcile himself to his + lord? should it not be with the heads of these men? +029:005 Is not this David, of whom they sang one to another in dances, + saying, Saul has slain his thousands, David his ten thousands? +029:006 Then Achish called David, and said to him, As Yahweh lives, + you have been upright, and your going out and your coming + in with me in the army is good in my sight; for I have not found + evil in you since the day of your coming to me to this day: + nevertheless the lords don't favor you. +029:007 Therefore now return, and go in peace, that you not displease + the lords of the Philistines. +029:008 David said to Achish, But what have I done? and what have you + found in your servant so long as I have been before you + to this day, that I may not go and fight against the enemies + of my lord the king? +029:009 Achish answered David, I know that you are good in my sight, + as an angel of God: notwithstanding the princes of the Philistines + have said, He shall not go up with us to the battle. +029:010 Therefore now rise up early in the morning with the servants + of your lord who have come with you; and as soon as you are up + early in the morning, and have light, depart. +029:011 So David rose up early, he and his men, to depart in + the morning, to return into the land of the Philistines. + The Philistines went up to Jezreel. +030:001 It happened, when David and his men were come to Ziklag on + the third day, that the Amalekites had made a raid on the South, + and on Ziklag, and had struck Ziklag, and burned it with fire, +030:002 and had taken captive the women [and all] who were therein, + both small and great: they didn't kill any, but carried them off, + and went their way. +030:003 When David and his men came to the city, behold, it was burned + with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, + were taken captive. +030:004 Then David and the people who were with him lifted up their + voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep. +030:005 David's two wives were taken captive, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, + and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite. +030:006 David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, + because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man + for his sons and for his daughters: but David strengthened + himself in Yahweh his God. +030:007 David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, Please bring + me here the ephod. Abiathar brought there the ephod to David. +030:008 David inquired of Yahweh, saying, If I pursue after this troop, + shall I overtake them? He answered him, Pursue; for you shall + surely overtake [them], and shall without fail recover [all]. +030:009 So David went, he and the six hundred men who were with him, + and came to the brook Besor, where those who were + left behind stayed. +030:010 But David pursued, he and four hundred men; for two hundred + stayed behind, who were so faint that they couldn't go over + the brook Besor. +030:011 They found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, + and gave him bread, and he ate; and they gave him water to drink. +030:012 They gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins: + and when he had eaten, his spirit came again to him; + for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water, three days + and three nights. +030:013 David said to him, To whom belong you? and whence are you? + He said, I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; + and my master left me, because three days ago I fell sick. +030:014 We made a raid on the South of the Cherethites, and on + that which belongs to Judah, and on the South of Caleb; + and we burned Ziklag with fire. +030:015 David said to him, Will you bring me down to this troop? + He said, Swear to me by God, that you will neither kill me, + nor deliver me up into the hands of my master, and I will bring + you down to this troop. +030:016 When he had brought him down, behold, they were spread abroad + over all the ground, eating and drinking, and dancing, + because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of + the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah. +030:017 David struck them from the twilight even to the evening + of the next day: and there not a man of them escaped, + except four hundred young men, who rode on camels and fled. +030:018 David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken; and David + rescued his two wives. +030:019 There was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, + neither sons nor daughters, neither spoil, nor anything + that they had taken to them: David brought back all. +030:020 David took all the flocks and the herds, [which] they drove + before those [other] livestock, and said, This is David's spoil. +030:021 David came to the two hundred men, who were so faint that they + could not follow David, whom also they had made to abide + at the brook Besor; and they went forth to meet David, + and to meet the people who were with him: and when David + came near to the people, he greeted them. +030:022 Then answered all the wicked men and base fellows, of those who + went with David, and said, Because they didn't go with us, + we will not give them anything of the spoil that we + have recovered, except to every man his wife and his children, + that he may lead them away, and depart. +030:023 Then said David, You shall not do so, my brothers, + with that which Yahweh has given to us, who has preserved us, + and delivered the troop that came against us into our hand. +030:024 Who will listen to you in this matter? for as his share is + who goes down to the battle, so shall his share be who tarries + by the baggage: they shall share alike. +030:025 It was so from that day forward, that he made it a statute + and an ordinance for Israel to this day. +030:026 When David came to Ziklag, he sent of the spoil to the elders + of Judah, even to his friends, saying, Behold, a present + for you of the spoil of the enemies of Yahweh: +030:027 To those who were in Bethel, and to those who were in Ramoth + of the South, and to those who were in Jattir, +030:028 and to those who were in Aroer, and to those who were in Siphmoth, + and to those who were in Eshtemoa, +030:029 and to those who were in Racal, and to those who were in the cities + of the Jerahmeelites, and to those who were in the cities + of the Kenites, +030:030 and to those who were in Hormah, and to those who were in Borashan, + and to those who were in Athach, +030:031 and to those who were in Hebron, and to all the places where + David himself and his men used to stay. +031:001 Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of + Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain + on Mount Gilboa. +031:002 The Philistines followed hard on Saul and on his sons; + and the Philistines killed Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchishua, + the sons of Saul. +031:003 The battle went sore against Saul, and the archers overtook him; + and he was greatly distressed by reason of the archers. +031:004 Then said Saul to his armor bearer, Draw your sword, and thrust + me through therewith, lest these uncircumcised come and thrust + me through, and abuse me. But his armor bearer would not; + for he was sore afraid. Therefore Saul took his sword, + and fell on it. +031:005 When his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he likewise fell + on his sword, and died with him. +031:006 So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armor bearer, + and all his men, that same day together. +031:007 When the men of Israel who were on the other side of the valley, + and those who were beyond the Jordan, saw that the men + of Israel fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, + they forsook the cities, and fled; and the Philistines came + and lived in them. +031:008 It happened on the next day, when the Philistines came to strip + the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen + on Mount Gilboa. +031:009 They cut off his head, and stripped off his armor, and sent + into the land of the Philistines round about, to carry the news + to the house of their idols, and to the people. +031:010 They put his armor in the house of the Ashtaroth; and they + fastened his body to the wall of Beth Shan. +031:011 When the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead heard concerning him + that which the Philistines had done to Saul, +031:012 all the valiant men arose, and went all night, and took the body + of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth Shan; + and they came to Jabesh, and burnt them there. +031:013 They took their bones, and buried them under the tamarisk tree + in Jabesh, and fasted seven days. +Book 10 2 Samuel +001:001 It happened after the death of Saul, when David was returned + from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had abode + two days in Ziklag; +001:002 it happened on the third day, that behold, a man came out of + the camp from Saul, with his clothes torn, and earth on his head: + and so it was, when he came to David, that he fell to the earth, + and did obeisance. +001:003 David said to him, From whence come you? He said to him, + Out of the camp of Israel am I escaped. +001:004 David said to him, How went the matter? Please tell me. + He answered, The people are fled from the battle, and many + of the people also are fallen and dead; and Saul and Jonathan + his son are dead also. +001:005 David said to the young man who told him, How know you that Saul + and Jonathan his son are dead? +001:006 The young man who told him said, As I happened by chance on + Mount Gilboa, behold, Saul was leaning on his spear; and behold, + the chariots and the horsemen followed hard after him. +001:007 When he looked behind him, he saw me, and called to me. + I answered, Here am I. +001:008 He said to me, Who are you? I answered him, I am an Amalekite. +001:009 He said to me, Stand, I pray you, beside me, and kill me; + for anguish has taken hold of me, because my life is yet + whole in me. +001:010 So I stood beside him, and killed him, because I was + sure that he could not live after that he was fallen: + and I took the crown that was on his head, and the bracelet + that was on his arm, and have brought them here to my lord. +001:011 Then David took hold on his clothes, and tore them; + and likewise all the men who were with him: +001:012 and they mourned, and wept, and fasted until even, for Saul, + and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of Yahweh, + and for the house of Israel; because they were fallen + by the sword. +001:013 David said to the young man who told him, Whence are you? + He answered, I am the son of a foreigner, an Amalekite. +001:014 David said to him, How were you not afraid to put forth your + hand to destroy Yahweh's anointed? +001:015 David called one of the young men, and said, Go near, + and fall on him. He struck him, so that he died. +001:016 David said to him, Your blood be on your head; for your mouth has + testified against you, saying, I have slain Yahweh's anointed. +001:017 David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over + Jonathan his son +001:018 (and he bade them teach the children of Judah [the song of] + the bow: behold, it is written in the book of Jashar): +001:019 Your glory, Israel, is slain on your high places! + How the mighty have fallen! +001:020 Don't tell it in Gath. Don't publish it in the streets + of Ashkelon, lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, + lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph. +001:021 You mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew nor rain on you, + neither fields of offerings; For there the shield of + the mighty was vilely cast away, The shield of Saul was not + anointed with oil. +001:022 From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, + Jonathan's bow didn't turn back. Saul's sword didn't return empty. +001:023 Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives. + In their death, they were not divided. They were swifter + than eagles. They were stronger than lions. +001:024 You daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in + scarlet delicately, who put ornaments of gold on your clothing. +001:025 How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! + Jonathan is slain on your high places. +001:026 I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan. You have + been very pleasant to me. Your love to me was wonderful, + passing the love of women. +001:027 How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished! +002:001 It happened after this, that David inquired of Yahweh, saying, + Shall I go up into any of the cities of Judah? Yahweh said + to him, Go up. David said, Where shall I go up? + He said, To Hebron. +002:002 So David went up there, and his two wives also, Ahinoam + the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite. +002:003 His men who were with him did David bring up, every man + with his household: and they lived in the cities of Hebron. +002:004 The men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king + over the house of Judah. They told David, saying, The men + of Jabesh Gilead were those who buried Saul. +002:005 David sent messengers to the men of Jabesh Gilead, and said + to them, Blessed be you of Yahweh, that you have shown this + kindness to your lord, even to Saul, and have buried him. +002:006 Now Yahweh show loving kindness and truth to you: + and I also will requite you this kindness, because you have + done this thing. +002:007 Now therefore let your hands be strong, and be you valiant; + for Saul your lord is dead, and also the house of Judah + have anointed me king over them. +002:008 Now Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul's army, had taken + Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim; +002:009 and he made him king over Gilead, and over the Ashurites, + and over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, + and over all Israel. +002:010 Ishbosheth, Saul's son, was forty years old when he began + to reign over Israel, and he reigned two years. + But the house of Judah followed David. +002:011 The time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah + was seven years and six months. +002:012 Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ishbosheth the son + of Saul, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon. +002:013 Joab the son of Zeruiah, and the servants of David, went out, + and met them by the pool of Gibeon; and they sat down, + the one on the one side of the pool, and the other on the other + side of the pool. +002:014 Abner said to Joab, Please let the young men arise and play + before us. Joab said, Let them arise. +002:015 Then they arose and went over by number: twelve for Benjamin, + and for Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and twelve of the + servants of David. +002:016 They caught everyone his fellow by the head, and [thrust] + his sword in his fellow's side; so they fell down together: + therefore that place was called Helkath Hazzurim, + which is in Gibeon. +002:017 The battle was very severe that day: and Abner was beaten, + and the men of Israel, before the servants of David. +002:018 The three sons of Zeruiah were there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel: + and Asahel was as light of foot as a wild gazelle. +002:019 Asahel pursued after Abner; and in going he didn't turn + to the right hand nor to the left from following Abner. +002:020 Then Abner looked behind him, and said, Is it you, Asahel? + He answered, It is I. +002:021 Abner said to him, Turn you aside to your right hand or to your left, + and lay you hold on one of the young men, and take you his armor. + But Asahel would not turn aside from following him. +002:022 Abner said again to Asahel, Turn you aside from following me: + why should I strike you to the ground? how then should I hold + up my face to Joab your brother? +002:023 However he refused to turn aside: therefore Abner with the hinder + end of the spear struck him in the body, so that the spear came + out behind him; and he fell down there, and died in the same place: + and it happened, that as many as came to the place where Asahel + fell down and died stood still. +002:024 But Joab and Abishai pursued after Abner: and the sun went + down when they were come to the hill of Ammah, that lies + before Giah by the way of the wilderness of Gibeon. +002:025 The children of Benjamin gathered themselves together after Abner, + and became one band, and stood on the top of a hill. +002:026 Then Abner called to Joab, and said, "Shall the sword devour forever? + Don't you know that it will be bitterness in the latter end? + How long shall it be then, before you bid the people return + from following their brothers?" +002:027 Joab said, As God lives, if you had not spoken, surely then + in the morning the people had gone away, nor followed + everyone his brother. +002:028 So Joab blew the trumpet; and all the people stood still, + and pursued after Israel no more, neither fought they any more. +002:029 Abner and his men went all that night through the Arabah; + and they passed over the Jordan, and went through all Bithron, + and came to Mahanaim. +002:030 Joab returned from following Abner: and when he had gathered + all the people together, there lacked of David's servants + nineteen men and Asahel. +002:031 But the servants of David had struck of Benjamin, and of Abner's men, + [so that] three hundred sixty men died. +002:032 They took up Asahel, and buried him in the tomb of his father, + which was in Bethlehem. Joab and his men went all night, + and the day broke on them at Hebron. +003:001 Now there was long war between the house of Saul and the house + of David: and David grew stronger and stronger, but the house + of Saul grew weaker and weaker. +003:002 To David were sons born in Hebron: and his firstborn was Amnon, + of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess; +003:003 and his second, Chileab, of Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; + and the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai + king of Geshur; +003:004 and the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith; and the fifth, + Shephatiah the son of Abital; +003:005 and the sixth, Ithream, of Eglah, David's wife. + These were born to David in Hebron. +003:006 It happened, while there was war between the house of Saul + and the house of David, that Abner made himself strong + in the house of Saul. +003:007 Now Saul had a concubine, whose name was Rizpah, the daughter + of Aiah: and [Ishbosheth] said to Abner, Why have you gone + in to my father's concubine? +003:008 Then was Abner very angry for the words of Ishbosheth, and said, + Am I a dog's head that belongs to Judah? This day do I show + kindness to the house of Saul your father, to his brothers, + and to his friends, and have not delivered you into the hand + of David; and yet you charge me this day with a fault + concerning this woman. +003:009 God do so to Abner, and more also, if, as Yahweh has sworn + to David, I don't do even so to him; +003:010 to transfer the kingdom from the house of Saul, and to set + up the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan + even to Beersheba. +003:011 He could not answer Abner another word, because he feared him. +003:012 Abner sent messengers to David on his behalf, saying, Whose is + the land? saying [also], Make your league with me, and behold, + my hand shall be with you, to bring about all Israel to you. +003:013 He said, Well; I will make a league with you; but one thing + I require of you: that is, you shall not see my face, + except you first bring Michal, Saul's daughter, when you come + to see my face. +003:014 David sent messengers to Ishbosheth, Saul's son, saying, + Deliver me my wife Michal, whom I pledged to be married to me + for one hundred foreskins of the Philistines. +003:015 Ishbosheth sent, and took her from her husband, even from + Paltiel the son of Laish. +003:016 Her husband went with her, weeping as he went, and followed + her to Bahurim. Then said Abner to him, Go, return: + and he returned. +003:017 Abner had communication with the elders of Israel, saying, + In times past you sought for David to be king over you: +003:018 now then do it; for Yahweh has spoken of David, saying, By the hand + of my servant David I will save my people Israel out of the hand + of the Philistines, and out of the hand of all their enemies. +003:019 Abner also spoke in the ears of Benjamin: and Abner went + also to speak in the ears of David in Hebron all that seemed + good to Israel, and to the whole house of Benjamin. +003:020 So Abner came to David to Hebron, and twenty men with him. + David made Abner and the men who were with him a feast. +003:021 Abner said to David, I will arise and go, and will gather all Israel + to my lord the king, that they may make a covenant with you, + and that you may reign over all that your soul desires. + David sent Abner away; and he went in peace. +003:022 Behold, the servants of David and Joab came from a foray, + and brought in a great spoil with them: but Abner was not + with David in Hebron; for he had sent him away, and he was + gone in peace. +003:023 When Joab and all the army who was with him had come, + they told Joab, saying, Abner the son of Ner came to the king, + and he has sent him away, and he is gone in peace. +003:024 Then Joab came to the king, and said, What have you done? behold, + Abner came to you; why is it that you have sent him away, + and he is quite gone? +003:025 You know Abner the son of Ner, that he came to deceive you, + and to know your going out and your coming in, and to know + all that you do. +003:026 When Joab was come out from David, he sent messengers + after Abner, and they brought him back from the well of Sirah: + but David didn't know it. +003:027 When Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into + the midst of the gate to speak with him quietly, and struck + him there in the body, so that he died, for the blood + of Asahel his brother. +003:028 Afterward, when David heard it, he said, I and my kingdom + are guiltless before Yahweh forever of the blood of Abner + the son of Ner: +003:029 let it fall on the head of Joab, and on all his father's house; + and let there not fail from the house of Joab one who has + an issue, or who is a leper, or who leans on a staff, + or who falls by the sword, or who lacks bread. +003:030 So Joab and Abishai his brother killed Abner, because he had + killed their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle. +003:031 David said to Joab, and to all the people who were with him, + Tear your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn + before Abner. King David followed the bier. +003:032 They buried Abner in Hebron: and the king lifted up his voice, + and wept at the grave of Abner; and all the people wept. +003:033 The king lamented for Abner, and said, Should Abner die + as a fool dies? +003:034 Your hands were not bound, nor your feet put into fetters. + As a man falls before the children of iniquity, so you fell. + All the people wept again over him. +003:035 All the people came to cause David to eat bread while it was yet day; + but David swore, saying, God do so to me, and more also, + if I taste bread, or anything else, until the sun be down. +003:036 All the people took notice of it, and it pleased them; + as whatever the king did pleased all the people. +003:037 So all the people and all Israel understood that day that it + was not of the king to kill Abner the son of Ner. +003:038 The king said to his servants, "Don't you know that there + a prince and a great man has fallen this day in Israel? +003:039 I am this day weak, though anointed king; and these men + the sons of Zeruiah are too hard for me. May Yahweh reward + the evil-doer according to his wickedness." +004:001 When [Ishbosheth], Saul's son, heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, + his hands became feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled. +004:002 [Ishbosheth], Saul's son, [had] two men who were captains of bands: + the name of the one was Baanah, and the name of the other Rechab, + the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, of the children of Benjamin + (for Beeroth also is reckoned to Benjamin: +004:003 and the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and have lived as foreigners + there until this day). +004:004 Now Jonathan, Saul's son, had a son who was lame of his feet. + He was five years old when the news came of Saul and Jonathan + out of Jezreel; and his nurse took him up, and fled: + and it happened, as she made haste to flee, that he fell, + and became lame. His name was Mephibosheth. +004:005 The sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, went, + and came about the heat of the day to the house of Ishbosheth, + as he took his rest at noon. +004:006 They came there into the midst of the house, as though they + would have fetched wheat; and they struck him in the body: + and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped. +004:007 Now when they came into the house, as he lay on his bed + in his bedchamber, they struck him, and killed him, + and beheaded him, and took his head, and went by the way + of the Arabah all night. +004:008 They brought the head of Ishbosheth to David to Hebron, + and said to the king, Behold, the head of Ishbosheth, + the son of Saul, your enemy, who sought your life; + and Yahweh has avenged my lord the king this day of Saul, + and of his seed. +004:009 David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons + of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said to them, As Yahweh lives, + who has redeemed my soul out of all adversity, +004:010 when one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, thinking to have + brought good news, I took hold of him, and killed him in Ziklag, + which was the reward I gave him for his news. +004:011 How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person + in his own house on his bed, shall I not now require his blood + of your hand, and take you away from the earth? +004:012 David commanded his young men, and they killed them, and cut + off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up beside + the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth, + and buried it in the grave of Abner in Hebron. +005:001 Then came all the tribes of Israel to David to Hebron, + and spoke, saying, Behold, we are your bone and your flesh. +005:002 In times past, when Saul was king over us, it was you + who led out and brought in Israel: and Yahweh said to you, + You shall be shepherd of my people Israel, and you shall + be prince over Israel. +005:003 So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; + and king David made a covenant with them in Hebron before Yahweh: + and they anointed David king over Israel. +005:004 David was thirty years old when he began to reign, + and he reigned forty years. +005:005 In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months; + and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty-three years over all + Israel and Judah. +005:006 The king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, + the inhabitants of the land, who spoke to David, saying, + Except you take away the blind and the lame, you shall not + come in here; thinking, David can't come in here. +005:007 Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion; the same is + the city of David. +005:008 David said on that day, Whoever strikes the Jebusites, + let him get up to the watercourse, and [strike] + the lame and the blind, who are hated of David's soul. + Therefore they say, There are the blind and the lame; + he can't come into the house. +005:009 David lived in the stronghold, and called it the city of David. + David built round about from Millo and inward. +005:010 David grew greater and greater; for Yahweh, the God of Armies, + was with him. +005:011 Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, + and carpenters, and masons; and they built David a house. +005:012 David perceived that Yahweh had established him king over Israel, + and that he had exalted his kingdom for his people Israel's sake. +005:013 David took him more concubines and wives out of Jerusalem, + after he was come from Hebron; and there were yet sons + and daughters born to David. +005:014 These are the names of those who were born to him + in Jerusalem: Shammua, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon, +005:015 and Ibhar, and Elishua, and Nepheg, and Japhia, +005:016 and Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphelet. +005:017 When the Philistines heard that they had anointed David king + over Israel, all the Philistines went up to seek David; + and David heard of it, and went down to the stronghold. +005:018 Now the Philistines had come and spread themselves in the + valley of Rephaim. +005:019 David inquired of Yahweh, saying, Shall I go up against + the Philistines? will you deliver them into my hand? + Yahweh said to David, Go up; for I will certainly deliver + the Philistines into your hand. +005:020 David came to Baal Perazim, and David struck them there; and he said, + Yahweh has broken my enemies before me, like the breach of waters. + Therefore he called the name of that place Baal Perazim. +005:021 They left their images there; and David and his men took them away. +005:022 The Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves + in the valley of Rephaim. +005:023 When David inquired of Yahweh, he said, You shall not go up: + make a circuit behind them, and come on them over against + the mulberry trees. +005:024 It shall be, when you hear the sound of marching in the tops + of the mulberry trees, that then you shall bestir yourself; + for then is Yahweh gone out before you to strike the army + of the Philistines. +005:025 David did so, as Yahweh commanded him, and struck the Philistines + from Geba until you come to Gezer. +006:001 David again gathered together all the chosen men of Israel, + thirty thousand. +006:002 David arose, and went with all the people who were with him, + from Baale Judah, to bring up from there the ark of God, + which is called by the Name, even the name of Yahweh of Armies + who sits [above] the cherubim. +006:003 They set the ark of God on a new cart, and brought it + out of the house of Abinadab that was in the hill: + and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drove the new cart. +006:004 They brought it out of the house of Abinadab, which was in the hill, + with the ark of God: and Ahio went before the ark. +006:005 David and all the house of Israel played before Yahweh with all + manner of [instruments made of] fir wood, and with harps, + and with stringed instruments, and with tambourines, + and with castanets, and with cymbals. +006:006 When they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah put + forth [his hand] to the ark of God, and took hold of it; + for the oxen stumbled. +006:007 The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Uzzah; and God struck + him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God. +006:008 David was displeased, because Yahweh had broken forth on Uzzah; + and he called that place Perez Uzzah, to this day. +006:009 David was afraid of Yahweh that day; and he said, How shall + the ark of Yahweh come to me? +006:010 So David would not remove the ark of Yahweh to him into + the city of David; but David carried it aside into the house + of Obed-Edom the Gittite. +006:011 The ark of Yahweh remained in the house of Obed-Edom + the Gittite three months: and Yahweh blessed Obed-Edom, + and all his house. +006:012 It was told king David, saying, Yahweh has blessed the house + of Obed-Edom, and all that pertains to him, because of the ark + of God. David went and brought up the ark of God from the house + of Obed-Edom into the city of David with joy. +006:013 It was so, that, when those who bore the ark of Yahweh had gone + six paces, he sacrificed an ox and a fattened calf. +006:014 David danced before Yahweh with all his might; and David was + girded with a linen ephod. +006:015 So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of Yahweh + with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet. +006:016 It was so, as the ark of Yahweh came into the city of David, + that Michal the daughter of Saul looked out at the window, + and saw king David leaping and dancing before Yahweh; + and she despised him in her heart. +006:017 They brought in the ark of Yahweh, and set it in its place, + in the midst of the tent that David had pitched for it; and David + offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before Yahweh. +006:018 When David had made an end of offering the burnt offering + and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name + of Yahweh of Armies. +006:019 He dealt among all the people, even among the whole multitude + of Israel, both to men and women, to everyone a cake + of bread, and a portion [of flesh], and a cake of raisins. + So all the people departed everyone to his house. +006:020 Then David returned to bless his household. + Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, + How glorious was the king of Israel today, who uncovered + himself today in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, + as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovers himself! +006:021 David said to Michal, [It was] before Yahweh, who chose me + above your father, and above all his house, to appoint + me prince over the people of Yahweh, over Israel: + therefore will I play before Yahweh. +006:022 I will be yet more vile than this, and will be base in my + own sight: but of the handmaids of whom you have spoken, + they shall honor me. +006:023 Michal the daughter of Saul had no child to the day of her death. +007:001 It happened, when the king lived in his house, and Yahweh + had given him rest from all his enemies round about, +007:002 that the king said to Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell + in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells within curtains. +007:003 Nathan said to the king, Go, do all that is in your heart; + for Yahweh is with you. +007:004 It happened the same night, that the word of Yahweh came + to Nathan, saying, +007:005 Go and tell my servant David, Thus says Yahweh, Shall you + build me a house for me to dwell in? +007:006 for I have not lived in a house since the day that I brought + up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, + but have moved around in a tent and in a tabernacle. +007:007 In all places in which I have walked with all the children + of Israel, spoke I a word with any of the tribes of Israel, + whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people Israel, saying, + Why have you not built me a house of cedar? +007:008 Now therefore thus shall you tell my servant David, Thus says + Yahweh of Armies, I took you from the sheep pen, from following + the sheep, that you should be prince over my people, over Israel; +007:009 and I have been with you wherever you went, and have cut off all + your enemies from before you; and I will make you a great name, + like the name of the great ones who are in the earth. +007:010 I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, + that they may dwell in their own place, and be moved no more; + neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, + as at the first, +007:011 and [as] from the day that I commanded judges to be over my + people Israel; and I will cause you to rest from all your enemies. + Moreover Yahweh tells you that Yahweh will make you a house. +007:012 When your days are fulfilled, and you shall sleep with your fathers, + I will set up your seed after you, who shall proceed out + of your bowels, and I will establish his kingdom. +007:013 He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish + the throne of his kingdom forever. +007:014 I will be his father, and he shall be my son: + if he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, + and with the stripes of the children of men; +007:015 but my loving kindness shall not depart from him, as I took + it from Saul, whom I put away before you. +007:016 Your house and your kingdom shall be made sure for ever before you: + your throne shall be established forever. +007:017 According to all these words, and according to all this vision, + so did Nathan speak to David. +007:018 Then David the king went in, and sat before Yahweh; + and he said, Who am I, Lord Yahweh, and what is my house, + that you have brought me thus far? +007:019 This was yet a small thing in your eyes, Lord Yahweh; but you have + spoken also of your servant's house for a great while to come; + and this [too] after the manner of men, Lord Yahweh! +007:020 What can David say more to you? for you know your servant, + Lord Yahweh. +007:021 For your word's sake, and according to your own heart, have you + worked all this greatness, to make your servant know it. +007:022 Therefore you are great, Yahweh God: for there is none like you, + neither is there any God besides you, according to all that we + have heard with our ears. +007:023 What one nation in the earth is like your people, even like Israel, + whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, and to make + him a name, and to do great things for you, and awesome things + for your land, before your people, whom you redeem to you + out of Egypt, [from] the nations and their gods? +007:024 You did establish to yourself your people Israel to be a people + to you forever; and you, Yahweh, became their God. +007:025 Now, Yahweh God, the word that you have spoken concerning + your servant, and concerning his house, confirm you it forever, + and do as you have spoken. +007:026 Let your name be magnified forever, saying, Yahweh of Armies + is God over Israel; and the house of your servant David shall + be established before you. +007:027 For you, Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, have revealed + to your servant, saying, I will build you a house: + therefore has your servant found in his heart to pray this + prayer to you. +007:028 Now, O Lord Yahweh, you are God, and your words are truth, + and you have promised this good thing to your servant: +007:029 now therefore let it please you to bless the house of your servant, + that it may continue forever before you; for you, Lord Yahweh, + have spoken it: and with your blessing let the house of your + servant be blessed forever. +008:001 After this it happened that David struck the Philistines, + and subdued them: and David took the bridle of the mother + city out of the hand of the Philistines. +008:002 He struck Moab, and measured them with the line, + making them to lie down on the ground; and he measured two + lines to put to death, and one full line to keep alive. + The Moabites became servants to David, and brought tribute. +008:003 David struck also Hadadezer the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, + as he went to recover his dominion at the River. +008:004 David took from him one thousand seven hundred horsemen, and twenty + thousand footmen: and David hamstrung all the chariot horses, + but reserved of them for one hundred chariots. +008:005 When the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king + of Zobah, David struck of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men. +008:006 Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus; and the + Syrians became servants to David, and brought tribute. + Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he went. +008:007 David took the shields of gold that were on the servants + of Hadadezer, and brought them to Jerusalem. +008:008 From Betah and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, king David + took exceeding much brass. +008:009 When Toi king of Hamath heard that David had struck all + the army of Hadadezer, +008:010 then Toi sent Joram his son to king David, to Greet him, + and to bless him, because he had fought against Hadadezer + and struck him: for Hadadezer had wars with Toi. + [Joram] brought with him vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, + and vessels of brass: +008:011 These also did king David dedicate to Yahweh, with the silver + and gold that he dedicated of all the nations which he subdued; +008:012 of Syria, and of Moab, and of the children of Ammon, and of + the Philistines, and of Amalek, and of the spoil of Hadadezer, + son of Rehob, king of Zobah. +008:013 David got him a name when he returned from smiting the Syrians + in the Valley of Salt, even eighteen thousand men. +008:014 He put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom put he garrisons, + and all the Edomites became servants to David. + Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he went. +008:015 David reigned over all Israel; and David executed justice + and righteousness to all his people. +008:016 Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the army; and Jehoshaphat + the son of Ahilud was recorder; +008:017 and Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, + were priests; and Seraiah was scribe; +008:018 and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada [was over] the Cherethites + and the Pelethites; and David's sons were chief ministers. +009:001 David said, Is there yet any who is left of the house of Saul, + that I may show him kindness for Jonathan's sake? +009:002 There was of the house of Saul a servant whose name was Ziba, + and they called him to David; and the king said to him, + Are you Ziba? He said, Your servant is he. +009:003 The king said, Is there not yet any of the house of Saul, that I + may show the kindness of God to him? Ziba said to the king, + Jonathan has yet a son, who is lame of his feet. +009:004 The king said to him, Where is he? Ziba said to the king, + Behold, he is in the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, + in Lo Debar. +009:005 Then king David sent, and fetched him out of the house of Machir + the son of Ammiel, from Lo Debar. +009:006 Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, + came to David, and fell on his face, and did obeisance. + David said, Mephibosheth. He answered, Behold, your servant! +009:007 David said to him, "Don't be afraid of him; for I will + surely show you kindness for Jonathan your father's sake, + and will restore you all the land of Saul your father; + and you shall eat bread at my table continually." +009:008 He did obeisance, and said, "What is your servant, that you + should look on such a dead dog as I am?" +009:009 Then the king called to Ziba, Saul's servant, and said to him, + "All that pertained to Saul and to all his house have I given + to your master's son. +009:010 You shall till the land for him, you, and your sons, + and your servants; and you shall bring in [the fruits], + that your master's son may have bread to eat: but Mephibosheth + your master's son shall eat bread always at my table." + Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants. +009:011 Then said Ziba to the king, According to all that my lord + the king commands his servant, so shall your servant do. + As for Mephibosheth, [said the king], he shall eat at my table, + as one of the king's sons. +009:012 Mephibosheth had a young son, whose name was Mica. + All that lived in the house of Ziba were servants to Mephibosheth. +009:013 So Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem; for he ate continually + at the king's table. He was lame in both his feet. +010:001 It happened after this, that the king of the children of Ammon died, + and Hanun his son reigned in his place. +010:002 David said, I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, + as his father shown kindness to me. So David sent + by his servants to comfort him concerning his father. + David's servants came into the land of the children of Ammon. +010:003 But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun + their lord, Do you think that David honors your father, + in that he has sent comforters to you? Hasn't David sent + his servants to you to search the city, and to spy it out, + and to overthrow it? +010:004 So Hanun took David's servants, and shaved off the one half + of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, + even to their buttocks, and sent them away. +010:005 When they told it to David, he sent to meet them; for the men + were greatly ashamed. The king said, Wait at Jericho until + your beards be grown, and then return. +010:006 When the children of Ammon saw that they were become odious + to David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians + of Beth Rehob, and the Syrians of Zobah, twenty thousand footmen, + and the king of Maacah with one thousand men, and the men + of Tob twelve thousand men. +010:007 When David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the army + of the mighty men. +010:008 The children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array + at the entrance of the gate: and the Syrians of Zobah and + of Rehob, and the men of Tob and Maacah, were by themselves + in the field. +010:009 Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him + before and behind, he chose of all the choice men of Israel, + and put them in array against the Syrians: +010:010 The rest of the people he committed into the hand of Abishai + his brother; and he put them in array against the children of Ammon. +010:011 He said, If the Syrians be too strong for me, then you shall + help me; but if the children of Ammon be too strong for you, + then I will come and help you. +010:012 Be of good courage, and let us play the man for our people, + and for the cities of our God: and Yahweh do that which + seems him good. +010:013 So Joab and the people who were with him drew near to the battle + against the Syrians: and they fled before him. +010:014 When the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians were fled, + they likewise fled before Abishai, and entered into the city. + Then Joab returned from the children of Ammon, + and came to Jerusalem. +010:015 When the Syrians saw that they were put to the worse before Israel, + they gathered themselves together. +010:016 Hadarezer sent, and brought out the Syrians who were beyond + the River: and they came to Helam, with Shobach the captain + of the army of Hadarezer at their head. +010:017 It was told David; and he gathered all Israel together, + and passed over the Jordan, and came to Helam. The Syrians + set themselves in array against David, and fought with him. +010:018 The Syrians fled before Israel; and David killed of the Syrians + [the men of] seven hundred chariots, and forty thousand horsemen, + and struck Shobach the captain of their army, so that + he died there. +010:019 When all the kings who were servants to Hadarezer saw that they + were put to the worse before Israel, they made peace with Israel, + and served them. So the Syrians feared to help the children + of Ammon any more. +011:001 It happened, at the return of the year, at the time when kings go + out [to battle], that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, + and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, + and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem. +011:002 It happened at evening, that David arose from off his bed, + and walked on the roof of the king's house: and from the roof + he saw a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful + to look on. +011:003 David send and inquired after the woman. One said, + Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife + of Uriah the Hittite? +011:004 David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in to him, + and he lay with her (for she was purified from her uncleanness); + and she returned to her house. +011:005 The woman conceived; and she sent and told David, and said, + I am with child. +011:006 David sent to Joab, [saying], Send me Uriah the Hittite. + Joab sent Uriah to David. +011:007 When Uriah was come to him, David asked of him how Joab did, + and how the people fared, and how the war prospered. +011:008 David said to Uriah, Go down to your house, and wash your feet. + Uriah departed out of the king's house, and there followed + him a mess [of food] from the king. +011:009 But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all + the servants of his lord, and didn't go down to his house. +011:010 When they had told David, saying, Uriah didn't go down to his house, + David said to Uriah, Haven't you come from a journey? why + did you not go down to your house? +011:011 Uriah said to David, The ark, and Israel, and Judah, + abide in booths; and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, + are encamped in the open field; shall I then go into my house, + to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? as you live, + and as your soul lives, I will not do this thing. +011:012 David said to Uriah, Stay here today also, and tomorrow I + will let you depart. So Uriah abode in Jerusalem that day, + and the next day. +011:013 When David had called him, he ate and drink before him; + and he made him drunk: and at even he went out to lie on + his bed with the servants of his lord, but didn't go down + to his house. +011:014 It happened in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, + and sent it by the hand of Uriah. +011:015 He wrote in the letter, saying, Set Uriah in the forefront + of the hottest battle, and retire you from him, that he may + be struck, and die. +011:016 It happened, when Joab kept watch on the city, that he assigned + Uriah to the place where he knew that valiant men were. +011:017 The men of the city went out, and fought with Joab: + and there fell some of the people, even of the servants of David; + and Uriah the Hittite died also. +011:018 Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war; +011:019 and he charged the messenger, saying, "When you have made an end + of telling all the things concerning the war to the king, +011:020 it shall be that, if the king's wrath arise, and he tells you, + 'Why did you go so near to the city to fight? Didn't you + know that they would shoot from the wall? +011:021 who struck Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Didn't a woman + cast an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died + at Thebez? Why did you go so near the wall?' then shall you say, + 'Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.'" +011:022 So the messenger went, and came and shown David all that Joab + had sent him for. +011:023 The messenger said to David, The men prevailed against us, + and came out to us into the field, and we were on them even + to the entrance of the gate. +011:024 The shooters shot at your servants from off the wall; + and some of the king's servants are dead, and your servant + Uriah the Hittite is dead also. +011:025 Then David said to the messenger, Thus shall you tell Joab, Don't let + this thing displease you, for the sword devours one as well + as another; make your battle more strong against the city, + and overthrow it: and encourage you him. +011:026 When the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, + she made lamentation for her husband. +011:027 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 Yahweh. +012:001 Yahweh sent Nathan to David. He came to him, and said + to him, "There were two men in one city; the one rich, + and the other poor. +012:002 The rich man had very many flocks and herds, +012:003 but the poor man had nothing, except one little ewe lamb, + which he had bought and raised. It grew up together with him, + and with his children. It ate of his own food, drank of his + own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was to him like a daughter. +012:004 A traveler came to the rich man, and he spared to take of his + own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring + man who had come to him, but took the poor man's lamb, + and dressed it for the man who had come to him." +012:005 David's anger was greatly kindled against the man, and he said + to Nathan, "As Yahweh lives, the man who has done this is + worthy to die! +012:006 He shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, + and because he had no pity!" +012:007 Nathan said to David, "You are the man. This is what Yahweh, + the God of Israel, says: 'I anointed you king over Israel, + and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul. +012:008 I gave you your master's house, and your master's wives into + your bosom, and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah; + and if that would have been too little, I would have added + to you many more such things. +012:009 Why have you despised the word of Yahweh, to do that which + is evil in his sight? You have struck Uriah the Hittite + with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife, + and have slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon. +012:010 Now therefore the sword will never depart from your house, + because you have despised me, and have taken the wife of Uriah + the Hittite to be your wife.' +012:011 This is what Yahweh says: 'Behold, I will raise up evil + against you out of your own house; and I will take your + wives before your eyes, and give them to your neighbor, + and he will lie with your wives in the sight of this sun. +012:012 For you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, + and before the sun.'" +012:013 David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against Yahweh." + Nathan said to David, "Yahweh also has put away your sin. + You will not die. +012:014 However, because by this deed you have given great occasion + to Yahweh's enemies to blaspheme, the child also who is born + to you shall surely die." +012:015 Nathan departed to his house. Yahweh struck the child that + Uriah's wife bore to David, and it was very sick. +012:016 David therefore begged God for the child; and David fasted, + and went in, and lay all night on the earth. +012:017 The elders of his house arose, [and stood] beside him, + to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, neither did + he eat bread with them. +012:018 It happened on the seventh day, that the child died. + The servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead; + for they said, Behold, while the child was yet alive, + we spoke to him, and he didn't listen to our voice: + how will he then vex himself, if we tell him that the + child is dead! +012:019 But when David saw that his servants were whispering together, + David perceived that the child was dead; and David said + to his servants, Is the child dead? They said, He is dead. +012:020 Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed himself, + and changed his clothing; and he came into the house + of Yahweh, and worshiped: then he came to his own house; + and when he required, they set bread before him, and he ate. +012:021 Then said his servants to him, What thing is this that you have + done? you did fast and weep for the child, while it was alive; + but when the child was dead, you did rise and eat bread. +012:022 He said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: + for I said, Who knows whether Yahweh will not be gracious to me, + that the child may live? +012:023 But now he is dead, why should I fast? can I bring him back again? + I shall go to him, but he will not return to me. +012:024 David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in to her, and lay + with her: and she bore a son, and he called his name Solomon. + Yahweh loved him; +012:025 and he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet; and he named + him Jedidiah, for Yahweh's sake. +012:026 Now Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, + and took the royal city. +012:027 Joab sent messengers to David, and said, I have fought + against Rabbah; yes, I have taken the city of waters. +012:028 Now therefore gather the rest of the people together, + and encamp against the city, and take it; lest I take the city, + and it be called after my name. +012:029 David gathered all the people together, and went to Rabbah, + and fought against it, and took it. +012:030 He took the crown of their king from off his head; + and the weight of it was a talent of gold, and [in it + were] precious stones; and it was set on David's head. + He brought forth the spoil of the city, exceeding much. +012:031 He brought forth the people who were therein, and put them + under saws, and under harrows of iron, and under axes + of iron, and made them pass through the brick kiln: + and thus did he to all the cities of the children of Ammon. + David and all the people returned to Jerusalem. +013:001 It happened after this, that Absalom the son of David had + a beautiful sister, whose name was Tamar; and Amnon the son + of David loved her. +013:002 Amnon was so vexed that he fell sick because of his sister Tamar; + for she was a virgin; and it seemed hard to Amnon to do + anything to her. +013:003 But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab, the son + of Shimeah, David's brother; and Jonadab was a very subtle man. +013:004 He said to him, Why, son of the king, are you thus lean from day + to day? Won't you tell me? Amnon said to him, I love Tamar, + my brother Absalom's sister. +013:005 Jonadab said to him, Lay you down on your bed, and feign + yourself sick: and when your father comes to see you, + tell him, Please let my sister Tamar come and give me bread + to eat, and dress the food in my sight, that I may see it, + and eat it from her hand. +013:006 So Amnon lay down, and feigned himself sick: and when the king + was come to see him, Amnon said to the king, Please let her + sister Tamar come, and make me a couple of cakes in my sight, + that I may eat from her hand. +013:007 Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, Go now to your brother + Amnon's house, and dress him food. +013:008 So Tamar went to her brother Amnon's house; and he was laid down. + She took dough, and kneaded it, and made cakes in his sight, + and did bake the cakes. +013:009 She took the pan, and poured them out before him; + but he refused to eat. Amnon said, Have out all men from me. + They went out every man from him. +013:010 Amnon said to Tamar, Bring the food into the chamber, that I may + eat from your hand. Tamar took the cakes which she had made, + and brought them into the chamber to Amnon her brother. +013:011 When she had brought them near to him to eat, he took hold of her, + and said to her, Come, lie with me, my sister. +013:012 She answered him, No, my brother, do not force me; for no such + thing ought to be done in Israel. Don't you do this folly. +013:013 I, where shall I carry my shame? and as for you, you will be + as one of the fools in Israel. Now therefore, please speak + to the king; for he will not withhold me from you. +013:014 However he would not listen to her voice; but being stronger + than she, he forced her, and lay with her. +013:015 Then Amnon hated her with exceeding great hatred; for the hatred + with which he hated her was greater than the love with which + he had loved her. Amnon said to her, Arise, be gone. +013:016 She said to him, Not so, because this great wrong in putting + me forth is [worse] than the other that you did to me. + But he would not listen to her. +013:017 Then he called his servant who ministered to him, and said, + Put now this woman out from me, and bolt the door after her. +013:018 She had a garment of various colors on her; for with such + robes were the king's daughters who were virgins dressed. + Then his servant brought her out, and bolted the door after her. +013:019 Tamar put ashes on her head, and tore her garment of various + colors that was on her; and she laid her hand on her head, + and went her way, crying aloud as she went. +013:020 Absalom her brother said to her, Has Amnon your brother + been with you? but now hold your peace, my sister: + he is your brother; don't take this thing to heart. + So Tamar remained desolate in her brother Absalom's house. +013:021 But when king David heard of all these things, he was very angry. +013:022 Absalom spoke to Amnon neither good nor bad; for Absalom + hated Amnon, because he had forced his sister Tamar. +013:023 It happened after two full years, that Absalom had + sheepshearers in Baal Hazor, which is beside Ephraim: + and Absalom invited all the king's sons. +013:024 Absalom came to the king, and said, See now, your servant + has sheepshearers; let the king, I pray you, and his servants + go with your servant. +013:025 The king said to Absalom, No, my son, let us not all go, + lest we be burdensome to you. He pressed him: + however he would not go, but blessed him. +013:026 Then said Absalom, If not, please let my brother Amnon go with us. + The king said to him, Why should he go with you? +013:027 But Absalom pressed him, and he let Amnon and all the king's + sons go with him. +013:028 Absalom commanded his servants, saying, Mark you now, + when Amnon's heart is merry with wine; and when I tell you, + Smite Amnon, then kill him; don't be afraid; haven't I + commanded you? be courageous, and be valiant. +013:029 The servants of Absalom did to Amnon as Absalom had commanded. + Then all the king's sons arose, and every man got him up + on his mule, and fled. +013:030 It happened, while they were in the way, that the news came + to David, saying, Absalom has slain all the king's sons, + and there is not one of them left. +013:031 Then the king arose, and tore his garments, and lay on the earth; + and all his servants stood by with their clothes torn. +013:032 Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, David's brother, answered, Don't let + my lord suppose that they have killed all the young men + the king's sons; for Amnon only is dead; for by the appointment + of Absalom this has been determined from the day that he forced + his sister Tamar. +013:033 Now therefore don't let my lord the king take the thing + to his heart, to think that all the king's sons are dead; + for Amnon only is dead. +013:034 But Absalom fled. The young man who kept the watch lifted up + his eyes, and looked, and behold, many people were coming + by way of the hillside behind him. +013:035 Jonadab said to the king, Behold, the king's sons are come: + as your servant said, so it is. +013:036 It happened, as soon as he had made an end of speaking, that behold, + the king's sons came, and lifted up their voice, and wept: + and the king also and all his servants wept very sore. +013:037 But Absalom fled, and went to Talmai the son of Ammihur, + king of Geshur. [David] mourned for his son every day. +013:038 So Absalom fled, and went to Geshur, and was there three years. +013:039 [the soul of] king David longed to go forth to Absalom: + for he was comforted concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead. +014:001 Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king's heart + was toward Absalom. +014:002 Joab sent to Tekoa, and fetched there a wise woman, + and said to her, please act like a mourner, and put on + mourning clothing, Please, and don't anoint yourself with oil, + but be as a woman who has a long time mourned for the dead: +014:003 and go in to the king, and speak on this manner to him. + So Joab put the words in her mouth. +014:004 When the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she fell on her face + to the ground, and did obeisance, and said, Help, O king. +014:005 The king said to her, What ails you? She answered, Of a truth + I am a widow, and my husband is dead. +014:006 Your handmaid had two sons, and they two strove together in the field, + and there was none to part them, but the one struck the other, + and killed him. +014:007 Behold, the whole family is risen against your handmaid, + and they say, Deliver him who struck his brother, that we + may kill him for the life of his brother whom he killed, + and so destroy the heir also. Thus will they quench my coal + which is left, and will leave to my husband neither name nor + remainder on the surface of the earth. +014:008 The king said to the woman, Go to your house, and I will give + charge concerning you. +014:009 The woman of Tekoa said to the king, My lord, O king, + the iniquity be on me, and on my father's house; and the king + and his throne be guiltless. +014:010 The king said, Whoever says anything to you, bring him to me, + and he shall not touch you any more. +014:011 Then said she, Please let the king remember Yahweh your God, + that the avenger of blood destroy not any more, lest they + destroy my son. He said, As Yahweh lives, there shall not + one hair of your son fall to the earth. +014:012 Then the woman said, Please let your handmaid speak a word + to my lord the king. He said, Say on. +014:013 The woman said, Why then have you devised such a thing against + the people of God? for in speaking this word the king is + as one who is guilty, in that the king does not bring home + again his banished one. +014:014 For we must needs die, and are as water split on the ground, + which can't be gathered up again; neither does God take + away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be + an outcast from him. +014:015 Now therefore seeing that I have come to speak this word to my + lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid: + and your handmaid said, I will now speak to the king; + it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant. +014:016 For the king will hear, to deliver his servant out of the hand + of the man who would destroy me and my son together out + of the inheritance of God. +014:017 Then your handmaid said, Please let the word of my lord the king + be comfortable; for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king + to discern good and bad: and Yahweh your God be with you. +014:018 Then the king answered the woman, Please don't hide anything + from me that I shall ask you. The woman said, Let my lord + the king now speak. +014:019 The king said, Is the hand of Joab with you in all this? + The woman answered, As your soul lives, my lord the king, + none can turn to the right hand or to the left from anything + that my lord the king has spoken; for your servant Joab, + he bade me, and he put all these words in the mouth + of your handmaid; +014:020 to change the face of the matter has your servant Joab done + this thing: and my lord is wise, according to the wisdom + of an angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth. +014:021 The king said to Joab, Behold now, I have done this thing: + go therefore, bring the young man Absalom back. +014:022 Joab fell to the ground on his face, and did obeisance, + and blessed the king: and Joab said, Today your servant knows + that I have found favor in your sight, my lord, king, in that + the king has performed the request of his servant. +014:023 So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem. +014:024 The king said, Let him turn to his own house, but let him + not see my face. So Absalom turned to his own house, + and didn't see the king's face. +014:025 Now in all Israel there was none to be so much praised as Absalom + for his beauty: from the sole of his foot even to the crown + of his head there was no blemish in him. +014:026 When he cut the hair of his head (now it was at every year's end + that he cut it; because it was heavy on him, therefore he cut it); + he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels, + after the king's weight. +014:027 To Absalom there were born three sons, and one daughter, + whose name was Tamar: she was a woman of a beautiful face. +014:028 Absalom lived two full years in Jerusalem; and he didn't see + the king's face. +014:029 Then Absalom sent for Joab, to send him to the king; + but he would not come to him: and he sent again a second time, + but he would not come. +014:030 Therefore he said to his servants, Behold, Joab's field is + near mine, and he has barley there; go and set it on fire. + Absalom's servants set the field on fire. +014:031 Then Joab arose, and came to Absalom to his house, and said + to him, Why have your servants set my field on fire? +014:032 Absalom answered Joab, Behold, I sent to you, saying, Come here, + that I may send you to the king, to say, Why am I come + from Geshur? it were better for me to be there still. + Now therefore let me see the king's face; and if there be + iniquity in me, let him kill me. +014:033 So Joab came to the king, and told him; and when he had called + for Absalom, he came to the king, and bowed himself on his face + to the ground before the king: and the king kissed Absalom. +015:001 It happened after this, that Absalom prepared him a chariot + and horses, and fifty men to run before him. +015:002 Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate: + and it was so, that when any man had a suit which should + come to the king for judgment, then Absalom called to him, + and said, Of what city are you? He said, Your servant is + of one of the tribes of Israel. +015:003 Absalom said to him, Behold, your matters are good and right; + but there is no man deputized of the king to hear you. +015:004 Absalom said moreover, Oh that I were made judge in the land, + that every man who has any suit or cause might come to me, + and I would do him justice! +015:005 It was so, that when any man came near to do him obeisance, + he put forth his hand, and took hold of him, and kissed him. +015:006 In this manner Absalom did to all Israel who came to the king + for judgment: so Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel. +015:007 It happened at the end of forty years, that Absalom said + to the king, please let me go and pay my vow, which I have + vowed to Yahweh, in Hebron. +015:008 For your servant vowed a vow while I abode at Geshur in Syria, + saying, If Yahweh shall indeed bring me again to Jerusalem, + then I will serve Yahweh. +015:009 The king said to him, Go in peace. So he arose, and went to Hebron. +015:010 But Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel, + saying, As soon as you hear the sound of the trumpet, + then you shall say, Absalom is king in Hebron. +015:011 With Absalom went two hundred men out of Jerusalem, who were invited, + and went in their simplicity; and they didn't know anything. +015:012 Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David's counselor, + from his city, even from Giloh, while he was offering + the sacrifices. The conspiracy was strong; for the people + increased continually with Absalom. +015:013 There came a messenger to David, saying, The hearts of the men + of Israel are after Absalom. +015:014 David said to all his servants who were with him at Jerusalem, Arise, + and let us flee; for else none of us shall escape from Absalom: + make speed to depart, lest he overtake us quickly, and bring + down evil on us, and strike the city with the edge of the sword. +015:015 The king's servants said to the king, Behold, your servants + are ready to do whatever my lord the king shall choose. +015:016 The king went forth, and all his household after him. + The king left ten women, who were concubines, to keep the house. +015:017 The king went forth, and all the people after him; and they + stayed in Beth Merhak. +015:018 All his servants passed on beside him; and all the Cherethites, + and all the Pelethites, and all the Gittites, six hundred men + who came after him from Gath, passed on before the king. +015:019 Then said the king to Ittai the Gittite, Why go you also with + us? return, and abide with the king: for you are a foreigner, + and also an exile; [return] to your own place. +015:020 Whereas you came but yesterday, should I this day make you go + up and down with us, seeing I go where I may? return you, + and take back your brothers; mercy and truth be with you. +015:021 Ittai answered the king, and said, As Yahweh lives, and as my + lord the king lives, surely in what place my lord the king + shall be, whether for death or for life, even there also will + your servant be. +015:022 David said to Ittai, Go and pass over. Ittai the Gittite + passed over, and all his men, and all the little ones who + were with him. +015:023 All the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people + passed over: the king also himself passed over the brook Kidron, + and all the people passed over, toward the way of the wilderness. +015:024 Behold, Zadok also [came], and all the Levites with him, + bearing the ark of the covenant of God; and they set down + the ark of God; and Abiathar went up, until all the people + had done passing out of the city. +015:025 The king said to Zadok, Carry back the ark of God into the city: + if I shall find favor in the eyes of Yahweh, he will bring + me again, and show me both it, and his habitation: +015:026 but if he say thus, I have no delight in you; behold, here am I, + let him do to me as seems good to him. +015:027 The king said also to Zadok the priest, "Aren't you a seer? + Return into the city in peace, and your two sons with you, + Ahimaaz your son, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar. +015:028 Behold, I will stay at the fords of the wilderness, until word + comes from you to inform me." +015:029 Zadok therefore and Abiathar carried the ark of God again + to Jerusalem: and they abode there. +015:030 David went up by the ascent of the [Mount of] Olives, and wept + as he went up; and he had his head covered, and went barefoot: + and all the people who were with him covered every man his head, + and they went up, weeping as they went up. +015:031 One told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators + with Absalom. David said, Yahweh, please turn the counsel + of Ahithophel into foolishness. +015:032 It happened that when David had come to the top [of the ascent], + where God was worshiped, behold, Hushai the Archite came + to meet him with his coat torn, and earth on his head. +015:033 David said to him, If you pass on with me, then you will be + a burden to me: +015:034 but if you return to the city, and tell Absalom, I will be + your servant, O king; as I have been your father's servant + in time past, so will I now be your servant; then will you + defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel. +015:035 Don't you have Zadok and Abiathar the priests there with you? + therefore it shall be, that whatever thing you shall hear + out of the king's house, you shall tell it to Zadok and + Abiathar the priests. +015:036 Behold, they have there with them their two sons, + Ahimaaz, Zadok's son, and Jonathan, Abiathar's son; and by them + you shall send to me everything that you shall hear. +015:037 So Hushai, David's friend, came into the city; and Absalom + came into Jerusalem. +016:001 When David was a little past the top [of the ascent], behold, + Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple + of donkeys saddled, and on them two hundred loaves of bread, + and one hundred clusters of raisins, and one hundred summer fruits, + and a bottle of wine. +016:002 The king said to Ziba, What do you mean by these? + Ziba said, The donkeys are for the king's household to ride on; + and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat; + and the wine, that such as are faint in the wilderness may drink. +016:003 The king said, Where is your master's son? Ziba said + to the king, Behold, he abides at Jerusalem; for he said, + Today will the house of Israel restore me the kingdom + of my father. +016:004 Then said the king to Ziba, Behold, all that pertains + to Mephibosheth is yours. Ziba said, I do obeisance; + let me find favor in your sight, my lord, O king. +016:005 When king David came to Bahurim, behold, a man of the family of + the house of Saul came out, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera. + He came out, and cursed still as he came. +016:006 He cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king David: + and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right + hand and on his left. +016:007 Thus said Shimei when he cursed, Be gone, be gone, you man + of blood, and base fellow: +016:008 Yahweh has returned on you all the blood of the house of Saul, + in whose place you have reigned; and Yahweh has delivered + the kingdom into the hand of Absalom your son; and behold, + you are [taken] in your own mischief, because you are a + man of blood. +016:009 Then said Abishai the son of Zeruiah to the king, + "Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? + Please let me go over and take off his head." +016:010 The king said, What have I to do with you, you sons + of Zeruiah? Because he curses, and because Yahweh has said + to him, Curse David; who then shall say, Why have you done so? +016:011 David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, Behold, + my son, who came forth from my bowels, seeks my life: + how much more [may] this Benjamite now [do it]? let him alone, + and let him curse; for Yahweh has invited him. +016:012 It may be that Yahweh will look on the wrong done to me, + and that Yahweh will requite me good for [his] cursing + of me this day. +016:013 So David and his men went by the way; and Shimei went along + on the hillside over against him, and cursed as he went, + and threw stones at him, and cast dust. +016:014 The king, and all the people who were with him, came weary; + and he refreshed himself there. +016:015 Absalom, and all the people, the men of Israel, came to Jerusalem, + and Ahithophel with him. +016:016 It happened, when Hushai the Archite, David's friend, was come + to Absalom, that Hushai said to Absalom, [Long] live the king, + [Long] live the king. +016:017 Absalom said to Hushai, Is this your kindness to your friend? + Why didn't you go with your friend? +016:018 Hushai said to Absalom, No; but whom Yahweh, and this people, + and all the men of Israel have chosen, his will I be, + and with him will I abide. +016:019 Again, whom should I serve? Shouldn't I serve in the presence + of his son? as I have served in your father's presence, + so will I be in your presence. +016:020 Then said Absalom to Ahithophel, Give your counsel what + we shall do. +016:021 Ahithophel said to Absalom, Go in to your father's concubines, + that he has left to keep the house; and all Israel will hear + that you are abhorred of your father: then will the hands + of all who are with you be strong. +016:022 So they spread Absalom a tent on the top of the house; + and Absalom went in to his father's concubines in the sight + of all Israel. +016:023 The counsel of Ahithophel, which he gave in those days, + was as if a man inquired at the oracle of God: so was all + the counsel of Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom. +017:001 Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, Let me now choose + out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after + David this night: +017:002 and I will come on him while he is weary and exhausted, and will + make him afraid; and all the people who are with him shall flee; + and I will strike the king only; +017:003 and I will bring back all the people to you: the man whom + you seek is as if all returned: [so] all the people shall + be in peace. +017:004 The saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel. +017:005 Then said Absalom, Call now Hushai the Archite also, and let + us hear likewise what he says. +017:006 When Hushai was come to Absalom, Absalom spoke to him, + saying, Ahithophel has spoken after this manner: + shall we do [after] his saying? if not, speak up. +017:007 Hushai said to Absalom, The counsel that Ahithophel has given + this time is not good. +017:008 Hushai said moreover, You know your father and his men, + that they are mighty men, and they are fierce in their minds, + as a bear robbed of her cubs in the field; and your father + is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people. +017:009 Behold, he is hid now in some pit, or in some [other] place: + and it will happen, when some of them are fallen at the first, + that whoever hears it will say, There is a slaughter among + the people who follow Absalom. +017:010 Even he who is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a lion, + will utterly melt; for all Israel knows that your father + is a mighty man, and those who are with him are valiant men. +017:011 But I counsel that all Israel be gathered together to you, + from Dan even to Beersheba, as the sand that is by the sea + for multitude; and that you go to battle in your own person. +017:012 So shall we come on him in some place where he shall be found, + and we will light on him as the dew falls on the ground; + and of him and of all the men who are with him we will not + leave so much as one. +017:013 Moreover, if he be gotten into a city, then shall all Israel + bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the river, + until there not be one small stone found there. +017:014 Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai + the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. + For Yahweh had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, + to the intent that Yahweh might bring evil on Absalom. +017:015 Then said Hushai to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, Thus and + thus did Ahithophel counsel Absalom and the elders of Israel; + and thus and thus have I counseled. +017:016 Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, Don't lodge + this night at the fords of the wilderness, but by all means + pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people + who are with him. +017:017 Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying by En Rogel; and a female + servant used to go and tell them; and they went and told king David: + for they might not be seen to come into the city. +017:018 But a boy saw them, and told Absalom: and they went both of them + away quickly, and came to the house of a man in Bahurim, + who had a well in his court; and they went down there. +017:019 The woman took and spread the covering over the well's mouth, + and strewed bruised grain thereon; and nothing was known. +017:020 Absalom's servants came to the woman to the house; and they said, + Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan? The woman said to them, + They have gone over the brook of water. When they had sought + and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem. +017:021 It happened, after they had departed, that they came up + out of the well, and went and told king David; and they + said to David, Arise you, and pass quickly over the water; + for thus has Ahithophel counseled against you. +017:022 Then David arose, and all the people who were with him, + and they passed over the Jordan: by the morning light there + lacked not one of them who had not gone over the Jordan. +017:023 When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, + he saddled his donkey, and arose, and got him home, to his city, + and set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, + and was buried in the tomb of his father. +017:024 Then David came to Mahanaim. Absalom passed over the Jordan, + he and all the men of Israel with him. +017:025 Absalom set Amasa over the army instead of Joab. + Now Amasa was the son of a man, whose name was Ithra + the Israelite, who went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, + sister to Zeruiah, Joab's mother. +017:026 Israel and Absalom encamped in the land of Gilead. +017:027 It happened, when David was come to Mahanaim, that Shobi + the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon, + and Machir the son of Ammiel of Lodebar, and Barzillai + the Gileadite of Rogelim, +017:028 brought beds, and basins, and earthen vessels, and wheat, + and barley, and meal, and parched [grain], and beans, + and lentils, and parched [pulse], +017:029 and honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of the herd, + for David, and for the people who were with him, to eat: + for they said, The people are hungry, and weary, and thirsty, + in the wilderness. +018:001 David numbered the people who were with him, and set captains + of thousands and captains of hundreds over them. +018:002 David sent forth the people, a third part under the hand + of Joab, and a third part under the hand of Abishai the son + of Zeruiah, Joab's brother, and a third part under the hand + of Ittai the Gittite. The king said to the people, I will + surely go forth with you myself also. +018:003 But the people said, You shall not go forth: for if we flee away, + they will not care for us; neither if half of us die, + will they care for us: but you are worth ten thousand of us; + therefore now it is better that you are ready to help us + out of the city. +018:004 The king said to them, What seems you best I will do. + The king stood beside the gate, and all the people went out + by hundreds and by thousands. +018:005 The king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Deal + gently for my sake with the young man, even with Absalom. + All the people heard when the king gave all the captains + charge concerning Absalom. +018:006 So the people went out into the field against Israel: + and the battle was in the forest of Ephraim. +018:007 The people of Israel were struck there before the servants + of David, and there was a great slaughter there that day + of twenty thousand men. +018:008 For the battle was there spread over the surface of all + the country; and the forest devoured more people that day + than the sword devoured. +018:009 Absalom happened to meet the servants of David. + Absalom was riding on his mule, and the mule went under + the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold + of the oak, and he was taken up between the sky and earth; + and the mule that was under him went on. +018:010 A certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw + Absalom hanging in an oak. +018:011 Joab said to the man who told him, Behold, you saw it, + and why didn't you strike him there to the ground? and I + would have given you ten [pieces of] silver, and a sash. +018:012 The man said to Joab, Though I should receive a thousand + [pieces of] silver in my hand, I still wouldn't put forth + my hand against the king's son; for in our hearing the king + charged you and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Beware that none + touch the young man Absalom. +018:013 Otherwise if I had dealt falsely against his life (and there + is no matter hid from the king), then you yourself would + have set yourself against [me]. +018:014 Then said Joab, I may not wait thus with you. He took three darts + in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, + while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak. +018:015 Ten young men who bore Joab's armor compassed about and + struck Absalom, and killed him. +018:016 Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing + after Israel; for Joab held back the people. +018:017 They took Absalom, and cast him into the great pit in the forest, + and raised over him a very great heap of stones: + and all Israel fled everyone to his tent. +018:018 Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up + for himself the pillar, which is in the king's dale; + for he said, I have no son to keep my name in memory: + and he called the pillar after his own name; and it is called + Absalom's monument, to this day. +018:019 Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok, Let me now run, and bear + the king news, how that Yahweh has avenged him of his enemies. +018:020 Joab said to him, You shall not be the bearer of news this day, + but you shall bear news another day; but this day you shall + bear no news, because the king's son is dead. +018:021 Then said Joab to the Cushite, Go, tell the king what you have seen. + The Cushite bowed himself to Joab, and ran. +018:022 Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok yet again to Joab, But come + what may, Please let me also run after the Cushite. + Joab said, Why will you run, my son, seeing that you will + have no reward for the news? +018:023 But come what may, [said he], I will run. He said to him, Run. + Then Ahimaaz ran by the way of the Plain, and outran the Cushite. +018:024 Now David was sitting between the two gates: and the watchman + went up to the roof of the gate to the wall, and lifted up + his eyes, and looked, and, behold, a man running alone. +018:025 The watchman cried, and told the king. The king said, + If he be alone, there is news in his mouth. He came apace, + and drew near. +018:026 The watchman saw another man running; and the watchman called + to the porter, and said, Behold, [another] man running alone. + The king said, He also brings news. +018:027 The watchman said, I think the running of the foremost is + like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok. The king said, + He is a good man, and comes with good news. +018:028 Ahimaaz called, and said to the king, All is well. + He bowed himself before the king with his face to the earth, + and said, Blessed be Yahweh your God, who has delivered up + the men who lifted up their hand against my lord the king. +018:029 The king said, Is it well with the young man Absalom? + Ahimaaz answered, When Joab sent the king's servant, + even me your servant, I saw a great tumult, but I don't know + what it was. +018:030 The king said, Turn aside, and stand here. He turned aside, + and stood still. +018:031 Behold, the Cushite came; and the Cushite said, News for my + lord the king; for Yahweh has avenged you this day of all + those who rose up against you. +018:032 The king said to the Cushite, Is it well with the young + man Absalom? The Cushite answered, The enemies of my lord + the king, and all who rise up against you to do you hurt, + be as that young man is. +018:033 The king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, + and wept: and as he went, thus he said, my son Absalom, + my son, my son Absalom! would I had died for you, Absalom, + my son, my son! +019:001 It was told Joab, Behold, the king weeps and mourns for Absalom. +019:002 The victory that day was turned into mourning to all the people; + for the people heard say that day, The king grieves for his son. +019:003 The people got them by stealth that day into the city, + as people who are ashamed steal away when they flee in battle. +019:004 The king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, + my son Absalom, Absalom, my son, my son! +019:005 Joab came into the house to the king, and said, You have shamed + this day the faces of all your servants, who this day have saved + your life, and the lives of your sons and of your daughters, + and the lives of your wives, and the lives of your concubines; +019:006 in that you love those who hate you, and hate those who love you. + For you have declared this day, that princes and servants are + nothing to you: for this day I perceive that if Absalom had lived, + and all we had died this day, then it had pleased you well. +019:007 Now therefore arise, go forth, and speak comfortably + to your servants; for I swear by Yahweh, if you don't + go forth, there will not stay a man with you this night: + and that will be worse to you than all the evil that has + happened to you from your youth until now. +019:008 Then the king arose, and sat in the gate. They told to all + the people, saying, Behold, the king is sitting in the gate: + and all the people came before the king. Now Israel had fled + every man to his tent. +019:009 All the people were at strife throughout all the tribes + of Israel, saying, The king delivered us out of the hand of + our enemies, and he saved us out of the hand of the Philistines; + and now he is fled out of the land from Absalom. +019:010 Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. + Now therefore why don't you speak a word of bringing + the king back? +019:011 King David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, + Speak to the elders of Judah, saying, Why are you the last + to bring the king back to his house? seeing the speech of all + Israel is come to the king, [to bring him] to his house. +019:012 You are my brothers, you are my bone and my flesh: + why then are you the last to bring back the king? +019:013 Say you to Amasa, Aren't you my bone and my flesh? + God do so to me, and more also, if you aren't captain + of the army before me continually in the room of Joab. +019:014 He bowed the heart of all the men of Judah, even as [the heart of] + one man; so that they sent to the king, [saying], Return you, + and all your servants. +019:015 So the king returned, and came to the Jordan. Judah came to Gilgal, + to go to meet the king, to bring the king over the Jordan. +019:016 Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite, who was of Bahurim, + hurried and came down with the men of Judah to meet king David. +019:017 There were a thousand men of Benjamin with him, and Ziba + the servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his + twenty servants with him; and they went through the Jordan + in the presence of the king. +019:018 A ferry boat went to bring over the king's household, + and to do what he thought good. Shimei the son of Gera fell + down before the king, when he was come over the Jordan. +019:019 He said to the king, Don't let my lord impute iniquity to me, + neither do you remember that which your servant did perversely + the day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, + that the king should take it to his heart. +019:020 For your servant does know that I have sinned: therefore, behold, + I am come this day the first of all the house of Joseph to go + down to meet my lord the king. +019:021 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered, Shall Shimei not be + put to death for this, because he cursed Yahweh's anointed? +019:022 David said, What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah, + that you should this day be adversaries to me? shall there + any man be put to death this day in Israel? for don't I know + that I am this day king over Israel? +019:023 The king said to Shimei, You shall not die. The king + swore to him. +019:024 Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king; + and he had neither dressed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, + nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until + the day he came home in peace. +019:025 It happened, when he was come to Jerusalem to meet the king, + that the king said to him, Why didn't you go with me, Mephibosheth? +019:026 He answered, My lord, O king, my servant deceived me: + for your servant said, I will saddle me a donkey, that I may + ride thereon, and go with the king; because your servant is lame. +019:027 He has slandered your servant to my lord the king; but my lord + the king is as an angel of God: do therefore what is good + in your eyes. +019:028 For all my father's house were but dead men before my lord the king; + yet you set your servant among those who ate at your own table. + What right therefore have I yet that I should cry any more + to the king? +019:029 The king said to him, Why speak you any more of your matters? + I say, You and Ziba divide the land. +019:030 Mephibosheth said to the king, yes, let him take all, + because my lord the king is come in peace to his own house. +019:031 Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim; and he went + over the Jordan with the king, to conduct him over the Jordan. +019:032 Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even eighty years old: + and he had provided the king with sustenance while he lay + at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man. +019:033 The king said to Barzillai, Come you over with me, and I + will sustain you with me in Jerusalem. +019:034 Barzillai said to the king, How many are the days of the years + of my life, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem? +019:035 I am this day eighty years old: can I discern between good + and bad? can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? + can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing + women? why then should your servant be yet a burden to my + lord the king? +019:036 Your servant would but just go over the Jordan with the king: + and why should the king recompense it me with such a reward? +019:037 Please let your servant turn back again, that I may die + in my own city, by the grave of my father and my mother. + But behold, your servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord + the king; and do to him what shall seem good to you. +019:038 The king answered, Chimham shall go over with me, + and I will do to him that which shall seem good to you: + and whatever you shall require of me, that will I do for you. +019:039 All the people went over the Jordan, and the king went over: + and the king kissed Barzillai, and blessed him; and he returned + to his own place. +019:040 So the king went over to Gilgal, and Chimham went over with him: + and all the people of Judah brought the king over, and also half + the people of Israel. +019:041 Behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said to the king, + Why have our brothers the men of Judah stolen you away, + and brought the king, and his household, over the Jordan, + and all David's men with him? +019:042 All the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, Because the king + is a close relative to us: why then are you angry for this + matter? have we eaten at all at the king's cost? or has + he given us any gift? +019:043 The men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, + We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more [right] + in David than you: why then did you despise us, that our + advice should not be first had in bringing back our king? + The words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words + of the men of Israel. +020:001 There happened to be there a base fellow, whose name was Sheba, + the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew the trumpet, + and said, We have no portion in David, neither have we inheritance + in the son of Jesse: every man to his tents, Israel. +020:002 So all the men of Israel went up from following David, + and followed Sheba the son of Bichri; but the men of Judah + joined with their king, from the Jordan even to Jerusalem. +020:003 David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten + women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, + and put them in custody, and provided them with sustenance, + but didn't go in to them. So they were shut up to the day + of their death, living in widowhood. +020:004 Then said the king to Amasa, Call me the men of Judah together + within three days, and be here present. +020:005 So Amasa went to call [the men of] Judah together; but he stayed + longer than the set time which he had appointed him. +020:006 David said to Abishai, Now will Sheba the son of Bichri do us + more harm than did Absalom: take your lord's servants, + and pursue after him, lest he get him fortified cities, + and escape out of our sight. +020:007 There went out after him Joab's men, and the Cherethites + and the Pelethites, and all the mighty men; and they went + out of Jerusalem, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri. +020:008 When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa came + to meet them. Joab was girded with his apparel of war that + he had put on, and thereon was a sash with a sword fastened + on his waist in its sheath; and as he went forth it fell out. +020:009 Joab said to Amasa, Is it well with you, my brother? + Joab took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him. +020:010 But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand: + so he struck him therewith in the body, and shed out his bowels + to the ground, and didn't strike him again; and he died. + Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri. +020:011 There stood by him one of Joab's young men, and said, He who + favors Joab, and he who is for David, let him follow Joab. +020:012 Amasa lay wallowing in his blood in the midst of the highway. + When the man saw that all the people stood still, he carried Amasa + out of the highway into the field, and cast a garment over him, + when he saw that everyone who came by him stood still. +020:013 When he was removed out of the highway, all the people went + on after Joab, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri. +020:014 He went through all the tribes of Israel to Abel, and to Beth Maacah, + and all the Berites: and they were gathered together, + and went also after him. +020:015 They came and besieged him in Abel of Beth Maacah, and they cast + up a mound against the city, and it stood against the rampart; + and all the people who were with Joab battered the wall, + to throw it down. +020:016 Then cried a wise woman out of the city, "Hear, hear! + Please say to Joab, 'Come near here, that I may speak with you.'" +020:017 He came near to her; and the woman said, Are you Joab? He answered, + I am. Then she said to him, Hear the words of your handmaid. + He answered, I do hear. +020:018 Then she spoke, saying, They were wont to speak in + old time, saying, They shall surely ask [counsel] at Abel: + and so they ended [the matter]. +020:019 I am of those who are peaceable and faithful in Israel: + you seek to destroy a city and a mother in Israel: + why will you swallow up the inheritance of Yahweh? +020:020 Joab answered, Far be it, far be it from me, that I should + swallow up or destroy. +020:021 The matter is not so: but a man of the hill country + of Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, has lifted + up his hand against the king, even against David; + deliver him only, and I will depart from the city. + The woman said to Joab, Behold, his head shall be thrown + to you over the wall. +020:022 Then the woman went to all the people in her wisdom. + They cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, + and threw it out to Joab. He blew the trumpet, and they + were dispersed from the city, every man to his tent. + Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king. +020:023 Now Joab was over all the army of Israel; and Benaiah the son + of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites; +020:024 and Adoram was over the men subject to forced labor; + and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was the recorder; +020:025 and Sheva was scribe; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests; +020:026 and also Ira the Jairite was chief minister to David. +021:001 There was a famine in the days of David three years, + year after year; and David sought the face of Yahweh. + Yahweh said, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, + because he put to death the Gibeonites. +021:002 The king called the Gibeonites, and said to them (now the Gibeonites + were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of + the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn to them: + and Saul sought to kill them in his zeal for the children + of Israel and Judah); +021:003 and David said to the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? + And with what shall I make atonement, that you may bless + the inheritance of Yahweh? +021:004 The Gibeonites said to him, It is no matter of silver or gold + between us and Saul, or his house; neither is it for us to put + any man to death in Israel. He said, What you shall say, + that will I do for you. +021:005 They said to the king, The man who consumed us, and who devised + against us, [that] we should be destroyed from remaining + in any of the borders of Israel, +021:006 let seven men of his sons be delivered to us, and we will hang + them up to Yahweh in Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of Yahweh. + The king said, I will give them. +021:007 But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son + of Saul, because of Yahweh's oath that was between them, + between David and Jonathan the son of Saul. +021:008 But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, + whom she bore to Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five + sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she bore to Adriel + the son of Barzillai the Meholathite: +021:009 He delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they + hanged them in the mountain before Yahweh, and they fell [all] + seven together. They were put to death in the days of harvest, + in the first days, at the beginning of barley harvest. +021:010 Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it + for her on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water + was poured on them from the sky; and she allowed neither + the birds of the sky to rest on them by day, nor the animals + of the field by night. +021:011 It was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine + of Saul, had done. +021:012 David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan + his son from the men of Jabesh Gilead, who had stolen them from + the street of Beth Shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, + in the day that the Philistines killed Saul in Gilboa; +021:013 and he brought up from there the bones of Saul and the bones + of Jonathan his son: and they gathered the bones of those + who were hanged. +021:014 They buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the country + of Benjamin in Zela, in the tomb of Kish his father: + and they performed all that the king commanded. + After that God was entreated for the land. +021:015 The Philistines had war again with Israel; and David went down, + and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines. + David grew faint; +021:016 and Ishbibenob, who was of the sons of the giant, the weight + of whose spear was three hundred [shekels] of brass in weight, + he being girded with a new [sword], thought to have slain David. +021:017 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah helped him, and struck + the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David swore + to him, saying, You shall go no more out with us to battle, + that you don't quench the lamp of Israel. +021:018 It came to pass after this, that there was again war with the + Philistines at Gob: then Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Saph, + who was of the sons of the giant. +021:019 There was again war with the Philistines at Gob; and Elhanan + the son of Jaareoregim the Bethlehemite killed Goliath + the Gittite's brother, the staff of whose spear was like + a weaver's beam. +021:020 There was again war at Gath, where was a man of great stature, + who had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes, + four and twenty in number; and he also was born to the giant. +021:021 When he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimei, David's brother, + killed him. +021:022 These four were born to the giant in Gath; and they fell + by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants. +022:001 David spoke to Yahweh the words of this song in the day + that Yahweh delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, + and out of the hand of Saul: +022:002 and he said, Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer, + even mine; +022:003 God, my rock, in him I will take refuge; my shield, + and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge. + My savior, you save me from violence. +022:004 I will call on Yahweh, who is worthy to be praised: + So shall I be saved from my enemies. +022:005 For the waves of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness + made me afraid. +022:006 The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death caught me. +022:007 In my distress I called on Yahweh. Yes, I called to my God. + He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry [came] into his ears. +022:008 Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations of heaven + quaked and were shaken, because he was angry. +022:009 Smoke went up out of his nostrils. Fire out of his mouth devoured. + Coals were kindled by it. +022:010 He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness + was under his feet. +022:011 He rode on a cherub, and flew. Yes, he was seen on the wings + of the wind. +022:012 He made darkness pavilions around himself: gathering of waters, + and thick clouds of the skies. +022:013 At the brightness before him, coals of fire were kindled. +022:014 Yahweh thundered from heaven. The Most High uttered his voice. +022:015 He sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and confused them. +022:016 Then the channels of the sea appeared. The foundations of + the world were laid bare by the rebuke of Yahweh, At the blast + of the breath of his nostrils. +022:017 He sent from on high and he took me. He drew me out + of many waters. +022:018 He delivered me from my strong enemy, from those who hated me, + for they were too mighty for me. +022:019 They came on me in the day of my calamity, but Yahweh + was my support. +022:020 He also brought me out into a large place. He delivered me, + because he delighted in me. +022:021 Yahweh rewarded me according to my righteousness. + He rewarded me according to the cleanness of my hands. +022:022 For I have kept the ways of Yahweh, and have not wickedly + departed from my God. +022:023 For all his ordinances were before me. As for his statutes, + I did not depart from them. +022:024 I was also perfect toward him. I kept myself from my iniquity. +022:025 Therefore Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness, + According to my cleanness in his eyesight. +022:026 With the merciful you will show yourself merciful. + With the perfect man you will show yourself perfect. +022:027 With the pure you will show yourself pure. With the crooked + you will show yourself shrewd. +022:028 You will save the afflicted people, But your eyes are on + the haughty, that you may bring them down. +022:029 For you are my lamp, Yahweh. Yahweh will light up my darkness. +022:030 For by you, I run against a troop. By my God, I leap over a wall. +022:031 As for God, his way is perfect. The word of Yahweh is tested. + He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him. +022:032 For who is God, besides Yahweh? Who is a rock, besides our God? +022:033 God is my strong fortress. He makes my way perfect. +022:034 He makes his feet like hinds' [feet], and sets me on + my high places. +022:035 He teaches my hands to war, so that my arms bend a bow of brass. +022:036 You have also given me the shield of your salvation. + Your gentleness has made me great. +022:037 You have enlarged my steps under me. My feet have not slipped. +022:038 I have pursued my enemies and destroyed them. I didn't turn + again until they were consumed. +022:039 I have consumed them, and struck them through, so that they + can't arise. Yes, they have fallen under my feet. +022:040 For you have armed me with strength for the battle. + You have subdued under me those who rose up against me. +022:041 You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I + might cut off those who hate me. +022:042 They looked, but there was none to save; even to Yahweh, + but he didn't answer them. +022:043 Then I beat them as small as the dust of the earth. + I crushed them as the mire of the streets, and spread them abroad. +022:044 You also have delivered me from the strivings of my people. + You have kept me to be the head of the nations. + A people whom I have not known will serve me. +022:045 The foreigners will submit themselves to me. As soon as they + hear of me, they will obey me. +022:046 The foreigners will fade away, and will come trembling out + of their close places. +022:047 Yahweh lives! Blessed be my rock! Exalted be God, the rock + of my salvation, +022:048 even the God who executes vengeance for me, who brings down + peoples under me, +022:049 who brings me away from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up + above those who rise up against me. You deliver me from + the violent man. +022:050 Therefore I will give thanks to you, Yahweh, among the nations. + Will sing praises to your name. +022:051 He gives great deliverance to his king, and shows loving kindness + to his anointed, to David and to his seed, forevermore. +023:001 Now these are the last words of David. David the son of Jesse says, + the man who was raised on high says, the anointed of the God + of Jacob, the sweet psalmist of Israel: +023:002 The Spirit of Yahweh spoke by me. His word was on my tongue. +023:003 The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spoke to me, + one who rules over men righteously, who rules in the fear of God, +023:004 [He shall be] as the light of the morning, when the sun rises, + a morning without clouds, [When] the tender grass [springs] + out of the earth, Through clear shining after rain. +023:005 Most certainly my house is not so with God, yet he has made + with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, + and sure, for it is all my salvation, and all [my] desire, + although he doesn't make it grow. +023:006 But all of the ungodly shall be as thorns to be thrust away, + because they can't be taken with the hand, +023:007 But the man who touches them must be armed with iron and + the staff of a spear. They shall be utterly burned with fire + in [their] place. +023:008 These are the names of the mighty men whom David had: + Josheb Basshebeth a Tahchemonite, chief of the captains; + the same was Adino the Eznite, against eight hundred slain + at one time. +023:009 After him was Eleazar the son of Dodai the son of an Ahohite, + one of the three mighty men with David, when they defied + the Philistines who were there gathered together to battle, + and the men of Israel were gone away. +023:010 He arose, and struck the Philistines until his hand was weary, + and his hand froze to the sword; and Yahweh worked a great + victory that day; and the people returned after him only + to take spoil. +023:011 After him was Shammah the son of Agee a Hararite. + The Philistines were gathered together into a troop, + where was a plot of ground full of lentils; and the people + fled from the Philistines. +023:012 But he stood in the midst of the plot, and defended it, + and killed the Philistines; and Yahweh worked a great victory. +023:013 Three of the thirty chief men went down, and came to David + in the harvest time to the cave of Adullam; and the troop + of the Philistines was encamped in the valley of Rephaim. +023:014 David was then in the stronghold; and the garrison of the + Philistines was then in Bethlehem. +023:015 David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me water to drink + of the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate! +023:016 The three mighty men broke through the army of the Philistines, + and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was + by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: + but he would not drink of it, but poured it out to Yahweh. +023:017 He said, Be it far from me, Yahweh, that I should do this: + [shall I drink] the blood of the men who went in jeopardy + of their lives? therefore he would not drink it. + These things did the three mighty men. +023:018 Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief + of the three. He lifted up his spear against three hundred + and killed them, and had a name among the three. +023:019 Wasn't he most honorable of the three? therefore he was made + their captain: however he didn't attain to the [first] three. +023:020 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, + who had done mighty deeds, he killed the two [sons of] Ariel + of Moab: he went down also and killed a lion in the midst + of a pit in time of snow. +023:021 He killed an Egyptian, a goodly man: and the Egyptian had + a spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff, + and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and killed + him with his own spear. +023:022 These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had a name + among the three mighty men. +023:023 He was more honorable than the thirty, but he didn't attain + to the [first] three. David set him over his guard. +023:024 Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty; Elhanan the son + of Dodo of Bethlehem, +023:025 Shammah the Harodite, Elika the Harodite, +023:026 Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, +023:027 Abiezer the Anathothite, Mebunnai the Hushathite, +023:028 Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite, +023:029 Heleb the son of Baanah the Netophathite, Ittai the son of Ribai + of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin, +023:030 Benaiah a Pirathonite, Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash. +023:031 Abialbon the Arbathite, Azmaveth the Barhumite, +023:032 Eliahba the Shaalbonite, the sons of Jashen, Jonathan, +023:033 Shammah the Hararite, Ahiam the son of Sharar the Ararite, +023:034 Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai, the son of the Maacathite, Eliam + the son of Ahithophel the Gilonite, +023:035 Hezro the Carmelite, Paarai the Arbite, +023:036 Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite, +023:037 Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Beerothite, armor bearers + to Joab the son of Zeruiah, +023:038 Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite, +023:039 Uriah the Hittite: thirty-seven in all. +024:001 Again the anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel, and he moved + David against them, saying, Go, number Israel and Judah. +024:002 The king said to Joab the captain of the army, who was with him, + Go now back and forth through all the tribes of Israel, + from Dan even to Beersheba, and number you the people, + that I may know the sum of the people. +024:003 Joab said to the king, Now Yahweh your God add to the people, + however many they may be, one hundred times; and may the eyes + of my lord the king see it: but why does my lord the king + delight in this thing? +024:004 Notwithstanding, the king's word prevailed against Joab, + and against the captains of the army. Joab and the captains + of the army went out from the presence of the king, to number + the people of Israel. +024:005 They passed over the Jordan, and encamped in Aroer, on the right + side of the city that is in the middle of the valley of Gad, + and to Jazer: +024:006 then they came to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtim Hodshi; + and they came to Dan Jaan, and round about to Sidon, +024:007 and came to the stronghold of Tyre, and to all the cities + of the Hivites, and of the Canaanites; and they went out + to the south of Judah, at Beersheba. +024:008 So when they had gone back and forth through all the land, + they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days. +024:009 Joab gave up the sum of the numbering of the people to the king: + and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant + men who drew the sword; and the men of Judah were five + hundred thousand men. +024:010 David's heart struck him after that he had numbered the people. + David said to Yahweh, I have sinned greatly in that which I + have done: but now, Yahweh, put away, I beg you, the iniquity + of your servant; for I have done very foolishly. +024:011 When David rose up in the morning, the word of Yahweh came + to the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying, +024:012 Go and speak to David, Thus says Yahweh, I offer you three things: + choose you one of them, that I may do it to you. +024:013 So Gad came to David, and told him, and said to him, Shall seven + years of famine come to you in your land? or will you flee + three months before your foes while they pursue you? or shall + there be three days' pestilence in your land? now advise you, + and consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me. +024:014 David said to Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall + now into the hand of Yahweh; for his mercies are great; + and let me not fall into the hand of man. +024:015 So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel from the morning even + to the time appointed; and there died of the people from Dan + even to Beersheba seventy thousand men. +024:016 When the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem + to destroy it, Yahweh repented him of the evil, and said + to the angel who destroyed the people, It is enough; + now stay your hand. The angel of Yahweh was by the threshing + floor of Araunah the Jebusite. +024:017 David spoke to Yahweh when he saw the angel who struck the people, + and said, Behold, I have sinned, and I have done perversely; + but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand + be against me, and against my father's house. +024:018 Gad came that day to David, and said to him, Go up, rear an altar + to Yahweh in the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite. +024:019 David went up according to the saying of Gad, as Yahweh commanded. +024:020 Araunah looked forth, and saw the king and his servants coming + on toward him: and Araunah went out, and bowed himself + before the king with his face to the ground. +024:021 Araunah said, Why is my lord the king come to his servant? + David said, To buy the threshing floor of you, to build an altar + to Yahweh, that the plague may be stayed from the people. +024:022 Araunah said to David, Let my lord the king take and offer up + what seems good to him: behold, the oxen for the burnt offering, + and the threshing instruments and the yokes of the oxen + for the wood: +024:023 all this, king, does Araunah give to the king. Araunah said + to the king, Yahweh your God accept you. +024:024 The king said to Araunah, No; but I will most certainly + buy it of you at a price. Neither will I offer burnt + offerings to Yahweh my God which cost me nothing. + So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty + shekels of silver. +024:025 David built there an altar to Yahweh, and offered burnt offerings + and peace offerings. So Yahweh was entreated for the land, + and the plague was stayed from Israel. +Book 11 1 Kings +001:001 Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered + him with clothes, but he got no heat. +001:002 Therefore his servants said to him, Let there be sought for + my lord the king a young virgin: and let her stand before + the king, and cherish him; and let her lie in your bosom, + that my lord the king may keep warm. +001:003 So they sought for a beautiful young lady throughout all + the borders of Israel, and found Abishag the Shunammite, + and brought her to the king. +001:004 The young lady was very beautiful; and she cherished the king, + and ministered to him; but the king didn't know her intimately. +001:005 Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, + I will be king: and he prepared him chariots and horsemen, + and fifty men to run before him. +001:006 His father had not displeased him at any time in saying, + Why have you done so? and he was also a very goodly man; + and he was born after Absalom. +001:007 He conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar + the priest: and they following Adonijah helped him. +001:008 But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, + and Nathan the prophet, and Shimei, and Rei, and the mighty + men who belonged to David, were not with Adonijah. +001:009 Adonijah killed sheep and oxen and fatlings by the stone + of Zoheleth, which is beside En Rogel; and he called all + his brothers, the king's sons, and all the men of Judah, + the king's servants: +001:010 but Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, and the mighty men, + and Solomon his brother, he didn't call. +001:011 Then Nathan spoke to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, saying, + Haven't you heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith reigns, + and David our lord doesn't know it? +001:012 Now therefore come, please let me give you counsel, that you + may save your own life, and the life of your son Solomon. +001:013 Go and get you in to king David, and tell him, Didn't you, + my lord, king, swear to your handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon + your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne? + why then does Adonijah reign? +001:014 Behold, while you yet talk there with the king, I also will + come in after you, and confirm your words. +001:015 Bathsheba went in to the king into the chamber: and the king + was very old; and Abishag the Shunammite was ministering + to the king. +001:016 Bathsheba bowed, and did obeisance to the king. The king said, + What would you? +001:017 She said to him, My lord, you swore by Yahweh your God + to your handmaid, [saying], Assuredly Solomon your son shall + reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne. +001:018 Now, behold, Adonijah reigns; and you, my lord the king, + don't know it: +001:019 and he has slain oxen and fatlings and sheep in abundance, + and has called all the sons of the king, and Abiathar the priest, + and Joab the captain of the army; but he hasn't called + Solomon your servant. +001:020 You, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are on you, + that you should tell them who shall sit on the throne of my + lord the king after him. +001:021 Otherwise it will happen, when my lord the king shall + sleep with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall + be counted offenders. +001:022 Behold, while she yet talked with the king, Nathan the + prophet came in. +001:023 They told the king, saying, Behold, Nathan the prophet. + When he was come in before the king, he bowed himself before + the king with his face to the ground. +001:024 Nathan said, My lord, king, have you said, Adonijah shall + reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne? +001:025 For he is gone down this day, and has slain oxen and fatlings + and sheep in abundance, and has called all the king's sons, + and the captains of the army, and Abiathar the priest; + and behold, they are eating and drinking before him, and say, + [Long] live king Adonijah. +001:026 But he hasn't called me, even me your servant, and Zadok the priest, + and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and your servant Solomon. +001:027 Is this thing done by my lord the king, and you haven't shown + to your servants who should sit on the throne of my lord + the king after him? +001:028 Then king David answered, Call to me Bathsheba. + She came into the king's presence, and stood before the king. +001:029 The king swore, and said, As Yahweh lives, who has redeemed + my soul out of all adversity, +001:030 most certainly as I swore to you by Yahweh, the God of Israel, + saying, Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, + and he shall sit on my throne in my place; most certainly + so will I do this day. +001:031 Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the earth, and did obeisance + to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live forever. +001:032 King David said, Call to me Zadok the priest, and Nathan + the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada. They came + before the king. +001:033 The king said to them, Take with you the servants of your lord, + and cause Solomon my son to ride on my own mule, and bring + him down to Gihon: +001:034 and let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him + there king over Israel; and blow you the trumpet, and say, + [Long] live king Solomon. +001:035 Then you shall come up after him, and he shall come and sit + on my throne; for he shall be king in my place; and I have + appointed him to be prince over Israel and over Judah. +001:036 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king, + and said, Amen: Yahweh, the God of my lord the king, + say so [too]. +001:037 As Yahweh has been with my lord the king, even so be + he with Solomon, and make his throne greater than the throne + of my lord king David. +001:038 So Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah + the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites, + went down, and caused Solomon to ride on king David's mule, + and brought him to Gihon. +001:039 Zadok the priest took the horn of oil out of the Tent, + and anointed Solomon. They blew the trumpet; and all + the people said, [Long] live king Solomon. +001:040 All the people came up after him, and the people piped with pipes, + and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth shook with + the sound of them. +001:041 Adonijah and all the guests who were with him heard it as they + had made an end of eating. When Joab heard the sound + of the trumpet, he said, Why is this noise of the city being + in an uproar? +001:042 While he yet spoke, behold, Jonathan the son of Abiathar + the priest came: and Adonijah said, Come in; for you are + a worthy man, and bring good news. +001:043 Jonathan answered Adonijah, Most certainly our lord king David + has made Solomon king: +001:044 and the king has sent with him Zadok the priest, + and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, + and the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and they have caused + him to ride on the king's mule; +001:045 and Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him + king in Gihon; and they are come up from there rejoicing, + so that the city rang again. This is the noise that + you have heard. +001:046 Also Solomon sits on the throne of the kingdom. +001:047 Moreover the king's servants came to bless our lord + king David, saying, Your God make the name of Solomon better + than your name, and make his throne greater than your throne: + and the king bowed himself on the bed. +001:048 Also thus said the king, Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, + who has given one to sit on my throne this day, my eyes + even seeing it. +001:049 All the guests of Adonijah were afraid, and rose up, and went + every man his way. +001:050 Adonijah feared because of Solomon; and he arose, and went, + and caught hold on the horns of the altar. +001:051 It was told Solomon, saying, Behold, Adonijah fears king Solomon; + for, behold, he has laid hold on the horns of the altar, + saying, Let king Solomon swear to me first that he will not + kill his servant with the sword. +001:052 Solomon said, If he shall show himself a worthy man, there shall + not a hair of him fall to the earth; but if wickedness be found + in him, he shall die. +001:053 So king Solomon sent, and they brought him down from the altar. + He came and did obeisance to king Solomon; and Solomon said + to him, Go to your house. +002:001 Now the days of David drew near that he should die; + and he charged Solomon his son, saying, +002:002 I am going the way of all the earth: be you strong therefore, + and show yourself a man; +002:003 and keep the charge of Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, + to keep his statutes, [and] his commandments, and his ordinances, + and his testimonies, according to that which is written + in the law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do, + and wherever you turn yourself. +002:004 That Yahweh may establish his word which he spoke concerning me, + saying, If your children take heed to their way, to walk + before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, + there shall not fail you (said he) a man on the throne of Israel. +002:005 Moreover you know also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, + even what he did to the two captains of the armies of Israel, + to Abner the son of Ner, and to Amasa the son of Jether, + whom he killed, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put + the blood of war on his sash that was about his waist, + and in his shoes that were on his feet. +002:006 Do therefore according to your wisdom, and don't let his gray + head go down to Sheol in peace. +002:007 But show kindness to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, + and let them be of those who eat at your table; for so they + came to me when I fled from Absalom your brother. +002:008 Behold, there is with you Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite, + of Bahurim, who cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I + went to Mahanaim; but he came down to meet me at the Jordan, + and I swore to him by Yahweh, saying, I will not put you + to death with the sword. +002:009 Now therefore don't hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man; + and you will know what you ought to do to him, and you shall + bring his gray head down to Sheol with blood. +002:010 David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David. +002:011 The days that David reigned over Israel were forty years; + seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty-three years + reigned he in Jerusalem. +002:012 Solomon sat on the throne of David his father; and his kingdom + was established greatly. +002:013 Then Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba + the mother of Solomon. She said, Come you peaceably? + He said, Peaceably. +002:014 He said moreover, I have somewhat to tell you. + She said, Say on. +002:015 He said, You know that the kingdom was mine, and that all + Israel set their faces on me, that I should reign: + however the kingdom is turned about, and is become my brother's; + for it was his from Yahweh. +002:016 Now I ask one petition of you; don't deny me. She said + to him, Say on. +002:017 He said, "Please speak to Solomon the king (for he will not tell + you 'no'), that he give me Abishag the Shunammite as wife." +002:018 Bathsheba said, Well; I will speak for you to the king. +002:019 Bathsheba therefore went to king Solomon, to speak to him + for Adonijah. The king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself + to her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a throne to be + set for the king's mother; and she sat on his right hand. +002:020 Then she said, I ask one small petition of you; don't deny me. + The king said to her, Ask on, my mother; for I will not deny you. +002:021 She said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah + your brother as wife. +002:022 King Solomon answered his mother, Why do you ask Abishag + the Shunammite for Adonijah? ask for him the kingdom also; + for he is my elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar + the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah. +002:023 Then king Solomon swore by Yahweh, saying, God do so to me, + and more also, if Adonijah has not spoken this word against + his own life. +002:024 Now therefore as Yahweh lives, who has established me, + and set me on the throne of David my father, and who has made + me a house, as he promised, surely Adonijah shall be put + to death this day. +002:025 King Solomon sent by Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell + on him, so that he died. +002:026 To Abiathar the priest said the king, Get you to Anathoth, + to your own fields; for you are worthy of death: + but I will not at this time put you to death, because you bear + the ark of the Lord Yahweh before David my father, and because + you were afflicted in all in which my father was afflicted. +002:027 So Solomon thrust out Abiathar from being priest to Yahweh, + that he might fulfill the word of Yahweh, which he spoke + concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh. +002:028 The news came to Joab; for Joab had turned after Adonijah, + though he didn't turn after Absalom. Joab fled to the Tent + of Yahweh, and caught hold on the horns of the altar. +002:029 It was told king Solomon, Joab is fled to the Tent of Yahweh, + and behold, he is by the altar. Then Solomon sent Benaiah + the son of Jehoiada, saying, Go, fall on him. +002:030 Benaiah came to the Tent of Yahweh, and said to him, Thus says + the king, Come forth. He said, No; but I will die here. + Benaiah brought the king word again, saying, Thus said Joab, + and thus he answered me. +002:031 The king said to him, Do as he has said, and fall on him, + and bury him; that you may take away the blood, which Joab + shed without cause, from me and from my father's house. +002:032 Yahweh will return his blood on his own head, because he fell + on two men more righteous and better than he, and killed + them with the sword, and my father David didn't know it, + [to wit], Abner the son of Ner, captain of the army of Israel, + and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the army of Judah. +002:033 So shall their blood return on the head of Joab, and on + the head of his seed forever: but to David, and to his seed, + and to his house, and to his throne, shall there be peace + for ever from Yahweh. +002:034 Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up, and fell on him, + and killed him; and he was buried in his own house + in the wilderness. +002:035 The king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his room over the army; + and Zadok the priest did the king put in the room of Abiathar. +002:036 The king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, + Build yourself a house in Jerusalem, and dwell there, + and don't go forth from there any where. +002:037 For on the day you go out, and pass over the brook Kidron, + know you for certain that you shall surely die: + your blood shall be on your own head. +002:038 Shimei said to the king, The saying is good: + as my lord the king has said, so will your servant do. + Shimei lived in Jerusalem many days. +002:039 It happened at the end of three years, that two of the servants + of Shimei ran away to Achish, son of Maacah, king of Gath. + They told Shimei, saying, Behold, your servants are in Gath. +002:040 Shimei arose, and saddled his donkey, and went to Gath to Achish, + to seek his servants; and Shimei went, and brought his + servants from Gath. +002:041 It was told Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, + and was come again. +002:042 The king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, Didn't I + adjure you by Yahweh, and protest to you, saying, Know for certain, + that on the day you go out, and walk abroad any where, + you shall surely die? and you said to me, The saying that I + have heard is good. +002:043 Why then have you not kept the oath of Yahweh, and the commandment + that I have charged you with? +002:044 The king said moreover to Shimei, You know all the wickedness + which your heart is privy to, that you did to David my father: + therefore Yahweh shall return your wickedness on your own head. +002:045 But king Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of David + shall be established before Yahweh forever. +002:046 So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; + and he went out, and fell on him, so that he died. + The kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon. +003:001 Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took + Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the city of David, + until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house + of Yahweh, and the wall of Jerusalem round about. +003:002 Only the people sacrificed in the high places, because there + was no house built for the name of Yahweh until those days. +003:003 Solomon loved Yahweh, walking in the statutes of David his father: + only he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places. +003:004 The king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was + the great high place: a thousand burnt offerings did Solomon + offer on that altar. +003:005 In Gibeon Yahweh appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; + and God said, Ask what I shall give you. +003:006 Solomon said, You have shown to your servant David my father + great loving kindness, according as he walked before you in truth, + and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with you; + and you have kept for him this great loving kindness, + that you have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it + is this day. +003:007 Now, Yahweh my God, you have made your servant king instead + of David my father: and I am but a little child; I don't + know how to go out or come in. +003:008 Your servant is in the midst of your people which you have chosen, + a great people, that can't be numbered nor counted for multitude. +003:009 Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge + your people, that I may discern between good and evil; + for who is able to judge this your great people? +003:010 The speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing. +003:011 God said to him, Because you have asked this thing, and have + not asked for yourself long life, neither have asked riches + for yourself, nor have asked the life of your enemies, + but have asked for yourself understanding to discern justice; +003:012 behold, I have done according to your word: behold, I have + given you a wise and an understanding heart; so that there + has been none like you before you, neither after you shall + any arise like you. +003:013 I have also given you that which you have not asked, + both riches and honor, so that there shall not be any among + the kings like you, all your days. +003:014 If you will walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, + as your father David did walk, then I will lengthen your days. +003:015 Solomon awoke; and behold, it was a dream: and he came + to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, + and offered up burnt offerings, and offered peace offerings, + and made a feast to all his servants. +003:016 Then there came two women who were prostitutes, to the king, + and stood before him. +003:017 The one woman said, Oh, my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; + and I was delivered of a child with her in the house. +003:018 It happened the third day after I was delivered, that this + woman was delivered also; and we were together; there was no + stranger with us in the house, save we two in the house. +003:019 This woman's child died in the night, because she lay on it. +003:020 She arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, + while your handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, + and laid her dead child in my bosom. +003:021 When I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead; + but when I had looked at it in the morning, behold, it was + not my son, whom I bore. +003:022 The other woman said, No; but the living is my son, and the dead + is your son. This said, No; but the dead is your son, + and the living is my son. Thus they spoke before the king. +003:023 Then said the king, The one says, This is my son who lives, + and your son is the dead: and the other says, No; but your + son is the dead, and my son is the living. +003:024 The king said, Get me a sword. They brought a sword + before the king. +003:025 The king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half + to the one, and half to the other. +003:026 Then spoke the woman whose the living child was to the king, + for her heart yearned over her son, and she said, Oh, my lord, + give her the living child, and in no way kill it. + But the other said, It shall be neither mine nor yours; divide it. +003:027 Then the king answered, Give her the living child, and in no + way kill it: she is the mother of it. +003:028 All Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; + and they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God + was in him, to do justice. +004:001 King Solomon was king over all Israel. +004:002 These were the princes whom he had: Azariah the son + of Zadok, the priest; +004:003 Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the + son of Ahilud, the recorder; +004:004 and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the army; and Zadok + and Abiathar were priests; +004:005 and Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers; and Zabud + the son of Nathan was chief minister, [and] the king's friend; +004:006 and Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son + of Abda was over the men subject to forced labor. +004:007 Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided + food for the king and his household: each man had to make + provision for a month in the year. +004:008 These are their names: Ben Hur, in the hill country of Ephraim; +004:009 Ben Deker, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth Shemesh, + and Elon Beth Hanan; +004:010 Ben Hesed, in Arubboth (to him [pertained] Socoh, and all + the land of Hepher); +004:011 Ben Abinadab, in all the height of Dor (he had Taphath + the daughter of Solomon as wife); +004:012 Baana the son of Ahilud, in Taanach and Megiddo, and all + Beth Shean which is beside Zarethan, beneath Jezreel, + from Beth Shean to Abel Meholah, as far as beyond Jokmeam; +004:013 Ben Geber, in Ramoth Gilead (to him [pertained] the towns + of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; [even] to + him [pertained] the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, + sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars); +004:014 Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim; +004:015 Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he also took Basemath the daughter + of Solomon as wife); +004:016 Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth; +004:017 Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar; +004:018 Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin; +004:019 Geber the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, the country + of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan; + and [he was] the only officer who was in the land. +004:020 Judah and Israel were many as the sand which is by the sea + in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry. +004:021 Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the River to + the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt: + they brought tribute, and served Solomon all the days + of his life. +004:022 Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, + and sixty measures of meal, +004:023 ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and one + hundred sheep, besides harts, and gazelles, and roebucks, + and fattened fowl. +004:024 For he had dominion over all [the region] on this side the River, + from Tiphsah even to Gaza, over all the kings on this side + the River: and he had peace on all sides round about him. +004:025 Judah and Israel lived safely, every man under his vine + and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, + all the days of Solomon. +004:026 Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, + and twelve thousand horsemen. +004:027 Those officers provided food for king Solomon, and for all + who came to king Solomon's table, every man in his month; + they let nothing be lacking. +004:028 Barley also and straw for the horses and swift steeds brought + they to the place where [the officers] were, every man + according to his charge. +004:029 God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, + and very great understanding, even as the sand that is + on the seashore. +004:030 Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children + of the east, and all the wisdom of Egypt. +004:031 For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, + and Heman, and Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol: + and his fame was in all the nations round about. +004:032 He spoke three thousand proverbs; and his songs were + one thousand five. +004:033 He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even to + the hyssop that springs out of the wall; he spoke also of animals, + and of birds, and of creeping things, and of fish. +004:034 There came of all peoples to hear the wisdom of Solomon, + from all kings of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom. +005:001 Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon; for he had heard + that they had anointed him king in the room of his father: + for Hiram was ever a lover of David. +005:002 Solomon sent to Hiram, saying, +005:003 You know how that David my father could not build a house + for the name of Yahweh his God for the wars which were about + him on every side, until Yahweh put them under the soles + of his feet. +005:004 But now Yahweh my God has given me rest on every side; + there is neither adversary, nor evil occurrence. +005:005 Behold, I purpose to build a house for the name of Yahweh + my God, as Yahweh spoke to David my father, saying, Your son, + whom I will set on your throne in your room, he shall build + the house for my name. +005:006 Now therefore command you that they cut me cedar trees out of Lebanon; + and my servants shall be with your servants; and I will give you + hire for your servants according to all that you shall say: + for you know that there is not among us any who knows how to cut + timber like the Sidonians. +005:007 It happened, when Hiram heard the words of Solomon, + that he rejoiced greatly, and said, Blessed be Yahweh this day, + who has given to David a wise son over this great people. +005:008 Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, I have heard [the message] + which you have sent to me: I will do all your desire concerning + timber of cedar, and concerning timber of fir. +005:009 My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon to the sea; + and I will make them into rafts to go by sea to the place that you + shall appoint me, and will cause them to be broken up there, + and you shall receive them; and you shall accomplish my desire, + in giving food for my household. +005:010 So Hiram gave Solomon timber of cedar and timber of fir + according to all his desire. +005:011 Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for + food to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil: + thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year. +005:012 Yahweh gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him; and there + was peace between Hiram and Solomon; and they two made + a league together. +005:013 King Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy + was thirty thousand men. +005:014 He sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses; + a month they were in Lebanon, and two months at home; + and Adoniram was over the men subject to forced labor. +005:015 Solomon had seventy thousand who bore burdens, and eighty + thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains; +005:016 besides Solomon's chief officers who were over the work, + three thousand and three hundred, who bore rule over the people + who labored in the work. +005:017 The king commanded, and they hewed out great stones, costly stones, + to lay the foundation of the house with worked stone. +005:018 Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders and the Gebalites + did fashion them, and prepared the timber and the stones + to build the house. +006:001 It happened in the four hundred and eightieth year after + the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, + in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, + in the month Ziv, which is the second month, that he began + to build the house of Yahweh. +006:002 The house which king Solomon built for Yahweh, the length of it + was sixty cubits, and the breadth of it twenty [cubits], + and the height of it thirty cubits. +006:003 The porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was + the length of it, according to the breadth of the house; + [and] ten cubits was the breadth of it before the house. +006:004 For the house he made windows of fixed lattice work. +006:005 Against the wall of the house he built stories round about, + against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple + and of the oracle; and he made side chambers round about. +006:006 The nethermost story was five cubits broad, and the middle + was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad; + for on the outside he made offsets [in the wall] of the house + round about, that [the beams] should not have hold in the walls + of the house. +006:007 The house, when it was in building, was built of stone made + ready at the quarry; and there was neither hammer nor axe nor + any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building. +006:008 The door for the middle side chambers was in the right side + of the house: and they went up by winding stairs into + the middle [story], and out of the middle into the third. +006:009 So he built the house, and finished it; and he covered the house + with beams and planks of cedar. +006:010 He built the stories against all the house, each five cubits high: + and they rested on the house with timber of cedar. +006:011 The word of Yahweh came to Solomon, saying, +006:012 Concerning this house which you are building, if you will walk + in my statutes, and execute my ordinances, and keep all my + commandments to walk in them; then will I establish my word + with you, which I spoke to David your father. +006:013 I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake + my people Israel. +006:014 So Solomon built the house, and finished it. +006:015 He built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar: + from the floor of the house to the walls of the ceiling, + he covered them on the inside with wood; and he covered + the floor of the house with boards of fir. +006:016 He built twenty cubits on the hinder part of the house + with boards of cedar from the floor to the walls [of + the ceiling]: he built [them] for it within, for an oracle, + even for the most holy place. +006:017 The house, that is, the temple before [the oracle], + was forty cubits [long]. +006:018 There was cedar on the house within, carved with buds and + open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen. +006:019 He prepared an oracle in the midst of the house within, + to set there the ark of the covenant of Yahweh. +006:020 Within the oracle was [a space of] twenty cubits in length, + and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in + the height of it; and he overlaid it with pure gold: + and he covered the altar with cedar. +006:021 So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: + and he drew chains of gold across before the oracle; + and he overlaid it with gold. +006:022 The whole house he overlaid with gold, until all the house + was finished: also the whole altar that belonged to the oracle + he overlaid with gold. +006:023 In the oracle he made two cherubim of olive wood, + each ten cubits high. +006:024 Five cubits was the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits + the other wing of the cherub: from the uttermost part of the one + wing to the uttermost part of the other were ten cubits. +006:025 The other cherub was ten cubits: both the cherubim were of one + measure and one form. +006:026 The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it + of the other cherub. +006:027 He set the cherubim within the inner house; and the wings + of the cherubim were stretched forth, so that the wing + of the one touched the one wall, and the wing of the other + cherub touched the other wall; and their wings touched one + another in the midst of the house. +006:028 He overlaid the cherubim with gold. +006:029 He carved all the walls of the house round about with carved + figures of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, + inside and outside. +006:030 The floor of the house he overlaid with gold, inside and outside. +006:031 For the entrance of the oracle he made doors of olive wood: + the lintel [and] door posts were a fifth part [of the wall]. +006:032 So [he made] two doors of olive wood; and he carved on them + carvings of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid + them with gold; and he spread the gold on the cherubim, + and on the palm trees. +006:033 So also made he for the entrance of the temple door posts + of olive wood, out of a fourth part [of the wall]; +006:034 and two doors of fir wood: the two leaves of the one door + were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding. +006:035 He carved [thereon] cherubim and palm trees and open flowers; + and he overlaid them with gold fitted on the engraved work. +006:036 He built the inner court with three courses of hewn stone, + and a course of cedar beams. +006:037 In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of Yahweh laid, + in the month Ziv. +006:038 In the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, + was the house finished throughout all the parts of it, + and according to all the fashion of it. So was he seven + years in building it. +007:001 Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished + all his house. +007:002 For he built the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length of it + was one hundred cubits, and the breadth of it fifty cubits, + and the height of it thirty cubits, on four rows of cedar pillars, + with cedar beams on the pillars. +007:003 It was covered with cedar above over the forty-five beams, + that were on the pillars; fifteen in a row. +007:004 There were beams in three rows, and window was over against + window in three ranks. +007:005 All the doors and posts were made square with beams: + and window was over against window in three ranks. +007:006 He made the porch of pillars; the length of it was fifty cubits, + and the breadth of it thirty cubits; and a porch before them; + and pillars and a threshold before them. +007:007 He made the porch of the throne where he was to judge, + even the porch of judgment: and it was covered with cedar + from floor to floor. +007:008 His house where he was to dwell, the other court within the porch, + was of the like work. He made also a house for Pharaoh's daughter + (whom Solomon had taken as wife), like this porch. +007:009 All these were of costly stones, even of hewn stone, + according to measure, sawed with saws, inside and outside, + even from the foundation to the coping, and so on the outside + to the great court. +007:010 The foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, + stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits. +007:011 Above were costly stones, even hewn stone, according to measure, + and cedar wood. +007:012 The great court round about had three courses of hewn stone, + and a course of cedar beams; like as the inner court of the house + of Yahweh, and the porch of the house. +007:013 King Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre. +007:014 He was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father + was a man of Tyre, a worker in brass; and he was filled with + wisdom and understanding and skill, to work all works in brass. + He came to king Solomon, and performed all his work. +007:015 For he fashioned the two pillars of brass, eighteen cubits + high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits compassed either + of them about. +007:016 He made two capitals of molten brass, to set on the tops of + the pillars: the height of the one capital was five cubits, + and the height of the other capital was five cubits. +007:017 There were nets of checker work, and wreaths of chain work, + for the capitals which were on the top of the pillars; + seven for the one capital, and seven for the other capital. +007:018 So he made the pillars; and there were two rows round about on + the one network, to cover the capitals that were on the top + of the pillars: and so did he for the other capital. +007:019 The capitals that were on the top of the pillars in the porch + were of lily work, four cubits. +007:020 There were capitals above also on the two pillars, + close by the belly which was beside the network: + and the pomegranates were two hundred, in rows round about + on the other capital. +007:021 He set up the pillars at the porch of the temple: + and he set up the right pillar, and called the name of it Jachin; + and he set up the left pillar, and called the name of it Boaz. +007:022 On the top of the pillars was lily work: so was the work + of the pillars finished. +007:023 He made the molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, + round in compass, and the height of it was five cubits; + and a line of thirty cubits compassed it round about. +007:024 Under the brim of it round about there were buds which did + compass it, for ten cubits, compassing the sea round about: + the buds were in two rows, cast when it was cast. +007:025 It stood on twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, + and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward + the south, and three looking toward the east; and the sea was + set on them above, and all their hinder parts were inward. +007:026 It was a handbreadth thick: and the brim of it was worked + like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily: + it held two thousand baths. +007:027 He made the ten bases of brass; four cubits was the length + of one base, and four cubits the breadth of it, and three cubits + the height of it. +007:028 The work of the bases was on this manner: they had panels; + and there were panels between the ledges; +007:029 and on the panels that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, + and cherubim; and on the ledges there was a pedestal above; + and beneath the lions and oxen were wreaths of hanging work. +007:030 Every base had four bronze wheels, and axles of brass; + and the four feet of it had supports: beneath the basin + were the supports molten, with wreaths at the side of each. +007:031 The mouth of it within the capital and above was a cubit: + and the mouth of it was round after the work of a pedestal, + a cubit and a half; and also on the mouth of it were engravings, + and their panels were foursquare, not round. +007:032 The four wheels were underneath the panels; and the axles + of the wheels were in the base: and the height of a wheel + was a cubit and half a cubit. +007:033 The work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot wheel: + their axles, and their rims, and their spokes, and their naves, + were all molten. +007:034 There were four supports at the four corners of each base: + the supports of it were of the base itself. +007:035 In the top of the base was there a round compass half a cubit high; + and on the top of the base the stays of it and the panels + of it were of the same. +007:036 On the plates of the stays of it, and on the panels of it, + he engraved cherubim, lions, and palm trees, according to + the space of each, with wreaths round about. +007:037 After this manner he made the ten bases: all of them had + one casting, one measure, and one form. +007:038 He made ten basins of brass: one basin contained forty baths; + and every basin was four cubits; and on very one of the ten + bases one basin. +007:039 He set the bases, five on the right side of the house, + and five on the left side of the house: and he set the sea + on the right side of the house eastward, toward the south. +007:040 Hiram made the basins, and the shovels, and the basins. + So Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he worked + for king Solomon in the house of Yahweh: +007:041 the two pillars, and the two bowls of the capitals that were on + the top of the pillars; and the two networks to cover the two + bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars; +007:042 and the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks; + two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the two + bowls of the capitals that were on the pillars; +007:043 and the ten bases, and the ten basins on the bases; +007:044 and the one sea, and the twelve oxen under the sea; +007:045 and the pots, and the shovels, and the basins: + even all these vessels, which Hiram made for king Solomon, + in the house of Yahweh, were of burnished brass. +007:046 In the plain of the Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay + ground between Succoth and Zarethan. +007:047 Solomon left all the vessels [unweighed], because they were + exceeding many: the weight of the brass could not be found out. +007:048 Solomon made all the vessels that were in the house of Yahweh: + the golden altar, and the table whereupon the show + bread was, of gold; +007:049 and the lampstands, five on the right side, and five on the left, + before the oracle, of pure gold; and the flowers, and the lamps, + and the tongs, of gold; +007:050 and the cups, and the snuffers, and the basins, and the spoons, + and the fire pans, of pure gold; and the hinges, both for + the doors of the inner house, the most holy place, and for + the doors of the house, [to wit], of the temple, of gold. +007:051 Thus all the work that king Solomon worked in the house + of Yahweh was finished. Solomon brought in the things + which David his father had dedicated, [even] the silver, + and the gold, and the vessels, and put them in the treasuries + of the house of Yahweh. +008:001 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads + of the tribes, the princes of the fathers' [houses] of the + children of Israel, to king Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up + the ark of the covenant of Yahweh out of the city of David, + which is Zion. +008:002 All the men of Israel assembled themselves to king Solomon at + the feast, in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month. +008:003 All the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark. +008:004 They brought up the ark of Yahweh, and the tent of meeting, + and all the holy vessels that were in the Tent; even these did + the priests and the Levites bring up. +008:005 King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who were assembled + to him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, + that could not be counted nor numbered for multitude. +008:006 The priests brought in the ark of the covenant of Yahweh to + its place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy place, + even under the wings of the cherubim. +008:007 For the cherubim spread forth their wings over the place + of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and the poles + of it above. +008:008 The poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from + the holy place before the oracle; but they were not seen outside: + and there they are to this day. +008:009 There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone + which Moses put there at Horeb, when Yahweh made a covenant + with the children of Israel, when they came out of the + land of Egypt. +008:010 It came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place, + that the cloud filled the house of Yahweh, +008:011 so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of + the cloud; for the glory of Yahweh filled the house of Yahweh. +008:012 Then spoke Solomon, Yahweh has said that he would dwell + in the thick darkness. +008:013 I have surely built you a house of habitation, a place for you + to dwell in forever. +008:014 The king turned his face about, and blessed all the assembly + of Israel: and all the assembly of Israel stood. +008:015 He said, Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who spoke + with his mouth to David your father, and has with his hand + fulfilled it, saying, +008:016 Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel out + of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel + to build a house, that my name might be there; but I chose + David to be over my people Israel. +008:017 Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house + for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel. +008:018 But Yahweh said to David my father, Whereas it was in your + heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it + was in your heart: +008:019 nevertheless you shall not build the house; but your son who + shall come forth out of your body, he shall build the house + for my name. +008:020 Yahweh has established his word that he spoke; for I am risen up + in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, + as Yahweh promised, and have built the house for the name + of Yahweh, the God of Israel. +008:021 There have I set a place for the ark, in which is the covenant + of Yahweh, which he made with our fathers, when he brought + them out of the land of Egypt. +008:022 Solomon stood before the altar of Yahweh in the presence of all + the assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven; +008:023 and he said, Yahweh, the God of Israel, there is no God like you, + in heaven above, or on earth beneath; who keep covenant + and loving kindness with your servants, who walk before you + with all their heart; +008:024 who have kept with your servant David my father that which you + did promise him: yes, you spoke with your mouth, and have + fulfilled it with your hand, as it is this day. +008:025 Now therefore, Yahweh, the God of Israel, keep with your servant + David my father that which you have promised him, saying, + There shall not fail you a man in my sight to sit on the throne + of Israel, if only your children take heed to their way, + to walk before me as you have walked before me. +008:026 Now therefore, God of Israel, Please let your word be verified, + which you spoke to your servant David my father. +008:027 But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? behold, + heaven and the heaven of heavens can't contain you; + how much less this house that I have built! +008:028 Yet have respect for the prayer of your servant, and for + his supplication, Yahweh my God, to listen to the cry and to + the prayer which your servant prays before you this day; +008:029 that your eyes may be open toward this house night and day, + even toward the place of which you have said, My name shall + be there; to listen to the prayer which your servant shall + pray toward this place. +008:030 Listen you to the supplication of your servant, and of your + people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: + yes, hear in heaven, your dwelling place; and when + you hear, forgive. +008:031 If a man sin against his neighbor, and an oath be laid on him + to cause him to swear, and he come [and] swear before your + altar in this house; +008:032 then hear you in heaven, and do, and judge your servants, + condemning the wicked, to bring his way on his own head, + and justifying the righteous, to give him according + to his righteousness. +008:033 When your people Israel are struck down before the enemy, + because they have sinned against you; if they turn again to you, + and confess your name, and pray and make supplication to you + in this house: +008:034 then hear you in heaven, and forgive the sin of your people Israel, + and bring them again to the land which you gave to their fathers. +008:035 When the sky is shut up, and there is no rain, because they + have sinned against you; if they pray toward this place, + and confess your name, and turn from their sin, when you + do afflict them: +008:036 then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, + and of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way + in which they should walk; and send rain on your land, + which you have given to your people for an inheritance. +008:037 If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, + if there is blight [or] mildew, locust [or] caterpillar; + if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; + whatever plague, whatever sickness there be; +008:038 whatever prayer and supplication be made by any man, + [or] by all your people Israel, who shall know every man + the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands + toward this house: +008:039 then hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and forgive, + and do, and render to every man according to all his ways, + whose heart you know; (for you, even you only, know the hearts + of all the children of men;) +008:040 that they may fear you all the days that they live in the land + which you gave to our fathers. +008:041 Moreover concerning the foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, + when he shall come out of a far country for your name's sake +008:042 (for they shall hear of your great name, and of your mighty hand, + and of your outstretched arm); when he shall come and pray + toward this house; +008:043 hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and do according to all + that the foreigner calls to you for; that all the peoples + of the earth may know your name, to fear you, as does your + people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I + have built is called by my name. +008:044 If your people go out to battle against their enemy, + by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to Yahweh + toward the city which you have chosen, and toward the house + which I have built for your name; +008:045 then hear in heaven their prayer and their supplication, + and maintain their cause. +008:046 If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn't sin), + and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, + so that they carry them away captive to the land of the enemy, + far off or near; +008:047 yet if they shall repent themselves in the land where they + are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication + to you in the land of those who carried them captive, saying, + We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have dealt wickedly; +008:048 if they return to you with all their heart and with all their + soul in the land of their enemies, who carried them captive, + and pray to you toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, + the city which you have chosen, and the house which I have + built for your name: +008:049 then hear you their prayer and their supplication in heaven, + your dwelling place, and maintain their cause; +008:050 and forgive your people who have sinned against you, and all their + transgressions in which they have transgressed against you; + and give them compassion before those who carried them captive, + that they may have compassion on them +008:051 (for they are your people, and your inheritance, which you brought + forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron); +008:052 that your eyes may be open to the supplication of your servant, + and to the supplication of your people Israel, to listen + to them whenever they cry to you. +008:053 For you did separate them from among all the peoples of the earth, + to be your inheritance, as you spoke by Moses your servant, + when you brought our fathers out of Egypt, Lord Yahweh. +008:054 It was so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying all + this prayer and supplication to Yahweh, he arose from before + the altar of Yahweh, from kneeling on his knees with his hands + spread forth toward heaven. +008:055 He stood, and blessed all the assembly of Israel with a + loud voice, saying, +008:056 Blessed be Yahweh, who has given rest to his people Israel, + according to all that he promised: there has not failed + one word of all his good promise, which he promised by + Moses his servant. +008:057 Yahweh our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: + let him not leave us, nor forsake us; +008:058 that he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways, + and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his ordinances, + which he commanded our fathers. +008:059 Let these my words, with which I have made supplication + before Yahweh, be near to Yahweh our God day and night, + that he maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause + of his people Israel, as every day shall require; +008:060 that all the peoples of the earth may know that Yahweh, he is God; + there is none else. +008:061 Let your heart therefore be perfect with Yahweh our God, + to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, + as at this day. +008:062 The king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before Yahweh. +008:063 Solomon offered for the sacrifice of peace offerings, + which he offered to Yahweh, two and twenty thousand oxen, + and one hundred twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all + the children of Israel dedicated the house of Yahweh. +008:064 The same day did the king make the middle of the court holy + that was before the house of Yahweh; for there he offered + the burnt offering, and the meal offering, and the fat + of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar that was + before Yahweh was too little to receive the burnt offering, + and the meal offering, and the fat of the peace offerings. +008:065 So Solomon held the feast at that time, and all Israel with him, + a great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath to the brook + of Egypt, before Yahweh our God, seven days and seven days, + even fourteen days. +008:066 On the eighth day he sent the people away; and they blessed + the king, and went to their tents joyful and glad of heart + for all the goodness that Yahweh had shown to David his servant, + and to Israel his people. +009:001 It happened, when Solomon had finished the building of the house + of Yahweh, and the king's house, and all Solomon's desire + which he was pleased to do, +009:002 that Yahweh appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had + appeared to him at Gibeon. +009:003 Yahweh said to him, I have heard your prayer and your supplication, + that you have made before me: I have made this house holy, + which you have built, to put my name there forever; + and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually. +009:004 As for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, + in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according + to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes + and my ordinances; +009:005 then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, + according as I promised to David your father, saying, There shall + not fail you a man on the throne of Israel. +009:006 But if you shall turn away from following me, you or your children, + and not keep my commandments and my statutes which I + have set before you, but shall go and serve other gods, + and worship them; +009:007 then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; + and this house, which I have made holy for my name, will I cast + out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword + among all peoples. +009:008 Though this house is so high, yet shall everyone who passes + by it be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, + Why has Yahweh done thus to this land, and to this house? +009:009 and they shall answer, Because they forsook Yahweh their God, + who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, + and laid hold on other gods, and worshiped them, and served them: + therefore has Yahweh brought all this evil on them. +009:010 It happened at the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had + built the two houses, the house of Yahweh and the king's house +009:011 (now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar + trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all + his desire), that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities + in the land of Galilee. +009:012 Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had + given him; and they didn't please him. +009:013 He said, What cities are these which you have given me, my brother? + He called them the land of Cabul to this day. +009:014 Hiram sent to the king one hundred twenty talents of gold. +009:015 This is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised, + to build the house of Yahweh, and his own house, and Millo, + and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer. +009:016 Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt + it with fire, and slain the Canaanites who lived in the city, + and given it for a portion to his daughter, Solomon's wife. +009:017 Solomon built Gezer, and Beth Horon the lower, +009:018 and Baalath, and Tamar in the wilderness, in the land, +009:019 and all the storage cities that Solomon had, and the cities + for his chariots, and the cities for his horsemen, and that + which Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem, + and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion. +009:020 As for all the people who were left of the Amorites, + the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, + who were not of the children of Israel; +009:021 their children who were left after them in the land, + whom the children of Israel were not able utterly to destroy, + of them did Solomon raise a levy of bondservants to this day. +009:022 But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondservants; + but they were the men of war, and his servants, and his princes, + and his captains, and rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen. +009:023 These were the chief officers who were over Solomon's work, + five hundred fifty, who bore rule over the people who labored + in the work. +009:024 But Pharaoh's daughter came up out of the city of David + to her house which [Solomon] had built for her: + then did he build Millo. +009:025 Three times a year did Solomon offer burnt offerings + and peace offerings on the altar which he built to Yahweh, + burning incense therewith, [on the altar] that was before Yahweh. + So he finished the house. +009:026 King Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion Geber, which is + beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea{or, Sea of Reeds}, + in the land of Edom. +009:027 Hiram sent in the navy his servants, sailors who had knowledge + of the sea, with the servants of Solomon. +009:028 They came to Ophir, and fetched from there gold, four hundred + and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon. +010:001 When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning + the name of Yahweh, she came to prove him with hard questions. +010:002 She came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels + that bore spices, and very much gold, and precious stones; + and when she was come to Solomon, she talked with him of all + that was in her heart. +010:003 Solomon told her all her questions: there was not anything + hidden from the king which he didn't tell her. +010:004 When the queen of Sheba had seen all the wisdom of Solomon, + and the house that he had built, +010:005 and the food of his table, and the sitting of his servants, + and the attendance of his ministers, and their clothing, + and his cup bearers, and his ascent by which he went up + to the house of Yahweh; there was no more spirit in her. +010:006 She said to the king, It was a true report that I heard in my + own land of your acts, and of your wisdom. +010:007 However I didn't believe the words, until I came, and my + eyes had seen it: and behold, the half was not told me; + your wisdom and prosperity exceed the fame which I heard. +010:008 Happy are your men, happy are these your servants, who stand + continually before you, [and] who hear your wisdom. +010:009 Blessed be Yahweh your God, who delighted in you, to set you + on the throne of Israel: because Yahweh loved Israel forever, + therefore made he you king, to do justice and righteousness. +010:010 She gave the king one hundred twenty talents of gold, + and of spices very great store, and precious stones: + there came no more such abundance of spices as these which + the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon. +010:011 The navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir, brought in + from Ophir great plenty of almug trees and precious stones. +010:012 The king made of the almug trees pillars for the house of Yahweh, + and for the king's house, harps also and stringed instruments + for the singers: there came no such almug trees, nor were seen, + to this day. +010:013 King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, + whatever she asked, besides that which Solomon gave her of + his royal bounty. So she turned, and went to her own land, + she and her servants. +010:014 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six + hundred sixty-six talents of gold, +010:015 besides [that which] the traders [brought], and the traffic + of the merchants, and of all the kings of the mixed people, + and of the governors of the country. +010:016 King Solomon made two hundred bucklers of beaten gold; + six hundred [shekels] of gold went to one buckler. +010:017 [he made] three hundred shields of beaten gold; three minas + of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the house + of the forest of Lebanon. +010:018 Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid + it with the finest gold. +010:019 There were six steps to the throne, and the top of the throne was + round behind; and there were stays on either side by the place + of the seat, and two lions standing beside the stays. +010:020 Twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other on + the six steps: there was nothing like it made in any kingdom. +010:021 All king Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels + of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold: + none were of silver; it was nothing accounted of in the + days of Solomon. +010:022 For the king had at sea a navy of Tarshish with the navy of Hiram: + once every three years came the navy of Tarshish, bringing gold, + and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks. +010:023 So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth in riches + and in wisdom. +010:024 All the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, + which God had put in his heart. +010:025 They brought every man his tribute, vessels of silver, and vessels + of gold, and clothing, and armor, and spices, horses, and mules, + a rate year by year. +010:026 Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen: + and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve + thousand horsemen, that he bestowed in the chariot cities, + and with the king at Jerusalem. +010:027 The king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, + and cedars made he to be as the sycamore trees that are + in the lowland, for abundance. +010:028 The horses which Solomon had were brought out of Egypt; + and the king's merchants received them in droves, each drove + at a price. +010:029 A chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred + [shekels] of silver, and a horse for one hundred fifty; + and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings + of Syria, did they bring them out by their means. +011:001 Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter + of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, + and Hittites; +011:002 of the nations concerning which Yahweh said to the children + of Israel, You shall not go among them, neither shall they + come among you; for surely they will turn away your heart + after their gods: Solomon joined to these in love. +011:003 He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; + and his wives turned away his heart. +011:004 For it happened, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned + away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect + with Yahweh his God, as was the heart of David his father. +011:005 For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, + and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. +011:006 Solomon did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, + and didn't go fully after Yahweh, as did David his father. +011:007 Then did Solomon build a high place for Chemosh the abomination + of Moab, on the mountain that is before Jerusalem, and for + Molech the abomination of the children of Ammon. +011:008 So did he for all his foreign wives, who burnt incense and + sacrificed to their gods. +011:009 Yahweh was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned away + from Yahweh, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice, +011:010 and had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go + after other gods: but he didn't keep that which Yahweh commanded. +011:011 Therefore Yahweh said to Solomon, Because this is done of you, + and you have not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I + have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom from you, + and will give it to your servant. +011:012 Notwithstanding in your days I will not do it, for David + your father's sake: but I will tear it out of the hand + of your son. +011:013 However I will not tear away all the kingdom; but I will + give one tribe to your son, for David my servant's sake, + and for Jerusalem's sake which I have chosen. +011:014 Yahweh raised up an adversary to Solomon, Hadad the Edomite: + he was of the king's seed in Edom. +011:015 For it happened, when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain + of the army was gone up to bury the slain, and had struck + every male in Edom +011:016 (for Joab and all Israel remained there six months, until he had + cut off every male in Edom); +011:017 that Hadad fled, he and certain Edomites of his father's servants + with him, to go into Egypt, Hadad being yet a little child. +011:018 They arose out of Midian, and came to Paran; and they took men + with them out of Paran, and they came to Egypt, to Pharaoh + king of Egypt, who gave him a house, and appointed him food, + and gave him land. +011:019 Hadad found great favor in the sight of Pharaoh, so that + he gave him as wife the sister of his own wife, the sister + of Tahpenes the queen. +011:020 The sister of Tahpenes bore him Genubath his son, whom Tahpenes + weaned in Pharaoh's house; and Genubath was in Pharaoh's + house among the sons of Pharaoh. +011:021 When Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers, + and that Joab the captain of the army was dead, Hadad said + to Pharaoh, Let me depart, that I may go to my own country. +011:022 Then Pharaoh said to him, But what have you lacked with me, + that behold, you seek to go to your own country? + He answered, Nothing: however only let me depart. +011:023 God raised up [another] adversary to him, Rezon the son of Eliada, + who had fled from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah. +011:024 He gathered men to him, and became captain over a troop, + when David killed them [of Zobah]: and they went to Damascus, + and lived therein, and reigned in Damascus. +011:025 He was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon, + besides the mischief that Hadad [did]: and he abhorred Israel, + and reigned over Syria. +011:026 Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephraimite of Zeredah, + a servant of Solomon, whose mother's name was Zeruah, a widow, + he also lifted up his hand against the king. +011:027 This was the reason why he lifted up his hand against the king: + Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breach of the city + of David his father. +011:028 The man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valor; and Solomon saw + the young man that he was industrious, and he gave him charge + over all the labor of the house of Joseph. +011:029 It happened at that time, when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, + that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him in the way; + now [Ahijah] had clad himself with a new garment; and they + two were alone in the field. +011:030 Ahijah laid hold of the new garment that was on him, and tore + it in twelve pieces. +011:031 He said to Jeroboam, Take ten pieces; for thus says Yahweh, + the God of Israel, Behold, I will tear the kingdom out of + the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to you +011:032 (but he shall have one tribe, for my servant David's sake + and for Jerusalem's sake, the city which I have chosen out + of all the tribes of Israel); +011:033 because that they have forsaken me, and have worshiped + Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god + of Moab, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon; + and they have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right + in my eyes, and [to keep] my statutes and my ordinances, + as did David his father. +011:034 However I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand; + but I will make him prince all the days of his life, for David + my servant's sake whom I chose, who kept my commandments + and my statutes; +011:035 but I will take the kingdom out of his son's hand, and will + give it to you, even ten tribes. +011:036 To his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may + have a lamp always before me in Jerusalem, the city which I + have chosen me to put my name there. +011:037 I will take you, and you shall reign according to all that your + soul desires, and shall be king over Israel. +011:038 It shall be, if you will listen to all that I command you, + and will walk in my ways, and do that which is right in my eyes, + to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did; + that I will be with you, and will build you a sure house, + as I built for David, and will give Israel to you. +011:039 I will for this afflict the seed of David, but not forever. +011:040 Solomon sought therefore to kill Jeroboam; but Jeroboam arose, + and fled into Egypt, to Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt + until the death of Solomon. +011:041 Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did, + and his wisdom, aren't they written in the book of the + acts of Solomon? +011:042 The time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel + was forty years. +011:043 Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city + of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his place. +012:001 Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel were come to Shechem + to make him king. +012:002 It happened, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it + (for he was yet in Egypt, where he had fled from the presence + of king Solomon, and Jeroboam lived in Egypt, +012:003 and they sent and called him), that Jeroboam and all the assembly + of Israel came, and spoke to Rehoboam, saying, +012:004 Your father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make you + the grievous service of your father, and his heavy yoke + which he put on us, lighter, and we will serve you. +012:005 He said to them, Depart yet for three days, then come again to me. + The people departed. +012:006 King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before + Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, What counsel + give you me to return answer to this people? +012:007 They spoke to him, saying, If you will be a servant to this + people this day, and will serve them, and answer them, and speak + good words to them, then they will be your servants forever. +012:008 But he forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him, + and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him, + who stood before him. +012:009 He said to them, What counsel do you give, that we may return answer + to this people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make the yoke + that your father did put on us lighter? +012:010 The young men who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, + Thus shall you tell this people who spoke to you, saying, + Your father made our yoke heavy, but make you it lighter to us; + thus shall you speak to them, My little finger is thicker + than my father's waist. +012:011 Now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, + I will add to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, + but I will chastise you with scorpions. +012:012 So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, + as the king bade, saying, Come to me again the third day. +012:013 The king answered the people roughly, and forsook the counsel + of the old men which they had given him, +012:014 and spoke to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, + My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke: + my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise + you with scorpions. +012:015 So the king didn't listen to the people; for it was a thing + brought about of Yahweh, that he might establish his word, + which Yahweh spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam + the son of Nebat. +012:016 When all Israel saw that the king didn't listen to them, + the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we + in David? neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: + to your tents, Israel: now see to your own house, David. + So Israel departed to their tents. +012:017 But as for the children of Israel who lived in the cities + of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them. +012:018 Then king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the men subject + to forced labor; and all Israel stoned him to death with stones. + King Rehoboam made speed to get him up to his chariot, + to flee to Jerusalem. +012:019 So Israel rebelled against the house of David to this day. +012:020 It happened, when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was returned, + that they sent and called him to the congregation, and made him + king over all Israel: there was none who followed the house + of David, but the tribe of Judah only. +012:021 When Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house + of Judah, and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and eighty + thousand chosen men, who were warriors, to fight against + the house of Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam + the son of Solomon. +012:022 But the word of God came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying, +012:023 Speak to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, + and to all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the rest + of the people, saying, +012:024 Thus says Yahweh, You shall not go up, nor fight against your + brothers the children of Israel: return every man to his house; + for this thing is of me. So they listened to the word of Yahweh, + and returned and went their way, according to the word of Yahweh. +012:025 Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, + and lived therein; and he went out from there, and built Penuel. +012:026 Jeroboam said in his heart, Now will the kingdom return + to the house of David: +012:027 if this people go up to offer sacrifices in the house + of Yahweh at Jerusalem, then will the heart of this people + turn again to their lord, even to Rehoboam king of Judah; + and they will kill me, and return to Rehoboam king of Judah. +012:028 Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold; + and he said to them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: + see your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the + land of Egypt. +012:029 He set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan. +012:030 This thing became a sin; for the people went [to worship] + before the one, even to Dan. +012:031 He made houses of high places, and made priests from among + all the people, who were not of the sons of Levi. +012:032 Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth + day of the month, like the feast that is in Judah, and he went + up to the altar; so did he in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves + that he had made: and he placed in Bethel the priests + of the high places that he had made. +012:033 He went up to the altar which he had made in Bethel on + the fifteenth day in the eighth month, even in the month + which he had devised of his own heart: and he ordained + a feast for the children of Israel, and went up to the altar, + to burn incense. +013:001 Behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word + of Yahweh to Beth El: and Jeroboam was standing by the altar + to burn incense. +013:002 He cried against the altar by the word of Yahweh, and said, + altar, altar, thus says Yahweh: Behold, a son shall be born + to the house of David, Josiah by name; and on you shall + he sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense + on you, and men's bones shall they burn on you. +013:003 He gave a sign the same day, saying, This is the sign + which Yahweh has spoken: Behold, the altar shall be torn, + and the ashes that are on it shall be poured out. +013:004 It happened, when the king heard the saying of the man of God, + which he cried against the altar in Bethel, that Jeroboam + put forth his hand from the altar, saying, Lay hold on him. + His hand, which he put forth against him, dried up, + so that he could not draw it back again to him. +013:005 The altar also was torn, and the ashes poured out from the altar, + according to the sign which the man of God had given by + the word of Yahweh. +013:006 The king answered the man of God, Entreat now the favor of Yahweh + your God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored me again. + The man of God entreated Yahweh, and the king's hand was + restored him again, and became as it was before. +013:007 The king said to the man of God, Come home with me, + and refresh yourself, and I will give you a reward. +013:008 The man of God said to the king, If you will give me half + your house, I will not go in with you, neither will I eat + bread nor drink water in this place; +013:009 for so was it charged me by the word of Yahweh, saying, You shall + eat no bread, nor drink water, neither return by the way + that you came. +013:010 So he went another way, and didn't return by the way that + he came to Bethel. +013:011 Now there lived an old prophet in Bethel; and one of his sons + came and told him all the works that the man of God had done + that day in Bethel: the words which he had spoken to the king, + them also they told to their father. +013:012 Their father said to them, Which way did he go? + Now his sons had seen which way the man of God went, + who came from Judah. +013:013 He said to his sons, Saddle me the donkey. So they saddled + him the donkey; and he rode thereon. +013:014 He went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak; + and he said to him, Are you the man of God who came + from Judah? He said, I am. +013:015 Then he said to him, Come home with me, and eat bread. +013:016 He said, I may not return with you, nor go in with you; + neither will I eat bread nor drink water with you in this place: +013:017 for it was said to me by the word of Yahweh, You shall eat no + bread nor drink water there, nor turn again to go by the way + that you came. +013:018 He said to him, I also am a prophet as you are; and an angel + spoke to me by the word of Yahweh, saying, Bring him back with + you into your house, that he may eat bread and drink water. + [But] he lied to him. +013:019 So he went back with him, and ate bread in his house, + and drank water. +013:020 It happened, as they sat at the table, that the word of Yahweh + came to the prophet who brought him back; +013:021 and he cried to the man of God who came from Judah, saying, + Thus says Yahweh, Because you have been disobedient to the mouth + of Yahweh, and have not kept the commandment which Yahweh + your God commanded you, +013:022 but came back, and have eaten bread and drunk water in the place + of which he said to you, Eat no bread, and drink no water; + your body shall not come to the tomb of your fathers. +013:023 It happened, after he had eaten bread, and after he had drunk, + that he saddled for him the donkey, [to wit], for the prophet + whom he had brought back. +013:024 When he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and killed him: + and his body was cast in the way, and the donkey stood by it; + the lion also stood by the body. +013:025 Behold, men passed by, and saw the body cast in the way, + and the lion standing by the body; and they came and told it + in the city where the old prophet lived. +013:026 When the prophet who brought him back from the way heard of it, + he said, It is the man of God, who was disobedient to the mouth + of Yahweh: therefore Yahweh has delivered him to the lion, + which has torn him, and slain him, according to the word + of Yahweh, which he spoke to him. +013:027 He spoke to his sons, saying, Saddle me the donkey. + They saddled it. +013:028 He went and found his body cast in the way, and the donkey + and the lion standing by the body: the lion had not eaten + the body, nor torn the donkey. +013:029 The prophet took up the body of the man of God, and laid it + on the donkey, and brought it back; and he came to the city + of the old prophet, to mourn, and to bury him. +013:030 He laid his body in his own grave; and they mourned over him, + [saying], Alas, my brother! +013:031 It happened, after he had buried him, that he spoke to his sons, + saying, When I am dead, then bury me in the tomb in which + the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones. +013:032 For the saying which he cried by the word of Yahweh against + the altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of the high + places which are in the cities of Samaria, shall surely happen. +013:033 After this thing Jeroboam didn't return from his evil way, but made + again from among all the people priests of the high places: + whoever would, he consecrated him, that there might be priests + of the high places. +013:034 This thing became sin to the house of Jeroboam, even to cut it off, + and to destroy it from off the surface of the earth. +014:001 At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick. +014:002 Jeroboam said to his wife, Please get up and disguise yourself, + that you not be known to be the wife of Jeroboam; and get you + to Shiloh: behold, there is Ahijah the prophet, who spoke + concerning me that I should be king over this people. +014:003 Take with you ten loaves, and cakes, and a jar of honey, + and go to him: he will tell you what shall become of the child. +014:004 Jeroboam's wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, + and came to the house of Ahijah. Now Ahijah could not see; + for his eyes were set by reason of his age. +014:005 Yahweh said to Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam comes + to inquire of you concerning her son; for he is sick: + thus and thus shall you tell her; for it will be, when she + comes in, that she will feign herself to be another woman. +014:006 It was so, when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she came + in at the door, that he said, Come in, you wife of Jeroboam; + why feign you yourself to be another? for I am sent to you + with heavy news. +014:007 Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: Because I + exalted you from among the people, and made you prince over + my people Israel, +014:008 and tore the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it you; + and yet you have not been as my servant David, who kept + my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, + to do that only which was right in my eyes, +014:009 but have done evil above all who were before you, and have gone + and made you other gods, and molten images, to provoke me + to anger, and have cast me behind your back: +014:010 therefore, behold, I will bring evil on the house of Jeroboam, + and will cut off from Jeroboam everyone who urinates on a wall,{or, + male} him who is shut up and him who is left at large in Israel, + and will utterly sweep away the house of Jeroboam, as a man + sweeps away dung, until it be all gone. +014:011 Him who dies of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; + and him who dies in the field shall the birds of the sky eat: + for Yahweh has spoken it. +014:012 Arise you therefore, get you to your house: [and] when your + feet enter into the city, the child shall die. +014:013 All Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him; for he only + of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there + is found some good thing toward Yahweh, the God of Israel, + in the house of Jeroboam. +014:014 Moreover Yahweh will raise him up a king over Israel, + who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam that day: + but what? even now. +014:015 For Yahweh will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; + and he will root up Israel out of this good land which he gave + to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River, + because they have made their Asherim, provoking Yahweh to anger. +014:016 He will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, + which he has sinned, and with which he has made Israel to sin. +014:017 Jeroboam's wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah: + [and] as she came to the threshold of the house, the child died. +014:018 All Israel buried him, and mourned for him, according to the word + of Yahweh, which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the prophet. +014:019 The rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred, and how + he reigned, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles + of the kings of Israel. +014:020 The days which Jeroboam reigned were two and twenty years: + and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned + in his place. +014:021 Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was + forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned + seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh had chosen + out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there: + and his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess. +014:022 Judah did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and they + provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, + above all that their fathers had done. +014:023 For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, + on every high hill, and under every green tree; +014:024 and there were also sodomites in the land: they did according + to all the abominations of the nations which Yahweh drove + out before the children of Israel. +014:025 It happened in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak + king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem; +014:026 and he took away the treasures of the house of Yahweh, + and the treasures of the king's house; he even took away all: + and he took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made. +014:027 King Rehoboam made in their place shields of brass, + and committed them to the hands of the captains of the guard, + who kept the door of the king's house. +014:028 It was so, that as often as the king went into the house + of Yahweh, the guard bore them, and brought them back into + the guard chamber. +014:029 Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, + aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the + kings of Judah? +014:030 There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually. +014:031 Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in + the city of David: and his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess. + Abijam his son reigned in his place. +015:001 Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat + began Abijam to reign over Judah. +015:002 Three years reigned he in Jerusalem: and his mother's name + was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom. +015:003 He walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done + before him; and his heart was not perfect with Yahweh his God, + as the heart of David his father. +015:004 Nevertheless for David's sake did Yahweh his God give + him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, + and to establish Jerusalem; +015:005 because David did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, + and didn't turn aside from anything that he commanded + him all the days of his life, except only in the matter + of Uriah the Hittite. +015:006 Now there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days + of his life. +015:007 The rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, + aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings + of Judah? There was war between Abijam and Jeroboam. +015:008 Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the city + of David: and Asa his son reigned in his place. +015:009 In the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel began Asa + to reign over Judah. +015:010 Forty-one years reigned he in Jerusalem: and his mother's + name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom. +015:011 Asa did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, as did + David his father. +015:012 He put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all + the idols that his fathers had made. +015:013 Also Maacah his mother he removed from being queen, + because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah; + and Asa cut down her image, and burnt it at the brook Kidron. +015:014 But the high places were not taken away: nevertheless the heart + of Asa was perfect with Yahweh all his days. +015:015 He brought into the house of Yahweh the things that his father + had dedicated, and the things that himself had dedicated, + silver, and gold, and vessels. +015:016 There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days. +015:017 Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, + that he might not allow anyone to go out or come in to Asa + king of Judah. +015:018 Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left + in the treasures of the house of Yahweh, and the treasures + of the king's house, and delivered them into the hand + of his servants; and king Asa sent them to Ben Hadad, + the son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, + who lived at Damascus, saying, +015:019 [There is] a league between me and you, between my father and + your father: behold, I have sent to you a present of silver + and gold; go, break your league with Baasha king of Israel, + that he may depart from me. +015:020 Ben Hadad listened to king Asa, and sent the captains of + his armies against the cities of Israel, and struck Ijon, + and Dan, and Abel Beth Maacah, and all Chinneroth, with all + the land of Naphtali. +015:021 It happened, when Baasha heard of it, that he left off + building Ramah, and lived in Tirzah. +015:022 Then king Asa made a proclamation to all Judah; none was exempted: + and they carried away the stones of Ramah, and the timber of it, + with which Baasha had built; and king Asa built therewith + Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah. +015:023 Now the rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, + and all that he did, and the cities which he built, + aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings + of Judah? But in the time of his old age he was diseased + in his feet. +015:024 Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers + in the city of David his father; and Jehoshaphat his son + reigned in his place. +015:025 Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in the second + year of Asa king of Judah; and he reigned over Israel two years. +015:026 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and walked + in the way of his father, and in his sin with which he made + Israel to sin. +015:027 Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, + conspired against him; and Baasha struck him at Gibbethon, + which belonged to the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel + were laying siege to Gibbethon. +015:028 Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha kill him, + and reigned in his place. +015:029 It happened that, as soon as he was king, he struck all the house + of Jeroboam: he didn't leave to Jeroboam any who breathed, + until he had destroyed him; according to the saying of Yahweh, + which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite; +015:030 for the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and with which + he made Israel to sin, because of his provocation with which + he provoked Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger. +015:031 Now the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did, + aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the + kings of Israel? +015:032 There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days. +015:033 In the third year of Asa king of Judah began Baasha + the son of Ahijah to reign over all Israel in Tirzah, + [and reigned] twenty-four years. +015:034 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and walked + in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin with which he made + Israel to sin. +016:001 The word of Yahweh came to Jehu the son of Hanani + against Baasha, saying, +016:002 Because I exalted you out of the dust, and made you prince over + my people Israel, and you have walked in the way of Jeroboam, + and have made my people Israel to sin, to provoke me to anger + with their sins; +016:003 behold, I will utterly sweep away Baasha and his house; + and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam + the son of Nebat. +016:004 Him who dies of Baasha in the city shall the dogs eat; + and him who dies of his in the field shall the birds of + the sky eat. +016:005 Now the rest of the acts of Baasha, and what he did, + and his might, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles + of the kings of Israel? +016:006 Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah; + and Elah his son reigned in his place. +016:007 Moreover by the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani came + the word of Yahweh against Baasha, and against his house, + both because of all the evil that he did in the sight of Yahweh, + to provoke him to anger with the work of his hands, in being + like the house of Jeroboam, and because he struck him. +016:008 In the twenty-sixth year of Asa king of Judah began + Elah the son of Baasha to reign over Israel in Tirzah, + [and reigned] two years. +016:009 His servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired + against him. Now he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk + in the house of Arza, who was over the household in Tirzah: +016:010 and Zimri went in and struck him, and killed him, + in the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned + in his place. +016:011 It happened, when he began to reign, as soon as he sat + on his throne, that he struck all the house of Baasha: + he didn't leave him a single one who urinates on a wall,{or, + male} neither of his relatives, nor of his friends. +016:012 Thus did Zimri destroy all the house of Baasha, according to the word + of Yahweh, which he spoke against Baasha by Jehu the prophet, +016:013 for all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, + which they sinned, and with which they made Israel to sin, + to provoke Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger with their vanities. +016:014 Now the rest of the acts of Elah, and all that he did, aren't they + written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? +016:015 In the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah did Zimri + reign seven days in Tirzah. Now the people were encamped + against Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines. +016:016 The people who were encamped heard say, Zimri has conspired, + and has also struck the king: therefore all Israel made Omri, + the captain of the army, king over Israel that day in the camp. +016:017 Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, + and they besieged Tirzah. +016:018 It happened, when Zimri saw that the city was taken, + that he went into the castle of the king's house, and burnt + the king's house over him with fire, and died, +016:019 for his sins which he sinned in doing that which was evil + in the sight of Yahweh, in walking in the way of Jeroboam, + and in his sin which he did, to make Israel to sin. +016:020 Now the rest of the acts of Zimri, and his treason that he did, + aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the + kings of Israel? +016:021 Then were the people of Israel divided into two parts: + half of the people followed Tibni the son of Ginath, to make + him king; and half followed Omri. +016:022 But the people who followed Omri prevailed against the people + who followed Tibni the son of Ginath: so Tibni died, + and Omri reigned. +016:023 In the thirty-first year of Asa king of Judah began Omri + to reign over Israel, [and reigned] twelve years: + six years reigned he in Tirzah. +016:024 He bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two talents of silver; + and he built on the hill, and called the name of the city + which he built, after the name of Shemer, the owner of + the hill, Samaria. +016:025 Omri did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and dealt + wickedly above all who were before him. +016:026 For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, + and in his sins with which he made Israel to sin, to provoke Yahweh, + the God of Israel, to anger with their vanities. +016:027 Now the rest of the acts of Omri which he did, and his might + that he shown, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles + of the kings of Israel? +016:028 So Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria; + and Ahab his son reigned in his place. +016:029 In the thirty-eighth year of Asa king of Judah began Ahab + the son of Omri to reign over Israel: and Ahab the son + of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty-two years. +016:030 Ahab the son of Omri did that which was evil in the sight + of Yahweh above all that were before him. +016:031 It happened, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk + in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took as wife + Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, + and went and served Baal, and worshiped him. +016:032 He reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, + which he had built in Samaria. +016:033 Ahab made the Asherah; and Ahab did yet more to provoke Yahweh, + the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel + who were before him. +016:034 In his days did Hiel the Bethelite build Jericho: he laid + the foundation of it with the loss of Abiram his firstborn, + and set up the gates of it with the loss of his youngest + son Segub, according to the word of Yahweh, which he spoke + by Joshua the son of Nun. +017:001 Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the foreigners of Gilead, + said to Ahab, As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom + I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, + but according to my word. +017:002 The word of Yahweh came to him, saying, +017:003 Get you hence, and turn you eastward, and hide yourself + by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan. +017:004 It shall be, that you shall drink of the brook; and I have + commanded the ravens to feed you there. +017:005 So he went and did according to the word of Yahweh; for he went + and lived by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan. +017:006 The ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, + and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook. +017:007 It happened after a while, that the brook dried up, because there + was no rain in the land. +017:008 The word of Yahweh came to him, saying, +017:009 Arise, get you to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, + and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow there + to sustain you. +017:010 So he arose and went to Zarephath; and when he came to the gate + of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks: + and he called to her, and said, Please get me a little water + in a vessel, that I may drink. +017:011 As she was going to get it, he called to her, and said, + Please bring me a morsel of bread in your hand. +017:012 She said, As Yahweh your God lives, I don't have a cake, + but a handful of meal in the jar, and a little oil in the jar: + and behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and bake + it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die. +017:013 Elijah said to her, Don't be afraid; go and do as you have said; + but make me of it a little cake first, and bring it forth to me, + and afterward make for you and for your son. +017:014 For thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, The jar of meal shall + not empty, neither shall the jar of oil fail, until the day + that Yahweh sends rain on the earth. +017:015 She went and did according to the saying of Elijah: + and she, and he, and her house, ate [many] days. +017:016 The jar of meal didn't empty, neither did the jar of oil fail, + according to the word of Yahweh, which he spoke by Elijah. +017:017 It happened after these things, that the son of the woman, + the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was + so sore, that there was no breath left in him. +017:018 She said to Elijah, What have I to do with you, you man + of God? You have come to me to bring my sin to memory, + and to kill my son! +017:019 He said to her, Give me your son. He took him out of her bosom, + and carried him up into the chamber, where he abode, + and laid him on his own bed. +017:020 He cried to Yahweh, and said, Yahweh my God, have you also brought + evil on the widow with whom I sojourn, by killing her son? +017:021 He stretched himself on the child three times, and cried to Yahweh, + and said, Yahweh my God, please let this child's soul come + into him again. +017:022 Yahweh listened to the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child + came into him again, and he revived. +017:023 Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the + chamber into the house, and delivered him to his mother; + and Elijah said, Behold, your son lives. +017:024 The woman said to Elijah, Now I know that you are a man of God, + and that the word of Yahweh in your mouth is truth. +018:001 It happened after many days, that the word of Yahweh came + to Elijah, in the third year, saying, Go, show yourself to Ahab; + and I will send rain on the earth. +018:002 Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. The famine was + sore in Samaria. +018:003 Ahab called Obadiah, who was over the household. + (Now Obadiah feared Yahweh greatly: +018:004 for it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of Yahweh, + that Obadiah took one hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty + in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.) +018:005 Ahab said to Obadiah, Go through the land, to all the springs + of water, and to all the brooks: peradventure we may find + grass and save the horses and mules alive, that we not lose + all the animals. +018:006 So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it: + Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another + way by himself. +018:007 As Obadiah was in the way, behold, Elijah met him: + and he knew him, and fell on his face, and said, Is it you, + my lord Elijah? +018:008 He answered him, It is I: go, tell your lord, Behold, Elijah [is + here]. +018:009 He said, Wherein have I sinned, that you would deliver your + servant into the hand of Ahab, to kill me? +018:010 As Yahweh your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom, + where my lord has not sent to seek you: and when they said, + He is not here, he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, + that they didn't find you. +018:011 Now you say, Go, tell your lord, Behold, Elijah [is here]. +018:012 It will happen, as soon as I am gone from you, that the Spirit + of Yahweh will carry you I don't know where; and so when I + come and tell Ahab, and he can't find you, he will kill me: + but I your servant fear Yahweh from my youth. +018:013 Wasn't it told my lord what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets + of Yahweh, how I hid one hundred men of Yahweh's prophets + by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water? +018:014 Now you say, Go, tell your lord, Behold, Elijah [is here]; + and he will kill me. +018:015 Elijah said, As Yahweh of Armies lives, before whom I stand, + I will surely show myself to him today. +018:016 So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him; and Ahab went + to meet Elijah. +018:017 It happened, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said to him, + Is it you, you troubler of Israel? +018:018 He answered, I have not troubled Israel; but you, and your + father's house, in that you have forsaken the commandments + of Yahweh, and you have followed the Baals. +018:019 Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel to Mount Carmel, + and the prophets of Baal four hundred fifty, and the prophets + of the Asherah four hundred, who eat at Jezebel's table. +018:020 So Ahab sent to all the children of Israel, and gathered + the prophets together to Mount Carmel. +018:021 Elijah came near to all the people, and said, "How long will you + waver between the two sides? If Yahweh is God, follow him; + but if Baal, then follow him." The people answered him + not a word. +018:022 Then Elijah said to the people, "I, even I only, am left a prophet + of Yahweh; but Baal's prophets are four hundred fifty men. +018:023 Let them therefore give us two bulls; and let them choose one bull + for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on the wood, + and put no fire under; and I will dress the other bull, + and lay it on the wood, and put no fire under. +018:024 You call on the name of your god, and I will call on the name + of Yahweh; and the God who answers by fire, let him be God." + All the people answered, "It is well said." +018:025 Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, "Choose one bull + for yourselves, and dress it first; for you are many; + and call on the name of your god, but put no fire under it." +018:026 They took the bull which was given them, and they dressed it, + and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, + Baal, hear us. But there was no voice, nor any who answered. + They leaped about the altar which was made. +018:027 It happened at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud; + for he is a god: either he is musing, or he is gone aside, + or he is on a journey, or peradventure he sleeps and + must be awakened. +018:028 They cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner + with knives and lances, until the blood gushed out on them. +018:029 It was so, when midday was past, that they prophesied until + the time of the offering of the [evening] offering; but there + was neither voice, nor any to answer, nor any who regarded. +018:030 Elijah said to all the people, Come near to me; and all + the people came near to him. He repaired the altar of Yahweh + that was thrown down. +018:031 Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes + of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of Yahweh came, saying, + Israel shall be your name. +018:032 With the stones he built an altar in the name of Yahweh; + and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would + contain two measures of seed. +018:033 He put the wood in order, and cut the bull in pieces, + and laid it on the wood. He said, Fill four jars with water, + and pour it on the burnt offering, and on the wood. +018:034 He said, Do it the second time; and they did it the second time. + He said, Do it the third time; and they did it the third time. +018:035 The water ran round about the altar; and he filled the trench + also with water. +018:036 It happened at the time of the offering of the [evening] offering, + that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, Yahweh, the God + of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this + day that you are God in Israel, and that I am your servant, + and that I have done all these things at your word. +018:037 Hear me, Yahweh, hear me, that this people may know + that you, Yahweh, are God, and [that] you have turned their + heart back again. +018:038 Then the fire of Yahweh fell, and consumed the burnt offering, + and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up + the water that was in the trench. +018:039 When all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: + and they said, Yahweh, he is God; Yahweh, he is God. +018:040 and Elijah said to them, Take the prophets of Baal; don't let + one of them escape. They took them; and Elijah brought them + down to the brook Kishon, and killed them there. +018:041 Elijah said to Ahab, Get you up, eat and drink; for there + is the sound of abundance of rain. +018:042 So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. Elijah went up to the top + of Carmel; and he bowed himself down on the earth, and put + his face between his knees. +018:043 He said to his servant, Go up now, look toward the sea. + He went up, and looked, and said, There is nothing. + He said, Go again seven times. +018:044 It happened at the seventh time, that he said, "Behold, + a small cloud, like a man's hand, is rising out of the sea." + He said, Go up, tell Ahab, Make ready [your chariot], + and get you down, that the rain not stop you. +018:045 It happened in a little while, that the sky grew black + with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. + Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel: +018:046 and the hand of Yahweh was on Elijah; and he girded up his waist, + and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel. +019:001 Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had + killed all the prophets with the sword. +019:002 Then Jezebel send a messenger to Elijah, saying, So let + the gods do to me, and more also, if I don't make your life + as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time. +019:003 When he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came + to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there. +019:004 But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came + and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself + that he might die, and said, It is enough; now, O Yahweh, + take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers. +019:005 He lay down and slept under a juniper tree; and behold, + an angel touched him, and said to him, Arise and eat. +019:006 He looked, and behold, there was at his head a cake baked + on the coals, and a jar of water. He ate and drink, + and laid him down again. +019:007 The angel of Yahweh came again the second time, and touched him, + and said, Arise and eat, because the journey is too great for you. +019:008 He arose, and ate and drink, and went in the strength of that + food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the Mount of God. +019:009 He came there to a cave, and lodged there; and behold, + the word of Yahweh came to him, and he said to him, What are + you doing here, Elijah? +019:010 He said, I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the God of Armies; + for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, + thrown down your altars, and slain your prophets with the sword: + and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, + to take it away. +019:011 He said, Go forth, and stand on the mountain before Yahweh. + Behold, Yahweh passed by, and a great and strong wind tore + the mountains, and broke in pieces the rocks before Yahweh; + but Yahweh was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; + but Yahweh was not in the earthquake: +019:012 and after the earthquake a fire; but Yahweh was not in the fire: + and after the fire a still small voice. +019:013 It was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face + in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entrance + of the cave. Behold, there came a voice to him, and said, + What are you doing here, Elijah? +019:014 He said, I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the God of Armies; + for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, + thrown down your altars, and slain your prophets with the sword; + and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, + to take it away. +019:015 Yahweh said to him, Go, return on your way to the wilderness + of Damascus: and when you come, you shall anoint Hazael + to be king over Syria; +019:016 and Jehu the son of Nimshi shall you anoint to be king over Israel; + and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel Meholah shall you anoint + to be prophet in your room. +019:017 It shall happen, that he who escapes from the sword of Hazael + shall Jehu kill; and he who escapes from the sword of Jehu + shall Elisha kill. +019:018 Yet will I leave [me] seven thousand in Israel, all the knees + which have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth which has + not kissed him. +019:019 So he departed there, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, + who was plowing, with twelve yoke [of oxen] before him, + and he with the twelfth: and Elijah passed over to him, + and cast his mantle on him. +019:020 He left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray you, + kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you. + He said to him, Go back again; for what have I done to you? +019:021 He returned from following him, and took the yoke of oxen, + and killed them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments + of the oxen, and gave to the people, and they ate. + Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and ministered to him. +020:001 Ben Hadad the king of Syria gathered all his army together; + and there were thirty-two kings with him, and horses and chariots: + and he went up and besieged Samaria, and fought against it. +020:002 He sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel, into the city, + and said to him, Thus says Ben Hadad, +020:003 Your silver and your gold is mine; your wives also and your children, + even the best, are mine. +020:004 The king of Israel answered, It is according to your saying, + my lord, O king; I am yours, and all that I have. +020:005 The messengers came again, and said, Thus speaks Ben Hadad, + saying, I sent indeed to you, saying, You shall deliver me + your silver, and your gold, and your wives, and your children; +020:006 but I will send my servants to you tomorrow about this time, + and they shall search your house, and the houses of your servants; + and it shall be, that whatever is pleasant in your eyes, + they shall put it in their hand, and take it away. +020:007 Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, + and said, Please notice how this man seeks mischief: + for he sent to me for my wives, and for my children, + and for my silver, and for my gold; and I didn't deny him. +020:008 All the elders and all the people said to him, Don't you + listen, neither consent. +020:009 Therefore he said to the messengers of Ben Hadad, Tell my + lord the king, All that you did send for to your servant + at the first I will do; but this thing I may not do. + The messengers departed, and brought him word again. +020:010 Ben Hadad sent to him, and said, The gods do so to me, + and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls + for all the people who follow me. +020:011 The king of Israel answered, Tell him, Don't let him who girds + on [his armor] boast himself as he who puts it off. +020:012 It happened, when [Ben Hadad] heard this message, as he was drinking, + he and the kings, in the pavilions, that he said to his servants, + Set [yourselves in array]. They set [themselves in array] + against the city. +020:013 Behold, a prophet came near to Ahab king of Israel, and said, + Thus says Yahweh, Have you seen all this great multitude? behold, + I will deliver it into your hand this day; and you shall know + that I am Yahweh. +020:014 Ahab said, By whom? He said, Thus says Yahweh, By the young + men of the princes of the provinces. Then he said, Who shall + begin the battle? He answered, You. +020:015 Then he mustered the young men of the princes of the provinces, + and they were two hundred and thirty-two: and after them + he mustered all the people, even all the children of Israel, + being seven thousand. +020:016 They went out at noon. But Ben Hadad was drinking himself + drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty-two + kings who helped him. +020:017 The young men of the princes of the provinces went out first; + and Ben Hadad sent out, and they told him, saying, There are + men come out from Samaria. +020:018 He said, Whether they are come out for peace, take them alive, + or whether they are come out for war, taken them alive. +020:019 So these went out of the city, the young men of the princes + of the provinces, and the army which followed them. +020:020 They killed everyone his man; and the Syrians fled, and Israel + pursued them: and Ben Hadad the king of Syria escaped on + a horse with horsemen. +020:021 The king of Israel went out, and struck the horses and chariots, + and killed the Syrians with a great slaughter. +020:022 The prophet came near to the king of Israel, and said to him, + Go, strengthen yourself, and mark, and see what you do; + for at the return of the year the king of Syria will come + up against you. +020:023 The servants of the king of Syria said to him, Their god is + a god of the hills; therefore they were stronger than we: + but let us fight against them in the plain, and surely we + shall be stronger than they. +020:024 Do this thing: take the kings away, every man out of his place, + and put captains in their room; +020:025 and number you an army, like the army that you have lost, + horse for horse, and chariot for chariot; and we will fight against + them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they. + He listened to their voice, and did so. +020:026 It happened at the return of the year, that Ben Hadad mustered + the Syrians, and went up to Aphek, to fight against Israel. +020:027 The children of Israel were mustered, and were provisioned, + and went against them: and the children of Israel encamped + before them like two little flocks of kids; but the Syrians + filled the country. +020:028 A man of God came near and spoke to the king of Israel, + and said, Thus says Yahweh, Because the Syrians have said, + Yahweh is a god of the hills, but he is not a god of the valleys; + therefore will I deliver all this great multitude into your hand, + and you shall know that I am Yahweh. +020:029 They encamped one over against the other seven days. + So it was, that in the seventh day the battle was joined; + and the children of Israel killed of the Syrians one hundred + thousand footmen in one day. +020:030 But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and the wall fell + on twenty-seven thousand men who were left. Ben Hadad fled, + and came into the city, into an inner chamber. +020:031 His servants said to him, See now, we have heard that + the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings: + let us, we pray you, put sackcloth on our bodies, + and ropes on our heads, and go out to the king of Israel: + peradventure he will save your life. +020:032 So they girded sackcloth on their bodies, and [put] ropes + on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, + Your servant Ben Hadad says, please let me live. + He said, Is he yet alive? he is my brother. +020:033 Now the men observed diligently, and hurried to catch whether + it were his mind; and they said, Your brother Ben Hadad. + Then he said, Go you, bring him. Then Ben Hadad came forth to him; + and he caused him to come up into the chariot. +020:034 [Ben Hadad] said to him, The cities which my father took + from your father I will restore; and you shall make streets + for you in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria. + I, [said Ahab], will let you go with this covenant. + So he made a covenant with him, and let him go. +020:035 A certain man of the sons of the prophets said to his fellow + by the word of Yahweh, Please strike me. The man refused + to strike him. +020:036 Then said he to him, Because you have not obeyed the voice + of Yahweh, behold, as soon as you are departed from me, + a lion shall kill you. As soon as he was departed from him, + a lion found him, and killed him. +020:037 Then he found another man, and said, Please strike me. + The man struck him, smiting and wounding him. +020:038 So the prophet departed, and waited for the king by the way, + and disguised himself with his headband over his eyes. +020:039 As the king passed by, he cried to the king; and he said, + Your servant went out into the midst of the battle; + and behold, a man turned aside, and brought a man to me, + and said, Keep this man: if by any means he be missing, + then shall your life be for his life, or else you shall pay + a talent of silver. +020:040 As your servant was busy here and there, he was gone. + The king of Israel said to him, So shall your judgment be; + yourself have decided it. +020:041 He hurried, and took the headband away from his eyes; + and the king of Israel discerned him that he was of the prophets. +020:042 He said to him, Thus says Yahweh, Because you have let go + out of your hand the man whom I had devoted to destruction, + therefore your life shall go for his life, and your people + for his people. +020:043 The king of Israel went to his house sullen and angry, + and came to Samaria. +021:001 It happened after these things, that Naboth the Jezreelite + had a vineyard, which was in Jezreel, hard by the palace + of Ahab king of Samaria. +021:002 Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, Give me your vineyard, that I may + have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near to my house; + and I will give you for it a better vineyard than it: + or, if it seem good to you, I will give you the worth + of it in money. +021:003 Naboth said to Ahab, Yahweh forbid it me, that I should give + the inheritance of my fathers to you. +021:004 Ahab came into his house sullen and angry because of the word + which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him; for he had said, + I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers. + He laid him down on his bed, and turned away his face, + and would eat no bread. +021:005 But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said to him, Why is your + spirit so sad, that you eat no bread? +021:006 He said to her, Because I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite, + and said to him, Give me your vineyard for money; or else, + if it please you, I will give you [another] vineyard for it: + and he answered, I will not give you my vineyard. +021:007 Jezebel his wife said to him, Do you now govern the kingdom + of Israel? arise, and eat bread, and let your heart be merry: + I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite. +021:008 So she wrote letters in Ahab's name, and sealed them with his seal, + and sent the letters to the elders and to the nobles who were + in his city, [and] who lived with Naboth. +021:009 She wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set + Naboth on high among the people: +021:010 and set two men, base fellows, before him, and let them + testify against him, saying, You did curse God and the king. + Then carry him out, and stone him to death. +021:011 The men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who lived + in his city, did as Jezebel had sent to them, according as it + was written in the letters which she had sent to them. +021:012 They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people. +021:013 The two men, the base fellows, came in and sat before him: + and the base fellows bore witness against him, even against Naboth, + in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth did curse God + and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, + and stoned him to death with stones. +021:014 Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, Naboth is stoned, + and is dead. +021:015 It happened, when Jezebel heard that Naboth was stoned, + and was dead, that Jezebel said to Ahab, Arise, take possession + of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused + to give you for money; for Naboth is not alive, but dead. +021:016 It happened, when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, that Ahab + rose up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, + to take possession of it. +021:017 The word of Yahweh came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying, +021:018 Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who dwells in Samaria: + behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, where he is gone + down to take possession of it. +021:019 You shall speak to him, saying, Thus says Yahweh, Have you + killed and also taken possession? You shall speak to him, + saying, Thus says Yahweh, In the place where dogs licked + the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick your blood, even yours. +021:020 Ahab said to Elijah, Have you found me, my enemy? + He answered, I have found you, because you have sold yourself + to do that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh. +021:021 Behold, I will bring evil on you, and will utterly sweep you + away and will cut off from Ahab everyone who urinates against + a wall,{or, male} and him who is shut up and him who is left + at large in Israel: +021:022 and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son + of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah + for the provocation with which you have provoked me to anger, + and have made Israel to sin. +021:023 Of Jezebel also spoke Yahweh, saying, The dogs shall eat + Jezebel by the rampart of Jezreel. +021:024 Him who dies of Ahab in the city the dogs shall eat; + and him who dies in the field shall the birds of the sky eat. +021:025 (But there was none like Ahab, who did sell himself to do + that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, whom Jezebel + his wife stirred up. +021:026 He did very abominably in following idols, according to + all that the Amorites did, whom Yahweh cast out before + the children of Israel.) +021:027 It happened, when Ahab heard those words, that he tore his clothes, + and put sackcloth on his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, + and went softly. +021:028 The word of Yahweh came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying, +021:029 See you how Ahab humbles himself before me? because he humbles + himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days; + but in his son's days will I bring the evil on his house. +022:001 They continued three years without war between Syria and Israel. +022:002 It happened in the third year, that Jehoshaphat the king + of Judah came down to the king of Israel. +022:003 The king of Israel said to his servants, "You know that + Ramoth Gilead is ours, and we are still, and don't take it + out of the hand of the king of Syria?" +022:004 He said to Jehoshaphat, Will you go with me to battle to + Ramoth Gilead? Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, I am + as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses. +022:005 Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, Please inquire first + for the word of Yahweh. +022:006 Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, + about four hundred men, and said to them, Shall I go + against Ramoth Gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? + They said, Go up; for the Lord will deliver it into the hand + of the king. +022:007 But Jehoshaphat said, Isn't there here a prophet of Yahweh besides, + that we may inquire of him? +022:008 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, there is yet one man + by whom we may inquire of Yahweh, Micaiah the son of Imlah: + but I hate him; for he does not prophesy good concerning me, + but evil. Jehoshaphat said, "Don't let the king say so." +022:009 Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, Get quickly + Micaiah the son of Imlah. +022:010 Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah + were sitting each on his throne, arrayed in their robes, + in an open place at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; + and all the prophets were prophesying before them. +022:011 Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns of iron, and said, + Thus says Yahweh, With these shall you push the Syrians, + until they be consumed. +022:012 All the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to Ramoth Gilead, + and prosper; for Yahweh will deliver it into the hand + of the king. +022:013 The messenger who went to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, See now, + the words of the prophets [declare] good to the king with one mouth: + please let your word be like the word of one of them, + and speak you good. +022:014 Micaiah said, As Yahweh lives, what Yahweh says to me, + that will I speak. +022:015 When he was come to the king, the king said to him, Micaiah, + shall we go to Ramoth Gilead to battle, or shall we forbear? + He answered him, Go up and prosper; and Yahweh will deliver + it into the hand of the king. +022:016 The king said to him, How many times shall I adjure you that you + speak to me nothing but the truth in the name of Yahweh? +022:017 He said, I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains, as sheep + that have no shepherd: and Yahweh said, These have no master; + let them return every man to his house in peace. +022:018 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, Didn't I tell you + that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil? +022:019 [Micaiah] said, "Therefore hear the word of Yahweh: I saw + Yahweh sitting on his throne, and all the army of heaven + standing by him on his right hand and on his left. +022:020 Yahweh said, 'Who shall entice Ahab, that he may go up + and fall at Ramoth Gilead?' One said on this manner; + and another said on that manner. +022:021 There came forth a spirit, and stood before Yahweh, and said, + 'I will entice him.' +022:022 Yahweh said to him, 'How?' He said, 'I will go forth, + and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.' + He said, 'You shall entice him, and shall prevail also: + go forth, and do so.' +022:023 Now therefore, behold, Yahweh has put a lying spirit in + the mouth of all these your prophets; and Yahweh has spoken + evil concerning you." +022:024 Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and struck Micaiah + on the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of Yahweh + from me to speak to you? +022:025 Micaiah said, Behold, you shall see on that day, when you + shall go into an inner chamber to hide yourself. +022:026 The king of Israel said, Take Micaiah, and carry him back + to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king's son; +022:027 and say, Thus says the king, Put this fellow in the prison, + and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, + until I come in peace. +022:028 Micaiah said, If you return at all in peace, Yahweh has not + spoken by me. He said, Hear, you peoples, all of you. +022:029 So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went + up to Ramoth Gilead. +022:030 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, + and go into the battle; but put you on your robes. + The king of Israel disguised himself, and went into the battle. +022:031 Now the king of Syria had commanded the thirty-two captains + of his chariots, saying, Fight neither with small nor great, + save only with the king of Israel. +022:032 It happened, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, + that they said, Surely it is the king of Israel; and they + turned aside to fight against him: and Jehoshaphat cried out. +022:033 It happened, when the captains of the chariots saw that it was + not the king of Israel, that they turned back from pursuing him. +022:034 A certain man drew his bow at a venture, and struck + the king of Israel between the joints of the armor: + therefore he said to the driver of his chariot, Turn your hand, + and carry me out of the army; for I am severely wounded. +022:035 The battle increased that day: and the king was stayed + up in his chariot against the Syrians, and died at even; + and the blood ran out of the wound into the bottom of the chariot. +022:036 There went a cry throughout the army about the going down + of the sun, saying, Every man to his city, and every man + to his country. +022:037 So the king died, and was brought to Samaria; and they buried + the king in Samaria. +022:038 They washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked + up his blood (now the prostitutes washed themselves [there]); + according to the word of Yahweh which he spoke. +022:039 Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, + and the ivory house which he built, and all the cities that + he built, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles + of the kings of Israel? +022:040 So Ahab slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son reigned + in his place. +022:041 Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah in the fourth + year of Ahab king of Israel. +022:042 Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he began to reign; + and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. + His mother's name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi. +022:043 He walked in all the way of Asa his father; He didn't turn aside + from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh: + however the high places were not taken away; the people still + sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places. +022:044 Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel. +022:045 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his might that + he shown, and how he warred, aren't they written in the book + of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? +022:046 The remnant of the sodomites, that remained in the days of his + father Asa, he put away out of the land. +022:047 There was no king in Edom: a deputy was king. +022:048 Jehoshaphat made ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold: + but they didn't go; for the ships were broken at Ezion Geber. +022:049 Then said Ahaziah the son of Ahab to Jehoshaphat, Let my servants + go with your servants in the ships. But Jehoshaphat would not. +022:050 Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his + fathers in the city of David his father; Jehoram his son + reigned in his place. +022:051 Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria + in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, + and he reigned two years over Israel. +022:052 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and walked + in the way of his father, and in the way of his mother, + and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, in which he made + Israel to sin. +022:053 He served Baal, and worshiped him, and provoked to anger Yahweh, + the God of Israel, according to all that his father had done. +Book 12 2 Kings +001:001 Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab. +001:002 Ahaziah fell down through the lattice in his upper chamber + that was in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, + and said to them, Go, inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron, + whether I shall recover of this sickness. +001:003 But the angel of Yahweh said to Elijah the Tishbite, Arise, go up + to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and tell them, + Is it because there is no God in Israel, that you go to inquire + of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron? +001:004 Now therefore thus says Yahweh, You shall not come down + from the bed where you are gone up, but shall surely die. + Elijah departed. +001:005 The messengers returned to him, and he said to them, Why is it + that you have returned? +001:006 They said to him, There came up a man to meet us, and said + to us, Go, turn again to the king who sent you, and tell him, + Thus says Yahweh, Is it because there is no God in Israel, + that you send to inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron? + therefore you shall not come down from the bed where you + are gone up, but shall surely die. +001:007 He said to them, What manner of man was he who came up to meet you, + and told you these words? +001:008 They answered him, He was a hairy man, and girt with a belt + of leather about his waist. He said, It is Elijah the Tishbite. +001:009 Then [the king] sent to him a captain of fifty with his fifty. + He went up to him: and behold, he was sitting on the top + of the hill. He spoke to him, man of God, the king + has said, Come down. +001:010 Elijah answered to the captain of fifty, If I be a man of God, + let fire come down from the sky, and consume you and your fifty. + Fire came down from the sky, and consumed him and his fifty. +001:011 Again he sent to him another captain of fifty and his fifty. + He answered him, man of God, thus has the king said, + Come down quickly. +001:012 Elijah answered them, If I be a man of God, let fire come + down from the sky, and consume you and your fifty. + The fire of God came down from the sky, and consumed him + and his fifty. +001:013 Again he sent the captain of a third fifty with his fifty. + The third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees + before Elijah, and begged him, and said to him, man of God, + please let my life, and the life of these fifty your servants, + be precious in your sight. +001:014 Behold, fire came down from the sky, and consumed the two former + captains of fifty with their fifties; but now let my life + be precious in your sight. +001:015 The angel of Yahweh said to Elijah, Go down with him: + don't be afraid of him. He arose, and went down with him + to the king. +001:016 He said to him, Thus says Yahweh, Because you have sent messengers + to inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron, is it because + there is no God in Israel to inquire of his word? therefore + you shall not come down from the bed where you are gone up, + but shall surely die. +001:017 So he died according to the word of Yahweh which Elijah had spoken. + Jehoram began to reign in his place in the second year of Jehoram + the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah; because he had no son. +001:018 Now the rest of the acts of Ahaziah which he did, aren't they + written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? +002:001 It happened, when Yahweh would take up Elijah by a whirlwind + into heaven, that Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal. +002:002 Elijah said to Elisha, Please wait here, for Yahweh has + sent me as far as Bethel. Elisha said, As Yahweh lives, + and as your soul lives, I will not leave you. So they went + down to Bethel. +002:003 The sons of the prophets who were at Bethel came forth to Elisha, + and said to him, "Do you know that Yahweh will take away + your master from your head today?" He said, "Yes, I know it; + hold your peace." +002:004 Elijah said to him, Elisha, please wait here, for Yahweh has sent + me to Jericho. He said, As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, + I will not leave you. So they came to Jericho. +002:005 The sons of the prophets who were at Jericho came near to Elisha, + and said to him, "Do you know that Yahweh will take away your + master from your head today?" He answered, "Yes, I know it. + Hold your peace." +002:006 Elijah said to him, "Please wait here, for Yahweh has sent + me to the Jordan." He said, "As Yahweh lives, and as your + soul lives, I will not leave you." They two went on. +002:007 Fifty men of the sons of the prophets went, and stood over + against them afar off: and they two stood by the Jordan. +002:008 Elijah took his mantle, and wrapped it together, and struck + the waters, and they were divided here and there, so that they + two went over on dry ground. +002:009 It happened, when they had gone over, that Elijah said + to Elisha, Ask what I shall do for you, before I am taken from you. + Elisha said, please let a double portion of your spirit + be on me. +002:010 He said, You have asked a hard thing: [nevertheless], if you + see me when I am taken from you, it shall be so to you; + but if not, it shall not be so. +002:011 It happened, as they still went on, and talked, that behold, + [there appeared] a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, + which parted them both apart; and Elijah went up by a + whirlwind into heaven. +002:012 Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariots + of Israel and the horsemen of it! He saw him no more: + and he took hold of his own clothes, and tore them in two pieces. +002:013 He took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, + and went back, and stood by the bank of the Jordan. +002:014 He took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and struck + the waters, and said, Where is Yahweh, the God of Elijah? + and when he also had struck the waters, they were divided + here and there; and Elisha went over. +002:015 When the sons of the prophets who were at Jericho over against him + saw him, they said, The spirit of Elijah does rest on Elisha. + They came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the + ground before him. +002:016 They said to him, See now, there are with your servants + fifty strong men; let them go, we pray you, and seek + your master, lest the Spirit of Yahweh has taken him up, + and cast him on some mountain, or into some valley. + He said, You shall not send. +002:017 When they urged him until he was ashamed, he said, Send. + They sent therefore fifty men; and they sought three days, + but didn't find him. +002:018 They came back to him, while he stayed at Jericho; and he said + to them, "Didn't I tell you, 'Don't go?'" +002:019 The men of the city said to Elisha, Behold, we pray you, + the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord sees: + but the water is bad, and the land miscarries. +002:020 He said, Bring me a new jar, and put salt therein. + They brought it to him. +002:021 He went forth to the spring of the waters, and cast salt therein, + and said, Thus says Yahweh, I have healed these waters; + there shall not be from there any more death or miscarrying. +002:022 So the waters were healed to this day, according to the word + of Elisha which he spoke. +002:023 He went up from there to Bethel; and as he was going up + by the way, some youths came out of the city and mocked him, + and said to him, Go up, you baldy; go up, you baldhead. +002:024 He looked behind him and saw them, and cursed them in the name + of Yahweh. Two female bears came out of the woods, and mauled + forty-two of those youths. +002:025 He went from there to Mount Carmel, and from there + he returned to Samaria. +003:001 Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in + Samaria in the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, + and reigned twelve years. +003:002 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, but not like + his father, and like his mother; for he put away the pillar + of Baal that his father had made. +003:003 Nevertheless he cleaved to the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, + with which he made Israel to sin; he didn't depart from it. +003:004 Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep breeder; and he rendered + to the king of Israel the wool of one hundred thousand lambs, + and of one hundred thousand rams. +003:005 But it happened, when Ahab was dead, that the king of Moab + rebelled against the king of Israel. +003:006 King Jehoram went out of Samaria at that time, + and mustered all Israel. +003:007 He went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, saying, + The king of Moab has rebelled against me: will you go + with me against Moab to battle? He said, I will go up: + I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses + as your horses. +003:008 He said, Which way shall we go up? He answered, The way + of the wilderness of Edom. +003:009 So the king of Israel went, and the king of Judah, and the king + of Edom; and they made a circuit of seven days' journey: + and there was no water for the army, nor for the animals + that followed them. +003:010 The king of Israel said, Alas! for Yahweh has called these + three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab. +003:011 But Jehoshaphat said, Isn't there here a prophet of Yahweh, + that we may inquire of Yahweh by him? One of the king of + Israel's servants answered, Elisha the son of Shaphat is here, + who poured water on the hands of Elijah. +003:012 Jehoshaphat said, The word of Yahweh is with him. + So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom + went down to him. +003:013 Elisha said to the king of Israel, What have I to do with you? + get you to the prophets of your father, and to the prophets + of your mother. The king of Israel said to him, No; for Yahweh + has called these three kings together to deliver them into + the hand of Moab. +003:014 Elisha said, As Yahweh of Armies lives, before whom I stand, + surely, were it not that I regard the presence of Jehoshaphat + the king of Judah, I would not look toward you, nor see you. +003:015 But now bring me a minstrel. It happened, when the minstrel played, + that the hand of Yahweh came on him. +003:016 He said, Thus says Yahweh, Make this valley full of trenches. +003:017 For thus says Yahweh, You shall not see wind, neither shall you + see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water, and you + shall drink, both you and your livestock and your animals. +003:018 This is but a light thing in the sight of Yahweh: + he will also deliver the Moabites into your hand. +003:019 You shall strike every fortified city, and every choice city, + and shall fell every good tree, and stop all springs of water, + and mar every good piece of land with stones. +003:020 It happened in the morning, about the time of offering + the offering, that behold, there came water by the way of Edom, + and the country was filled with water. +003:021 Now when all the Moabites heard that the kings had come up + to fight against them, they gathered themselves together, + all who were able to put on armor, and upward, and stood + on the border. +003:022 They rose up early in the morning, and the sun shone on the water, + and the Moabites saw the water over against them as red as blood: +003:023 and they said, This is blood; the kings are surely destroyed, + and they have struck each man his fellow: now therefore, + Moab, to the spoil. +003:024 When they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose + up and struck the Moabites, so that they fled before them; + and they went forward into the land smiting the Moabites. +003:025 They beat down the cities; and on every good piece of land they + cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped + all the springs of water, and felled all the good trees, + until in Kir Hareseth [only] they left the stones of it; + however the men armed with slings went about it, and struck it. +003:026 When the king of Moab saw that the battle was too severe + for him, he took with him seven hundred men who drew sword, + to break through to the king of Edom; but they could not. +003:027 Then he took his eldest son who would have reigned in his place, + and offered him for a burnt offering on the wall. + There was great wrath against Israel: and they departed from him, + and returned to their own land. +004:001 Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons + of the prophets to Elisha, saying, Your servant my husband + is dead; and you know that your servant did fear Yahweh: + and the creditor is come to take to him my two children + to be bondservants. +004:002 Elisha said to her, What shall I do for you? tell me; + what have you in the house? She said, Your handmaid has + nothing in the house, except a pot of oil. +004:003 Then he said, Go, borrow you vessels abroad of all your neighbors, + even empty vessels; borrow not a few. +004:004 You shall go in, and shut the door on you and on your sons, + and pour out into all those vessels; and you shall set aside + that which is full. +004:005 So she went from him, and shut the door on her and on her sons; + they brought [the vessels] to her, and she poured out. +004:006 It happened, when the vessels were full, that she said to her son, + Bring me yet a vessel. He said to her, There isn't another vessel. + The oil stayed. +004:007 Then she came and told the man of God. He said, Go, sell the oil, + and pay your debt, and live you and your sons of the rest. +004:008 It fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was + a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. + So it was, that as often as he passed by, he turned in there + to eat bread. +004:009 She said to her husband, See now, I perceive that this is a holy + man of God, that passes by us continually. +004:010 Let us make, Please, a little chamber on the wall; + and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a seat, + and a lamp stand: and it shall be, when he comes to us, + that he shall turn in there. +004:011 It fell on a day, that he came there, and he turned into + the chamber and lay there. +004:012 He said to Gehazi his servant, Call this Shunammite. + When he had called her, she stood before him. +004:013 He said to him, Say now to her, Behold, you have been careful + for us with all this care; what is to be done for you? would + you be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the army? + She answered, I dwell among my own people. +004:014 He said, What then is to be done for her? Gehazi answered, + Most certainly she has no son, and her husband is old. +004:015 He said, Call her. When he had called her, she stood in the door. +004:016 He said, At this season, when the time comes round, you shall + embrace a son. She said, No, my lord, you man of God, + do not lie to your handmaid. +004:017 The woman conceived, and bore a son at that season, when the time + came round, as Elisha had said to her. +004:018 When the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out + to his father to the reapers. +004:019 He said to his father, My head, my head. He said to his servant, + Carry him to his mother. +004:020 When he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat + on her knees until noon, and then died. +004:021 She went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, + and shut [the door] on him, and went out. +004:022 She called to her husband, and said, Please send me one of + the servants, and one of the donkeys, that I may run to the man + of God, and come again. +004:023 He said, Why will you go to him today? it is neither new moon + nor Sabbath. She said, It shall be well. +004:024 Then she saddled a donkey, and said to her servant, Drive, + and go forward; don't slacken me the riding, except I bid you. +004:025 So she went, and came to the man of God to Mount Carmel. + It happened, when the man of God saw her afar off, that he said + to Gehazi his servant, Behold, yonder is the Shunammite: +004:026 please run now to meet her, and ask her, Is it well with you? + is it well with your husband? is it well with the child? + She answered, It is well. +004:027 When she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught hold + of his feet. Gehazi came near to thrust her away; but the man + of God said, Let her alone: for her soul is vexed within her; + and Yahweh has hid it from me, and has not told me. +004:028 Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord? Didn't I say, + Do not deceive me? +004:029 Then he said to Gehazi, Gird up your waist, and take my + staff in your hand, and go your way: if you meet any man, + Don't greet him; and if anyone greets you, don't answer him again: + and lay my staff on the face of the child. +004:030 The mother of the child said, As Yahweh lives, and as your + soul lives, I will not leave you. He arose, and followed her. +004:031 Gehazi passed on before them, and laid the staff on the face + of the child; but there was neither voice, nor hearing. + Therefore he returned to meet him, and told him, saying, The child + has not awakened. +004:032 When Elisha was come into the house, behold, the child was dead, + and laid on his bed. +004:033 He went in therefore, and shut the door on them both, + and prayed to Yahweh. +004:034 He went up, and lay on the child, and put his mouth on his mouth, + and his eyes on his eyes, and his hands on his hands: + and he stretched himself on him; and the flesh of the + child grew warm. +004:035 Then he returned, and walked in the house once back and forth; + and went up, and stretched himself on him: and the child + sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes. +004:036 He called Gehazi, and said, Call this Shunammite. + So he called her. When she was come in to him, he said, + Take up your son. +004:037 Then she went in, and fell at his feet, and bowed herself + to the ground; and she took up her son, and went out. +004:038 Elisha came again to Gilgal. There was a dearth in the land; + and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him; + and he said to his servant, Set on the great pot, and boil + stew for the sons of the prophets. +004:039 One went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, + and gathered of it wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred + them into the pot of stew; for they didn't recognize them. +004:040 So they poured out for the men to eat. It happened, + as they were eating of the stew, that they cried out, + and said, man of God, there is death in the pot. + They could not eat of it. +004:041 But he said, Then bring meal. He cast it into the pot; + and he said, Pour out for the people, that they may eat. + There was no harm in the pot. +004:042 There came a man from Baal Shalishah, and brought the man + of God bread of the first fruits, twenty loaves of barley, + and fresh ears of grain in his sack. He said, Give to the people, + that they may eat. +004:043 His servant said, What, should I set this before a hundred men? + But he said, Give the people, that they may eat; for thus + says Yahweh, They shall eat, and shall leave of it. +004:044 So he set it before them, and they ate, and left of it, + according to the word of Yahweh. +005:001 Now Naaman, captain of the army of the king of Syria, + was a great man with his master, and honorable, because by him + Yahweh had given victory to Syria: he was also a mighty man + of valor, [but he was] a leper. +005:002 The Syrians had gone out in bands, and had brought away captive + out of the land of Israel a little maiden; and she waited + on Naaman's wife. +005:003 She said to her mistress, Would that my lord were with the prophet + who is in Samaria! then would he recover him of his leprosy. +005:004 One went in, and told his lord, saying, Thus and thus said + the maiden who is of the land of Israel. +005:005 The king of Syria said, Go now, and I will send a letter + to the king of Israel. He departed, and took with him + ten talents of silver, and six thousand [pieces] of gold, + and ten changes of clothing. +005:006 He brought the letter to the king of Israel, saying, Now when this + letter is come to you, behold, I have sent Naaman my servant + to you, that you may recover him of his leprosy. +005:007 It happened, when the king of Israel had read the letter, + that he tore his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to + make alive, that this man does send to me to recover a man + of his leprosy? but consider, I pray you, and see how he seeks + a quarrel against me. +005:008 It was so, when Elisha the man of God heard that the king + of Israel had torn his clothes, that he sent to the king, + saying, Why have you torn your clothes? let him come now to me, + and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel. +005:009 So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariots, + and stood at the door of the house of Elisha. +005:010 Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, Go and wash in the + Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall come again to you, + and you shall be clean. +005:011 But Naaman was angry, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, + He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on + the name of Yahweh his God, and wave his hand over the place, + and recover the leper. +005:012 Aren't Abanah and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than + all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? + So he turned and went away in a rage. +005:013 His servants came near, and spoke to him, and said, + My father, if the prophet had bid you do some great thing, + wouldn't you have done it? how much rather then, when he says + to you, Wash, and be clean? +005:014 Then went he down, and dipped [himself] seven times + in the Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God; + and his flesh came again like the flesh of a little child, + and he was clean. +005:015 He returned to the man of God, he and all his company, + and came, and stood before him; and he said, See now, + I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel: + now therefore, please take a present from your servant. +005:016 But he said, As Yahweh lives, before whom I stand, I will + receive none. He urged him to take it; but he refused. +005:017 Naaman said, If not, yet, please let there be given to your servant + two mules' burden of earth; for your servant will henceforth + offer neither burnt offering nor sacrifice to other gods, + but to Yahweh. +005:018 In this thing Yahweh pardon your servant: when my master + goes into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leans + on my hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon, when I + bow myself in the house of Rimmon, Yahweh pardon your servant + in this thing. +005:019 He said to him, Go in peace. So he departed from him + a little way. +005:020 But Gehazi the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, + my master has spared this Naaman the Syrian, in not receiving + at his hands that which he brought: as Yahweh lives, + I will run after him, and take somewhat of him. +005:021 So Gehazi followed after Naaman. When Naaman saw one running + after him, he alighted from the chariot to meet him, and said, + Is all well? +005:022 He said, All is well. My master has sent me, saying, Behold, + even now there are come to me from the hill country of Ephraim + two young men of the sons of the prophets; please give them + a talent of silver, and two changes of clothing. +005:023 Naaman said, Be pleased to take two talents. He urged him, + and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two + changes of clothing, and laid them on two of his servants; + and they bore them before him. +005:024 When he came to the hill, he took them from their hand, + and bestowed them in the house; and he let the men go, + and they departed. +005:025 But he went in, and stood before his master. Elisha said to him, + Whence come you, Gehazi? He said, Your servant went no where. +005:026 He said to him, Didn't my heart go with you, when the man turned + from his chariot to meet you? Is it a time to receive money, + and to receive garments, and olive groves and vineyards, + and sheep and oxen, and male servants and female servants? +005:027 The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave to you, + and to your seed forever. He went out from his presence + a leper [as white] as snow. +006:001 The sons of the prophets said to Elisha, See now, the place + where we dwell before you is too strait for us. +006:002 Let us go, we pray you, to the Jordan, and take there every man + a beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell. + He answered, Go you. +006:003 One said, Be pleased, I pray you, to go with your servants. + He answered, I will go. +006:004 So he went with them. When they came to the Jordan, + they cut down wood. +006:005 But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water; + and he cried, and said, Alas, my master! for it was borrowed. +006:006 The man of God asked, "Where did it fall?" He showed him the place. + He cut down a stick, threw it in there, and made the iron float. +006:007 He said, "Take it." So he put out his hand and took it. +006:008 Now the king of Syria was warring against Israel; and he took + counsel with his servants, saying, In such and such a place + shall be my camp. +006:009 The man of God sent to the king of Israel, saying, Beware that you + not pass such a place; for there the Syrians are coming down. +006:010 The king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God + told him and warned him of; and he saved himself there, + not once nor twice. +006:011 The heart of the king of Syria was sore troubled for this thing; + and he called his servants, and said to them, Won't you show + me which of us is for the king of Israel? +006:012 One of his servants said, No, my lord, O king; but Elisha, + the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel + the words that you speak in your bedchamber. +006:013 He said, Go and see where he is, that I may send and get him. + It was told him, saying, Behold, he is in Dothan. +006:014 Therefore sent he there horses, and chariots, and a great army: + and they came by night, and surrounded the city. +006:015 When the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone forth, + behold, an army with horses and chariots was round about the city. + His servant said to him, Alas, my master! how shall we do? +006:016 He answered, Don't be afraid; for those who are with us are + more than those who are with them. +006:017 Elisha prayed, and said, Yahweh, Please open his eyes, + that he may see. Yahweh opened the eyes of the young man; + and he saw: and behold, the mountain was full of horses + and chariots of fire round about Elisha. +006:018 When they came down to him, Elisha prayed to Yahweh, + and said, Please smite this people with blindness. + He struck them with blindness according to the word of Elisha. +006:019 Elisha said to them, This is not the way, neither is this the city: + follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom you seek. + He led them to Samaria. +006:020 It happened, when they were come into Samaria, that Elisha said, + Yahweh, open the eyes of these men, that they may see. + Yahweh opened their eyes, and they saw; and behold, + they were in the midst of Samaria. +006:021 The king of Israel said to Elisha, when he saw them, My father, + shall I strike them? shall I strike them? +006:022 He answered, You shall not strike them: would you strike those + whom you have taken captive with your sword and with your bow? + set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, + and go to their master. +006:023 He prepared great provision for them; and when they had eaten + and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. + The bands of Syria came no more into the land of Israel. +006:024 It happened after this, that Benhadad king of Syria gathered + all his army, and went up, and besieged Samaria. +006:025 There was a great famine in Samaria: and behold, they besieged it, + until a donkey's head was sold for eighty [pieces] of silver, + and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five + [pieces] of silver. +006:026 As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, there cried + a woman to him, saying, Help, my lord, O king. +006:027 He said, If Yahweh doesn't help you, whence shall I help you? + out of the threshing floor, or out of the winepress? +006:028 The king said to her, What ails you? She answered, This woman + said to me, Give your son, that we may eat him today, + and we will eat my son tomorrow. +006:029 So we boiled my son, and ate him: and I said to her on the next day, + Give your son, that we may eat him; and she has hid her son. +006:030 It happened, when the king heard the words of the woman, + that he tore his clothes (now he was passing by on the wall); + and the people looked, and behold, he had sackcloth within + on his flesh. +006:031 Then he said, God do so to me, and more also, if the head + of Elisha the son of Shaphat shall stand on him this day. +006:032 But Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were + sitting with him; and [the king] sent a man from before him: + but before the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, + See you how this son of a murderer has sent to take away + my head? behold, when the messenger comes, shut the door, + and hold the door fast against him: isn't the sound of his + master's feet behind him? +006:033 While he was yet talking with them, behold, the messenger came + down to him: and he said, Behold, this evil is of Yahweh; + why should I wait for Yahweh any longer? +007:001 Elisha said, Hear you the word of Yahweh: thus says + Yahweh, Tomorrow about this time shall a measure of fine flour + be [sold] for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, + in the gate of Samaria. +007:002 Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man + of God, and said, Behold, if Yahweh should make windows + in heaven, might this thing be? He said, Behold, you shall + see it with your eyes, but shall not eat of it. +007:003 Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate: + and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die? +007:004 If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is + in the city, and we shall die there; and if we sit still here, + we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall to the army + of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; + and if they kill us, we shall but die. +007:005 They rose up in the twilight, to go to the camp of the Syrians; + and when they were come to the outermost part of the camp + of the Syrians, behold, there was no man there. +007:006 For the Lord had made the army of the Syrians to hear a noise + of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great army: + and they said one to another, Behold, the king of Israel has + hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings + of the Egyptians, to come on us. +007:007 Therefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, + and their horses, and their donkeys, even the camp as it was, + and fled for their life. +007:008 When these lepers came to the outermost part of the camp, + they went into one tent, and ate and drink, and carried + there silver, and gold, and clothing, and went and hid it; + and they came back, and entered into another tent, and carried + there also, and went and hid it. +007:009 Then they said one to another, We aren't doing right. + This day is a day of good news, and we hold our peace: + if we wait until the morning light, punishment will overtake us; + now therefore come, let us go and tell the king's household. +007:010 So they came and called to the porter of the city; and they + told them, saying, We came to the camp of the Syrians, + and, behold, there was no man there, neither voice of man, + but the horses tied, and the donkeys tied, and the tents + as they were. +007:011 He called the porters; and they told it to the king's + household within. +007:012 The king arose in the night, and said to his servants, + I will now show you what the Syrians have done to us. + They know that we are hungry; therefore are they gone out + of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, When they + come out of the city, we shall take them alive, and get + into the city. +007:013 One of his servants answered, Please let some take five + of the horses that remain, which are left in the city + (behold, they are as all the multitude of Israel who are + left in it; behold, they are as all the multitude of Israel + who are consumed); and let us send and see. +007:014 They took therefore two chariots with horses; and the king + sent after the army of the Syrians, saying, Go and see. +007:015 They went after them to the Jordan: and behold, all the way + was full of garments and vessels, which the Syrians + had cast away in their haste. The messengers returned, + and told the king. +007:016 The people went out, and plundered the camp of the Syrians. + So a measure of fine flour was [sold] for a shekel, and two + measures of barley for a shekel, according to the word of Yahweh. +007:017 The king appointed the captain on whose hand he leaned to have + the charge of the gate: and the people trod on him in the gate, + and he died as the man of God had said, who spoke when the king + came down to him. +007:018 It happened, as the man of God had spoken to the king, saying, + Two measures of barley for a shekel, and a measure of fine + flour for a shekel, shall be tomorrow about this time + in the gate of Samaria; +007:019 and that captain answered the man of God, and said, Now, behold, + if Yahweh should make windows in heaven, might such a thing + be? and he said, Behold, you shall see it with your eyes, + but shall not eat of it: +007:020 it happened even so to him; for the people trod on him in the gate, + and he died. +008:001 Now Elisha had spoken to the woman, whose son he had restored + to life, saying, Arise, and go you and your household, and sojourn + wherever you can sojourn: for Yahweh has called for a famine; + and it shall also come on the land seven years. +008:002 The woman arose, and did according to the word of the man of God; + and she went with her household, and sojourned in the land + of the Philistines seven years. +008:003 It happened at the seven years' end, that the woman returned + out of the land of the Philistines: and she went forth to cry + to the king for her house and for her land. +008:004 Now the king was talking with Gehazi the servant of the man + of God, saying, Please tell me all the great things that + Elisha has done. +008:005 It happened, as he was telling the king how he had restored to life + him who was dead, that behold, the woman, whose son he had restored + to life, cried to the king for her house and for her land. + Gehazi said, My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this + is her son, whom Elisha restored to life. +008:006 When the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed + to her a certain officer, saying, Restore all that was hers, + and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left + the land, even until now. +008:007 Elisha came to Damascus; and Benhadad the king of Syria was sick; + and it was told him, saying, The man of God is come here. +008:008 The king said to Hazael, Take a present in your hand, and go, + meet the man of God, and inquire of Yahweh by him, saying, + Shall I recover of this sickness? +008:009 So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, + even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels' + burden, and came and stood before him, and said, Your son + Benhadad king of Syria has sent me to you, saying, Shall I + recover of this sickness? +008:010 Elisha said to him, Go, tell him, You shall surely recover; + however Yahweh has shown me that he shall surely die. +008:011 He settled his gaze steadfastly [on him], until he was ashamed: + and the man of God wept. +008:012 Hazael said, Why weeps my lord? He answered, Because I + know the evil that you will do to the children of Israel: + their strongholds will you set on fire, and their young men + will you kill with the sword, and will dash in pieces their + little ones, and rip up their women with child. +008:013 Hazael said, But what is your servant, who is but a dog, + that he should do this great thing? Elisha answered, + Yahweh has shown me that you shall be king over Syria. +008:014 Then he departed from Elisha, and came to his master; + who said to him, What said Elisha to you? He answered, + He told me that you would surely recover. +008:015 It happened on the next day, that he took the coverlet, and dipped + it in water, and spread it on his face, so that he died: + and Hazael reigned in his place. +008:016 In the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab king + of Israel, Jehoshaphat being then king of Judah, Jehoram the son + of Jehoshaphat king of Judah began to reign. +008:017 Thirty-two years old was he when he began to reign; + and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. +008:018 He walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house + of Ahab: for he had the daughter of Ahab as wife; and he did + that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh. +008:019 However Yahweh would not destroy Judah, for David his + servant's sake, as he promised him to give to him a lamp + for his children always. +008:020 In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, + and made a king over themselves. +008:021 Then Joram passed over to Zair, and all his chariots with him: + and he rose up by night, and struck the Edomites who surrounded him, + and the captains of the chariots; and the people fled + to their tents. +008:022 So Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah to this day. + Then did Libnah revolt at the same time. +008:023 The rest of the acts of Joram, and all that he did, aren't they + written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? +008:024 Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers + in the city of David; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his place. +008:025 In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel + did Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah begin to reign. +008:026 Twenty-two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign; + and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name + was Athaliah the daughter of Omri king of Israel. +008:027 He walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did that which + was evil in the sight of Yahweh, as did the house of Ahab; + for he was the son-in-law of the house of Ahab. +008:028 He went with Joram the son of Ahab to war against Hazael king + of Syria at Ramoth Gilead: and the Syrians wounded Joram. +008:029 King Joram returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds + which the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought + against Hazael king of Syria. Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king + of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, + because he was sick. +009:001 Elisha the prophet called one of the sons of the prophets, + and said to him, Gird up your waist, and take this vial of oil + in your hand, and go to Ramoth Gilead. +009:002 When you come there, look out there Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat + the son of Nimshi, and go in, and make him arise up from among + his brothers, and carry him to an inner chamber. +009:003 Then take the vial of oil, and pour it on his head, and say, + Thus says Yahweh, I have anointed you king over Israel. + Then open the door, and flee, and don't wait. +009:004 So the young man, even the young man the prophet, + went to Ramoth Gilead. +009:005 When he came, behold, the captains of the army were sitting; + and he said, I have an errand to you, captain. Jehu said, + To which of us all? He said, To you, O captain. +009:006 He arose, and went into the house; and he poured the oil + on his head, and said to him, Thus says Yahweh, the God + of Israel, I have anointed you king over the people of Yahweh, + even over Israel. +009:007 You shall strike the house of Ahab your master, that I may + avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood + of all the servants of Yahweh, at the hand of Jezebel. +009:008 For the whole house of Ahab shall perish; and I will cut off + from Ahab everyone who urinates against a wall,{or, male} and + him who is shut up and him who is left at large in Israel. +009:009 I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Jeroboam the son + of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah. +009:010 The dogs shall eat Jezebel in the portion of Jezreel, and there + shall be none to bury her. He opened the door, and fled. +009:011 Then Jehu came forth to the servants of his lord: + and one said to him, Is all well? why came this mad fellow to you? + He said to them, You know the man and what his talk was. +009:012 They said, It is false; tell us now. He said, Thus and thus + spoke he to me, saying, Thus says Yahweh, I have anointed + you king over Israel. +009:013 Then they hurried, and took every man his garment, and put it + under him on the top of the stairs, and blew the trumpet, + saying, Jehu is king. +009:014 So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired + against Joram. (Now Joram was keeping Ramoth Gilead, + he and all Israel, because of Hazael king of Syria; +009:015 but king Joram was returned to be healed in Jezreel of + the wounds which the Syrians had given him, when he fought + with Hazael king of Syria.) Jehu said, If this be your mind, + then let none escape and go forth out of the city, to go + to tell it in Jezreel. +009:016 So Jehu rode in a chariot, and went to Jezreel; for Joram lay there. + Ahaziah king of Judah was come down to see Joram. +009:017 Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied + the company of Jehu as he came, and said, I see a company. + Joram said, Take a horseman, and send to meet them, and let + him say, Is it peace? +009:018 So there went one on horseback to meet him, and said, Thus says + the king, Is it peace? Jehu said, What have you to do with peace? + turn you behind me. The watchman told, saying, The messenger + came to them, but he isn't coming back. +009:019 Then he sent out a second on horseback, who came to them, + and said, Thus says the king, Is it peace? Jehu answered, + What have you to do with peace? turn you behind me. +009:020 The watchman told, saying, He came even to them, and isn't + coming back: and the driving is like the driving of Jehu + the son of Nimshi; for he drives furiously. +009:021 Joram said, Make ready. They made ready his chariot. + Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out, + each in his chariot, and they went out to meet Jehu, + and found him in the portion of Naboth the Jezreelite. +009:022 It happened, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, Is it + peace, Jehu? He answered, What peace, so long as the prostitution + of your mother Jezebel and her witchcraft abound? +009:023 Joram turned his hands, and fled, and said to Ahaziah, There + is treachery, Ahaziah. +009:024 Jehu drew his bow with his full strength, and struck Joram + between his arms; and the arrow went out at his heart, + and he sunk down in his chariot. +009:025 Then said [Jehu] to Bidkar his captain, Take up, and cast + him in the portion of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite; + for remember how that, when I and you rode together after Ahab + his father, Yahweh laid this burden on him: +009:026 Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood + of his sons, says Yahweh; and I will requite you in this plat, + says Yahweh. Now therefore take and cast him into the plat + [of ground], according to the word of Yahweh. +009:027 But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled by the way + of the garden house. Jehu followed after him, and said, + Smite him also in the chariot: [and they struck him] at + the ascent of Gur, which is by Ibleam. He fled to Megiddo, + and died there. +009:028 His servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried + him in his tomb with his fathers in the city of David. +009:029 In the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah + to reign over Judah. +009:030 When Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; + and she painted her eyes, and attired her head, and looked + out at the window. +009:031 As Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, Is it peace, you Zimri, + your master's murderer? +009:032 He lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who is on my + side? who? There looked out to him two or three eunuchs. +009:033 He said, Throw her down. So they threw her down; and some + of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses: + and he trod her under foot. +009:034 When he was come in, he ate and drink; and he said, See now to this + cursed woman, and bury her; for she is a king's daughter. +009:035 They went to bury her; but they found no more of her than the skull, + and the feet, and the palms of her hands. +009:036 Therefore they came back, and told him. He said, This is + the word of Yahweh, which he spoke by his servant Elijah + the Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Jezreel shall the dogs + eat the flesh of Jezebel; +009:037 and the body of Jezebel shall be as dung on the face of the field + in the portion of Jezreel, so that they shall not say, + This is Jezebel. +010:001 Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. Jehu wrote letters, + and sent to Samaria, to the rulers of Jezreel, even the elders, + and to those who brought up [the sons of] Ahab, saying, +010:002 Now as soon as this letter comes to you, seeing your master's + sons are with you, and there are with you chariots and horses, + a fortified city also, and armor; +010:003 look you out the best and meet of your master's sons, and set + him on his father's throne, and fight for your master's house. +010:004 But they were exceedingly afraid, and said, Behold, the two + kings didn't stand before him: how then shall we stand? +010:005 He who was over the household, and he who was over the city, + the elders also, and those who brought up [the children], + sent to Jehu, saying, We are your servants, and will do + all that you shall bid us; we will not make any man king: + you do that which is good in your eyes. +010:006 Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, + If you be on my side, and if you will listen to my voice, + take the heads of the men your master's sons, and come to me + to Jezreel by tomorrow this time. Now the king's sons, + being seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, + who brought them up. +010:007 It happened, when the letter came to them, that they took + the king's sons, and killed them, even seventy persons, + and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to him to Jezreel. +010:008 There came a messenger, and told him, saying, They have brought + the heads of the king's sons. He said, Lay you them in two + heaps at the entrance of the gate until the morning. +010:009 It happened in the morning, that he went out, and stood, + and said to all the people, You are righteous: + behold, I conspired against my master, and killed him; + but who struck all these? +010:010 Know now that there shall fall to the earth nothing of the word + of Yahweh, which Yahweh spoke concerning the house of Ahab: + for Yahweh has done that which he spoke by his servant Elijah. +010:011 So Jehu struck all that remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, + and all his great men, and his familiar friends, and his priests, + until he left him none remaining. +010:012 He arose and departed, and went to Samaria. As he was at + the shearing house of the shepherds in the way, +010:013 Jehu met with the brothers of Ahaziah king of Judah, and said, + Who are you? They answered, We are the brothers of Ahaziah: + and we go down to Greet the children of the king and the children + of the queen. +010:014 He said, Take them alive. They took them alive, and killed + them at the pit of the shearing house, even two and forty men; + neither left he any of them. +010:015 When he was departed there, he lighted on Jehonadab the son + of Rechab coming to meet him; and he greeted him, and said + to him, Is your heart right, as my heart is with your heart? + Jehonadab answered, It is. If it be, give me your hand. + He gave him his hand; and he took him up to him into the chariot. +010:016 He said, Come with me, and see my zeal for Yahweh. + So they made him ride in his chariot. +010:017 When he came to Samaria, he struck all who remained to Ahab + in Samaria, until he had destroyed him, according to the word + of Yahweh, which he spoke to Elijah. +010:018 Jehu gathered all the people together, and said to them, + Ahab served Baal a little; but Jehu will serve him much. +010:019 Now therefore call to me all the prophets of Baal, + all his worshippers, and all his priests; let none be wanting: + for I have a great sacrifice [to do] to Baal; whoever shall + be wanting, he shall not live. But Jehu did it in subtlety, + to the intent that he might destroy the worshippers of Baal. +010:020 Jehu said, Sanctify a solemn assembly for Baal. + They proclaimed it. +010:021 Jehu sent through all Israel: and all the worshippers of + Baal came, so that there was not a man left that didn't come. + They came into the house of Baal; and the house of Baal was + filled from one end to another. +010:022 He said to him who was over the vestry, Bring forth vestments + for all the worshippers of Baal. He brought them forth vestments. +010:023 Jehu went, and Jehonadab the son of Rechab, into the house of Baal; + and he said to the worshippers of Baal, Search, and look + that there be here with you none of the servants of Yahweh, + but the worshippers of Baal only. +010:024 They went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. + Now Jehu had appointed him eighty men outside, and said, + If any of the men whom I bring into your hands escape, + [he who lets him go], his life shall be for the life of him. +010:025 It happened, as soon as he had made an end of offering + the burnt offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to + the captains, Go in, and kill them; let none come forth. + They struck them with the edge of the sword; and the guard + and the captains cast them out, and went to the city of + the house of Baal. +010:026 They brought forth the pillars that were in the house of Baal, + and burned them. +010:027 They broke down the pillar of Baal, and broke down the house + of Baal, and made it a latrine, to this day. +010:028 Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel. +010:029 However from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, + with which he made Israel to sin, Jehu didn't depart from + after them, [to wit], the golden calves that were in Bethel, + and that were in Dan. +010:030 Yahweh said to Jehu, Because you have done well in executing + that which is right in my eyes, [and] have done to the house + of Ahab according to all that was in my heart, your sons + of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel. +010:031 But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of Yahweh, the God + of Israel, with all his heart: he didn't depart from the sins + of Jeroboam, with which he made Israel to sin. +010:032 In those days Yahweh began to cut off from Israel: + and Hazael struck them in all the borders of Israel; +010:033 from the Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, + and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is + by the valley of the Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan. +010:034 Now the rest of the acts of Jehu, and all that he did, and all + his might, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles + of the kings of Israel? +010:035 Jehu slept with his fathers; and they buried him in Samaria. + Jehoahaz his son reigned in his place. +010:036 The time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria + was twenty-eight years. +011:001 Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, + she arose and destroyed all the seed royal. +011:002 But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, + took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him away from among + the king's sons who were slain, even him and his nurse, + [and put them] in the bedchamber; and they hid him from Athaliah, + so that he was not slain; +011:003 He was with her hid in the house of Yahweh six years. + Athaliah reigned over the land. +011:004 In the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the captains + over hundreds of the Carites and of the guard, and brought + them to him into the house of Yahweh; and he made a covenant + with them, and took an oath of them in the house of Yahweh, + and shown them the king's son. +011:005 He commanded them, saying, This is the thing that you shall do: + a third part of you, who come in on the Sabbath, shall be + keepers of the watch of the king's house; +011:006 A third part shall be at the gate Sur; and a third part at the gate + behind the guard: so shall you keep the watch of the house, + and be a barrier. +011:007 The two companies of you, even all who go forth on the Sabbath, + shall keep the watch of the house of Yahweh about the king. +011:008 You shall compass the king round about, every man with his + weapons in his hand; and he who comes within the ranks, + let him be slain: and be you with the king when he goes out, + and when he comes in. +011:009 The captains over hundreds did according to all that Jehoiada + the priest commanded; and they took every man his men, + those who were to come in on the Sabbath, with those who were + to go out on the Sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest. +011:010 The priest delivered to the captains over hundreds the spears + and shields that had been king David's, which were in the + house of Yahweh. +011:011 The guard stood, every man with his weapons in his hand, + from the right side of the house to the left side of the house, + along by the altar and the house, by the king round about. +011:012 Then he brought out the king's son, and put the crown on him, + and [gave him] the testimony; and they made him king, + and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, + [Long] live the king. +011:013 When Athaliah heard the noise of the guard [and of] the people, + she came to the people into the house of Yahweh: +011:014 and she looked, and behold, the king stood by the pillar, + as the manner was, and the captains and the trumpets by the king; + and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew trumpets. + Then Athaliah tore her clothes, and cried, Treason! treason! +011:015 Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of hundreds who were + set over the army, and said to them, Have her forth between + the ranks; and him who follows her kill with the sword. + For the priest said, Don't let her be slain in the house of Yahweh. +011:016 So they made way for her; and she went by the way of the horses' + entry to the king's house: and there was she slain. +011:017 Jehoiada made a covenant between Yahweh and the king + and the people, that they should be Yahweh's people; + between the king also and the people. +011:018 All the people of the land went to the house of Baal, and broke + it down; his altars and his images broke they in pieces thoroughly, + and killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. + The priest appointed officers over the house of Yahweh. +011:019 He took the captains over hundreds, and the Carites, + and the guard, and all the people of the land; and they + brought down the king from the house of Yahweh, and came + by the way of the gate of the guard to the king's house. + He sat on the throne of the kings. +011:020 So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet. + Athaliah they had slain with the sword at the king's house. +011:021 Jehoash was seven years old when he began to reign. +012:001 In the seventh year of Jehu began Jehoash to reign; + and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem: and his mother's + name was Zibiah of Beersheba. +012:002 Jehoash did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh all + his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him. +012:003 However the high places were not taken away; the people still + sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places. +012:004 Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the holy things + that is brought into the house of Yahweh, in current money, + the money of the persons for whom each man is rated, + and all the money that it comes into any man's heart to bring + into the house of Yahweh, +012:005 let the priests take it to them, every man from his acquaintance; + and they shall repair the breaches of the house, wherever any + breach shall be found. +012:006 But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king + Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house. +012:007 Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for + the [other] priests, and said to them, Why don't you repair + the breaches of the house? now therefore take no [more] money + from your acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches + of the house. +012:008 The priests consented that they should take no [more] money + from the people, neither repair the breaches of the house. +012:009 But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole + in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, + on the right side as one comes into the house of Yahweh: + and the priests who kept the threshold put therein all the money + that was brought into the house of Yahweh. +012:010 It was so, when they saw that there was much money in the chest, + that the king's scribe and the high priest came up, + and they put up in bags and counted the money that was found + in the house of Yahweh. +012:011 They gave the money that was weighed out into the hands of those + who did the work, who had the oversight of the house of Yahweh: + and they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders, + who worked on the house of Yahweh, +012:012 and to the masons and the stone cutters, and for buying timber + and hewn stone to repair the breaches of the house of Yahweh, + and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it. +012:013 But there were not made for the house of Yahweh cups + of silver, snuffers, basins, trumpets, any vessels of gold, + or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into + the house of Yahweh; +012:014 for they gave that to those who did the work, and repaired + therewith the house of Yahweh. +012:015 Moreover they didn't demand an accounting from the men into whose + hand they delivered the money to give to those who did the work; + for they dealt faithfully. +012:016 The money for the trespass offerings, and the money for + the sin offerings, was not brought into the house of Yahweh: + it was the priests'. +012:017 Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against Gath, + and took it; and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem. +012:018 Jehoash king of Judah took all the holy things that Jehoshaphat + and Jehoram and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, + had dedicated, and his own holy things, and all the gold + that was found in the treasures of the house of Yahweh, + and of the king's house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria: + and he went away from Jerusalem. +012:019 Now the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, + aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the + kings of Judah? +012:020 His servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and struck Joash + at the house of Millo, [on the way] that goes down to Silla. +012:021 For Jozacar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son + of Shomer, his servants, struck him, and he died; + and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: + and Amaziah his son reigned in his place. +013:001 In the three and twentieth year of Joash the son of Ahaziah, + king of Judah, Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over + Israel in Samaria, [and reigned] seventeen years. +013:002 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and followed + the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made + Israel to sin; he didn't depart from it. +013:003 The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel, and he delivered + them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria, and into the hand + of Benhadad the son of Hazael, continually. +013:004 Jehoahaz begged Yahweh, and Yahweh listened to him; + for he saw the oppression of Israel, how that the king + of Syria oppressed them. +013:005 (Yahweh gave Israel a savior, so that they went out from under + the hand of the Syrians; and the children of Israel lived + in their tents as before. +013:006 Nevertheless they didn't depart from the sins of the house + of Jeroboam, with which he made Israel to sin, but walked therein: + and there remained the Asherah also in Samaria.) +013:007 For he didn't leave to Jehoahaz of the people save fifty horsemen, + and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria + destroyed them, and made them like the dust in threshing. +013:008 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz, and all that he did, + and his might, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles + of the kings of Israel? +013:009 Jehoahaz slept with his fathers; and they buried him in Samaria: + and Joash his son reigned in his place. +013:010 In the thirty-seventh year of Joash king of Judah began + Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz to reign over Israel in Samaria, + [and reigned] sixteen years. +013:011 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh; he didn't + depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, + with which he made Israel to sin; but he walked therein. +013:012 Now the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, + and his might with which he fought against Amaziah king + of Judah, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles + of the kings of Israel? +013:013 Joash slept with his fathers; and Jeroboam sat on his throne: + and Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel. +013:014 Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness of which he died: + and Joash the king of Israel came down to him, and wept over him, + and said, My father, my father, the chariots of Israel + and the horsemen of it! +013:015 Elisha said to him, Take bow and arrows; and he took to him + bow and arrows. +013:016 He said to the king of Israel, Put your hand on the bow; + and he put his hand [on it]. Elisha laid his hands on + the king's hands. +013:017 He said, Open the window eastward; and he opened it. + Then Elisha said, Shoot; and he shot. He said, Yahweh's arrow + of victory, even the arrow of victory over Syria; for you shall + strike the Syrians in Aphek, until you have consumed them. +013:018 He said, Take the arrows; and he took them. He said to the king + of Israel, Smite on the ground; and he struck thrice, and stayed. +013:019 The man of God was angry with him, and said, You should have + struck five or six times: then had you struck Syria until you + had consumed it, whereas now you shall strike Syria but thrice. +013:020 Elisha died, and they buried him. Now the bands of the Moabites + invaded the land at the coming in of the year. +013:021 It happened, as they were burying a man, that behold, they spied + a band; and they cast the man into the tomb of Elisha: + and as soon as the man touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, + and stood up on his feet. +013:022 Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz. +013:023 But Yahweh was gracious to them, and had compassion on them, + and had respect to them, because of his covenant + with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, + neither cast he them from his presence as yet. +013:024 Hazael king of Syria died; and Benhadad his son reigned + in his place. +013:025 Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again out of the hand + of Benhadad the son of Hazael the cities which he had taken + out of the hand of Jehoahaz his father by war. Three times + did Joash strike him, and recovered the cities of Israel. +014:001 In the second year of Joash son of Joahaz king of Israel began + Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah to reign. +014:002 He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; + and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem: + and his mother's name was Jehoaddin of Jerusalem. +014:003 He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, yet not + like David his father: he did according to all that Joash + his father had done. +014:004 However the high places were not taken away: the people still + sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places. +014:005 It happened, as soon as the kingdom was established in his hand, + that he killed his servants who had slain the king his father: +014:006 but the children of the murderers he didn't put to death; + according to that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, + as Yahweh commanded, saying, The fathers shall not be put + to death for the children, nor the children be put to death + for the fathers; but every man shall die for his own sin. +014:007 He killed of Edom in the Valley of Salt ten thousand, + and took Sela by war, and called the name of it Joktheel, + to this day. +014:008 Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz + son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us look one + another in the face. +014:009 Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, + The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was + in Lebanon, saying, Give your daughter to my son as wife: + and there passed by a wild animal that was in Lebanon, + and trod down the thistle. +014:010 You have indeed struck Edom, and your heart has lifted you up: + glory of it, and abide at home; for why should you + meddle to [your] hurt, that you should fall, even you, + and Judah with you? +014:011 But Amaziah would not hear. So Jehoash king of Israel went up; + and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face + at Beth Shemesh, which belongs to Judah. +014:012 Judah was put to the worse before Israel; and they fled every + man to his tent. +014:013 Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son + of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Beth Shemesh, and came + to Jerusalem, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate + of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits. +014:014 He took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found + in the house of Yahweh, and in the treasures of the king's house, + the hostages also, and returned to Samaria. +014:015 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did, and his might, + and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, aren't they + written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? +014:016 Jehoash slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria + with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned + in his place. +014:017 Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death + of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years. +014:018 Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, aren't they written + in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? +014:019 They made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem; + and he fled to Lachish: but they sent after him to Lachish, + and killed him there. +014:020 They brought him on horses; and he was buried at Jerusalem + with his fathers in the city of David. +014:021 All the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, + and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah. +014:022 He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king + slept with his fathers. +014:023 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of + Judah Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel began to reign + in Samaria, [and reigned] forty-one years. +014:024 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh: + he didn't depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, + with which he made Israel to sin. +014:025 He restored the border of Israel from the entrance of Hamath + to the sea of the Arabah, according to the word of Yahweh, + the God of Israel, which he spoke by his servant Jonah the son + of Amittai, the prophet, who was of Gath Hepher. +014:026 For Yahweh saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter; + for there was none shut up nor left at large, neither was there + any helper for Israel. +014:027 Yahweh didn't say that he would blot out the name of Israel + from under the sky; but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam + the son of Joash. +014:028 Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, + and his might, how he warred, and how he recovered Damascus, + and Hamath, [which had belonged] to Judah, for Israel, + aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the + kings of Israel? +014:029 Jeroboam slept with his fathers, even with the kings of Israel; + and Zechariah his son reigned in his place. +015:001 In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel began + Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah to reign. +015:002 Sixteen years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned + fifty-two years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was + Jecoliah of Jerusalem. +015:003 He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to + all that his father Amaziah had done. +015:004 However the high places were not taken away: the people still + sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places. +015:005 Yahweh struck the king, so that he was a leper to the day + of his death, and lived in a separate house. Jotham the king's + son was over the household, judging the people of the land. +015:006 Now the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, + aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the + kings of Judah? +015:007 Azariah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his + fathers in the city of David: and Jotham his son reigned + in his place. +015:008 In the thirty-eighth year of Azariah king of Judah did Zechariah + the son of Jeroboam reign over Israel in Samaria six months. +015:009 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, as his + fathers had done: he didn't depart from the sins of Jeroboam + the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin. +015:010 Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and struck him + before the people, and killed him, and reigned in his place. +015:011 Now the rest of the acts of Zechariah, behold, they are written + in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel. +015:012 This was the word of Yahweh which he spoke to Jehu, saying, Your sons + to the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel. + So it came to pass. +015:013 Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the nine and thirtieth + year of Uzziah king of Judah; and he reigned the space + of a month in Samaria. +015:014 Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah, and came to Samaria, + and struck Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria, and killed him, + and reigned in his place. +015:015 Now the rest of the acts of Shallum, and his conspiracy which + he made, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles + of the kings of Israel. +015:016 Then Menahem struck Tiphsah, and all who were therein, + and the borders of it, from Tirzah: because they didn't open + to him, therefore he struck it; and all the women therein + who were with child he ripped up. +015:017 In the nine and thirtieth year of Azariah king of Judah began + Menahem the son of Gadi to reign over Israel, [and reigned] + ten years in Samaria. +015:018 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh: + he didn't depart all his days from the sins of Jeroboam + the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin. +015:019 There came against the land Pul the king of Assyria; + and Menahem gave Pul one thousand talents of silver, that his + hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand. +015:020 Menahem exacted the money of Israel, even of all the mighty + men of wealth, of each man fifty shekels of silver, to give + to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back, + and didn't stay there in the land. +015:021 Now the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all that he did, + aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the + kings of Israel? +015:022 Menahem slept with his fathers; and Pekahiah his son reigned + in his place. +015:023 In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekahiah + the son of Menahem began to reign over Israel in Samaria, + [and reigned] two years. +015:024 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh: + he didn't depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, + with which he made Israel to sin. +015:025 Pekah the son of Remaliah, his captain, conspired against him, + and struck him in Samaria, in the castle of the king's house, + with Argob and Arieh; and with him were fifty men of the Gileadites: + and he killed him, and reigned in his place. +015:026 Now the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all that he did, + behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles + of the kings of Israel. +015:027 In the two and fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekah + the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, + [and reigned] twenty years. +015:028 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh: + he didn't depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, + with which he made Israel to sin. +015:029 In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglath Pileser king + of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abel Beth Maacah, and Janoah, + and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land + of Naphtali; and he carried them captive to Assyria. +015:030 Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son + of Remaliah, and struck him, and killed him, and reigned in + his place, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah. +015:031 Now the rest of the acts of Pekah, and all that he did, + behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles + of the kings of Israel. +015:032 In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel + began Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah to reign. +015:033 He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; + and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: and his mother's + name was Jerusha the daughter of Zadok. +015:034 He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh; he did + according to all that his father Uzziah had done. +015:035 However the high places were not taken away: the people + still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places. + He built the upper gate of the house of Yahweh. +015:036 Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that he did, + aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the + kings of Judah? +015:037 In those days Yahweh began to send against Judah Rezin the king + of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah. +015:038 Jotham slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers + in the city of David his father: and Ahaz his son reigned + in his place. +016:001 In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz + the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign. +016:002 Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign; + and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: and he didn't + do that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh his God, + like David his father. +016:003 But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yes, and made + his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations + of the nations, whom Yahweh cast out from before the + children of Israel. +016:004 He sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on + the hills, and under every green tree. +016:005 Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of + Israel came up to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged Ahaz, + but could not overcome him. +016:006 At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to Syria, + and drove the Jews from Elath; and the Syrians came to Elath, + and lived there, to this day. +016:007 So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria, + saying, I am your servant and your son: come up, and save + me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand + of the king of Israel, who rise up against me. +016:008 Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the house + of Yahweh, and in the treasures of the king's house, + and sent it for a present to the king of Assyria. +016:009 The king of Assyria listened to him; and the king of Assyria + went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried [the people + of] it captive to Kir, and killed Rezin. +016:010 King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath Pileser king + of Assyria, and saw the altar that was at Damascus; and king + Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the fashion of the altar, + and the pattern of it, according to all the workmanship of it. +016:011 Urijah the priest built an altar: according to all that king + Ahaz had sent from Damascus, so did Urijah the priest make + it against the coming of king Ahaz from Damascus. +016:012 When the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: + and the king drew near to the altar, and offered thereon. +016:013 He burnt his burnt offering and his meal offering, and poured his + drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings, + on the altar. +016:014 The bronze altar, which was before Yahweh, he brought from + the forefront of the house, from between his altar and the house + of Yahweh, and put it on the north side of his altar. +016:015 King Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, On the great altar + burn the morning burnt offering, and the evening meal offering, + and the king's burnt offering, and his meal offering, with the burnt + offering of all the people of the land, and their meal offering, + and their drink offerings; and sprinkle on it all the blood + of the burnt offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice: + but the bronze altar shall be for me to inquire by. +016:016 Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that + king Ahaz commanded. +016:017 King Ahaz cut off the panels of the bases, and removed the basin + from off them, and took down the sea from off the bronze oxen + that were under it, and put it on a pavement of stone. +016:018 The covered way for the Sabbath that they had built in the house, + and the king's entry outside, turned he to the house of Yahweh, + because of the king of Assyria. +016:019 Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did, aren't they + written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? +016:020 Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers + in the city of David: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his place. +017:001 In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea the son + of Elah to reign in Samaria over Israel, [and reigned] nine years. +017:002 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, yet not + as the kings of Israel who were before him. +017:003 Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea + became his servant, and brought him tribute. +017:004 The king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea; for he had + sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and offered no tribute + to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year: + therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound + him in prison. +017:005 Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, + and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years. +017:006 In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, + and carried Israel away to Assyria, and placed them in Halah, + and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities + of the Medes. +017:007 It was so, because the children of Israel had sinned against + Yahweh their God, who brought them up out of the land + of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, + and had feared other gods, +017:008 and walked in the statutes of the nations, whom Yahweh cast out + from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, + which they made. +017:009 The children of Israel did secretly things that were not + right against Yahweh their God: and they built them high + places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen + to the fortified city; +017:010 and they set them up pillars and Asherim on every high hill, + and under every green tree; +017:011 and there they burnt incense in all the high places, + as did the nations whom Yahweh carried away before them; + and they worked wicked things to provoke Yahweh to anger; +017:012 and they served idols, of which Yahweh had said to them, + You shall not do this thing. +017:013 Yet Yahweh testified to Israel, and to Judah, by every prophet, + and every seer, saying, Turn you from your evil ways, + and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all + the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent + to you by my servants the prophets. +017:014 Notwithstanding, they would not hear, but hardened their neck, + like the neck of their fathers, who didn't believe in + Yahweh their God. +017:015 They rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with + their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified to them; + and they followed vanity, and became vain, and [went] after + the nations that were round about them, concerning whom Yahweh + had charged those who they should not do like them. +017:016 They forsook all the commandments of Yahweh their God, and made + them molten images, even two calves, and made an Asherah, + and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served Baal. +017:017 They caused their sons and their daughters to pass through + the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold + themselves to do that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, + to provoke him to anger. +017:018 Therefore Yahweh was very angry with Israel, and removed + them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe + of Judah only. +017:019 Also Judah didn't keep the commandments of Yahweh their God, + but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made. +017:020 Yahweh rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, + and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had + cast them out of his sight. +017:021 For he tore Israel from the house of David; and they made + Jeroboam the son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam drove Israel + from following Yahweh, and made them sin a great sin. +017:022 The children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam + which he did; they didn't depart from them; +017:023 until Yahweh removed Israel out of his sight, as he spoke + by all his servants the prophets. So Israel was carried away + out of their own land to Assyria to this day. +017:024 The king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, + and from Avva, and from Hamath and Sepharvaim, and placed them + in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel; + and they possessed Samaria, and lived in the cities of it. +017:025 So it was, at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they + didn't fear Yahweh: therefore Yahweh sent lions among them, + which killed some of them. +017:026 Therefore they spoke to the king of Assyria, saying, The nations + which you have carried away, and placed in the cities + of Samaria, don't know the law of the god of the land: + therefore he has sent lions among them, and behold, they kill them, + because they don't know the law of the god of the land. +017:027 Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Carry there one + of the priests whom you brought from there; and let them go + and dwell there, and let him teach them the law of the god + of the land. +017:028 So one of the priests whom they had carried away from + Samaria came and lived in Bethel, and taught them how they + should fear Yahweh. +017:029 However every nation made gods of their own, and put them + in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, + every nation in their cities in which they lived. +017:030 The men of Babylon made Succoth Benoth, and the men of Cuth + made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima, +017:031 and the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak; and the Sepharvites + burnt their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, + the gods of Sepharvaim. +017:032 So they feared Yahweh, and made to them from among themselves + priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the houses + of the high places. +017:033 They feared Yahweh, and served their own gods, after the manner + of the nations from among whom they had been carried away. +017:034 To this day they do after the former manner: they don't fear Yahweh, + neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, + or after the law or after the commandment which Yahweh + commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel; +017:035 with whom Yahweh had made a covenant, and charged them, saying, + You shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them, + nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them: +017:036 but Yahweh, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt + with great power and with an outstretched arm, him shall + you fear, and to him shall you bow yourselves, and to him + shall you sacrifice: +017:037 and the statutes and the ordinances, and the law and the commandment, + which he wrote for you, you shall observe to do forevermore; + and you shall not fear other gods: +017:038 and the covenant that I have made with you you shall not forget; + neither shall you fear other gods: +017:039 but Yahweh your God shall you fear; and he will deliver you + out of the hand of all your enemies. +017:040 However they did not listen, but they did after their former manner. +017:041 So these nations feared Yahweh, and served their engraved images; + their children likewise, and their children's children, + as did their fathers, so do they to this day. +018:001 Now it happened in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king + of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah + began to reign. +018:002 He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; + and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem: + and his mother's name was Abi the daughter of Zechariah. +018:003 He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to + all that David his father had done. +018:004 He removed the high places, and broke the pillars, and cut + down the Asherah: and he broke in pieces the bronze serpent + that Moses had made; for to those days the children of Israel + did burn incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan. +018:005 He trusted in Yahweh, the God of Israel; so that after him + was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor [among + them] that were before him. +018:006 For he joined with Yahweh; he didn't depart from following him, + but kept his commandments, which Yahweh commanded Moses. +018:007 Yahweh was with him; wherever he went forth he prospered: + and he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and didn't serve him. +018:008 He struck the Philistines to Gaza and the borders of it, + from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city. +018:009 It happened in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was + the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, + that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, + and besieged it. +018:010 At the end of three years they took it: in the sixth year + of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king + of Israel, Samaria was taken. +018:011 The king of Assyria carried Israel away to Assyria, + and put them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, + and in the cities of the Medes, +018:012 because they didn't obey the voice of Yahweh their God, + but transgressed his covenant, even all that Moses the servant + of Yahweh commanded, and would not hear it, nor do it. +018:013 Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king + of Assyria come up against all the fortified cities of Judah, + and took them. +018:014 Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria + to Lachish, saying, I have offended; return from me: + that which you put on me will I bear. The king of Assyria + appointed to Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents + of silver and thirty talents of gold. +018:015 Hezekiah gave [him] all the silver that was found in the house + of Yahweh, and in the treasures of the king's house. +018:016 At that time did Hezekiah cut off [the gold from] the doors + of the temple of Yahweh, and [from] the pillars which Hezekiah + king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria. +018:017 The king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh + from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great army to Jerusalem. + They went up and came to Jerusalem. When they were come up, + they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, + which is in the highway of the fuller's field. +018:018 When they had called to the king, there came out to them + Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, + and Shebnah the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder. +018:019 Rabshakeh said to them, Say you now to Hezekiah, Thus says + the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this + in which you trust? +018:020 You say (but they are but vain words), [There is] counsel + and strength for the war. Now on whom do you trust, + that you have rebelled against me? +018:021 Now, behold, you trust on the staff of this bruised reed, + even on Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, + and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who + trust on him. +018:022 But if you tell me, We trust in Yahweh our God; isn't that + he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, + and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, You shall worship + before this altar in Jerusalem? +018:023 Now therefore, Please give pledges to my master the king + of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you + are able on your part to set riders on them. +018:024 How then can you turn away the face of one captain of the least + of my master's servants, and put your trust on Egypt for chariots + and for horsemen? +018:025 Am I now come up without Yahweh against this place to destroy it? + Yahweh said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it. +018:026 Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebnah, and Joah, + to Rabshakeh, Please speak to your servants in the Syrian language; + for we understand it: and don't speak with us in the Jews' + language, in the ears of the people who are on the wall. +018:027 But Rabshakeh said to them, Has my master sent me to your master, + and to you, to speak these words? Hasn't he sent me to the men + who sit on the wall, to eat their own dung, and to drink + their own water with you? +018:028 Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' + language, and spoke, saying, Hear you the word of the great king, + the king of Assyria. +018:029 Thus says the king, Don't let Hezekiah deceive you; + for he will not be able to deliver you out of his hand: +018:030 neither let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, Yahweh will + surely deliver us, and this city shall not be given into + the hand of the king of Assyria. +018:031 Don't listen to Hezekiah: for thus says the king + of Assyria, Make your peace with me, and come out to me; + and eat you everyone of his vine, and everyone of his fig tree, + and everyone drink the waters of his own cistern; +018:032 Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, + a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, + a land of olive trees and of honey, that you may live, and not die: + and don't listen to Hezekiah, when he persuades you, saying, + Yahweh will deliver us. +018:033 Has any of the gods of the nations ever delivered his land + out of the hand of the king of Assyria? +018:034 Where are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? where are the gods + of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah? have they delivered Samaria + out of my hand? +018:035 Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have + delivered their country out of my hand, that Yahweh should + deliver Jerusalem out of my hand? +018:036 But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word; + for the king's commandment was, saying, Don't answer him. +018:037 Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, + and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, + to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him the + words of Rabshakeh. +019:001 It happened, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he tore + his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went + into the house of Yahweh. +019:002 He sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, + and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, + to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz. +019:003 They said to him, Thus says Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, + and of rebuke, and of rejection; for the children are come + to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth. +019:004 It may be Yahweh your God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, + whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God, + and will rebuke the words which Yahweh your God has heard. + Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left. +019:005 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah. +019:006 Isaiah said to them, Thus shall you tell your master, + Thus says Yahweh, Don't be afraid of the words that you + have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria + have blasphemed me. +019:007 Behold, I will put a spirit in him, and he shall hear news, + and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall + by the sword in his own land. +019:008 So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring + against Libnah; for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish. +019:009 When he heard say of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, Behold, he is + come out to fight against you, he sent messengers again + to Hezekiah, saying, +019:010 Thus shall you speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Don't let + your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, Jerusalem shall + not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria. +019:011 Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria + have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: + and shall you be delivered? +019:012 Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers + have destroyed, Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children + of Eden that were in Telassar? +019:013 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king + of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah? +019:014 Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, + and read it; and Hezekiah went up to the house of Yahweh, + and spread it before Yahweh. +019:015 Hezekiah prayed before Yahweh, and said, Yahweh, the God + of Israel, who sit [above] the cherubim, you are the God, + even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have + made heaven and earth. +019:016 Incline your ear, Yahweh, and hear; open your eyes, Yahweh, and see; + and hear the words of Sennacherib, with which he has sent + him to defy the living God. +019:017 Of a truth, Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have laid waste + the nations and their lands, +019:018 and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, + but the work of men's hands, wood and stone; therefore they + have destroyed them. +019:019 Now therefore, Yahweh our God, save you us, I beg you, + out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know + that you Yahweh are God alone. +019:020 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus + says Yahweh, the God of Israel, Whereas you have prayed to me + against Sennacherib king of Assyria, I have heard [you]. +019:021 This is the word that Yahweh has spoken concerning him: + The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you; + the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you. +019:022 Whom have you defied and blasphemed? and against whom have you + exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? [even] + against the Holy One of Israel. +019:023 By your messengers you have defied the Lord, and have said, + With the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height + of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon; + and I will cut down the tall cedars of it, and the choice fir + trees of it; and I will enter into his farthest lodging place, + the forest of his fruitful field. +019:024 I have dug and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my + feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt. +019:025 Haven't you heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it + of ancient times? now have I brought it to pass, that it should + be yours to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps. +019:026 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were + dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, + and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, + and as grain blasted before it is grown up. +019:027 But I know your sitting down, and your going out, and your + coming in, and your raging against me. +019:028 Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance is + come up into my ears, therefore will I put my hook in your nose, + and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way + by which you came. +019:029 This shall be the sign to you: You shall eat this year + that which grows of itself, and in the second year that which + springs of the same; and in the third year sow you, and reap, + and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of it. +019:030 The remnant that has escaped of the house of Judah shall again + take root downward, and bear fruit upward. +019:031 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and out + of Mount Zion those who shall escape: the zeal of Yahweh + shall perform this. +019:032 Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the king of Assyria, He shall + not come to this city, nor shoot an arrow there, neither shall + he come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it. +019:033 By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, + and he shall not come to this city, says Yahweh. +019:034 For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, + and for my servant David's sake. +019:035 It happened that night, that the angel of Yahweh went forth, + and struck in the camp of the Assyrians one hundred + eighty-five thousand: and when men arose early in the morning, + behold, these were all dead bodies. +019:036 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, + and lived at Nineveh. +019:037 It happened, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, + that Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him with the sword: + and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Esar Haddon his son + reigned in his place. +020:001 In those days was Hezekiah sick to death. Isaiah the + prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, + Thus says Yahweh, Set your house in order: for you shall die, + and not live. +020:002 Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed to Yahweh, saying, +020:003 Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you + in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is + good in your sight. Hezekiah wept sore. +020:004 It happened, before Isaiah was gone out into the middle part + of the city, that the word of Yahweh came to him, saying, +020:005 Turn back, and tell Hezekiah the prince of my people, + Thus says Yahweh, the God of David your father, I have heard + your prayer, I have seen your tears: behold, I will heal you; + on the third day you shall go up to the house of Yahweh. +020:006 I will add to your days fifteen years; and I will deliver + you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria; + and I will defend this city for my own sake, and for my + servant David's sake. +020:007 Isaiah said, Take a cake of figs. They took and laid it + on the boil, and he recovered. +020:008 Hezekiah said to Isaiah, What shall be the sign that Yahweh + will heal me, and that I shall go up to the house of Yahweh + the third day? +020:009 Isaiah said, This shall be the sign to you from Yahweh, + that Yahweh will do the thing that he has spoken: + shall the shadow go forward ten steps, or go back ten steps? +020:010 Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to decline + ten steps: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten steps. +020:011 Isaiah the prophet cried to Yahweh; and he brought the shadow ten + steps backward, by which it had gone down on the dial of Ahaz. +020:012 At that time Berodach Baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, + sent letters and a present to Hezekiah; for he had heard + that Hezekiah had been sick. +020:013 Hezekiah listened to them, and shown them all the house of his + precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, + and the precious oil, and the house of his armor, and all that + was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, + nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah didn't show them. +020:014 Then came Isaiah the prophet to king Hezekiah, and said to him, + What said these men? and from whence came they to you? + Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country, + even from Babylon. +020:015 He said, What have they seen in your house? Hezekiah answered, + All that is in my house have they seen: there is nothing + among my treasures that I have not shown them. +020:016 Isaiah said to Hezekiah, Hear the word of Yahweh. +020:017 Behold, the days come, that all that is in your house, + and that which your fathers have laid up in store to this day, + shall be carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, says Yahweh. +020:018 Of your sons who shall issue from you, whom you shall father, + shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace + of the king of Babylon. +020:019 Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good is the word of Yahweh + which you have spoken. He said moreover, Isn't it so, + if peace and truth shall be in my days? +020:020 Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, + and how he made the pool, and the conduit, and brought water + into the city, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles + of the kings of Judah? +020:021 Hezekiah slept with his fathers; and Manasseh his son reigned + in his place. +021:001 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign; + and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem: and his mother's + name was Hephzibah. +021:002 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, + after the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh cast out + before the children of Israel. +021:003 For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father + had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made + an Asherah, as did Ahab king of Israel, and worshiped all + the army of the sky, and served them. +021:004 He built altars in the house of Yahweh, of which Yahweh said, + In Jerusalem will I put my name. +021:005 He built altars for all the army of the sky in the two courts + of the house of Yahweh. +021:006 He made his son to pass through the fire, and practiced sorcery, + and used enchantments, and dealt with those who had familiar spirits, + and with wizards: he worked much evil in the sight of Yahweh, + to provoke him to anger. +021:007 He set the engraved image of Asherah, that he had made, + in the house of which Yahweh said to David and to Solomon + his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen + out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name forever; +021:008 neither will I cause the feet of Israel to wander any more out + of the land which I gave their fathers, if only they will + observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, + and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them. +021:009 But they didn't listen: and Manasseh seduced them to do that + which is evil more than did the nations whom Yahweh destroyed + before the children of Israel. +021:010 Yahweh spoke by his servants the prophets, saying, +021:011 Because Manasseh king of Judah has done these abominations, + and has done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, who were + before him, and has made Judah also to sin with his idols; +021:012 therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, Behold, I bring + such evil on Jerusalem and Judah, that whoever hears of it, + both his ears shall tingle. +021:013 I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet + of the house of Ahab; and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man + wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down. +021:014 I will cast off the remnant of my inheritance, and deliver + them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become + a prey and a spoil to all their enemies; +021:015 because they have done that which is evil in my sight, + and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers + came forth out of Egypt, even to this day. +021:016 Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, until he had + filled Jerusalem from one end to another; besides his sin + with which he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil + in the sight of Yahweh. +021:017 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all that he did, + and his sin that he sinned, aren't they written in the book + of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? +021:018 Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden + of his own house, in the garden of Uzza: and Amon his son + reigned in his place. +021:019 Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign; + and he reigned two years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name + was Meshullemeth the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah. +021:020 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, as did + Manasseh his father. +021:021 He walked in all the way that his father walked in, and served + the idols that his father served, and worshiped them: +021:022 and he forsook Yahweh, the God of his fathers, and didn't walk + in the way of Yahweh. +021:023 The servants of Amon conspired against him, and put the king + to death in his own house. +021:024 But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired + against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah + his son king in his place. +021:025 Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, aren't they + written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? +021:026 He was buried in his tomb in the garden of Uzza: + and Josiah his son reigned in his place. +022:001 Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign; + and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem: and his mother's + name was Jedidah the daughter of Adaiah of Bozkath. +022:002 He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, and walked + in all the way of David his father, and didn't turn aside + to the right hand or to the left. +022:003 It happened in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, that the king + sent Shaphan, the son of Azaliah the son of Meshullam, + the scribe, to the house of Yahweh, saying, +022:004 Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the money + which is brought into the house of Yahweh, which the keepers + of the threshold have gathered of the people: +022:005 and let them deliver it into the hand of the workmen who have + the oversight of the house of Yahweh; and let them give it + to the workmen who are in the house of Yahweh, to repair + the breaches of the house, +022:006 to the carpenters, and to the builders, and to the masons, + and for buying timber and hewn stone to repair the house. +022:007 However there was no reckoning made with them of the money + that was delivered into their hand; for they dealt faithfully. +022:008 Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the scribe, + I have found the book of the law in the house of Yahweh. + Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan, and he read it. +022:009 Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought the king + word again, and said, Your servants have emptied out the money + that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the hand + of the workmen who have the oversight of the house of Yahweh. +022:010 Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest + has delivered me a book. Shaphan read it before the king. +022:011 It happened, when the king had heard the words of the book + of the law, that he tore his clothes. +022:012 The king commanded Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam the son + of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Micaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, + and Asaiah the king's servant, saying, +022:013 Go you, inquire of Yahweh for me, and for the people, and for + all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found; + for great is the wrath of Yahweh that is kindled against us, + because our fathers have not listened to the words of this book, + to do according to all that which is written concerning us. +022:014 So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, + and Asaiah, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum + the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe + (now she lived in Jerusalem in the second quarter); + and they talked with her. +022:015 She said to them, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: Tell you + the man who sent you to me, +022:016 Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will bring evil on this place, + and on the inhabitants of it, even all the words of the book + which the king of Judah has read. +022:017 Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense + to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all + the work of their hands, therefore my wrath shall be kindled + against this place, and it shall not be quenched. +022:018 But to the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of Yahweh, + thus shall you tell him, Thus says Yahweh, the God + of Israel: As touching the words which you have heard, +022:019 because your heart was tender, and you did humble yourself + before Yahweh, when you heard what I spoke against this place, + and against the inhabitants of it, that they should become + a desolation and a curse, and have torn your clothes, + and wept before me; I also have heard you, says Yahweh. +022:020 Therefore, behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you + shall be gathered to your grave in peace, neither shall + your eyes see all the evil which I will bring on this place. + They brought the king word again. +023:001 The king sent, and they gathered to him all the elders of Judah + and of Jerusalem. +023:002 The king went up to the house of Yahweh, and all the men of Judah + and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests, + and the prophets, and all the people, both small and great: + and he read in their ears all the words of the book of + the covenant which was found in the house of Yahweh. +023:003 The king stood by the pillar, and made a covenant before Yahweh, + to walk after Yahweh, and to keep his commandments, + and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all [his] heart, + and all [his] soul, to confirm the words of this covenant + that were written in this book: and all the people stood + to the covenant. +023:004 The king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests + of the second order, and the keepers of the threshold, to bring + forth out of the temple of Yahweh all the vessels that were made + for Baal, and for the Asherah, and for all the army of the sky, + and he burned them outside of Jerusalem in the fields + of the Kidron, and carried the ashes of them to Bethel. +023:005 He put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah + had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities + of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; those also + who burned incense to Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, + and to the planets, and to all the army of the sky. +023:006 He brought out the Asherah from the house of Yahweh, + outside of Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it + at the brook Kidron, and beat it to dust, and cast the dust + of it on the graves of the common people. +023:007 He broke down the houses of the sodomites, that were in the house + of Yahweh, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah. +023:008 He brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, + and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, + from Geba to Beersheba; and he broke down the high places + of the gates that were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua + the governor of the city, which were on a man's left hand + at the gate of the city. +023:009 Nevertheless the priests of the high places didn't come up + to the altar of Yahweh in Jerusalem, but they ate unleavened + bread among their brothers. +023:010 He defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children + of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter + to pass through the fire to Molech. +023:011 He took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given + to the sun, at the entrance of the house of Yahweh, by the + chamber of Nathan Melech the officer, who was in the court; + and he burned the chariots of the sun with fire. +023:012 The altars that were on the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz, + which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which + Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of Yahweh, + did the king break down, and beat [them] down from there, + and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron. +023:013 The high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on + the right hand of the mountain of corruption, which Solomon + the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination + of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, + and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, + did the king defile. +023:014 He broke in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, + and filled their places with the bones of men. +023:015 Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place + which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, + had made, even that altar and the high place he broke down; + and he burned the high place and beat it to dust, + and burned the Asherah. +023:016 As Josiah turned himself, he spied the tombs that were there + in the mountain; and he sent, and took the bones out of + the tombs, and burned them on the altar, and defiled it, + according to the word of Yahweh which the man of God proclaimed, + who proclaimed these things. +023:017 Then he said, What monument is that which I see? + The men of the city told him, It is the tomb of the man of God, + who came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that you + have done against the altar of Bethel. +023:018 He said, Let him be; let no man move his bones. + So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet + who came out of Samaria. +023:019 All the houses also of the high places that were in the cities + of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke + [Yahweh] to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according + to all the acts that he had done in Bethel. +023:020 He killed all the priests of the high places that were there, + on the altars, and burned men's bones on them; + and he returned to Jerusalem. +023:021 The king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the Passover + to Yahweh your God, as it is written in this book of the covenant. +023:022 Surely there was not kept such a Passover from the days of + the judges who judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings + of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah; +023:023 but in the eighteenth year of king Josiah was this Passover + kept to Yahweh in Jerusalem. +023:024 Moreover those who had familiar spirits, and the wizards, + and the teraphim, and the idols, and all the abominations + that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, + did Josiah put away, that he might confirm the words of the law + which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found + in the house of Yahweh. +023:025 Like him was there no king before him, who turned to Yahweh with + all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, + according to all the law of Moses; neither after him arose + there any like him. +023:026 Notwithstanding, Yahweh didn't turn from the fierceness of his + great wrath, with which his anger was kindled against Judah, + because of all the provocation with which Manasseh + had provoked him. +023:027 Yahweh said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I + have removed Israel, and I will cast off this city which I + have chosen, even Jerusalem, and the house of which I said, + My name shall be there. +023:028 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did, + aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the + kings of Judah? +023:029 In his days Pharaoh Necoh king of Egypt went up against the king + of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah went + against him; and [Pharaoh Necoh] killed him at Megiddo, + when he had seen him. +023:030 His servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, + and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own tomb. + The people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, + and anointed him, and made him king in his father's place. +023:031 Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign; + and he reigned three months in Jerusalem: and his mother's + name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. +023:032 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, according to + all that his fathers had done. +023:033 Pharaoh Necoh put him in bonds at Riblah in the land of Hamath, + that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land to a + tribute of one hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold. +023:034 Pharaoh Necoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the room + of Josiah his father, and changed his name to Jehoiakim: + but he took Jehoahaz away; and he came to Egypt, and died there. +023:035 Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed + the land to give the money according to the commandment of Pharaoh: + he exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, + of everyone according to his taxation, to give it to Pharaoh Necoh. +023:036 Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; + and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and his mother's + name was Zebidah the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah. +023:037 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, according to + all that his fathers had done. +024:001 In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, + and Jehoiakim became his servant three years: then he turned + and rebelled against him. +024:002 Yahweh sent against him bands of the Chaldeans, and bands + of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the + children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, + according to the word of Yahweh, which he spoke by his + servants the prophets. +024:003 Surely at the commandment of Yahweh came this on Judah, + to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, + according to all that he did, +024:004 and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled + Jerusalem with innocent blood: and Yahweh would not pardon. +024:005 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all that he did, + aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the + kings of Judah? +024:006 So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers; and Jehoiachin his son + reigned in his place. +024:007 The king of Egypt didn't come again out of his land any more; + for the king of Babylon had taken, from the brook of Egypt + to the river Euphrates, all that pertained to the king of Egypt. +024:008 Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign; + and he reigned in Jerusalem three months: and his mother's + name was Nehushta the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem. +024:009 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, according to + all that his father had done. +024:010 At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon + came up to Jerusalem, and the city was besieged. +024:011 Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to the city, while his + servants were besieging it; +024:012 and Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, + he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, + and his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth + year of his reign. +024:013 He carried out there all the treasures of the house of Yahweh, + and the treasures of the king's house, and cut in pieces all + the vessels of gold, which Solomon king of Israel had made + in the temple of Yahweh, as Yahweh had said. +024:014 He carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, + and all the mighty men of valor, even ten thousand captives, + and all the craftsmen and the smiths; none remained, + save the poorest sort of the people of the land. +024:015 He carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon; and the king's mother, + and the king's wives, and his officers, and the chief men of + the land, carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon. +024:016 All the men of might, even seven thousand, and the craftsmen + and the smiths one thousand, all of them strong and apt for war, + even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon. +024:017 The king of Babylon made Mattaniah, [Jehoiachin's] father's brother, + king is his place, and changed his name to Zedekiah. +024:018 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign; + and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and his mother's + name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. +024:019 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, according to + all that Jehoiakim had done. +024:020 For through the anger of Yahweh did it happen in Jerusalem + and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence. + Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon. +025:001 It happened in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, + in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king + of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, + and encamped against it; and they built forts against + it round about. +025:002 So the city was besieged to the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. +025:003 On the ninth day of the [fourth] month the famine was sore + in the city, so that there was no bread for the people + of the land. +025:004 Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war + [fled] by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, + which was by the king's garden (now the Chaldeans were + against the city round about); and [the king] went by the way + of the Arabah. +025:005 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, + and overtook him in the plains of Jericho; and all his army + was scattered from him. +025:006 Then they took the king, and carried him up to the king + of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment on him. +025:007 They killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out + the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him in fetters, and carried + him to Babylon. +025:008 Now in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, + which was the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar, + king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, + a servant of the king of Babylon, to Jerusalem. +025:009 He burnt the house of Yahweh, and the king's house; + and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, + burnt he with fire. +025:010 All the army of the Chaldeans, who were [with] the captain + of the guard, broke down the walls of Jerusalem round about. +025:011 The residue of the people who were left in the city, + and those who fell away, who fell to the king of Babylon, + and the residue of the multitude, did Nebuzaradan the captain + of the guard carry away captive. +025:012 But the captain of the guard left of the poorest of the land + to work the vineyards and fields. +025:013 The pillars of brass that were in the house of Yahweh, + and the bases and the bronze sea that were in the house of Yahweh, + did the Chaldeans break in pieces, and carried the brass + of them to Babylon. +025:014 The pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the spoons, + and all the vessels of brass with which they ministered, + took they away. +025:015 The fire pans, and the basins, that which was of gold, + in gold, and that which was of silver, in silver, the captain + of the guard took away. +025:016 The two pillars, the one sea, and the bases, which Solomon had + made for the house of Yahweh, the brass of all these vessels + was without weight. +025:017 The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and a capital + of brass was on it; and the height of the capital was + three cubits, with network and pomegranates on the capital + round about, all of brass: and like to these had the second + pillar with network. +025:018 The captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, + and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers + of the threshold: +025:019 and out of the city he took an officer who was set over the men + of war; and five men of those who saw the king's face, + who were found in the city; and the scribe, the captain + of the army, who mustered the people of the land; and sixty + men of the people of the land, who were found in the city. +025:020 Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought + them to the king of Babylon to Riblah. +025:021 The king of Babylon struck them, and put them to death at Riblah + in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away captive + out of his land. +025:022 As for the people who were left in the land of Judah, + whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, even over them + he made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, governor. +025:023 Now when all the captains of the forces, they and their men, + heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, + they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, + and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth + the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of the Maacathite, + they and their men. +025:024 Gedaliah swore to them and to their men, and said to them, + Don't be afraid because of the servants of the Chaldeans: + dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it + shall be well with you. +025:025 But it happened in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son + of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the royal seed came, + and ten men with him, and struck Gedaliah, so that he died, + and the Jews and the Chaldeans that were with him at Mizpah. +025:026 All the people, both small and great, and the captains of + the forces, arose, and came to Egypt; for they were afraid + of the Chaldeans. +025:027 It happened in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity + of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the seven + and twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach king of Babylon, + in the year that he began to reign, did lift up the head + of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison; +025:028 and he spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne + of the kings who were with him in Babylon, +025:029 and changed his prison garments. [Jehoiachin] ate bread + before him continually all the days of his life: +025:030 and for his allowance, there was a continual allowance given him + of the king, every day a portion, all the days of his life. +Book 13 1 Chronicles +001:001 Adam, Seth, Enosh, +001:002 Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared, +001:003 Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech, +001:004 Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. +001:005 The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, + and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras. +001:006 The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, and Diphath, and Togarmah. +001:007 The sons of Javan: Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim. +001:008 The sons of Ham: Cush, and Mizraim, Put, and Canaan. +001:009 The sons of Cush: Seba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raama, + and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba, and Dedan. +001:010 Cush became the father of Nimrod; he began to be a mighty + one in the earth. +001:011 Mizraim became the father of Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, + and Naphtuhim, +001:012 and Pathrusim, and Casluhim (from whence came the Philistines), + and Caphtorim. +001:013 Canaan became the father of Sidon his firstborn, and Heth, +001:014 and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite, +001:015 and the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite, +001:016 and the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite. +001:017 The sons of Shem: Elam, and Asshur, and Arpachshad, and Lud, + and Aram, and Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Meshech. +001:018 Arpachshad became the father of Shelah, and Shelah became + the father of Eber. +001:019 To Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg; + for in his days the earth was divided; and his brother's + name was Joktan. +001:020 Joktan became the father of Almodad, and Sheleph, + and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah, +001:021 and Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah, +001:022 and Ebal, and Abimael, and Sheba, +001:023 and Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the + sons of Joktan. +001:024 Shem, Arpachshad, Shelah, +001:025 Eber, Peleg, Reu, +001:026 Serug, Nahor, Terah, +001:027 Abram (the same is Abraham). +001:028 The sons of Abraham: Isaac, and Ishmael. +001:029 These are their generations: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth; + then Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam, +001:030 Mishma, and Dumah, Massa, Hadad, and Tema, +001:031 Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. These are the sons of Ishmael. +001:032 The sons of Keturah, Abraham's concubine: she bore Zimran, + and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. + The sons of Jokshan: Sheba, and Dedan. +001:033 The sons of Midian: Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and Abida, + and Eldaah. All these were the sons of Keturah. +001:034 Abraham became the father of Isaac. The sons + of Isaac: Esau, and Israel. +001:035 The sons of Esau: Eliphaz, Reuel, and Jeush, and Jalam, and Korah. +001:036 The sons of Eliphaz: Teman, and Omar, Zephi, and Gatam, Kenaz, + and Timna, and Amalek. +001:037 The sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. +001:038 The sons of Seir: Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah, + and Dishon, and Ezer, and Dishan. +001:039 The sons of Lotan: Hori, and Homam; and Timna was Lotan's sister. +001:040 The sons of Shobal: Alian, and Manahath, and Ebal, Shephi, and Onam. + The sons of Zibeon: Aiah, and Anah. +001:041 The sons of Anah: Dishon. The sons of Dishon: Hamran, and Eshban, + and Ithran, and Cheran. +001:042 The sons of Ezer: Bilhan, and Zaavan, Jaakan. The sons + of Dishan: Uz, and Aran. +001:043 Now these are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom, before there + resigned any king over the children of Israel: Bela the son + of Beor; and the name of his city was Dinhabah. +001:044 Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned + in his place. +001:045 Jobab died, and Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned + in his place. +001:046 Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who struck Midian + in the field of Moab, reigned in his place; and the name + of his city was Avith. +001:047 Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his place. +001:048 Samlah died, and Shaul of Rehoboth by the River reigned + in his place. +001:049 Shaul died, and Baal Hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his place. +001:050 Baal Hanan died, and Hadad reigned in his place; and the name + of his city was Pai: and his wife's name was Mehetabel, + the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab. +001:051 Hadad died. The chiefs of Edom were: chief Timna, + chief Aliah, chief Jetheth, +001:052 chief Oholibamah, chief Elah, chief Pinon, +001:053 chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief Mibzar, +001:054 chief Magdiel, chief Iram. These are the chiefs of Edom. +002:001 These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, + and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun, +002:002 Dan, Joseph, and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. +002:003 The sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah; which three + were born to him of Shua's daughter the Canaanitess. + Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of Yahweh; + and he killed him. +002:004 Tamar his daughter-in-law bore him Perez and Zerah. + All the sons of Judah were five. +002:005 The sons of Perez: Hezron, and Hamul. +002:006 The sons of Zerah: Zimri, and Ethan, and Heman, and Calcol, + and Dara; five of them in all. +002:007 The sons of Carmi: Achar, the troubler of Israel, who committed + a trespass in the devoted thing. +002:008 The sons of Ethan: Azariah. +002:009 The sons also of Hezron, who were born to him: + Jerahmeel, and Ram, and Chelubai. +002:010 Ram became the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab became + the father of Nahshon, prince of the children of Judah; +002:011 and Nahshon became the father of Salma, and Salma became + the father of Boaz, +002:012 and Boaz became the father of Obed, and Obed became + the father of Jesse; +002:013 and Jesse became the father of his firstborn Eliab, and Abinadab + the second, and Shimea the third, +002:014 Nethanel the fourth, Raddai the fifth, +002:015 Ozem the sixth, David the seventh; +002:016 and their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. The sons + of Zeruiah: Abishai, and Joab, and Asahel, three. +002:017 Abigail bore Amasa; and the father of Amasa was + Jether the Ishmaelite. +002:018 Caleb the son of Hezron became the father of [children] of + Azubah [his] wife, and of Jerioth; and these were her sons: + Jesher, and Shobab, and Ardon. +002:019 Azubah died, and Caleb took to him Ephrath, who bore him Hur. +002:020 Hur became the father of Uri, and Uri became the father of Bezalel. +002:021 Afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father + of Gilead, whom he took [as wife] when he was sixty years old; + and she bore him Segub. +002:022 Segub became the father of Jair, who had twenty-three cities + in the land of Gilead. +002:023 Geshur and Aram took the towns of Jair from them, + with Kenath, and the villages of it, even sixty cities. + All these were the sons of Machir the father of Gilead. +002:024 After that Hezron was dead in Caleb Ephrathah, then Abijah Hezron's + wife bore him Ashhur the father of Tekoa. +002:025 The sons of Jerahmeel the firstborn of Hezron were Ram + the firstborn, and Bunah, and Oren, and Ozem, Ahijah. +002:026 Jerahmeel had another wife, whose name was Atarah; she was + the mother of Onam. +002:027 The sons of Ram the firstborn of Jerahmeel were Maaz, + and Jamin, and Eker. +002:028 The sons of Onam were Shammai, and Jada. The sons + of Shammai: Nadab, and Abishur. +002:029 The name of the wife of Abishur was Abihail; and she bore + him Ahban, and Molid. +002:030 The sons of Nadab: Seled, and Appaim; but Seled + died without children. +002:031 The sons of Appaim: Ishi. The sons of Ishi: Sheshan. The sons + of Sheshan: Ahlai. +002:032 The sons of Jada the brother of Shammai: Jether, and Jonathan; + and Jether died without children. +002:033 The sons of Jonathan: Peleth, and Zaza. These were the + sons of Jerahmeel. +002:034 Now Sheshan had no sons, but daughters. Sheshan had a servant, + an Egyptian, whose name was Jarha. +002:035 Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha his servant as wife; + and she bore him Attai. +002:036 Attai became the father of Nathan, and Nathan became + the father of Zabad, +002:037 and Zabad became the father of Ephlal, and Ephlal became + the father of Obed, +002:038 and Obed became the father of Jehu, and Jehu became + the father of Azariah, +002:039 and Azariah became the father of Helez, and Helez became + the father of Eleasah, +002:040 and Eleasah became the father of Sismai, and Sismai became + the father of Shallum, +002:041 and Shallum became the father of Jekamiah, and Jekamiah became + the father of Elishama. +002:042 The sons of Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel were Mesha + his firstborn, who was the father of Ziph; and the sons + of Mareshah the father of Hebron. +002:043 The sons of Hebron: Korah, and Tappuah, and Rekem, and Shema. +002:044 Shema became the father of Raham, the father of Jorkeam; + and Rekem became the father of Shammai. +002:045 The son of Shammai was Maon; and Maon was the father of Beth Zur. +002:046 Ephah, Caleb's concubine, bore Haran, and Moza, and Gazez; + and Haran became the father of Gazez. +002:047 The sons of Jahdai: Regem, and Jothan, and Geshan, and Pelet, + and Ephah, and Shaaph. +002:048 Maacah, Caleb's concubine, bore Sheber and Tirhanah. +002:049 She bore also Shaaph the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father + of Machbena, and the father of Gibea; and the daughter + of Caleb was Achsah. +002:050 These were the sons of Caleb, the son of Hur, the firstborn + of Ephrathah: Shobal the father of Kiriath Jearim, +002:051 Salma the father of Bethlehem, Hareph the father of Beth Gader. +002:052 Shobal the father of Kiriath Jearim had sons: Haroeh, half + of the Menuhoth. +002:053 The families of Kiriath Jearim: The Ithrites, and the Puthites, + and the Shumathites, and the Mishraites; of them came + the Zorathites and the Eshtaolites. +002:054 The sons of Salma: Bethlehem, and the Netophathites, + Atroth Beth Joab, and half of the Manahathites, the Zorites. +002:055 The families of scribes who lived at Jabez: the Tirathites, + the Shimeathites, the Sucathites. These are the Kenites + who came of Hammath, the father of the house of Rechab. +003:001 Now these were the sons of David, who were born to him in Hebron: + the firstborn, Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess; + the second, Daniel, of Abigail the Carmelitess; +003:002 the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai + king of Geshur; the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith; +003:003 the fifth, Shephatiah of Abital; the sixth, Ithream by + Eglah his wife: +003:004 six were born to him in Hebron; and there he reigned seven years + and six months. In Jerusalem he reigned thirty-three years; +003:005 and these were born to him in Jerusalem: Shimea, and Shobab, + and Nathan, and Solomon, four, of Bathshua the daughter of Ammiel; +003:006 and Ibhar, and Elishama, and Eliphelet, +003:007 and Nogah, and Nepheg, and Japhia, +003:008 and Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphelet, nine. +003:009 All these were the sons of David, besides the sons of the concubines; + and Tamar was their sister. +003:010 Solomon's son was Rehoboam, Abijah his son, Asa his son, + Jehoshaphat his son, +003:011 Joram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his son, +003:012 Amaziah his son, Azariah his son, Jotham his son, +003:013 Ahaz his son, Hezekiah his son, Manasseh his son, +003:014 Amon his son, Josiah his son. +003:015 The sons of Josiah: the firstborn Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, + the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum. +003:016 The sons of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son, Zedekiah his son. +003:017 The sons of Jeconiah, the captive: Shealtiel his son, +003:018 and Malchiram, and Pedaiah, and Shenazzar, Jekamiah, Hoshama, + and Nedabiah. +003:019 The sons of Pedaiah: Zerubbabel, and Shimei. The sons + of Zerubbabel: Meshullam, and Hananiah; and Shelomith + was their sister; +003:020 and Hashubah, and Ohel, and Berechiah, and Hasadiah, + Jushab Hesed, five. +003:021 The sons of Hananiah: Pelatiah, and Jeshaiah; the sons + of Rephaiah, the sons of Arnan, the sons of Obadiah, + the sons of Shecaniah. +003:022 The sons of Shecaniah: Shemaiah. The sons + of Shemaiah: Hattush, and Igal, and Bariah, and Neariah, + and Shaphat, six. +003:023 The sons of Neariah: Elioenai, and Hizkiah, and Azrikam, three. +003:024 The sons of Elioenai: Hodaviah, and Eliashib, and Pelaiah, + and Akkub, and Johanan, and Delaiah, and Anani, seven. +004:001 The sons of Judah: Perez, Hezron, and Carmi, and Hur, and Shobal. +004:002 Reaiah the son of Shobal became the father of Jahath; + and Jahath became the father of Ahumai and Lahad. + These are the families of the Zorathites. +004:003 These were [the sons of] the father of Etam: Jezreel, and Ishma, + and Idbash; and the name of their sister was Hazzelelponi; +004:004 and Penuel the father of Gedor, and Ezer the father of Hushah. + These are the sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah, + the father of Bethlehem. +004:005 Ashhur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah. +004:006 Naarah bore him Ahuzzam, and Hepher, and Temeni, and Haahashtari. + These were the sons of Naarah. +004:007 The sons of Helah were Zereth, Izhar, and Ethnan. +004:008 Hakkoz became the father of Anub, and Zobebah, and the families + of Aharhel the son of Harum. +004:009 Jabez was more honorable than his brothers: and his mother + named him Jabez, saying, Because I bore him with sorrow. +004:010 Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that you would + bless me indeed, and enlarge my border, and that your hand + might be with me, and that you would keep me from evil, that it + not be to my sorrow! God granted him that which he requested. +004:011 Chelub the brother of Shuhah became the father of Mehir, + who was the father of Eshton. +004:012 Eshton became the father of Beth Rapha, and Paseah, and Tehinnah + the father of Ir Nahash. These are the men of Recah. +004:013 The sons of Kenaz: Othniel, and Seraiah. The sons + of Othniel: Hathath. +004:014 Meonothai became the father of Ophrah: and Seraiah + became the father of Joab the father of Ge Harashim; + for they were craftsmen. +004:015 The sons of Caleb the son of Jephunneh: Iru, Elah, and Naam; + and the sons of Elah; and Kenaz. +004:016 The sons of Jehallelel: Ziph, and Ziphah, Tiria, and Asarel. +004:017 The sons of Ezrah: Jether, and Mered, and Epher, and Jalon; + and she bore Miriam, and Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa. +004:018 His wife the Jewess bore Jered the father of Gedor, and Heber + the father of Soco, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah. + These are the sons of Bithiah the daughter of Pharaoh, + whom Mered took. +004:019 The sons of the wife of Hodiah, the sister of Naham, were the + father of Keilah the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the Maacathite. +004:020 The sons of Shimon: Amnon, and Rinnah, Ben Hanan, and Tilon. + The sons of Ishi: Zoheth, and Ben Zoheth. +004:021 The sons of Shelah the son of Judah: Er the father of Lecah, + and Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house + of those who worked fine linen, of the house of Ashbea; +004:022 and Jokim, and the men of Cozeba, and Joash, and Saraph, who had + dominion in Moab, and Jashubilehem. The records are ancient. +004:023 These were the potters, and the inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah: + there they lived with the king for his work. +004:024 The sons of Simeon: Nemuel, and Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, Shaul; +004:025 Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son. +004:026 The sons of Mishma: Hammuel his son, Zaccur his son, + Shimei his son. +004:027 Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brothers + didn't have many children, neither did all their family + multiply like the children of Judah. +004:028 They lived at Beersheba, and Moladah, and Hazarshual, +004:029 and at Bilhah, and at Ezem, and at Tolad, +004:030 and at Bethuel, and at Hormah, and at Ziklag, +004:031 and at Beth Marcaboth, and Hazar Susim, and at Beth Biri, + and at Shaaraim. These were their cities to the reign of David. +004:032 Their villages were Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, + and Ashan, five cities; +004:033 and all their villages that were round about the same cities, + to Baal. These were their habitations, and they + have their genealogy. +004:034 Meshobab, and Jamlech, and Joshah the son of Amaziah, +004:035 and Joel, and Jehu the son of Joshibiah, the son of Seraiah, + the son of Asiel, +004:036 and Elioenai, and Jaakobah, and Jeshohaiah, and Asaiah, + and Adiel, and Jesimiel, and Benaiah, +004:037 and Ziza the son of Shiphi, the son of Allon, the son of Jedaiah, + the son of Shimri, the son of Shemaiah-- +004:038 these mentioned by name were princes in their families: + and their fathers' houses increased greatly. +004:039 They went to the entrance of Gedor, even to the east side + of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks. +004:040 They found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide, and quiet, + and peaceable; for those who lived there before were of Ham. +004:041 These written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, + and struck their tents, and the Meunim who were found there, + and destroyed them utterly to this day, and lived in their place; + because there was pasture there for their flocks. +004:042 Some of them, even of the sons of Simeon, five hundred men, + went to Mount Seir, having for their captains Pelatiah, + and Neariah, and Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi. +004:043 They struck the remnant of the Amalekites who escaped, + and have lived there to this day. +005:001 The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel (for he was + the firstborn; but, because he defiled his father's couch, + his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel; + and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright. +005:002 For Judah prevailed above his brothers, and of him came the prince; + but the birthright was Joseph's:) +005:003 the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel: Hanoch, and + Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. +005:004 The sons of Joel: Shemaiah his son, Gog his son, Shimei his son, +005:005 Micah his son, Reaiah his son, Baal his son, +005:006 Beerah his son, whom Tilgath Pilneser king of Assyria carried + away captive: he was prince of the Reubenites. +005:007 His brothers by their families, when the genealogy of their + generations was reckoned: the chief, Jeiel, and Zechariah, +005:008 and Bela the son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Joel, + who lived in Aroer, even to Nebo and Baal Meon: +005:009 and eastward he lived even to the entrance of the wilderness + from the river Euphrates, because their livestock were multiplied + in the land of Gilead. +005:010 In the days of Saul, they made war with the Hagrites, who fell + by their hand; and they lived in their tents throughout all + the [land] east of Gilead. +005:011 The sons of Gad lived over against them, in the land of + Bashan to Salecah: +005:012 Joel the chief, and Shapham the second, and Janai, + and Shaphat in Bashan. +005:013 Their brothers of their fathers' houses: Michael, and Meshullam, + and Sheba, and Jorai, and Jacan, and Zia, and Eber, seven. +005:014 These were the sons of Abihail, the son of Huri, the son of Jaroah, + the son of Gilead, the son of Michael, the son of Jeshishai, + the son of Jahdo, the son of Buz; +005:015 Ahi the son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, chief of + their fathers' houses. +005:016 They lived in Gilead in Bashan, and in its towns, and in all + the suburbs of Sharon, as far as their borders. +005:017 All these were reckoned by genealogies in the days of Jotham + king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel. +005:018 The sons of Reuben, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe + of Manasseh, of valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword, + and to shoot with bow, and skillful in war, were forty-four + thousand seven hundred and sixty, that were able to go + forth to war. +005:019 They made war with the Hagrites, with Jetur, and Naphish, and Nodab. +005:020 They were helped against them, and the Hagrites were delivered + into their hand, and all who were with them; for they + cried to God in the battle, and he was entreated of them, + because they put their trust in him. +005:021 They took away their livestock; of their camels fifty thousand, + and of sheep two hundred fifty thousand, and of donkeys + two thousand, and of men one hundred thousand. +005:022 For there fell many slain, because the war was of God. + They lived in their place until the captivity. +005:023 The children of the half-tribe of Manasseh lived in the land: + they increased from Bashan to Baal Hermon and Senir + and Mount Hermon. +005:024 These were the heads of their fathers' houses: even Epher, + and Ishi, and Eliel, and Azriel, and Jeremiah, and Hodaviah, + and Jahdiel, mighty men of valor, famous men, heads of + their fathers' houses. +005:025 They trespassed against the God of their fathers, and played + the prostitute after the gods of the peoples of the land, + whom God destroyed before them. +005:026 The God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, + and the spirit of Tilgath Pilneser king of Assyria, + and he carried them away, even the Reubenites, and the Gadites, + and the half-tribe of Manasseh, and brought them to Halah, + and Habor, and Hara, and to the river of Gozan, to this day. +006:001 The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. +006:002 The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel. +006:003 The children of Amram: Aaron, and Moses, and Miriam. + The sons of Aaron: Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. +006:004 Eleazar became the father of Phinehas, Phinehas became + the father of Abishua, +006:005 and Abishua became the father of Bukki, and Bukki became + the father of Uzzi, +006:006 and Uzzi became the father of Zerahiah, and Zerahiah became + the father of Meraioth, +006:007 Meraioth became the father of Amariah, and Amariah became + the father of Ahitub, +006:008 and Ahitub became the father of Zadok, and Zadok became + the father of Ahimaaz, +006:009 and Ahimaaz became the father of Azariah, and Azariah became + the father of Johanan, +006:010 and Johanan became the father of Azariah, (he it is who executed + the priest's office in the house that Solomon built in Jerusalem), +006:011 and Azariah became the father of Amariah, and Amariah became + the father of Ahitub, +006:012 and Ahitub became the father of Zadok, and Zadok became + the father of Shallum, +006:013 and Shallum became the father of Hilkiah, and Hilkiah became + the father of Azariah, +006:014 and Azariah became the father of Seraiah, and Seraiah became + the father of Jehozadak; +006:015 Jehozadak went [into captivity], when Yahweh carried away + Judah and Jerusalem by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar. +006:016 The sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari. +006:017 These are the names of the sons of Gershom: Libni and Shimei. +006:018 The sons of Kohath were Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel. +006:019 The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families + of the Levites according to their fathers' [houses]. +006:020 Of Gershom: Libni his son, Jahath his son, Zimmah his son, +006:021 Joah his son, Iddo his son, Zerah his son, Jeatherai his son. +006:022 The sons of Kohath: Amminadab his son, Korah his son, + Assir his son, +006:023 Elkanah his son, and Ebiasaph his son, and Assir his son, +006:024 Tahath his son, Uriel his son, Uzziah his son, and Shaul his son. +006:025 The sons of Elkanah: Amasai, and Ahimoth. +006:026 As for Elkanah, the sons of Elkanah: Zophai his son, + and Nahath his son, +006:027 Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, Elkanah his son. +006:028 The sons of Samuel: the firstborn [Joel], and the second Abijah. +006:029 The sons of Merari: Mahli, Libni his son, Shimei his son, + Uzzah his son, +006:030 Shimea his son, Haggiah his son, Asaiah his son. +006:031 These are they whom David set over the service of song + in the house of Yahweh, after that the ark had rest. +006:032 They ministered with song before the tent of the tent of meeting, + until Solomon had built the house of Yahweh in Jerusalem: + and they waited on their office according to their order. +006:033 These are those who waited, and their sons. Of the sons + of the Kohathites: Heman the singer, the son of Joel, + the son of Samuel, +006:034 the son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, + the son of Toah, +006:035 the son of Zuph, the son of Elkanah, the son of Mahath, + the son of Amasai, +006:036 the son of Elkanah, the son of Joel, the son of Azariah, + the son of Zephaniah, +006:037 the son of Tahath, the son of Assir, the son of Ebiasaph, + the son of Korah, +006:038 the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, + the son of Israel. +006:039 His brother Asaph, who stood on his right hand, even Asaph + the son of Berechiah, the son of Shimea, +006:040 the son of Michael, the son of Baaseiah, the son of Malchijah, +006:041 the son of Ethni, the son of Zerah, the son of Adaiah, +006:042 the son of Ethan, the son of Zimmah, the son of Shimei, +006:043 the son of Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi. +006:044 On the left hand their brothers the sons of Merari: Ethan the son + of Kishi, the son of Abdi, the son of Malluch, +006:045 the son of Hashabiah, the son of Amaziah, the son of Hilkiah, +006:046 the son of Amzi, the son of Bani, the son of Shemer, +006:047 the son of Mahli, the son of Mushi, the son of Merari, + the son of Levi. +006:048 Their brothers the Levites were appointed for all the service + of the tent of the house of God. +006:049 But Aaron and his sons offered on the altar of burnt offering, + and on the altar of incense, for all the work of the most + holy place, and to make atonement for Israel, according to all + that Moses the servant of God had commanded. +006:050 These are the sons of Aaron: Eleazar his son, Phinehas his son, + Abishua his son, +006:051 Bukki his son, Uzzi his son, Zerahiah his son, +006:052 Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son, +006:053 Zadok his son, Ahimaaz his son. +006:054 Now these are their dwelling places according to their encampments + in their borders: to the sons of Aaron, of the families + of the Kohathites (for theirs was the [first] lot), +006:055 to them they gave Hebron in the land of Judah, and the suburbs + of it round about it; +006:056 but the fields of the city, and the villages of it, they gave + to Caleb the son of Jephunneh. +006:057 To the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of refuge, + Hebron; Libnah also with its suburbs, and Jattir, and Eshtemoa + with its suburbs, +006:058 and Hilen with its suburbs, Debir with its suburbs, +006:059 and Ashan with its suburbs, and Beth Shemesh with its suburbs; +006:060 and out of the tribe of Benjamin, Geba with its suburbs, + and Allemeth with its suburbs, and Anathoth with its suburbs. + All their cities throughout their families were thirteen cities. +006:061 To the rest of the sons of Kohath [were given] by lot, + out of the family of the tribe, out of the half-tribe, + the half of Manasseh, ten cities. +006:062 To the sons of Gershom, according to their families, + out of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, + and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the tribe + of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities. +006:063 To the sons of Merari [were given] by lot, according to + their families, out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe + of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities. +006:064 The children of Israel gave to the Levites the cities + with their suburbs. +006:065 They gave by lot out of the tribe of the children of Judah, + and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, and out of + the tribe of the children of Benjamin, these cities which are + mentioned by name. +006:066 Some of the families of the sons of Kohath had cities of their + borders out of the tribe of Ephraim. +006:067 They gave to them the cities of refuge, Shechem in the hill + country of Ephraim with its suburbs; Gezer also with its suburbs, +006:068 and Jokmeam with its suburbs, and Beth Horon with its suburbs, +006:069 and Aijalon with its suburbs, and Gath Rimmon with its suburbs; +006:070 and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Aner with its suburbs, + and Bileam with its suburbs, for the rest of the family + of the sons of Kohath. +006:071 To the sons of Gershom [were given], out of the family of + the half-tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with its suburbs, + and Ashtaroth with its suburbs; +006:072 and out of the tribe of Issachar, Kedesh with its suburbs, + Daberath with its suburbs, +006:073 and Ramoth with its suburbs, and Anem with its suburbs; +006:074 and out of the tribe of Asher, Mashal with its suburbs, + and Abdon with its suburbs, +006:075 and Hukok with its suburbs, and Rehob with its suburbs; +006:076 and out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its suburbs, + and Hammon with its suburbs, and Kiriathaim with its suburbs. +006:077 To the rest of [the Levites], the sons of Merari, [were given], + out of the tribe of Zebulun, Rimmono with its suburbs, + Tabor with its suburbs; +006:078 and beyond the Jordan at Jericho, on the east side of the Jordan, + [were given them], out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in + the wilderness with its suburbs, and Jahzah with its suburbs, +006:079 and Kedemoth with its suburbs, and Mephaath with its suburbs; +006:080 and out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with its suburbs, + and Mahanaim with its suburbs, +006:081 and Heshbon with its suburbs, and Jazer with its suburbs. +007:001 Of the sons of Issachar: Tola, and Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four. +007:002 The sons of Tola: Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai, + and Ibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their fathers' houses, [to wit], + of Tola; mighty men of valor in their generations: their number + in the days of David was twenty-two thousand six hundred. +007:003 The sons of Uzzi: Izrahiah. The sons of Izrahiah: Michael, and + Obadiah, and Joel, Isshiah, five; all of them chief men. +007:004 With them, by their generations, after their fathers' + houses, were bands of the army for war, thirty-six thousand; + for they had many wives and sons. +007:005 Their brothers among all the families of Issachar, mighty men + of valor, reckoned in all by genealogy, were eighty-seven thousand. +007:006 [The sons of] Benjamin: Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three. +007:007 The sons of Bela: Ezbon, and Uzzi, and Uzziel, and Jerimoth, + and Iri, five; heads of fathers' houses, mighty men of valor; + and they were reckoned by genealogy twenty-two thousand thirty-four. +007:008 The sons of Becher: Zemirah, and Joash, and Eliezer, and Elioenai, + and Omri, and Jeremoth, and Abijah, and Anathoth, and Alemeth. + All these were the sons of Becher. +007:009 They were reckoned by genealogy, after their generations, + heads of their fathers' houses, mighty men of valor, + twenty thousand two hundred. +007:010 The sons of Jediael: Bilhan. The sons of Bilhan: + Jeush, and Benjamin, and Ehud, and Chenaanah, and Zethan, + and Tarshish, and Ahishahar. +007:011 All these were sons of Jediael, according to the heads of + their fathers' [houses], mighty men of valor, seventeen thousand + and two hundred, who were able to go forth in the army for war. +007:012 Shuppim also, and Huppim, the sons of Ir, Hushim, the sons of Aher. +007:013 The sons of Naphtali: Jahziel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shallum, + the sons of Bilhah. +007:014 The sons of Manasseh: Asriel, whom his concubine the Aramitess bore: + she bore Machir the father of Gilead: +007:015 and Machir took a wife of Huppim and Shuppim, whose sister's + name was Maacah; and the name of the second was Zelophehad: + and Zelophehad had daughters. +007:016 Maacah the wife of Machir bore a son, and she named him Peresh; + and the name of his brother was Sheresh; and his sons were + Ulam and Rakem. +007:017 The sons of Ulam: Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead + the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh. +007:018 His sister Hammolecheth bore Ishhod, and Abiezer, and Mahlah. +007:019 The sons of Shemida were Ahian, and Shechem, and Likhi, and Aniam. +007:020 The sons of Ephraim: Shuthelah, and Bered his son, and Tahath + his son, and Eleadah his son, and Tahath his son, +007:021 and Zabad his son, and Shuthelah his son, and Ezer, and Elead, + whom the men of Gath who were born in the land killed, + because they came down to take away their livestock. +007:022 Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brothers came + to comfort him. +007:023 He went in to his wife, and she conceived, and bore a son, + and he named him Beriah, because it went evil with his house. +007:024 His daughter was Sheerah, who built Beth Horon the lower + and the upper, and Uzzen Sheerah. +007:025 Rephah was his son, and Resheph, and Telah his son, + and Tahan his son, +007:026 Ladan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son, +007:027 Nun his son, Joshua his son. +007:028 Their possessions and habitations were Bethel and the towns of it, + and eastward Naaran, and westward Gezer, with the towns of it; + Shechem also and the towns of it, to Azzah and the towns of it; +007:029 and by the borders of the children of Manasseh, Beth Shean + and its towns, Taanach and its towns, Megiddo and its towns, + Dor and its towns. In these lived the children of Joseph + the son of Israel. +007:030 The sons of Asher: Imnah, and Ishvah, and Ishvi, and Beriah, + and Serah their sister. +007:031 The sons of Beriah: Heber, and Malchiel, who was the + father of Birzaith. +007:032 Heber became the father of Japhlet, and Shomer, and Hotham, + and Shua their sister. +007:033 The sons of Japhlet: Pasach, and Bimhal, and Ashvath. + These are the children of Japhlet. +007:034 The sons of Shemer: Ahi, and Rohgah, Jehubbah, and Aram. +007:035 The sons of Helem his brother: Zophah, and Imna, + and Shelesh, and Amal. +007:036 The sons of Zophah: Suah, and Harnepher, and Shual, + and Beri, and Imrah, +007:037 Bezer, and Hod, and Shamma, and Shilshah, and Ithran, and Beera. +007:038 The sons of Jether: Jephunneh, and Pispa, and Ara. +007:039 The sons of Ulla: Arah, and Hanniel, and Rizia. +007:040 All these were the children of Asher, heads of the fathers' + houses, choice and mighty men of valor, chief of the princes. + The number of them reckoned by genealogy for service in war + was twenty-six thousand men. +008:001 Benjamin became the father of Bela his firstborn, Ashbel the second, + and Aharah the third, +008:002 Nohah the fourth, and Rapha the fifth. +008:003 Bela had sons: Addar, and Gera, and Abihud, +008:004 and Abishua, and Naaman, and Ahoah, +008:005 and Gera, and Shephuphan, and Huram. +008:006 These are the sons of Ehud: these are the heads of fathers' + [houses] of the inhabitants of Geba, and they carried them + captive to Manahath: +008:007 and Naaman, and Ahijah, and Gera, he carried them captive: + and he became the father of Uzza and Ahihud. +008:008 Shaharaim became the father of children in the field of Moab, + after he had sent them away; Hushim and Baara were his wives. +008:009 He became the father of Hodesh his wife, Jobab, and Zibia, + and Mesha, and Malcam, +008:010 and Jeuz, and Shachia, and Mirmah. These were his sons, + heads of fathers' [houses]. +008:011 Of Hushim he became the father of Abitub and Elpaal. +008:012 The sons of Elpaal: Eber, and Misham, and Shemed, who built + Ono and Lod, with the towns of it; +008:013 and Beriah, and Shema, who were heads of fathers' + [houses] of the inhabitants of Aijalon, who put to flight + the inhabitants of Gath; +008:014 and Ahio, Shashak, and Jeremoth, +008:015 and Zebadiah, and Arad, and Eder, +008:016 and Michael, and Ishpah, and Joha, the sons of Beriah, +008:017 and Zebadiah, and Meshullam, and Hizki, and Heber, +008:018 and Ishmerai, and Izliah, and Jobab, the sons of Elpaal, +008:019 and Jakim, and Zichri, and Zabdi, +008:020 and Elienai, and Zillethai, and Eliel, +008:021 and Adaiah, and Beraiah, and Shimrath, the sons of Shimei, +008:022 and Ishpan, and Eber, and Eliel, +008:023 and Abdon, and Zichri, and Hanan, +008:024 and Hananiah, and Elam, and Anthothijah, +008:025 and Iphdeiah, and Penuel, the sons of Shashak, +008:026 and Shamsherai, and Shehariah, and Athaliah, +008:027 and Jaareshiah, and Elijah, and Zichri, the sons of Jeroham. +008:028 These were heads of fathers' [houses] throughout their generations, + chief men: these lived in Jerusalem. +008:029 In Gibeon there lived the father of Gibeon, [Jeiel], whose wife's + name was Maacah; +008:030 and his firstborn son Abdon, and Zur, and Kish, and Baal, and Nadab, +008:031 and Gedor, and Ahio, and Zecher. +008:032 Mikloth became the father of Shimeah. They also lived with + their brothers in Jerusalem, over against their brothers. +008:033 Ner became the father of Kish; and Kish became the father of Saul; + and Saul became the father of Jonathan, and Malchishua, + and Abinadab, and Eshbaal. +008:034 The son of Jonathan was Merib Baal; and Merib Baal became + the father of Micah. +008:035 The sons of Micah: Pithon, and Melech, and Tarea, and Ahaz. +008:036 Ahaz became the father of Jehoaddah; and Jehoaddah became + the father of Alemeth, and Azmaveth, and Zimri; and Zimri + became the father of Moza. +008:037 Moza became the father of Binea; Raphah was his son, + Eleasah his son, Azel his son. +008:038 Azel had six sons, whose names are these: Azrikam, Bocheru, + and Ishmael, and Sheariah, and Obadiah, and Hanan. + All these were the sons of Azel. +008:039 The sons of Eshek his brother: Ulam his firstborn, + Jeush the second, and Eliphelet the third. +008:040 The sons of Ulam were mighty men of valor, archers, + and had many sons, and sons' sons, one hundred fifty. + All these were of the sons of Benjamin. +009:001 So all Israel were reckoned by genealogies; and behold, + they are written in the book of the kings of Israel: and Judah + was carried away captive to Babylon for their disobedience. +009:002 Now the first inhabitants who lived in their possessions + in their cities were Israel, the priests, the Levites, + and the Nethinim. +009:003 In Jerusalem lived of the children of Judah, and of the children + of Benjamin, and of the children of Ephraim and Manasseh: +009:004 Uthai the son of Ammihud, the son of Omri, the son of Imri, + the son of Bani, of the children of Perez the son of Judah. +009:005 Of the Shilonites: Asaiah the firstborn, and his sons. +009:006 Of the sons of Zerah: Jeuel, and their brothers, + six hundred ninety. +009:007 Of the sons of Benjamin: Sallu the son of Meshullam, the son + of Hodaviah, the son of Hassenuah, +009:008 and Ibneiah the son of Jeroham, and Elah the son of Uzzi, + the son of Michri, and Meshullam the son of Shephatiah, + the son of Reuel, the son of Ibnijah; +009:009 and their brothers, according to their generations, + nine hundred fifty-six. All these men were heads of fathers' + [houses] by their fathers' houses. +009:010 Of the priests: Jedaiah, and Jehoiarib, Jachin, +009:011 and Azariah the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, + the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, + the ruler of the house of God; +009:012 and Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son of Pashhur, the son + of Malchijah, and Maasai the son of Adiel, the son of Jahzerah, + the son of Meshullam, the son of Meshillemith, the son of Immer; +009:013 and their brothers, heads of their fathers' houses, one thousand + seven hundred sixty; very able men for the work of the service + of the house of God. +009:014 Of the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, + the son of Hashabiah, of the sons of Merari; +009:015 and Bakbakkar, Heresh, and Galal, and Mattaniah the son of Mica, + the son of Zichri, the son of Asaph, +009:016 and Obadiah the son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son + of Jeduthun, and Berechiah the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, + who lived in the villages of the Netophathites. +009:017 The porters: Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, + and their brothers (Shallum was the chief), +009:018 who hitherto [waited] in the king's gate eastward: + they were the porters for the camp of the children of Levi. +009:019 Shallum the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, + and his brothers, of his father's house, the Korahites, were over + the work of the service, keepers of the thresholds of the tent: + and their fathers had been over the camp of Yahweh, + keepers of the entry. +009:020 Phinehas the son of Eleazar was ruler over them in time past, + [and] Yahweh was with him. +009:021 Zechariah the son of Meshelemiah was porter of the door + of the tent of meeting. +009:022 All these who were chosen to be porters in the thresholds + were two hundred and twelve. These were reckoned by genealogy + in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer did ordain + in their office of trust. +009:023 So they and their children had the oversight of the gates + of the house of Yahweh, even the house of the tent, by wards. +009:024 On the four sides were the porters, toward the east, + west, north, and south. +009:025 Their brothers, in their villages, were to come in every seven + days from time to time to be with them: +009:026 for the four chief porters, who were Levites, were in an office + of trust, and were over the chambers and over the treasuries + in the house of God. +009:027 They lodged round about the house of God, because the charge + [of it] was on them; and to them pertained the opening of it + morning by morning. +009:028 Certain of them had charge of the vessels of service; for by count + were these brought in and by count were these taken out. +009:029 Some of them also were appointed over the furniture, and over + all the vessels of the sanctuary, and over the fine flour, + and the wine, and the oil, and the frankincense, and the spices. +009:030 Some of the sons of the priests prepared the confection + of the spices. +009:031 Mattithiah, one of the Levites, who was the firstborn of Shallum + the Korahite, had the office of trust over the things that + were baked in pans. +009:032 Some of their brothers, of the sons of the Kohathites, + were over the show bread, to prepare it every Sabbath. +009:033 These are the singers, heads of fathers' [houses] of the Levites, + [who lived] in the chambers [and were] free [from other service]; + for they were employed in their work day and night. +009:034 These were heads of fathers' [houses] of the Levites, + throughout their generations, chief men: these lived at Jerusalem. +009:035 In Gibeon there lived the father of Gibeon, Jeiel, whose wife's + name was Maacah: +009:036 and his firstborn son Abdon, and Zur, and Kish, and Baal, + and Ner, and Nadab, +009:037 and Gedor, and Ahio, and Zechariah, and Mikloth. +009:038 Mikloth became the father of Shimeam. They also lived with + their brothers in Jerusalem, over against their brothers. +009:039 Ner became the father of Kish; and Kish became the father of Saul; + and Saul became the father of Jonathan, and Malchishua, + and Abinadab, and Eshbaal. +009:040 The son of Jonathan was Merib Baal; and Merib Baal became + the father of Micah. +009:041 The sons of Micah: Pithon, and Melech, and Tahrea, [and Ahaz]. +009:042 Ahaz became the father of Jarah; and Jarah became the father + of Alemeth, and Azmaveth, and Zimri; and Zimri became + the father of Moza; +009:043 and Moza became the father of Binea; and Rephaiah his son, + Eleasah his son, Azel his son. +009:044 Azel had six sons, whose names are these: Azrikam, Bocheru, + and Ishmael, and Sheariah, and Obadiah, and Hanan: + these were the sons of Azel. +010:001 Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of + Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain + on Mount Gilboa. +010:002 The Philistines followed hard after Saul and after his sons; + and the Philistines killed Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchishua, + the sons of Saul. +010:003 The battle went sore against Saul, and the archers overtook him; + and he was distressed by reason of the archers. +010:004 Then said Saul to his armor bearer, Draw your sword, and thrust me + through therewith, lest these uncircumcised come and abuse me. + But his armor bearer would not; for he was sore afraid. + Therefore Saul took his sword, and fell on it. +010:005 When his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he likewise fell + on his sword, and died. +010:006 So Saul died, and his three sons; and all his house died together. +010:007 When all the men of Israel who were in the valley saw that they fled, + and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook their cities, + and fled; and the Philistines came and lived in them. +010:008 It happened on the next day, when the Philistines came + to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his sons fallen + on Mount Gilboa. +010:009 They stripped him, and took his head, and his armor, + and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, + to carry the news to their idols, and to the people. +010:010 They put his armor in the house of their gods, and fastened + his head in the house of Dagon. +010:011 When all Jabesh Gilead heard all that the Philistines had + done to Saul, +010:012 all the valiant men arose, and took away the body of Saul, + and the bodies of his sons, and brought them to Jabesh, and buried + their bones under the oak in Jabesh, and fasted seven days. +010:013 So Saul died for his trespass which he committed against Yahweh, + because of the word of Yahweh, which he didn't keep; and also + because he asked counsel of one who had a familiar spirit, + to inquire [thereby], +010:014 and didn't inquire of Yahweh: therefore he killed him, + and turned the kingdom to David the son of Jesse. +011:001 Then all Israel gathered themselves to David to Hebron, + saying, Behold, we are your bone and your flesh. +011:002 In times past, even when Saul was king, it was you who led + out and brought in Israel: and Yahweh your God said to you, + You shall be shepherd of my people Israel, and you shall + be prince over my people Israel. +011:003 So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; + and David made a covenant with them in Hebron before Yahweh; + and they anointed David king over Israel, according to the word + of Yahweh by Samuel. +011:004 David and all Israel went to Jerusalem (the same is Jebus); + and the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, were there. +011:005 The inhabitants of Jebus said to David, You shall not come in here. + Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion; the same is + the city of David. +011:006 David said, Whoever strikes the Jebusites first shall be + chief and captain. Joab the son of Zeruiah went up first, + and was made chief. +011:007 David lived in the stronghold; therefore they called it + the city of David. +011:008 He built the city round about, from Millo even round about; + and Joab repaired the rest of the city. +011:009 David grew greater and greater; for Yahweh of Armies was with him. +011:010 Now these are the chief of the mighty men whom David had, + who shown themselves strong with him in his kingdom, + together with all Israel, to make him king, according to the word + of Yahweh concerning Israel. +011:011 This is the number of the mighty men whom David had: + Jashobeam, the son of a Hachmonite, the chief of the thirty; + he lifted up his spear against three hundred and killed them + at one time. +011:012 After him was Eleazar the son of Dodo, the Ahohite, who was + one of the three mighty men. +011:013 He was with David at Pasdammim, and there the Philistines were + gathered together to battle, where was a plot of ground full + of barley; and the people fled from before the Philistines. +011:014 They stood in the midst of the plot, and defended it, and killed + the Philistines; and Yahweh saved them by a great victory. +011:015 Three of the thirty chief men went down to the rock to David, + into the cave of Adullam; and the army of the Philistines + were encamped in the valley of Rephaim. +011:016 David was then in the stronghold, and the garrison of the + Philistines was then in Bethlehem. +011:017 David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me water to drink + of the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate! +011:018 The three broke through the army of the Philistines, and drew + water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, + and took it, and brought it to David: but David would not + drink of it, but poured it out to Yahweh, +011:019 and said, My God forbid it me, that I should do this: + shall I drink the blood of these men who have put their + lives in jeopardy? for with [the jeopardy of] their lives + they brought it. Therefore he would not drink it. + These things did the three mighty men. +011:020 Abishai, the brother of Joab, he was chief of the three; + for he lifted up his spear against three hundred and killed them, + and had a name among the three. +011:021 Of the three, he was more honorable than the two, and was made + their captain: however he didn't attain to the [first] three. +011:022 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, + who had done mighty deeds, he killed the two [sons of] Ariel + of Moab: he went down also and killed a lion in the midst + of a pit in time of snow. +011:023 He killed an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits high; + and in the Egyptian's hand was a spear like a weaver's beam; + and he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear + out of the Egyptian's hand, and killed him with his own spear. +011:024 These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had a name + among the three mighty men. +011:025 Behold, he was more honorable than the thirty, but he didn't + attain to the [first] three: and David set him over his guard. +011:026 Also the mighty men of the armies: Asahel the brother + of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem, +011:027 Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the Pelonite, +011:028 Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abiezer the Anathothite, +011:029 Sibbecai the Hushathite, Ilai the Ahohite, +011:030 Maharai the Netophathite, Heled the son of Baanah the Netophathite, +011:031 Ithai the son of Ribai of Gibeah of the children + of Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite, +011:032 Hurai of the brooks of Gaash, Abiel the Arbathite, +011:033 Azmaveth the Baharumite, Eliahba the Shaalbonite, +011:034 the sons of Hashem the Gizonite, Jonathan the son of + Shagee the Hararite, +011:035 Ahiam the son of Sacar the Hararite, Eliphal the son of Ur, +011:036 Hepher the Mecherathite, Ahijah the Pelonite, +011:037 Hezro the Carmelite, Naarai the son of Ezbai, +011:038 Joel the brother of Nathan, Mibhar the son of Hagri, +011:039 Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Berothite, the armor bearer + of Joab the son of Zeruiah, +011:040 Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite, +011:041 Uriah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai, +011:042 Adina the son of Shiza the Reubenite, a chief of the Reubenites, + and thirty with him, +011:043 Hanan the son of Maacah, and Joshaphat the Mithnite, +011:044 Uzzia the Ashterathite, Shama and Jeiel the sons of + Hotham the Aroerite, +011:045 Jediael the son of Shimri, and Joha his brother, the Tizite, +011:046 Eliel the Mahavite, and Jeribai, and Joshaviah, the sons of Elnaam, + and Ithmah the Moabite, +011:047 Eliel, and Obed, and Jaasiel the Mezobaite. +012:001 Now these are those who came to David to Ziklag, while he yet + kept himself close because of Saul the son of Kish; + and they were among the mighty men, his helpers in war. +012:002 They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and + the left in slinging stones and in shooting arrows from the bow: + they were of Saul's brothers of Benjamin. +012:003 The chief was Ahiezer; then Joash, the sons of Shemaah + the Gibeathite, and Jeziel, and Pelet, the sons of Azmaveth, + and Beracah, and Jehu the Anathothite, +012:004 and Ishmaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty man among the thirty, + and over the thirty, and Jeremiah, and Jahaziel, and Johanan, + and Jozabad the Gederathite, +012:005 Eluzai, and Jerimoth, and Bealiah, and Shemariah, + and Shephatiah the Haruphite, +012:006 Elkanah, and Isshiah, and Azarel, and Joezer, and Jashobeam, + the Korahites, +012:007 and Joelah, and Zebadiah, the sons of Jeroham of Gedor. +012:008 Of the Gadites there separated themselves to David to + the stronghold in the wilderness, mighty men of valor, + men trained for war, that could handle shield and spear; + whose faces were like the faces of lions, and they were as swift + as the roes on the mountains; +012:009 Ezer the chief, Obadiah the second, Eliab the third, +012:010 Mishmannah the fourth, Jeremiah the fifth, +012:011 Attai the sixth, Eliel the seventh, +012:012 Johanan the eighth, Elzabad the ninth, +012:013 Jeremiah the tenth, Machbannai the eleventh. +012:014 These of the sons of Gad were captains of the army: + he who was least was equal to one hundred, and the greatest + to one thousand. +012:015 These are those who went over the Jordan in the first month, + when it had overflowed all its banks; and they put + to flight all them of the valleys, both toward the east, + and toward the west. +012:016 There came of the children of Benjamin and Judah to the + stronghold to David. +012:017 David went out to meet them, and answered them, If you be come + peaceably to me to help me, my heart shall be knit to you; + but if [you be come] to betray me to my adversaries, seeing there + is no wrong in my hands, the God of our fathers look thereon, + and rebuke it. +012:018 Then the Spirit came on Amasai, who was chief of the thirty, + [and he said], "We are yours, David, and on your side, you son + of Jesse: peace, peace be to you, and peace be to your helpers; + for your God helps you." Then David received them, and made + them captains of the band. +012:019 Of Manasseh also there fell away some to David, + when he came with the Philistines against Saul to battle: + but they didn't help them; for the lords of the Philistines + sent him away after consultation, saying, He will fall away + to his master Saul to the jeopardy of our heads. +012:020 As he went to Ziklag, there fell to him of Manasseh, Adnah, + and Jozabad, and Jediael, and Michael, and Jozabad, and Elihu, + and Zillethai, captains of thousands who were of Manasseh. +012:021 They helped David against the band of rovers: for they were + all mighty men of valor, and were captains in the army. +012:022 For from day to day men came to David to help him, until there + was a great army, like the army of God. +012:023 These are the numbers of the heads of those who were armed for war, + who came to David to Hebron, to turn the kingdom of Saul to him, + according to the word of Yahweh. +012:024 The children of Judah who bore shield and spear were six + thousand and eight hundred, armed for war. +012:025 Of the children of Simeon, mighty men of valor for the war, + seven thousand and one hundred. +012:026 Of the children of Levi four thousand and six hundred. +012:027 Jehoiada was the leader of [the house of] Aaron; and with him + were three thousand and seven hundred, +012:028 and Zadok, a young man mighty of valor, and of his father's + house twenty-two captains. +012:029 Of the children of Benjamin, the brothers of Saul, three thousand: + for hitherto the greatest part of them had kept their allegiance + to the house of Saul. +012:030 Of the children of Ephraim twenty thousand eight hundred, + mighty men of valor, famous men in their fathers' houses. +012:031 Of the half-tribe of Manasseh eighteen thousand, who were + mentioned by name, to come and make David king. +012:032 Of the children of Issachar, men who had understanding of the times, + to know what Israel ought to do, the heads of them were two hundred; + and all their brothers were at their commandment. +012:033 Of Zebulun, such as were able to go out in the army, who could + set the battle in array, with all manner of instruments of war, + fifty thousand, and who could order [the battle array, + and were] not of double heart. +012:034 Of Naphtali one thousand captains, and with them with shield + and spear thirty-seven thousand. +012:035 Of the Danites who could set the battle in array, + twenty-eight thousand six hundred. +012:036 Of Asher, such as were able to go out in the army, who could + set the battle in array, forty thousand. +012:037 On the other side of the Jordan, of the Reubenites, + and the Gadites, and of the half-tribe of Manasseh, + with all manner of instruments of war for the battle, + one hundred twenty thousand. +012:038 All these being men of war, who could order the battle array, + came with a perfect heart to Hebron, to make David king over + all Israel: and all the rest also of Israel were of one heart + to make David king. +012:039 They were there with David three days, eating and drinking; + for their brothers had made preparation for them. +012:040 Moreover those who were near to them, [even] as far as + Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, brought bread on donkeys, + and on camels, and on mules, and on oxen, food of meal, + cakes of figs, and clusters of raisins, and wine, and oil, + and oxen, and sheep in abundance: for there was joy in Israel. +013:001 David consulted with the captains of thousands and of hundreds, + even with every leader. +013:002 David said to all the assembly of Israel, If it seem good to you, + and if it be of Yahweh our God, let us send abroad everywhere + to our brothers who are left in all the land of Israel, with whom + the priests and Levites are in their cities that have suburbs, + that they may gather themselves to us; +013:003 and let us bring again the ark of our God to us: + for we didn't seek it in the days of Saul. +013:004 All the assembly said that they would do so; for the thing + was right in the eyes of all the people. +013:005 So David assembled all Israel together, from the Shihor [the + brook] of Egypt even to the entrance of Hamath, to bring + the ark of God from Kiriath Jearim. +013:006 David went up, and all Israel, to Baalah, [that is], + to Kiriath Jearim, which belonged to Judah, to bring up from + there the ark of God Yahweh that sits [above] the cherubim, + that is called by the Name. +013:007 They carried the ark of God on a new cart, [and brought it] out + of the house of Abinadab: and Uzza and Ahio drove the cart. +013:008 David and all Israel played before God with all their might, + even with songs, and with harps, and with stringed instruments, + and with tambourines, and with cymbals, and with trumpets. +013:009 When they came to the threshing floor of Chidon, Uzza put + forth his hand to hold the ark; for the oxen stumbled. +013:010 The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Uzza, and he struck him, + because he put forth his hand to the ark; and there + he died before God. +013:011 David was displeased, because Yahweh had broken forth on Uzza; + and he called that place Perez Uzza, to this day. +013:012 David was afraid of God that day, saying, How shall I bring + the ark of God home to me? +013:013 So David didn't move the ark to him into the city of David, + but carried it aside into the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite. +013:014 The ark of God remained with the family of Obed-Edom in his house + three months: and Yahweh blessed the house of Obed-Edom, + and all that he had. +014:001 Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, + and masons, and carpenters, to build him a house. +014:002 David perceived that Yahweh had established him king over Israel; + for his kingdom was exalted on high, for his people Israel's sake. +014:003 David took more wives at Jerusalem; and David became the father + of more sons and daughters. +014:004 These are the names of the children whom he had + in Jerusalem: Shammua, and Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon, +014:005 and Ibhar, and Elishua, and Elpelet, +014:006 and Nogah, and Nepheg, and Japhia, +014:007 and Elishama, and Beeliada, and Eliphelet. +014:008 When the Philistines heard that David was anointed king + over all Israel, all the Philistines went up to seek David: + and David heard of it, and went out against them. +014:009 Now the Philistines had come and made a raid in the + valley of Rephaim. +014:010 David inquired of God, saying, Shall I go up against + the Philistines? and will you deliver them into my hand? + Yahweh said to him, Go up; for I will deliver them into your hand. +014:011 So they came up to Baal Perazim, and David struck them there; + and David said, God has broken my enemies by my hand, + like the breach of waters. Therefore they called the name + of that place Baal Perazim. +014:012 They left their gods there; and David gave commandment, + and they were burned with fire. +014:013 The Philistines yet again made a raid in the valley. +014:014 David inquired again of God; and God said to him, You shall + not go up after them: turn away from them, and come on them + over against the mulberry trees. +014:015 It shall be, when you hear the sound of marching in the tops + of the mulberry trees, that then you shall go out to battle; + for God is gone out before you to strike the army + of the Philistines. +014:016 David did as God commanded him: and they struck the army + of the Philistines from Gibeon even to Gezer. +014:017 The fame of David went out into all lands; and Yahweh brought + the fear of him on all nations. +015:001 [David] made him houses in the city of David; and he prepared + a place for the ark of God, and pitched for it a tent. +015:002 Then David said, None ought to carry the ark of God but the Levites: + for them has Yahweh chosen to carry the ark of God, + and to minister to him forever. +015:003 David assembled all Israel at Jerusalem, to bring up the ark + of Yahweh to its place, which he had prepared for it. +015:004 David gathered together the sons of Aaron, and the Levites: +015:005 of the sons of Kohath, Uriel the chief, and his brothers + one hundred twenty; +015:006 of the sons of Merari, Asaiah the chief, and his brothers + two hundred twenty; +015:007 of the sons of Gershom, Joel the chief, and his brothers + one hundred thirty; +015:008 of the sons of Elizaphan, Shemaiah the chief, and his + brothers two hundred; +015:009 of the sons of Hebron, Eliel the chief, and his brothers eighty; +015:010 of the sons of Uzziel, Amminadab the chief, and his brothers + one hundred twelve. +015:011 David called for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for the Levites, + for Uriel, Asaiah, and Joel, Shemaiah, and Eliel, and Amminadab, +015:012 and said to them, You are the heads of the fathers' [houses] of + the Levites: sanctify yourselves, both you and your brothers, + that you may bring up the ark of Yahweh, the God of Israel, + to [the place] that I have prepared for it. +015:013 For because you didn't carry it at the first, Yahweh our God + made a breach on us, because we didn't seek him according + to the ordinance. +015:014 So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring + up the ark of Yahweh, the God of Israel. +015:015 The children of the Levites bore the ark of God on their + shoulders with the poles thereon, as Moses commanded according + to the word of Yahweh. +015:016 David spoke to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brothers + the singers, with instruments of music, stringed instruments + and harps and cymbals, sounding aloud and lifting up + the voice with joy. +015:017 So the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel; and of his brothers, + Asaph the son of Berechiah; and of the sons of Merari + their brothers, Ethan the son of Kushaiah; +015:018 and with them their brothers of the second degree, Zechariah, Ben, + and Jaaziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, Eliab, + and Benaiah, and Maaseiah, and Mattithiah, and Eliphelehu, + and Mikneiah, and Obed-Edom, and Jeiel, the doorkeepers. +015:019 So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, [were appointed] + with cymbals of brass to sound aloud; +015:020 and Zechariah, and Aziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, + and Eliab, and Maaseiah, and Benaiah, with stringed instruments + set to Alamoth; +015:021 and Mattithiah, and Eliphelehu, and Mikneiah, and Obed-Edom, + and Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps tuned to the eight-stringed + lyre, to lead. +015:022 Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, was over the song: + he instructed about the song, because he was skillful. +015:023 Berechiah and Elkanah were doorkeepers for the ark. +015:024 Shebaniah, and Joshaphat, and Nethanel, and Amasai, + and Zechariah, and Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, + did blow the trumpets before the ark of God: and Obed-Edom + and Jehiah were doorkeepers for the ark. +015:025 So David, and the elders of Israel, and the captains over thousands, + went to bring up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh out of + the house of Obed-Edom with joy. +015:026 It happened, when God helped the Levites who bore the ark + of the covenant of Yahweh, that they sacrificed seven bulls + and seven rams. +015:027 David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, + and all the Levites who bore the ark, and the singers, + and Chenaniah the master of the song [with] the singers: + and David had on him an ephod of linen. +015:028 Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant + of Yahweh with shouting, and with sound of the cornet, + and with trumpets, and with cymbals, sounding aloud with stringed + instruments and harps. +015:029 It happened, as the ark of the covenant of Yahweh came to + the city of David, that Michal the daughter of Saul looked + out at the window, and saw king David dancing and playing; + and she despised him in her heart. +016:001 They brought in the ark of God, and set it in the midst + of the tent that David had pitched for it: and they offered + burnt offerings and peace offerings before God. +016:002 When David had made an end of offering the burnt offering and + the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of Yahweh. +016:003 He dealt to everyone of Israel, both man and woman, + to every one a loaf of bread, and a portion [of flesh], + and a cake of raisins. +016:004 He appointed certain of the Levites to minister before the ark + of Yahweh, and to celebrate and to thank and praise Yahweh, + the God of Israel: +016:005 Asaph the chief, and second to him Zechariah, Jeiel, and Shemiramoth, + and Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab, and Benaiah, and Obed-Edom, + and Jeiel, with stringed instruments and with harps; + and Asaph with cymbals, sounding aloud; +016:006 and Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets continually, + before the ark of the covenant of God. +016:007 Then on that day David first ordained to give thanks to Yahweh, + by the hand of Asaph and his brothers. +016:008 Oh give thanks to Yahweh. Call on his name. Make his doings + known among the peoples. +016:009 Sing to him. Sing praises to him. Tell of all his marvelous works. +016:010 Glory in his holy name. Let the heart of those who + seek Yahweh rejoice. +016:011 Seek you Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more. +016:012 Remember his marvelous works that he has done, his wonders, + and the judgments of his mouth, +016:013 you seed of Israel his servant, you children of Jacob, + his chosen ones. +016:014 He is Yahweh our God. His judgments are in all the earth. +016:015 Remember his covenant forever, the word which he commanded + to a thousand generations, +016:016 [the covenant] which he made with Abraham, his oath to Isaac. +016:017 He confirmed the same to Jacob for a statute, and to Israel + for an everlasting covenant, +016:018 saying, I will you give the land of Canaan, The lot + of your inheritance, +016:019 when you were but a few men in number, yes, very few, + and foreigners were in it. +016:020 They went about from nation to nation, from one kingdom + to another people. +016:021 He allowed no man to do them wrong. Yes, he reproved kings + for their sakes, +016:022 [saying], Don't touch my anointed ones! Do my prophets no harm. +016:023 Sing to Yahweh, all the earth! Display his salvation from + day to day. +016:024 Declare his glory among the nations, and his marvelous works + among all the peoples. +016:025 For great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised. + He also is to be feared above all gods. +016:026 For all the gods of the peoples are idols, but Yahweh + made the heavens. +016:027 Honor and majesty are before him. Strength and gladness are + in his place. +016:028 Ascribe to Yahweh, you relatives of the peoples, ascribe to + Yahweh glory and strength! +016:029 Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due to his name. Bring an offering, + and come before him. Worship Yahweh in holy array. +016:030 Tremble before him, all the earth. The world also is established + that it can't be moved. +016:031 Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice! + Let them say among the nations, Yahweh reigns. +016:032 Let the sea roar, and its fullness! Let the field exult, + and all that is therein! +016:033 Then the trees of the forest will sing for joy before Yahweh, + for he comes to judge the earth. +016:034 Oh give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving + kindness endures forever. +016:035 Say, Save us, God of our salvation! Gather us together and + deliver us from the nations, to give thanks to your holy name, + to triumph in your praise. +016:036 Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, from everlasting even + to everlasting. All the people said, Amen, and praised Yahweh. +016:037 So he left there, before the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, Asaph + and his brothers, to minister before the ark continually, + as every day's work required; +016:038 and Obed-Edom with their brothers, sixty-eight; Obed-Edom also + the son of Jeduthun and Hosah to be doorkeepers; +016:039 and Zadok the priest, and his brothers the priests, before the tent + of Yahweh in the high place that was at Gibeon, +016:040 to offer burnt offerings to Yahweh on the altar of burnt offering + continually morning and evening, even according to all that is + written in the law of Yahweh, which he commanded to Israel; +016:041 and with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest who were chosen, + who were mentioned by name, to give thanks to Yahweh, + because his loving kindness endures forever; +016:042 and with them Heman and Jeduthun [with] trumpets and cymbals + for those that should sound aloud, and [with] instruments for + the songs of God; and the sons of Jeduthun to be at the gate. +016:043 All the people departed every man to his house: + and David returned to bless his house. +017:001 It happened, when David lived in his house, that David said + to Nathan the prophet, Behold, I dwell in a house of cedar, + but the ark of the covenant of Yahweh [dwells] under curtains. +017:002 Nathan said to David, Do all that is in your heart; for God + is with you. +017:003 It happened the same night, that the word of God came + to Nathan, saying, +017:004 Go and tell David my servant, Thus says Yahweh, You shall + not build me a house to dwell in: +017:005 for I have not lived in a house since the day that I brought + up Israel, to this day, but have gone from tent to tent, + and from [one] tent [to another]. +017:006 In all places in which I have walked with all Israel, spoke I + a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded + to be shepherd of my people, saying, Why have you not built + me a house of cedar? +017:007 Now therefore thus shall you tell my servant David, Thus says + Yahweh of Armies, I took you from the sheep pen, from following + the sheep, that you should be prince over my people Israel: +017:008 and I have been with you wherever you have gone, and have cut off + all your enemies from before you; and I will make you a name, + like the name of the great ones who are in the earth. +017:009 I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, + that they may dwell in their own place, and be moved no more; + neither shall the children of wickedness waste them any more, + as at the first, +017:010 and [as] from the day that I commanded judges to be over + my people Israel; and I will subdue all your enemies. + Moreover I tell you that Yahweh will build you a house. +017:011 It shall happen, when your days are fulfilled that you must go + to be with your fathers, that I will set up your seed after you, + who shall be of your sons; and I will establish his kingdom. +017:012 He shall build me a house, and I will establish his throne forever. +017:013 I will be his father, and he shall be my son: and I will not + take my loving kindness away from him, as I took it from him + that was before you; +017:014 but I will settle him in my house and in my kingdom forever; + and his throne shall be established forever. +017:015 According to all these words, and according to all this vision, + so did Nathan speak to David. +017:016 Then David the king went in, and sat before Yahweh; + and he said, Who am I, Yahweh God, and what is my house, + that you have brought me thus far? +017:017 This was a small thing in your eyes, God; but you have + spoken of your servant's house for a great while to come, + and have regarded me according to the estate of a man + of high degree, Yahweh God. +017:018 What can David [say] yet more to you concerning the honor + which is done to your servant? for you know your servant. +017:019 Yahweh, for your servant's sake, and according to your own heart, + have you worked all this greatness, to make known all + [these] great things. +017:020 Yahweh, there is none like you, neither is there any God besides you, + according to all that we have heard with our ears. +017:021 What one nation in the earth is like your people Israel, + whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, to make you + a name by great and awesome things, in driving out nations + from before your people, whom you redeem out of Egypt? +017:022 For your people Israel did you make your own people forever; + and you, Yahweh, became their God. +017:023 Now, Yahweh, let the word that you have spoken concerning + your servant, and concerning his house, be established forever, + and do as you have spoken. +017:024 Let your name be established and magnified forever, saying, + Yahweh of Armies is the God of Israel, even a God to Israel: + and the house of David your servant is established before you. +017:025 For you, my God, have revealed to your servant that you will + build him a house: therefore has your servant found [in + his heart] to pray before you. +017:026 Now, Yahweh, you are God, and have promised this good thing + to your servant: +017:027 and now it has pleased you to bless the house of your servant, + that it may continue forever before you: for you, Yahweh, + have blessed, and it is blessed forever. +018:001 After this it happened, that David struck the Philistines, + and subdued them, and took Gath and its towns out of the hand + of the Philistines. +018:002 He struck Moab; and the Moabites became servants to David, + and brought tribute. +018:003 David struck Hadarezer king of Zobah to Hamath, as he went + to establish his dominion by the river Euphrates. +018:004 David took from him one thousand chariots, and seven + thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen; and David + hamstrung all the chariot horses, but reserved of them + for one hundred chariots. +018:005 When the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadarezer king + of Zobah, David struck of the Syrians twenty-two thousand men. +018:006 Then David put [garrisons] in Syria of Damascus; + and the Syrians became servants to David, and brought tribute. + Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he went. +018:007 David took the shields of gold that were on the servants + of Hadarezer, and brought them to Jerusalem. +018:008 From Tibhath and from Cun, cities of Hadarezer, David took + very much brass, with which Solomon made the bronze sea, + and the pillars, and the vessels of brass. +018:009 When Tou king of Hamath heard that David had struck all the army + of Hadarezer king of Zobah, +018:010 he sent Hadoram his son to king David, to Greet him, and to bless him, + because he had fought against Hadarezer and struck him; + (for Hadarezer had wars with Tou;) and [he had with him] + all manner of vessels of gold and silver and brass. +018:011 These also did king David dedicate to Yahweh, with the silver + and the gold that he carried away from all the nations; + from Edom, and from Moab, and from the children of Ammon, + and from the Philistines, and from Amalek. +018:012 Moreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah struck of the Edomites + in the Valley of Salt eighteen thousand. +018:013 He put garrisons in Edom; and all the Edomites became servants + to David. Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he went. +018:014 David reigned over all Israel; and he executed justice and + righteousness to all his people. +018:015 Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the army; and Jehoshaphat + the son of Ahilud was recorder; +018:016 and Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Abimelech the son of Abiathar, + were priests; and Shavsha was scribe; +018:017 and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites + and the Pelethites; and the sons of David were chief + about the king. +019:001 It happened after this, that Nahash the king of the children + of Ammon died, and his son reigned in his place. +019:002 David said, I will show kindness to Hanun the son + of Nahash, because his father shown kindness to me. + So David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. + David's servants came into the land of the children of Ammon + to Hanun, to comfort him. +019:003 But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, Think you + that David does honor your father, in that he has sent + comforters to you? Aren't his servants come to you to search, + and to overthrow, and to spy out the land? +019:004 So Hanun took David's servants, and shaved them, and cut + off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, + and sent them away. +019:005 Then there went certain persons, and told David how the men + were served. He sent to meet them; for the men were + greatly ashamed. The king said, Stay at Jericho until your + beards be grown, and then return. +019:006 When the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves + odious to David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent one + thousand talents of silver to hire them chariots and horsemen + out of Mesopotamia, and out of Arammaacah, and out of Zobah. +019:007 So they hired them thirty-two thousand chariots, and the king + of Maacah and his people, who came and encamped before Medeba. + The children of Ammon gathered themselves together from + their cities, and came to battle. +019:008 When David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the army + of the mighty men. +019:009 The children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array + at the gate of the city: and the kings who had come were + by themselves in the field. +019:010 Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him + before and behind, he chose of all the choice men of Israel, + and put them in array against the Syrians. +019:011 The rest of the people he committed into the hand of Abishai + his brother; and they put themselves in array against + the children of Ammon. +019:012 He said, If the Syrians be too strong for me, then you shall + help me; but if the children of Ammon be too strong for you, + then I will help you. +019:013 Be of good courage, and let us play the man for our people, + and for the cities of our God: and Yahweh do that which + seems him good. +019:014 So Joab and the people who were with him drew near before + the Syrians to the battle; and they fled before him. +019:015 When the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians were fled, + they likewise fled before Abishai his brother, and entered + into the city. Then Joab came to Jerusalem. +019:016 When the Syrians saw that they were put to the worse before Israel, + they sent messengers, and drew forth the Syrians who were beyond + the River, with Shophach the captain of the army of Hadarezer + at their head. +019:017 It was told David; and he gathered all Israel together, + and passed over the Jordan, and came on them, and set the battle + in array against them. So when David had put the battle + in array against the Syrians, they fought with him. +019:018 The Syrians fled before Israel; and David killed of the Syrians + [the men of] seven thousand chariots, and forty thousand footmen, + and killed Shophach the captain of the army. +019:019 When the servants of Hadarezer saw that they were put to the worse + before Israel, they made peace with David, and served him: + neither would the Syrians help the children of Ammon any more. +020:001 It happened, at the time of the return of the year, at the time + when kings go out [to battle], that Joab led forth the army, + and wasted the country of the children of Ammon, and came + and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem. + Joab struck Rabbah, and overthrew it. +020:002 David took the crown of their king from off his head, + and found it to weigh a talent of gold, and there were + precious stones in it; and it was set on David's head: + and he brought forth the spoil of the city, exceeding much. +020:003 He brought forth the people who were therein, and cut [them] + with saws, and with harrows of iron, and with axes. + Thus did David to all the cities of the children of Ammon. + David and all the people returned to Jerusalem. +020:004 It happened after this, that there arose war at Gezer with + the Philistines: then Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Sippai, + of the sons of the giant; and they were subdued. +020:005 There was again war with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son + of Jair killed Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, + the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam. +020:006 There was again war at Gath, where was a man of great stature, + whose fingers and toes were twenty-four, six [on each hand], + and six [on each foot]; and he also was born to the giant. +020:007 When he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea David's + brother killed him. +020:008 These were born to the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand + of David, and by the hand of his servants. +021:001 Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to number Israel. +021:002 David said to Joab and to the princes of the people, Go, + number Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring me word, + that I may know the sum of them. +021:003 Joab said, Yahweh make his people a hundred times as many + as they are: but, my lord the king, aren't they all my + lord's servants? Why does my lord require this thing? + Why will he be a cause of guilt to Israel? +021:004 Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab. + Therefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, + and came to Jerusalem. +021:005 Joab gave up the sum of the numbering of the people to David. + All those of Israel were one million one hundred thousand + men who drew sword: and in Judah were four hundred seventy + thousand men who drew sword. +021:006 But he didn't count Levi and Benjamin among them; for the king's + word was abominable to Joab. +021:007 God was displeased with this thing; therefore he struck Israel. +021:008 David said to God, I have sinned greatly, in that I have done + this thing: but now, put away, I beg you, the iniquity + of your servant; for I have done very foolishly. +021:009 Yahweh spoke to Gad, David's seer, saying, +021:010 Go and speak to David, saying, Thus says Yahweh, I offer you + three things: choose you one of them, that I may do it to you. +021:011 So Gad came to David, and said to him, Thus says Yahweh, Take + which you will: +021:012 either three years of famine; or three months to be consumed + before your foes, while the sword of your enemies overtakes you; + or else three days the sword of Yahweh, even pestilence + in the land, and the angel of Yahweh destroying throughout + all the borders of Israel. Now therefore consider what answer + I shall return to him who sent me. +021:013 David said to Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall, I pray, + into the hand of Yahweh; for very great are his mercies: + and let me not fall into the hand of man. +021:014 So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel; and there fell of Israel + seventy thousand men. +021:015 God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was + about to destroy, Yahweh saw, and he repented him of the evil, + and said to the destroying angel, It is enough; now stay your hand. + The angel of Yahweh was standing by the threshing floor + of Ornan the Jebusite. +021:016 David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of Yahweh standing + between earth and the sky, having a drawn sword in his hand + stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, + clothed in sackcloth, fell on their faces. +021:017 David said to God, Isn't it I who commanded the people + to be numbered? It is even I who have sinned and done + very wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? + Please let your hand, O Yahweh my God, be against me, + and against my father's house; but not against your people, + that they should be plagued. +021:018 Then the angel of Yahweh commanded Gad to tell David, that David + should go up, and raise an altar to Yahweh in the threshing + floor of Ornan the Jebusite. +021:019 David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spoke in the + name of Yahweh. +021:020 Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons who were + with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat. +021:021 As David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went + out of the threshing floor, and bowed himself to David + with his face to the ground. +021:022 Then David said to Ornan, Give me the place of this + threshing floor, that I may build thereon an altar to Yahweh: + for the full price shall you give it me, that the plague + may be stayed from the people. +021:023 Ornan said to David, Take it to you, and let my lord the king + do that which is good in his eyes: behold, I give [you] the oxen + for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, + and the wheat for the meal offering; I give it all. +021:024 King David said to Ornan, No; but I will most certainly buy it + for the full price: for I will not take that which is yours + for Yahweh, nor offer a burnt offering without cost. +021:025 So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels + of gold by weight. +021:026 David built there an altar to Yahweh, and offered burnt offerings + and peace offerings, and called on Yahweh; and he answered + him from the sky by fire on the altar of burnt offering. +021:027 Yahweh commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again + into the sheath of it. +021:028 At that time, when David saw that Yahweh had answered + him in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, + then he sacrificed there. +021:029 For the tent of Yahweh, which Moses made in the wilderness, + and the altar of burnt offering, were at that time in the high + place at Gibeon. +021:030 But David couldn't go before it to inquire of God; for he was + afraid because of the sword of the angel of Yahweh. +022:001 Then David said, This is the house of Yahweh God, and this + is the altar of burnt offering for Israel. +022:002 David commanded to gather together the foreigners who were + in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew worked stones + to build the house of God. +022:003 David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors + of the gates, and for the couplings; and brass in + abundance without weight; +022:004 and cedar trees without number: for the Sidonians and they + of Tyre brought cedar trees in abundance to David. +022:005 David said, Solomon my son is young and tender, and the house + that is to be built for Yahweh must be exceedingly magnificent, + of fame and of glory throughout all countries: + I will therefore make preparation for it. So David prepared + abundantly before his death. +022:006 Then he called for Solomon his son, and charged him to build + a house for Yahweh, the God of Israel. +022:007 David said to Solomon his son, As for me, it was in my heart + to build a house to the name of Yahweh my God. +022:008 But the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, You have shed + blood abundantly, and have made great wars: you shall not + build a house to my name, because you have shed much blood + on the earth in my sight. +022:009 Behold, a son shall be born to you, who shall be a man of rest; + and I will give him rest from all his enemies round about; + for his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and + quietness to Israel in his days: +022:010 he shall build a house for my name; and he shall be my son, + and I will be his father; and I will establish the throne + of his kingdom over Israel for ever. +022:011 Now, my son, Yahweh be with you; and prosper you, and build + the house of Yahweh your God, as he has spoken concerning you. +022:012 May Yahweh give you discretion and understanding, and put + you in charge of Israel; that so you may keep the law + of Yahweh your God. +022:013 Then shall you prosper, if you observe to do the statutes + and the ordinances which Yahweh gave Moses concerning Israel. + Be strong, and of good courage. Don't be afraid, + neither be dismayed. +022:014 Now, behold, in my affliction I have prepared for the house + of Yahweh one hundred thousand talents of gold, and one thousand + thousand talents of silver, and of brass and iron without weight; + for it is in abundance: timber also and stone have I prepared; + and you may add to them. +022:015 There are also workmen with you in abundance, cutters and workers + of stone and timber, and all kinds of men who are skillful + in every kind of work: +022:016 of the gold, the silver, and the brass, and the iron, there is + no number. Arise and be doing, and Yahweh be with you. +022:017 David also commanded all the princes of Israel to help Solomon + his son, [saying], +022:018 Isn't Yahweh your God with you? Hasn't he given you rest on + every side? for he has delivered the inhabitants of the land + into my hand; and the land is subdued before Yahweh, + and before his people. +022:019 Now set your heart and your soul to seek after Yahweh your God; + arise therefore, and build the sanctuary of Yahweh God, to bring + the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, and the holy vessels of God, + into the house that is to be built to the name of Yahweh. +023:001 Now David was old and full of days; and he made Solomon his son + king over Israel. +023:002 He gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests + and the Levites. +023:003 The Levites were numbered from thirty years old and upward: + and their number by their polls, man by man, + was thirty-eight thousand. +023:004 Of these, twenty-four thousand were to oversee the work of + the house of Yahweh; and six thousand were officers and judges; +023:005 and four thousand were doorkeepers; and four thousand praised + Yahweh with the instruments which I made, [said David], + for giving praise. +023:006 David divided them into divisions according to the sons + of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. +023:007 Of the Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei. +023:008 The sons of Ladan: Jehiel the chief, and Zetham, and Joel, three. +023:009 The sons of Shimei: Shelomoth, and Haziel, and Haran, three. + These were the heads of the fathers' [houses] of Ladan. +023:010 The sons of Shimei: Jahath, Zina, and Jeush, and Beriah. + These four were the sons of Shimei. +023:011 Jahath was the chief, and Zizah the second: but Jeush and Beriah + didn't have many sons; therefore they became a fathers' + house in one reckoning. +023:012 The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four. +023:013 The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses; and Aaron was separated, + that he should sanctify the most holy things, he and his sons, + forever, to burn incense before Yahweh, to minister to him, + and to bless in his name, forever. +023:014 But as for Moses the man of God, his sons were named among + the tribe of Levi. +023:015 The sons of Moses: Gershom and Eliezer. +023:016 The sons of Gershom: Shebuel the chief. +023:017 The sons of Eliezer were: Rehabiah the chief; and Eliezer + had no other sons; but the sons of Rehabiah were very many. +023:018 The sons of Izhar: Shelomith the chief. +023:019 The sons of Hebron: Jeriah the chief, Amariah the second, + Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth. +023:020 The sons of Uzziel: Micah the chief, and Isshiah the second. +023:021 The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. The sons of Mahli: + Eleazar and Kish. +023:022 Eleazar died, and had no sons, but daughters only: + and their brothers the sons of Kish took them [to wife]. +023:023 The sons of Mushi: Mahli, and Eder, and Jeremoth, three. +023:024 These were the sons of Levi after their fathers' houses, + even the heads of the fathers' houses of those who were + counted individually, in the number of names by their polls, + who did the work for the service of the house of Yahweh, + from twenty years old and upward. +023:025 For David said, Yahweh, the God of Israel, has given rest + to his people; and he dwells in Jerusalem forever: +023:026 and also the Levites shall no more have need to carry the tent + and all the vessels of it for the service of it. +023:027 For by the last words of David the sons of Levi were numbered, + from twenty years old and upward. +023:028 For their office was to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service + of the house of Yahweh, in the courts, and in the chambers, + and in the purifying of all holy things, even the work + of the service of the house of God; +023:029 for the show bread also, and for the fine flour for a meal offering, + whether of unleavened wafers, or of that which is baked + in the pan, or of that which is soaked, and for all manner + of measure and size; +023:030 and to stand every morning to thank and praise Yahweh, + and likewise in the evening; +023:031 and to offer all burnt offerings to Yahweh, on the Sabbaths, + on the new moons, and on the set feasts, in number according + to the ordinance concerning them, continually before Yahweh; +023:032 and that they should keep the charge of the tent of meeting, + and the charge of the holy place, and the charge of the sons + of Aaron their brothers, for the service of the house of Yahweh. +024:001 These were the divisions of the sons of Aaron. The sons + of Aaron: Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. +024:002 But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and had no children: + therefore Eleazar and Ithamar executed the priest's office. +024:003 David with Zadok of the sons of Eleazar, and Ahimelech of + the sons of Ithamar, divided them according to their ordering + in their service. +024:004 There were more chief men found of the sons of Eleazar + than of the sons of Ithamar; and [thus] were they divided: + of the sons of Eleazar there were sixteen, heads of fathers' + houses; and of the sons of Ithamar, according to + their fathers' houses, eight. +024:005 Thus were they divided impartially by drawing lots; + for there were princes of the sanctuary, and princes of God, + both of the sons of Eleazar, and of the sons of Ithamar. +024:006 Shemaiah the son of Nethanel the scribe, who was of the Levites, + wrote them in the presence of the king, and the princes, + and Zadok the priest, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, + and the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the priests and + of the Levites; one fathers' house being taken for Eleazar, + and one taken for Ithamar. +024:007 Now the first lot came forth to Jehoiarib, the second to Jedaiah, +024:008 the third to Harim, the fourth to Seorim, +024:009 the fifth to Malchijah, the sixth to Mijamin, +024:010 the seventh to Hakkoz, the eighth to Abijah, +024:011 the ninth to Jeshua, the tenth to Shecaniah, +024:012 the eleventh to Eliashib, the twelfth to Jakim, +024:013 the thirteenth to Huppah, the fourteenth to Jeshebeab, +024:014 the fifteenth to Bilgah, the sixteenth to Immer, +024:015 the seventeenth to Hezir, the eighteenth to Happizzez, +024:016 the nineteenth to Pethahiah, the twentieth to Jehezkel, +024:017 the twenty-first to Jachin, the twenty-second to Gamul, +024:018 the twenty-third to Delaiah, the twenty-fourth to Maaziah. +024:019 This was the ordering of them in their service, to come + into the house of Yahweh according to the ordinance [given] + to them by Aaron their father, as Yahweh, the God of Israel, + had commanded him. +024:020 Of the rest of the sons of Levi: of the sons of Amram, Shubael; + of the sons of Shubael, Jehdeiah. +024:021 Of Rehabiah: of the sons of Rehabiah, Isshiah the chief. +024:022 Of the Izharites, Shelomoth; of the sons of Shelomoth, Jahath. +024:023 The sons [of Hebron]: Jeriah [the chief], Amariah the second, + Jahaziel the third, Jekameam the fourth. +024:024 The sons of Uzziel, Micah; of the sons of Micah, Shamir. +024:025 The brother of Micah, Isshiah; of the sons of Isshiah, Zechariah. +024:026 The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi; the sons of Jaaziah: Beno. +024:027 The sons of Merari: of Jaaziah, Beno, and Shoham, + and Zaccur, and Ibri. +024:028 Of Mahli: Eleazar, who had no sons. +024:029 Of Kish; the sons of Kish: Jerahmeel. +024:030 The sons of Mushi: Mahli, and Eder, and Jerimoth. + These were the sons of the Levites after their fathers' houses. +024:031 These likewise cast lots even as their brothers the sons of Aaron + in the presence of David the king, and Zadok, and Ahimelech, + and the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the priests + and of the Levites; the fathers' [houses] of the chief even + as those of his younger brother. +025:001 Moreover, David and the captains of the army set apart for the service + certain of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, + who should prophesy with harps, with stringed instruments, + and with cymbals: and the number of those who did the work + according to their service was: +025:002 of the sons of Asaph: Zaccur, and Joseph, and Nethaniah, + and Asharelah, the sons of Asaph, under the hand of Asaph, + who prophesied after the order of the king. +025:003 Of Jeduthun; the sons of Jeduthun: Gedaliah, and Zeri, + and Jeshaiah, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six, under the hands + of their father Jeduthun with the harp, who prophesied + in giving thanks and praising Yahweh. +025:004 Of Heman; the sons of Heman: Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel, + and Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti, + and Romamti-Ezer, Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, Mahazioth. +025:005 All these were the sons of Heman the king's seer in the words + of God, to lift up the horn. God gave to Heman fourteen sons + and three daughters. +025:006 All these were under the hands of their father for song in the house + of Yahweh, with cymbals, stringed instruments, and harps, + for the service of the house of God; Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman + being under the order of the king. +025:007 The number of them, with their brothers who were instructed + in singing to Yahweh, even all who were skillful, + was two hundred eighty-eight. +025:008 They cast lots for their offices, all alike, as well the small + as the great, the teacher as the scholar. +025:009 Now the first lot came forth for Asaph to Joseph: + the second to Gedaliah; he and his brothers and sons were twelve: +025:010 the third to Zaccur, his sons and his brothers, twelve: +025:011 the fourth to Izri, his sons and his brothers, twelve: +025:012 the fifth to Nethaniah, his sons and his brothers, twelve: +025:013 the sixth to Bukkiah, his sons and his brothers, twelve: +025:014 the seventh to Jesharelah, his sons and his brothers, twelve: +025:015 the eighth to Jeshaiah, his sons and his brothers, twelve: +025:016 the ninth to Mattaniah, his sons and his brothers, twelve: +025:017 the tenth to Shimei, his sons and his brothers, twelve: +025:018 the eleventh to Azarel, his sons and his brothers, twelve: +025:019 the twelfth to Hashabiah, his sons and his brothers, twelve: +025:020 for the thirteenth, Shubael, his sons and his brothers, twelve: +025:021 for the fourteenth, Mattithiah, his sons and his brothers, twelve: +025:022 for the fifteenth to Jeremoth, his sons and his brothers, twelve: +025:023 for the sixteenth to Hananiah, his sons and his brothers, twelve: +025:024 for the seventeenth to Joshbekashah, his sons and + his brothers, twelve: +025:025 for the eighteenth to Hanani, his sons and his brothers, twelve: +025:026 for the nineteenth to Mallothi, his sons and his brothers, twelve: +025:027 for the twentieth to Eliathah, his sons and his brothers, twelve: +025:028 for the one and twentieth to Hothir, his sons and + his brothers, twelve: +025:029 for the two and twentieth to Giddalti, his sons and + his brothers, twelve: +025:030 for the three and twentieth to Mahazioth, his sons and + his brothers, twelve: +025:031 for the four and twentieth to Romamtiezer, his sons and + his brothers, twelve. +026:001 For the divisions of the doorkeepers: of the Korahites, Meshelemiah + the son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph. +026:002 Meshelemiah had sons: Zechariah the firstborn, Jediael the second, + Zebadiah the third, Jathniel the fourth, +026:003 Elam the fifth, Jehohanan the sixth, Eliehoenai the seventh. +026:004 Obed-Edom had sons: Shemaiah the firstborn, Jehozabad the second, + Joah the third, and Sacar the fourth, and Nethanel the fifth, +026:005 Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, Peullethai the eighth; + for God blessed him. +026:006 Also to Shemaiah his son were sons born, who ruled over the house + of their father; for they were mighty men of valor. +026:007 The sons of Shemaiah: Othni, and Rephael, and Obed, Elzabad, + whose brothers were valiant men, Elihu, and Semachiah. +026:008 All these were of the sons of Obed-Edom: they and their sons + and their brothers, able men in strength for the service; + sixty-two of Obed-Edom. +026:009 Meshelemiah had sons and brothers, valiant men, eighteen. +026:010 Also Hosah, of the children of Merari, had sons: + Shimri the chief, (for though he was not the firstborn, + yet his father made him chief), +026:011 Hilkiah the second, Tebaliah the third, Zechariah the fourth: + all the sons and brothers of Hosah were thirteen. +026:012 Of these were the divisions of the doorkeepers, even of the + chief men, having offices like their brothers, to minister + in the house of Yahweh. +026:013 They cast lots, the small as well as the great, according to + their fathers' houses, for every gate. +026:014 The lot eastward fell to Shelemiah. Then for Zechariah his son, + a wise counselor, they cast lots; and his lot came out northward. +026:015 To Obed-Edom southward; and to his sons the storehouse. +026:016 To Shuppim and Hosah westward, by the gate of Shallecheth, + at the causeway that goes up, watch against watch. +026:017 Eastward were six Levites, northward four a day, southward four + a day, and for the storehouse two and two. +026:018 For Parbar westward, four at the causeway, and two at Parbar. +026:019 These were the divisions of the doorkeepers; of the sons + of the Korahites, and of the sons of Merari. +026:020 Of the Levites, Ahijah was over the treasures of the house of God, + and over the treasures of the dedicated things. +026:021 The sons of Ladan, the sons of the Gershonites belonging to Ladan, + the heads of the fathers' [houses] belonging to Ladan + the Gershonite: Jehieli. +026:022 The sons of Jehieli: Zetham, and Joel his brother, + over the treasures of the house of Yahweh. +026:023 Of the Amramites, of the Izharites, of the Hebronites, + of the Uzzielites: +026:024 and Shebuel the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, was ruler + over the treasures. +026:025 His brothers: of Eliezer [came] Rehabiah his son, + and Jeshaiah his son, and Joram his son, and Zichri his son, + and Shelomoth his son. +026:026 This Shelomoth and his brothers were over all the treasures + of the dedicated things, which David the king, and the heads + of the fathers' [houses], the captains over thousands and hundreds, + and the captains of the army, had dedicated. +026:027 Out of the spoil won in battles did they dedicate to repair + the house of Yahweh. +026:028 All that Samuel the seer, and Saul the son of Kish, and Abner + the son of Ner, and Joab the son of Zeruiah, had dedicated, + whoever had dedicated anything, it was under the hand of Shelomoth, + and of his brothers. +026:029 Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons were for the outward + business over Israel, for officers and judges. +026:030 Of the Hebronites, Hashabiah and his brothers, men of valor, + one thousand seven hundred, had the oversight of Israel + beyond the Jordan westward, for all the business of Yahweh, + and for the service of the king. +026:031 Of the Hebronites was Jerijah the chief, even of the Hebronites, + according to their generations by fathers' [houses]. In + the fortieth year of the reign of David they were sought for, + and there were found among them mighty men of valor at + Jazer of Gilead. +026:032 His brothers, men of valor, were two thousand seven hundred, + heads of fathers' [houses], whom king David made overseers + over the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe + of the Manassites, for every matter pertaining to God, + and for the affairs of the king. +027:001 Now the children of Israel after their number, the heads of fathers' + [houses] and the captains of thousands and of hundreds, + and their officers who served the king, in any matter + of the divisions which came in and went out month by month + throughout all the months of the year--of every division + were twenty-four thousand. +027:002 Over the first division for the first month was Jashobeam the son + of Zabdiel: and in his division were twenty-four thousand. +027:003 [He was] of the children of Perez, the chief of all the captains + of the army for the first month. +027:004 Over the division of the second month was Dodai the Ahohite, + and his division; and Mikloth the ruler: and in his division + were twenty-four thousand. +027:005 The third captain of the army for the third month was Benaiah, + the son of Jehoiada the priest, chief: and in his division + were twenty-four thousand. +027:006 This is that Benaiah, who was the mighty man of the thirty, + and over the thirty: and [of] his division was Ammizabad his son. +027:007 The fourth [captain] for the fourth month was Asahel + the brother of Joab, and Zebadiah his son after him: + and in his division were twenty-four thousand. +027:008 The fifth captain for this fifth month was Shamhuth the Izrahite: + and in his division were twenty-four thousand. +027:009 The sixth [captain] for the sixth month was Ira the son of Ikkesh + the Tekoite: and in his division were twenty-four thousand. +027:010 The seventh [captain] for the seventh month was Helez + the Pelonite, of the children of Ephraim: and in his division + were twenty-four thousand. +027:011 The eighth [captain] for the eighth month was Sibbecai + the Hushathite, of the Zerahites: and in his division + were twenty-four thousand. +027:012 The ninth [captain] for the ninth month was Abiezer the Anathothite, + of the Benjamites: and in his division were twenty-four thousand. +027:013 The tenth [captain] for the tenth month was Maharai the Netophathite, + of the Zerahites: and in his division were Twenty-four thousand. +027:014 The eleventh [captain] for the eleventh month was + Benaiah the Pirathonite, of the children of Ephraim: + and in his division were twenty-four thousand. +027:015 The twelfth [captain] for the twelfth month was Heldai + the Netophathite, of Othniel: and in his division + were twenty-four thousand. +027:016 Furthermore over the tribes of Israel: + of the Reubenites was Eliezer the son of Zichri the ruler: + of the Simeonites, Shephatiah the son of Maacah: +027:017 of Levi, Hashabiah the son of Kemuel: of Aaron, Zadok: +027:018 of Judah, Elihu, one of the brothers of David: + of Issachar, Omri the son of Michael: +027:019 of Zebulun, Ishmaiah the son of Obadiah: of Naphtali, Jeremoth + the son of Azriel: +027:020 of the children of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Azaziah: + of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Joel the son of Pedaiah: +027:021 of the half-tribe of Manasseh in Gilead, Iddo the son of Zechariah: + of Benjamin, Jaasiel the son of Abner: +027:022 of Dan, Azarel the son of Jeroham. These were the captains + of the tribes of Israel. +027:023 But David didn't take the number of them from twenty years old + and under, because Yahweh had said he would increase Israel + like the stars of the sky. +027:024 Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number, but didn't finish; + and there came wrath for this on Israel; neither was the number + put into the account in the chronicles of king David. +027:025 Over the king's treasures was Azmaveth the son of Adiel: + and over the treasures in the fields, in the cities, + and in the villages, and in the towers, was Jonathan + the son of Uzziah: +027:026 Over those who did the work of the field for tillage of the ground + was Ezri the son of Chelub: +027:027 and over the vineyards was Shimei the Ramathite: + and over the increase of the vineyards for the winecellars + was Zabdi the Shiphmite: +027:028 and over the olive trees and the sycamore trees that were in + the lowland was Baal Hanan the Gederite: and over the cellars + of oil was Joash: +027:029 and over the herds that fed in Sharon was Shitrai the Sharonite: + and over the herds that were in the valleys was Shaphat + the son of Adlai: +027:030 and over the camels was Obil the Ishmaelite: + and over the donkeys was Jehdeiah the Meronothite: + and over the flocks was Jaziz the Hagrite. +027:031 All these were the rulers of the substance which was king David's. +027:032 Also Jonathan, David's uncle, was a counselor, a man + of understanding, and a scribe: and Jehiel the son of Hachmoni + was with the king's sons: +027:033 Ahithophel was the king's counselor: and Hushai the Archite + was the king's friend: +027:034 and after Ahithophel was Jehoiada the son of Benaiah, and Abiathar: + and the captain of the king's army was Joab. +028:001 David assembled all the princes of Israel, the princes of the tribes, + and the captains of the companies who served the king by division, + and the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, + and the rulers over all the substance and possessions of the king + and of his sons, with the officers, and the mighty men, + even all the mighty men of valor, to Jerusalem. +028:002 Then David the king stood up on his feet, and said, Hear me, + my brothers, and my people: as for me, it was in my heart + to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, + and for the footstool of our God; and I had made ready + for the building. +028:003 But God said to me, You shall not build a house for my name, + because you are a man of war, and have shed blood. +028:004 However Yahweh, the God of Israel, chose me out of all + the house of my father to be king over Israel forever: + for he has chosen Judah to be prince; and in the house of Judah, + the house of my father; and among the sons of my father + he took pleasure in me to make me king over all Israel; +028:005 Of all my sons (for Yahweh has given me many sons), he has + chosen Solomon my son to sit on the throne of the kingdom + of Yahweh over Israel. +028:006 He said to me, Solomon your son, he shall build my house + and my courts; for I have chosen him to be my son, and I + will be his father. +028:007 I will establish his kingdom forever, if he be constant to do + my commandments and my ordinances, as at this day. +028:008 Now therefore, in the sight of all Israel, the assembly of Yahweh, + and in the audience of our God, observe and seek out all + the commandments of Yahweh your God; that you may possess this + good land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children + after you forever. +028:009 You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve + him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh + searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations + of the thoughts: if you seek him, he will be found of you; + but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever. +028:010 Take heed now; for Yahweh has chosen you to build a house + for the sanctuary: be strong, and do it. +028:011 Then David gave to Solomon his son the pattern of the porch [of + the temple], and of the houses of it, and of the treasuries of it, + and of the upper rooms of it, and of the inner chambers of it, + and of the place of the mercy seat; +028:012 and the pattern of all that he had by the Spirit, for the courts + of the house of Yahweh, and for all the surrounding rooms, + for the treasuries of the house of God, and for the treasuries + of the dedicated things; +028:013 also for the divisions of the priests and the Levites, + and for all the work of the service of the house of Yahweh, + and for all the vessels of service in the house of Yahweh; +028:014 of gold by weight for the [vessels of] gold, for all vessels + of every kind of service; [of silver] for all the vessels + of silver by weight, for all vessels of every kind of service; +028:015 by weight also for the lampstands of gold, and for the lamps of it, + of gold, by weight for every lampstand and for the lamps of it; + and for the lampstands of silver, [silver] by weight for [every] + lampstand and for the lamps of it, according to the use + of every lampstand; +028:016 and the gold by weight for the tables of show bread, for every table; + and silver for the tables of silver; +028:017 and the forks, and the basins, and the cups, of pure gold; + and for the golden bowls by weight for every bowl; + and for the silver bowls by weight for every bowl; +028:018 and for the altar of incense refined gold by weight; + and gold for the pattern of the chariot, [even] the cherubim, + that spread out [their wings], and covered the ark of the + covenant of Yahweh. +028:019 All this, [said David], have I been made to understand in writing + from the hand of Yahweh, even all the works of this pattern. +028:020 David said to Solomon his son, Be strong and of good courage, + and do it: don't be afraid, nor be dismayed; for Yahweh God, + even my God, is with you; he will not fail you, nor forsake you, + until all the work for the service of the house of + Yahweh is finished. +028:021 Behold, there are the divisions of the priests and + the Levites, for all the service of the house of God: + and there shall be with you in all manner of work every + willing man who has skill, for any manner of service: + also the captains and all the people will be entirely + at your command. +029:001 David the king said to all the assembly, Solomon my son, + whom alone God has chosen, is yet young and tender, + and the work is great; for the palace is not for man, + but for Yahweh God. +029:002 Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God + the gold for the [things of] gold, and the silver for the [things + of] silver, and the brass for the [things of] brass, the iron + for the [things of] iron, and wood for the [things of] wood; + onyx stones, and [stones] to be set, stones for inlaid work, + and of various colors, and all manner of precious stones, + and marble stones in abundance. +029:003 In addition, because I have set my affection on the house of my God, + seeing that I have a treasure of my own of gold and silver, + I give it to the house of my God, over and above all that I + have prepared for the holy house, +029:004 even three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, + and seven thousand talents of refined silver, with which to + overlay the walls of the houses; +029:005 of gold for the [things of] gold, and of silver for the [things + of] silver, and for all manner of work [to be made] by the hands + of artificers. Who then offers willingly to consecrate + himself this day to Yahweh? +029:006 Then the princes of the fathers' [houses], and the princes of the + tribes of Israel, and the captains of thousands and of hundreds, + with the rulers over the king's work, offered willingly; +029:007 and they gave for the service of the house of God of gold five + thousand talents and ten thousand darics, and of silver ten + thousand talents, and of brass eighteen thousand talents, + and of iron a hundred thousand talents. +029:008 They with whom [precious] stones were found gave them + to the treasure of the house of Yahweh, under the hand + of Jehiel the Gershonite. +029:009 Then the people rejoiced, because they offered willingly, + because with a perfect heart they offered willingly to Yahweh: + and David the king also rejoiced with great joy. +029:010 Therefore David blessed Yahweh before all the assembly; + and David said, You are blessed, Yahweh, the God of Israel + our father, forever and ever. +029:011 Yours, Yahweh, is the greatness, the power, the glory, + the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heavens + and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, Yahweh, and you + are exalted as head above all. +029:012 Both riches and honor come of you, and you rule over all; + and in your hand is power and might; and it is in your hand + to make great, and to give strength to all. +029:013 Now therefore, our God, we thank you, and praise your glorious name. +029:014 But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able + to offer so willingly as this? For all things come of you, + and of your own have we given you. +029:015 For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all + our fathers were: our days on the earth are as a shadow, + and there is no abiding. +029:016 Yahweh our God, all this store that we have prepared to + build you a house for your holy name comes of your hand, + and is all your own. +029:017 I know also, my God, that you try the heart, and have + pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness + of my heart I have willingly offered all these things: + and now have I seen with joy your people, that are present here, + offer willingly to you. +029:018 Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, + keep this forever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart + of your people, and prepare their heart to you; +029:019 and give to Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep your commandments, + your testimonies, and your statutes, and to do all these things, + and to build the palace, for which I have made provision. +029:020 David said to all the assembly, Now bless Yahweh your God. + All the assembly blessed Yahweh, the God of their fathers, + and bowed down their heads and prostrated themselves before + Yahweh and the king. +029:021 They sacrificed sacrifices to Yahweh, and offered burnt + offerings to Yahweh, on the next day after that day, even one + thousand bulls, one thousand rams, and one thousand lambs, + with their drink offerings, and sacrifices in abundance + for all Israel, +029:022 and ate and drink before Yahweh on that day with great gladness. + They made Solomon the son of David king the second time, + and anointed him to Yahweh to be prince, and Zadok to be priest. +029:023 Then Solomon sat on the throne of Yahweh as king instead of David + his father, and prospered; and all Israel obeyed him. +029:024 All the princes, the mighty men, and also all of the sons + of king David submitted themselves to Solomon the king. +029:025 Yahweh magnified Solomon exceedingly in the sight of all Israel, + and bestowed on him such royal majesty as had not been on + any king before him in Israel. +029:026 Now David the son of Jesse reigned over all Israel. +029:027 The time that he reigned over Israel was forty years; + he reigned seven years in Hebron, and thirty-three [years] + reigned he in Jerusalem. +029:028 He died in a good old age, full of days, riches, and honor: + and Solomon his son reigned in his place. +029:029 Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they are + written in the history of Samuel the seer, and in the history + of Nathan the prophet, and in the history of Gad the seer, +029:030 with all his reign and his might, and the times that went over him, + and over Israel, and over all the kingdoms of the countries. +Book 14 2 Chronicles +001:001 Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his kingdom, + and Yahweh his God was with him, and magnified him exceedingly. +001:002 Solomon spoke to all Israel, to the captains of thousands + and of hundreds, and to the judges, and to every prince + in all Israel, the heads of the fathers' [houses]. +001:003 So Solomon, and all the assembly with him, went to the high place + that was at Gibeon; for there was the tent of meeting of God, + which Moses the servant of Yahweh had made in the wilderness. +001:004 But David had brought the ark of God up from Kiriath Jearim + to the place that David had prepared for it; for he had pitched + a tent for it at Jerusalem. +001:005 Moreover the bronze altar, that Bezalel the son of Uri, + the son of Hur, had made, was there before the tent of Yahweh: + and Solomon and the assembly were seeking counsel there. +001:006 Solomon went up there to the bronze altar before Yahweh, + which was at the tent of meeting, and offered one thousand + burnt offerings on it. +001:007 In that night God appeared to Solomon, and said to him, + "Ask what I shall give you." +001:008 Solomon said to God, You have shown great loving kindness + to David my father, and have made me king in his place. +001:009 Now, Yahweh God, let your promise to David my father be established; + for you have made me king over a people like the dust + of the earth in multitude. +001:010 Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come + in before this people; for who can judge this your people, + that is so great? +001:011 God said to Solomon, Because this was in your heart, + and you have not asked riches, wealth, or honor, nor the life + of those who hate you, neither yet have asked long life; + but have asked wisdom and knowledge for yourself, that you + may judge my people, over whom I have made you king: +001:012 wisdom and knowledge is granted to you; and I will give you riches, + and wealth, and honor, such as none of the kings have had + who have been before you; neither shall there any after you + have the like. +001:013 So Solomon came from the high place that was at Gibeon, + from before the tent of meeting, to Jerusalem; + and he reigned over Israel. +001:014 Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen: and he had one thousand + four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, that he placed + in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem. +001:015 The king made silver and gold to be in Jerusalem as stones, + and cedars made he to be as the sycamore trees that are + in the lowland, for abundance. +001:016 The horses which Solomon had were brought out of Egypt and from Kue; + the king's merchants purchased them from Kue. +001:017 They brought up and brought out of Egypt a chariot for six + hundred pieces of silver, and a horse for one hundred fifty: + and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of Syria, + did they bring them out by their means. +002:001 Now Solomon purposed to build a house for the name of Yahweh, + and a house for his kingdom. +002:002 Solomon counted out seventy thousand men to bear burdens, + and eighty thousand men who were stone cutters in the mountains, + and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them. +002:003 Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre, saying, As you dealt + with David my father, and sent him cedars to build him a house + in which to dwell, [even so deal with me]. +002:004 Behold, I am about to build a house for the name of Yahweh + my God, to dedicate it to him, and to burn before him + incense of sweet spices, and for the continual show bread, + and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the Sabbaths, + and on the new moons, and on the set feasts of Yahweh our God. + This is [an ordinance] forever to Israel. +002:005 The house which I build is great; for great is our God + above all gods. +002:006 But who is able to build him a house, seeing heaven and the heaven + of heavens can't contain him? who am I then, that I should + build him a house, save only to burn incense before him? +002:007 Now therefore send me a man skillful to work in gold, and in silver, + and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, + and who knows how to engrave [all manner of] engravings, + [to be] with the skillful men who are with me in Judah + and in Jerusalem, whom David my father did provide. +002:008 Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of Lebanon; + for I know that your servants know how to cut timber in Lebanon: + and behold, my servants shall be with your servants, +002:009 even to prepare me timber in abundance; for the house which I + am about to build shall be great and wonderful. +002:010 Behold, I will give to your servants, the cutters who cut timber, + twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand + measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, + and twenty thousand baths of oil. +002:011 Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent + to Solomon, "Because Yahweh loves his people, he has made + you king over them." +002:012 Huram continued, "Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, that made + heaven and earth, who has given to David the king a wise son, + endowed with discretion and understanding, that should build + a house for Yahweh, and a house for his kingdom. +002:013 Now I have sent a skillful man, endowed with understanding, + of Huram my father's, +002:014 the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan; and his father + was a man of Tyre, skillful to work in gold, and in silver, + in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, + in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson, also to engrave + any manner of engraving, and to devise any device; that there + may be a place appointed to him with your skillful men, + and with the skillful men of my lord David your father. +002:015 Now therefore the wheat and the barley, the oil and the wine, + which my lord has spoken of, let him send to his servants: +002:016 and we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as you shall need; + and we will bring it to you in floats by sea to Joppa; + and you shall carry it up to Jerusalem." +002:017 Solomon numbered all the foreigners who were in the land + of Israel, after the numbering with which David his father + had numbered them; and they were found one hundred fifty-three + thousand six hundred. +002:018 He set seventy thousand of them to bear burdens, and eighty + thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains, and three + thousand six hundred overseers to set the people at work. +003:001 Then Solomon began to build the house of Yahweh at Jerusalem + on Mount Moriah, where [Yahweh] appeared to David his father, + which he made ready in the place that David had appointed, + in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. +003:002 He began to build in the second [day] of the second month, + in the fourth year of his reign. +003:003 Now these are the foundations which Solomon laid for the building + of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first + measure was sixty cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits. +003:004 The porch that was before [the house], the length of it, + according to the breadth of the house, was twenty cubits, + and the height one hundred twenty; and he overlaid it within + with pure gold. +003:005 The greater house he made a ceiling with fir wood, + which he overlaid with fine gold, and ornamented it with palm + trees and chains. +003:006 He garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: + and the gold was gold of Parvaim. +003:007 He overlaid also the house, the beams, the thresholds, + and the walls of it, and the doors of it, with gold; + and engraved cherubim on the walls. +003:008 He made the most holy house: the length of it, according to + the breadth of the house, was twenty cubits, and the breadth + of it twenty cubits; and he overlaid it with fine gold, + amounting to six hundred talents. +003:009 The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. + He overlaid the upper chambers with gold. +003:010 In the most holy house he made two cherubim of image work; + and they overlaid them with gold. +003:011 The wings of the cherubim were twenty cubits long: + the wing of the one [cherub] was five cubits, reaching to the wall + of the house; and the other wing was [likewise] five cubits, + reaching to the wing of the other cherub. +003:012 The wing of the other cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall + of the house; and the other wing was five cubits [also], + joining to the wing of the other cherub. +003:013 The wings of these cherubim spread themselves forth twenty cubits: + and they stood on their feet, and their faces were + toward the house. +003:014 He made the veil of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, + and ornamented it with cherubim. +003:015 Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty-five + cubits high, and the capital that was on the top of each + of them was five cubits. +003:016 He made chains in the oracle, and put [them] on the tops + of the pillars; and he made one hundred pomegranates, + and put them on the chains. +003:017 He set up the pillars before the temple, one on the right hand, + and the other on the left; and called the name of that on + the right hand Jachin, and the name of that on the left Boaz. +004:001 Then he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length + of it, and twenty cubits the breadth of it, and ten cubits + the height of it. +004:002 Also he made the molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, + round in compass; and the height of it was five cubits; + and a line of thirty cubits compassed it round about. +004:003 Under it was the likeness of oxen, which did compass it + round about, for ten cubits, compassing the sea round about. + The oxen were in two rows, cast when it was cast. +004:004 It stood on twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, + and three looking toward the west, and three looking + toward the south, and three looking toward the east: + and the sea was set on them above, and all their hinder + parts were inward. +004:005 It was a handbreadth thick; and the brim of it was worked + like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily: + it received and held three thousand baths. +004:006 He made also ten basins, and put five on the right hand, + and five on the left, to wash in them; such things as belonged + to the burnt offering they washed in them; but the sea was + for the priests to wash in. +004:007 He made the ten lampstands of gold according to the ordinance + concerning them; and he set them in the temple, five on + the right hand, and five on the left. +004:008 He made also ten tables, and placed them in the temple, + five on the right side, and five on the left. He made one + hundred basins of gold. +004:009 Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the great court, + and doors for the court, and overlaid the doors of them with brass. +004:010 He set the sea on the right side [of the house] eastward, + toward the south. +004:011 Huram made the pots, and the shovels, and the basins. + So Huram made an end of doing the work that he did for king + Solomon in the house of God: +004:012 the two pillars, and the bowls, and the two capitals which were + on the top of the pillars, and the two networks to cover the two + bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars, +004:013 and the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks; + two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the two + bowls of the capitals that were on the pillars. +004:014 He made also the bases, and the basins made he on the bases; +004:015 one sea, and the twelve oxen under it. +004:016 The pots also, and the shovels, and the forks, and all the vessels + of it, did Huram his father make for king Solomon for the house + of Yahweh of bright brass. +004:017 In the plain of the Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay + ground between Succoth and Zeredah. +004:018 Thus Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance: + for the weight of the brass could not be found out. +004:019 Solomon made all the vessels that were in the house of God, + the golden altar also, and the tables with the show bread on them; +004:020 and the lampstands with their lamps, to burn according + to the ordinance before the oracle, of pure gold; +004:021 and the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, of gold, + and that perfect gold; +004:022 and the snuffers, and the basins, and the spoons, and the + fire pans, of pure gold: and as for the entry of the house, + the inner doors of it for the most holy place, and the doors + of the main hall of the temple were of gold. +005:001 Thus all the work that Solomon did for the house of Yahweh + was finished. Solomon brought in the things that David + his father had dedicated, even the silver, and the gold, + and all the vessels, and put them in the treasuries of + the house of God. +005:002 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all + the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers' + [houses] of the children of Israel, to Jerusalem, to bring up + the ark of the covenant of Yahweh out of the city of David, + which is Zion. +005:003 And all the men of Israel assembled themselves to the king + at the feast, which was [in] the seventh month. +005:004 All the elders of Israel came: and the Levites took up the ark; +005:005 and they brought up the ark, and the tent of meeting, + and all the holy vessels that were in the Tent; these did + the priests the Levites bring up. +005:006 King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, that were + assembled to him, were before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, + that could not be counted nor numbered for multitude. +005:007 The priests brought in the ark of the covenant of Yahweh to + its place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy place, + even under the wings of the cherubim. +005:008 For the cherubim spread forth their wings over the place + of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and the poles + of it above. +005:009 The poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen + from the ark before the oracle; but they were not seen outside: + and there it is to this day. +005:010 There was nothing in the ark save the two tables which Moses put + [there] at Horeb, when Yahweh made a covenant with the children + of Israel, when they came out of Egypt. +005:011 It happened, when the priests were come out of the holy place, + (for all the priests who were present had sanctified themselves, + and did not keep their divisions; +005:012 also the Levites who were the singers, all of them, + even Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their sons and their brothers, + arrayed in fine linen, with cymbals and stringed instruments + and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them + one hundred twenty priests sounding with trumpets;) +005:013 it happened, when the trumpeters and singers were as one, + to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking Yahweh; + and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals + and instruments of music, and praised Yahweh, [saying], For he + is good; for his loving kindness endures forever; that then + the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of Yahweh, +005:014 so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason + of the cloud: for the glory of Yahweh filled the house of God. +006:001 Then spoke Solomon, Yahweh has said that he would dwell + in the thick darkness. +006:002 But I have built you a house of habitation, and a place for you + to dwell in forever. +006:003 The king turned his face, and blessed all the assembly of Israel: + and all the assembly of Israel stood. +006:004 He said, Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who spoke + with his mouth to David my father, and has with his hands + fulfilled it, saying, +006:005 Since the day that I brought forth my people out of the land + of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel + to build a house in, that my name might be there; neither chose + I any man to be prince over my people Israel: +006:006 but I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; + and have chosen David to be over my people Israel. +006:007 Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house + for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel. +006:008 But Yahweh said to David my father, Whereas it was in your + heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it + was in your heart: +006:009 nevertheless you shall not build the house; but your son who + shall come forth out of your body, he shall build the house + for my name. +006:010 Yahweh has performed his word that he spoke; for I am risen up + in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, + as Yahweh promised, and have built the house for the name + of Yahweh, the God of Israel. +006:011 There have I set the ark, in which is the covenant of Yahweh, + which he made with the children of Israel. +006:012 He stood before the altar of Yahweh in the presence of all + the assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands +006:013 (for Solomon had made a bronze scaffold, five cubits long, + and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it + in the midst of the court; and on it he stood, and kneeled + down on his knees before all the assembly of Israel, + and spread forth his hands toward heaven;) +006:014 and he said, Yahweh, the God of Israel, there is no God like you, + in heaven, or on earth; who keep covenant and loving kindness + with your servants, who walk before you with all their heart; +006:015 who have kept with your servant David my father that which you + did promise him: yes, you spoke with your mouth, and have + fulfilled it with your hand, as it is this day. +006:016 Now therefore, Yahweh, the God of Israel, keep with your servant + David my father that which you have promised him, saying, + There shall not fail you a man in my sight to sit on the throne + of Israel, if only your children take heed to their way, + to walk in my law as you have walked before me. +006:017 Now therefore, Yahweh, the God of Israel, let your word be verified, + which you spoke to your servant David. +006:018 But will God indeed dwell with men on the earth? + Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can't contain you; + how much less this house which I have built! +006:019 Yet have you respect to the prayer of your servant, + and to his supplication, Yahweh my God, to listen to the cry + and to the prayer which your servant prays before you; +006:020 that your eyes may be open toward this house day and night, + even toward the place where you have said that you would put + your name; to listen to the prayer which your servant shall + pray toward this place. +006:021 Listen to the petitions of your servant, and of your + people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: + yes, hear from your dwelling place, even from heaven; + and when you hear, forgive. +006:022 If a man sin against his neighbor, and an oath is laid on him + to cause him to swear, and he comes and swears before your + altar in this house; +006:023 then hear from heaven, and do, and judge your servants, + bringing retribution to the wicked, to bring his way on his + own head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according + to his righteousness. +006:024 If your people Israel be struck down before the enemy, + because they have sinned against you, and shall turn again + and confess your name, and pray and make supplication before + you in this house; +006:025 then hear from heaven, and forgive the sin of your people Israel, + and bring them again to the land which you gave to them + and to their fathers. +006:026 When the sky is shut up, and there is no rain, because they + have sinned against you; if they pray toward this place, + and confess your name, and turn from their sin, when you + do afflict them: +006:027 then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, + and of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way + in which they should walk; and send rain on your land, + which you have given to your people for an inheritance. +006:028 If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, + if there is blight or mildew, locust or caterpillar; + if their enemies besiege them in the land of their cities; + whatever plague or whatever sickness there be; +006:029 whatever prayer and supplication be made by any man, + or by all your people Israel, who shall know every man his own + plague and his own sorrow, and shall spread forth his hands + toward this house: +006:030 then hear from heaven, your dwelling place and forgive, and render + to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know; + (for you, even you only, know the hearts of the children of men;) +006:031 that they may fear you, to walk in your ways, so long as they + live in the land which you gave to our fathers. +006:032 Moreover concerning the foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, + when he shall come from a far country for your great name's sake, + and your mighty hand, and your outstretched arm; when they + shall come and pray toward this house: +006:033 then hear from heaven, even from your dwelling place, + and do according to all that the foreigner calls to you for; + that all the peoples of the earth may know your name, + and fear you, as does your people Israel, and that they may know + that this house which I have built is called by your name. +006:034 If your people go out to battle against their enemies, + by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to you + toward this city which you have chosen, and the house which I + have built for your name; +006:035 then hear from heaven their prayer and their supplication, + and maintain their cause. +006:036 If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn't sin), + and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, + so that they carry them away captive to a land far off or near; +006:037 yet if they shall repent themselves in the land where they + are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication + to you in the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, + we have done perversely, and have dealt wickedly; +006:038 if they return to you with all their heart and with all + their soul in the land of their captivity, where they have + carried them captive, and pray toward their land, which you + gave to their fathers, and the city which you have chosen, + and toward the house which I have built for your name: +006:039 then hear from heaven, even from your dwelling place, + their prayer and their petitions, and maintain their cause, + and forgive your people who have sinned against you. +006:040 Now, my God, let, I beg you, your eyes be open, and let your + ears be attentive, to the prayer that is made in this place. +006:041 Now therefore arise, Yahweh God, into your resting place, + you, and the ark of your strength: let your priests, + Yahweh God, be clothed with salvation, and let your saints + rejoice in goodness. +006:042 Yahweh God, don't turn away the face of your anointed: + remember [your] loving kindnesses to David your servant. +007:001 Now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down + from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; + and the glory of Yahweh filled the house. +007:002 The priests could not enter into the house of Yahweh, + because the glory of Yahweh filled Yahweh's house. +007:003 All the children of Israel looked on, when the fire came down, + and the glory of Yahweh was on the house; and they bowed + themselves with their faces to the ground on the pavement, + and worshiped, and gave thanks to Yahweh, [saying], For he is good; + for his loving kindness endures for ever. +007:004 Then the king and all the people offered sacrifice before Yahweh. +007:005 King Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty-two thousand oxen, + and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all + the people dedicated the house of God. +007:006 The priests stood, according to their offices; the Levites + also with instruments of music of Yahweh, which David the king + had made to give thanks to Yahweh, (for his loving kindness + endures for ever), when David praised by their ministry: + and the priests sounded trumpets before them; and all Israel stood. +007:007 Moreover Solomon made the middle of the court holy that was before + the house of Yahweh; for there he offered the burnt offerings, + and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar + which Solomon had made was not able to receive the burnt offering, + and the meal offering, and the fat. +007:008 So Solomon held the feast at that time seven days, and all + Israel with him, a very great assembly, from the entrance + of Hamath to the brook of Egypt. +007:009 On the eighth day they held a solemn assembly: + for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, + and the feast seven days. +007:010 On the three and twentieth day of the seventh month he sent + the people away to their tents, joyful and glad of heart for + the goodness that Yahweh had shown to David, and to Solomon, + and to Israel his people. +007:011 Thus Solomon finished the house of Yahweh, and the king's house: + and he successfully completed all that came into Solomon's + heart to make in the house of Yahweh, and in his own house. +007:012 Yahweh appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him, + I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place to myself + for a house of sacrifice. +007:013 If I shut up the sky so that there is no rain, or if I command + the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence + among my people; +007:014 if my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, + and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; + then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, + and will heal their land. +007:015 Now my eyes shall be open, and my ears attentive, to the prayer + that is made in this place. +007:016 For now have I chosen and made this house holy, that my + name may be there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall + be there perpetually. +007:017 As for you, if you will walk before me as David your father walked, + and do according to all that I have commanded you, and will + keep my statutes and my ordinances; +007:018 then I will establish the throne of your kingdom, according as I + covenanted with David your father, saying, There shall not + fail you a man to be ruler in Israel. +007:019 But if you turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments + which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, + and worship them; +007:020 then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I + have given them; and this house, which I have made holy + for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and I will make it + a proverb and a byword among all peoples. +007:021 This house, which is so high, everyone who passes by it shall + be astonished, and shall say, Why has Yahweh done thus + to this land, and to this house? +007:022 They shall answer, Because they abandoned Yahweh, the God of + their fathers, who brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, + and laid hold on other gods, and worshiped them, and served them: + therefore has he brought all this evil on them. +008:001 It happened at the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had + built the house of Yahweh, and his own house, +008:002 that the cities which Huram had given to Solomon, Solomon built them, + and caused the children of Israel to dwell there. +008:003 Solomon went to Hamath Zobah, and prevailed against it. +008:004 He built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the storage cities, + which he built in Hamath. +008:005 Also he built Beth Horon the upper, and Beth Horon the lower, + fortified cities, with walls, gates, and bars; +008:006 and Baalath, and all the storage cities that Solomon had, + and all the cities for his chariots, and the cities for + his horsemen, and all that Solomon desired to build for his + pleasure in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land + of his dominion. +008:007 As for all the people who were left of the Hittites, + and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, + and the Jebusites, who were not of Israel; +008:008 of their children who were left after them in the land, + whom the children of Israel didn't consume, of them did + Solomon conscripted forced labor to this day. +008:009 But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no servants for + his work; but they were men of war, and chief of his captains, + and rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen. +008:010 These were the chief officers of king Solomon, even two-hundred fifty, + who ruled over the people. +008:011 Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city + of David to the house that he had built for her; for he said, + My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, + because the places where the ark of Yahweh has come are holy. +008:012 Then Solomon offered burnt offerings to Yahweh on the altar + of Yahweh, which he had built before the porch, +008:013 even as the duty of every day required, offering according to + the commandment of Moses, on the Sabbaths, and on the new moons, + and on the set feasts, three times in the year, [even] in + the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, + and in the feast of tents. +008:014 He appointed, according to the ordinance of David + his father, the divisions of the priests to their service, + and the Levites to their offices, to praise, and to minister + before the priests, as the duty of every day required; + the doorkeepers also by their divisions at every gate: + for so had David the man of God commanded. +008:015 They didn't depart from the commandment of the king to the priests + and Levites concerning any matter, or concerning the treasures. +008:016 Now all the work of Solomon was prepared to the day of the + foundation of the house of Yahweh, and until it was finished. + [So] the house of Yahweh was completed. +008:017 Then went Solomon to Ezion Geber, and to Eloth, on the seashore + in the land of Edom. +008:018 Huram sent him ships and servants who had knowledge of the sea + by the hands of his servants; and they came with the servants + of Solomon to Ophir, and fetched from there four hundred + fifty talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon. +009:001 When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, + she came to prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, + with a very great train, and camels that bore spices, + and gold in abundance, and precious stones: and when she + was come to Solomon, she talked with him of all that was + in her heart. +009:002 Solomon told her all her questions; and there was not anything + hid from Solomon which he didn't tell her. +009:003 When the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, + and the house that he had built, +009:004 and the food of his table, and the sitting of his servants, + and the attendance of his ministers, and their clothing, + his cup bearers also, and their clothing, and his ascent + by which he went up to the house of Yahweh; there was no more + spirit in her. +009:005 She said to the king, It was a true report that I heard in my + own land of your acts, and of your wisdom. +009:006 However I didn't believe their words, until I came, and my eyes + had seen it; and behold, the half of the greatness of your + wisdom was not told me: you exceed the fame that I heard. +009:007 Happy are your men, and happy are these your servants, + who stand continually before you, and hear your wisdom. +009:008 Blessed be Yahweh your God, who delighted in you, to set you + on his throne, to be king for Yahweh your God: because your + God loved Israel, to establish them forever, therefore made + he you king over them, to do justice and righteousness. +009:009 She gave the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold, + and spices in great abundance, and precious stones: + neither was there any such spice as the queen of Sheba gave + to king Solomon. +009:010 The servants also of Huram, and the servants of Solomon, who brought + gold from Ophir, brought algum trees and precious stones. +009:011 The king made of the algum trees terraces for the house of Yahweh, + and for the king's house, and harps and stringed instruments + for the singers: and there were none like these seen before + in the land of Judah. +009:012 King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, + whatever she asked, besides that which she had brought to the king. + So she turned, and went to her own land, she and her servants. +009:013 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six + hundred and sixty-six talents of gold, +009:014 besides that which the traders and merchants brought: + and all the kings of Arabia and the governors of the country + brought gold and silver to Solomon. +009:015 King Solomon made two hundred bucklers of beaten gold; + six hundred [shekels] of beaten gold went to one buckler. +009:016 [he made] three hundred shields of beaten gold; + three hundred [shekels] of gold went to one shield: + and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon. +009:017 Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid + it with pure gold. +009:018 And there were six steps to the throne, with a footstool of gold, + which were fastened to the throne, and stays on either + side by the place of the seat, and two lions standing + beside the stays. +009:019 Twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other on + the six steps: there was nothing like it made in any kingdom. +009:020 All king Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels + of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold: + silver was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon. +009:021 For the king had ships that went to Tarshish with the servants + of Huram; once every three years came the ships of Tarshish, + bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks. +009:022 So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth in + riches and wisdom. +009:023 All the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, + to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart. +009:024 They brought every man his tribute, vessels of silver, and vessels + of gold, and clothing, armor, and spices, horses, and mules, + a rate year by year. +009:025 Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve + thousand horsemen, that he stationed in the chariot cities, + and with the king at Jerusalem. +009:026 He ruled over all the kings from the River even to the land + of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt. +009:027 The king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, + and he made cedars to be as the sycamore trees that are + in the lowland, for abundance. +009:028 They brought horses for Solomon out of Egypt, and out of all lands. +009:029 Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, + aren't they written in the history of Nathan the prophet, + and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions + of Iddo the seer concerning Jeroboam the son of Nebat? +009:030 Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years. +009:031 Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried in the city + of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his place. +010:001 Rehoboam went to Shechem; for all Israel were come to Shechem + to make him king. +010:002 It happened, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it, + (for he was in Egypt, where he had fled from the presence + of king Solomon), that Jeroboam returned out of Egypt. +010:003 They sent and called him; and Jeroboam and all Israel came, + and they spoke to Rehoboam, saying, +010:004 Your father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make you + the grievous service of your father, and his heavy yoke + which he put on us, lighter, and we will serve you. +010:005 He said to them, Come again to me after three days. + The people departed. +010:006 King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before + Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, What counsel + give you me to return answer to this people? +010:007 They spoke to him, saying, If you are kind to this people, + and please them, and speak good words to them, then they + will be your servants forever. +010:008 But he forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him, + and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him, + who stood before him. +010:009 He said to them, What counsel give you, that we may return answer + to this people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make the yoke + that your father did put on us lighter? +010:010 The young men who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, + Thus shall you tell the people who spoke to you, saying, + Your father made our yoke heavy, but make you it lighter to us; + thus shall you say to them, My little finger is thicker + than my father's waist. +010:011 Now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, + I will add to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, + but I [will chastise you] with scorpions. +010:012 So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, + as the king bade, saying, Come to me again the third day. +010:013 The king answered them roughly; and king Rehoboam forsook + the counsel of the old men, +010:014 and spoke to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, + My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add thereto: + my father chastised you with whips, but I [will chastise + you] with scorpions. +010:015 So the king didn't listen to the people; for it was brought about + of God, that Yahweh might establish his word, which he spoke + by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat. +010:016 When all Israel saw that the king didn't listen to them, + the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we + in David? neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: + every man to your tents, Israel: now see to your own house, David. + So all Israel departed to their tents. +010:017 But as for the children of Israel who lived in the cities + of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them. +010:018 Then king Rehoboam sent Hadoram, who was over the men subject + to forced labor; and the children of Israel stoned him + to death with stones. King Rehoboam made speed to get him + up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem. +010:019 So Israel rebelled against the house of David to this day. +011:001 When Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled the house + of Judah and Benjamin, one hundred eighty thousand chosen men, + who were warriors, to fight against Israel, to bring the kingdom + again to Rehoboam. +011:002 But the word of Yahweh came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying, +011:003 Speak to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, + and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin, saying, +011:004 Thus says Yahweh, You shall not go up, nor fight against + your brothers: return every man to his house; for this + thing is of me. So they listened to the words of Yahweh, + and returned from going against Jeroboam. +011:005 Rehoboam lived in Jerusalem, and built cities for defense in Judah. +011:006 He built Bethlehem, and Etam, and Tekoa, +011:007 Beth Zur, and Soco, and Adullam, +011:008 and Gath, and Mareshah, and Ziph, +011:009 and Adoraim, and Lachish, and Azekah, +011:010 and Zorah, and Aijalon, and Hebron, which are in Judah and + in Benjamin, fortified cities. +011:011 He fortified the strongholds, and put captains in them, + and stores of food, and oil and wine. +011:012 In every city [he put] shields and spears, and made them + exceeding strong. Judah and Benjamin belonged to him. +011:013 The priests and the Levites who were in all Israel resorted + to him out of all their border. +011:014 For the Levites left their suburbs and their possession, + and came to Judah and Jerusalem: for Jeroboam and his sons + cast them off, that they should not execute the priest's + office to Yahweh; +011:015 and he appointed him priests for the high places, and for + the male goats, and for the calves which he had made. +011:016 After them, out of all the tribes of Israel, such as set their + hearts to seek Yahweh, the God of Israel, came to Jerusalem + to sacrifice to Yahweh, the God of their fathers. +011:017 So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam + the son of Solomon strong, three years; for they walked + three years in the way of David and Solomon. +011:018 Rehoboam took him a wife, Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth + the son of David, [and of] Abihail the daughter of Eliab + the son of Jesse; +011:019 and she bore him sons: Jeush, and Shemariah, and Zaham. +011:020 After her he took Maacah the daughter of Absalom; and she bore + him Abijah, and Attai, and Ziza, and Shelomith. +011:021 Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom above all his + wives and his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, + and sixty concubines, and became the father of twenty-eight + sons and sixty daughters.) +011:022 Rehoboam appointed Abijah the son of Maacah to be chief, + [even] the prince among his brothers; for [he was minded] + to make him king. +011:023 He dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his sons throughout all + the lands of Judah and Benjamin, to every fortified city: + and he gave them food in abundance. He sought [for + them] many wives. +012:001 It happened, when the kingdom of Rehoboam was established, + and he was strong, that he forsook the law of Yahweh, + and all Israel with him. +012:002 It happened in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak + king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had + trespassed against Yahweh, +012:003 with twelve hundred chariots, and sixty thousand horsemen. + The people were without number who came with him out of Egypt: + the Lubim, the Sukkiim, and the Ethiopians. +012:004 He took the fortified cities which pertained to Judah, + and came to Jerusalem. +012:005 Now Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam, and to the princes + of Judah, who were gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shishak, + and said to them, Thus says Yahweh, You have forsaken me, + therefore have I also left you in the hand of Shishak. +012:006 Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; + and they said, Yahweh is righteous. +012:007 When Yahweh saw that they humbled themselves, the word of Yahweh + came to Shemaiah, saying, They have humbled themselves: + I will not destroy them; but I will grant them some deliverance, + and my wrath shall not be poured out on Jerusalem by the + hand of Shishak. +012:008 Nevertheless they shall be his servants, that they may know + my service, and the service of the kingdoms of the countries. +012:009 So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, + and took away the treasures of the house of Yahweh, + and the treasures of the king's house: he took all away: + he took away also the shields of gold which Solomon had made. +012:010 King Rehoboam made in their place shields of brass, + and committed them to the hands of the captains of the guard, + who kept the door of the king's house. +012:011 It was so, that as often as the king entered into the house + of Yahweh, the guard came and bore them, and brought them + back into the guard chamber. +012:012 When he humbled himself, the wrath of Yahweh turned from him, + so as not to destroy him altogether: and moreover in Judah + there were good things [found]. +012:013 So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned: + for Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, + and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh + had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there: + and his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess. +012:014 He did that which was evil, because he didn't set his heart + to seek Yahweh. +012:015 Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, aren't they written + in the histories of Shemaiah the prophet and of Iddo the seer, + after the manner of genealogies? There were wars between + Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually. +012:016 Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David: + and Abijah his son reigned in his place. +013:001 In the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began Abijah to + reign over Judah. +013:002 Three years reigned he in Jerusalem: and his mother's + name was Micaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. + There was war between Abijah and Jeroboam. +013:003 Abijah joined battle with an army of valiant men of war, + even four hundred thousand chosen men: and Jeroboam set + the battle in array against him with eight hundred thousand + chosen men, who were mighty men of valor. +013:004 Abijah stood up on Mount Zemaraim, which is in the hill country + of Ephraim, and said, Hear me, Jeroboam and all Israel: +013:005 Ought you not to know that Yahweh, the God of Israel, + gave the kingdom over Israel to David forever, even to him + and to his sons by a covenant of salt? +013:006 Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon the son + of David, rose up, and rebelled against his lord. +013:007 There were gathered to him worthless men, base fellows, + who strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, + when Rehoboam was young and tender-hearted, and could + not withstand them. +013:008 Now you think to withstand the kingdom of Yahweh in the hand + of the sons of David; and you are a great multitude, + and there are with you the golden calves which Jeroboam made + you for gods. +013:009 Haven't you driven out the priests of Yahweh, the sons of Aaron, + and the Levites, and made you priests after the manner + of the peoples of [other] lands? so that whoever comes + to consecrate himself with a young bull and seven rams, + the same may be a priest of [those who are] no gods. +013:010 But as for us, Yahweh is our God, and we have not forsaken him; + and [we have] priests ministering to Yahweh, the sons of Aaron, + and the Levites in their work: +013:011 and they burn to Yahweh every morning and every evening burnt + offerings and sweet incense: the show bread also [set + they] in order on the pure table; and the lampstand of gold + with the lamps of it, to burn every evening: for we keep + the charge of Yahweh our God; but you have forsaken him. +013:012 Behold, God is with us at our head, and his priests with + the trumpets of alarm to sound an alarm against you. + Children of Israel, don't you fight against Yahweh, the God + of your fathers; for you shall not prosper. +013:013 But Jeroboam caused an ambush to come about behind them: + so they were before Judah, and the ambush was behind them. +013:014 When Judah looked back, behold, the battle was before and + behind them; and they cried to Yahweh, and the priests sounded + with the trumpets. +013:015 Then the men of Judah gave a shout: and as the men of Judah shouted, + it happened, that God struck Jeroboam and all Israel before + Abijah and Judah. +013:016 The children of Israel fled before Judah; and God delivered + them into their hand. +013:017 Abijah and his people killed them with a great slaughter: + so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men. +013:018 Thus the children of Israel were brought under at that time, + and the children of Judah prevailed, because they relied + on Yahweh, the God of their fathers. +013:019 Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and took cities from him, + Bethel with the towns of it, and Jeshanah with the towns of it, + and Ephron with the towns of it. +013:020 Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the days of Abijah: + and Yahweh struck him, and he died. +013:021 But Abijah grew mighty, and took to himself fourteen wives, + and became the father of twenty-two sons, and sixteen daughters. +013:022 The rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways, and his sayings, + are written in the commentary of the prophet Iddo. +014:001 So Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in + the city of David; and Asa his son reigned in his place. + In his days the land was quiet ten years. +014:002 Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of Yahweh his God: +014:003 for he took away the foreign altars, and the high places, + and broke down the pillars, and hewed down the Asherim, +014:004 and commanded Judah to seek Yahweh, the God of their fathers, + and to do the law and the commandment. +014:005 Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places + and the sun images: and the kingdom was quiet before him. +014:006 He built fortified cities in Judah; for the land was quiet, + and he had no war in those years, because Yahweh had + given him rest. +014:007 For he said to Judah, Let us build these cities, and make + about them walls, and towers, gates, and bars; the land + is yet before us, because we have sought Yahweh our God; + we have sought him, and he has given us rest on every side. + So they built and prospered. +014:008 Asa had an army that bore bucklers and spears, out of Judah + three hundred thousand; and out of Benjamin, that bore + shields and drew bows, two hundred eighty thousand: + all these were mighty men of valor. +014:009 There came out against them Zerah the Ethiopian with an + army of a million troops, and three hundred chariots; + and he came to Mareshah. +014:010 Then Asa went out to meet him, and they set the battle in array + in the valley of Zephathah at Mareshah. +014:011 Asa cried to Yahweh his God, and said, Yahweh, there is none besides + you to help, between the mighty and him who has no strength: + help us, Yahweh our God; for we rely on you, and in your name + are we come against this multitude. Yahweh, you are our God; + don't let man prevail against you. +014:012 So Yahweh struck the Ethiopians before Asa, and before Judah; + and the Ethiopians fled. +014:013 Asa and the people who were with him pursued them to Gerar: + and there fell of the Ethiopians so many that they could not + recover themselves; for they were destroyed before Yahweh, + and before his army; and they carried away very much booty. +014:014 They struck all the cities round about Gerar; for the fear + of Yahweh came on them: and they despoiled all the cities; + for there was much spoil in them. +014:015 They struck also the tents of livestock, and carried away + sheep in abundance, and camels, and returned to Jerusalem. +015:001 The Spirit of God came on Azariah the son of Oded: +015:002 and he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, Hear you me, Asa, + and all Judah and Benjamin: Yahweh is with you, while you + are with him; and if you seek him, he will be found of you; + but if you forsake him, he will forsake you. +015:003 Now for a long season Israel was without the true God, + and without a teaching priest, and without law: +015:004 But when in their distress they turned to Yahweh, the God + of Israel, and sought him, he was found of them. +015:005 In those times there was no peace to him who went out, + nor to him who came in; but great vexations were on all + the inhabitants of the lands. +015:006 They were broken in pieces, nation against nation, and city + against city; for God did vex them with all adversity. +015:007 But be you strong, and don't let your hands be slack; + for your work shall be rewarded. +015:008 When Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, + he took courage, and put away the abominations out of all + the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which + he had taken from the hill country of Ephraim; and he renewed + the altar of Yahweh, that was before the porch of Yahweh. +015:009 He gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and those who sojourned + with them out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon: + for they fell to him out of Israel in abundance, when they + saw that Yahweh his God was with him. +015:010 So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third month, + in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa. +015:011 They sacrificed to Yahweh in that day, of the spoil which they + had brought, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep. +015:012 They entered into the covenant to seek Yahweh, the God of + their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul; +015:013 and that whoever would not seek Yahweh, the God of Israel, + should be put to death, whether small or great, + whether man or woman. +015:014 They swore to Yahweh with a loud voice, and with shouting, + and with trumpets, and with cornets. +015:015 All Judah rejoiced at the oath; for they had sworn with + all their heart, and sought him with their whole desire; + and he was found of them: and Yahweh gave them rest round about. +015:016 Also Maacah, the mother of Asa the king, he removed from being queen, + because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah; + and Asa cut down her image, and made dust of it, and burnt + it at the brook Kidron. +015:017 But the high places were not taken away out of Israel: + nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days. +015:018 He brought into the house of God the things that his father + had dedicated, and that he himself had dedicated, silver, + and gold, and vessels. +015:019 There was no more war to the five and thirtieth year of + the reign of Asa. +016:001 In the six and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa, Baasha king + of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, that he might + not allow anyone to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah. +016:002 Then Asa brought out silver and gold out of the treasures + of the house of Yahweh and of the king's house, and sent + to Ben Hadad king of Syria, who lived at Damascus, saying, +016:003 [There is] a league between me and you, as [there was] between + my father and your father: behold, I have sent you silver + and gold; go, break your league with Baasha king of Israel, + that he may depart from me. +016:004 Ben Hadad listened to king Asa, and sent the captains of his + armies against the cities of Israel; and they struck Ijon, + and Dan, and Abel Maim, and all the storage cities of Naphtali. +016:005 It happened, when Baasha heard of it, that he left off + building Ramah, and let his work cease. +016:006 Then Asa the king took all Judah; and they carried away the stones + of Ramah, and the timber of it, with which Baasha had built; + and he built therewith Geba and Mizpah. +016:007 At that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah, + and said to him, Because you have relied on the king of Syria, + and have not relied on Yahweh your God, therefore is the army + of the king of Syria escaped out of your hand. +016:008 Weren't the Ethiopians and the Lubim a huge army, with chariots + and horsemen exceeding many? yet, because you did rely on Yahweh, + he delivered them into your hand. +016:009 For the eyes of Yahweh run back and forth throughout the whole earth, + to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart + is perfect toward him. Herein you have done foolishly; + for from henceforth you shall have wars. +016:010 Then Asa was angry with the seer, and put him in the prison; + for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. + Asa oppressed some of the people at the same time. +016:011 Behold, the acts of Asa, first and last, behold, they are + written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel. +016:012 In the thirty-ninth year of his reign Asa was diseased in his feet; + his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease he didn't + seek Yahweh, but to the physicians. +016:013 Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and fortieth + year of his reign. +016:014 They buried him in his own tombs, which he had hewn out + for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed + which was filled with sweet odors and various kinds [of spices] + prepared by the perfumers' art: and they made a very great + burning for him. +017:001 Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his place, and strengthened + himself against Israel. +017:002 He placed forces in all the fortified cities of Judah, and set + garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of Ephraim, + which Asa his father had taken. +017:003 Yahweh was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first + ways of his father David, and didn't seek the Baals, +017:004 but sought to the God of his father, and walked in his commandments, + and not after the doings of Israel. +017:005 Therefore Yahweh established the kingdom in his hand; + and all Judah brought to Jehoshaphat tribute; and he had riches + and honor in abundance. +017:006 His heart was lifted up in the ways of Yahweh: and furthermore + he took away the high places and the Asherim out of Judah. +017:007 Also in the third year of his reign he sent his princes, + even Ben Hail, and Obadiah, and Zechariah, and Nethanel, + and Micaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah; +017:008 and with them the Levites, even Shemaiah, and Nethaniah, + and Zebadiah, and Asahel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehonathan, + and Adonijah, and Tobijah, and Tobadonijah, the Levites; + and with them Elishama and Jehoram, the priests. +017:009 They taught in Judah, having the book of the law of Yahweh with them; + and they went about throughout all the cities of Judah, + and taught among the people. +017:010 The fear of Yahweh fell on all the kingdoms of the lands that were + round about Judah, so that they made no war against Jehoshaphat. +017:011 Some of the Philistines brought Jehoshaphat presents, + and silver for tribute; the Arabians also brought him flocks, + seven thousand and seven hundred rams, and seven thousand + and seven hundred male goats. +017:012 Jehoshaphat grew great exceedingly; and he built in Judah + castles and cities of store. +017:013 He had many works in the cities of Judah; and men of war, + mighty men of valor, in Jerusalem. +017:014 This was the numbering of them according to their fathers' houses: + Of Judah, the captains of thousands: Adnah the captain, + and with him mighty men of valor three hundred thousand; +017:015 and next to him Jehohanan the captain, and with him two + hundred eighty thousand; +017:016 and next to him Amasiah the son of Zichri, who willingly offered + himself to Yahweh; and with him two hundred thousand mighty + men of valor. +017:017 Of Benjamin: Eliada a mighty man of valor, and with him two + hundred thousand armed with bow and shield; +017:018 and next to him Jehozabad and with him one hundred eighty + thousand ready prepared for war. +017:019 These were those who waited on the king, besides those whom + the king put in the fortified cities throughout all Judah. +018:001 Now Jehoshaphat had riches and honor in abundance; and he joined + affinity with Ahab. +018:002 After certain years he went down to Ahab to Samaria. + Ahab killed sheep and oxen for him in abundance, and for + the people who were with him, and moved him to go up [with + him] to Ramoth Gilead. +018:003 Ahab king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat king of Judah, Will you + go with me to Ramoth Gilead? He answered him, I am as you are, + and my people as your people; and [we will be] with you + in the war. +018:004 Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, Please inquire first + for the word of Yahweh. +018:005 Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, + four hundred men, and said to them, Shall we go to Ramoth Gilead + to battle, or shall I forbear? They said, Go up; for God + will deliver it into the hand of the king. +018:006 But Jehoshaphat said, Isn't there here a prophet of Yahweh besides, + that we may inquire of him? +018:007 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, There is yet one + man by whom we may inquire of Yahweh: but I hate him; + for he never prophesies good concerning me, but always evil: + the same is Micaiah the son of Imla. Jehoshaphat said, + Don't let the king say so. +018:008 Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, Get quickly + Micaiah the son of Imla. +018:009 Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah sat + each on his throne, arrayed in their robes, and they were + sitting in an open place at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; + and all the prophets were prophesying before them. +018:010 Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns of iron, and said, + Thus says Yahweh, With these shall you push the Syrians, + until they be consumed. +018:011 All the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to Ramoth Gilead, + and prosper; for Yahweh will deliver it into the hand + of the king. +018:012 The messenger who went to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, Behold, + the words of the prophets [declare] good to the king with one mouth: + let your word therefore, Please be like one of theirs, + and speak you good. +018:013 Micaiah said, As Yahweh lives, what my God says, that will I speak. +018:014 When he was come to the king, the king said to him, Micaiah, + shall we go to Ramoth Gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? + He said, Go up, and prosper; and they shall be delivered + into your hand. +018:015 The king said to him, How many times shall I adjure you that you + speak to me nothing but the truth in the name of Yahweh? +018:016 He said, I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains, as sheep + that have no shepherd: and Yahweh said, These have no master; + let them return every man to his house in peace. +018:017 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, Didn't I tell you + that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil? +018:018 [Micaiah] said, "Therefore hear you the word of Yahweh: I saw + Yahweh sitting on his throne, and all the army of heaven + standing on his right hand and on his left. +018:019 Yahweh said, 'Who shall entice Ahab king of Israel, that he may + go up and fall at Ramoth Gilead?' One spoke saying after + this manner, and another saying after that manner. +018:020 There came forth a spirit, and stood before Yahweh, and said, + 'I will entice him.' Yahweh said to him, 'How?' +018:021 He said, 'I will go forth, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth + of all his prophets.' He said, 'You shall entice him, + and shall prevail also: go forth, and do so.' +018:022 Now therefore, behold, Yahweh has put a lying spirit + in the mouth of these your prophets; and Yahweh has spoken + evil concerning you." +018:023 Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and struck Micaiah + on the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of Yahweh + from me to speak to you? +018:024 Micaiah said, Behold, you shall see on that day, when you + shall go into an inner chamber to hide yourself. +018:025 The king of Israel said, Take Micaiah, and carry him back + to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king's son; +018:026 and say, Thus says the king, Put this fellow in the prison, + and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, + until I return in peace. +018:027 Micaiah said, If you return at all in peace, Yahweh has not + spoken by me. He said, Hear, you peoples, all of you. +018:028 So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went + up to Ramoth Gilead. +018:029 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, + and go into the battle; but put you on your robes. + So the king of Israel disguised himself; and they went + into the battle. +018:030 Now the king of Syria had commanded the captains of + his chariots, saying, Fight neither with small nor great, + save only with the king of Israel. +018:031 It happened, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, + that they said, It is the king of Israel. Therefore they + turned about to fight against him: but Jehoshaphat cried out, + and Yahweh helped him; and God moved them [to depart] from him. +018:032 It happened, when the captains of the chariots saw that it was + not the king of Israel, that they turned back from pursuing him. +018:033 A certain man drew his bow at a venture, and struck + the king of Israel between the joints of the armor. + Therefore he said to the driver of the chariot, Turn your hand, + and carry me out of the army; for I am sore wounded. +018:034 The battle increased that day: however the king of Israel stayed + himself up in his chariot against the Syrians until the even; + and about the time of the going down of the sun he died. +019:001 Jehoshaphat the king of Judah returned to his house in + peace to Jerusalem. +019:002 Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, + and said to king Jehoshaphat, Should you help the wicked, + and love those who hate Yahweh? for this thing wrath is on you + from before Yahweh. +019:003 Nevertheless there are good things found in you, in that you + have put away the Asheroth out of the land, and have set + your heart to seek God. +019:004 Jehoshaphat lived at Jerusalem: and he went out again among + the people from Beersheba to the hill country of Ephraim, + and brought them back to Yahweh, the God of their fathers. +019:005 He set judges in the land throughout all the fortified cities + of Judah, city by city, +019:006 and said to the judges, Consider what you do: for you + don't judge for man, but for Yahweh; and [he is] with you + in the judgment. +019:007 Now therefore let the fear of Yahweh be on you; take heed and do it: + for there is no iniquity with Yahweh our God, nor respect + of persons, nor taking of bribes. +019:008 Moreover in Jerusalem did Jehoshaphat set of the Levites and + the priests, and of the heads of the fathers' [houses] of Israel, + for the judgment of Yahweh, and for controversies. + They returned to Jerusalem. +019:009 He charged them, saying, Thus shall you do in the fear + of Yahweh, faithfully, and with a perfect heart. +019:010 Whenever any controversy shall come to you from your brothers + who dwell in their cities, between blood and blood, + between law and commandment, statutes and ordinances, + you shall warn them, that they not be guilty towards Yahweh, + and so wrath come on you and on your brothers: this do, + and you shall not be guilty. +019:011 Behold, Amariah the chief priest is over you in all + matters of Yahweh; and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, + the ruler of the house of Judah, in all the king's matters: + also the Levites shall be officers before you. + Deal courageously, and Yahweh be with the good. +020:001 It happened after this, that the children of Moab, + and the children of Ammon, and with them some of the Ammonites, + came against Jehoshaphat to battle. +020:002 Then there came some who told Jehoshaphat, saying, There comes + a great multitude against you from beyond the sea from Syria; + and behold, they are in Hazazon Tamar (the same is En Gedi). +020:003 Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek to Yahweh; + and he proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah. +020:004 Judah gathered themselves together, to seek [help] of Yahweh: + even out of all the cities of Judah they came to seek Yahweh. +020:005 Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem, + in the house of Yahweh, before the new court; +020:006 and he said, Yahweh, the God of our fathers, aren't you + God in heaven? and aren't you ruler over all the kingdoms + of the nations? and in your hand is power and might, + so that none is able to withstand you. +020:007 Did not you, our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land + before your people Israel, and give it to the seed of Abraham + your friend forever? +020:008 They lived therein, and have built you a sanctuary therein + for your name, saying, +020:009 If evil come on us, the sword, judgment, or pestilence, + or famine, we will stand before this house, and before you, + (for your name is in this house), and cry to you in our affliction, + and you will hear and save. +020:010 Now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir, + whom you would not let Israel invade, when they came out + of the land of Egypt, but they turned aside from them, + and didn't destroy them; +020:011 behold, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of your possession, + which you have given us to inherit. +020:012 Our God, will you not judge them? for we have no might against this + great company that comes against us; neither know we what to do: + but our eyes are on you. +020:013 All Judah stood before Yahweh, with their little ones, + their wives, and their children. +020:014 Then on Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, + the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, the Levite, + of the sons of Asaph, came the Spirit of Yahweh in the midst + of the assembly; +020:015 and he said, Listen you, all Judah, and you inhabitants + of Jerusalem, and you king Jehoshaphat: Thus says Yahweh to you, + Don't be afraid you, neither be dismayed by reason of this + great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God's. +020:016 Tomorrow go you down against them: behold, they come up + by the ascent of Ziz; and you shall find them at the end + of the valley, before the wilderness of Jeruel. +020:017 You shall not need to fight in this [battle]: set yourselves, + stand you still, and see the salvation of Yahweh with you, + O Judah and Jerusalem; don't be afraid, nor be dismayed: + tomorrow go out against them: for Yahweh is with you. +020:018 Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground; + and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell down + before Yahweh, worshipping Yahweh. +020:019 The Levites, of the children of the Kohathites and of the children + of the Korahites, stood up to praise Yahweh, the God of Israel, + with an exceeding loud voice. +020:020 They rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness + of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, + Hear me, Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem: + believe in Yahweh your God, so shall you be established; + believe his prophets, so shall you prosper. +020:021 When he had taken counsel with the people, he appointed those + who should sing to Yahweh, and give praise in holy array, + as they went out before the army, and say, Give thanks to Yahweh; + for his loving kindness endures forever. +020:022 When they began to sing and to praise, Yahweh set ambushers + against the children of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, + who had come against Judah; and they were struck. +020:023 For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the + inhabitants of Mount Seir, utterly to kill and destroy them: + and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, + everyone helped to destroy another. +020:024 When Judah came to the place overlooking the wilderness, + they looked at the multitude; and behold, they were dead + bodies fallen to the earth, and there were none who escaped. +020:025 When Jehoshaphat and his people came to take the spoil of them, + they found among them in abundance both riches and dead bodies, + and precious jewels, which they stripped off for themselves, + more than they could carry away: and they were three days + in taking the spoil, it was so much. +020:026 On the fourth day they assembled themselves in the valley + of Beracah; for there they blessed Yahweh: therefore the name + of that place was called The valley of Beracah to this day. +020:027 Then they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem, and Jehoshaphat + in the forefront of them, to go again to Jerusalem with joy; + for Yahweh had made them to rejoice over their enemies. +020:028 They came to Jerusalem with stringed instruments and harps + and trumpets to the house of Yahweh. +020:029 The fear of God was on all the kingdoms of the countries, + when they heard that Yahweh fought against the enemies of Israel. +020:030 So the realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet; for his God gave him + rest round about. +020:031 Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah: he was thirty-five years old when + he began to reign; and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem: + and his mother's name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi. +020:032 He walked in the way of Asa his father, and didn't turn aside + from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh. +020:033 However the high places were not taken away; neither as yet + had the people set their hearts to the God of their fathers. +020:034 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and last, behold, + they are written in the history of Jehu the son of Hanani, + which is inserted in the book of the kings of Israel. +020:035 After this did Jehoshaphat king of Judah join himself with + Ahaziah king of Israel; the same did very wickedly: +020:036 and he joined himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish; + and they made the ships in Ezion Geber. +020:037 Then Eliezer the son of Dodavahu of Mareshah prophesied + against Jehoshaphat, saying, Because you have joined + yourself with Ahaziah, Yahweh has destroyed your works. + The ships were broken, so that they were not able to + go to Tarshish. +021:001 Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his + fathers in the city of David: and Jehoram his son reigned + in his place. +021:002 He had brothers, the sons of Jehoshaphat: Azariah, and Jehiel, + and Zechariah, and Azariah, and Michael, and Shephatiah; + all these were the sons of Jehoshaphat king of Israel. +021:003 Their father gave them great gifts, of silver, and of gold, + and of precious things, with fortified cities in Judah: + but the kingdom gave he to Jehoram, because he was the firstborn. +021:004 Now when Jehoram was risen up over the kingdom of his father, + and had strengthened himself, he killed all his brothers + with the sword, and various also of the princes of Israel. +021:005 Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he began to reign; + and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. +021:006 He walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house + of Ahab; for he had the daughter of Ahab as wife: + and he did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh. +021:007 However Yahweh would not destroy the house of David, because of + the covenant that he had made with David, and as he promised + to give a lamp to him and to his children always. +021:008 In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, + and made a king over themselves. +021:009 Then Jehoram passed over with his captains, and all his chariots + with him: and he rose up by night, and struck the Edomites + who surrounded him, along with the captains of the chariots. +021:010 So Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah to this day: + then did Libnah revolt at the same time from under his hand, + because he had forsaken Yahweh, the God of his fathers. +021:011 Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, + and made the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the prostitute, + and led Judah astray. +021:012 There came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, + Thus says Yahweh, the God of David your father, Because you + have not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat your father, + nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah, +021:013 but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and have made + Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the prostitute, + like as the house of Ahab did, and also have slain your brothers + of your father's house, who were better than yourself: +021:014 behold, Yahweh will strike with a great plague your people, + and your children, and your wives, and all your substance; +021:015 and you shall have great sickness by disease of your bowels, + until your bowels fall out by reason of the sickness, + day by day. +021:016 Yahweh stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, + and of the Arabians who are beside the Ethiopians: +021:017 and they came up against Judah, and broke into it, and carried + away all the substance that was found in the king's house, + and his sons also, and his wives; so that there was never a son + left him, save Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons. +021:018 After all this Yahweh struck him in his bowels with + an incurable disease. +021:019 It happened, in process of time, at the end of two years, + that his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness, and he died + of sore diseases. His people made no burning for him, + like the burning of his fathers. +021:020 Thirty-two years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned + in Jerusalem eight years: and he departed without being desired; + and they buried him in the city of David, but not in the tombs + of the kings. +022:001 The inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest + son king in his place; for the band of men who came + with the Arabians to the camp had slain all the eldest. + So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned. +022:002 Forty-two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign; + and he reigned one year in Jerusalem: and his mother's name + was Athaliah the daughter of Omri. +022:003 He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab; for his mother + was his counselor to do wickedly. +022:004 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, as did + the house of Ahab; for they were his counselors after the death + of his father, to his destruction. +022:005 He walked also after their counsel, and went with Jehoram + the son of Ahab king of Israel to war against Hazael king + of Syria at Ramoth Gilead: and the Syrians wounded Joram. +022:006 He returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which they had + given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. + Azariah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see + Jehoram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick. +022:007 Now the destruction of Ahaziah was of God, in that he went to Joram: + for when he was come, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu + the son of Nimshi, whom Yahweh had anointed to cut off + the house of Ahab. +022:008 It happened, when Jehu was executing judgment on the house + of Ahab, that he found the princes of Judah, and the sons + of the brothers of Ahaziah, ministering to Ahaziah, + and killed them. +022:009 He sought Ahaziah, and they caught him (now he was hiding + in Samaria), and they brought him to Jehu, and killed him; + and they buried him, for they said, He is the son + of Jehoshaphat, who sought Yahweh with all his heart. + The house of Ahaziah had no power to hold the kingdom. +022:010 Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, + she arose and destroyed all the royal seed of the house of Judah. +022:011 But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took Joash the son + of Ahaziah, and stole him away from among the king's sons + who were slain, and put him and his nurse in the bedchamber. + So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of king Jehoram, the wife + of Jehoiada the priest (for she was the sister of Ahaziah), + hid him from Athaliah, so that she didn't kill him. +022:012 He was with them hid in the house of God six years: + and Athaliah reigned over the land. +023:001 In the seventh year Jehoiada strengthened himself, and took + the captains of hundreds, Azariah the son of Jeroham, + and Ishmael the son of Jehohanan, and Azariah the son of Obed, + and Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri, + into covenant with him. +023:002 They went about in Judah, and gathered the Levites out + of all the cities of Judah, and the heads of fathers' + [houses] of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem. +023:003 All the assembly made a covenant with the king in the house of God. + He said to them, Behold, the king's son shall reign, + as Yahweh has spoken concerning the sons of David. +023:004 This is the thing that you shall do: a third part of you, + who come in on the Sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites, + shall be porters of the thresholds; +023:005 and a third part shall be at the king's house; and a third + part at the gate of the foundation: and all the people shall + be in the courts of the house of Yahweh. +023:006 But let none come into the house of Yahweh, save the priests, + and those who minister of the Levites; they shall come in, + for they are holy: but all the people shall keep the + charge of Yahweh. +023:007 The Levites shall compass the king round about, every man + with his weapons in his hand; and whoever comes into the house, + let him be slain: and be you with the king when he comes in, + and when he goes out. +023:008 So the Levites and all Judah did according to all that Jehoiada + the priest commanded: and they took every man his men, + those who were to come in on the Sabbath; with those who were + to go out on the Sabbath; for Jehoiada the priest didn't + dismiss the shift. +023:009 Jehoiada the priest delivered to the captains of hundreds + the spears, and bucklers, and shields, that had been king David's, + which were in the house of God. +023:010 He set all the people, every man with his weapon in his hand, + from the right side of the house to the left side of the house, + along by the altar and the house, by the king round about. +023:011 Then they brought out the king's son, and put the crown + on him, and [gave him] the testimony, and made him king: + and Jehoiada and his sons anointed him; and they said, + [Long] live the king. +023:012 When Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and praising + the king, she came to the people into the house of Yahweh: +023:013 and she looked, and, behold, the king stood by his pillar at + the entrance, and the captains and the trumpets by the king; + and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew trumpets; + the singers also [played] on instruments of music, and led + the singing of praise. Then Athaliah tore her clothes, + and said, Treason! treason! +023:014 Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of hundreds who were set + over the army, and said to them, Have her forth between the ranks; + and whoever follows her, let him be slain with the sword: + for the priest said, Don't kill her in the house of Yahweh. +023:015 So they made way for her; and she went to the entrance of the horse + gate to the king's house: and they killed her there. +023:016 Jehoiada made a covenant between himself, and all the people, + and the king, that they should be Yahweh's people. +023:017 All the people went to the house of Baal, and broke it down, + and broke his altars and his images in pieces, and killed + Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. +023:018 Jehoiada appointed the officers of the house of Yahweh under + the hand of the priests the Levites, whom David had distributed + in the house of Yahweh, to offer the burnt offerings of Yahweh, + as it is written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and + with singing, according to the order of David. +023:019 He set the porters at the gates of the house of Yahweh, + that no one who was unclean in anything should enter in. +023:020 He took the captains of hundreds, and the nobles, and the + governors of the people, and all the people of the land, + and brought down the king from the house of Yahweh: + and they came through the upper gate to the king's house, + and set the king on the throne of the kingdom. +023:021 So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet. + Athaliah they had slain with the sword. +024:001 Joash was seven years old when he began to reign; + and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem: and his mother's + name was Zibiah, of Beersheba. +024:002 Joash did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh all the days + of Jehoiada the priest. +024:003 Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he became the father + of sons and daughters. +024:004 It happened after this, that Joash was minded to restore + the house of Yahweh. +024:005 He gathered together the priests and the Levites, + and said to them, Go out to the cities of Judah, and gather + of all Israel money to repair the house of your God + from year to year; and see that you hasten the matter. + However the Levites didn't hurry. +024:006 The king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said to him, + Why haven't you required of the Levites to bring in out of Judah + and out of Jerusalem the tax of Moses the servant of Yahweh, + and of the assembly of Israel, for the tent of the testimony? +024:007 For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken up + the house of God; and also all the dedicated things of the house + of Yahweh did they bestow on the Baals. +024:008 So the king commanded, and they made a chest, and set it + outside at the gate of the house of Yahweh. +024:009 They made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem, + to bring in for Yahweh the tax that Moses the servant of God + laid on Israel in the wilderness. +024:010 All the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in, + and cast into the chest, until they had made an end. +024:011 It was so, that whenever the chest was brought to the king's + officers by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw + that there was much money, the king's scribe and the chief + priest's officer came and emptied the chest, and took it, + and carried it to its place again. Thus they did day by day, + and gathered money in abundance. +024:012 The king and Jehoiada gave it to such as did the work of + the service of the house of Yahweh; and they hired masons + and carpenters to restore the house of Yahweh, and also such + as worked iron and brass to repair the house of Yahweh. +024:013 So the workmen worked, and the work of repairing went forward + in their hands, and they set up the house of God in its state, + and strengthened it. +024:014 When they had made an end, they brought the rest of the money + before the king and Jehoiada, of which were made vessels + for the house of Yahweh, even vessels with which to minister + and to offer, and spoons, and vessels of gold and silver. + They offered burnt offerings in the house of Yahweh continually + all the days of Jehoiada. +024:015 But Jehoiada grew old and was full of days, and he died; + one hundred thirty years old was he when he died. +024:016 They buried him in the city of David among the kings, + because he had done good in Israel, and toward God and his house. +024:017 Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of Judah, + and made obeisance to the king. Then the king listened to them. +024:018 They forsook the house of Yahweh, the God of their fathers, + and served the Asherim and the idols: and wrath came on Judah + and Jerusalem for this their guiltiness. +024:019 Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again to Yahweh; + and they testified against them: but they would not give ear. +024:020 The Spirit of God came on Zechariah the son of Jehoiada + the priest; and he stood above the people, and said to them, + Thus says God, Why disobey you the commandments of Yahweh, + so that you can't prosper? because you have forsaken Yahweh, + he has also forsaken you. +024:021 They conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at + the commandment of the king in the court of the house of Yahweh. +024:022 Thus Joash the king didn't remember the kindness which + Jehoiada his father had done to him, but killed his son. + When he died, he said, Yahweh look on it, and require it. +024:023 It happened at the end of the year, that the army of the Syrians + came up against him: and they came to Judah and Jerusalem, + and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people, + and sent all the spoil of them to the king of Damascus. +024:024 For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men; + and Yahweh delivered a very great army into their hand, + because they had forsaken Yahweh, the God of their fathers. + So they executed judgment on Joash. +024:025 When they were departed for him (for they left him very sick), + his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons + of Jehoiada the priest, and killed him on his bed, and he died; + and they buried him in the city of David, but they didn't + bury him in the tombs of the kings. +024:026 These are those who conspired against him: Zabad the son + of Shimeath the Ammonitess, and Jehozabad the son of + Shimrith the Moabitess. +024:027 Now concerning his sons, and the greatness of the burdens + [laid] on him, and the rebuilding of the house of God, behold, + they are written in the commentary of the book of the kings. + Amaziah his son reigned in his place. +025:001 Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; + and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem: + and his mother's name was Jehoaddan, of Jerusalem. +025:002 He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, but not + with a perfect heart. +025:003 Now it happened, when the kingdom was established to him, + that he killed his servants who had killed the king his father. +025:004 But he didn't put their children to death, but did according + to that which is written in the law in the book of Moses, + as Yahweh commanded, saying, The fathers shall not die for + the children, neither shall the children die for the fathers; + but every man shall die for his own sin. +025:005 Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and ordered them + according to their fathers' houses, under captains of thousands + and captains of hundreds, even all Judah and Benjamin: + and he numbered them from twenty years old and upward, + and found them three hundred thousand chosen men, able to go + forth to war, who could handle spear and shield. +025:006 He hired also one hundred thousand mighty men of valor out + of Israel for one hundred talents of silver. +025:007 But there came a man of God to him, saying, O king, don't let + the army of Israel go with you; for Yahweh is not with Israel, + [to wit], with all the children of Ephraim. +025:008 But if you will go, do [valiantly], be strong for the battle: + God will cast you down before the enemy; for God has power + to help, and to cast down. +025:009 Amaziah said to the man of God, But what shall we do for the hundred + talents which I have given to the army of Israel? The man + of God answered, Yahweh is able to give you much more than this. +025:010 Then Amaziah separated them, [to wit], the army that + had come to him out of Ephraim, to go home again: + therefore their anger was greatly kindled against Judah, + and they returned home in fierce anger. +025:011 Amaziah took courage, and led forth his people, and went + to the Valley of Salt, and struck of the children of + Seir ten thousand. +025:012 [other] ten thousand did the children of Judah carry away alive, + and brought them to the top of the rock, and cast them down from + the top of the rock, so that they all were broken in pieces. +025:013 But the men of the army whom Amaziah sent back, that they + should not go with him to battle, fell on the cities of Judah, + from Samaria even to Beth Horon, and struck of them three thousand, + and took much spoil. +025:014 Now it happened, after that Amaziah was come from the slaughter + of the Edomites, that he brought the gods of the children + of Seir, and set them up to be his gods, and bowed down himself + before them, and burned incense to them. +025:015 Therefore the anger of Yahweh was kindled against Amaziah, + and he sent to him a prophet, who said to him, Why have you + sought after the gods of the people, which have not delivered + their own people out of your hand? +025:016 It happened, as he talked with him, that [the king] said to him, + Have we made you of the king's counsel? Stop! Why should + you be struck down? Then the prophet stopped, and said, + I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you + have done this, and have not listened to my counsel. +025:017 Then Amaziah king of Judah took advice, and sent to Joash, + the son of Jehoahaz the son of Jehu, king of Israel, + saying, Come, let us look one another in the face. +025:018 Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, + The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was + in Lebanon, saying, Give your daughter to my son as wife: + and there passed by a wild animal that was in Lebanon, + and trod down the thistle. +025:019 You say, Behold, you have struck Edom; and your heart + lifts you up to boast: abide now at home; why should you + meddle to [your] hurt, that you should fall, even you, + and Judah with you? +025:020 But Amaziah would not hear; for it was of God, that he might + deliver them into the hand [of their enemies], because they + had sought after the gods of Edom. +025:021 So Joash king of Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king + of Judah looked one another in the face at Beth Shemesh, + which belongs to Judah. +025:022 Judah was put to the worse before Israel; and they fled every + man to his tent. +025:023 Joash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son + of Joash the son of Jehoahaz, at Beth Shemesh, and brought + him to Jerusalem, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from + the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits. +025:024 [He took] all the gold and silver, and all the vessels + that were found in the house of God with Obed-Edom, + and the treasures of the king's house, the hostages also, + and returned to Samaria. +025:025 Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death + of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years. +025:026 Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, first and last, behold, + aren't they written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel? +025:027 Now from the time that Amaziah did turn away from following + Yahweh they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem; + and he fled to Lachish: but they sent after him to Lachish, + and killed him there. +025:028 They brought him on horses, and buried him with his fathers + in the city of Judah. +026:001 All the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, + and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah. +026:002 He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after that the king + slept with his fathers. +026:003 Sixteen years old was Uzziah when he began to reign; + and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem: and his mother's + name was Jechiliah, of Jerusalem. +026:004 He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to + all that his father Amaziah had done. +026:005 He set himself to seek God in the days of Zechariah, + who had understanding in the vision of God: and as long + as he sought Yahweh, God made him to prosper. +026:006 He went forth and warred against the Philistines, and broke + down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall + of Ashdod; and he built cities in [the country of] Ashdod, + and among the Philistines. +026:007 God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians + who lived in Gur Baal, and the Meunim. +026:008 The Ammonites gave tribute to Uzziah: and his name spread abroad + even to the entrance of Egypt; for he grew exceeding strong. +026:009 Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate, + and at the valley gate, and at the turning [of the wall], + and fortified them. +026:010 He built towers in the wilderness, and hewed out many cisterns, + for he had much livestock; in the lowland also, and in the plain: + [and he had] farmers and vineyard keepers in the mountains + and in the fruitful fields; for he loved farming. +026:011 Moreover Uzziah had an army of fighting men, who went out to war + by bands, according to the number of their reckoning made + by Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the officer, under the hand + of Hananiah, one of the king's captains. +026:012 The whole number of the heads of fathers' [houses], even the mighty + men of valor, was two thousand and six hundred. +026:013 Under their hand was an army, three hundred thousand and seven + thousand and five hundred, who made war with mighty power, + to help the king against the enemy. +026:014 Uzziah prepared for them, even for all the army, shields, + and spears, and helmets, and coats of mail, and bows, + and stones for slinging. +026:015 He made in Jerusalem engines, invented by skillful men, + to be on the towers and on the battlements, with which to + shoot arrows and great stones. His name spread far abroad; + for he was marvelously helped, until he was strong. +026:016 But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up, so that + he did corruptly, and he trespassed against Yahweh his God; + for he went into the temple of Yahweh to burn incense on + the altar of incense. +026:017 Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him eighty + priests of Yahweh, who were valiant men: +026:018 and they withstood Uzziah the king, and said to him, It pertains + not to you, Uzziah, to burn incense to Yahweh, but to the priests + the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated to burn incense: + go out of the sanctuary; for you have trespassed; neither shall + it be for your honor from Yahweh God. +026:019 Then Uzziah was angry; and he had a censer in his hand + to burn incense; and while he was angry with the priests, + the leprosy broke forth in his forehead before the priests + in the house of Yahweh, beside the altar of incense. +026:020 Azariah the chief priest, and all the priests, looked on him, + and behold, he was leprous in his forehead, and they thrust him + out quickly from there; yes, himself hurried also to go out, + because Yahweh had struck him. +026:021 Uzziah the king was a leper to the day of his death, + and lived in a separate house, being a leper; for he was cut + off from the house of Yahweh: and Jotham his son was over + the king's house, judging the people of the land. +026:022 Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last, did Isaiah + the prophet, the son of Amoz, write. +026:023 So Uzziah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his + fathers in the field of burial which belonged to the kings; + for they said, He is a leper: and Jotham his son reigned + in his place. +027:001 Jotham was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; + and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: and his mother's + name was Jerushah the daughter of Zadok. +027:002 He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, + according to all that his father Uzziah had done: + however he didn't enter into the temple of Yahweh. + The people did yet corruptly. +027:003 He built the upper gate of the house of Yahweh, and on the wall + of Ophel he built much. +027:004 Moreover he built cities in the hill country of Judah, + and in the forests he built castles and towers. +027:005 He fought also with the king of the children of Ammon, + and prevailed against them. The children of Ammon gave + him the same year one hundred talents of silver, and ten + thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. + So much did the children of Ammon render to him, in the second + year also, and in the third. +027:006 So Jotham became mighty, because he ordered his ways before + Yahweh his God. +027:007 Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars, + and his ways, behold, they are written in the book of the kings + of Israel and Judah. +027:008 He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, + and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. +027:009 Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city + of David: and Ahaz his son reigned in his place. +028:001 Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign; and he reigned + sixteen years in Jerusalem: and he didn't do that which was + right in the eyes of Yahweh, like David his father; +028:002 but he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made + also molten images for the Baals. +028:003 Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, + and burnt his children in the fire, according to the abominations + of the nations whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Israel. +028:004 He sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on + the hills, and under every green tree. +028:005 Therefore Yahweh his God delivered him into the hand of the king + of Syria; and they struck him, and carried away of his a + great multitude of captives, and brought them to Damascus. + He was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, + who struck him with a great slaughter. +028:006 For Pekah the son of Remaliah killed in Judah one hundred + twenty thousand in one day, all of them valiant men; + because they had forsaken Yahweh, the God of their fathers. +028:007 Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, killed Maaseiah the king's son, + and Azrikam the ruler of the house, and Elkanah who was + next to the king. +028:008 The children of Israel carried away captive of their brothers + two hundred thousand, women, sons, and daughters, and took + also away much spoil from them, and brought the spoil to Samaria. +028:009 But a prophet of Yahweh was there, whose name was Oded: + and he went out to meet the army that came to Samaria, and said + to them, Behold, because Yahweh, the God of your fathers, + was angry with Judah, he has delivered them into your hand, + and you have slain them in a rage which has reached up to heaven. +028:010 Now you purpose to keep under the children of Judah + and Jerusalem for bondservants and bondmaids to you: + [but] aren't there even with you trespasses of your own + against Yahweh your God? +028:011 Now hear me therefore, and send back the captives, that you + have taken captive of your brothers; for the fierce wrath + of Yahweh is on you. +028:012 Then certain of the heads of the children of Ephraim, Azariah + the son of Johanan, Berechiah the son of Meshillemoth, + and Jehizkiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai, + stood up against those who came from the war, +028:013 and said to them, You shall not bring in the captives here: + for you purpose that which will bring on us a trespass + against Yahweh, to add to our sins and to our trespass; for our + trespass is great, and there is fierce wrath against Israel. +028:014 So the armed men left the captives and the spoil before + the princes and all the assembly. +028:015 The men who have been mentioned by name rose up, and took + the captives, and with the spoil clothed all who were + naked among them, and arrayed them, and shod them, + and gave them to eat and to drink, and anointed them, + and carried all the feeble of them on donkeys, and brought + them to Jericho, the city of palm trees, to their brothers: + then they returned to Samaria. +028:016 At that time did king Ahaz send to the kings of Assyria + to help him. +028:017 For again the Edomites had come and struck Judah, + and carried away captives. +028:018 The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the lowland, + and of the South of Judah, and had taken Beth Shemesh, + and Aijalon, and Gederoth, and Soco with the towns of it, + and Timnah with the towns of it, Gimzo also and the towns of it: + and they lived there. +028:019 For Yahweh brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel; + for he had dealt wantonly in Judah, and trespassed + severely against Yahweh. +028:020 Tilgath Pilneser king of Assyria came to him, and distressed him, + but didn't strengthen him. +028:021 For Ahaz took away a portion out of the house of Yahweh, + and out of the house of the king and of the princes, and gave + it to the king of Assyria: but it didn't help him. +028:022 In the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against Yahweh, + this same king Ahaz. +028:023 For he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus, which struck him; + and he said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria helped them, + [therefore] will I sacrifice to them, that they may help me. + But they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel. +028:024 Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God, + and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and shut + up the doors of the house of Yahweh; and he made him altars + in every corner of Jerusalem. +028:025 In every city of Judah he made high places to burn incense + to other gods, and provoked to anger Yahweh, the God + of his fathers. +028:026 Now the rest of his acts, and all his ways, first and last, behold, + they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel. +028:027 Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, + even in Jerusalem; for they didn't bring him into the tombs + of the kings of Israel: and Hezekiah his son reigned + in his place. +029:001 Hezekiah began to reign when he was twenty-five years old; + and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem: + and his mother's name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah. +029:002 He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to + all that David his father had done. +029:003 He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, + opened the doors of the house of Yahweh, and repaired them. +029:004 He brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them + together into the broad place on the east, +029:005 and said to them, Hear me, you Levites; now sanctify yourselves, + and sanctify the house of Yahweh, the God of your fathers, + and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place. +029:006 For our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil + in the sight of Yahweh our God, and have forsaken him, + and have turned away their faces from the habitation of Yahweh, + and turned their backs. +029:007 Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out + the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt + offerings in the holy place to the God of Israel. +029:008 Therefore the wrath of Yahweh was on Judah and Jerusalem, + and he has delivered them to be tossed back and forth, + to be an astonishment, and a hissing, as you see with your eyes. +029:009 For, behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons + and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this. +029:010 Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with Yahweh, the God + of Israel, that his fierce anger may turn away from us. +029:011 My sons, don't be negligent now; for Yahweh has chosen you + to stand before him, to minister to him, and that you should + be his ministers, and burn incense. +029:012 Then the Levites arose, Mahath, the son of Amasai, + and Joel the son of Azariah, of the sons of the Kohathites; + and of the sons of Merari, Kish the son of Abdi, and Azariah + the son of Jehallelel; and of the Gershonites, Joah the son + of Zimmah, and Eden the son of Joah; +029:013 and of the sons of Elizaphan, Shimri and Jeuel; and of the sons + of Asaph, Zechariah and Mattaniah; +029:014 and of the sons of Heman, Jehuel and Shimei; and of the sons + of Jeduthun, Shemaiah and Uzziel. +029:015 They gathered their brothers, and sanctified themselves, + and went in, according to the commandment of the king + by the words of Yahweh, to cleanse the house of Yahweh. +029:016 The priests went in to the inner part of the house of Yahweh, + to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found + in the temple of Yahweh into the court of the house of Yahweh. + The Levites took it, to carry it out abroad to the brook Kidron. +029:017 Now they began on the first [day] of the first month to sanctify, + and on the eighth day of the month came they to the porch of Yahweh; + and they sanctified the house of Yahweh in eight days: + and on the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end. +029:018 Then they went in to Hezekiah the king within [the palace], + and said, We have cleansed all the house of Yahweh, + and the altar of burnt offering, with all the vessels of it, + and the table of show bread, with all the vessels of it. +029:019 Moreover all the vessels, which king Ahaz in his reign did cast + away when he trespassed, have we prepared and sanctified; + and behold, they are before the altar of Yahweh. +029:020 Then Hezekiah the king arose early, and gathered the princes + of the city, and went up to the house of Yahweh. +029:021 They brought seven bulls, and seven rams, and seven lambs, + and seven male goats, for a sin offering for the kingdom + and for the sanctuary and for Judah. He commanded the priests + the sons of Aaron to offer them on the altar of Yahweh. +029:022 So they killed the bulls, and the priests received the blood, + and sprinkled it on the altar: and they killed the rams, + and sprinkled the blood on the altar: they killed also the lambs, + and sprinkled the blood on the altar. +029:023 They brought near the male goats for the sin offering before + the king and the assembly; and they laid their hands on them: +029:024 and the priests killed them, and they made a sin offering with + their blood on the altar, to make atonement for all Israel; + for the king commanded [that] the burnt offering and the sin + offering [should be made] for all Israel. +029:025 He set the Levites in the house of Yahweh with cymbals, + with stringed instruments, and with harps, according to + the commandment of David, and of Gad the king's seer, + and Nathan the prophet; for the commandment was of Yahweh + by his prophets. +029:026 The Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests + with the trumpets. +029:027 Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt offering on the altar. + When the burnt offering began, the song of Yahweh began also, + and the trumpets, together with the instruments of David + king of Israel. +029:028 All the assembly worshiped, and the singers sang, and the + trumpeters sounded; all this [continued] until the burnt + offering was finished. +029:029 When they had made an end of offering, the king and all who + were present with him bowed themselves and worshiped. +029:030 Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded + the Levites to sing praises to Yahweh with the words of David, + and of Asaph the seer. They sang praises with gladness, + and they bowed their heads and worshiped. +029:031 Then Hezekiah answered, Now you have consecrated yourselves + to Yahweh; come near and bring sacrifices and thank offerings + into the house of Yahweh. The assembly brought in sacrifices + and thank offerings; and as many as were of a willing heart + [brought] burnt offerings. +029:032 The number of the burnt offerings which the assembly brought + was seventy bulls, one hundred rams, and two hundred lambs: + all these were for a burnt offering to Yahweh. +029:033 The consecrated things were six hundred oxen and + three thousand sheep. +029:034 But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all + the burnt offerings: therefore their brothers the Levites + helped them, until the work was ended, and until the priests + had sanctified themselves; for the Levites were more upright + in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests. +029:035 Also the burnt offerings were in abundance, with the fat + of the peace offerings, and with the drink offerings for every + burnt offering. So the service of the house of Yahweh was + set in order. +029:036 Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people, because of that which God + had prepared for the people: for the thing was done suddenly. +030:001 Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also + to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house + of Yahweh at Jerusalem, to keep the Passover to Yahweh, + the God of Israel. +030:002 For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the assembly + in Jerusalem, to keep the Passover in the second month. +030:003 For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests + had not sanctified themselves in sufficient number, neither had + the people gathered themselves together to Jerusalem. +030:004 The thing was right in the eyes of the king and of all the assembly. +030:005 So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout + all Israel, from Beersheba even to Dan, that they should come + to keep the Passover to Yahweh, the God of Israel, at Jerusalem: + for they had not kept it in great numbers in such sort + as it is written. +030:006 So the posts went with the letters from the king and his + princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to + the commandment of the king, saying, You children of Israel, + turn again to Yahweh, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, + that he may return to the remnant that have escaped of you + out of the hand of the kings of Assyria. +030:007 Don't be you like your fathers, and like your brothers, + who trespassed against Yahweh, the God of their fathers, + so that he gave them up to desolation, as you see. +030:008 Now don't you be stiff-necked, as your fathers were; + but yield yourselves to Yahweh, and enter into his sanctuary, + which he has sanctified forever, and serve Yahweh your God, + that his fierce anger may turn away from you. +030:009 For if you turn again to Yahweh, your brothers and your children + shall find compassion before those who led them captive, + and shall come again into this land: for Yahweh your God is + gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, + if you return to him. +030:010 So the posts passed from city to city through the country of + Ephraim and Manasseh, even to Zebulun: but they ridiculed them, + and mocked them. +030:011 Nevertheless certain men of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun + humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem. +030:012 Also on Judah came the hand of God to give them one heart, + to do the commandment of the king and of the princes by + the word of Yahweh. +030:013 There assembled at Jerusalem much people to keep the feast + of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great assembly. +030:014 They arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, + and all the altars for incense took they away, and cast them + into the brook Kidron. +030:015 Then they killed the Passover on the fourteenth [day] of the + second month: and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, + and sanctified themselves, and brought burnt offerings into + the house of Yahweh. +030:016 They stood in their place after their order, according to the law + of Moses the man of God: the priests sprinkled the blood + [which they received] of the hand of the Levites. +030:017 For there were many in the assembly who had not + sanctified themselves: therefore the Levites had the charge + of killing the Passovers for everyone who was not clean, + to sanctify them to Yahweh. +030:018 For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim + and Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, + yet did they eat the Passover otherwise than it is written. + For Hezekiah had prayed for them, saying, The good + Yahweh pardon everyone +030:019 who sets his heart to seek God, Yahweh, the God of his fathers, + though not [cleansed] according to the purification + of the sanctuary. +030:020 Yahweh listened to Hezekiah, and healed the people. +030:021 The children of Israel who were present at Jerusalem kept + the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness; + and the Levites and the priests praised Yahweh day by day, + [singing] with loud instruments to Yahweh. +030:022 Hezekiah spoke comfortably to all the Levites who had good + understanding [in the service] of Yahweh. So they ate + throughout the feast for the seven days, offering sacrifices + of peace offerings, and making confession to Yahweh, the God + of their fathers. +030:023 The whole assembly took counsel to keep other seven days; + and they kept [other] seven days with gladness. +030:024 For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the assembly for offerings + one thousand bulls and seven thousand sheep; and the princes + gave to the assembly a thousand bulls and ten thousand sheep: + and a great number of priests sanctified themselves. +030:025 All the assembly of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, + and all the assembly who came out of Israel, and the + foreigners who came out of the land of Israel, and who lived + in Judah, rejoiced. +030:026 So there was great joy in Jerusalem; for since the time + of Solomon the son of David king of Israel there was not + the like in Jerusalem. +030:027 Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people: + and their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his + holy habitation, even to heaven. +031:001 Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went + out to the cities of Judah, and broke in pieces the pillars, + and hewed down the Asherim, and broke down the high places + and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim + also and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. + Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to + his possession, into their own cities. +031:002 Hezekiah appointed the divisions of the priests and the Levites + after their divisions, every man according to his service, + both the priests and the Levites, for burnt offerings + and for peace offerings, to minister, and to give thanks, + and to praise in the gates of the camp of Yahweh. +031:003 [He appointed] also the king's portion of his substance for + the burnt offerings, [to wit], for the morning and evening + burnt offerings, and the burnt offerings for the Sabbaths, + and for the new moons, and for the set feasts, as it is written + in the law of Yahweh. +031:004 Moreover he commanded the people who lived in Jerusalem to give + the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might + give themselves to the law of Yahweh. +031:005 As soon as the commandment came abroad, the children of Israel + gave in abundance the first fruits of grain, new wine, + and oil, and honey, and of all the increase of the field; + and the tithe of all things brought they in abundantly. +031:006 The children of Israel and Judah, who lived in the cities + of Judah, they also brought in the tithe of oxen and sheep, + and the tithe of dedicated things which were consecrated + to Yahweh their God, and laid them by heaps. +031:007 In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, + and finished them in the seventh month. +031:008 When Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, + they blessed Yahweh, and his people Israel. +031:009 Then Hezekiah questioned the priests and the Levites + concerning the heaps. +031:010 Azariah the chief priest, of the house of Zadok, answered him + and said, Since [the people] began to bring the offerings + into the house of Yahweh, we have eaten and had enough, + and have left plenty: for Yahweh has blessed his people; + and that which is left is this great store. +031:011 Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of Yahweh; + and they prepared them. +031:012 They brought in the offerings and the tithes and the dedicated + things faithfully: and over them Conaniah the Levite was ruler, + and Shimei his brother was second. +031:013 Jehiel, and Azaziah, and Nahath, and Asahel, and Jerimoth, + and Jozabad, and Eliel, and Ismachiah, and Mahath, and Benaiah, + were overseers under the hand of Conaniah and Shimei his brother, + by the appointment of Hezekiah the king, and Azariah the ruler + of the house of God. +031:014 Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the porter at the east [gate], + was over the freewill offerings of God, to distribute + the offerings of Yahweh, and the most holy things. +031:015 Under him were Eden, and Miniamin, and Jeshua, and Shemaiah, Amariah, + and Shecaniah, in the cities of the priests, in their + office of trust, to give to their brothers by divisions, + as well to the great as to the small: +031:016 besides those who were reckoned by genealogy of males, + from three years old and upward, even everyone who entered + into the house of Yahweh, as the duty of every day required, + for their service in their offices according to their divisions; +031:017 and those who were reckoned by genealogy of the priests + by their fathers' houses, and the Levites from twenty years + old and upward, in their offices by their divisions; +031:018 and those who were reckoned by genealogy of all their little ones, + their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, through all + the congregation: for in their office of trust they sanctified + themselves in holiness. +031:019 Also for the sons of Aaron the priests, who were in the fields + of the suburbs of their cities, in every city, there were men + who were mentioned by name, to give portions to all the males + among the priests, and to all who were reckoned by genealogy + among the Levites. +031:020 Thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah; and he worked that + which was good and right and faithful before Yahweh his God. +031:021 In every work that he began in the service of the house of God, + and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, + he did it with all his heart, and prospered. +032:001 After these things, and this faithfulness, Sennacherib king + of Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and encamped against + the fortified cities, and thought to win them for himself. +032:002 When Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib was come, and that he was + purposed to fight against Jerusalem, +032:003 he took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop + the waters of the springs which were outside of the city; + and they helped him. +032:004 So there was gathered much people together, and they stopped + all the springs, and the brook that flowed through the midst + of the land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come, + and find much water? +032:005 He took courage, and built up all the wall that was broken down, + and raised [it] up to the towers, and the other wall outside, + and strengthened Millo [in] the city of David, and made + weapons and shields in abundance. +032:006 He set captains of war over the people, and gathered them + together to him in the broad place at the gate of the city, + and spoke comfortably to them, saying, +032:007 Be strong and of good courage, don't be afraid nor dismayed for + the king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude who is with him; + for there is a greater with us than with him: +032:008 with him is an arm of flesh; but with us is Yahweh our God + to help us, and to fight our battles. The people rested + themselves on the words of Hezekiah king of Judah. +032:009 After this did Sennacherib king of Assyria send his servants + to Jerusalem, (now he was before Lachish, and all his power + with him), to Hezekiah king of Judah, and to all Judah + who were at Jerusalem, saying, +032:010 Thus says Sennacherib king of Assyria, Whereon do you trust, + that you abide the siege in Jerusalem? +032:011 Does not Hezekiah persuade you, to give you over to die + by famine and by thirst, saying, Yahweh our God will deliver + us out of the hand of the king of Assyria? +032:012 Has not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, + and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, You shall worship + before one altar, and on it shall you burn incense? +032:013 Don't you know what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples + of the lands? Were the gods of the nations of the lands + in any wise able to deliver their land out of my hand? +032:014 Who was there among all the gods of those nations which my fathers + utterly destroyed, that could deliver his people out of my hand, + that your God should be able to deliver you out of my hand? +032:015 Now therefore don't let Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade + you after this manner, neither believe you him; for no god + of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people + out of my hand, and out of the hand of my fathers: + how much less shall your God deliver you out of my hand? +032:016 His servants spoke yet more against Yahweh God, and against + his servant Hezekiah. +032:017 He wrote also letters, to rail on Yahweh, the God of Israel, + and to speak against him, saying, As the gods of the nations + of the lands, which have not delivered their people out of + my hand, so shall the God of Hezekiah not deliver his people + out of my hand. +032:018 They cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language to the people + of Jerusalem who were on the wall, to frighten them, + and to trouble them; that they might take the city. +032:019 They spoke of the God of Jerusalem, as of the gods of the peoples + of the earth, which are the work of men's hands. +032:020 Hezekiah the king, and Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz, + prayed because of this, and cried to heaven. +032:021 Yahweh sent an angel, who cut off all the mighty men of valor, + and the leaders and captains, in the camp of the king of Assyria. + So he returned with shame of face to his own land. + When he was come into the house of his god, those who came + forth from his own bowels killed him there with the sword. +032:022 Thus Yahweh saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem + from the hand of Sennacherib the king of Assyria, and from + the hand of all [others], and guided them on every side. +032:023 Many brought gifts to Yahweh to Jerusalem, and precious things + to Hezekiah king of Judah; so that he was exalted in the sight + of all nations from thenceforth. +032:024 In those days Hezekiah was sick even to death: and he prayed + to Yahweh; and he spoke to him, and gave him a sign. +032:025 But Hezekiah didn't render again according to the benefit done to him; + for his heart was lifted up: therefore there was wrath on him, + and on Judah and Jerusalem. +032:026 Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, + both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath + of Yahweh didn't come on them in the days of Hezekiah. +032:027 Hezekiah had exceeding much riches and honor: + and he provided him treasuries for silver, and for gold, + and for precious stones, and for spices, and for shields, + and for all manner of goodly vessels; +032:028 storehouses also for the increase of grain and new wine and oil; + and stalls for all manner of animals, and flocks in folds. +032:029 Moreover he provided him cities, and possessions of flocks and + herds in abundance; for God had given him very much substance. +032:030 This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper spring of the waters + of Gihon, and brought them straight down on the west side + of the city of David. Hezekiah prospered in all his works. +032:031 However in [the business of] the ambassadors of the princes + of Babylon, who sent to him to inquire of the wonder that was + done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know + all that was in his heart. +032:032 Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his good deeds, + behold, they are written in the vision of Isaiah the prophet + the son of Amoz, in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel. +032:033 Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in + the ascent of the tombs of the sons of David: and all Judah + and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honor at his death. + Manasseh his son reigned in his place. +033:001 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign; + and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. +033:002 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, + after the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh cast out + before the children of Israel. +033:003 For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father + had broken down; and he reared up altars for the Baals, + and made Asheroth, and worshiped all the army of the sky, + and served them. +033:004 He built altars in the house of Yahweh, of which Yahweh said, + In Jerusalem shall my name be forever. +033:005 He built altars for all the army of the sky in the two courts + of the house of Yahweh. +033:006 He also made his children to pass through the fire in + the valley of the son of Hinnom; and he practiced sorcery, + and used enchantments, and practiced sorcery, and dealt + with those who had familiar spirits, and with wizards: + he worked much evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke + him to anger. +033:007 He set the engraved image of the idol, which he had made, + in the house of God, of which God said to David and to Solomon + his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen + out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name forever: +033:008 neither will I any more remove the foot of Israel from off + the land which I have appointed for your fathers, if only they + will observe to do all that I have commanded them, even all + the law and the statutes and the ordinances [given] by Moses. +033:009 Manasseh seduced Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, + so that they did evil more than did the nations whom Yahweh + destroyed before the children of Israel. +033:010 Yahweh spoke to Manasseh, and to his people; but they + gave no heed. +033:011 Therefore Yahweh brought on them the captains of the army + of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh in chains, + and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon. +033:012 When he was in distress, he begged Yahweh his God, and humbled + himself greatly before the God of his fathers. +033:013 He prayed to him; and he was entreated of him, and heard his + supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. + Then Manasseh knew that Yahweh he was God. +033:014 Now after this he built an outer wall to the city of David, + on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entrance + at the fish gate; and he compassed Ophel about [with it], + and raised it up to a very great height: and he put valiant + captains in all the fortified cities of Judah. +033:015 He took away the foreign gods, and the idol out of the house + of Yahweh, and all the altars that he had built in the mountain + of the house of Yahweh, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out + of the city. +033:016 He built up the altar of Yahweh, and offered thereon sacrifices + of peace offerings and of thanksgiving, and commanded Judah + to serve Yahweh, the God of Israel. +033:017 Nevertheless the people sacrificed still in the high places, + but only to Yahweh their God. +033:018 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer to his God, + and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of Yahweh, + the God of Israel, behold, they are written among the acts + of the kings of Israel. +033:019 His prayer also, and how [God] was entreated of him, and all + his sin and his trespass, and the places in which he built + high places, and set up the Asherim and the engraved images, + before he humbled himself: behold, they are written in + the history of Hozai. +033:020 So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his + own house: and Amon his son reigned in his place. +033:021 Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign; + and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. +033:022 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, as did + Manasseh his father; and Amon sacrificed to all the engraved + images which Manasseh his father had made, and served them. +033:023 He didn't humble himself before Yahweh, as Manasseh his + father had humbled himself; but this same Amon trespassed + more and more. +033:024 His servants conspired against him, and put him to death + in his own house. +033:025 But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired + against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah + his son king in his place. +034:001 Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign; + and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem. +034:002 He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, and walked + in the ways of David his father, and didn't turn aside + to the right hand or to the left. +034:003 For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, + he began to seek after the God of David his father; + and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem + from the high places, and the Asherim, and the engraved images, + and the molten images. +034:004 They broke down the altars of the Baals in his presence; + and the incense altars that were on high above them he hewed down; + and the Asherim, and the engraved images, and the molten images, + he broke in pieces, and made dust of them, and strewed it + on the graves [of those] who had sacrificed to them. +034:005 He burnt the bones of the priests on their altars, and purged + Judah and Jerusalem. +034:006 [So did he] in the cities of Manasseh and Ephraim and Simeon, + even to Naphtali, in their ruins round about. +034:007 He broke down the altars, and beat the Asherim and the engraved + images into powder, and hewed down all the incense altars + throughout all the land of Israel, and returned to Jerusalem. +034:008 Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged + the land and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, + and Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah the son + of Joahaz the recorder, to repair the house of Yahweh his God. +034:009 They came to Hilkiah the high priest, and delivered the money + that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites, + the keepers of the threshold, had gathered of the hand + of Manasseh and Ephraim, and of all the remnant of Israel, + and of all Judah and Benjamin, and of the inhabitants of Jerusalem. +034:010 They delivered it into the hand of the workmen who had the + oversight of the house of Yahweh; and the workmen who labored + in the house of Yahweh gave it to mend and repair the house; +034:011 even to the carpenters and to the builders gave they it, + to buy hewn stone, and timber for couplings, and to make beams + for the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed. +034:012 The men did the work faithfully: and the overseers of them + were Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari; + and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, + to set it forward; and [others of] the Levites, all who were + skillful with instruments of music. +034:013 Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and set + forward all who did the work in every manner of service: + and of the Levites there were scribes, and officers, and porters. +034:014 When they brought out the money that was brought into the house + of Yahweh, Hilkiah the priest found the book of the law + of Yahweh [given] by Moses. +034:015 Hilkiah answered Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book + of the law in the house of Yahweh. Hilkiah delivered + the book to Shaphan. +034:016 Shaphan carried the book to the king, and moreover brought back + word to the king, saying, All that was committed to your servants, + they are doing. +034:017 They have emptied out the money that was found in the house + of Yahweh, and have delivered it into the hand of the overseers, + and into the hand of the workmen. +034:018 Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest has + delivered me a book. Shaphan read therein before the king. +034:019 It happened, when the king had heard the words of the law, + that he tore his clothes. +034:020 The king commanded Hilkiah, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, + and Abdon the son of Micah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah + the king's servant, saying, +034:021 Go you, inquire of Yahweh for me, and for those who are left in Israel + and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found; + for great is the wrath of Yahweh that is poured out on us, + because our fathers have not kept the word of Yahweh, + to do according to all that is written in this book. +034:022 So Hilkiah, and they whom the king [had commanded], + went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son + of Tokhath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe; + (now she lived in Jerusalem in the second quarter;) + and they spoke to her to that effect. +034:023 She said to them, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: Tell you + the man who sent you to me, +034:024 Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will bring evil on this place, + and on the inhabitants of it, even all the curses that are written + in the book which they have read before the king of Judah. +034:025 Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other gods, + that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of + their hands; therefore is my wrath poured out on this place, + and it shall not be quenched. +034:026 But to the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of Yahweh, + thus shall you tell him, Thus says Yahweh, the God + of Israel: As touching the words which you have heard, +034:027 because your heart was tender, and you did humble yourself + before God, when you heard his words against this place, + and against the inhabitants of it, and have humbled yourself + before me, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me; + I also have heard you, says Yahweh. +034:028 Behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered + to your grave in peace, neither shall your eyes see all the evil + that I will bring on this place, and on the inhabitants of it. + They brought back word to the king. +034:029 Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders + of Judah and Jerusalem. +034:030 The king went up to the house of Yahweh, and all the men + of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests, + and the Levites, and all the people, both great and small: + and he read in their ears all the words of the book of + the covenant that was found in the house of Yahweh. +034:031 The king stood in his place, and made a covenant before Yahweh, + to walk after Yahweh, and to keep his commandments, + and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, + and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant + that were written in this book. +034:032 He caused all who were found in Jerusalem and Benjamin + to stand [to it]. The inhabitants of Jerusalem did according + to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers. +034:033 Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries + that pertained to the children of Israel, and made all who were + found in Israel to serve, even to serve Yahweh their God. + All his days they didn't depart from following Yahweh, + the God of their fathers. +035:001 Josiah kept a Passover to Yahweh in Jerusalem: and they killed + the Passover on the fourteenth [day] of the first month. +035:002 He set the priests in their offices, and encouraged them + to the service of the house of Yahweh. +035:003 He said to the Levites who taught all Israel, who were holy + to Yahweh, Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son + of David king of Israel did build; there shall no more be + a burden on your shoulders: now serve Yahweh your God, + and his people Israel. +035:004 Prepare yourselves after your fathers' houses by your divisions, + according to the writing of David king of Israel, and according + to the writing of Solomon his son. +035:005 Stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the fathers' + houses of your brothers the children of the people, + and [let there be for each] a portion of a fathers' + house of the Levites. +035:006 Kill the Passover, and sanctify yourselves, and prepare for + your brothers, to do according to the word of Yahweh by Moses. +035:007 Josiah gave to the children of the people, of the flock, + lambs and kids, all of them for the Passover offerings, + to all who were present, to the number of thirty thousand, + and three thousand bulls: these were of the king's substance. +035:008 His princes gave for a freewill offering to the people, + to the priests, and to the Levites. Hilkiah and Zechariah + and Jehiel, the rulers of the house of God, gave to the priests + for the Passover offerings two thousand and six hundred + [small livestock], and three hundred oxen. +035:009 Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethanel, his brothers, + and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, the chiefs of the Levites, + gave to the Levites for the Passover offerings five thousand + [small livestock], and five hundred oxen. +035:010 So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in + their place, and the Levites by their divisions, according to + the king's commandment. +035:011 They killed the Passover, and the priests sprinkled [the blood + which they received] of their hand, and the Levites flayed them. +035:012 They removed the burnt offerings, that they might give them + according to the divisions of the fathers' houses of the children + of the people, to offer to Yahweh, as it is written in the book + of Moses. So did they with the oxen. +035:013 They roasted the Passover with fire according to the ordinance: + and the holy offerings boiled they in pots, and in caldrons, + and in pans, and carried them quickly to all the children + of the people. +035:014 Afterward they prepared for themselves, and for the priests, + because the priests the sons of Aaron [were busied] + in offering the burnt offerings and the fat until night: + therefore the Levites prepared for themselves, and for the priests + the sons of Aaron. +035:015 The singers the sons of Asaph were in their place, + according to the commandment of David, and Asaph, and Heman, + and Jeduthun the king's seer; and the porters were at every gate: + they didn't need to depart from their service; for their + brothers the Levites prepared for them. +035:016 So all the service of Yahweh was prepared the same day, + to keep the Passover, and to offer burnt offerings on the altar + of Yahweh, according to the commandment of king Josiah. +035:017 The children of Israel who were present kept the Passover + at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days. +035:018 There was no Passover like that kept in Israel from the days + of Samuel the prophet; neither did any of the kings of Israel + keep such a Passover as Josiah kept, and the priests, + and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel who were present, + and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. +035:019 In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this Passover kept. +035:020 After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Neco king + of Egypt went up to fight against Carchemish by the Euphrates: + and Josiah went out against him. +035:021 But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, What have I to do with you, + you king of Judah? [I come] not against you this day, + but against the house with which I have war; and God has commanded + me to make haste: forbear you from [meddling with] God, + who is with me, that he not destroy you. +035:022 Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, + but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, + and didn't listen to the words of Neco from the mouth of God, + and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo. +035:023 The archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to his servants, + Have me away; for I am sore wounded. +035:024 So his servants took him out of the chariot, and put him in + the second chariot that he had, and brought him to Jerusalem; + and he died, and was buried in the tombs of his fathers. + All Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah. +035:025 Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men + and singing women spoke of Josiah in their lamentations + to this day; and they made them an ordinance in Israel: + and behold, they are written in the lamentations. +035:026 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his good deeds, + according to that which is written in the law of Yahweh, +035:027 and his acts, first and last, behold, they are written + in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah. +036:001 Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, + and made him king in his father's place in Jerusalem. +036:002 Joahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign; + and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. +036:003 The king of Egypt deposed him at Jerusalem, and fined the land + one hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold. +036:004 The king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah + and Jerusalem, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. + Neco took Joahaz his brother, and carried him to Egypt. +036:005 Jehoiakim was Twenty-five years old when he began to reign; + and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did that + which was evil in the sight of Yahweh his God. +036:006 Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound + him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon. +036:007 Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the house of Yahweh + to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon. +036:008 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his abominations + which he did, and that which was found in him, behold, they are + written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah: + and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place. +036:009 Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign; + and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem: + and he did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh. +036:010 At the return of the year king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought + him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house of Yahweh, + and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem. +036:011 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign; + and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: +036:012 and he did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh his God; + he didn't humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet [speaking] + from the mouth of Yahweh. +036:013 He also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made + him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened + his heart against turning to Yahweh, the God of Israel. +036:014 Moreover all the chiefs of the priests, and the people, + trespassed very greatly after all the abominations of the nations; + and they polluted the house of Yahweh which he had made + holy in Jerusalem. +036:015 Yahweh, the God of their fathers, sent to them by his messengers, + rising up early and sending, because he had compassion on + his people, and on his dwelling place: +036:016 but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, + and scoffed at his prophets, until the wrath of Yahweh arose + against his people, until there was no remedy. +036:017 Therefore he brought on them the king of the Chaldeans, + who killed their young men with the sword in the house of + their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, + old man or gray-headed: he gave them all into his hand. +036:018 All the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the + treasures of the house of Yahweh, and the treasures of the king, + and of his princes, all these he brought to Babylon. +036:019 They burnt the house of God, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, + and burnt all the palaces of it with fire, and destroyed + all the goodly vessels of it. +036:020 He carried those who had escaped from the sword away to Babylon; + and they were servants to him and his sons until the reign + of the kingdom of Persia: +036:021 to fulfill the word of Yahweh by the mouth of Jeremiah, + until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths: [for] as long as it + lay desolate it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years. +036:022 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word + of Yahweh by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, + Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, + so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, + and [put it] also in writing, saying, +036:023 Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth + has Yahweh, the God of heaven, given me; and he has charged + me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. + Whoever there is among you of all his people, Yahweh his God + be with him, and let him go up. +Book 15 Ezra +001:001 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word + of Yahweh by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, + Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, + so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, + and [put it] also in writing, saying, +001:002 Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth + has Yahweh, the God of heaven, given me; and he has charged + me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. +001:003 Whoever there is among you of all his people, his God be + with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, + and build the house of Yahweh, the God of Israel (he is God), + which is in Jerusalem. +001:004 Whoever is left, in any place where he sojourns, let the men + of his place help him with silver, and with gold, and with goods, + and with animals, besides the freewill offering for the house + of God which is in Jerusalem. +001:005 Then rose up the heads of fathers' [houses] of Judah and Benjamin, + and the priests, and the Levites, even all whose spirit God + had stirred to go up to build the house of Yahweh which + is in Jerusalem. +001:006 All those who were round about them strengthened their hands + with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, and with animals, + and with precious things, besides all that was willingly offered. +001:007 Also Cyrus the king brought forth the vessels of the house of Yahweh, + which Nebuchadnezzar had brought forth out of Jerusalem, + and had put in the house of his gods; +001:008 even those did Cyrus king of Persia bring forth by the hand + of Mithredath the treasurer, and numbered them to Sheshbazzar, + the prince of Judah. +001:009 This is the number of them: thirty platters of gold, + one thousand platters of silver, twenty-nine knives, +001:010 thirty bowls of gold, silver bowls of a second sort four + hundred and ten, and other vessels one thousand. +001:011 All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand and + four hundred. All these did Sheshbazzar bring up, when they + of the captivity were brought up from Babylon to Jerusalem. +002:001 Now these are the children of the province, who went up + out of the captivity of those who had been carried away, + whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away + to Babylon, and who returned to Jerusalem and Judah, + everyone to his city; +002:002 who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, + Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah. + The number of the men of the people of Israel: +002:003 The children of Parosh, two thousand one hundred seventy-two. +002:004 The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy-two. +002:005 The children of Arah, seven hundred seventy-five. +002:006 The children of Pahathmoab, of the children of Jeshua [and] Joab, + two thousand eight hundred twelve. +002:007 The children of Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four. +002:008 The children of Zattu, nine hundred forty-five. +002:009 The children of Zaccai, seven hundred sixty. +002:010 The children of Bani, six hundred forty-two. +002:011 The children of Bebai, six hundred twenty-three. +002:012 The children of Azgad, one thousand two hundred twenty-two. +002:013 The children of Adonikam, six hundred sixty-six. +002:014 The children of Bigvai, two thousand fifty-six. +002:015 The children of Adin, four hundred fifty-four. +002:016 The children of Ater, of Hezekiah, ninety-eight. +002:017 The children of Bezai, three hundred twenty-three. +002:018 The children of Jorah, one hundred twelve. +002:019 The children of Hashum, two hundred Twenty-three. +002:020 The children of Gibbar, ninety-five. +002:021 The children of Bethlehem, one hundred twenty-three. +002:022 The men of Netophah, fifty-six. +002:023 The men of Anathoth, one hundred twenty-eight. +002:024 The children of Azmaveth, forty-two. +002:025 The children of Kiriath Arim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, + seven hundred forty-three. +002:026 The children of Ramah and Geba, six hundred twenty-one. +002:027 The men of Michmas, one hundred twenty-two. +002:028 The men of Bethel and Ai, two hundred twenty-three. +002:029 The children of Nebo, fifty-two. +002:030 The children of Magbish, one hundred fifty-six. +002:031 The children of the other Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four. +002:032 The children of Harim, three hundred twenty. +002:033 The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred twenty-five. +002:034 The children of Jericho, three hundred forty-five. +002:035 The children of Senaah, three thousand six hundred thirty. +002:036 The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, + nine hundred seventy-three. +002:037 The children of Immer, one thousand fifty-two. +002:038 The children of Pashhur, one thousand two hundred forty-seven. +002:039 The children of Harim, one thousand seventeen. +002:040 The Levites: the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the children + of Hodaviah, seventy-four. +002:041 The singers: the children of Asaph, one hundred twenty-eight. +002:042 The children of the porters: the children of Shallum, + the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children + of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, + in all one hundred thirty-nine. +002:043 The Nethinim: the children of Ziha, the children of Hasupha, + the children of Tabbaoth, +002:044 the children of Keros, the children of Siaha, the children of Padon, +002:045 the children of Lebanah, the children of Hagabah, + the children of Akkub, +002:046 the children of Hagab, the children of Shamlai, the children of Hanan, +002:047 the children of Giddel, the children of Gahar, the children of Reaiah, +002:048 the children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda, the children of Gazzam, +002:049 the children of Uzza, the children of Paseah, the children of Besai, +002:050 the children of Asnah, the children of Meunim, + the children of Nephisim, +002:051 the children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, + the children of Harhur, +002:052 the children of Bazluth, the children of Mehida, + the children of Harsha, +002:053 the children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Temah, +002:054 the children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha. +002:055 The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, + the children of Hassophereth, the children of Peruda, +002:056 the children of Jaalah, the children of Darkon, + the children of Giddel, +002:057 the children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children + of Pochereth Hazzebaim, the children of Ami. +002:058 All the Nethinim, and the children of Solomon's servants, + were three hundred ninety-two. +002:059 These were those who went up from Tel Melah, Tel Harsha, + Cherub, Addan, [and] Immer; but they could not show their fathers' + houses, and their seed, whether they were of Israel: +002:060 the children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children + of Nekoda, six hundred fifty-two. +002:061 Of the children of the priests: the children of Habaiah, + the children of Hakkoz, the children of Barzillai, + who took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, + and was called after their name. +002:062 These sought their register [among] those who were reckoned + by genealogy, but they were not found: therefore were they + deemed polluted and put from the priesthood. +002:063 The governor said to them, that they should not eat of the + most holy things, until there stood up a priest with Urim + and with Thummim. +002:064 The whole assembly together was forty-two thousand + three hundred sixty, +002:065 besides their male servants and their female servants, + of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty-seven: + and they had two hundred singing men and singing women. +002:066 Their horses were seven hundred thirty-six; their mules, + two hundred forty-five; +002:067 their camels, four hundred thirty-five; [their] donkeys, + six thousand seven hundred and twenty. +002:068 Some of the heads of fathers' [houses], when they came to + the house of Yahweh which is in Jerusalem, offered willingly + for the house of God to set it up in its place: +002:069 they gave after their ability into the treasury of the work + sixty-one thousand darics of gold, and five thousand minas + of silver, and one hundred priests' garments. +002:070 So the priests, and the Levites, and some of the people, + and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinim, + lived in their cities, and all Israel in their cities. +003:001 When the seventh month was come, and the children of Israel + were in the cities, the people gathered themselves together + as one man to Jerusalem. +003:002 Then stood up Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brothers + the priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, + and his brothers, and built the altar of the God of Israel, + to offer burnt offerings thereon, as it is written in the law + of Moses the man of God. +003:003 They set the altar on its base; for fear was on them because of + the peoples of the countries: and they offered burnt offerings + thereon to Yahweh, even burnt offerings morning and evening. +003:004 They kept the feast of tents, as it is written, and [offered] + the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the ordinance, + as the duty of every day required; +003:005 and afterward the continual burnt offering, and [the offerings] + of the new moons, and of all the set feasts of Yahweh + that were consecrated, and of everyone who willingly offered + a freewill offering to Yahweh. +003:006 From the first day of the seventh month began they to offer + burnt offerings to Yahweh: but the foundation of the temple + of Yahweh was not yet laid. +003:007 They gave money also to the masons, and to the carpenters; + and food, and drink, and oil, to them of Sidon, and to them + of Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, + according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia. +003:008 Now in the second year of their coming to the house of God + at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel + the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, + and the rest of their brothers the priests and the Levites, + and all those who were come out of the captivity to Jerusalem, + and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, + to have the oversight of the work of the house of Yahweh. +003:009 Then stood Jeshua with his sons and his brothers, Kadmiel and + his sons, the sons of Judah, together, to have the oversight + of the workmen in the house of God: the sons of Henadad, + with their sons and their brothers the Levites. +003:010 When the builders laid the foundation of the temple of Yahweh, + they set the priests in their clothing with trumpets, + and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise Yahweh, + after the order of David king of Israel. +003:011 They sang one to another in praising and giving thanks to Yahweh, + [saying], For he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever + toward Israel. All the people shouted with a great shout, + when they praised Yahweh, because the foundation of the house + of Yahweh was laid. +003:012 But many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers' + [houses], the old men who had seen the first house, + when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, + wept with a loud voice; and many shouted aloud for joy: +003:013 so that the people could not discern the noise of the shout + of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people; + for the people shouted with a loud shout, and the noise was + heard afar off. +004:001 Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that + the children of the captivity were building a temple to Yahweh, + the God of Israel; +004:002 then they drew near to Zerubbabel, and to the heads + of fathers' [houses], and said to them, Let us build with you; + for we seek your God, as you do; and we sacrifice to him + since the days of Esar Haddon king of Assyria, who brought + us up here. +004:003 But Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the heads of fathers' + [houses] of Israel, said to them, You have nothing to do + with us in building a house to our God; but we ourselves + together will build to Yahweh, the God of Israel, as king + Cyrus the king of Persia has commanded us. +004:004 Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people + of Judah, and troubled them in building, +004:005 and hired counselors against them, to frustrate their purpose, + all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign + of Darius king of Persia. +004:006 In the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, + wrote they an accusation against the inhabitants of + Judah and Jerusalem. +004:007 In the days of Artaxerxes wrote Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, + and the rest of his companions, to Artaxerxes king of Persia; + and the writing of the letter was written in the Syrian [character], + and set forth in the Syrian [language]. +004:008 Rehum the chancellor and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter + against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king in this sort: +004:009 then [wrote] Rehum the chancellor, and Shimshai the scribe, + and the rest of their companions, the Dinaites, + and the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, + the Archevites, the Babylonians, the Shushanchites, + the Dehaites, the Elamites, +004:010 and the rest of the nations whom the great and noble Osnappar + brought over, and set in the city of Samaria, and in the rest + [of the country] beyond the River, and so forth. +004:011 This is the copy of the letter that they sent to Artaxerxes the king: + Your servants the men beyond the River, and so forth. +004:012 Be it known to the king, that the Jews who came up + from you are come to us to Jerusalem; they are building + the rebellious and the bad city, and have finished the walls, + and repaired the foundations. +004:013 Be it known now to the king that if this city is built, + and the walls finished, they will not pay tribute, custom, or toll, + and in the end it will be hurtful to the kings. +004:014 Now because we eat the salt of the palace, and it is not + appropriate for us to see the king's dishonor, therefore have + we sent and informed the king; +004:015 that search may be made in the book of the records of your fathers: + so shall you find in the book of the records, and know that this + city is a rebellious city, and hurtful to kings and provinces, + and that they have moved sedition within the same of old time; + for which cause was this city laid waste. +004:016 We inform the king that, if this city be built, and the + walls finished, by this means you shall have no portion + beyond the River. +004:017 [Then] sent the king an answer to Rehum the chancellor, + and to Shimshai the scribe, and to the rest of their companions + who dwell in Samaria, and in the rest [of the country] beyond + the River: Peace, and so forth. +004:018 The letter which you sent to us has been plainly read before me. +004:019 I decreed, and search has been made, and it is found that this + city of old time has made insurrection against kings, + and that rebellion and sedition have been made therein. +004:020 There have been mighty kings also over Jerusalem, + who have ruled over all [the country] beyond the River; + and tribute, custom, and toll, was paid to them. +004:021 Make you now a decree to cause these men to cease, and that this + city not be built, until a decree shall be made by me. +004:022 Take heed that you not be slack herein: why should damage + grow to the hurt of the kings? +004:023 Then when the copy of king Artaxerxes' letter was read + before Rehum, and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, + they went in haste to Jerusalem to the Jews, and made them + to cease by force and power. +004:024 Then ceased the work of the house of God which is at Jerusalem; + and it ceased until the second year of the reign of Darius + king of Persia. +005:001 Now the prophets, Haggai the prophet, and Zechariah the son + of Iddo, prophesied to the Jews who were in Judah and Jerusalem; + in the name of the God of Israel [prophesied they] to them. +005:002 Then rose up Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua + the son of Jozadak, and began to build the house of God + which is at Jerusalem; and with them were the prophets + of God, helping them. +005:003 At the same time came to them Tattenai, the governor beyond + the River, and Shetharbozenai, and their companions, and said + thus to them, Who gave you a decree to build this house, + and to finish this wall? +005:004 Then we told them after this manner, what the names of the men + were who were making this building. +005:005 But the eye of their God was on the elders of the Jews, and they + did not make them cease, until the matter should come to Darius, + and then answer should be returned by letter concerning it. +005:006 The copy of the letter that Tattenai, the governor beyond the River, + and Shetharbozenai, and his companions the Apharsachites, + who were beyond the River, sent to Darius the king; +005:007 they sent a letter to him, in which was written thus: + To Darius the king, all peace. +005:008 Be it known to the king, that we went into the province of Judah, + to the house of the great God, which is built with great stones, + and timber is laid in the walls; and this work goes on with + diligence and prospers in their hands. +005:009 Then asked we those elders, and said to them thus, Who gave + you a decree to build this house, and to finish this wall? +005:010 We asked them their names also, to inform you that we might + write the names of the men who were at the head of them. +005:011 Thus they returned us answer, saying, We are the servants + of the God of heaven and earth, and are building the house + that was built these many years ago, which a great king + of Israel built and finished. +005:012 But after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven to wrath, + he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, + the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people + away into Babylon. +005:013 But in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, Cyrus the king + made a decree to build this house of God. +005:014 The gold and silver vessels also of the house of God, + which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple that was + in Jerusalem, and brought into the temple of Babylon, + those did Cyrus the king take out of the temple of Babylon, + and they were delivered to one whose name was Sheshbazzar, + whom he had made governor; +005:015 and he said to him, Take these vessels, go, put them in the temple + that is in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be built + in its place. +005:016 Then came the same Sheshbazzar, and laid the foundations + of the house of God which is in Jerusalem: and since that + time even until now has it been in building, and yet it + is not completed. +005:017 Now therefore, if it seem good to the king, let there be search + made in the king's treasure house, which is there at Babylon, + whether it be so, that a decree was made of Cyrus the king + to build this house of God at Jerusalem; and let the king + send his pleasure to us concerning this matter. +006:001 Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made + in the house of the archives, where the treasures were laid + up in Babylon. +006:002 There was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province + of Media, a scroll, and therein was thus written for a record: +006:003 In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king made a decree: + Concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, let the house be built, + the place where they offer sacrifices, and let the foundations + of it be strongly laid; the height of it sixty cubits, + and the breadth of it sixty cubits; +006:004 with three courses of great stones, and a course of new timber: + and let the expenses be given out of the king's house. +006:005 Also let the gold and silver vessels of the house of God, + which Nebuchadnezzar took forth out of the temple which is + at Jerusalem, and brought to Babylon, be restored, and brought + again to the temple which is at Jerusalem, everyone to its place; + and you shall put them in the house of God. +006:006 Now therefore, Tattenai, governor beyond the River, Shetharbozenai, + and your companions the Apharsachites, who are beyond the River, + be you far from there: +006:007 let the work of this house of God alone; let the governor + of the Jews and the elders of the Jews build this house of God + in its place. +006:008 Moreover I make a decree what you shall do to these elders + of the Jews for the building of this house of God: + that of the king's goods, even of the tribute beyond the River, + expenses be given with all diligence to these men, that they + be not hindered. +006:009 That which they have need of, both young bulls, and rams, + and lambs, for burnt offerings to the God of heaven; + [also] wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the word + of the priests who are at Jerusalem, let it be given them + day by day without fail; +006:010 that they may offer sacrifices of sweet savor to the God of heaven, + and pray for the life of the king, and of his sons. +006:011 Also I have made a decree, that whoever shall alter this word, + let a beam be pulled out from his house, and let him be + lifted up and fastened thereon; and let his house be made + a dunghill for this: +006:012 and the God who has caused his name to dwell there overthrow + all kings and peoples who shall put forth their hand to alter + [the same], to destroy this house of God which is at Jerusalem. + I Darius have made a decree; let it be done with all diligence. +006:013 Then Tattenai, the governor beyond the River, Shetharbozenai, + and their companions, because that Darius the king had sent, + did accordingly with all diligence. +006:014 The elders of the Jews built and prospered, through the prophesying + of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. + They built and finished it, according to the commandment + of the God of Israel, and according to the decree of Cyrus, + and Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia. +006:015 This house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, + which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king. +006:016 The children of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the rest + of the children of the captivity, kept the dedication of this + house of God with joy. +006:017 They offered at the dedication of this house of God one + hundred bulls, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs; + and for a sin offering for all Israel, twelve male goats, + according to the number of the tribes of Israel. +006:018 They set the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in + their courses, for the service of God, which is at Jerusalem; + as it is written in the book of Moses. +006:019 The children of the captivity kept the Passover on the fourteenth + [day] of the first month. +006:020 For the priests and the Levites had purified themselves together; + all of them were pure: and they killed the Passover for all + the children of the captivity, and for their brothers the priests, + and for themselves. +006:021 The children of Israel who had come again out of the captivity, + and all such as had separated themselves to them from + the filthiness of the nations of the land, to seek Yahweh, + the God of Israel, ate, +006:022 and kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy: + for Yahweh had made them joyful, and had turned the heart + of the king of Assyria to them, to strengthen their hands + in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel. +007:001 Now after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes king + of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, + the son of Hilkiah, +007:002 the son of Shallum, the son of Zadok, the son of Ahitub, +007:003 the son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth, +007:004 the son of Zerahiah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Bukki, +007:005 the son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, + the son of Aaron the chief priest; +007:006 this Ezra went up from Babylon: and he was a ready scribe + in the law of Moses, which Yahweh, the God of Israel, had given; + and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand + of Yahweh his God on him. +007:007 There went up some of the children of Israel, and of the priests, + and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinim, + to Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king. +007:008 He came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh + year of the king. +007:009 For on the first [day] of the first month began he to go up + from Babylon; and on the first [day] of the fifth month came + he to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God on him. +007:010 For Ezra had set his heart to seek the law of Yahweh, and to do it, + and to teach in Israel statutes and ordinances. +007:011 Now this is the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes gave + to Ezra the priest, the scribe, even the scribe of the words + of the commandments of Yahweh, and of his statutes to Israel: +007:012 Artaxerxes, king of kings, to Ezra the priest, the scribe + of the law of the God of heaven, perfect and so forth. +007:013 I make a decree, that all those of the people of Israel, + and their priests and the Levites, in my realm, who are minded + of their own free will to go to Jerusalem, go with you. +007:014 Because you are sent of the king and his seven counselors, + to inquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem, according to the law + of your God which is in your hand, +007:015 and to carry the silver and gold, which the king and his + counselors have freely offered to the God of Israel, + whose habitation is in Jerusalem, +007:016 and all the silver and gold that you shall find in all the + province of Babylon, with the freewill offering of the people, + and of the priests, offering willingly for the house of their + God which is in Jerusalem; +007:017 therefore you shall with all diligence buy with this money bulls, + rams, lambs, with their meal offerings and their drink offerings, + and shall offer them on the altar of the house of your God + which is in Jerusalem. +007:018 Whatever shall seem good to you and to your brothers to do + with the rest of the silver and the gold, that do you after + the will of your God. +007:019 The vessels that are given you for the service of the house + of your God, deliver you before the God of Jerusalem. +007:020 Whatever more shall be needful for the house of your God, + which you shall have occasion to bestow, bestow it out of + the king's treasure house. +007:021 I, even I Artaxerxes the king, do make a decree to all + the treasurers who are beyond the River, that whatever Ezra + the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, + shall require of you, it be done with all diligence, +007:022 to one hundred talents of silver, and to one hundred measures + of wheat, and to one hundred baths of wine, and to one hundred + baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much. +007:023 Whatever is commanded by the God of heaven, let it be done + exactly for the house of the God of heaven; for why should + there be wrath against the realm of the king and his sons? +007:024 Also we inform you, that touching any of the priests and Levites, + the singers, porters, Nethinim, or servants of this house + of God, it shall not be lawful to impose tribute, custom, + or toll, on them. +007:025 You, Ezra, after the wisdom of your God who is in your hand, + appoint magistrates and judges, who may judge all the people + who are beyond the River, all such as know the laws of your God; + and teach you him who doesn't know them. +007:026 Whoever will not do the law of your God, and the law of the king, + let judgment be executed on him with all diligence, whether it + be to death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, + or to imprisonment. +007:027 Blessed be Yahweh, the God of our fathers, who has put such + a thing as this in the king's heart, to beautify the house + of Yahweh which is in Jerusalem; +007:028 and has extended loving kindness to me before the king, + and his counselors, and before all the king's mighty princes. + I was strengthened according to the hand of Yahweh my God + on me, and I gathered together out of Israel chief men to go + up with me. +008:001 Now these are the heads of their fathers' [houses], and this + is the genealogy of those who went up with me from Babylon, + in the reign of Artaxerxes the king: +008:002 Of the sons of Phinehas, Gershom. Of the sons of Ithamar, Daniel. + Of the sons of David, Hattush. +008:003 Of the sons of Shecaniah, of the sons of Parosh, Zechariah; + and with him were reckoned by genealogy of the males + one hundred fifty. +008:004 Of the sons of Pahathmoab, Eliehoenai the son of Zerahiah; + and with him two hundred males. +008:005 Of the sons of Shecaniah, the son of Jahaziel; and with him + three hundred males. +008:006 Of the sons of Adin, Ebed the son of Jonathan; and with + him fifty males. +008:007 Of the sons of Elam, Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah; + and with him seventy males. +008:008 Of the sons of Shephatiah, Zebadiah the son of Michael; + and with him eighty males. +008:009 Of the sons of Joab, Obadiah the son of Jehiel; and with him + two hundred and eighteen males. +008:010 Of the sons of Shelomith, the son of Josiphiah; and with him + one hundred sixty males. +008:011 Of the sons of Bebai, Zechariah the son of Bebai; and with + him twenty-eight males. +008:012 Of the sons of Azgad, Johanan the son of Hakkatan; and with him + one hundred ten males. +008:013 Of the sons of Adonikam, [who were] the last; and these are + their names: Eliphelet, Jeuel, and Shemaiah; and with + them sixty males. +008:014 Of the sons of Bigvai, Uthai and Zabbud; and with them seventy males. +008:015 I gathered them together to the river that runs to Ahava; + and there we encamped three days: and I viewed the people, + and the priests, and found there none of the sons of Levi. +008:016 Then sent I for Eliezer, for Ariel, for Shemaiah, and for Elnathan, + and for Jarib, and for Elnathan, and for Nathan, and for Zechariah, + and for Meshullam, chief men; also for Joiarib, and for Elnathan, + who were teachers. +008:017 I sent them forth to Iddo the chief at the place Casiphia; + and I told them what they should tell Iddo, [and] his brothers + the Nethinim, at the place Casiphia, that they should bring + to us ministers for the house of our God. +008:018 According to the good hand of our God on us they brought us + a man of discretion, of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, + the son of Israel; and Sherebiah, with his sons and + his brothers, eighteen; +008:019 and Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, + his brothers and their sons, twenty; +008:020 and of the Nethinim, whom David and the princes had given for + the service of the Levites, two hundred and twenty Nethinim: + all of them were mentioned by name. +008:021 Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, + that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek + of him a straight way for us, and for our little ones, + and for all our substance. +008:022 For I was ashamed to ask of the king a band of soldiers + and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way, + because we had spoken to the king, saying, The hand of our + God is on all those who seek him, for good; but his power + and his wrath is against all those who forsake him. +008:023 So we fasted and begged our God for this: and he was + entreated of us. +008:024 Then I set apart twelve of the chiefs of the priests, + even Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brothers with them, +008:025 and weighed to them the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, + even the offering for the house of our God, which the king, + and his counselors, and his princes, and all Israel + there present, had offered: +008:026 I weighed into their hand six hundred fifty talents of silver, + and silver vessels one hundred talents; of gold one hundred talents; +008:027 and twenty bowls of gold, of one thousand darics; and two + vessels of fine bright brass, precious as gold. +008:028 I said to them, You are holy to Yahweh, and the vessels are holy; + and the silver and the gold are a freewill offering to Yahweh, + the God of your fathers. +008:029 Watch you, and keep them, until you weigh them before the chiefs + of the priests and the Levites, and the princes of the fathers' + [houses] of Israel, at Jerusalem, in the chambers of the + house of Yahweh. +008:030 So the priests and the Levites received the weight of the silver + and the gold, and the vessels, to bring them to Jerusalem + to the house of our God. +008:031 Then we departed from the river Ahava on the twelfth [day] + of the first month, to go to Jerusalem: and the hand of our + God was on us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy + and the bandit by the way. +008:032 We came to Jerusalem, and abode there three days. +008:033 On the fourth day the silver and the gold and the vessels + were weighed in the house of our God into the hand of Meremoth + the son of Uriah the priest; and with him was Eleazar the son + of Phinehas; and with them was Jozabad the son of Jeshua, + and Noadiah the son of Binnui, the Levite; +008:034 the whole by number and by weight: and all the weight was + written at that time. +008:035 The children of the captivity, who had come out of exile, + offered burnt offerings to the God of Israel, twelve bulls + for all Israel, ninety-six rams, seventy-seven lambs, + and twelve male goats for a sin offering: all this was a burnt + offering to Yahweh. +008:036 They delivered the king's commissions to the king's satraps, + and to the governors beyond the River: and they furthered + the people and the house of God. +009:001 Now when these things were done, the princes drew near to me, + saying, The people of Israel, and the priests and the Levites, + have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, + [doing] according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, + the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, + the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites. +009:002 For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and + for their sons, so that the holy seed have mixed themselves + with the peoples of the lands: yes, the hand of the princes + and rulers has been chief in this trespass. +009:003 When I heard this thing, I tore my garment and my robe, + and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, + and sat down confounded. +009:004 Then were assembled to me everyone who trembled at the words of + the God of Israel, because of the trespass of them of the captivity; + and I sat confounded until the evening offering. +009:005 At the evening offering I arose up from my humiliation, + even with my garment and my robe torn; and I fell on my knees, + and spread out my hands to Yahweh my God; +009:006 and I said, my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face + to you, my God; for our iniquities are increased over our head, + and our guiltiness is grown up to the heavens. +009:007 Since the days of our fathers we have been exceeding guilty + to this day; and for our iniquities have we, our kings, + and our priests, been delivered into the hand of the kings + of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to plunder, + and to confusion of face, as it is this day. +009:008 Now for a little moment grace has been shown from Yahweh + our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us + a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, + and give us a little reviving in our bondage. +009:009 For we are bondservants; yet our God has not forsaken us + in our bondage, but has extended loving kindness to us + in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, + to set up the house of our God, and to repair the ruins of it, + and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem. +009:010 Now, our God, what shall we say after this? for we have + forsaken your commandments, +009:011 which you have commanded by your servants the prophets, saying, + The land, to which you go to possess it, is an unclean + land through the uncleanness of the peoples of the lands, + through their abominations, which have filled it from one end + to another with their filthiness: +009:012 now therefore don't give your daughters to their sons, + neither take their daughters to your sons, nor seek their + peace or their prosperity forever; that you may be strong, + and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance + to your children forever. +009:013 After all that is come on us for our evil deeds, and for our + great guilt, seeing that you our God have punished us less + than our iniquities deserve, and have given us such a remnant, +009:014 shall we again break your commandments, and join in affinity + with the peoples that do these abominations? would not you + be angry with us until you had consumed us, so that there + should be no remnant, nor any to escape? +009:015 Yahweh, the God of Israel, you are righteous; for we are left + a remnant that is escaped, as it is this day: behold, we are + before you in our guiltiness; for none can stand before you + because of this. +010:001 Now while Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting + himself down before the house of God, there was gathered + together to him out of Israel a very great assembly of men + and women and children; for the people wept very sore. +010:002 Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, + answered Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, + and have married foreign women of the peoples of the land: + yet now there is hope for Israel concerning this thing. +010:003 Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all + the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the counsel + of my lord, and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God; + and let it be done according to the law. +010:004 Arise; for the matter belongs to you, and we are with you: + be of good courage, and do it. +010:005 Then arose Ezra, and made the chiefs of the priests, the Levites, + and all Israel, to swear that they would do according to this word. + So they swore. +010:006 Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and went + into the chamber of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib: + and [when] he came there, he ate no bread, nor drank water; + for he mourned because of the trespass of them of the captivity. +010:007 They made proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem to all + the children of the captivity, that they should gather + themselves together to Jerusalem; +010:008 and that whoever didn't come within three days, according to + the counsel of the princes and the elders, all his substance + should be forfeited, and himself separated from the assembly + of the captivity. +010:009 Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves + together to Jerusalem within the three days; it was + the ninth month, on the twentieth [day] of the month: + and all the people sat in the broad place before the house of God, + trembling because of this matter, and for the great rain. +010:010 Ezra the priest stood up, and said to them, You have trespassed, + and have married foreign women, to increase the guilt of Israel. +010:011 Now therefore make confession to Yahweh, the God of your fathers, + and do his pleasure; and separate yourselves from the peoples + of the land, and from the foreign women. +010:012 Then all the assembly answered with a loud voice, As you + have said concerning us, so must we do. +010:013 But the people are many, and it is a time of much rain, + and we are not able to stand outside: neither is this + a work of one day or two; for we have greatly transgressed + in this matter. +010:014 Let now our princes be appointed for all the assembly, and let + all those who are in our cities who have married foreign women + come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, + and the judges of it, until the fierce wrath of our God + be turned from us, until this matter be dispatched. +010:015 Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahzeiah the son of Tikvah + stood up against this [matter]: and Meshullam and Shabbethai + the Levite helped them. +010:016 The children of the captivity did so. Ezra the priest, + [with] certain heads of fathers' [houses], after their fathers' + houses, and all of them by their names, were set apart; + and they sat down in the first day of the tenth month + to examine the matter. +010:017 They made an end with all the men who had married foreign + women by the first day of the first month. +010:018 Among the sons of the priests there were found who had + married foreign women: [namely], of the sons of Jeshua, + the son of Jozadak, and his brothers, Maaseiah, and Eliezer, + and Jarib, and Gedaliah. +010:019 They gave their hand that they would put away their wives; + and being guilty, [they offered] a ram of the flock + for their guilt. +010:020 Of the sons of Immer: Hanani and Zebadiah. +010:021 Of the sons of Harim: Maaseiah, and Elijah, and Shemaiah, + and Jehiel, and Uzziah. +010:022 Of the sons of Pashhur: Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethanel, + Jozabad, and Elasah. +010:023 Of the Levites: Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah (the same + is Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer. +010:024 Of the singers: Eliashib. Of the porters: Shallum, and Telem, + and Uri. +010:025 Of Israel: Of the sons of Parosh: Ramiah, and Izziah, and Malchijah, + and Mijamin, and Eleazar, and Malchijah, and Benaiah. +010:026 Of the sons of Elam: Mattaniah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, + and Abdi, and Jeremoth, and Elijah. +010:027 Of the sons of Zattu: Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, and Jeremoth, + and Zabad, and Aziza. +010:028 Of the sons of Bebai: Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai, Athlai. +010:029 Of the sons of Bani: Meshullam, Malluch, and Adaiah, Jashub, + and Sheal, Jeremoth. +010:030 Of the sons of Pahathmoab: Adna, and Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, + Mattaniah, Bezalel, and Binnui, and Manasseh. +010:031 [of] the sons of Harim: Eliezer, Isshijah, Malchijah, Shemaiah, + Shimeon, +010:032 Benjamin, Malluch, Shemariah. +010:033 Of the sons of Hashum: Mattenai, Mattattah, Zabad, Eliphelet, + Jeremai, Manasseh, Shimei. +010:034 Of the sons of Bani: Maadai, Amram, and Uel, +010:035 Benaiah, Bedeiah, Cheluhi, +010:036 Vaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib, +010:037 Mattaniah, Mattenai, and Jaasu, +010:038 and Bani, and Binnui, Shimei, +010:039 and Shelemiah, and Nathan, and Adaiah, +010:040 Machnadebai, Shashai, Sharai, +010:041 Azarel, and Shelemiah, Shemariah, +010:042 Shallum, Amariah, Joseph. +010:043 Of the sons of Nebo: Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Iddo, + and Joel, Benaiah. +010:044 All these had taken foreign wives; and some of them had wives + by whom they had children. +Book 16 Nehemiah +001:001 The words of Nehemiah the son of Hacaliah. Now it happened + in the month Chislev, in the twentieth year, as I was in + Shushan the palace, +001:002 that Hanani, one of my brothers, came, he and certain men out + of Judah; and I asked them concerning the Jews who had escaped, + who were left of the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem. +001:003 They said to me, The remnant who are left of the captivity + there in the province are in great affliction and reproach: + the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates + of it are burned with fire. +001:004 It happened, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, + and mourned certain days; and I fasted and prayed before + the God of heaven, +001:005 and said, I beg you, Yahweh, the God of heaven, the great + and awesome God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness + with those who love him and keep his commandments: +001:006 Let your ear now be attentive, and your eyes open, that you may + listen to the prayer of your servant, which I pray before you + at this time, day and night, for the children of Israel your + servants while I confess the sins of the children of Israel, + which we have sinned against you. Yes, I and my father's + house have sinned: +001:007 we have dealt very corruptly against you, and have not kept + the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the ordinances, + which you commanded your servant Moses. +001:008 Remember, I beg you, the word that you commanded your + servant Moses, saying, If you trespass, I will scatter you + abroad among the peoples: +001:009 but if you return to me, and keep my commandments and do them, + though your outcasts were in the uttermost part of the heavens, + yet will I gather them from there, and will bring them to + the place that I have chosen, to cause my name to dwell there. +001:010 Now these are your servants and your people, whom you have + redeemed by your great power, and by your strong hand. +001:011 Lord, I beg you, let now your ear be attentive to the prayer + of your servant, and to the prayer of your servants, + who delight to fear your name; and please prosper your servant + this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. + Now I was cup bearer to the king. +002:001 It happened in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes + the king, when wine was before him, that I took up the wine, + and gave it to the king. Now I had not been [before] sad + in his presence. +002:002 The king said to me, Why is your face sad, seeing you + are not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. + Then I was very sore afraid. +002:003 I said to the king, Let the king live forever: why should + not my face be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' + tombs, lies waste, and the gates of it are consumed with fire? +002:004 Then the king said to me, For what do you make request? + So I prayed to the God of heaven. +002:005 I said to the king, If it please the king, and if your servant + have found favor in your sight, that you would send me to Judah, + to the city of my fathers' tombs, that I may build it. +002:006 The king said to me (the queen also sitting by him), + For how long shall your journey be? and when will you return? + So it pleased the king to send me; and I set him a time. +002:007 Moreover I said to the king, If it please the king, + let letters be given me to the governors beyond the River, + that they may let me pass through until I come to Judah; +002:008 and a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king's forest, + that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates + of the castle which appertains to the house, and for the wall + of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into. + The king granted me, according to the good hand of my God on me. +002:009 Then I came to the governors beyond the River, and gave them + the king's letters. Now the king had sent with me captains + of the army and horsemen. +002:010 When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, + heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly, because a man had + come to seek the welfare of the children of Israel. +002:011 So I came to Jerusalem, and was there three days. +002:012 I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told + I any man what my God put into my heart to do for Jerusalem; + neither was there any animal with me, except the animal + that I rode on. +002:013 I went out by night by the valley gate, even toward + the jackal's well, and to the dung gate, and viewed the walls + of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and the gates of it + were consumed with fire. +002:014 Then I went on to the spring gate and to the king's pool: + but there was no place for the animal that was under me to pass. +002:015 Then went I up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall; + and I turned back, and entered by the valley gate, + and so returned. +002:016 The rulers didn't know where I went, or what I did; + neither had I as yet told it to the Jews, nor to the priests, + nor to the nobles, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest who + did the work. +002:017 Then said I to them, You see the evil case that we are in, + how Jerusalem lies waste, and the gates of it are burned + with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, + that we be no more a reproach. +002:018 I told them of the hand of my God which was good on me, + as also of the king's words that he had spoken to me. + They said, Let us rise up and build. So they strengthened + their hands for the good [work]. +002:019 But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, + the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they ridiculed us, + and despised us, and said, What is this thing that you do? + will you rebel against the king? +002:020 Then answered I them, and said to them, The God of heaven, + he will prosper us; therefore we his servants will arise and build: + but you have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem. +003:001 Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brothers + the priests, and they built the sheep gate; they sanctified it, + and set up the doors of it; even to the tower of Hammeah they + sanctified it, to the tower of Hananel. +003:002 Next to him built the men of Jericho. Next to them built + Zaccur the son of Imri. +003:003 The fish gate did the sons of Hassenaah build; they laid + the beams of it, and set up the doors of it, the bolts of it, + and the bars of it. +003:004 Next to them repaired Meremoth the son of Uriah, the son of Hakkoz. + Next to them repaired Meshullam the son of Berechiah, the son + of Meshezabel. Next to them repaired Zadok the son of Baana. +003:005 Next to them the Tekoites repaired; but their nobles didn't + put their necks to the work of their lord. +003:006 The old gate repaired Joiada the son of Paseah and Meshullam + the son of Besodeiah; they laid the beams of it, and set up + the doors of it, and the bolts of it, and the bars of it. +003:007 Next to them repaired Melatiah the Gibeonite, and Jadon + the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon, and of Mizpah, + [that appertained] to the throne of the governor beyond the River. +003:008 Next to him repaired Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, goldsmiths. + Next to him repaired Hananiah one of the perfumers, and they + fortified Jerusalem even to the broad wall. +003:009 Next to them repaired Rephaiah the son of Hur, the ruler + of half the district of Jerusalem. +003:010 Next to them repaired Jedaiah the son of Harumaph, over against + his house. Next to him repaired Hattush the son of Hashabneiah. +003:011 Malchijah the son of Harim, and Hasshub the son of Pahathmoab, + repaired another portion, and the tower of the furnaces. +003:012 Next to him repaired Shallum the son of Hallohesh, the ruler + of half the district of Jerusalem, he and his daughters. +003:013 The valley gate repaired Hanun, and the inhabitants of Zanoah; + they built it, and set up the doors of it, the bolts of it, + and the bars of it, and one thousand cubits of the wall + to the dung gate. +003:014 The dung gate repaired Malchijah the son of Rechab, the ruler + of the district of Beth Haccherem; he built it, and set up + the doors of it, the bolts of it, and the bars of it. +003:015 The spring gate repaired Shallun the son of Colhozeh, the ruler + of the district of Mizpah; he built it, and covered it, + and set up the doors of it, the bolts of it, and the bars of it, + and the wall of the pool of Shelah by the king's garden, + even to the stairs that go down from the city of David. +003:016 After him repaired Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, the ruler of half + the district of Beth Zur, to the place over against the tombs + of David, and to the pool that was made, and to the house + of the mighty men. +003:017 After him repaired the Levites, Rehum the son of Bani. + Next to him repaired Hashabiah, the ruler of half the district + of Keilah, for his district. +003:018 After him repaired their brothers, Bavvai the son of Henadad, + the ruler of half the district of Keilah. +003:019 Next to him repaired Ezer the son of Jeshua, the ruler of Mizpah, + another portion, over against the ascent to the armory at + the turning [of the wall]. +003:020 After him Baruch the son of Zabbai earnestly repaired + another portion, from the turning [of the wall] to the door + of the house of Eliashib the high priest. +003:021 After him repaired Meremoth the son of Uriah the son of Hakkoz + another portion, from the door of the house of Eliashib + even to the end of the house of Eliashib. +003:022 After him repaired the priests, the men of the Plain. +003:023 After them repaired Benjamin and Hasshub over against their house. + After them repaired Azariah the son of Maaseiah the son + of Ananiah beside his own house. +003:024 After him repaired Binnui the son of Henadad another portion, + from the house of Azariah to the turning [of the wall], + and to the corner. +003:025 Palal the son of Uzai [repaired] over against the turning + [of the wall], and the tower that stands out from the upper + house of the king, which is by the court of the guard. + After him Pedaiah the son of Parosh [repaired]. +003:026 (Now the Nethinim lived in Ophel, to the place over against + the water gate toward the east, and the tower that stands out.) +003:027 After him the Tekoites repaired another portion, over against + the great tower that stands out, and to the wall of Ophel. +003:028 Above the horse gate repaired the priests, everyone over + against his own house. +003:029 After them repaired Zadok the son of Immer over against his + own house. After him repaired Shemaiah the son of Shecaniah, + the keeper of the east gate. +003:030 After him repaired Hananiah the son of Shelemiah, and Hanun + the sixth son of Zalaph, another portion. After him repaired + Meshullam the son of Berechiah over against his chamber. +003:031 After him repaired Malchijah one of the goldsmiths to the house + of the Nethinim, and of the merchants, over against the gate + of Hammiphkad, and to the ascent of the corner. +003:032 Between the ascent of the corner and the sheep gate repaired + the goldsmiths and the merchants. +004:001 But it happened that when Sanballat heard that we were + building the wall, he was angry, and took great indignation, + and mocked the Jews. +004:002 He spoke before his brothers and the army of Samaria, and said, + What are these feeble Jews doing? will they fortify themselves? + will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? + will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, + seeing they are burned? +004:003 Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that + which they are building, if a fox go up, he shall break + down their stone wall. +004:004 Hear, our God; for we are despised: and turn back their + reproach on their own head, and give them up for a spoil + in a land of captivity; +004:005 and don't cover their iniquity, and don't let their sin be + blotted out from before you; for they have provoked [you] + to anger before the builders. +004:006 So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together + to half [the height] of it: for the people had a mind to work. +004:007 But it happened that when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabians, + the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the repairing + of the walls of Jerusalem went forward, [and] that the breaches + began to be stopped, then they were very angry; +004:008 and they conspired all of them together to come and fight + against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion therein. +004:009 But we made our prayer to our God, and set a watch against them + day and night, because of them. +004:010 Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, + and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to + build the wall. +004:011 Our adversaries said, They shall not know, neither see, + until we come into the midst of them, and kill them, + and cause the work to cease. +004:012 It happened that when the Jews who lived by them came, they said + to us ten times from all places, You must return to us. +004:013 Therefore set I in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, + in the open places, I set [there] the people after their + families with their swords, their spears, and their bows. +004:014 I looked, and rose up, and said to the nobles, and to the rulers, + and to the rest of the people, Don't be you afraid of them: + remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight + for your brothers, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, + and your houses. +004:015 It happened, when our enemies heard that it was known to us, + and God had brought their counsel to nothing, that we returned + all of us to the wall, everyone to his work. +004:016 It happened from that time forth, that half of my servants worked + in the work, and half of them held the spears, the shields, + and the bows, and the coats of mail; and the rulers were behind + all the house of Judah. +004:017 They all built the wall and those who bore burdens loaded themselves; + everyone with one of his hands worked in the work, and with + the other held his weapon; +004:018 and the builders, everyone had his sword girded by his side, + and so built. He who sounded the trumpet was by me. +004:019 I said to the nobles, and to the rulers and to the rest of the people, + The work is great and large, and we are separated on the wall, + one far from another: +004:020 in whatever place you hear the sound of the trumpet, resort you + there to us; our God will fight for us. +004:021 So we worked in the work: and half of them held the spears + from the rising of the morning until the stars appeared. +004:022 Likewise at the same time said I to the people, Let everyone + with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night + they may be a guard to us, and may labor in the day. +004:023 So neither I, nor my brothers, nor my servants, nor the men + of the guard who followed me, none of us put off our clothes, + everyone [went with] his weapon [to] the water. +005:001 Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives + against their brothers the Jews. +005:002 For there were that said, We, our sons and our daughters, are many: + let us get grain, that we may eat and live. +005:003 Some also there were that said, We are mortgaging our fields, + and our vineyards, and our houses: let us get grain, + because of the dearth. +005:004 There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king's + tribute [on] our fields and our vineyards. +005:005 Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children + as their children: and behold, we bring into bondage our sons + and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters + are brought into bondage [already]: neither is it in our power + to help it; for other men have our fields and our vineyards. +005:006 I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words. +005:007 Then I consulted with myself, and contended with the nobles + and the rulers, and said to them, You exact usury, everyone of + his brother. I held a great assembly against them. +005:008 I said to them, We after our ability have redeemed our brothers + the Jews, that were sold to the nations; and would you + even sell your brothers, and should they be sold to us? + Then held they their peace, and found never a word. +005:009 Also I said, The thing that you do is not good: ought you + not to walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach + of the nations our enemies? +005:010 I likewise, my brothers and my servants, do lend them money + and grain. Please let us leave off this usury. +005:011 Please restore to them, even this day, their fields, + their vineyards, their olive groves, and their houses, + also the hundredth part of the money, and of the grain, + the new wine, and the oil, that you exact of them. +005:012 Then said they, We will restore them, and will require + nothing of them; so will we do, even as you say. + Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, + that they would do according to this promise. +005:013 Also I shook out my lap, and said, So God shake out every man + from his house, and from his labor, that doesn't perform + this promise; even thus be he shaken out, and emptied. + All the assembly said, Amen, and praised Yahweh. + The people did according to this promise. +005:014 Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their + governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year + even to the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes the king, + [that is], twelve years, I and my brothers have not eaten + the bread of the governor. +005:015 But the former governors who were before me were chargeable to + the people, and took of them bread and wine, besides forty shekels + of silver; yes, even their servants bore rule over the people: + but I didn't do so, because of the fear of God. +005:016 Yes, also I continued in the work of this wall, neither bought + we any land: and all my servants were gathered there + to the work. +005:017 Moreover there were at my table, of the Jews and the rulers, + one hundred fifty men, besides those who came to us from among + the nations that were round about us. +005:018 Now that which was prepared for one day was one ox + and six choice sheep; also fowls were prepared for me, + and once in ten days store of all sorts of wine: + yet for all this I didn't demand the bread of the governor, + because the bondage was heavy on this people. +005:019 Remember to me, my God, for good, all that I have done + for this people. +006:001 Now it happened, when it was reported to Sanballat and Tobiah, + and to Geshem the Arabian, and to the rest of our enemies, that I + had built the wall, and that there was no breach left therein; + (though even to that time I had not set up the doors + in the gates;) +006:002 that Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, Come, let us + meet together in [one of] the villages in the plain of Ono. + But they thought to do me mischief. +006:003 I sent messengers to them, saying, I am doing a great work, + so that I can't come down: why should the work cease, + while I leave it, and come down to you? +006:004 They sent to me four times after this sort; and I answered + them after the same manner. +006:005 Then sent Sanballat his servant to me in like manner the fifth + time with an open letter in his hand, +006:006 in which was written, It is reported among the nations, + and Gashmu says it, that you and the Jews think to rebel; + for which cause you are building the wall: and you would + be their king, according to these words. +006:007 You have also appointed prophets to preach of you + at Jerusalem, saying, There is a king in Judah: and now + shall it be reported to the king according to these words. + Come now therefore, and let us take counsel together. +006:008 Then I sent to him, saying, There are no such things done + as you say, but you feign them out of your own heart. +006:009 For they all would have made us afraid, saying, Their hands + shall be weakened from the work, that it not be done. + But now, [God], strengthen you my hands. +006:010 I went to the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son + of Mehetabel, who was shut up; and he said, Let us meet + together in the house of God, within the temple, and let us + shut the doors of the temple: for they will come to kill you; + yes, in the night will they come to kill you. +006:011 I said, Should such a man as I flee? and who is there that, + being such as I, would go into the temple to save his life? + I will not go in. +006:012 I discerned, and behold, God had not sent him; but he pronounced + this prophecy against me: and Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him. +006:013 For this cause was he hired, that I should be afraid, and do so, + and sin, and that they might have matter for an evil report, + that they might reproach me. +006:014 Remember, my God, Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, + and also the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets, + that would have put me in fear. +006:015 So the wall was finished in the twenty-fifth [day] of [the + month] Elul, in fifty-two days. +006:016 It happened, when all our enemies heard [of it], that all + the nations that were about us feared, and were much cast + down in their own eyes; for they perceived that this work + was worked of our God. +006:017 Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters + to Tobiah, and [the letters] of Tobiah came to them. +006:018 For there were many in Judah sworn to him, because he was + the son-in-law of Shecaniah the son of Arah; and his son + Jehohanan had taken the daughter of Meshullam the son + of Berechiah as wife. +006:019 Also they spoke of his good deeds before me, and reported + my words to him. Tobiah sent letters to put me in fear. +007:001 Now it happened, when the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, + and the porters and the singers and the Levites were appointed, +007:002 that I gave my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the governor of + the castle, charge over Jerusalem; for he was a faithful man, + and feared God above many. +007:003 I said to them, Don't let the gates of Jerusalem be opened + until the sun be hot; and while they stand [on guard], + let them shut the doors, and bar you them: and appoint watches + of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, everyone in his watch, + and everyone [to be] over against his house. +007:004 Now the city was wide and large; but the people were few therein, + and the houses were not built. +007:005 My God put into my heart to gather together the nobles, + and the rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned + by genealogy. I found the book of the genealogy of those + who came up at the first, and I found written therein: +007:006 These are the children of the province, who went up out + of the captivity of those who had been carried away, + whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away, + and who returned to Jerusalem and to Judah, everyone to his city; +007:007 who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, + Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. + The number of the men of the people of Israel: +007:008 The children of Parosh, two thousand one hundred seventy-two. +007:009 The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy-two. +007:010 The children of Arah, six hundred fifty-two. +007:011 The children of Pahathmoab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, + two thousand eight hundred [and] eighteen. +007:012 The children of Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four. +007:013 The children of Zattu, eight hundred forty-five. +007:014 The children of Zaccai, seven hundred sixty. +007:015 The children of Binnui, six hundred forty-eight. +007:016 The children of Bebai, six hundred twenty-eight. +007:017 The children of Azgad, two thousand three hundred twenty-two. +007:018 The children of Adonikam, six hundred sixty-seven. +007:019 The children of Bigvai, two thousand sixty-seven. +007:020 The children of Adin, six hundred fifty-five. +007:021 The children of Ater, of Hezekiah, ninety-eight. +007:022 The children of Hashum, three hundred Twenty-eight. +007:023 The children of Bezai, three hundred twenty-four. +007:024 The children of Hariph, one hundred twelve. +007:025 The children of Gibeon, ninety-five. +007:026 The men of Bethlehem and Netophah, one hundred eighty-eight. +007:027 The men of Anathoth, one hundred twenty-eight. +007:028 The men of Beth Azmaveth, forty-two. +007:029 The men of Kiriath Jearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, + seven hundred forty-three. +007:030 The men of Ramah and Geba, six hundred twenty-one. +007:031 The men of Michmas, one hundred and twenty-two. +007:032 The men of Bethel and Ai, a hundred twenty-three. +007:033 The men of the other Nebo, fifty-two. +007:034 The children of the other Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four. +007:035 The children of Harim, three hundred twenty. +007:036 The children of Jericho, three hundred forty-five. +007:037 The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred twenty-one. +007:038 The children of Senaah, three thousand nine hundred thirty. +007:039 The priests: The children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, + nine hundred seventy-three. +007:040 The children of Immer, one thousand fifty-two. +007:041 The children of Pashhur, one thousand two hundred forty-seven. +007:042 The children of Harim, one thousand [and] seventeen. +007:043 The Levites: the children of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, of the children + of Hodevah, seventy-four. +007:044 The singers: the children of Asaph, one hundred forty-eight. +007:045 The porters: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, + the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children + of Hatita, the children of Shobai, one hundred thirty-eight. +007:046 The Nethinim: the children of Ziha, the children of Hasupha, + the children of Tabbaoth, +007:047 the children of Keros, the children of Sia, the children of Padon, +007:048 the children of Lebana, the children of Hagaba, + the children of Salmai, +007:049 the children of Hanan, the children of Giddel, the children of Gahar, +007:050 the children of Reaiah, the children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda, +007:051 the children of Gazzam, the children of Uzza, the children of Paseah. +007:052 The children of Besai, the children of Meunim, + the children of Nephushesim, +007:053 the children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, + the children of Harhur, +007:054 the children of Bazlith, the children of Mehida, + the children of Harsha, +007:055 the children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Temah, +007:056 the children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha. +007:057 The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, + the children of Sophereth, the children of Perida, +007:058 the children of Jaala, the children of Darkon, the children of Giddel, +007:059 the children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children + of Pochereth Hazzebaim, the children of Amon. +007:060 All the Nethinim, and the children of Solomon's servants, + were three hundred ninety-two. +007:061 These were those who went up from Tel Melah, Tel Harsha, + Cherub, Addon, and Immer; but they could not show their fathers' + houses, nor their seed, whether they were of Israel: +007:062 The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children + of Nekoda, six hundred forty-two. +007:063 Of the priests: the children of Hobaiah, the children of Hakkoz, + the children of Barzillai, who took a wife of the daughters + of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name. +007:064 These sought their register [among] those who were reckoned + by genealogy, but it was not found: therefore were they + deemed polluted and put from the priesthood. +007:065 The governor said to them, that they should not eat of the most + holy things, until there stood up a priest with Urim and Thummim. +007:066 The whole assembly together was forty-two thousand + three hundred sixty, +007:067 besides their male servants and their female servants, of whom + there were seven thousand three hundred thirty-seven: and they + had two hundred forty-five singing men and singing women. +007:068 Their horses were seven hundred thirty-six; their mules, + two hundred forty-five; +007:069 [their] camels, four hundred thirty-five; [their] donkeys, + six thousand seven hundred twenty. +007:070 Some from among the heads of fathers' [houses] gave to the work. + The governor gave to the treasury one thousand darics of gold, + fifty basins, and five hundred thirty priests' garments. +007:071 Some of the heads of fathers' [houses] gave into the treasury + of the work twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand + two hundred minas of silver. +007:072 That which the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand + darics of gold, and two thousand minas of silver, + and sixty-seven priests' garments. +007:073 So the priests, and the Levites, and the porters, and the singers, + and some of the people, and the Nethinim, and all Israel, + lived in their cities. When the seventh month was come, + the children of Israel were in their cities. +008:001 All the people gathered themselves together as one man into + the broad place that was before the water gate; and they spoke + to Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, + which Yahweh had commanded to Israel. +008:002 Ezra the priest brought the law before the assembly, + both men and women, and all who could hear with understanding, + on the first day of the seventh month. +008:003 He read therein before the broad place that was before the water + gate from early morning until midday, in the presence + of the men and the women, and of those who could understand; + and the ears of all the people were [attentive] to the book + of the law. +008:004 Ezra the scribe stood on a pulpit of wood, which they had made + for the purpose; and beside him stood Mattithiah, and Shema, + and Anaiah, and Uriah, and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his right hand; + and on his left hand, Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchijah, + and Hashum, and Hashbaddanah, Zechariah, [and] Meshullam. +008:005 Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people; + (for he was above all the people;) and when he opened it, + all the people stood up: +008:006 and Ezra blessed Yahweh, the great God. All the people + answered, Amen, Amen, with the lifting up of their hands: + and they bowed their heads, and worshiped Yahweh with their + faces to the ground. +008:007 Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, + Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, + and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law: + and the people [stood] in their place. +008:008 They read in the book, in the law of God, distinctly; and they + gave the sense, so that they understood the reading. +008:009 Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest the scribe, + and the Levites who taught the people, said to all the people, + This day is holy to Yahweh your God; don't mourn, nor weep. + For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law. +008:010 Then he said to them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, + and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared; + for this day is holy to our Lord. Don't be grieved; + for the joy of Yahweh is your strength. +008:011 So the Levites stilled all the people, saying, Hold your peace, + for the day is holy; neither be you grieved. +008:012 All the people went their way to eat, and to drink, + and to send portions, and to make great mirth, because they + had understood the words that were declared to them. +008:013 On the second day were gathered together the heads of fathers' + [houses] of all the people, the priests, and the Levites, + to Ezra the scribe, even to give attention to the words + of the law. +008:014 They found written in the law, how that Yahweh had commanded + by Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in booths + in the feast of the seventh month; +008:015 and that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, + and in Jerusalem, saying, Go forth to the mountain, and get + olive branches, and branches of wild olive, and myrtle branches, + and palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, + as it is written. +008:016 So the people went forth, and brought them, and made + themselves booths, everyone on the roof of his house, + and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, + and in the broad place of the water gate, and in the broad + place of the gate of Ephraim. +008:017 All the assembly of those who were come again out of the captivity + made booths, and lived in the booths; for since the days of Jeshua + the son of Nun to that day the children of Israel had not done so. + There was very great gladness. +008:018 Also day by day, from the first day to the last day, + he read in the book of the law of God. They kept the feast + seven days; and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly, + according to the ordinance. +009:001 Now in the twenty-fourth day of this month the children + of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackcloth, + and earth on them. +009:002 The seed of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners, + and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities + of their fathers. +009:003 They stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law + of Yahweh their God a fourth part of the day; and [another] + fourth part they confessed, and worshiped Yahweh their God. +009:004 Then stood up on the stairs of the Levites, Jeshua, + and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, [and] Chenani, + and cried with a loud voice to Yahweh their God. +009:005 Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, + Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, [and] Pethahiah, said, Stand up + and bless Yahweh your God from everlasting to everlasting; + and blessed be your glorious name, which is exalted above + all blessing and praise. +009:006 You are Yahweh, even you alone; you have made heaven, + the heaven of heavens, with all their army, the earth and all + things that are thereon, the seas and all that is in them, + and you preserve them all; and the army of heaven worships you. +009:007 You are Yahweh the God, who did choose Abram, and brought him + forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gave him the name of Abraham, +009:008 and found his heart faithful before you, and made a covenant with + him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, + and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, + to give it to his seed, and have performed your words; + for you are righteous. +009:009 You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heard + their cry by the Red Sea{or, Sea of Reeds}, +009:010 and shown signs and wonders on Pharaoh, and on all his servants, + and on all the people of his land; for you knew that they + dealt proudly against them, and did get you a name, as it + is this day. +009:011 You divided the sea before them, so that they went through + the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their pursuers you + did cast into the depths, as a stone into the mighty waters. +009:012 Moreover in a pillar of cloud you led them by day; + and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them light in the way + in which they should go. +009:013 You came down also on Mount Sinai, and spoke with them + from heaven, and gave them right ordinances and true laws, + good statutes and commandments, +009:014 and made known to them your holy Sabbath, and commanded + them commandments, and statutes, and a law, by Moses your servant, +009:015 and gave them bread from the sky for their hunger, and brought + forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, + and commanded those who they should go in to possess the land + which you had sworn to give them. +009:016 But they and our fathers dealt proudly and hardened their neck, + and didn't listen to your commandments, +009:017 and refused to obey, neither were mindful of your wonders + that you did among them, but hardened their neck, and in their + rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage. + But you are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, + slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, + and didn't forsake them. +009:018 Yes, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, + This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt, and had + committed awful blasphemies; +009:019 yet you in your manifold mercies didn't forsake them in + the wilderness: the pillar of cloud didn't depart from over + them by day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar + of fire by night, to show them light, and the way in which + they should go. +009:020 You gave also your good Spirit to instruct them, and didn't + withhold your manna from their mouth, and gave them water + for their thirst. +009:021 Yes, forty years did you sustain them in the wilderness, + [and] they lacked nothing; their clothes didn't grow old, + and their feet didn't swell. +009:022 Moreover you gave them kingdoms and peoples, which you did allot + after their portions: so they possessed the land of Sihon, + even the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og + king of Bashan. +009:023 Their children also multiplied you as the stars of the sky, + and brought them into the land concerning which you did say + to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it. +009:024 So the children went in and possessed the land, and you subdued + before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, + and gave them into their hands, with their kings, and the peoples + of the land, that they might do with them as they would. +009:025 They took fortified cities, and a fat land, and possessed + houses full of all good things, cisterns hewn out, + vineyards, and olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance: + so they ate, and were filled, and became fat, and delighted + themselves in your great goodness. +009:026 Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, + and cast your law behind their back, and killed your prophets + that testified against them to turn them again to you, + and they committed awful blasphemies. +009:027 Therefore you delivered them into the hand of their adversaries, + who distressed them: and in the time of their trouble, + when they cried to you, you heard from heaven; and according + to your manifold mercies you gave them saviors who saved them + out of the hand of their adversaries. +009:028 But after they had rest, they did evil again before you; + therefore left you them in the hand of their enemies, + so that they had the dominion over them: yet when they returned, + and cried to you, you heard from heaven; and many times did + you deliver them according to your mercies, +009:029 and testified against them, that you might bring them again + to your law. Yet they dealt proudly, and didn't listen + to your commandments, but sinned against your ordinances, + (which if a man do, he shall live in them), and withdrew + the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear. +009:030 Yet many years did you bear with them, and testified + against them by your Spirit through your prophets: + yet would they not give ear: therefore gave you them into + the hand of the peoples of the lands. +009:031 Nevertheless in your manifold mercies you did not make a full + end of them, nor forsake them; for you are a gracious + and merciful God. +009:032 Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, + who keep covenant and loving kindness, don't let all the travail + seem little before you, that has come on us, on our kings, + on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, + and on our fathers, and on all your people, since the time + of the kings of Assyria to this day. +009:033 However you are just in all that is come on us; for you have + dealt truly, but we have done wickedly; +009:034 neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, + kept your law, nor listened to your commandments and your + testimonies with which you did testify against them. +009:035 For they have not served you in their kingdom, and in your + great goodness that you gave them, and in the large and fat + land which you gave before them, neither turned they from + their wicked works. +009:036 Behold, we are servants this day, and as for the land that you + gave to our fathers to eat the fruit of it and the good + of it, behold, we are servants in it. +009:037 It yields much increase to the kings whom you have set over us + because of our sins: also they have power over our bodies, + and over our livestock, at their pleasure, and we are + in great distress. +009:038 Yet for all this we make a sure covenant, and write it; + and our princes, our Levites, [and] our priests, seal to it. +010:001 Now those who sealed were: Nehemiah the governor, the son + of Hacaliah, and Zedekiah, +010:002 Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah, +010:003 Pashhur, Amariah, Malchijah, +010:004 Hattush, Shebaniah, Malluch, +010:005 Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah, +010:006 Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch, +010:007 Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin, +010:008 Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah; these were the priests. +010:009 The Levites: namely, Jeshua the son of Azaniah, Binnui of + the sons of Henadad, Kadmiel; +010:010 and their brothers, Shebaniah, Hodiah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan, +010:011 Mica, Rehob, Hashabiah, +010:012 Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah, +010:013 Hodiah, Bani, Beninu. +010:014 The chiefs of the people: Parosh, Pahathmoab, Elam, Zattu, Bani, +010:015 Bunni, Azgad, Bebai, +010:016 Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin, +010:017 Ater, Hezekiah, Azzur, +010:018 Hodiah, Hashum, Bezai, +010:019 Hariph, Anathoth, Nobai, +010:020 Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir, +010:021 Meshezabel, Zadok, Jaddua, +010:022 Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah, +010:023 Hoshea, Hananiah, Hasshub, +010:024 Hallohesh, Pilha, Shobek, +010:025 Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah, +010:026 and Ahiah, Hanan, Anan, +010:027 Malluch, Harim, Baanah. +010:028 The rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, + the singers, the Nethinim, and all those who had separated + themselves from the peoples of the lands to the law of God, + their wives, their sons, and their daughters, everyone who + had knowledge, and understanding; +010:029 They joined with their brothers, their nobles, and entered + into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God's law, + which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe + and do all the commandments of Yahweh our Lord, and his + ordinances and his statutes; +010:030 and that we would not give our daughters to the peoples of the land, + nor take their daughters for our sons; +010:031 and if the peoples of the land bring wares or any grain on the Sabbath + day to sell, that we would not buy of them on the Sabbath, + or on a holy day; and that we would forego the seventh year, + and the exaction of every debt. +010:032 Also we made ordinances for us, to charge ourselves yearly + with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house + of our God; +010:033 for the show bread, and for the continual meal offering, + and for the continual burnt offering, for the Sabbaths, + for the new moons, for the set feasts, and for the holy things, + and for the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, + and for all the work of the house of our God. +010:034 We cast lots, the priests, the Levites, and the people, + for the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our God, + according to our fathers' houses, at times appointed, + year by year, to burn on the altar of Yahweh our God, + as it is written in the law; +010:035 and to bring the first fruits of our ground, and the first + fruits of all fruit of all manner of trees, year by year, + to the house of Yahweh; +010:036 also the firstborn of our sons, and of our livestock, + as it is written in the law, and the firstborn of our herds + and of our flocks, to bring to the house of our God, + to the priests who minister in the house of our God; +010:037 and that we should bring the first fruits of our dough, + and our wave offerings, and the fruit of all manner of trees, + the new wine and the oil, to the priests, to the chambers of + the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground to the Levites; + for they, the Levites, take the tithes in all the cities + of our tillage. +010:038 The priest the son of Aaron shall be with the Levites, + when the Levites take tithes: and the Levites shall bring up + the tithe of the tithes to the house of our God, to the chambers, + into the treasure house. +010:039 For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring + the wave offering of the grain, of the new wine, and of the oil, + to the chambers, where are the vessels of the sanctuary, + and the priests who minister, and the porters, and the singers: + and we will not forsake the house of our God. +011:001 The princes of the people lived in Jerusalem: the rest + of the people also cast lots, to bring one of ten to dwell + in Jerusalem the holy city, and nine parts in the [other] cities. +011:002 The people blessed all the men who willingly offered themselves + to dwell in Jerusalem. +011:003 Now these are the chiefs of the province who lived in Jerusalem: + but in the cities of Judah lived everyone in his possession + in their cities, [to wit], Israel, the priests, and the Levites, + and the Nethinim, and the children of Solomon's servants. +011:004 In Jerusalem lived certain of the children of Judah, + and of the children of Benjamin. Of the children + of Judah: Athaiah the son of Uzziah, the son of Zechariah, + the son of Amariah, the son of Shephatiah, the son of Mahalalel, + of the children of Perez; +011:005 and Maaseiah the son of Baruch, the son of Colhozeh, + the son of Hazaiah, the son of Adaiah, the son of Joiarib, + the son of Zechariah, the son of the Shilonite. +011:006 All the sons of Perez who lived in Jerusalem were four hundred + sixty-eight valiant men. +011:007 These are the sons of Benjamin: Sallu the son of Meshullam, + the son of Joed, the son of Pedaiah, the son of Kolaiah, + the son of Maaseiah, the son of Ithiel, the son of Jeshaiah. +011:008 After him Gabbai, Sallai, nine hundred twenty-eight. +011:009 Joel the son of Zichri was their overseer; and Judah the son + of Hassenuah was second over the city. +011:010 Of the priests: Jedaiah the son of Joiarib, Jachin, +011:011 Seraiah the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son + of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the ruler + of the house of God, +011:012 and their brothers who did the work of the house, + eight hundred twenty-two; and Adaiah the son of Jeroham, + the son of Pelaliah, the son of Amzi, the son of Zechariah, + the son of Pashhur, the son of Malchijah, +011:013 and his brothers, chiefs of fathers' [houses], two hundred forty-two; + and Amashsai the son of Azarel, the son of Ahzai, the son + of Meshillemoth, the son of Immer, +011:014 and their brothers, mighty men of valor, one hundred twenty-eight; + and their overseer was Zabdiel, the son of Haggedolim. +011:015 Of the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, + the son of Hashabiah, the son of Bunni; +011:016 and Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chiefs of the Levites, + who had the oversight of the outward business of the house of God; +011:017 and Mattaniah the son of Mica, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, + who was the chief to begin the thanksgiving in prayer, + and Bakbukiah, the second among his brothers; and Abda the son + of Shammua, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun. +011:018 All the Levites in the holy city were two hundred eighty-four. +011:019 Moreover the porters, Akkub, Talmon, and their brothers, + who kept watch at the gates, were one hundred seventy-two. +011:020 The residue of Israel, of the priests, the Levites, were in all + the cities of Judah, everyone in his inheritance. +011:021 But the Nethinim lived in Ophel: and Ziha and Gishpa were + over the Nethinim. +011:022 The overseer also of the Levites at Jerusalem was Uzzi the son + of Bani, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son + of Mica, of the sons of Asaph, the singers, over the business + of the house of God. +011:023 For there was a commandment from the king concerning them, + and a settled provision for the singers, as every day required. +011:024 Pethahiah the son of Meshezabel, of the children of Zerah + the son of Judah, was at the king's hand in all matters + concerning the people. +011:025 As for the villages, with their fields, some of the children + of Judah lived in Kiriath Arba and the towns of it, and in Dibon + and the towns of it, and in Jekabzeel and the villages of it, +011:026 and in Jeshua, and in Moladah, and Beth Pelet, +011:027 and in Hazar Shual, and in Beersheba and the towns of it, +011:028 and in Ziklag, and in Meconah and in the towns of it, +011:029 and in En Rimmon, and in Zorah, and in Jarmuth, +011:030 Zanoah, Adullam, and their villages, Lachish and the fields of it, + Azekah and the towns of it. So they encamped from Beersheba + to the valley of Hinnom. +011:031 The children of Benjamin also [lived] from Geba [onward], + at Michmash and Aija, and at Bethel and the towns of it, +011:032 at Anathoth, Nob, Ananiah, +011:033 Hazor, Ramah, Gittaim, +011:034 Hadid, Zeboim, Neballat, +011:035 Lod, and Ono, the valley of craftsmen. +011:036 Of the Levites, certain divisions in Judah [were joined] to Benjamin. +012:001 Now these are the priests and the Levites who went up with Zerubbabel + the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra, +012:002 Amariah, Malluch, Hattush, +012:003 Shecaniah, Rehum, Meremoth, +012:004 Iddo, Ginnethoi, Abijah, +012:005 Mijamin, Maadiah, Bilgah, +012:006 Shemaiah, and Joiarib, Jedaiah. +012:007 Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These were the chiefs of + the priests and of their brothers in the days of Jeshua. +012:008 Moreover the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, + [and] Mattaniah, who was over the thanksgiving, + he and his brothers. +012:009 Also Bakbukiah and Unno, their brothers, were over against them + according to their offices. +012:010 Jeshua became the father of Joiakim, and Joiakim became the father + of Eliashib, and Eliashib became the father of Joiada, +012:011 and Joiada became the father of Jonathan, and Jonathan became + the father of Jaddua. +012:012 In the days of Joiakim were priests, heads of fathers' + [houses]: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah; +012:013 of Ezra, Meshullam; of Amariah, Jehohanan; +012:014 of Malluchi, Jonathan; of Shebaniah, Joseph; +012:015 of Harim, Adna; of Meraioth, Helkai; +012:016 of Iddo, Zechariah; of Ginnethon, Meshullam; +012:017 of Abijah, Zichri; of Miniamin, of Moadiah, Piltai; +012:018 of Bilgah, Shammua; of Shemaiah, Jehonathan; +012:019 and of Joiarib, Mattenai; of Jedaiah, Uzzi; +012:020 of Sallai, Kallai; of Amok, Eber; +012:021 of Hilkiah, Hashabiah; of Jedaiah, Nethanel. +012:022 As for the Levites, in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, and Johanan, + and Jaddua, there were recorded the heads of fathers' [houses]; + also the priests, in the reign of Darius the Persian. +012:023 The sons of Levi, heads of fathers' [houses], were written + in the book of the chronicles, even until the days of Johanan + the son of Eliashib. +012:024 The chiefs of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua + the son of Kadmiel, with their brothers over against them, + to praise and give thanks, according to the commandment + of David the man of God, watch next to watch. +012:025 Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, + were porters keeping the watch at the storehouses of the gates. +012:026 These were in the days of Joiakim the son of Jeshua, + the son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the governor, + and of Ezra the priest the scribe. +012:027 At the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought + the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, + to keep the dedication with gladness, both with giving thanks, + and with singing, with cymbals, stringed instruments, + and with harps. +012:028 The sons of the singers gathered themselves together, both out + of the plain round about Jerusalem, and from the villages + of the Netophathites; +012:029 also from Beth Gilgal, and out of the fields of Geba and Azmaveth: + for the singers had built them villages round about Jerusalem. +012:030 The priests and the Levites purified themselves; and they + purified the people, and the gates, and the wall. +012:031 Then I brought up the princes of Judah on the wall, and appointed + two great companies who gave thanks and went in procession. + [One went] on the right hand on the wall toward the dung gate; +012:032 and after them went Hoshaiah, and half of the princes of Judah, +012:033 and Azariah, Ezra, and Meshullam, +012:034 Judah, and Benjamin, and Shemaiah, and Jeremiah, +012:035 and certain of the priests' sons with trumpets: + Zechariah the son of Jonathan, the son of Shemaiah, + the son of Mattaniah, the son of Micaiah, the son of Zaccur, + the son of Asaph; +012:036 and his brothers, Shemaiah, and Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, + Nethanel, and Judah, Hanani, with the musical instruments + of David the man of God; and Ezra the scribe was before them. +012:037 By the spring gate, and straight before them, they went up + by the stairs of the city of David, at the ascent of the wall, + above the house of David, even to the water gate eastward. +012:038 The other company of those who gave thanks went to meet them, + and I after them, with the half of the people, on the wall, + above the tower of the furnaces, even to the broad wall, +012:039 and above the gate of Ephraim, and by the old gate, and by the + fish gate, and the tower of Hananel, and the tower of Hammeah, + even to the sheep gate: and they stood still in the gate + of the guard. +012:040 So stood the two companies of those who gave thanks in the house + of God, and I, and the half of the rulers with me; +012:041 and the priests, Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Micaiah, Elioenai, + Zechariah, and Hananiah, with trumpets; +012:042 and Maaseiah, and Shemaiah, and Eleazar, and Uzzi, and Jehohanan, + and Malchijah, and Elam, and Ezer. The singers sang loud, + with Jezrahiah their overseer. +012:043 They offered great sacrifices that day, and rejoiced; + for God had made them rejoice with great joy; and the women + also and the children rejoiced: so that the joy of Jerusalem + was heard even afar off. +012:044 On that day were men appointed over the chambers for the treasures, + for the wave offerings, for the first fruits, and for the tithes, + to gather into them, according to the fields of the cities, + the portions appointed by the law for the priests and Levites: + for Judah rejoiced for the priests and for the Levites who waited. +012:045 They kept the charge of their God, and the charge of + the purification, and [so did] the singers and the porters, + according to the commandment of David, and of Solomon his son. +012:046 For in the days of David and Asaph of old there was a chief + of the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgiving to God. +012:047 All Israel in the days of Zerubbabel, and in the days + of Nehemiah, gave the portions of the singers and the porters, + as every day required: and they set apart [that which was] + for the Levites; and the Levites set apart [that which was] + for the sons of Aaron. +013:001 On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience + of the people; and therein was found written, that an Ammonite + and a Moabite should not enter into the assembly of God forever, +013:002 because they didn't meet the children of Israel with bread + and with water, but hired Balaam against them, to curse them: + however our God turned the curse into a blessing. +013:003 It came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they + separated from Israel all the mixed multitude. +013:004 Now before this, Eliashib the priest, who was appointed over + the chambers of the house of our God, being allied to Tobiah, +013:005 had prepared for him a great chamber, where before they laid + the meal offerings, the frankincense, and the vessels, + and the tithes of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, + which were given by commandment to the Levites, and the singers, + and the porters; and the wave offerings for the priests. +013:006 But in all this [time] I was not at Jerusalem; for in the two and + thirtieth year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I went to the king: + and after certain days asked I leave of the king, +013:007 and I came to Jerusalem, and understood the evil that Eliashib + had done for Tobiah, in preparing him a chamber in the courts + of the house of God. +013:008 It grieved me sore: therefore I cast forth all the household + stuff of Tobiah out of the chamber. +013:009 Then I commanded, and they cleansed the chambers: + and there brought I again the vessels of the house of God, + with the meal offerings and the frankincense. +013:010 I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been given them; + so that the Levites and the singers, who did the work, + were fled everyone to his field. +013:011 Then contended I with the rulers, and said, Why is the house + of God forsaken? I gathered them together, and set them + in their place. +013:012 Then brought all Judah the tithe of the grain and the new wine + and the oil to the treasuries. +013:013 I made treasurers over the treasuries, Shelemiah the priest, + and Zadok the scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah: and next + to them was Hanan the son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah; + for they were counted faithful, and their business was to + distribute to their brothers. +013:014 Remember me, my God, concerning this, and don't wipe out + my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, + and for the observances of it. +013:015 In those days saw I in Judah some men treading winepresses on + the Sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading donkeys [therewith]; + as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, + which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day: + and I testified [against them] in the day in which they sold food. +013:016 There lived men of Tyre also therein, who brought in fish, + and all manner of wares, and sold on the Sabbath to the children + of Judah, and in Jerusalem. +013:017 Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said to them, + What evil thing is this that you do, and profane the Sabbath day? +013:018 Didn't your fathers do thus, and did not our God bring all + this evil on us, and on this city? yet you bring more wrath + on Israel by profaning the Sabbath. +013:019 It came to pass that, when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark + before the Sabbath, I commanded that the doors should be shut, + and commanded that they should not be opened until after + the Sabbath: and some of my servants set I over the gates, + that there should no burden be brought in on the Sabbath day. +013:020 So the merchants and sellers of all kind of wares lodged + outside of Jerusalem once or twice. +013:021 Then I testified against them, and said to them, Why lodge you + about the wall? if you do so again, I will lay hands on you. + From that time forth came they no more on the Sabbath. +013:022 I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves, + and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify + the Sabbath day. Remember to me, my God, this also, and spare + me according to the greatness of your loving kindness. +013:023 In those days also saw I the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, + of Ammon, [and] of Moab: +013:024 and their children spoke half in the speech of Ashdod, + and could not speak in the Jews' language, but according + to the language of each people. +013:025 I contended with them, and cursed them, and struck certain + of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear + by God, [saying], You shall not give your daughters to their sons, + nor take their daughters for your sons, or for yourselves. +013:026 Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet + among many nations was there no king like him, and he was + beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: + nevertheless even him did foreign women cause to sin. +013:027 Shall we then listen to you to do all this great evil, + to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women? +013:028 One of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, + was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite: therefore I chased + him from me. +013:029 Remember them, my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, + and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites. +013:030 Thus cleansed I them from all foreigners, and appointed charges + for the priests and for the Levites, everyone in his work; +013:031 and for the wood offering, at times appointed, and for the + first fruits. Remember me, my God, for good. +Book 17 Esther +001:001 Now it happened in the days of Ahasuerus (this is Ahasuerus + who reigned from India even to Ethiopia, over one + hundred twenty-seven provinces), +001:002 that in those days, when the King Ahasuerus sat on the throne + of his kingdom, which was in Shushan the palace, +001:003 in the third year of his reign, he made a feast for all his + princes and his servants; the power of Persia and Media, + the nobles and princes of the provinces, being before him. +001:004 He displayed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the honor + of his excellent majesty many days, even one hundred eighty days. +001:005 When these days were fulfilled, the king made a seven day + feast for all the people who were present in Shushan + the palace, both great and small, in the court of the garden + of the king's palace. +001:006 There were hangings of white, green, and blue material, + fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings + and marble pillars. The couches were of gold and silver, + on a pavement of red, white, yellow, and black marble. +001:007 They gave them drinks in golden vessels of various kinds, + including royal wine in abundance, according to the bounty + of the king. +001:008 In accordance with the law, the drinking was not compulsory; + for so the king had instructed all the officials of his house, + that they should do according to every man's pleasure. +001:009 Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal + house which belonged to King Ahasuerus. +001:010 On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry + with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, + and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcass, the seven eunuchs who served + in the presence of Ahasuerus the king, +001:011 to bring Vashti the queen before the king with the royal crown, + to show the people and the princes her beauty; + for she was beautiful. +001:012 But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king's commandment + by the eunuchs. Therefore the king was very angry, and his + anger burned in him. +001:013 Then the king said to the wise men, who knew the times, + (for it was the king's custom to consult those who knew + law and judgment; +001:014 and the next to him were Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, + Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, + who saw the king's face, and sat first in the kingdom), +001:015 "What shall we do to the queen Vashti according to law, + because she has not done the bidding of the King Ahasuerus + by the eunuchs?" +001:016 Memucan answered before the king and the princes, + "Vashti the queen has not done wrong to just the king, + but also to all the princes, and to all the people who are + in all the provinces of the King Ahasuerus. +001:017 For this deed of the queen will become known to all women, + causing them to show contempt for their husbands, when it + is reported, 'King Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen + to be brought in before him, but she didn't come.' +001:018 Today, the princesses of Persia and Media who have heard + of the queen's deed will tell all the king's princes. + This will cause much contempt and wrath. +001:019 If it please the king, let a royal commandment go from him, + and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, + so that it cannot be altered, that Vashti may never again + come before King Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal + estate to another who is better than she. +001:020 When the king's decree which he shall make is published + throughout all his kingdom (for it is great), all the wives + will give their husbands honor, both great and small." +001:021 This advice pleased the king and the princes, and the king + did according to the word of Memucan: +001:022 for he sent letters into all the king's provinces, into every + province according to its writing, and to every people + in their language, that every man should rule his own house, + speaking in the language of his own people. +002:001 After these things, when the wrath of King Ahasuerus was pacified, + he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was + decreed against her. +002:002 Then the king's servants who served him said, "Let beautiful + young virgins be sought for the king. +002:003 Let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, + that they may gather together all the beautiful young + virgins to the citadel of Susa, to the women's house, + to the custody of Hegai the king's eunuch, keeper of the women. + Let cosmetics be given them; +002:004 and let the maiden who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti." + The thing pleased the king, and he did so. +002:005 There was a certain Jew in the citadel of Susa, whose name + was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son + of Kish, a Benjamite, +002:006 who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captives + who had been carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, + whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away. +002:007 He brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter; + for she had neither father nor mother. The maiden was fair + and beautiful; and when her father and mother were dead, + Mordecai took her for his own daughter. +002:008 So it happened, when the king's commandment and his decree + was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together + to the citadel of Susa, to the custody of Hegai, that Esther + was taken into the king's house, to the custody of Hegai, + keeper of the women. +002:009 The maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness from him. + He quickly gave her cosmetics and her portions of food, + and the seven choice maidens who were to be given her out + of the king's house. He moved her and her maidens to the best + place in the women's house. +002:010 Esther had not made known her people nor her relatives, + because Mordecai had instructed her that she should not + make it known. +002:011 Mordecai walked every day in front of the court of the women's house, + to find out how Esther did, and what would become of her. +002:012 Each young woman's turn came to go in to King Ahasuerus after + her purification for twelve months (for so were the days of + their purification accomplished, six months with oil of myrrh, + and six months with sweet fragrances and with preparations + for beautifying women). +002:013 The young woman then came to the king like this: whatever she + desired was given her to go with her out of the women's house + to the king's house. +002:014 In the evening she went, and on the next day she returned + into the second women's house, to the custody of Shaashgaz, + the king's eunuch, who kept the concubines. She came + in to the king no more, unless the king delighted in her, + and she was called by name. +002:015 Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle + of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, came to go in to + the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king's eunuch, + the keeper of the women, advised. Esther obtained favor + in the sight of all those who looked at her. +002:016 So Esther was taken to King Ahasuerus into his royal house + in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh + year of his reign. +002:017 The king loved Esther more than all the women, and she obtained + favor and kindness in his sight more than all the virgins; + so that he set the royal crown on her head, and made her queen + instead of Vashti. +002:018 Then the king made a great feast for all his princes and his servants, + even Esther's feast; and he proclaimed a holiday in the provinces, + and gave gifts according to the king's bounty. +002:019 When the virgins were gathered together the second time, + Mordecai was sitting in the king's gate. +002:020 Esther had not yet made known her relatives nor her people, + as Mordecai had charged her; for Esther obeyed Mordecai, + like she did when she was brought up by him. +002:021 In those days, while Mordecai was sitting in the king's gate, + two of the king's eunuchs, Bigthan and Teresh, who were doorkeepers, + were angry, and sought to lay hands on the King Ahasuerus. +002:022 This thing became known to Mordecai, who informed Esther the queen; + and Esther informed the king in Mordecai's name. +002:023 When this matter was investigated, and it was found to be so, + they were both hanged on a tree; and it was written in the book + of the chronicles in the king's presence. +003:001 After these things King Ahasuerus promoted Haman the son + of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat + above all the princes who were with him. +003:002 All the king's servants who were in the king's gate bowed down, + and paid homage to Haman; for the king had so commanded + concerning him. But Mordecai didn't bow down or pay him homage. +003:003 Then the king's servants, who were in the king's gate, + said to Mordecai, "Why do you disobey the king's commandment?" +003:004 Now it came to pass, when they spoke daily to him, and he didn't + listen to them, that they told Haman, to see whether Mordecai's + reason would stand; for he had told them that he was a Jew. +003:005 When Haman saw that Mordecai didn't bow down, nor pay him homage, + Haman was full of wrath. +003:006 But he scorned the thought of laying hands on Mordecai alone, + for they had made known to him Mordecai's people. + Therefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews who were throughout + the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even the Mordecai's people. +003:007 In the first month, which is the month Nisan, in the twelfth + year of King Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, + before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, + and chose the twelfth month, which is the month Adar. +003:008 Haman said to King Ahasuerus, "There is a certain people + scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all + the provinces of your kingdom, and their laws are different + than other people's. They don't keep the king's laws. + Therefore it is not for the king's profit to allow them to remain. +003:009 If it pleases the king, let it be written that they be destroyed; + and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands + of those who are in charge of the king's business, to bring + it into the king's treasuries." +003:010 The king took his ring from his hand, and gave it to Haman + the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews' enemy. +003:011 The king said to Haman, "The silver is given to you, + the people also, to do with them as it seems good to you." +003:012 Then the king's scribes were called in on the first month, + on the thirteenth day of the month; and all that Haman commanded + was written to the king's satraps, and to the governors who + were over every province, and to the princes of every people, + to every province according its writing, and to every people + in their language. It was written in the name of King Ahasuerus, + and it was sealed with the king's ring. +003:013 Letters were sent by couriers into all the king's provinces, + to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, + both young and old, little children and women, in one day, + even on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is + the month Adar, and to plunder their possessions. +003:014 A copy of the letter, that the decree should be given + out in every province, was published to all the peoples, + that they should be ready against that day. +003:015 The couriers went forth in haste by the king's commandment, + and the decree was given out in the citadel of Susa. + The king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city of + Shushan was perplexed. +004:001 Now when Mordecai found out all that was done, Mordecai tore + his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out + into the midst of the city, and wailed loudly and a bitterly. +004:002 He came even before the king's gate, for no one is allowed + inside the king's gate clothed with sackcloth. +004:003 In every province, wherever the king's commandment and his + decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, + and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes. +004:004 Esther's maidens and her eunuchs came and told her this, + and the queen was exceedingly grieved. She sent clothing + to Mordecai, to replace his sackcloth; but he didn't receive it. +004:005 Then Esther called for Hathach, one of the king's eunuchs, + whom he had appointed to attend her, and commanded him to go + to Mordecai, to find out what this was, and why it was. +004:006 So Hathach went out to Mordecai, to city square which was + before the king's gate. +004:007 Mordecai told him of all that had happened to him, and the exact + sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the king's + treasuries for the destruction of the Jews. +004:008 He also gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was + given out in Shushan to destroy them, to show it to Esther, + and to declare it to her, and to urge her to go in to the king, + to make supplication to him, and to make request before him, + for her people. +004:009 Hathach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai. +004:010 Then Esther spoke to Hathach, and gave him a message to Mordecai: +004:011 "All the king's servants, and the people of the king's provinces, + know, that whoever, whether man or woman, comes to the king + into the inner court without being called, there is one law + for him, that he be put to death, except those to whom + the king might hold out the golden scepter, that he may live. + I have not been called to come in to the king these thirty days." +004:012 They told to Mordecai Esther's words. +004:013 Then Mordecai asked them return answer to Esther, "Don't think + to yourself that you will escape in the king's house any more + than all the Jews. +004:014 For if you remain silent now, then relief and deliverance + will come to the Jews from another place, but you and your + father's house will perish. Who knows if you haven't come + to the kingdom for such a time as this?" +004:015 Then Esther asked them to answer Mordecai, +004:016 "Go, gather together all the Jews who are present in Shushan, + and fast for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, + night or day. I and my maidens will also fast the same way. + Then I will go in to the king, which is against the law; + and if I perish, I perish." +004:017 So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that Esther + had commanded him. +005:001 Now it happened on the third day that Esther put on her + royal clothing, and stood in the inner court of the king's house, + next to the king's house. The king sat on his royal throne + in the royal house, next to the entrance of the house. +005:002 When the king saw Esther the queen standing in the court, + she obtained favor in his sight; and the king held + out to Esther the golden scepter that was in his hand. + So Esther came near, and touched the top of the scepter. +005:003 Then the king asked her, "What would you like, queen Esther? What is + your request? It shall be given you even to the half + of the kingdom." +005:004 Esther said, "If it seems good to the king, let the king and Haman + come today to the banquet that I have prepared for him." +005:005 Then the king said, "Bring Haman quickly, so that it may be done + as Esther has said." So the king and Haman came to the banquet + that Esther had prepared. +005:006 The king said to Esther at the banquet of wine, "What is + your petition? It shall be granted you. What is your request? + Even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed." +005:007 Then Esther answered and said, "My petition and my request is this. +005:008 If I have found favor in the sight of the king, and if it please + the king to grant my petition and to perform my request, + let the king and Haman come to the banquet that I will prepare + for them, and I will do tomorrow as the king has said." +005:009 Then Haman went out that day joyful and glad of heart, but when + Haman saw Mordecai in the king's gate, that he didn't stand up + nor move for him, he was filled with wrath against Mordecai. +005:010 Nevertheless Haman restrained himself, and went home. + There, he sent and called for his friends and Zeresh his wife. +005:011 Haman recounted to them the glory of his riches, the multitude + of his children, all the things in which the king had promoted him, + and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants + of the king. +005:012 Haman also said, "Yes, Esther the queen let no man come in with + the king to the banquet that she had prepared but myself; + and tomorrow I am also invited by her together with the king. +005:013 Yet all this avails me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai + the Jew sitting at the king's gate." +005:014 Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, + "Let a gallows be made fifty cubits high, and in the + morning speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on it. + Then go in merrily with the king to the banquet." + This pleased Haman, so he had the gallows made. +006:001 On that night, the king couldn't sleep. He commanded the book + of records of the chronicles to be brought, and they were read + to the king. +006:002 It was found written that Mordecai had told of Bigthana + and Teresh, two of the king's eunuchs, who were doorkeepers, + who had tried to lay hands on the King Ahasuerus. +006:003 The king said, "What honor and dignity has been bestowed on + Mordecai for this?" Then the king's servants who attended + him said, "Nothing has been done for him." +006:004 The king said, "Who is in the court?" Now Haman had come into + the outer court of the king's house, to speak to the king about + hanging Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him. +006:005 The king's servants said to him, "Behold, Haman stands in the court." + The king said, "Let him come in." +006:006 So Haman came in. The king said to him, "What shall + be done to the man whom the king delights to honor?" + Now Haman said in his heart, "Who would the king delight + to honor more than myself?" +006:007 Haman said to the king, "For the man whom the king delights to honor, +006:008 let royal clothing be brought which the king uses to wear, + and the horse that the king rides on, and on the head + of which a crown royal is set. +006:009 Let the clothing and the horse be delivered to the hand + of one of the king's most noble princes, that they may + array the man whom the king delights to honor with them, + and have him ride on horseback through the city square, + and proclaim before him, 'Thus shall it be done to the man + whom the king delights to honor!'" +006:010 Then the king said to Haman, "Hurry and take the clothing and + the horse, as you have said, and do this for Mordecai the Jew, + who sits at the king's gate. Let nothing fail of all that + you have spoken." +006:011 Then Haman took the clothing and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, + and had him ride through the city square, and proclaimed + before him, "Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king + delights to honor!" +006:012 Mordecai came back to the king's gate, but Haman hurried + to his house, mourning and having his head covered. +006:013 Haman recounted to Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything + that had happened to him. Then his wise men and Zeresh his wife + said to him, "If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, + is of Jewish descent, you will not prevail against him, + but you will surely fall before him." +006:014 While they were yet talking with him, the king's eunuchs came, + and hurried to bring Haman to the banquet that Esther had prepared. +007:001 So the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther the queen. +007:002 The king said again to Esther on the second day at the banquet + of wine, "What is your petition, queen Esther? It shall + be granted you. What is your request? Even to the half + of the kingdom it shall be performed." +007:003 Then Esther the queen answered, "If I have found favor in your sight, + O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me + at my petition, and my people at my request. +007:004 For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, + and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondservants + and bondmaids, I would have held my peace, although the adversary + could not have compensated for the king's loss." +007:005 Then King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen, "Who is he, + and where is he who dared presume in his heart to do so?" +007:006 Esther said, "An adversary and an enemy, even this + wicked Haman!" Then Haman was afraid before the king + and the queen. +007:007 The king arose in his wrath from the banquet of wine and went + into the palace garden. Haman stood up to make request + for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was + evil determined against him by the king. +007:008 Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place + of the banquet of wine; and Haman had fallen on the couch + where Esther was. Then the king said, "Will he even assault + the queen in front of me in the house?" As the word went + out of the king's mouth, they covered Haman's face. +007:009 Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs who were with the king said, + "Behold, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman has + made for Mordecai, who spoke good for the king, is standing + at Haman's house." The king said, "Hang him on it!" +007:010 So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared + for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified. +008:001 On that day, King Ahasuerus gave the house of Haman, the Jews' + enemy, to Esther the queen. Mordecai came before the king; + for Esther had told what he was to her. +008:002 The king took off his ring, which he had taken from Haman, + and gave it to Mordecai. Esther set Mordecai over the + house of Haman. +008:003 Esther spoke yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet, + and begged him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman + the Agagite, and his device that he had devised against the Jews. +008:004 Then the king held out to Esther the golden scepter. + So Esther arose, and stood before the king. +008:005 She said, "If it pleases the king, and if I have found favor + in his sight, and the thing seem right to the king, and I am + pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters + devised by Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote + to destroy the Jews who are in all the king's provinces. +008:006 For how can I endure to see the evil that would come to my people? + How can I endure to see the destruction of my relatives?" +008:007 Then King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen and to Mordecai + the Jew, "See, I have given Esther the house of Haman, + and him they have hanged on the gallows, because he laid + his hand on the Jews. +008:008 Write also to the Jews, as it pleases you, in the king's name, + and seal it with the king's ring; for the writing which is + written in the king's name, and sealed with the king's ring, + may not be reversed by any man." +008:009 Then the king's scribes were called at that time, in the third + month Sivan, on the twenty-third day of the month; + and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded + to the Jews, and to the satraps, and the governors and + princes of the provinces which are from India to Ethiopia, + one hundred twenty-seven provinces, to every province according + to its writing, and to every people in their language, + and to the Jews in their writing, and in their language. +008:010 He wrote in the name of King Ahasuerus, and sealed it with + the king's ring, and sent letters by courier on horseback, + riding on royal horses that were bread from swift steeds. +008:011 In those letters, the king granted the Jews who were in every + city to gather themselves together, and to defend their life, + to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all the power + of the people and province that would assault them, their little + ones and women, and to plunder their possessions, +008:012 on one day in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, on the thirteenth + day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar. +008:013 A copy of the letter, that the decree should be given + out in every province, was published to all the peoples, + that the Jews should be ready for that day to avenge themselves + on their enemies. +008:014 So the couriers who rode on royal horses went out, + hastened and pressed on by the king's commandment. + The decree was given out in the citadel of Susa. +008:015 Mordecai went out of the presence of the king in royal + clothing of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, + and with a robe of fine linen and purple; and the city of Susa + shouted and was glad. +008:016 The Jews had light, gladness, joy, and honor. +008:017 In every province, and in every city, wherever the king's commandment + and his decree came, the Jews had gladness, joy, a feast, + and a good day. Many from among the peoples of the land + became Jews; for the fear of the Jews was fallen on them. +009:001 Now in the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, + on the thirteenth day of the month, when the king's + commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, + on the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to conquer them, + (but it was turned out the opposite happened, that the Jews + conquered those who hated them), +009:002 the Jews gathered themselves together in their cities throughout + all the provinces of the King Ahasuerus, to lay hands on + those who wanted to harm them. No one could withstand them, + because the fear of them had fallen on all the people. +009:003 All the princes of the provinces, the satraps, the governors, + and those who did the king's business helped the Jews, + because the fear of Mordecai had fallen on them. +009:004 For Mordecai was great in the king's house, and his fame went + out throughout all the provinces; for the man Mordecai grew + greater and greater. +009:005 The Jews struck all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, + and with slaughter and destruction, and did what they wanted + to those who hated them. +009:006 In the citadel of Susa, the Jews killed and destroyed + five hundred men. +009:007 They killed Parshandatha, Dalphon, Aspatha, +009:008 Poratha, Adalia, Aridatha, +009:009 Parmashta, Arisai, Aridai, and Vaizatha, +009:010 the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Jew's enemy, + but they didn't lay their hand on the plunder. +009:011 On that day, the number of those who were slain in the citadel + of Susa was brought before the king. +009:012 The king said to Esther the queen, "The Jews have slain + and destroyed five hundred men in the citadel of Susa, + including the ten sons of Haman; what then have they done in + the rest of the king's provinces! Now what is your petition? + It shall be granted you. What is your further request? + It shall be done." +009:013 Then Esther said, "If it pleases the king, let it be granted + to the Jews who are in Shushan to do tomorrow also according + to this day's decree, and let Haman's ten sons be hanged + on the gallows." +009:014 The king commanded this to be done. A decree was given out + in Shushan; and they hanged Haman's ten sons. +009:015 The Jews who were in Shushan gathered themselves together + on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and killed + three hundred men in Shushan; but they didn't lay their hand + on the spoil. +009:016 The other Jews who were in the king's provinces gathered themselves + together, defended their lives, had rest from their enemies, + and killed seventy-five thousand of those who hated them; + but they didn't lay their hand on the plunder. +009:017 This was done on the thirteenth day of the month Adar; + and on the fourteenth day of that month they rested and made + it a day of feasting and gladness. +009:018 But the Jews who were in Shushan assembled together on + the thirteenth and on the fourteenth days of the month; + and on the fifteenth day of that month, they rested, + and made it a day of feasting and gladness. +009:019 Therefore the Jews of the villages, who live in the unwalled towns, + make the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness + and feasting, a good day, and a day of sending presents + of food to one another. +009:020 Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters to all the Jews + who were in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, + both near and far, +009:021 to enjoin them that they should keep the fourteenth and fifteenth + days of the month Adar yearly, +009:022 as the days in which the Jews had rest from their enemies, + and the month which was turned to them from sorrow to gladness, + and from mourning into a good day; that they should make + them days of feasting and gladness, and of sending presents + of food to one another, and gifts to the needy. +009:023 The Jews accepted the custom that they had begun, as Mordecai + had written to them; +009:024 because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy + of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them, + and had cast "Pur," that is the lot, to consume them, + and to destroy them; +009:025 but when this became known to the king, he commanded by letters + that his wicked device, which he had devised against the Jews, + should return on his own head, and that he and his sons + should be hanged on the gallows. +009:026 Therefore they called these days "Purim,{Purim is the Hebrew + plural for pur, which means lot.}" from the word "Pur." + Therefore because of all the words of this letter, + and of that which they had seen concerning this matter, + and that which had come to them, +009:027 the Jews established, and imposed on themselves, and on + their descendants, and on all those who joined themselves + to them, so that it should not fail, that they would keep + these two days according to what was written, and according + to its appointed time, every year; +009:028 and that these days should be remembered and kept throughout + every generation, every family, every province, and every city; + and that these days of Purim should not fail from among the Jews, + nor the memory of them perish from their seed. +009:029 Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai + the Jew, wrote with all authority to confirm this second + letter of Purim. +009:030 He sent letters to all the Jews, to the hundred twenty-seven + provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, with words of + peace and truth, +009:031 to confirm these days of Purim in their appointed times, + as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had decreed, + and as they had imposed upon themselves and their descendants, + in the matter of the fastings and their cry. +009:032 The commandment of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim; + and it was written in the book. +010:001 King Ahasuerus laid a tribute on the land, and on the islands + of the sea. +010:002 All the acts of his power and of his might, and the full account + of the greatness of Mordecai, to which the king advanced him, + aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings + of Media and Persia? +010:003 For Mordecai the Jew was next to King Ahasuerus, and great among + the Jews, and accepted by the multitude of his brothers, + seeking the good of his people, and speaking peace to + all his descendants. +Book 18 Job +001:001 There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. + That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, + and turned away from evil. +001:002 There were born to him seven sons and three daughters. +001:003 His possessions also were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, + five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, + and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest + of all the children of the east. +001:004 His sons went and held a feast in the house of each one on + his birthday; and they sent and called for their three sisters + to eat and to drink with them. +001:005 It was so, when the days of their feasting had run their course, + that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, + and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. + For Job said, "It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced + God in their hearts." Thus did Job continually. +001:006 Now it happened on the day when the God's sons came to present + themselves before Yahweh, that Satan also came among them. +001:007 Yahweh said to Satan, "Where have you come from?" + Then Satan answered Yahweh, and said, "From going back and forth + in the earth, and from walking up and down in it." +001:008 Yahweh said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant, Job? For there + is none like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, + one who fears God, and turns away from evil." +001:009 Then Satan answered Yahweh, and said, "Does Job fear + God for nothing? +001:010 Haven't you made a hedge around him, and around his house, + and around all that he has, on every side? You have blessed + the work of his hands, and his substance is increased + in the land. +001:011 But put forth your hand now, and touch all that he has, + and he will renounce you to your face." +001:012 Yahweh said to Satan, "Behold, all that he has is in your power. + Only on himself don't put forth your hand." So Satan went + forth from the presence of Yahweh. +001:013 It fell on a day when his sons and his daughters were eating + and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house, +001:014 that there came a messenger to Job, and said, "The oxen + were plowing, and the donkeys feeding beside them, +001:015 and the Sabeans attacked, and took them away. Yes, they have + killed the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone + have escaped to tell you." +001:016 While he was still speaking, there also came another, and said, + "The fire of God has fallen from the sky, and has burned up + the sheep and the servants, and consumed them, and I alone + have escaped to tell you." +001:017 While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, + "The Chaldeans made three bands, and swept down on the camels, + and have taken them away, yes, and killed the servants with + the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you." +001:018 While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, + "Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine + in their eldest brother's house, +001:019 and behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and struck + the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young men, + and they are dead. I alone have escaped to tell you." +001:020 Then Job arose, and tore his robe, and shaved his head, + and fell down on the ground, and worshiped. +001:021 He said, "Naked I came out of my mother's womb, and naked shall + I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. + Blessed be the name of Yahweh." +001:022 In all this, Job did not sin, nor charge God with wrongdoing. +002:001 Again it happened on the day when the God's sons came to present + themselves before Yahweh, that Satan came also among them + to present himself before Yahweh. +002:002 Yahweh said to Satan, "Where have you come from?" + Satan answered Yahweh, and said, "From going back and forth + in the earth, and from walking up and down in it." +002:003 Yahweh said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? For there + is none like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, + one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still + maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, + to ruin him without cause." +002:004 Satan answered Yahweh, and said, "Skin for skin. Yes, all that + a man has he will give for his life. +002:005 But put forth your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, + and he will renounce you to your face." +002:006 Yahweh said to Satan, "Behold, he is in your hand. + Only spare his life." +002:007 So Satan went forth from the presence of Yahweh, and struck Job + with painful sores from the sole of his foot to his head. +002:008 He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, + and he sat among the ashes. +002:009 Then his wife said to him, "Do you still maintain your integrity? + Renounce God, and die." +002:010 But he said to her, "You speak as one of the foolish women + would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, + and shall we not receive evil?" In all this Job didn't sin + with his lips. +002:011 Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil + that had come on him, they each came from his own place: + Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, + and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize + with him and to comfort him. +002:012 When they lifted up their eyes from a distance, and didn't + recognize him, they raised their voices, and wept; + and they each tore his robe, and sprinkled dust on their heads + toward the sky. +002:013 So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, + and none spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief + was very great. +003:001 After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth. +003:002 Job answered: +003:003 "Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, + 'There is a boy conceived.' +003:004 Let that day be darkness. Don't let God from above seek for it, + neither let the light shine on it. +003:005 Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. + Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black + the day terrify it. +003:006 As for that night, let thick darkness seize on it. + Let it not rejoice among the days of the year. + Let it not come into the number of the months. +003:007 Behold, let that night be barren. Let no joyful voice come therein. +003:008 Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to + rouse up leviathan. +003:009 Let the stars of the twilight of it be dark. Let it look + for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids + of the morning, +003:010 because it didn't shut up the doors of my mother's womb, + nor did it hide trouble from my eyes. +003:011 "Why didn't I die from the womb? Why didn't I give up the spirit + when my mother bore me? +003:012 Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, + that I should suck? +003:013 For now should I have lain down and been quiet. + I should have slept, then I would have been at rest, +003:014 with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste + places for themselves; +003:015 or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver: +003:016 or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants + who never saw light. +003:017 There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary + are at rest. +003:018 There the prisoners are at ease together. They don't hear + the voice of the taskmaster. +003:019 The small and the great are there. The servant is free + from his master. +003:020 "Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the + bitter in soul, +003:021 Who long for death, but it doesn't come; and dig for it more + than for hidden treasures, +003:022 who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can + find the grave? +003:023 Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, whom God + has hedged in? +003:024 For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured + out like water. +003:025 For the thing which I fear comes on me, That which I am afraid + of comes to me. +003:026 I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest; + but trouble comes." +004:001 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, +004:002 "If someone ventures to talk with you, will you be grieved? + But who can withhold himself from speaking? +004:003 Behold, you have instructed many, you have strengthened + the weak hands. +004:004 Your words have supported him who was falling, You have made + firm the feeble knees. +004:005 But now it is come to you, and you faint. It touches you, + and you are troubled. +004:006 Isn't your piety your confidence? Isn't the integrity of your + ways your hope? +004:007 "Remember, now, whoever perished, being innocent? + Or where were the upright cut off? +004:008 According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity, + and sow trouble, reap the same. +004:009 By the breath of God they perish. By the blast of his anger + are they consumed. +004:010 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, + the teeth of the young lions, are broken. +004:011 The old lion perishes for lack of prey. The cubs of the lioness + are scattered abroad. +004:012 "Now a thing was secretly brought to me. My ear received + a whisper of it. +004:013 In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep + falls on men, +004:014 fear came on me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake. +004:015 Then a spirit passed before my face. The hair of my + flesh stood up. +004:016 It stood still, but I couldn't discern its appearance. + A form was before my eyes. Silence, then I heard a voice, saying, +004:017 'Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more + pure than his Maker? +004:018 Behold, he puts no trust in his servants. He charges his + angels with error. +004:019 How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation + is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth! +004:020 Between morning and evening they are destroyed. + They perish forever without any regarding it. +004:021 Isn't their tent cord plucked up within them? They die, + and that without wisdom.' +005:001 "Call now; is there any who will answer you? To which of the holy + ones will you turn? +005:002 For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple. +005:003 I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly I + cursed his habitation. +005:004 His children are far from safety. They are crushed in the gate. + Neither is there any to deliver them, +005:005 whose harvest the hungry eats up, and take it even out of the thorns. + The snare gapes for their substance. +005:006 For affliction doesn't come forth from the dust, neither does + trouble spring out of the ground; +005:007 but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward. +005:008 "But as for me, I would seek God. I would commit my cause to God, +005:009 who does great things that can't be fathomed, marvelous + things without number; +005:010 who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields; +005:011 so that he sets up on high those who are low, those who mourn + are exalted to safety. +005:012 He frustrates the devices of the crafty, So that their hands + can't perform their enterprise. +005:013 He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel + of the cunning is carried headlong. +005:014 They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday + as in the night. +005:015 But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy + from the hand of the mighty. +005:016 So the poor has hope, and injustice shuts her mouth. +005:017 "Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do + not despise the chastening of the Almighty. +005:018 For he wounds, and binds up. He injures, and his hands make whole. +005:019 He will deliver you in six troubles; yes, in seven there shall + no evil touch you. +005:020 In famine he will redeem you from death; in war, from the power + of the sword. +005:021 You shall be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, neither shall + you be afraid of destruction when it comes. +005:022 At destruction and famine you shall laugh, neither shall you + be afraid of the animals of the earth. +005:023 For you shall be in league with the stones of the field. + The animals of the field shall be at peace with you. +005:024 You shall know that your tent is in peace. You shall visit + your fold, and shall miss nothing. +005:025 You shall know also that your seed shall be great, Your offspring + as the grass of the earth. +005:026 You shall come to your grave in a full age, like a shock + of grain comes in its season. +005:027 Look this, we have searched it, so it is. Hear it, and know + it for your good." +006:001 Then Job answered, +006:002 "Oh that my anguish were weighed, and all my calamity laid + in the balances! +006:003 For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas, + therefore have my words been rash. +006:004 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit + drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves + in array against me. +006:005 Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass? Or does the ox + low over his fodder? +006:006 Can that which has no flavor be eaten without salt? + Or is there any taste in the white of an egg? +006:007 My soul refuses to touch them. They are as loathsome food to me. +006:008 "Oh that I might have my request, that God would grant the thing + that I long for, +006:009 even that it would please God to crush me; that he would let + loose his hand, and cut me off! +006:010 Be it still my consolation, yes, let me exult in pain that + doesn't spare, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One. +006:011 What is my strength, that I should wait? What is my end, + that I should be patient? +006:012 Is my strength the strength of stones? Or is my flesh of brass? +006:013 Isn't it that I have no help in me, That wisdom is driven + quite from me? +006:014 "To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from + his friend; even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty. +006:015 My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a brook, as the channel + of brooks that pass away; +006:016 Which are black by reason of the ice, in which the snow hides itself. +006:017 In the dry season, they vanish. When it is hot, they are + consumed out of their place. +006:018 The caravans that travel beside them turn aside. + They go up into the waste, and perish. +006:019 The caravans of Tema looked. The companies of Sheba + waited for them. +006:020 They were distressed because they were confident. + They came there, and were confounded. +006:021 For now you are nothing. You see a terror, and are afraid. +006:022 Did I say, 'Give to me?' or, 'Offer a present for me + from your substance?' +006:023 or, 'Deliver me from the adversary's hand?' or, 'Redeem me + from the hand of the oppressors?' +006:024 "Teach me, and I will hold my peace. Cause me to understand + wherein I have erred. +006:025 How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, + what does it reprove? +006:026 Do you intend to reprove words, seeing that the speeches + of one who is desperate are as wind? +006:027 Yes, you would even cast lots for the fatherless, and make + merchandise of your friend. +006:028 Now therefore be pleased to look at me, for surely I shall + not lie to your face. +006:029 Please return. Let there be no injustice. Yes, return again. + My cause is righteous. +006:030 Is there injustice on my tongue? Can't my taste + discern mischievous things? +007:001 "Isn't a man forced to labor on earth? Aren't his days + like the days of a hired hand? +007:002 As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow, as a hireling + who looks for his wages, +007:003 so am I made to possess months of misery, wearisome nights + are appointed to me. +007:004 When I lie down, I say, 'When shall I arise, and the night be gone?' + I toss and turn until the dawning of the day. +007:005 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. + My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh. +007:006 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are + spent without hope. +007:007 Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye shall no + more see good. +007:008 The eye of him who sees me shall see me no more. + Your eyes shall be on me, but I shall not be. +007:009 As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes + down to Sheol shall come up no more. +007:010 He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place + know him any more. +007:011 "Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish + of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. +007:012 Am I a sea, or a sea monster, that you put a guard over me? +007:013 When I say, 'My bed shall comfort me. My couch shall + ease my complaint;' +007:014 then you scare me with dreams, and terrify me through visions: +007:015 so that my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my bones. +007:016 I loathe my life. I don't want to live forever. + Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath. +007:017 What is man, that you should magnify him, that you should set + your mind on him, +007:018 that you should visit him every morning, and test him every moment? +007:019 How long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone + until I swallow down my spittle? +007:020 If I have sinned, what do I do to you, you watcher of men? + Why have you set me as a mark for you, so that I am + a burden to myself? +007:021 Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? + For now shall I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, + but I shall not be." +008:001 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered, +008:002 "How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your + mouth be a mighty wind? +008:003 Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty + pervert righteousness? +008:004 If your children have sinned against him, He has delivered + them into the hand of their disobedience. +008:005 If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication + to the Almighty. +008:006 If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, + and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous. +008:007 Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end + would greatly increase. +008:008 "Please inquire of past generations. Find out about the learning + of their fathers. +008:009 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our + days on earth are a shadow.) +008:010 Shall they not teach you, tell you, and utter words out + of their heart? +008:011 "Can the papyrus grow up without mire? Can the rushes + grow without water? +008:012 While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers + before any other reed. +008:013 So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless + man shall perish, +008:014 Whose confidence shall break apart, Whose trust is a spider's web. +008:015 He shall lean on his house, but it shall not stand. + He shall cling to it, but it shall not endure. +008:016 He is green before the sun. His shoots go forth over his garden. +008:017 His roots are wrapped around the rock pile. He sees + the place of stones. +008:018 If he is destroyed from his place, then it shall deny him, + saying, 'I have not seen you.' +008:019 Behold, this is the joy of his way: out of the earth, + others shall spring. +008:020 "Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man, neither will + he uphold the evil-doers. +008:021 He will still fill your mouth with laughter, your lips with shouting. +008:022 Those who hate you shall be clothed with shame. + The tent of the wicked shall be no more." +009:001 Then Job answered, +009:002 "Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God? +009:003 If he is pleased to contend with him, he can't answer him + one time in a thousand. +009:004 God who is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: + who has hardened himself against him, and prospered? +009:005 He removes the mountains, and they don't know it, when he overturns + them in his anger. +009:006 He shakes the earth out of its place. Its pillars tremble. +009:007 He commands the sun, and it doesn't rise, and seals up the stars. +009:008 He alone stretches out the heavens, and treads on the waves + of the sea. +009:009 He makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the chambers + of the south. +009:010 He does great things past finding out; yes, marvelous + things without number. +009:011 Behold, he goes by me, and I don't see him. He passes on also, + but I don't perceive him. +009:012 Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, + 'What are you doing?' +009:013 "God will not withdraw his anger. The helpers of Rahab + stoop under him. +009:014 How much less shall I answer him, And choose my words to + argue with him? +009:015 Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn't answer him. + I would make supplication to my judge. +009:016 If I had called, and he had answered me, yet I wouldn't believe + that he listened to my voice. +009:017 For he breaks me with a storm, and multiplies my + wounds without cause. +009:018 He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills + me with bitterness. +009:019 If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty! + If of justice, 'Who,' says he, 'will summon me?' +009:020 Though I am righteous, my own mouth shall condemn me. + Though I am blameless, it shall prove me perverse. +009:021 I am blameless. I don't regard myself. I despise my life. +009:022 "It is all the same. Therefore I say he destroys the blameless + and the wicked. +009:023 If the scourge kills suddenly, he will mock at the trial + of the innocent. +009:024 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. + He covers the faces of the judges of it. If not he, + then who is it? +009:025 "Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away, + they see no good, +009:026 They have passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that + swoops on the prey. +009:027 If I say, 'I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, + and cheer up;' +009:028 I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that you will not + hold me innocent. +009:029 I shall be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain? +009:030 If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye, +009:031 yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes + shall abhor me. +009:032 For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, + that we should come together in judgment. +009:033 There is no umpire between us, that might lay his hand + on us both. +009:034 Let him take his rod away from me. Let his terror not + make me afraid; +009:035 then I would speak, and not fear him, for I am not so in myself. +010:001 "My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to + my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. +010:002 I will tell God, 'Do not condemn me. Show me why you + contend with me. +010:003 Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should + despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel + of the wicked? +010:004 Do you have eyes of flesh? Or do you see as man sees? +010:005 Are your days as the days of mortals, or your years as man's years, +010:006 that you inquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin? +010:007 Although you know that I am not wicked, there is no one who can + deliver out of your hand. +010:008 "'Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, + yet you destroy me. +010:009 Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. + Will you bring me into dust again? +010:010 Haven't you poured me out like milk, and curdled me like cheese? +010:011 You have clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together + with bones and sinews. +010:012 You have granted me life and loving kindness. Your visitation + has preserved my spirit. +010:013 Yet you hid these things in your heart. I know that this + is with you: +010:014 if I sin, then you mark me. You will not acquit me + from my iniquity. +010:015 If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still shall + not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious + of my affliction. +010:016 If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion. + Again you show yourself powerful to me. +010:017 You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation + on me. Changes and warfare are with me. +010:018 "'Why, then, have you brought me forth out of the womb? + I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me. +010:019 I should have been as though I had not been. I should have + been carried from the womb to the grave. +010:020 Aren't my days few? Cease then. Leave me alone, that I may + find a little comfort, +010:021 before I go where I shall not return from, to the land + of darkness and of the shadow of death; +010:022 the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, + where the light is as midnight.'" +011:001 Then Zophar, the Naamathite, answered, +011:002 "Shouldn't the multitude of words be answered? Should a man + full of talk be justified? +011:003 Should your boastings make men hold their peace? + When you mock, shall no man make you ashamed? +011:004 For you say, 'My doctrine is pure. I am clean in your eyes.' +011:005 But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against you, +011:006 that he would show you the secrets of wisdom! For true wisdom + has two sides. Know therefore that God exacts of you less + than your iniquity deserves. +011:007 "Can you fathom the mystery of God? Or can you probe the limits + of the Almighty? +011:008 They are high as heaven. What can you do? They are deeper + than Sheol. What can you know? +011:009 Its measure is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea. +011:010 If he passes by, or confines, or convenes a court, then who + can oppose him? +011:011 For he knows false men. He sees iniquity also, even though + he doesn't consider it. +011:012 An empty-headed man becomes wise when a man is born as a + wild donkey's colt. +011:013 "If you set your heart aright, stretch out your hands toward him. +011:014 If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away. Don't let + unrighteousness dwell in your tents. +011:015 Surely then shall you lift up your face without spot; + Yes, you shall be steadfast, and shall not fear: +011:016 for you shall forget your misery. You shall remember it + as waters that are passed away. +011:017 Life shall be clearer than the noonday. Though there is darkness, + it shall be as the morning. +011:018 You shall be secure, because there is hope. Yes, you shall search, + and shall take your rest in safety. +011:019 Also you shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid. + Yes, many shall court your favor. +011:020 But the eyes of the wicked shall fail. They shall have no way + to flee. Their hope shall be the giving up of the spirit." +012:001 Then Job answered, +012:002 "No doubt, but you are the people, and wisdom shall die with you. +012:003 But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. + Yes, who doesn't know such things as these? +012:004 I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, + and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke. +012:005 In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt + for misfortune. It is ready for them whose foot slips. +012:006 The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, + who carry their God in their hands. +012:007 "But ask the animals, now, and they shall teach you; + the birds of the sky, and they shall tell you. +012:008 Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach you. The fish + of the sea shall declare to you. +012:009 Who doesn't know that in all these, the hand of Yahweh + has done this, +012:010 in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath + of all mankind? +012:011 Doesn't the ear try words, even as the palate tastes its food? +012:012 With aged men is wisdom, in length of days understanding. +012:013 "With God is wisdom and might. He has counsel and understanding. +012:014 Behold, he breaks down, and it can't be built again. + He imprisons a man, and there can be no release. +012:015 Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, he sends + them out, and they overturn the earth. +012:016 With him is strength and wisdom. The deceived and the + deceiver are his. +012:017 He leads counselors away stripped. He makes judges fools. +012:018 He loosens the bond of kings. He binds their waist with a belt. +012:019 He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty. +012:020 He removes the speech of those who are trusted, and takes away + the understanding of the elders. +012:021 He pours contempt on princes, and loosens the belt of the strong. +012:022 He uncovers deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light + the shadow of death. +012:023 He increases the nations, and he destroys them. + He enlarges the nations, and he leads them captive. +012:024 He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people + of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness + where there is no way. +012:025 They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger + like a drunken man. +013:001 "Behold, my eye has seen all this. My ear has heard + and understood it. +013:002 What you know, I know also. I am not inferior to you. +013:003 "Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God. +013:004 But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value. +013:005 Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise. +013:006 Hear now my reasoning. Listen to the pleadings of my lips. +013:007 Will you speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for him? +013:008 Will you show partiality to him? Will you contend for God? +013:009 Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceives + a man, will you deceive him? +013:010 He will surely reprove you if you secretly show partiality. +013:011 Shall not his majesty make you afraid, And his dread fall on you? +013:012 Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defenses + are defenses of clay. +013:013 "Be silent, leave me alone, that I may speak. Let come on + me what will. +013:014 Why should I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life + in my hand? +013:015 Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will + maintain my ways before him. +013:016 This also shall be my salvation, that a godless man shall + not come before him. +013:017 Hear diligently my speech. Let my declaration be in your ears. +013:018 See now, I have set my cause in order. I know that I am righteous. +013:019 Who is he who will contend with me? For then would I hold + my peace and give up the spirit. +013:020 "Only don't do two things to me; then I will not hide myself + from your face: +013:021 withdraw your hand far from me; and don't let your terror + make me afraid. +013:022 Then call, and I will answer; or let me speak, and you answer me. +013:023 How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me know my disobedience + and my sin. +013:024 Why hide you your face, and hold me for your enemy? +013:025 Will you harass a driven leaf? Will you pursue the dry stubble? +013:026 For you write bitter things against me, and make me inherit + the iniquities of my youth: +013:027 You also put my feet in the stocks, and mark all my paths. + You set a bound to the soles of my feet, +013:028 though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment + that is moth-eaten. +014:001 "Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble. +014:002 He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees + like a shadow, and doesn't continue. +014:003 Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into + judgment with you? +014:004 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one. +014:005 Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is + with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can't pass; +014:006 Look away from him, that he may rest, until he shall accomplish, + as a hireling, his day. +014:007 "For there is hope for a tree, If it is cut down, that it will + sprout again, that the tender branch of it will not cease. +014:008 Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stock dies + in the ground, +014:009 yet through the scent of water it will bud, and put forth + boughs like a plant. +014:010 But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, + and where is he? +014:011 As the waters fail from the sea, and the river wastes and dries up, +014:012 so man lies down and doesn't rise. Until the heavens are no more, + they shall not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep. +014:013 "Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would keep me secret, + until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time, + and remember me! +014:014 If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my warfare + would I wait, until my release should come. +014:015 You would call, and I would answer you. You would have a desire + to the work of your hands. +014:016 But now you number my steps. Don't you watch over my sin? +014:017 My disobedience is sealed up in a bag. You fasten up my iniquity. +014:018 "But the mountain falling comes to nothing. The rock is removed + out of its place; +014:019 The waters wear the stones. The torrents of it wash away + the dust of the earth. So you destroy the hope of man. +014:020 You forever prevail against him, and he departs. + You change his face, and send him away. +014:021 His sons come to honor, and he doesn't know it. + They are brought low, but he doesn't perceive it of them. +014:022 But his flesh on him has pain, and his soul within him mourns." +015:001 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, +015:002 "Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself + with the east wind? +015:003 Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches + with which he can do no good? +015:004 Yes, you do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God. +015:005 For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language + of the crafty. +015:006 Your own mouth condemns you, and not I. Yes, your own lips + testify against you. +015:007 "Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought + forth before the hills? +015:008 Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit + wisdom to yourself? +015:009 What do you know, that we don't know? What do you understand, + which is not in us? +015:010 With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, + much elder than your father. +015:011 Are the consolations of God too small for you, even the word + that is gentle toward you? +015:012 Why does your heart carry you away? Why do your eyes flash, +015:013 That you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go + out of your mouth? +015:014 What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born + of a woman, that he should be righteous? +015:015 Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones. Yes, the heavens + are not clean in his sight; +015:016 how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks + iniquity like water! +015:017 "I will show you, listen to me; that which I have seen + I will declare: +015:018 (Which wise men have told by their fathers, and have not hidden it; +015:019 to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them): +015:020 the wicked man writhes in pain all his days, even the number + of years that are laid up for the oppressor. +015:021 A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer + shall come on him. +015:022 He doesn't believe that he shall return out of darkness. + He is waited for by the sword. +015:023 He wanders abroad for bread, saying, 'Where is it?' + He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand. +015:024 Distress and anguish make him afraid. They prevail against him, + as a king ready to the battle. +015:025 Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves + himself proudly against the Almighty; +015:026 he runs at him with a stiff neck, with the thick shields + of his bucklers; +015:027 because he has covered his face with his fatness, and gathered + fat on his thighs. +015:028 He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one inhabited, + which were ready to become heaps. +015:029 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, + neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth. +015:030 He shall not depart out of darkness. The flame shall dry up + his branches. By the breath of God's mouth shall he go away. +015:031 Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; for emptiness + shall be his reward. +015:032 It shall be accomplished before his time. His branch shall + not be green. +015:033 He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall + cast off his flower as the olive tree. +015:034 For the company of the godless shall be barren, and fire shall + consume the tents of bribery. +015:035 They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. + Their heart prepares deceit." +016:001 Then Job answered, +016:002 "I have heard many such things. You are all miserable comforters! +016:003 Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer? +016:004 I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my + soul's place, I could join words together against you, + and shake my head at you, +016:005 but I would strengthen you with my mouth. The solace of my + lips would relieve you. +016:006 "Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. Though I forbear, + what am I eased? +016:007 But now, God, you have surely worn me out. You have made + desolate all my company. +016:008 You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me. + My leanness rises up against me. It testifies to my face. +016:009 He has torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me. + He has gnashed on me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens + his eyes on me. +016:010 They have gaped on me with their mouth. They have struck + me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves + together against me. +016:011 God delivers me to the ungodly, and casts me into the hands + of the wicked. +016:012 I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Yes, he has taken me + by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up + for his target. +016:013 His archers surround me. He splits my kidneys apart, + and does not spare. He pours out my gall on the ground. +016:014 He breaks me with breach on breach. He runs on me like a giant. +016:015 I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and have thrust my horn + in the dust. +016:016 My face is red with weeping. Deep darkness is on my eyelids. +016:017 Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure. +016:018 "Earth, don't cover my blood. Let my cry have no place to rest. +016:019 Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven. He who vouches + for me is on high. +016:020 My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God, +016:021 that he would maintain the right of a man with God, of a son + of man with his neighbor! +016:022 For when a few years are come, I shall go the way from whence + I shall not return. +017:001 "My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct, And the grave + is ready for me. +017:002 Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells + on their provocation. +017:003 "Now give a pledge, be collateral for me with yourself. + Who is there who will strike hands with me? +017:004 For you have hidden their heart from understanding, + Therefore shall you not exalt them. +017:005 He who denounces his friends for a prey, Even the eyes of his + children shall fail. +017:006 "But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit + in my face. +017:007 My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are + as a shadow. +017:008 Upright men shall be astonished at this. The innocent shall + stir up himself against the godless. +017:009 Yet shall the righteous hold on his way. He who has clean + hands shall grow stronger and stronger. +017:010 But as for you all, come on now again; I shall not find a wise + man among you. +017:011 My days are past, my plans are broken off, as are the thoughts + of my heart. +017:012 They change the night into day, saying 'The light is near' + in the presence of darkness. +017:013 If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch + in the darkness, +017:014 If I have said to corruption, 'You are my father;' to the worm, + 'My mother,' and 'my sister;' +017:015 where then is my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it? +017:016 Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend + together into the dust?" +018:001 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered, +018:002 "How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards + we will speak. +018:003 Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean + in your sight? +018:004 You who tear yourself in your anger, shall the earth be forsaken + for you? Or shall the rock be removed out of its place? +018:005 "Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, The spark + of his fire shall not shine. +018:006 The light shall be dark in his tent. His lamp above him shall + be put out. +018:007 The steps of his strength shall be shortened. His own counsel + shall cast him down. +018:008 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he wanders + into its mesh. +018:009 A snare will take him by the heel. A trap will catch him. +018:010 A noose is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him + in the way. +018:011 Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall chase + him at his heels. +018:012 His strength shall be famished. Calamity shall be ready + at his side. +018:013 The members of his body shall be devoured. The firstborn + of death shall devour his members. +018:014 He shall be rooted out of his tent where he trusts. + He shall be brought to the king of terrors. +018:015 There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his. + Sulfur shall be scattered on his habitation. +018:016 His roots shall be dried up beneath. Above shall his branch + be cut off. +018:017 His memory shall perish from the earth. He shall have no name + in the street. +018:018 He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out + of the world. +018:019 He shall have neither son nor grandson among his people, + nor any remaining where he sojourned. +018:020 Those who come after shall be astonished at his day, + as those who went before were frightened. +018:021 Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous. + This is the place of him who doesn't know God." +019:001 Then Job answered, +019:002 "How long will you torment me, and crush me with words? +019:003 You have reproached me ten times. You aren't ashamed that + you attack me. +019:004 If it is true that I have erred, my error remains with myself. +019:005 If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead + against me my reproach; +019:006 know now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me + with his net. +019:007 "Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. + I cry for help, but there is no justice. +019:008 He has walled up my way so that I can't pass, and has set + darkness in my paths. +019:009 He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head. +019:010 He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. + My hope he has plucked up like a tree. +019:011 He has also kindled his wrath against me. He counts me + among his adversaries. +019:012 His troops come on together, build a siege ramp against me, + and encamp around my tent. +019:013 "He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are + wholly estranged from me. +019:014 My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me. +019:015 Those who dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger. + I am an alien in their sight. +019:016 I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer. + I beg him with my mouth. +019:017 My breath is offensive to my wife. I am loathsome to the children + of my own mother. +019:018 Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me. +019:019 All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have + turned against me. +019:020 My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped + by the skin of my teeth. +019:021 "Have pity on me, have pity on me, you my friends; for the hand + of God has touched me. +019:022 Why do you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied + with my flesh? +019:023 "Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed + in a book! +019:024 That with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in + the rock forever! +019:025 But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, + he will stand upon the earth. +019:026 After my skin is destroyed, then in my flesh shall I see God, +019:027 Whom I, even I, shall see on my side. My eyes shall see, + and not as a stranger. "My heart is consumed within me. +019:028 If you say, 'How we will persecute him!' because the root + of the matter is found in me, +019:029 be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishments + of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment." +020:001 Then Zophar the Naamathite answered, +020:002 "Therefore do my thoughts give answer to me, even by reason + of my haste that is in me. +020:003 I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame. + The spirit of my understanding answers me. +020:004 Don't you know this from old time, since man was placed on earth, +020:005 that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless + but for a moment? +020:006 Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach + to the clouds, +020:007 yet he shall perish forever like his own dung. + Those who have seen him shall say, 'Where is he?' +020:008 He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found. + Yes, he shall be chased away like a vision of the night. +020:009 The eye which saw him shall see him no more, neither shall + his place any more see him. +020:010 His children shall seek the favor of the poor. His hands + shall give back his wealth. +020:011 His bones are full of his youth, but youth shall lie down + with him in the dust. +020:012 "Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hide it + under his tongue, +020:013 though he spare it, and will not let it go, but keep it still + within his mouth; +020:014 yet his food in his bowels is turned. It is cobra venom within him. +020:015 He has swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again. + God will cast them out of his belly. +020:016 He shall suck cobra venom. The viper's tongue shall kill him. +020:017 He shall not look at the rivers, the flowing streams of + honey and butter. +020:018 That for which he labored he shall restore, and shall not swallow + it down. According to the substance that he has gotten, + he shall not rejoice. +020:019 For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently + taken away a house, and he shall not build it up. +020:020 "Because he knew no quietness within him, he shall not save + anything of that in which he delights. +020:021 There was nothing left that he didn't devour, therefore his + prosperity shall not endure. +020:022 In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress shall overtake him. + The hand of everyone who is in misery shall come on him. +020:023 When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness + of his wrath on him. It will rain on him while he is eating. +020:024 He shall flee from the iron weapon. The bronze arrow shall + strike him through. +020:025 He draws it forth, and it comes out of his body. + Yes, the glittering point comes out of his liver. + Terrors are on him. +020:026 All darkness is laid up for his treasures. An unfanned fire + shall devour him. It shall consume that which is left + in his tent. +020:027 The heavens shall reveal his iniquity. The earth shall rise + up against him. +020:028 The increase of his house shall depart. They shall rush away + in the day of his wrath. +020:029 This is the portion of a wicked man from God, the heritage + appointed to him by God." +021:001 Then Job answered, +021:002 "Listen diligently to my speech. Let this be your consolation. +021:003 Allow me, and I also will speak; After I have spoken, mock on. +021:004 As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn't I be impatient? +021:005 Look at me, and be astonished. Lay your hand on your mouth. +021:006 When I remember, I am troubled. Horror takes hold of my flesh. +021:007 "Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power? +021:008 Their child is established with them in their sight, + their offspring before their eyes. +021:009 Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of + God upon them. +021:010 Their bulls breed without fail. Their cows calve, + and don't miscarry. +021:011 They send forth their little ones like a flock. + Their children dance. +021:012 They sing to the tambourine and harp, and rejoice at the sound + of the pipe. +021:013 They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go + down to Sheol. +021:014 They tell God, 'Depart from us, for we don't want to know + about your ways. +021:015 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? + What profit should we have, if we pray to him?' +021:016 Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel + of the wicked is far from me. +021:017 "How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out, + that their calamity comes on them, that God distributes + sorrows in his anger? +021:018 How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, + as chaff that the storm carries away? +021:019 You say, 'God lays up his iniquity for his children.' + Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it. +021:020 Let his own eyes see his destruction. Let him drink of the wrath + of the Almighty. +021:021 For what does he care for his house after him, when the number + of his months is cut off? +021:022 "Shall any teach God knowledge, seeing he judges those + who are high? +021:023 One dies in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet. +021:024 His pails are full of milk. The marrow of his bones is moistened. +021:025 Another dies in bitterness of soul, and never tastes of good. +021:026 They lie down alike in the dust. The worm covers them. +021:027 "Behold, I know your thoughts, the devices with which you + would wrong me. +021:028 For you say, 'Where is the house of the prince? + Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?' +021:029 Haven't you asked wayfaring men? Don't you know their evidences, +021:030 that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, + That they are led forth to the day of wrath? +021:031 Who shall declare his way to his face? Who shall repay him + what he has done? +021:032 Yet he will be borne to the grave. Men shall keep watch + over the tomb. +021:033 The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him. All men shall + draw after him, as there were innumerable before him. +021:034 So how can you comfort me with nonsense, seeing that in your + answers there remains only falsehood?" +022:001 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, +022:002 "Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is + profitable to himself. +022:003 Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that you are righteous? + Or does it benefit him, that you make your ways perfect? +022:004 Is it for your piety that he reproves you, that he enters + with you into judgment? +022:005 Isn't your wickedness great? Neither is there any end + to your iniquities. +022:006 For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, + and stripped the naked of their clothing. +022:007 You haven't given water to the weary to drink, and you have + withheld bread from the hungry. +022:008 But as for the mighty man, he had the earth. The honorable man, + he lived in it. +022:009 You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless + have been broken. +022:010 Therefore snares are round about you. Sudden fear troubles you, +022:011 or darkness, so that you can not see, and floods of waters cover you. +022:012 "Isn't God in the heights of heaven? See the height of the stars, + how high they are! +022:013 You say, 'What does God know? Can he judge through + the thick darkness? +022:014 Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he doesn't see. + He walks on the vault of the sky.' +022:015 Will you keep the old way, which wicked men have trodden, +022:016 who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation + was poured out as a stream, +022:017 who said to God, 'Depart from us;' and, 'What can the Almighty + do for us?' +022:018 Yet he filled their houses with good things, but the counsel + of the wicked is far from me. +022:019 The righteous see it, and are glad. The innocent ridicule them, +022:020 saying, 'Surely those who rose up against us are cut off. + The fire has consumed the remnant of them.' +022:021 "Acquaint yourself with him, now, and be at peace. + Thereby good shall come to you. +022:022 Please receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words + in your heart. +022:023 If you return to the Almighty, you shall be built up, if you + put away unrighteousness far from your tents. +022:024 Lay your treasure in the dust, the gold of Ophir among the stones + of the brooks. +022:025 The Almighty will be your treasure, and precious silver to you. +022:026 For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty, and shall + lift up your face to God. +022:027 You shall make your prayer to him, and he will hear you. + You shall pay your vows. +022:028 You shall also decree a thing, and it shall be established to you. + Light shall shine on your ways. +022:029 When they cast down, you shall say, 'be lifted up.' + He will save the humble person. +022:030 He will even deliver him who is not innocent. Yes, he shall + be delivered through the cleanness of your hands." +023:001 Then Job answered, +023:002 "Even today my complaint is rebellious. His hand is heavy + in spite of my groaning. +023:003 Oh that I knew where I might find him! That I might come + even to his seat! +023:004 I would set my cause in order before him, and fill my + mouth with arguments. +023:005 I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand + what he would tell me. +023:006 Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? + No, but he would listen to me. +023:007 There the upright might reason with him, so I should be delivered + forever from my judge. +023:008 "If I go east, he is not there; if west, I can't find him; +023:009 He works to the north, but I can't see him. He turns south, + but I can't catch a glimpse of him. +023:010 But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, + I shall come forth like gold. +023:011 My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, + and not turned aside. +023:012 I haven't gone back from the commandment of his lips. + I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than + my necessary food. +023:013 But he stands alone, and who can oppose him? What his soul desires, + even that he does. +023:014 For he performs that which is appointed for me. + Many such things are with him. +023:015 Therefore I am terrified at his presence. When I consider, + I am afraid of him. +023:016 For God has made my heart faint. The Almighty has terrified me. +023:017 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither did + he cover the thick darkness from my face. +024:001 "Why aren't times laid up by the Almighty? Why don't those + who know him see his days? +024:002 There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently + take away flocks, and feed them. +024:003 They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take + the widow's ox for a pledge. +024:004 They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth + all hide themselves. +024:005 Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go forth to their work, + seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them + bread for their children. +024:006 They cut their provender in the field. They glean the vineyard + of the wicked. +024:007 They lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering + in the cold. +024:008 They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace + the rock for lack of a shelter. +024:009 There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, + and take a pledge of the poor, +024:010 So that they go around naked without clothing. Being hungry, + they carry the sheaves. +024:011 They make oil within the walls of these men. They tread + wine presses, and suffer thirst. +024:012 From out of the populous city, men groan. The soul of the wounded + cries out, yet God doesn't regard the folly. +024:013 "These are of those who rebel against the light. + They don't know its ways, nor abide in its paths. +024:014 The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. + In the night he is like a thief. +024:015 The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, + 'No eye shall see me.' He disguises his face. +024:016 In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up + in the daytime. They don't know the light. +024:017 For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, + for they know the terrors of the thick darkness. +024:018 "They are foam on the surface of the waters. Their portion + is cursed in the earth. They don't turn into the way + of the vineyards. +024:019 Drought and heat consume the snow waters, so does Sheol + those who have sinned. +024:020 The womb shall forget him. The worm shall feed sweetly on him. + He shall be no more remembered. Unrighteousness shall be + broken as a tree. +024:021 He devours the barren who don't bear. He shows no kindness + to the widow. +024:022 Yet God preserves the mighty by his power. He rises up who has + no assurance of life. +024:023 God gives them security, and they rest in it. His eyes are + on their ways. +024:024 They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone. + Yes, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as + all others, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain. +024:025 If it isn't so now, who will prove me a liar, and make my + speech worth nothing?" +025:001 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered, +025:002 "Dominion and fear are with him. He makes peace in his high places. +025:003 Can his armies be counted? On whom does his light not arise? +025:004 How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born + of a woman be clean? +025:005 Behold, even the moon has no brightness, and the stars are + not pure in his sight; +025:006 How much less man, who is a worm, the son of man, who is a worm!" +026:001 Then Job answered, +026:002 "How have you helped him who is without power! How have you + saved the arm that has no strength! +026:003 How have you counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully + declared sound knowledge! +026:004 To whom have you uttered words? Whose spirit came forth from you? +026:005 "Those who are deceased tremble, those beneath the waters + and all that live in them. +026:006 Sheol{Sheol is the lower world or the grave.} is naked before God, + and Abaddon{Abaddon means Destroyer.} has no covering. +026:007 He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs + the earth on nothing. +026:008 He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud + is not burst under them. +026:009 He encloses the face of his throne, and spreads his cloud on it. +026:010 He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters, + and to the confines of light and darkness. +026:011 The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his rebuke. +026:012 He stirs up the sea with his power, and by his understanding + he strikes through Rahab. +026:013 By his Spirit the heavens are garnished. His hand has pierced + the swift serpent. +026:014 Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways. + How small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder + of his power who can understand?" +027:001 Job again took up his parable, and said, +027:002 "As God lives, who has taken away my right, the Almighty, + who has made my soul bitter. +027:003 (For the length of my life is still in me, and the spirit + of God is in my nostrils); +027:004 surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, neither shall + my tongue utter deceit. +027:005 Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die I + will not put away my integrity from me. +027:006 I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. + My heart shall not reproach me so long as I live. +027:007 "Let my enemy be as the wicked. Let him who rises up against + me be as the unrighteous. +027:008 For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, + when God takes away his life? +027:009 Will God hear his cry when trouble comes on him? +027:010 Will he delight himself in the Almighty, and call on God + at all times? +027:011 I will teach you about the hand of God. That which is with + the Almighty will I not conceal. +027:012 Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves; why then have you + become altogether vain? +027:013 "This is the portion of a wicked man with God, the heritage + of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty. +027:014 If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword. + His offspring shall not be satisfied with bread. +027:015 Those who remain of him shall be buried in death. + His widows shall make no lamentation. +027:016 Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing + as the clay; +027:017 he may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent + shall divide the silver. +027:018 He builds his house as the moth, as a booth which the watchman makes. +027:019 He lies down rich, but he shall not do so again. + He opens his eyes, and he is not. +027:020 Terrors overtake him like waters. A storm steals him away + in the night. +027:021 The east wind carries him away, and he departs. + It sweeps him out of his place. +027:022 For it hurls at him, and does not spare, as he flees away + from his hand. +027:023 Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out + of his place. +028:001 "Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold + which they refine. +028:002 Iron is taken out of the earth, and copper is smelted out + of the ore. +028:003 Man sets an end to darkness, and searches out, to the furthest bound, + the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness. +028:004 He breaks open a shaft away from where people live. + They are forgotten by the foot. They hang far from men, + they swing back and forth. +028:005 As for the earth, out of it comes bread; Underneath it is turned + up as it were by fire. +028:006 Sapphires come from its rocks. It has dust of gold. +028:007 That path no bird of prey knows, neither has the falcon's + eye seen it. +028:008 The proud animals have not trodden it, nor has the fierce lion + passed by there. +028:009 He puts forth his hand on the flinty rock, and he overturns + the mountains by the roots. +028:010 He cuts out channels among the rocks. His eye sees + every precious thing. +028:011 He binds the streams that they don't trickle. The thing + that is hidden he brings forth to light. +028:012 "But where shall wisdom be found? Where is the place + of understanding? +028:013 Man doesn't know its price; Neither is it found in the land + of the living. +028:014 The deep says, 'It isn't in me.' The sea says, 'It isn't with me.' +028:015 It can't be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed + for its price. +028:016 It can't be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, + or the sapphire{or, lapis lazuli}. +028:017 Gold and glass can't equal it, neither shall it be exchanged + for jewels of fine gold. +028:018 No mention shall be made of coral or of crystal. Yes, the price + of wisdom is above rubies. +028:019 The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, Neither shall it + be valued with pure gold. +028:020 Whence then comes wisdom? Where is the place of understanding? +028:021 Seeing it is hidden from the eyes of all living, and kept + close from the birds of the sky. +028:022 Destruction and Death say, 'We have heard a rumor of it + with our ears.' +028:023 "God understands its way, and he knows its place. +028:024 For he looks to the ends of the earth, and sees under + the whole sky. +028:025 He establishes the force of the wind. Yes, he measures out + the waters by measure. +028:026 When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning + of the thunder; +028:027 then he saw it, and declared it. He established it, yes, + and searched it out. +028:028 To man he said, 'Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. + To depart from evil is understanding.'" +029:001 Job again took up his parable, and said, +029:002 "Oh that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God + watched over me; +029:003 when his lamp shone on my head, and by his light I + walked through darkness, +029:004 as I was in the ripeness of my days, when the friendship of God + was in my tent, +029:005 when the Almighty was yet with me, and my children were around me, +029:006 when my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured + out streams of oil for me, +029:007 when I went forth to the city gate, when I prepared my seat + in the street. +029:008 The young men saw me and hid themselves. The aged rose + up and stood. +029:009 The princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand + on their mouth. +029:010 The voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue stuck + to the roof of their mouth. +029:011 For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye + saw me, it commended me: +029:012 Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, + who had none to help him, +029:013 the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, + and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. +029:014 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was + as a robe and a diadem. +029:015 I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. +029:016 I was a father to the needy. The cause of him who I didn't know, + I searched out. +029:017 I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the prey + out of his teeth. +029:018 Then I said, 'I shall die in my own house, I shall number + my days as the sand. +029:019 My root is spread out to the waters. The dew lies all night + on my branch. +029:020 My glory is fresh in me. My bow is renewed in my hand.' +029:021 "Men listened to me, waited, and kept silence for my counsel. +029:022 After my words they didn't speak again. My speech fell on them. +029:023 They waited for me as for the rain. Their mouths drank + as with the spring rain. +029:024 I smiled on them when they had no confidence. They didn't + reject the light of my face. +029:025 I chose out their way, and sat as chief. I lived as a king + in the army, as one who comforts the mourners. +030:001 "But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, + whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs. +030:002 Of what use is the strength of their hands to me, men in whom + ripe age has perished? +030:003 They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, + in the gloom of waste and desolation. +030:004 They pluck salt herbs by the bushes. The roots of the broom + are their food. +030:005 They are driven out from the midst of men. They cry after them + as after a thief; +030:006 So that they dwell in frightful valleys, and in holes of the earth + and of the rocks. +030:007 Among the bushes they bray; and under the nettles they + are gathered together. +030:008 They are children of fools, yes, children of base men. + They were flogged out of the land. +030:009 "Now I have become their song. Yes, I am a byword to them. +030:010 They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, and don't hesitate + to spit in my face. +030:011 For he has untied his cord, and afflicted me; and they have + thrown off restraint before me. +030:012 On my right hand rise the rabble. They thrust aside my feet, + They cast up against me their ways of destruction. +030:013 They mar my path, They set forward my calamity, + without anyone's help. +030:014 As through a wide breach they come, in the midst of the ruin + they roll themselves in. +030:015 Terrors have turned on me. They chase my honor as the wind. + My welfare has passed away as a cloud. +030:016 "Now my soul is poured out within me. Days of affliction + have taken hold on me. +030:017 In the night season my bones are pierced in me, and the pains + that gnaw me take no rest. +030:018 By great force is my garment disfigured. It binds me about + as the collar of my coat. +030:019 He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and ashes. +030:020 I cry to you, and you do not answer me. I stand up, and you + gaze at me. +030:021 You have turned to be cruel to me. With the might of your hand + you persecute me. +030:022 You lift me up to the wind, and drive me with it. + You dissolve me in the storm. +030:023 For I know that you will bring me to death, To the house + appointed for all living. +030:024 "However doesn't one stretch out a hand in his fall? + Or in his calamity therefore cry for help? +030:025 Didn't I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn't my soul + grieved for the needy? +030:026 When I looked for good, then evil came; When I waited for light, + there came darkness. +030:027 My heart is troubled, and doesn't rest. Days of affliction + have come on me. +030:028 I go mourning without the sun. I stand up in the assembly, + and cry for help. +030:029 I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches. +030:030 My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are + burned with heat. +030:031 Therefore my harp has turned to mourning, and my pipe into + the voice of those who weep. +031:001 "I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look + lustfully at a young woman? +031:002 For what is the portion from God above, and the heritage + from the Almighty on high? +031:003 Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the + workers of iniquity? +031:004 Doesn't he see my ways, and number all my steps? +031:005 "If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hurried to deceit +031:006 (let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may + know my integrity); +031:007 if my step has turned out of the way, if my heart walked + after my eyes, if any defilement has stuck to my hands, +031:008 then let me sow, and let another eat. Yes, let the produce + of my field be rooted out. +031:009 "If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid wait + at my neighbor's door, +031:010 then let my wife grind for another, and let others sleep with her. +031:011 For that would be a heinous crime. Yes, it would be an iniquity + to be punished by the judges: +031:012 For it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root + out all my increase. +031:013 "If I have despised the cause of my male servant or of my + female servant, when they contended with me; +031:014 What then shall I do when God rises up? When he visits, + what shall I answer him? +031:015 Didn't he who made me in the womb make him? Didn't one fashion + us in the womb? +031:016 "If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused + the eyes of the widow to fail, +031:017 or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not + eaten of it +031:018 (no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, + her have I guided from my mother's womb); +031:019 if I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the needy + had no covering; +031:020 if his heart hasn't blessed me, if he hasn't been warmed + with my sheep's fleece; +031:021 if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I + saw my help in the gate, +031:022 then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder blade, and my arm + be broken from the bone. +031:023 For calamity from God is a terror to me. Because his majesty, + I can do nothing. +031:024 "If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, + 'You are my confidence;' +031:025 If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my + hand had gotten much; +031:026 if I have seen the sun when it shined, or the moon moving in splendor, +031:027 and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my hand threw + a kiss from my mouth, +031:028 this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges; + for I should have denied the God who is above. +031:029 "If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, + or lifted up myself when evil found him; +031:030 (yes, I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life + with a curse); +031:031 if the men of my tent have not said, 'Who can find one who has + not been filled with his meat?' +031:032 (the foreigner has not lodged in the street, but I have opened + my doors to the traveler); +031:033 if like Adam I have covered my transgressions, by hiding + my iniquity in my heart, +031:034 because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt + of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and didn't + go out of the door-- +031:035 oh that I had one to hear me! (behold, here is my signature, + let the Almighty answer me); let the accuser write my indictment! +031:036 Surely I would carry it on my shoulder; and I would bind it + to me as a crown. +031:037 I would declare to him the number of my steps. as a prince + would I go near to him. +031:038 If my land cries out against me, and the furrows of it weep together; +031:039 if I have eaten the fruits of it without money, or have caused + the owners of it to lose their life, +031:040 let briars grow instead of wheat, and stinkweed instead of barley." + The words of Job are ended. +032:001 So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous + in his own eyes. +032:002 Then the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel, the Buzite, + of the family of Ram, was kindled against Job. His wrath + was kindled because he justified himself rather than God. +032:003 Also his wrath was kindled against his three friends, + because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job. +032:004 Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job, because they were + elder than he. +032:005 When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these + three men, his wrath was kindled. +032:006 Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered, "I am young, + and you are very old; Therefore I held back, and didn't dare + show you my opinion. +032:007 I said, 'Days should speak, and multitude of years + should teach wisdom.' +032:008 But there is a spirit in man, and the breath of the Almighty + gives them understanding. +032:009 It is not the great who are wise, nor the aged + who understand justice. +032:010 Therefore I said, 'Listen to me; I also will show my opinion.' +032:011 "Behold, I waited for your words, and I listened for your reasoning, + while you searched out what to say. +032:012 Yes, I gave you my full attention, but there was no one who + convinced Job, or who answered his words, among you. +032:013 Beware lest you say, 'We have found wisdom, God may refute + him, not man;' +032:014 for he has not directed his words against me; neither will I + answer him with your speeches. +032:015 "They are amazed. They answer no more. They don't have + a word to say. +032:016 Shall I wait, because they don't speak, because they stand still, + and answer no more? +032:017 I also will answer my part, and I also will show my opinion. +032:018 For I am full of words. The spirit within me constrains me. +032:019 Behold, my breast is as wine which has no vent; like new + wineskins it is ready to burst. +032:020 I will speak, that I may be refreshed. I will open my + lips and answer. +032:021 Please don't let me respect any man's person, neither will I + give flattering titles to any man. +032:022 For I don't know how to give flattering titles; or else my Maker + would soon take me away. +033:001 "However, Job, Please hear my speech, and listen to all my words. +033:002 See now, I have opened my mouth. My tongue has spoken + in my mouth. +033:003 My words shall utter the uprightness of my heart. + That which my lips know they shall speak sincerely. +033:004 The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty + gives me life. +033:005 If you can, answer me. Set your words in order before me, + and stand forth. +033:006 Behold, I am toward God even as you are. I am also formed + out of the clay. +033:007 Behold, my terror shall not make you afraid, neither shall + my pressure be heavy on you. +033:008 "Surely you have spoken in my hearing, I have heard the voice + of your words, saying, +033:009 'I am clean, without disobedience. I am innocent, neither is + there iniquity in me. +033:010 Behold, he finds occasions against me. He counts me for his enemy. +033:011 He puts my feet in the stocks. He marks all my paths.' +033:012 "Behold, I will answer you. In this you are not just, + for God is greater than man. +033:013 Why do you strive against him, because he doesn't give account + of any of his matters? +033:014 For God speaks once, yes twice, though man pays no attention. +033:015 In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls + on men, in slumbering on the bed; +033:016 Then he opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction, +033:017 That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man. +033:018 He keeps back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing + by the sword. +033:019 He is chastened also with pain on his bed, with continual + strife in his bones; +033:020 So that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty food. +033:021 His flesh is so consumed away, that it can't be seen. + His bones that were not seen stick out. +033:022 Yes, his soul draws near to the pit, and his life to the destroyers. +033:023 "If there is beside him an angel, an interpreter, one among + a thousand, to show to man what is right for him; +033:024 then God is gracious to him, and says, 'Deliver him from going + down to the pit, I have found a ransom.' +033:025 His flesh shall be fresher than a child's. He returns to the days + of his youth. +033:026 He prays to God, and he is favorable to him, so that he sees + his face with joy. He restores to man his righteousness. +033:027 He sings before men, and says, 'I have sinned, and perverted + that which was right, and it didn't profit me. +033:028 He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. + My life shall see the light.' +033:029 "Behold, God works all these things, twice, yes three times, + with a man, +033:030 to bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be enlightened + with the light of the living. +033:031 Mark well, Job, and listen to me. Hold your peace, + and I will speak. +033:032 If you have anything to say, answer me. Speak, for I desire + to justify you. +033:033 If not, listen to me. Hold your peace, and I will teach you wisdom." +034:001 Moreover Elihu answered, +034:002 "Hear my words, you wise men. Give ear to me, + you who have knowledge. +034:003 For the ear tries words, as the palate tastes food. +034:004 Let us choose for us that which is right. Let us know among + ourselves what is good. +034:005 For Job has said, 'I am righteous, God has taken away my right: +034:006 Notwithstanding my right I am considered a liar. + My wound is incurable, though I am without disobedience.' +034:007 What man is like Job, who drinks scorn like water, +034:008 Who goes in company with the workers of iniquity, and walks + with wicked men? +034:009 For he has said, 'It profits a man nothing that he should + delight himself with God.' +034:010 "Therefore listen to me, you men of understanding: far be it + from God, that he should do wickedness, from the Almighty, + that he should commit iniquity. +034:011 For the work of a man he will render to him, and cause every + man to find according to his ways. +034:012 Yes surely, God will not do wickedly, neither will the + Almighty pervert justice. +034:013 Who gave him a charge over the earth? or who has appointed + him over the whole world? +034:014 If he set his heart on himself, If he gathered to himself + his spirit and his breath, +034:015 all flesh would perish together, and man would turn again to dust. +034:016 "If now you have understanding, hear this. Listen to the voice + of my words. +034:017 Shall even one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn + him who is righteous and mighty?-- +034:018 Who says to a king, 'Vile!' or to nobles, 'Wicked!'? +034:019 Who doesn't respect the persons of princes, nor regards the rich + more than the poor; for they all are the work of his hands. +034:020 In a moment they die, even at midnight. The people are shaken + and pass away. The mighty are taken away without a hand. +034:021 "For his eyes are on the ways of a man. He sees all his goings. +034:022 There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, where the workers + of iniquity may hide themselves. +034:023 For he doesn't need to consider a man further, that he should + go before God in judgment. +034:024 He breaks in pieces mighty men in ways past finding out, + and sets others in their place. +034:025 Therefore he takes knowledge of their works. He overturns + them in the night, so that they are destroyed. +034:026 He strikes them as wicked men in the open sight of others; +034:027 because they turned aside from following him, and wouldn't + pay attention to any of his ways, +034:028 so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him. + He heard the cry of the afflicted. +034:029 When he gives quietness, who then can condemn? When he hides + his face, who then can see him? Alike whether to a nation, + or to a man, +034:030 that the godless man may not reign, that there be no one + to ensnare the people. +034:031 "For has any said to God, 'I am guilty, but I will not + offend any more. +034:032 Teach me that which I don't see. If I have done iniquity, + I will do it no more'? +034:033 Shall his recompense be as you desire, that you refuse it? + For you must choose, and not I. Therefore speak what you know. +034:034 Men of understanding will tell me, yes, every wise man + who hears me: +034:035 'Job speaks without knowledge. His words are without wisdom.' +034:036 I wish that Job were tried to the end, because of his answering + like wicked men. +034:037 For he adds rebellion to his sin. He claps his hands among us, + and multiplies his words against God." +035:001 Moreover Elihu answered, +035:002 "Do you think this to be your right, or do you say, + 'My righteousness is more than God's,' +035:003 That you ask, 'What advantage will it be to you? + What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?' +035:004 I will answer you, and your companions with you. +035:005 Look to the heavens, and see. See the skies, which are + higher than you. +035:006 If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him? + If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him? +035:007 If you are righteous, what do you give him? Or what does + he receive from your hand? +035:008 Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are, and your righteousness + may profit a son of man. +035:009 "By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out. + They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty. +035:010 But none says, 'Where is God my Maker, who gives songs + in the night, +035:011 who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes + us wiser than the birds of the sky?' +035:012 There they cry, but none gives answer, because of the pride + of evil men. +035:013 Surely God will not hear an empty cry, neither will the + Almighty regard it. +035:014 How much less when you say you don't see him. The cause + is before him, and you wait for him! +035:015 But now, because he has not visited in his anger, neither does + he greatly regard arrogance. +035:016 Therefore Job opens his mouth with empty talk, and he multiplies + words without knowledge." +036:001 Elihu also continued, and said, +036:002 "Bear with me a little, and I will show you; for I still + have something to say on God's behalf. +036:003 I will get my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness + to my Maker. +036:004 For truly my words are not false. One who is perfect in knowledge + is with you. +036:005 "Behold, God is mighty, and doesn't despise anyone. + He is mighty in strength of understanding. +036:006 He doesn't preserve the life of the wicked, but gives to + the afflicted their right. +036:007 He doesn't withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings + on the throne, he sets them forever, and they are exalted. +036:008 If they are bound in fetters, and are taken in the + cords of afflictions, +036:009 then he shows them their work, and their transgressions, + that they have behaved themselves proudly. +036:010 He also opens their ears to instruction, and commands that they + return from iniquity. +036:011 If they listen and serve him, they shall spend their days + in prosperity, and their years in pleasures. +036:012 But if they don't listen, they shall perish by the sword; + they shall die without knowledge. +036:013 "But those who are godless in heart lay up anger. + They don't cry for help when he binds them. +036:014 They die in youth. Their life perishes among the unclean. +036:015 He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, and opens + their ear in oppression. +036:016 Yes, he would have allured you out of distress, into a broad place, + where there is no restriction. That which is set on your table + would be full of fatness. +036:017 "But you are full of the judgment of the wicked. + Judgment and justice take hold of you. +036:018 Don't let riches entice you to wrath, neither let the great + size of a bribe turn you aside. +036:019 Would your wealth sustain you in distress, or all the might + of your strength? +036:020 Don't desire the night, when people are cut off in their place. +036:021 Take heed, don't regard iniquity; for you have chosen this + rather than affliction. +036:022 Behold, God is exalted in his power. Who is a teacher like him? +036:023 Who has prescribed his way for him? Or who can say, + 'You have committed unrighteousness?' +036:024 "Remember that you magnify his work, whereof men have sung. +036:025 All men have looked thereon. Man sees it afar off. +036:026 Behold, God is great, and we don't know him. The number + of his years is unsearchable. +036:027 For he draws up the drops of water, which distill in rain + from his vapor, +036:028 Which the skies pour down and which drop on man abundantly. +036:029 Yes, can any understand the spreading of the clouds, + and the thunderings of his pavilion? +036:030 Behold, he spreads his light around him. He covers the bottom + of the sea. +036:031 For by these he judges the people. He gives food in abundance. +036:032 He covers his hands with the lightning, and commands it + to strike the mark. +036:033 Its noise tells about him, and the livestock also concerning + the storm that comes up. +037:001 "Yes, at this my heart trembles, and is moved out of its place. +037:002 Hear, oh, hear the noise of his voice, the sound that goes + out of his mouth. +037:003 He sends it forth under the whole sky, and his lightning + to the ends of the earth. +037:004 After it a voice roars. He thunders with the voice of his majesty. + He doesn't hold back anything when his voice is heard. +037:005 God thunders marvelously with his voice. He does great things, + which we can't comprehend. +037:006 For he says to the snow, 'Fall on the earth;' likewise to + the shower of rain, and to the showers of his mighty rain. +037:007 He seals up the hand of every man, that all men whom he has + made may know it. +037:008 Then the animals take cover, and remain in their dens. +037:009 Out of its chamber comes the storm, and cold out of the north. +037:010 By the breath of God, ice is given, and the breadth of the + waters is frozen. +037:011 Yes, he loads the thick cloud with moisture. He spreads abroad + the cloud of his lightning. +037:012 It is turned round about by his guidance, that they may do + whatever he commands them on the surface of the habitable world, +037:013 Whether it is for correction, or for his land, or for loving kindness, + that he causes it to come. +037:014 "Listen to this, Job. Stand still, and consider the wondrous + works of God. +037:015 Do you know how God controls them, and causes the lightning + of his cloud to shine? +037:016 Do you know the workings of the clouds, the wondrous works + of him who is perfect in knowledge? +037:017 You whose clothing is warm, when the earth is still by reason + of the south wind? +037:018 Can you, with him, spread out the sky, which is strong as a + cast metal mirror? +037:019 Teach us what we shall tell him, for we can't make our case + by reason of darkness. +037:020 Shall it be told him that I would speak? Or should a man wish + that he were swallowed up? +037:021 Now men don't see the light which is bright in the skies, + but the wind passes, and clears them. +037:022 Out of the north comes golden splendor. With God is awesome majesty. +037:023 We can't reach the Almighty. He is exalted in power. + In justice and great righteousness, he will not oppress. +037:024 Therefore men revere him. He doesn't regard any who are + wise of heart." +038:001 Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind, +038:002 "Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge? +038:003 Brace yourself like a man, for I will question you, + then you answer me! +038:004 "Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? + Declare, if you have understanding. +038:005 Who determined the measures of it, if you know? + Or who stretched the line on it? +038:006 Whereupon were the foundations of it fastened? + Or who laid its cornerstone, +038:007 when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God + shouted for joy? +038:008 "Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth + from the womb, +038:009 when I made clouds its garment, and wrapped it in thick darkness, +038:010 marked out for it my bound, set bars and doors, +038:011 and said, 'Here you may come, but no further. Here shall + your proud waves be stayed?' +038:012 "Have you commanded the morning in your days, and caused + the dawn to know its place; +038:013 that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, and shake + the wicked out of it? +038:014 It is changed as clay under the seal, and stands forth + as a garment. +038:015 From the wicked, their light is withheld. The high arm is broken. +038:016 "Have you entered into the springs of the sea? Or have you + walked in the recesses of the deep? +038:017 Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you + seen the gates of the shadow of death? +038:018 Have you comprehended the earth in its breadth? Declare, if you + know it all. +038:019 "What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, + where is its place, +038:020 that you should take it to its bound, that you should discern + the paths to its house? +038:021 Surely you know, for you were born then, and the number of your + days is great! +038:022 Have you entered the treasuries of the snow, or have you seen + the treasures of the hail, +038:023 which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day + of battle and war? +038:024 By what way is the lightning distributed, or the east wind + scattered on the earth? +038:025 Who has cut a channel for the flood water, or the path + for the thunderstorm; +038:026 To cause it to rain on a land where no man is; on the wilderness, + in which there is no man; +038:027 to satisfy the waste and desolate ground, to cause the tender + grass to spring forth? +038:028 Does the rain have a father? Or who fathers the drops of dew? +038:029 Out of whose womb came the ice? The gray frost of the sky, + who has given birth to it? +038:030 The waters become hard like stone, when the surface of the + deep is frozen. +038:031 "Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades, or loosen + the cords of Orion? +038:032 Can you lead forth the constellations in their season? + Or can you guide the Bear with her cubs? +038:033 Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you establish + the dominion of it over the earth? +038:034 "Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, That abundance + of waters may cover you? +038:035 Can you send forth lightnings, that they may go? + Do they report to you, 'Here we are?' +038:036 Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given + understanding to the mind? +038:037 Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out + the bottles of the sky, +038:038 when the dust runs into a mass, and the clods of + earth stick together? +038:039 "Can you hunt the prey for the lioness, or satisfy the appetite + of the young lions, +038:040 when they crouch in their dens, and lie in wait in the thicket? +038:041 Who provides for the raven his prey, when his young ones cry + to God, and wander for lack of food? +039:001 "Do you know the time when the mountain goats give birth? + Do you watch when the doe bears fawns? +039:002 Can you number the months that they fulfill? Or do you know + the time when they give birth? +039:003 They bow themselves, they bring forth their young, they end + their labor pains. +039:004 Their young ones become strong. They grow up in the open field. + They go forth, and don't return again. +039:005 "Who has set the wild donkey free? Or who has loosened + the bonds of the swift donkey, +039:006 Whose home I have made the wilderness, and the salt land + his dwelling place? +039:007 He scorns the tumult of the city, neither does he hear + the shouting of the driver. +039:008 The range of the mountains is his pasture, He searches after + every green thing. +039:009 "Will the wild ox be content to serve you? Or will he stay + by your feeding trough? +039:010 Can you hold the wild ox in the furrow with his harness? + Or will he till the valleys after you? +039:011 Will you trust him, because his strength is great? + Or will you leave to him your labor? +039:012 Will you confide in him, that he will bring home your seed, + and gather the grain of your threshing floor? +039:013 "The wings of the ostrich wave proudly; but are they the feathers + and plumage of love? +039:014 For she leaves her eggs on the earth, warms them in the dust, +039:015 and forgets that the foot may crush them, or that the wild + animal may trample them. +039:016 She deals harshly with her young ones, as if they were not hers. + Though her labor is in vain, she is without fear, +039:017 because God has deprived her of wisdom, neither has he imparted + to her understanding. +039:018 When she lifts up herself on high, she scorns the horse + and his rider. +039:019 "Have you given the horse might? Have you clothed his neck + with a quivering mane? +039:020 Have you made him to leap as a locust? The glory of his + snorting is awesome. +039:021 He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength. + He goes out to meet the armed men. +039:022 He mocks at fear, and is not dismayed, neither does he turn + back from the sword. +039:023 The quiver rattles against him, the flashing spear and the javelin. +039:024 He eats up the ground with fierceness and rage, neither does + he stand still at the sound of the trumpet. +039:025 As often as the trumpet sounds he snorts, 'Aha!' He smells + the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, + and the shouting. +039:026 "Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars, and stretches her + wings toward the south? +039:027 Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up, and makes + his nest on high? +039:028 On the cliff he dwells, and makes his home, on the point + of the cliff, and the stronghold. +039:029 From there he spies out the prey. His eyes see it afar off. +039:030 His young ones also suck up blood. Where the slain are, + there he is." +040:001 Moreover Yahweh answered Job, +040:002 "Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues + with God, let him answer it." +040:003 Then Job answered Yahweh, +040:004 "Behold, I am of small account. What shall I answer you? + I lay my hand on my mouth. +040:005 I have spoken once, and I will not answer; Yes, twice, but I + will proceed no further." +040:006 Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind, +040:007 "Now brace yourself like a man. I will question you, and you + will answer me. +040:008 Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, + that you may be justified? +040:009 Or do you have an arm like God? Can you thunder with a + voice like him? +040:010 "Now deck yourself with excellency and dignity. + Array yourself with honor and majesty. +040:011 Pour out the fury of your anger. Look at everyone who is proud, + and bring him low. +040:012 Look at everyone who is proud, and humble him. Crush the wicked + in their place. +040:013 Hide them in the dust together. Bind their faces in + the hidden place. +040:014 Then I will also admit to you that your own right hand + can save you. +040:015 "See now, behemoth, which I made as well as you. + He eats grass as an ox. +040:016 Look now, his strength is in his thighs. His force is in + the muscles of his belly. +040:017 He moves his tail like a cedar. The sinews of his thighs + are knit together. +040:018 His bones are like tubes of brass. His limbs are like + bars of iron. +040:019 He is the chief of the ways of God. He who made him gives + him his sword. +040:020 Surely the mountains produce food for him, where all the animals + of the field play. +040:021 He lies under the lotus trees, in the covert of the reed, + and the marsh. +040:022 The lotuses cover him with their shade. The willows of + the brook surround him. +040:023 Behold, if a river overflows, he doesn't tremble. + He is confident, though the Jordan swells even to his mouth. +040:024 Shall any take him when he is on the watch, or pierce through + his nose with a snare? +041:001 "Can you draw out Leviathan{Leviathan is a name for a crocodile + or similar creature.} with a fishhook, or press down his tongue + with a cord? +041:002 Can you put a rope into his nose, or pierce his jaw through + with a hook? +041:003 Will he make many petitions to you, or will he speak soft + words to you? +041:004 Will he make a covenant with you, that you should take him + for a servant forever? +041:005 Will you play with him as with a bird? Or will you bind him + for your girls? +041:006 Will traders barter for him? Will they part him among the merchants? +041:007 Can you fill his skin with barbed irons, or his head + with fish spears? +041:008 Lay your hand on him. Remember the battle, and do so no more. +041:009 Behold, the hope of him is in vain. Won't one be cast down + even at the sight of him? +041:010 None is so fierce that he dare stir him up. Who then is + he who can stand before me? +041:011 Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? + Everything under the heavens is mine. +041:012 "I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, nor his + mighty strength, nor his goodly frame. +041:013 Who can strip off his outer garment? Who shall come + within his jaws? +041:014 Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth is terror. +041:015 Strong scales are his pride, shut up together with a close seal. +041:016 One is so near to another, that no air can come between them. +041:017 They are joined one to another. They stick together, + so that they can't be pulled apart. +041:018 His sneezing flashes out light. His eyes are like the eyelids + of the morning. +041:019 Out of his mouth go burning torches. Sparks of fire leap forth. +041:020 Out of his nostrils a smoke goes, as of a boiling pot over + a fire of reeds. +041:021 His breath kindles coals. A flame goes forth from his mouth. +041:022 There is strength in his neck. Terror dances before him. +041:023 The flakes of his flesh are joined together. They are firm on him. + They can't be moved. +041:024 His heart is as firm as a stone, yes, firm as the lower millstone. +041:025 When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid. + They retreat before his thrashing. +041:026 If one attacks him with the sword, it can't prevail; + nor the spear, the dart, nor the pointed shaft. +041:027 He counts iron as straw; and brass as rotten wood. +041:028 The arrow can't make him flee. Sling stones are like chaff to him. +041:029 Clubs are counted as stubble. He laughs at the rushing + of the javelin. +041:030 His undersides are like sharp potsherds, leaving a trail + in the mud like a threshing sledge. +041:031 He makes the deep to boil like a pot. He makes the sea + like a pot of ointment. +041:032 He makes a path shine after him. One would think the deep + had white hair. +041:033 On earth there is not his equal, that is made without fear. +041:034 He sees everything that is high. He is king over all + the sons of pride." +042:001 Then Job answered Yahweh, +042:002 "I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours + can be restrained. +042:003 You asked, 'Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?' + therefore I have uttered that which I did not understand, + things too wonderful for me, which I didn't know. +042:004 You said, 'Listen, now, and I will speak; I will question you, + and you will answer me.' +042:005 I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my + eye sees you. +042:006 Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes." +042:007 It was so, that after Yahweh had spoken these words + to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "My wrath + is kindled against you, and against your two friends; + for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, + as my servant Job has. +042:008 Now therefore, take to yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go + to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; + and my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept him, + that I not deal with you according to your folly. + For you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, + as my servant Job has." +042:009 So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar + the Naamathite went, and did what Yahweh commanded them, + and Yahweh accepted Job. +042:010 Yahweh turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends. + Yahweh gave Job twice as much as he had before. +042:011 Then came there to him all his brothers, and all his sisters, + and all those who had been of his acquaintance before, and ate + bread with him in his house. They comforted him, and consoled + him concerning all the evil that Yahweh had brought on him. + Everyone also gave him a piece of money,{literally, kesitah, + a unit of money, probably silver} and everyone a ring of gold. +042:012 So Yahweh blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. + He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, + one thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys. +042:013 He had also seven sons and three daughters. +042:014 He called the name of the first, Jemimah; and the name of + the second, Keziah; and the name of the third, Keren Happuch. +042:015 In all the land were no women found so beautiful as the + daughters of Job. Their father gave them an inheritance + among their brothers. +042:016 After this Job lived one hundred forty years, and saw his sons, + and his sons' sons, to four generations. +042:017 So Job died, being old and full of days. +Book 19 Psalms +001:001 Blessed is the man who doesn't walk in the counsel of the wicked, + nor stand in the way of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers; +001:002 but his delight is in Yahweh's law. On his law he meditates + day and night. +001:003 He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that brings + forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. + Whatever he does shall prosper. +001:004 The wicked are not so, but are like the chaff which the + wind drives away. +001:005 Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment, + nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. +001:006 For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way + of the wicked shall perish. +002:001 Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing? +002:002 The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take + counsel together, against Yahweh, and against his Anointed,{The + word "Anointed" is the same as the word for "Messiah" + or "Christ"} saying, +002:003 "Let's break their bonds apart, and cast their cords from us." +002:004 He who sits in the heavens will laugh. The Lord will have + them in derision. +002:005 Then he will speak to them in his anger, and terrify them + in his wrath: +002:006 "Yet I have set my king on my holy hill of Zion." +002:007 I will tell of the decree. Yahweh said to me, "You are my son. + Today I have become your father. +002:008 Ask of me, and I will give the nations for your inheritance, + the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession. +002:009 You shall break them with a rod of iron. You shall dash them + in pieces like a potter's vessel." +002:010 Now therefore be wise, you kings. Be instructed, you judges + of the earth. +002:011 Serve Yahweh with fear, and rejoice with trembling. +002:012 Give sincere homage{or, Kiss the son}, lest he be angry, + and you perish in the way, for his wrath will soon be kindled. + Blessed are all those who take refuge in him. +003:001 <<A Psalm by David, when he fled from Absalom his son.>> Yahweh, + how my adversaries have increased! Many are those who rise + up against me. +003:002 Many there are who say of my soul, "There is no help for him + in God." Selah. +003:003 But you, Yahweh, are a shield around me, my glory, and the one + who lifts up my head. +003:004 I cry to Yahweh with my voice, and he answers me out of his + holy hill. Selah. +003:005 I laid myself down and slept. I awakened; for Yahweh sustains me. +003:006 I will not be afraid of tens of thousands of people who have + set themselves against me on every side. +003:007 Arise, Yahweh! Save me, my God! For you have struck all + of my enemies on the cheek bone. You have broken the teeth + of the wicked. +003:008 Salvation belongs to Yahweh. Your blessing be on + your people. Selah. +004:001 <<For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments. A Psalm + by David.>> Answer me when I call, God of my righteousness. + Give me relief from my distress. Have mercy on me, + and hear my prayer. +004:002 You sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? + Will you love vanity, and seek after falsehood? Selah. +004:003 But know that Yahweh has set apart for himself him who is godly: + Yahweh will hear when I call to him. +004:004 Stand in awe, and don't sin. Search your own heart on your bed, + and be still. Selah. +004:005 Offer the sacrifices of righteousness. Put your trust in Yahweh. +004:006 Many say, "Who will show us any good?" Yahweh, let the light + of your face shine on us. +004:007 You have put gladness in my heart, more than when their grain + and their new wine are increased. +004:008 In peace I will both lay myself down and sleep, for you, + Yahweh alone, make me live in safety. +005:001 <<For the Chief Musician, with the flutes. A Psalm by David.>> + Give ear to my words, Yahweh. Consider my meditation. +005:002 Listen to the voice of my cry, my King and my God; for to you + do I pray. +005:003 Yahweh, in the morning you shall hear my voice. In the morning + I will lay my requests before you, and will watch expectantly. +005:004 For you are not a God who has pleasure in wickedness. + Evil can't live with you. +005:005 The arrogant shall not stand in your sight. You hate all + workers of iniquity. +005:006 You will destroy those who speak lies. Yahweh abhors + the blood-thirsty and deceitful man. +005:007 But as for me, in the abundance of your loving kindness I + will come into your house. I will bow toward your holy temple + in reverence of you. +005:008 Lead me, Yahweh, in your righteousness because of my enemies. + Make your way straight before my face. +005:009 For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. + Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. + They flatter with their tongue. +005:010 Hold them guilty, God. Let them fall by their own counsels; + Thrust them out in the multitude of their transgressions, + for they have rebelled against you. +005:011 But let all those who take refuge in you rejoice, + Let them always shout for joy, because you defend them. + Let them also who love your name be joyful in you. +005:012 For you will bless the righteous. Yahweh, you will surround + him with favor as with a shield. +006:001 <<For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments, + upon the eight-stringed lyre. A Psalm by David.>> Yahweh, + don't rebuke me in your anger, neither discipline me + in your wrath. +006:002 Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am faint. Yahweh, heal me, + for my bones are troubled. +006:003 My soul is also in great anguish. But you, Yahweh--how long? +006:004 Return, Yahweh. Deliver my soul, and save me for your + loving kindness' sake. +006:005 For in death there is no memory of you. In Sheol, who shall + give you thanks? +006:006 I am weary with my groaning. Every night I flood my bed. + I drench my couch with my tears. +006:007 My eye wastes away because of grief. It grows old because of + all my adversaries. +006:008 Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for Yahweh has + heard the voice of my weeping. +006:009 Yahweh has heard my supplication. Yahweh accepts my prayer. +006:010 May all my enemies be ashamed and dismayed. They shall turn back, + they shall be disgraced suddenly. +007:001 <<A meditation by David, which he sang to Yahweh, concerning the words + of Cush, the Benjamite.>> Yahweh, my God, I take refuge in you. + Save me from all those who pursue me, and deliver me, +007:002 lest they tear apart my soul like a lion, ripping it in pieces, + while there is none to deliver. +007:003 Yahweh, my God, if I have done this, if there is iniquity + in my hands, +007:004 if I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me (yes, if I + have delivered him who without cause was my adversary), +007:005 let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it; yes, let him tread + my life down to the earth, and lay my glory in the dust. Selah. +007:006 Arise, Yahweh, in your anger. Lift up yourself against the rage + of my adversaries. Awake for me. You have commanded judgment. +007:007 Let the congregation of the peoples surround you. + Rule over them on high. +007:008 Yahweh administers judgment to the peoples. Judge me, + Yahweh, according to my righteousness, and to my integrity + that is in me. +007:009 Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, + but establish the righteous; their minds and hearts are searched + by the righteous God. +007:010 My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart. +007:011 God is a righteous judge, yes, a God who has indignation every day. +007:012 If a man doesn't relent, he will sharpen his sword; he has + bent and strung his bow. +007:013 He has also prepared for himself the instruments of death. + He makes ready his flaming arrows. +007:014 Behold, he travails with iniquity. Yes, he has conceived mischief, + and brought forth falsehood. +007:015 He has dug a hole, and has fallen into the pit which he made. +007:016 The trouble he causes shall return to his own head. + His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head. +007:017 I will give thanks to Yahweh according to his righteousness, + and will sing praise to the name of Yahweh Most High. +008:001 <<For the Chief Musician; on an instrument of Gath. + A Psalm by David.>> Yahweh, our Lord, how majestic is your name + in all the earth, who has set your glory above the heavens! +008:002 From the lips of babes and infants you have established strength, + because of your adversaries, that you might silence the enemy + and the avenger. +008:003 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, + the moon and the stars, which you have ordained; +008:004 what is man, that you think of him? What is the son of man, + that you care for him? +008:005 For you have made him a little lower than God,{Hebrew: Elohim} + and crowned him with glory and honor. +008:006 You make him ruler over the works of your hands. + You have put all things under his feet: +008:007 All sheep and oxen, yes, and the animals of the field, +008:008 The birds of the sky, the fish of the sea, and whatever passes + through the paths of the seas. +008:009 Yahweh, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! +009:001 <<For the Chief Musician. Set to "The Death of the Son." + A Psalm by David.>> I will give thanks to Yahweh with my + whole heart. I will tell of all your marvelous works. +009:002 I will be glad and rejoice in you. I will sing praise to your name, + O Most High. +009:003 When my enemies turn back, they stumble and perish in your presence. +009:004 For you have maintained my just cause. You sit on the + throne judging righteously. +009:005 You have rebuked the nations. You have destroyed the wicked. + You have blotted out their name forever and ever. +009:006 The enemy is overtaken by endless ruin. The very memory + of the cities which you have overthrown has perished. +009:007 But Yahweh reigns forever. He has prepared his throne for judgment. +009:008 He will judge the world in righteousness. He will administer + judgment to the peoples in uprightness. +009:009 Yahweh will also be a high tower for the oppressed; a high + tower in times of trouble. +009:010 Those who know your name will put their trust in you, + for you, Yahweh, have not forsaken those who seek you. +009:011 Sing praises to Yahweh, who dwells in Zion, and declare among + the people what he has done. +009:012 For he who avenges blood remembers them. He doesn't forget + the cry of the afflicted. +009:013 Have mercy on me, Yahweh. See my affliction by those who hate me, + and lift me up from the gates of death; +009:014 that I may show forth all your praise. In the gates of + the daughter of Zion, I will rejoice in your salvation. +009:015 The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made. + In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken. +009:016 Yahweh has made himself known. He has executed judgment. The wicked + is snared by the work of his own hands. Meditation. Selah. +009:017 The wicked shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations + that forget God. +009:018 For the needy shall not always be forgotten, nor the hope + of the poor perish forever. +009:019 Arise, Yahweh! Don't let man prevail. Let the nations be + judged in your sight. +009:020 Put them in fear, Yahweh. Let the nations know that they + are only men. Selah. +010:001 Why do you stand far off, Yahweh? Why do you hide yourself + in times of trouble? +010:002 In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught + in the schemes that they devise. +010:003 For the wicked boasts of his heart's cravings. He blesses + the greedy, and condemns Yahweh. +010:004 The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his + thoughts for God. +010:005 His ways are prosperous at all times. He is haughty, and your + laws are far from his sight. As for all his adversaries, + he sneers at them. +010:006 He says in his heart, "I shall not be shaken. For generations + I shall have no trouble." +010:007 His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. + Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity. +010:008 He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders + the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless. +010:009 He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait + to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless, when he draws + him in his net. +010:010 The helpless are crushed. They collapse. They fall + under his strength. +010:011 He says in his heart, "God has forgotten. He hides his face. + He will never see it." +010:012 Arise, Yahweh! God, lift up your hand! Don't forget the helpless. +010:013 Why does the wicked person condemn God, and say in his heart, + "God won't call me into account?" +010:014 But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it + into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless. +010:015 Break the arm of the wicked. As for the evil man, seek out + his wickedness until you find none. +010:016 Yahweh is King forever and ever! The nations will perish + out of his land. +010:017 Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble. + You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear, +010:018 to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is + of the earth may terrify no more. +011:001 <<For the Chief Musician. By David.>> In Yahweh, I take refuge. + How can you say to my soul, "Flee as a bird to your mountain!" +011:002 For, behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their + arrows on the strings, that they may shoot in darkness at + the upright in heart. +011:003 If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do? +011:004 Yahweh is in his holy temple. Yahweh is on his throne in heaven. + His eyes observe. His eyes examine the children of men. +011:005 Yahweh examines the righteous, but the wicked and him who loves + violence his soul hates. +011:006 On the wicked he will rain blazing coals; fire, sulfur, + and scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup. +011:007 For Yahweh is righteous. He loves righteousness. + The upright shall see his face. +012:001 <<For the Chief Musician; upon an eight-stringed lyre. + A Psalm of David.>> Help, Yahweh; for the godly man ceases. + For the faithful fail from among the children of men. +012:002 Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, + and with a double heart. +012:003 May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that boasts, +012:004 who have said, "With our tongue we will prevail. + Our lips are our own. Who is lord over us?" +012:005 "Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning + of the needy, I will now arise," says Yahweh; "I will set + him in safety from those who malign him." +012:006 The words of Yahweh are flawless words, as silver refined + in a clay furnace, purified seven times. +012:007 You will keep them, Yahweh. You will preserve them from + this generation forever. +012:008 The wicked walk on every side, when what is vile is exalted + among the sons of men. +013:001 <<For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.>> + How long, Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? + How long will you hide your face from me? +013:002 How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my + heart every day? How long shall my enemy triumph over me? +013:003 Behold, and answer me, Yahweh, my God. Give light to my eyes, + lest I sleep in death; +013:004 Lest my enemy say, "I have prevailed against him;" Lest my + adversaries rejoice when I fall. +013:005 But I trust in your loving kindness. My heart rejoices + in your salvation. +013:006 I will sing to Yahweh, because he has been good to me. +014:001 <<For the Chief Musician. By David.>> The fool has said + in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt. + They have done abominable works. There is none who does good. +014:002 Yahweh looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see + if there were any who did understand, who did seek after God. +014:003 They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. + There is none who does good, no, not one. +014:004 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up + my people as they eat bread, and don't call on Yahweh? +014:005 There they were in great fear, for God is in the generation + of the righteous. +014:006 You frustrate the plan of the poor, because Yahweh is his refuge. +014:007 Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When Yahweh + restores the fortunes of his people, then Jacob shall rejoice, + and Israel shall be glad. +015:001 <<A Psalm by David.>> Yahweh, who shall dwell in your sanctuary? + Who shall live on your holy hill? +015:002 He who walks blamelessly does what is right, and speaks truth + in his heart; +015:003 He who doesn't slander with his tongue, nor does evil to his friend, + nor casts slurs against his fellow man; +015:004 In whose eyes a vile man is despised, but who honors those + who fear Yahweh; he who keeps an oath even when it hurts, + and doesn't change; +015:005 he who doesn't lend out his money for usury, nor take a bribe + against the innocent. He who does these things shall + never be shaken. +016:001 <<A Poem by David.>> Preserve me, God, for in you do I take refuge. +016:002 My soul, you have said to Yahweh, "You are my Lord. + Apart from you I have no good thing." +016:003 As for the saints who are in the earth, they are the excellent + ones in whom is all my delight. +016:004 Their sorrows shall be multiplied who give gifts to another god. + Their drink offerings of blood I will not offer, nor take + their names on my lips. +016:005 Yahweh assigned my portion and my cup. You made my lot secure. +016:006 The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places. Yes, I have + a good inheritance. +016:007 I will bless Yahweh, who has given me counsel. Yes, my heart + instructs me in the night seasons. +016:008 I have set Yahweh always before me. Because he is at my right hand, + I shall not be moved. +016:009 Therefore my heart is glad, and my tongue rejoices. + My body shall also dwell in safety. +016:010 For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, neither will you + allow your holy one to see corruption. +016:011 You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness + of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forevermore. +017:001 <<A Prayer by David.>> Hear, Yahweh, my righteous plea; + Give ear to my prayer, that doesn't go out of deceitful lips. +017:002 Let my sentence come forth from your presence. Let your eyes + look on equity. +017:003 You have proved my heart. You have visited me in the night. + You have tried me, and found nothing. I have resolved that my + mouth shall not disobey. +017:004 As for the works of men, by the word of your lips, I have kept + myself from the ways of the violent. +017:005 My steps have held fast to your paths. My feet have not slipped. +017:006 I have called on you, for you will answer me, God. Turn your + ear to me. Hear my speech. +017:007 Show your marvelous loving kindness, you who save those who take + refuge by your right hand from their enemies. +017:008 Keep me as the apple of your eye. Hide me under the shadow + of your wings, +017:009 from the wicked who oppress me, my deadly enemies, + who surround me. +017:010 They close up their callous hearts. With their mouth + they speak proudly. +017:011 They have now surrounded us in our steps. They set their eyes + to cast us down to the earth. +017:012 He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, as it were a young + lion lurking in secret places. +017:013 Arise, Yahweh, confront him. Cast him down. Deliver my soul + from the wicked by your sword; +017:014 from men by your hand, Yahweh, from men of the world, whose portion + is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones. + Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children. +017:015 As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. + I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form. +018:001 <<For the Chief Musician. By David the servant of Yahweh, who spoke + to Yahweh the words of this song in the day that Yahweh delivered + him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. + He said,>> I love you, Yahweh, my strength. +018:002 Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, + in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, + my high tower. +018:003 I call on Yahweh, who is worthy to be praised; and I am saved + from my enemies. +018:004 The cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness + made me afraid. +018:005 The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death + came on me. +018:006 In my distress I called on Yahweh, and cried to my God. + He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry before him came + into his ears. +018:007 Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations also of + the mountains quaked and were shaken, because he was angry. +018:008 Smoke went out of his nostrils. Consuming fire came out + of his mouth. Coals were kindled by it. +018:009 He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness + was under his feet. +018:010 He rode on a cherub, and flew. Yes, he soared on the wings + of the wind. +018:011 He made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion around him, + darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies. +018:012 At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, + hailstones and coals of fire. +018:013 Yahweh also thundered in the sky. The Most High uttered his voice: + hailstones and coals of fire. +018:014 He sent out his arrows, and scattered them; Yes, great lightning + bolts, and routed them. +018:015 Then the channels of waters appeared. The foundations of + the world were laid bare at your rebuke, Yahweh, at the blast + of the breath of your nostrils. +018:016 He sent from on high. He took me. He drew me out of many waters. +018:017 He delivered me from my strong enemy, from those who hated me; + for they were too mighty for me. +018:018 They came on me in the day of my calamity, but Yahweh + was my support. +018:019 He brought me forth also into a large place. He delivered me, + because he delighted in me. +018:020 Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness. + According to the cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me. +018:021 For I have kept the ways of Yahweh, and have not wickedly + departed from my God. +018:022 For all his ordinances were before me. I didn't put away + his statutes from me. +018:023 I was also blameless with him. I kept myself from my iniquity. +018:024 Therefore Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness, + according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight. +018:025 With the merciful you will show yourself merciful. + With the perfect man, you will show yourself perfect. +018:026 With the pure, you will show yourself pure. With the crooked + you will show yourself shrewd. +018:027 For you will save the afflicted people, but the haughty eyes + you will bring down. +018:028 For you will light my lamp, Yahweh. My God will light + up my darkness. +018:029 For by you, I advance through a troop. By my God, I leap + over a wall. +018:030 As for God, his way is perfect. The word of Yahweh is tried. + He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him. +018:031 For who is God, except Yahweh? Who is a rock, besides our God, +018:032 the God who arms me with strength, and makes my way perfect? +018:033 He makes my feet like deer's feet, and sets me on my high places. +018:034 He teaches my hands to war, so that my arms bend a bow of bronze. +018:035 You have also given me the shield of your salvation. + Your right hand sustains me. Your gentleness has made me great. +018:036 You have enlarged my steps under me, My feet have not slipped. +018:037 I will pursue my enemies, and overtake them. Neither will I + turn again until they are consumed. +018:038 I will strike them through, so that they will not be able to rise. + They shall fall under my feet. +018:039 For you have girded me with strength to the battle. + You have subdued under me those who rose up against me. +018:040 You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I + might cut off those who hate me. +018:041 They cried, but there was none to save; even to Yahweh, + but he didn't answer them. +018:042 Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind. + I cast them out as the mire of the streets. +018:043 You have delivered me from the strivings of the people. + You have made me the head of the nations. A people whom I + have not known shall serve me. +018:044 As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me. The foreigners + shall submit themselves to me. +018:045 The foreigners shall fade away, and shall come trembling out + of their close places. +018:046 Yahweh lives; and blessed be my rock. Exalted be the God + of my salvation, +018:047 even the God who executes vengeance for me, and subdues + peoples under me. +018:048 He rescues me from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up above those + who rise up against me. You deliver me from the violent man. +018:049 Therefore I will give thanks to you, Yahweh, among the nations, + and will sing praises to your name. +018:050 He gives great deliverance to his king, and shows loving kindness + to his anointed, to David and to his seed, forevermore. +019:001 <<For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.>> The heavens + declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork. +019:002 Day after day they pour forth speech, and night after night + they display knowledge. +019:003 There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. +019:004 Their voice has gone out through all the earth, their words + to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun, +019:005 which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, like a strong + man rejoicing to run his course. +019:006 His going forth is from the end of the heavens, his circuit + to its ends; There is nothing hidden from its heat. +019:007 Yahweh's law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh's testimony + is sure, making wise the simple. +019:008 Yahweh's precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. + Yahweh's commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes. +019:009 The fear of Yahweh is clean, enduring forever. + Yahweh's ordinances are true, and righteous altogether. +019:010 More to be desired are they than gold, yes, than much fine gold; + sweeter also than honey and the extract of the honeycomb. +019:011 Moreover by them is your servant warned. In keeping them + there is great reward. +019:012 Who can discern his errors? Forgive me from hidden errors. +019:013 Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins. + Let them not have dominion over me. Then I will be upright. + I will be blameless and innocent of great transgression. +019:014 Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be + acceptable in your sight, Yahweh, my rock, and my redeemer. +020:001 <<For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.>> May Yahweh + answer you in the day of trouble. May the name of the God + of Jacob set you up on high, +020:002 send you help from the sanctuary, grant you support from Zion, +020:003 remember all your offerings, and accept your burnt sacrifice. Selah. +020:004 May He grant you your heart's desire, and fulfill all your counsel. +020:005 We will triumph in your salvation. In the name of our God, + we will set up our banners. May Yahweh grant all your requests. +020:006 Now I know that Yahweh saves his anointed. He will answer him + from his holy heaven, with the saving strength of his right hand. +020:007 Some trust in chariots, and some in horses, but we trust + the name of Yahweh our God. +020:008 They are bowed down and fallen, but we rise up, and stand upright. +020:009 Save, Yahweh! Let the King answer us when we call! +021:001 <<For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.>> The king + rejoices in your strength, Yahweh! How greatly he rejoices + in your salvation! +021:002 You have given him his heart's desire, and have not withheld + the request of his lips. Selah. +021:003 For you meet him with the blessings of goodness. + You set a crown of fine gold on his head. +021:004 He asked life of you, you gave it to him, even length of days + forever and ever. +021:005 His glory is great in your salvation. You lay honor and + majesty on him. +021:006 For you make him most blessed forever. You make him glad + with joy in your presence. +021:007 For the king trusts in Yahweh. Through the loving kindness + of the Most High, he shall not be moved. +021:008 Your hand will find out all of your enemies. Your right hand + will find out those who hate you. +021:009 You will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of your anger. + Yahweh will swallow them up in his wrath. The fire + shall devour them. +021:010 You will destroy their descendants from the earth, their posterity + from among the children of men. +021:011 For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against + you which cannot succeed. +021:012 For you will make them turn their back, when you aim drawn + bows at their face. +021:013 Be exalted, Yahweh, in your strength, so we will sing and + praise your power. +022:001 <<For the Chief Musician; set to "The Doe of the Morning." + A Psalm by David.>> My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? + Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words + of my groaning? +022:002 My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don't answer; + in the night season, and am not silent. +022:003 But you are holy, you who inhabit the praises of Israel. +022:004 Our fathers trusted in you. They trusted, and you delivered them. +022:005 They cried to you, and were delivered. They trusted in you, + and were not disappointed. +022:006 But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised + by the people. +022:007 All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips. + They shake their heads, saying, +022:008 "He trusts in Yahweh; let him deliver him. Let him rescue him, + since he delights in him." +022:009 But you brought me out of the womb. You made me trust at + my mother's breasts. +022:010 I was thrown on you from my mother's womb. You are my God + since my mother bore me. +022:011 Don't be far from me, for trouble is near. For there is + none to help. +022:012 Many bulls have surrounded me. Strong bulls of Bashan + have encircled me. +022:013 They open their mouths wide against me, lions tearing + prey and roaring. +022:014 I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint. + My heart is like wax; it is melted within me. +022:015 My strength is dried up like a potsherd. My tongue sticks + to the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the + dust of death. +022:016 For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evil-doers have + enclosed me. Like a lion, they pin my hands and feet.{or, + They have pierced my hands and feet. (DSS)} +022:017 I can count all of my bones. They look and stare at me. +022:018 They divide my garments among them. They cast lots for my clothing. +022:019 But don't be far off, Yahweh. You are my help: + hurry to help me. +022:020 Deliver my soul from the sword, my precious life from the power + of the dog. +022:021 Save me from the lion's mouth! Yes, from the horns of the wild oxen, + you have answered me. +022:022 I will declare your name to my brothers. In the midst + of the assembly, I will praise you. +022:023 You who fear Yahweh, praise him! All you descendants of Jacob, + glorify him! Stand in awe of him, all you descendants of Israel! +022:024 For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of + the afflicted, Neither has he hidden his face from him; + but when he cried to him, he heard. +022:025 Of you comes my praise in the great assembly. I will pay + my vows before those who fear him. +022:026 The humble shall eat and be satisfied. They shall praise + Yahweh who seek after him. Let your hearts live forever. +022:027 All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to Yahweh. + All the relatives of the nations shall worship before you. +022:028 For the kingdom is Yahweh's. He is the ruler over the nations. +022:029 All the rich ones of the earth shall eat and worship. + All those who go down to the dust shall bow before him, + even he who can't keep his soul alive. +022:030 Posterity shall serve him. Future generations shall be told + about the Lord. +022:031 They shall come and shall declare his righteousness to a people + that shall be born, for he has done it. +023:001 <<A Psalm by David.>> Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. +023:002 He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me + beside still waters. +023:003 He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness + for his name's sake. +023:004 Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, + I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, + they comfort me. +023:005 You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. + You anoint my head with oil. My cup runs over. +023:006 Surely goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the days + of my life, and I will dwell in Yahweh's house forever. +024:001 <<A Psalm by David.>> The earth is Yahweh's, with its fullness; + the world, and those who dwell therein. +024:002 For he has founded it on the seas, and established it + on the floods. +024:003 Who may ascend to Yahweh's hill? Who may stand in his holy place? +024:004 He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted + up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully. +024:005 He shall receive a blessing from Yahweh, righteousness from + the God of his salvation. +024:006 This is the generation of those who seek Him, who seek your face-- + even Jacob. Selah. +024:007 Lift up your heads, you gates! Be lifted up, you everlasting doors, + and the King of glory will come in. +024:008 Who is the King of glory? Yahweh strong and mighty, + Yahweh mighty in battle. +024:009 Lift up your heads, you gates; yes, lift them up, + you everlasting doors, and the King of glory will come in. +024:010 Who is this King of glory? Yahweh of Armies is the King + of glory! Selah. +025:001 <<By David.>> To you, Yahweh, do I lift up my soul. +025:002 My God, I have trusted in you. Don't let me be shamed. + Don't let my enemies triumph over me. +025:003 Yes, no one who waits for you shall be shamed. They shall + be shamed who deal treacherously without cause. +025:004 Show me your ways, Yahweh. Teach me your paths. +025:005 Guide me in your truth, and teach me, For you are the God + of my salvation, I wait for you all day long. +025:006 Yahweh, remember your tender mercies and your loving kindness, + for they are from old times. +025:007 Don't remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions. + Remember me according to your loving kindness, + for your goodness' sake, Yahweh. +025:008 Good and upright is Yahweh, therefore he will instruct sinners + in the way. +025:009 He will guide the humble in justice. He will teach + the humble his way. +025:010 All the paths of Yahweh are loving kindness and truth to such + as keep his covenant and his testimonies. +025:011 For your name's sake, Yahweh, pardon my iniquity, for it is great. +025:012 What man is he who fears Yahweh? He shall instruct him + in the way that he shall choose. +025:013 His soul shall dwell at ease. His seed shall inherit the land. +025:014 The friendship of Yahweh is with those who fear him. + He will show them his covenant. +025:015 My eyes are ever on Yahweh, for he will pluck my feet out + of the net. +025:016 Turn to me, and have mercy on me, for I am desolate and afflicted. +025:017 The troubles of my heart are enlarged. Oh bring me out + of my distresses. +025:018 Consider my affliction and my travail. Forgive all my sins. +025:019 Consider my enemies, for they are many. They hate me + with cruel hatred. +025:020 Oh keep my soul, and deliver me. Let me not be disappointed, + for I take refuge in you. +025:021 Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for you. +025:022 Redeem Israel, God, out all of his troubles. +026:001 <<By David.>> Judge me, Yahweh, for I have walked in my integrity. + I have trusted also in Yahweh without wavering. +026:002 Examine me, Yahweh, and prove me. Try my heart and my mind. +026:003 For your loving kindness is before my eyes. I have walked + in your truth. +026:004 I have not sat with deceitful men, neither will I go + in with hypocrites. +026:005 I hate the assembly of evil-doers, and will not sit with the wicked. +026:006 I will wash my hands in innocence, so I will go about + your altar, Yahweh; +026:007 that I may make the voice of thanksgiving to be heard, + and tell of all your wondrous works. +026:008 Yahweh, I love the habitation of your house, the place where + your glory dwells. +026:009 Don't gather my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloodthirsty men; +026:010 in whose hands is wickedness, their right hand is full of bribes. +026:011 But as for me, I will walk in my integrity. Redeem me, + and be merciful to me. +026:012 My foot stands in an even place. In the congregations I + will bless Yahweh. +027:001 <<By David.>> Yahweh is my light and my salvation. + Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. + Of whom shall I be afraid? +027:002 When evil-doers came at me to eat up my flesh, even my adversaries + and my foes, they stumbled and fell. +027:003 Though an army should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear. + Though war should rise against me, even then I will be confident. +027:004 One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after, + that I may dwell in the house of Yahweh all the days of my life, + to see Yahweh's beauty, and to inquire in his temple. +027:005 For in the day of trouble he will keep me secretly in his pavilion. + In the covert of his tent he will hide me. He will lift me + up on a rock. +027:006 Now my head will be lifted up above my enemies around me. + I will offer sacrifices of joy in his tent. I will sing, + yes, I will sing praises to Yahweh. +027:007 Hear, Yahweh, when I cry with my voice. Have mercy also on me, + and answer me. +027:008 When you said, "Seek my face," my heart said to you, "I will + seek your face, Yahweh." +027:009 Don't hide your face from me. Don't put your servant away in anger. + You have been my help. Don't abandon me, neither forsake me, + God of my salvation. +027:010 When my father and my mother forsake me, then Yahweh will + take me up. +027:011 Teach me your way, Yahweh. Lead me in a straight path, + because of my enemies. +027:012 Don't deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false + witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty. +027:013 I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of Yahweh + in the land of the living. +027:014 Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. + Yes, wait for Yahweh. +028:001 <<By David.>> To you, Yahweh, I call. My rock, don't be + deaf to me; lest, if you are silent to me, I would become + like those who go down into the pit. +028:002 Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you, when I lift + up my hands toward your Most Holy Place. +028:003 Don't draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of + iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief + is in their hearts. +028:004 Give them according to their work, and according to the wickedness of + their doings. Give them according to the operation of their hands. + Bring back on them what they deserve. +028:005 Because they don't regard the works of Yahweh, nor the operation + of his hands, he will break them down and not build them up. +028:006 Blessed be Yahweh, because he has heard the voice of my petitions. +028:007 Yahweh is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, + and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices. + With my song I will thank him. +028:008 Yahweh is their strength. He is a stronghold of salvation + to his anointed. +028:009 Save your people, and bless your inheritance. Be their + shepherd also, and bear them up forever. +029:001 <<A Psalm by David.>> Ascribe to Yahweh, you sons of the mighty, + ascribe to Yahweh glory and strength. +029:002 Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due to his name. Worship Yahweh + in holy array. +029:003 Yahweh's voice is on the waters. The God of glory thunders, + even Yahweh on many waters. +029:004 Yahweh's voice is powerful. Yahweh's voice is full of majesty. +029:005 The voice of Yahweh breaks the cedars. Yes, Yahweh breaks + in pieces the cedars of Lebanon. +029:006 He makes them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion + like a young, wild ox. +029:007 Yahweh's voice strikes with flashes of lightning. +029:008 Yahweh's voice shakes the wilderness. Yahweh shakes + the wilderness of Kadesh. +029:009 Yahweh's voice makes the deer calve, and strips the forests bare. + In his temple everything says, "Glory!" +029:010 Yahweh sat enthroned at the Flood. Yes, Yahweh sits + as King forever. +029:011 Yahweh will give strength to his people. Yahweh will bless + his people with peace. +030:001 <<A Psalm. A Song for the Dedication of the Temple. + By David.>> I will extol you, Yahweh, for you have raised me up, + and have not made my foes to rejoice over me. +030:002 Yahweh my God, I cried to you, and you have healed me. +030:003 Yahweh, you have brought up my soul from Sheol. + You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit. +030:004 Sing praise to Yahweh, you saints of his. Give thanks + to his holy name. +030:005 For his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime. + Weeping may stay for the night, but joy comes in the morning. +030:006 As for me, I said in my prosperity, "I shall never be moved." +030:007 You, Yahweh, when you favored me, made my mountain stand strong; + but when you hid your face, I was troubled. +030:008 I cried to you, Yahweh. To Yahweh I made supplication: +030:009 "What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit? + Shall the dust praise you? Shall it declare your truth? +030:010 Hear, Yahweh, and have mercy on me. Yahweh, be my helper." +030:011 You have turned my mourning into dancing for me. + You have removed my sackcloth, and clothed me with gladness, +030:012 To the end that my heart may sing praise to you, and not be silent. + Yahweh my God, I will give thanks to you forever! +031:001 <<For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.>> In you, + Yahweh, I take refuge. Let me never be disappointed. + Deliver me in your righteousness. +031:002 Bow down your ear to me. Deliver me speedily. Be to me + a strong rock, a house of defense to save me. +031:003 For you are my rock and my fortress, therefore for your name's + sake lead me and guide me. +031:004 Pluck me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me, + for you are my stronghold. +031:005 Into your hand I commend my spirit. You redeem me, + Yahweh, God of truth. +031:006 I hate those who regard lying vanities, but I trust in Yahweh. +031:007 I will be glad and rejoice in your loving kindness, for you have + seen my affliction. You have known my soul in adversities. +031:008 You have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. + You have set my feet in a large place. +031:009 Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am in distress. My eye, + my soul, and my body waste away with grief. +031:010 For my life is spent with sorrow, my years with sighing. + My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones + are wasted away. +031:011 Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly + contemptible to my neighbors, A fear to my acquaintances. + Those who saw me on the street fled from me. +031:012 I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man. + I am like broken pottery. +031:013 For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, + while they conspire together against me, they plot to take + away my life. +031:014 But I trust in you, Yahweh. I said, "You are my God." +031:015 My times are in your hand. Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, + and from those who persecute me. +031:016 Make your face to shine on your servant. Save me in + your loving kindness. +031:017 Let me not be disappointed, Yahweh, for I have called on you. + Let the wicked be disappointed. Let them be silent in Sheol. +031:018 Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous + insolently, with pride and contempt. +031:019 Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for + those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take + refuge in you, before the sons of men! +031:020 In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from + the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a dwelling + away from the strife of tongues. +031:021 Praise be to Yahweh, for he has shown me his marvelous loving + kindness in a strong city. +031:022 As for me, I said in my haste, "I am cut off from before your eyes." + Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I + cried to you. +031:023 Oh love Yahweh, all you his saints! Yahweh preserves the faithful, + and fully recompenses him who behaves arrogantly. +031:024 Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who + hope in Yahweh. +032:001 <<By David. A contemplative psalm.>> Blessed is he whose + disobedience is forgiven, whose sin is covered. +032:002 Blessed is the man to whom Yahweh doesn't impute iniquity, + in whose spirit there is no deceit. +032:003 When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning + all day long. +032:004 For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength + was sapped in the heat of summer. Selah. +032:005 I acknowledged my sin to you. I didn't hide my iniquity. + I said, I will confess my transgressions to Yahweh, and you + forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah. +032:006 For this, let everyone who is godly pray to you in a time + when you may be found. Surely when the great waters overflow, + they shall not reach to him. +032:007 You are my hiding place. You will preserve me from trouble. + You will surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah. +032:008 I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. + I will counsel you with my eye on you. +032:009 Don't be like the horse, or like the mule, which have + no understanding, who are controlled by bit and bridle, + or else they will not come near to you. +032:010 Many sorrows come to the wicked, but loving kindness shall + surround him who trusts in Yahweh. +032:011 Be glad in Yahweh, and rejoice, you righteous! Shout for joy, + all you who are upright in heart! +033:001 Rejoice in Yahweh, you righteous! Praise is fitting + for the upright. +033:002 Give thanks to Yahweh with the lyre. Sing praises to him + with the harp of ten strings. +033:003 Sing to him a new song. Play skillfully with a shout of joy! +033:004 For the word of Yahweh is right. All his work is + done in faithfulness. +033:005 He loves righteousness and justice. The earth is full + of the loving kindness of Yahweh. +033:006 By Yahweh's word, the heavens were made; all their army + by the breath of his mouth. +033:007 He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap. + He lays up the deeps in storehouses. +033:008 Let all the earth fear Yahweh. Let all the inhabitants + of the world stand in awe of him. +033:009 For he spoke, and it was done. He commanded, and it stood firm. +033:010 Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. + He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect. +033:011 The counsel of Yahweh stands fast forever, the thoughts of his + heart to all generations. +033:012 Blessed is the nation whose God is Yahweh, the people whom + he has chosen for his own inheritance. +033:013 Yahweh looks from heaven. He sees all the sons of men. +033:014 From the place of his habitation he looks out on all the inhabitants + of the earth, +033:015 he who fashions all of their hearts; and he considers all + of their works. +033:016 There is no king saved by the multitude of an army. + A mighty man is not delivered by great strength. +033:017 A horse is a vain thing for safety, neither does he deliver + any by his great power. +033:018 Behold, Yahweh's eye is on those who fear him, on those who hope + in his loving kindness; +033:019 to deliver their soul from death, to keep them alive in famine. +033:020 Our soul has waited for Yahweh. He is our help and our shield. +033:021 For our heart rejoices in him, because we have trusted + in his holy name. +033:022 Let your loving kindness be on us, Yahweh, since we have hoped + in you. {} +034:001 <<By David; when he pretended to be insane before Abimelech, + who drove him away, and he departed.Psalm 34 is an acrostic poem, + with each verse starting with a letter of the alphabet + (ordered from Alef to Tav).>> I will bless Yahweh at all times. + His praise will always be in my mouth. +034:002 My soul shall boast in Yahweh. The humble shall hear of it, + and be glad. +034:003 Oh magnify Yahweh with me. Let us exalt his name together. +034:004 I sought Yahweh, and he answered me, and delivered me from + all my fears. +034:005 They looked to him, and were radiant. Their faces shall + never be covered with shame. +034:006 This poor man cried, and Yahweh heard him, and saved him out + of all his troubles. +034:007 The angel of Yahweh encamps round about those who fear him, + and delivers them. +034:008 Oh taste and see that Yahweh is good. Blessed is the man + who takes refuge in him. +034:009 Oh fear Yahweh, you his saints, for there is no lack with + those who fear him. +034:010 The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger, but those who seek + Yahweh shall not lack any good thing. +034:011 Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you + the fear of Yahweh. +034:012 Who is someone who desires life, and loves many days, + that he may see good? +034:013 Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies. +034:014 Depart from evil, and do good. seek peace, and pursue it. +034:015 Yahweh's eyes are toward the righteous. His ears listen + to their cry. +034:016 Yahweh's face is against those who do evil, to cut off the memory + of them from the earth. +034:017 The righteous cry, and Yahweh hears, and delivers them out + of all their troubles. +034:018 Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves + those who have a crushed spirit. +034:019 Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but Yahweh delivers + him out of them all. +034:020 He protects all of his bones. Not one of them is broken. +034:021 Evil shall kill the wicked. Those who hate the righteous + shall be condemned. +034:022 Yahweh redeems the soul of his servants. None of those who take + refuge in him shall be condemned. +035:001 <<By David.>> Contend, Yahweh, with those who contend with me. + Fight against those who fight against me. +035:002 Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for my help. +035:003 Brandish the spear and block those who pursue me. + Tell my soul, "I am your salvation." +035:004 Let those who seek after my soul be disappointed and brought + to dishonor. Let those who plot my ruin be turned + back and confounded. +035:005 Let them be as chaff before the wind, Yahweh's angel + driving them on. +035:006 Let their way be dark and slippery, Yahweh's angel pursuing them. +035:007 For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. + Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul. +035:008 Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has + hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction. +035:009 My soul shall be joyful in Yahweh. It shall rejoice + in his salvation. +035:010 All my bones shall say, "Yahweh, who is like you, who delivers + the poor from him who is too strong for him; yes, the poor + and the needy from him who robs him?" +035:011 Unrighteous witnesses rise up. They ask me about things that I + don't know about. +035:012 They reward me evil for good, to the bereaving of my soul. +035:013 But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth. + I afflicted my soul with fasting. My prayer returned into + my own bosom. +035:014 I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother. + I bowed down mourning, as one who mourns his mother. +035:015 But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. + The attackers gathered themselves together against me, + and I didn't know it. They tore at me, and didn't cease. +035:016 Like the profane mockers in feasts, they gnashed their + teeth at me. +035:017 Lord, how long will you look on? Rescue my soul from + their destruction, my precious life from the lions. +035:018 I will give you thanks in the great assembly. I will praise + you among many people. +035:019 Don't let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; + neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes. +035:020 For they don't speak peace, but they devise deceitful words + against those who are quiet in the land. +035:021 Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me. + They said, "Aha! Aha! Our eye has seen it!" +035:022 You have seen it, Yahweh. Don't keep silent. Lord, don't be + far from me. +035:023 Wake up! Rise up to defend me, my God! My Lord, contend for me! +035:024 Vindicate me, Yahweh my God, according to your righteousness. + Don't let them gloat over me. +035:025 Don't let them say in their heart, "Aha! That's the way we want it!" + Don't let them say, "We have swallowed him up!" +035:026 Let them be disappointed and confounded together who rejoice + at my calamity. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor + who magnify themselves against me. +035:027 Let them shout for joy and be glad, who favor my righteous cause. + Yes, let them say continually, "Yahweh be magnified, who has + pleasure in the prosperity of his servant!" +035:028 My tongue shall talk about your righteousness and about your + praise all day long. +036:001 <<For the Chief Musician. By David, the servant of Yahweh.>> An + oracle is within my heart about the disobedience of the wicked: + "There is no fear of God before his eyes." +036:002 For he flatters himself in his own eyes, too much to detect + and hate his sin. +036:003 The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. + He has ceased to be wise and to do good. +036:004 He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is + not good. He doesn't abhor evil. +036:005 Your loving kindness, Yahweh, is in the heavens. + Your faithfulness reaches to the skies. +036:006 Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. + Your judgments are like a great deep. Yahweh, you preserve + man and animal. +036:007 How precious is your loving kindness, God! The children of men + take refuge under the shadow of your wings. +036:008 They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house. + You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures. +036:009 For with you is the spring of life. In your light shall + we see light. +036:010 Oh continue your loving kindness to those who know you, + your righteousness to the upright in heart. +036:011 Don't let the foot of pride come against me. Don't let the hand + of the wicked drive me away. +036:012 There the workers of iniquity are fallen. They are thrust down, + and shall not be able to rise. +037:001 <<By David.>> Don't fret because of evil-doers, neither be + envious against those who work unrighteousness. +037:002 For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither + like the green herb. +037:003 Trust in Yahweh, and do good. Dwell in the land, + and enjoy safe pasture. +037:004 Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires + of your heart. +037:005 Commit your way to Yahweh. Trust also in him, and he will do this: +037:006 he will make your righteousness go forth as the light, + and your justice as the noon day sun. +037:007 Rest in Yahweh, and wait patiently for him. Don't fret + because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man + who makes wicked plots happen. +037:008 Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Don't fret, it leads + only to evildoing. +037:009 For evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait for Yahweh + shall inherit the land. +037:010 For yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more. + Yes, though you look for his place, he isn't there. +037:011 But the humble shall inherit the land, and shall delight + themselves in the abundance of peace. +037:012 The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him + with his teeth. +037:013 The Lord will laugh at him, for he sees that his day is coming. +037:014 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, + to cast down the poor and needy, to kill those who are upright + in the way. +037:015 Their sword shall enter into their own heart. Their bows + shall be broken. +037:016 Better is a little that the righteous has, than the abundance + of many wicked. +037:017 For the arms of the wicked shall be broken, but Yahweh + upholds the righteous. +037:018 Yahweh knows the days of the perfect. Their inheritance + shall be forever. +037:019 They shall not be disappointed in the time of evil. + In the days of famine they shall be satisfied. +037:020 But the wicked shall perish. The enemies of Yahweh shall + be like the beauty of the fields. They will vanish-- + vanish like smoke. +037:021 The wicked borrow, and don't pay back, but the righteous + give generously. +037:022 For such as are blessed by him shall inherit the land. + Those who are cursed by him shall be cut off. +037:023 A man's goings are established by Yahweh. He delights + in his way. +037:024 Though he stumble, he shall not fall, for Yahweh holds him up + with his hand. +037:025 I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen + the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread. +037:026 All day long he deals graciously, and lends. His seed is blessed. +037:027 Depart from evil, and do good. Live securely forever. +037:028 For Yahweh loves justice, and doesn't forsake his saints. + They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked + shall be cut off. +037:029 The righteous shall inherit the land, and live in it forever. +037:030 The mouth of the righteous talks of wisdom. + His tongue speaks justice. +037:031 The law of his God is in his heart. None of his steps shall slide. +037:032 The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to kill him. +037:033 Yahweh will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when + he is judged. +037:034 Wait for Yahweh, and keep his way, and he will exalt + you to inherit the land. When the wicked are cut off, + you shall see it. +037:035 I have seen the wicked in great power, spreading himself + like a green tree in its native soil. +037:036 But he passed away, and behold, he was not. Yes, I sought him, + but he could not be found. +037:037 Mark the perfect man, and see the upright, for there is a future + for the man of peace. +037:038 As for transgressors, they shall be destroyed together. + The future of the wicked shall be cut off. +037:039 But the salvation of the righteous is from Yahweh. + He is their stronghold in the time of trouble. +037:040 Yahweh helps them, and rescues them. He rescues them from the wicked, + and saves them, Because they have taken refuge in him. +038:001 <<A Psalm by David, for a memorial.>> Yahweh, don't rebuke me + in your wrath, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure. +038:002 For your arrows have pierced me, your hand presses hard on me. +038:003 There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation, + neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin. +038:004 For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden, + they are too heavy for me. +038:005 My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, because of my foolishness. +038:006 I am pained and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long. +038:007 For my waist is filled with burning. There is no soundness + in my flesh. +038:008 I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason + of the anguish of my heart. +038:009 Lord, all my desire is before you. My groaning is not + hidden from you. +038:010 My heart throbs. My strength fails me. As for the light + of my eyes, it has also left me. +038:011 My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague. + My kinsmen stand far away. +038:012 They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek + my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits + all day long. +038:013 But I, as a deaf man, don't hear. I am as a mute man who doesn't + open his mouth. +038:014 Yes, I am as a man who doesn't hear, in whose mouth are no reproofs. +038:015 For in you, Yahweh, do I hope. You will answer, Lord my God. +038:016 For I said, "Don't let them gloat over me, or exalt themselves + over me when my foot slips." +038:017 For I am ready to fall. My pain is continually before me. +038:018 For I will declare my iniquity. I will be sorry for my sin. +038:019 But my enemies are vigorous and many. Those who hate me + without reason are numerous. +038:020 They who also render evil for good are adversaries to me, + because I follow what is good. +038:021 Don't forsake me, Yahweh. My God, don't be far from me. +038:022 Hurry to help me, Lord, my salvation. +039:001 <<For the Chief Musician. For Jeduthun. A Psalm by David.>> I said, + "I will watch my ways, so that I don't sin with my tongue. + I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me." +039:002 I was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good. + My sorrow was stirred. +039:003 My heart was hot within me. While I meditated, the fire burned: + I spoke with my tongue: +039:004 "Yahweh, show me my end, what is the measure of my days. + Let me know how frail I am. +039:005 Behold, you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime + is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as + a breath." Selah. +039:006 "Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves + in vain. He heaps up, and doesn't know who shall gather. +039:007 Now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in you. +039:008 Deliver me from all my transgressions. Don't make me the reproach + of the foolish. +039:009 I was mute. I didn't open my mouth, because you did it. +039:010 Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow + of your hand. +039:011 When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, You consume his + wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath." Selah. +039:012 "Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. + Don't be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, + a foreigner, as all my fathers were. +039:013 Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away, + and exist no more." +040:001 <<For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.>> I waited + patiently for Yahweh. He turned to me, and heard my cry. +040:002 He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. + He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand. +040:003 He has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God. + Many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in Yahweh. +040:004 Blessed is the man who makes Yahweh his trust, and doesn't + respect the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies. +040:005 Many, Yahweh, my God, are the wonderful works which you + have done, and your thoughts which are toward us. + They can't be declared back to you. If I would declare + and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered. +040:006 Sacrifice and offering you didn't desire. You have opened my ears. + You have not required burnt offering and sin offering. +040:007 Then I said, "Behold, I have come. It is written about me + in the book in the scroll. +040:008 I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is + within my heart." +040:009 I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly. + Behold, I will not seal my lips, Yahweh, you know. +040:010 I have not hidden your righteousness within my heart. + I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation. + I have not concealed your loving kindness and your truth + from the great assembly. +040:011 Don't withhold your tender mercies from me, Yahweh. Let your + loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me. +040:012 For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities + have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. + They are more than the hairs of my head. My heart has failed me. +040:013 Be pleased, Yahweh, to deliver me. Hurry to help me, Yahweh. +040:014 Let them be disappointed and confounded together who seek + after my soul to destroy it. Let them be turned backward + and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt. +040:015 Let them be desolate by reason of their shame that tell + me, "Aha! Aha!" +040:016 Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you. + Let such as love your salvation say continually, + "Let Yahweh be exalted!" +040:017 But I am poor and needy. May the Lord think about me. + You are my help and my deliverer. Don't delay, my God. +041:001 <<For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.>> Blessed + is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him + in the day of evil. +041:002 Yahweh will preserve him, and keep him alive. + He shall be blessed on the earth, and he will not surrender + him to the will of his enemies. +041:003 Yahweh will sustain him on his sickbed, and restore him from + his bed of illness. +041:004 I said, "Yahweh, have mercy on me! Heal me, for I have + sinned against you." +041:005 My enemies speak evil against me: "When will he die, + and his name perish?" +041:006 If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers + iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it. +041:007 All who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine + the worst for me. +041:008 "An evil disease," they say, "has afflicted him. + Now that he lies he shall rise up no more." +041:009 Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread + with me, has lifted up his heel against me. +041:010 But you, Yahweh, have mercy on me, and raise me up, that I + may repay them. +041:011 By this I know that you delight in me, because my enemy doesn't + triumph over me. +041:012 As for me, you uphold me in my integrity, and set me in + your presence forever. +041:013 Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, from everlasting and + to everlasting! Amen and amen. +042:001 <<For the Chief Musician. A contemplation by the sons of + Korah.>> As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul + pants after you, God. +042:002 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I + come and appear before God? +042:003 My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually + ask me, "Where is your God?" +042:004 These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, + how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to the house + of God, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping + a holy day. +042:005 Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? + Hope in God! For I shall still praise him for the saving + help of his presence. +042:006 My God, my soul is in despair within me. Therefore I remember + you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon, + from the hill Mizar. +042:007 Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. + All your waves and your billows have swept over me. +042:008 Yahweh will command his loving kindness in the daytime. + In the night his song shall be with me: a prayer to the God + of my life. +042:009 I will ask God, my rock, "Why have you forgotten me? + Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?" +042:010 As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, + while they continually ask me, "Where is your God?" +042:011 Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? + Hope in God! For I shall still praise him, the saving help + of my countenance, and my God. +043:001 Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. + Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men. +043:002 For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me? + Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? +043:003 Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. + Let them bring me to your holy hill, To your tents. +043:004 Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my exceeding joy. + I will praise you on the harp, God, my God. +043:005 Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? + Hope in God! For I shall still praise him: my Savior, + my helper, and my God. +044:001 <<For the Chief Musician. By the sons of Korah. + A contemplative psalm.>> We have heard with our ears, God; + our fathers have told us, what work you did in their days, + in the days of old. +044:002 You drove out the nations with your hand, but you planted them. + You afflicted the peoples, but you spread them abroad. +044:003 For they didn't get the land in possession by their own sword, + neither did their own arm save them; but your right hand, + and your arm, and the light of your face, because you were + favorable to them. +044:004 You are my King, God. Command victories for Jacob! +044:005 Through you, will we push down our adversaries. Through your name, + will we tread them under who rise up against us. +044:006 For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me. +044:007 But you have saved us from our adversaries, and have shamed + those who hate us. +044:008 In God we have made our boast all day long, we will give thanks + to your name forever. Selah. +044:009 But now you rejected us, and brought us to dishonor, and don't + go out with our armies. +044:010 You make us turn back from the adversary. Those who hate us + take spoil for themselves. +044:011 You have made us like sheep for food, and have scattered us + among the nations. +044:012 You sell your people for nothing, and have gained nothing + from their sale. +044:013 You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision + to those who are around us. +044:014 You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head + among the peoples. +044:015 All day long my dishonor is before me, and shame covers my face, +044:016 At the taunt of one who reproaches and verbally abuses, + because of the enemy and the avenger. +044:017 All this has come on us, yet have we not forgotten you, + Neither have we been false to your covenant. +044:018 Our heart has not turned back, neither have our steps strayed + from your path, +044:019 Though you have crushed us in the haunt of jackals, and covered + us with the shadow of death. +044:020 If we have forgotten the name of our God, or spread forth + our hands to a strange god; +044:021 won't God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart. +044:022 Yes, for your sake we are killed all day long. We are regarded + as sheep for the slaughter. +044:023 Wake up! Why do you sleep, Lord? Arise! Don't reject us forever. +044:024 Why do you hide your face, and forget our affliction + and our oppression? +044:025 For our soul is bowed down to the dust. Our body cleaves + to the earth. +044:026 Rise up to help us. Redeem us for your loving kindness' sake. +045:001 <<For the Chief Musician. Set to "The Lilies." A contemplation + by the sons of Korah. A wedding song.>> My heart overflows + with a noble theme. I recite my verses for the king. + My tongue is like the pen of a skillful writer. +045:002 You are the most excellent of the sons of men. Grace has + anointed your lips, therefore God has blessed you forever. +045:003 Gird your sword on your thigh, mighty one: your splendor + and your majesty. +045:004 In your majesty ride on victoriously on behalf of truth, humility, + and righteousness. Let your right hand display awesome deeds. +045:005 Your arrows are sharp. The nations fall under you, with arrows + in the heart of the king's enemies. +045:006 Your throne, God, is forever and ever. A scepter of equity + is the scepter of your kingdom. +045:007 You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. + Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil + of gladness above your fellows. +045:008 All your garments smell like myrrh, aloes, and cassia. + Out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made you glad. +045:009 Kings' daughters are among your honorable women. + At your right hand the queen stands in gold of Ophir. +045:010 Listen, daughter, consider, and turn your ear. Forget your + own people, and also your father's house. +045:011 So the king will desire your beauty, honor him, for he is your lord. +045:012 The daughter of Tyre comes with a gift. The rich among + the people entreat your favor. +045:013 The princess inside is all glorious. Her clothing is + interwoven with gold. +045:014 She shall be led to the king in embroidered work. The virgins, + her companions who follow her, shall be brought to you. +045:015 With gladness and rejoicing they shall be led. They shall + enter into the king's palace. +045:016 Your sons will take the place of your fathers. You shall make + them princes in all the earth. +045:017 I will make your name to be remembered in all generations. + Therefore the peoples shall give you thanks forever and ever. + {} +046:001 <<For the Chief Musician. By the sons of Korah. + According to Alamoth.Alamoth is a musical term.>> God is our + refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. +046:002 Therefore we won't be afraid, though the earth changes, + though the mountains are shaken into the heart of the seas; +046:003 though the waters of it roar and are troubled, though the mountains + tremble with their swelling. Selah. +046:004 There is a river, the streams of which make the city of God glad, + the holy place of the tents of the Most High. +046:005 God is in her midst. She shall not be moved. God will help + her at dawn. +046:006 The nations raged. The kingdoms were moved. He lifted his voice, + and the earth melted. +046:007 Yahweh of Armies is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah. +046:008 Come, see Yahweh's works, what desolations he has made + in the earth. +046:009 He makes wars cease to the end of the earth. He breaks the bow, + and shatters the spear. He burns the chariots in the fire. +046:010 "Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among + the nations. I will be exalted in the earth." +046:011 Yahweh of Armies is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah. +047:001 <<For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by the sons of Korah.>> + Oh clap your hands, all you nations. Shout to God with + the voice of triumph! +047:002 For Yahweh Most High is awesome. He is a great King over + all the earth. +047:003 He subdues nations under us, and peoples under our feet. +047:004 He chooses our inheritance for us, the glory of Jacob whom + he loved. Selah. +047:005 God has gone up with a shout, Yahweh with the sound of a trumpet. +047:006 Sing praise to God, sing praises. Sing praises to our King, + sing praises. +047:007 For God is the King of all the earth. Sing praises + with understanding. +047:008 God reigns over the nations. God sits on his holy throne. +047:009 The princes of the peoples are gathered together, the people of + the God of Abraham. For the shields of the earth belong to God. + He is greatly exalted! +048:001 <<A Song. A Psalm by the sons of Korah.>> Great is Yahweh, + and greatly to be praised, in the city of our God, + in his holy mountain. +048:002 Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, + on the north sides, the city of the great King. +048:003 God has shown himself in her citadels as a refuge. +048:004 For, behold, the kings assembled themselves, they passed by together. +048:005 They saw it, then they were amazed. They were dismayed. + They hurried away. +048:006 Trembling took hold of them there, pain, as of a woman in travail. +048:007 With the east wind, you break the ships of Tarshish. +048:008 As we have heard, so we have seen, in the city of Yahweh of Armies, + in the city of our God. God will establish it forever. Selah. +048:009 We have thought about your loving kindness, God, in the midst + of your temple. +048:010 As is your name, God, so is your praise to the ends of the earth. + Your right hand is full of righteousness. +048:011 Let Mount Zion be glad! Let the daughters of Judah rejoice, + Because of your judgments. +048:012 Walk about Zion, and go around her. Number its towers. +048:013 Mark well her bulwarks. Consider her palaces, that you may + tell it to the next generation. +048:014 For this God is our God forever and ever. He will be our guide + even to death. +049:001 <<For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by the sons of Korah.>> + Hear this, all you peoples. Listen, all you inhabitants + of the world, +049:002 both low and high, rich and poor together. +049:003 My mouth will speak words of wisdom. My heart + shall utter understanding. +049:004 I will incline my ear to a proverb. I will open my riddle + on the harp. +049:005 Why should I fear in the days of evil, when iniquity at my + heels surrounds me? +049:006 Those who trust in their wealth, and boast in the multitude + of their riches-- +049:007 none of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give + God a ransom for him. +049:008 For the redemption of their life is costly, no payment + is ever enough, +049:009 That he should live on forever, that he should not see corruption. +049:010 For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the + senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others. +049:011 Their inward thought is that their houses will endure forever, + and their dwelling places to all generations. They name + their lands after themselves. +049:012 But man, despite his riches, doesn't endure. He is like + the animals that perish. +049:013 This is the destiny of those who are foolish, and of those + who approve their sayings. Selah. +049:014 They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall + be their shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over + them in the morning. Their beauty shall decay in Sheol, + far from their mansion. +049:015 But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol, + for he will receive me. Selah. +049:016 Don't be afraid when a man is made rich, when the glory of his + house is increased. +049:017 For when he dies he shall carry nothing away. His glory shall + not descend after him. +049:018 Though while he lived he blessed his soul--and men praise you + when you do well for yourself-- +049:019 he shall go to the generation of his fathers. They shall + never see the light. +049:020 A man who has riches without understanding, is like the + animals that perish. +050:001 <<A Psalm by Asaph.>> The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, speaks, + and calls the earth from sunrise to sunset. +050:002 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth. +050:003 Our God comes, and does not keep silent. A fire devours before him. + It is very stormy around him. +050:004 He calls to the heavens above, to the earth, that he may + judge his people: +050:005 "Gather my saints together to me, those who have made a covenant + with me by sacrifice." +050:006 The heavens shall declare his righteousness, for God himself + is judge. Selah. +050:007 "Hear, my people, and I will speak; Israel, and I will testify + against you. I am God, your God. +050:008 I don't rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings + are continually before me. +050:009 I have no need for a bull from your stall, nor male goats + from your pens. +050:010 For every animal of the forest is mine, and the livestock + on a thousand hills. +050:011 I know all the birds of the mountains. The wild animals + of the field are mine. +050:012 If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is mine, + and all that is in it. +050:013 Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats? +050:014 Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving. Pay your vows + to the Most High. +050:015 Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, + and you will honor me." +050:016 But to the wicked God says, "What right do you have to declare + my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips, +050:017 seeing you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you? +050:018 When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have + participated with adulterers. +050:019 "You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit. +050:020 You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your + own mother's son. +050:021 You have done these things, and I kept silent. + You thought that the I was just like you. I will rebuke you, + and accuse you in front of your eyes. +050:022 "Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, + and there be none to deliver. +050:023 Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, + and prepares his way so that I will show God's salvation to him." +051:001 <<For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David, when Nathan + the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.>> + Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. + According to the multitude of your tender mercies, + blot out my transgressions. +051:002 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity. Cleanse me from my sin. +051:003 For I know my transgressions. My sin is constantly before me. +051:004 Against you, and you only, have I sinned, and done that which is + evil in your sight; that you may be proved right when you speak, + and justified when you judge. +051:005 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity. In sin my + mother conceived me. +051:006 Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me + wisdom in the inmost place. +051:007 Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I + will be whiter than snow. +051:008 Let me hear joy and gladness, That the bones which you have + broken may rejoice. +051:009 Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all of my iniquities. +051:010 Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me. +051:011 Don't throw me from your presence, and don't take your holy + Spirit from me. +051:012 Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Uphold me with + a willing spirit. +051:013 Then I will teach transgressors your ways. Sinners shall + be converted to you. +051:014 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, the God of my salvation. + My tongue shall sing aloud of your righteousness. +051:015 Lord, open my lips. My mouth shall declare your praise. +051:016 For you don't delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it. + You have no pleasure in burnt offering. +051:017 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. A broken and + contrite heart, O God, you will not despise. +051:018 Do well in your good pleasure to Zion. Build the walls of Jerusalem. +051:019 Then you will delight in the sacrifices of righteousness, + in burnt offerings and in whole burnt offerings. + Then they will offer bulls on your altar. +052:001 <<For the Chief Musician. A contemplation by David, when Doeg + the Edomite came and told Saul, "David has come to Abimelech's + house.">> Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? + God's loving kindness endures continually. +052:002 Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, + working deceitfully. +052:003 You love evil more than good, lying rather than speaking + the truth. Selah. +052:004 You love all devouring words, you deceitful tongue. +052:005 God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, + and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land + of the living. Selah. +052:006 The righteous also will see it, and fear, and laugh at him, saying, +052:007 "Behold, this is the man who didn't make God his strength, + but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened + himself in his wickedness." +052:008 But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in God's house. + I trust in God's loving kindness forever and ever. +052:009 I will give you thanks forever, because you have done it. + I will hope in your name, for it is good, in the presence + of your saints. +053:001 <<For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Mahalath." A contemplation + by David.>> The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." + They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity. + There is no one who does good. +053:002 God looks down from heaven on the children of men, to see + if there are any who understood, who seek after God. +053:003 Every one of them has gone back. They have become filthy together. + There is no one who does good, no, not one. +053:004 Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people + as they eat bread, and don't call on God? +053:005 There they were in great fear, where no fear was, for God + has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you. + You have put them to shame, because God has rejected them. +053:006 Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When God + brings back his people from captivity, then Jacob shall rejoice, + and Israel shall be glad. +054:001 <<For the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A contemplation + by David, when the Ziphites came and said to Saul, "Isn't David + hiding himself among us?">> Save me, God, by your name. + Vindicate me in your might. +054:002 Hear my prayer, God. Listen to the words of my mouth. +054:003 For strangers have risen up against me. Violent men have sought + after my soul. They haven't set God before them. Selah. +054:004 Behold, God is my helper. The Lord is the one who sustains my soul. +054:005 He will repay the evil to my enemies. Destroy them in your truth. +054:006 With a free will offering, I will sacrifice to you. + I will give thanks to your name, Yahweh, for it is good. +054:007 For he has delivered me out of all trouble. My eye has seen + triumph over my enemies. +055:001 <<For the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. + A contemplation by David.>> Listen to my prayer, God. + Don't hide yourself from my supplication. +055:002 Attend to me, and answer me. I am restless in my complaint, and moan, +055:003 Because of the voice of the enemy, Because of the oppression + of the wicked. For they bring suffering on me. + In anger they hold a grudge against me. +055:004 My heart is severely pained within me. The terrors of death + have fallen on me. +055:005 Fearfulness and trembling have come on me. + Horror has overwhelmed me. +055:006 I said, "Oh that I had wings like a dove! Then I would fly away, + and be at rest. +055:007 Behold, then I would wander far off. I would lodge in + the wilderness." Selah. +055:008 "I would hurry to a shelter from the stormy wind and storm." +055:009 Confuse them, Lord, and confound their language, for I have + seen violence and strife in the city. +055:010 Day and night they prowl around on its walls. Malice and abuse + are also within her. +055:011 Destructive forces are within her. Threats and lies don't + depart from her streets. +055:012 For it was not an enemy who insulted me, then I could have + endured it. Neither was it he who hated me who raised himself + up against me, then I would have hid myself from him. +055:013 But it was you, a man like me, my companion, and my familiar friend. +055:014 We took sweet fellowship together. We walked in God's + house with company. +055:015 Let death come suddenly on them. Let them go down alive into Sheol. + For wickedness is in their dwelling, in the midst of them. +055:016 As for me, I will call on God. Yahweh will save me. +055:017 Evening, morning, and at noon, I will cry out in distress. + He will hear my voice. +055:018 He has redeemed my soul in peace from the battle that was + against me, although there are many who oppose me. +055:019 God, who is enthroned forever, will hear, and answer them. + Selah. They never change, who don't fear God. +055:020 He raises his hands against his friends. He has + violated his covenant. +055:021 His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. + His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords. +055:022 Cast your burden on Yahweh, and he will sustain you. + He will never allow the righteous to be moved. +055:023 But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. + Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, + but I will trust in you. +056:001 <<For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Silent Dove in + Distant Lands." A poem by David, when the Philistines seized him + in Gath.>> Be merciful to me, God, for man wants to swallow me up. + All day long, he attacks and oppresses me. +056:002 My enemies want to swallow me up all day long, for they are + many who fight proudly against me. +056:003 When I am afraid, I will put my trust in you. +056:004 In God, I praise his word. In God, I put my trust. + I will not be afraid. What can flesh do to me? +056:005 All day long they twist my words. All their thoughts are + against me for evil. +056:006 They conspire and lurk, watching my steps, they are eager + to take my life. +056:007 Shall they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, God. +056:008 You number my wanderings. You put my tears into your bottle. + Aren't they in your book? +056:009 Then my enemies shall turn back in the day that I call. + I know this, that God is for me. +056:010 In God, I will praise his word. In Yahweh, I will praise his word. +056:011 I have put my trust in God. I will not be afraid. + What can man do to me? +056:012 Your vows are on me, God. I will give thank offerings to you. +056:013 For you have delivered my soul from death, and prevented my + feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light + of the living. +057:001 <<For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Do Not Destroy." + A poem by David, when he fled from Saul, in the cave.>> Be + merciful to me, God, be merciful to me, for my soul takes refuge + in you. Yes, in the shadow of your wings, I will take refuge, + until disaster has passed. +057:002 I cry out to God Most High, to God who accomplishes my + requests for me. +057:003 He will send from heaven, and save me, he rebukes the one + who is pursuing me. Selah. God will send out his loving + kindness and his truth. +057:004 My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, + even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, + and their tongue a sharp sword. +057:005 Be exalted, God, above the heavens! Let your glory be above + all the earth! +057:006 They have prepared a net for my steps. My soul is bowed down. + They dig a pit before me. They fall into the midst of + it themselves. Selah. +057:007 My heart is steadfast, God, my heart is steadfast. + I will sing, yes, I will sing praises. +057:008 Wake up, my glory! Wake up, psaltery and harp! + I will wake up the dawn. +057:009 I will give thanks to you, Lord, among the peoples. + I will sing praises to you among the nations. +057:010 For your great loving kindness reaches to the heavens, + and your truth to the skies. +057:011 Be exalted, God, above the heavens. Let your glory be over + all the earth. +058:001 <<For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Do Not Destroy." + A poem by David.>> Do you indeed speak righteousness, silent ones? + Do you judge blamelessly, you sons of men? +058:002 No, in your heart you plot injustice. You measure out the violence + of your hands in the earth. +058:003 The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon + as they are born, speaking lies. +058:004 Their poison is like the poison of a snake; like a deaf cobra + that stops its ear, +058:005 which doesn't listen to the voice of charmers, no matter + how skillful the charmer may be. +058:006 Break their teeth, God, in their mouth. Break out the great + teeth of the young lions, Yahweh. +058:007 Let them vanish as water that flows away. When they draw the bow, + let their arrows be made blunt. +058:008 Let them be like a snail which melts and passes away, + like the stillborn child, who has not seen the sun. +058:009 Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, he will sweep + away the green and the burning alike. +058:010 The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance. + He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked; +058:011 so that men shall say, "Most certainly there is a reward + for the righteous. Most certainly there is a God who + judges the earth." +059:001 <<For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Do Not Destroy." + A poem by David, when Saul sent, and they watched the house + to kill him.>> Deliver me from my enemies, my God. + Set me on high from those who rise up against me. +059:002 Deliver me from the workers of iniquity. Save me from + the bloodthirsty men. +059:003 For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul. The mighty gather + themselves together against me, not for my disobedience, + nor for my sin, Yahweh. +059:004 I have done no wrong, yet they are ready to attack me. + Rise up, behold, and help me! +059:005 You, Yahweh God of Armies, the God of Israel, rouse yourself to punish + the nations. Show no mercy to the wicked traitors. Selah. +059:006 They return at evening, howling like dogs, and prowl + around the city. +059:007 Behold, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, "For," + they say, "who hears us?" +059:008 But you, Yahweh, laugh at them. You scoff at all the nations. +059:009 Oh, my Strength, I watch for you, for God is my high tower. +059:010 My God will go before me with his loving kindness. + God will let me look at my enemies in triumph. +059:011 Don't kill them, or my people may forget. Scatter them + by your power, and bring them down, Lord our shield. +059:012 For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, + let them be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies + which they utter. +059:013 Consume them in wrath. Consume them, and they will be no more. + Let them know that God rules in Jacob, to the ends of + the earth. Selah. +059:014 At evening let them return. Let them howl like a dog, + and go around the city. +059:015 They shall wander up and down for food, and wait all night + if they aren't satisfied. +059:016 But I will sing of your strength. Yes, I will sing aloud + of your loving kindness in the morning. For you have been + my high tower, a refuge in the day of my distress. +059:017 To you, my strength, I will sing praises. For God is my high tower, + the God of my mercy. +060:001 <<For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "The Lily of the Covenant." + A teaching poem by David, when he fought with Aram Naharaim + and with Aram Zobah, and Joab returned, and killed twelve + thousand of Edom in the Valley of Salt.>> God, you have + rejected us. You have broken us down. You have been angry. + Restore us, again. +060:002 You have made the land tremble. You have torn it. + Mend its fractures, for it quakes. +060:003 You have shown your people hard things. You have made us + drink the wine that makes us stagger. +060:004 You have given a banner to those who fear you, that it may be + displayed because of the truth. Selah. +060:005 So that your beloved may be delivered, save with your right hand, + and answer us. +060:006 God has spoken from his sanctuary: "I will triumph. + I will divide Shechem, and measure out the valley of Succoth. +060:007 Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine. Ephraim also is the defense + of my head. Judah is my scepter. +060:008 Moab is my wash basin. I will throw my shoe on Edom. + I shout in triumph over Philistia." +060:009 Who will bring me into the strong city? Who has led me to Edom? +060:010 Haven't you, God, rejected us? You don't go out with + our armies, God. +060:011 Give us help against the adversary, for the help of man is vain. +060:012 Through God we shall do valiantly, for it is he who will tread + down our adversaries. +061:001 <<For the Chief Musician. For a stringed instrument. + By David.>> Hear my cry, God. Listen to my prayer. +061:002 From the end of the earth, I will call to you, when my heart + is overwhelmed. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I. +061:003 For you have been a refuge for me, a strong tower from the enemy. +061:004 I will dwell in your tent forever. I will take refuge + in the shelter of your wings. Selah. +061:005 For you, God, have heard my vows. You have given me the heritage + of those who fear your name. +061:006 You will prolong the king's life; his years shall be for generations. +061:007 He shall be enthroned in God's presence forever. Appoint your + loving kindness and truth, that they may preserve him. +061:008 So I will sing praise to your name forever, that I may fulfill + my vows daily. +062:001 <<For the Chief Musician. To Jeduthan. A Psalm by David.>> + My soul rests in God alone. My salvation is from him. +062:002 He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress--I will + never be greatly shaken. +062:003 How long will you assault a man, would all of you throw him down, + Like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence? +062:004 They fully intend to throw him down from his lofty place. + They delight in lies. They bless with their mouth, but they + curse inwardly. Selah. +062:005 My soul, wait in silence for God alone, for my expectation + is from him. +062:006 He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress. + I will not be shaken. +062:007 With God is my salvation and my honor. The rock of my strength, + and my refuge, is in God. +062:008 Trust in him at all times, you people. Pour out your heart + before him. God is a refuge for us. Selah. +062:009 Surely men of low degree are just a breath, and men of high + degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. + They are together lighter than a breath. +062:010 Don't trust in oppression. Don't become vain in robbery. + If riches increase, don't set your heart on them. +062:011 God has spoken once; twice I have heard this, that power + belongs to God. +062:012 Also to you, Lord, belongs loving kindness, for you reward + every man according to his work. +063:001 <<A Psalm by David, when he was in the desert of Judah.>> God, + you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts + for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, + where there is no water. +063:002 So I have seen you in the sanctuary, watching your power + and your glory. +063:003 Because your loving kindness is better than life, my lips + shall praise you. +063:004 So I will bless you while I live. I will lift up my hands + in your name. +063:005 My soul shall be satisfied as with the richest food. + My mouth shall praise you with joyful lips, +063:006 when I remember you on my bed, and think about you in + the night watches. +063:007 For you have been my help. I will rejoice in the shadow + of your wings. +063:008 My soul stays close to you. Your right hand holds me up. +063:009 But those who seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into + the lower parts of the earth. +063:010 They shall be given over to the power of the sword. + They shall be jackal food. +063:011 But the king shall rejoice in God. Everyone who swears by him + will praise him, for the mouth of those who speak lies + shall be silenced. +064:001 <<For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.>> Hear my voice, + God, in my complaint. Preserve my life from fear of the enemy. +064:002 Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked, from the noisy + crowd of the ones doing evil; +064:003 who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and aim their arrows, + deadly words, +064:004 to shoot innocent men from ambushes. They shoot at him + suddenly and fearlessly. +064:005 They encourage themselves in evil plans. They talk about laying + snares secretly. They say, "Who will see them?" +064:006 They plot injustice, saying, "We have made a perfect plan!" + Surely man's mind and heart are cunning. +064:007 But God will shoot at them. They will be suddenly struck + down with an arrow. +064:008 Their own tongues shall ruin them. All who see them will + shake their heads. +064:009 All mankind shall be afraid. They shall declare the work of God, + and shall wisely ponder what he has done. +064:010 The righteous shall be glad in Yahweh, and shall take refuge in him. + All the upright in heart shall praise him! +065:001 <<For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. A song.>> Praise + waits for you, God, in Zion. To you shall vows be performed. +065:002 You who hear prayer, to you all men will come. +065:003 Sins overwhelmed me, but you atoned for our transgressions. +065:004 Blessed is one whom you choose, and cause to come near, + that he may live in your courts. We will be filled with + the goodness of your house, your holy temple. +065:005 By awesome deeds of righteousness, you answer us, God of + our salvation. You who are the hope of all the ends of the earth, + of those who are far away on the sea; +065:006 Who by his power forms the mountains, having armed + yourself with strength; +065:007 who stills the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, + and the turmoil of the nations. +065:008 They also who dwell in far-away places are afraid at your wonders. + You call the morning's dawn and the evening with songs of joy. +065:009 You visit the earth, and water it. You greatly enrich it. + The river of God is full of water. You provide them grain, + for so you have ordained it. +065:010 You drench its furrows. You level its ridges. You soften it + with showers. You bless it with a crop. +065:011 You crown the year with your bounty. Your carts + overflow with abundance. +065:012 The wilderness grasslands overflow. The hills are + clothed with gladness. +065:013 The pastures are covered with flocks. The valleys also are + clothed with grain. They shout for joy! They also sing. +066:001 <<For the Chief Musician. A song. A Psalm.>> Make a joyful + shout to God, all the earth! +066:002 Sing to the glory of his name! Offer glory and praise! +066:003 Tell God, "How awesome are your deeds! Through the greatness + of your power, your enemies submit themselves to you. +066:004 All the earth will worship you, and will sing to you; + they will sing to your name." Selah. +066:005 Come, and see God's deeds--awesome work on behalf of the + children of men. +066:006 He turned the sea into dry land. They went through the river + on foot. There, we rejoiced in him. +066:007 He rules by his might forever. His eyes watch the nations. + Don't let the rebellious rise up against him. Selah. +066:008 Praise our God, you peoples! Make the sound of his praise heard, +066:009 who preserves our life among the living, and doesn't allow + our feet to be moved. +066:010 For you, God, have tested us. You have refined us, + as silver is refined. +066:011 You brought us into prison. You laid a burden on our backs. +066:012 You allowed men to ride over our heads. We went through fire + and through water, but you brought us to the place of abundance. +066:013 I will come into your temple with burnt offerings. + I will pay my vows to you, +066:014 which my lips promised, and my mouth spoke, when I was in distress. +066:015 I will offer to you burnt offerings of fat animals, with the + offering of rams, I will offer bulls with goats. Selah. +066:016 Come, and hear, all you who fear God. I will declare what he has + done for my soul. +066:017 I cried to him with my mouth. He was extolled with my tongue. +066:018 If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn't have listened. +066:019 But most certainly, God has listened. He has heard the voice + of my prayer. +066:020 Blessed be God, who has not turned away my prayer, nor his + loving kindness from me. +067:001 <<For the Chief Musician. With stringed instruments. + A Psalm. A song.>> May God be merciful to us, bless us, + and cause his face to shine on us. Selah. +067:002 That your way may be known on earth, and your salvation + among all nations, +067:003 let the peoples praise you, God. Let all the peoples praise you. +067:004 Oh let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you will judge + the peoples with equity, and govern the nations on earth. Selah. +067:005 Let the peoples praise you, God. Let all the peoples praise you. +067:006 The earth has yielded its increase. God, even our own God, + will bless us. +067:007 God will bless us. All the ends of the earth shall fear him. +068:001 <<For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. + A song.>> Let God arise! Let his enemies be scattered! + Let them who hate him also flee before him. +068:002 As smoke is driven away, so drive them away. As wax melts before + the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God. +068:003 But let the righteous be glad. Let them rejoice before God. + Yes, let them rejoice with gladness. +068:004 Sing to God! Sing praises to his name! Extol him who rides + on the clouds: to Yah, his name! Rejoice before him! +068:005 A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, + is God in his holy habitation. +068:006 God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners + with singing, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land. +068:007 God, when you went forth before your people, when you marched + through the wilderness... Selah. +068:008 The earth trembled. The sky also poured down rain at + the presence of the God of Sinai--at the presence of God, + the God of Israel. +068:009 You, God, sent a plentiful rain. You confirmed your inheritance, + when it was weary. +068:010 Your congregation lived therein. You, God, prepared your + goodness for the poor. +068:011 The Lord announced the word. The ones who proclaim it are + a great company. +068:012 "Kings of armies flee! They flee!" She who waits at home + divides the spoil, +068:013 while you sleep among the campfires, the wings of a dove + sheathed with silver, her feathers with shining gold. +068:014 When the Almighty scattered kings in her, it snowed on Zalmon. +068:015 The mountains of Bashan are majestic mountains. + The mountains of Bashan are rugged. +068:016 Why do you look in envy, you rugged mountains, at the mountain + where God chooses to reign? Yes, Yahweh will dwell there forever. +068:017 The chariots of God are tens of thousands and thousands of thousands. + The Lord is among them, from Sinai, into the sanctuary. +068:018 You have ascended on high. You have led away captives. + You have received gifts among men, yes, among the rebellious also, + that Yah God might dwell there. +068:019 Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears our burdens, even the God + who is our salvation. Selah. +068:020 God is to us a God of deliverance. To Yahweh, the Lord, + belongs escape from death. +068:021 But God will strike through the head of his enemies, the hairy + scalp of such a one as still continues in his guiltiness. +068:022 The Lord said, "I will bring you again from Bashan, I will bring + you again from the depths of the sea; +068:023 That you may crush them, dipping your foot in blood, + that the tongues of your dogs may have their portion + from your enemies." +068:024 They have seen your processions, God, even the processions + of my God, my King, into the sanctuary. +068:025 The singers went before, the minstrels followed after, + in the midst of the ladies playing with tambourines, +068:026 "Bless God in the congregations, even the Lord in the + assembly of Israel!" +068:027 There is little Benjamin, their ruler, the princes of Judah, + their council, the princes of Zebulun, and the princes of Naphtali. +068:028 Your God has commanded your strength. Strengthen, God, that which + you have done for us. +068:029 Because of your temple at Jerusalem, kings shall bring + presents to you. +068:030 Rebuke the wild animal of the reeds, the multitude of the bulls, + with the calves of the peoples. Being humbled, may it bring + bars of silver. Scatter the nations that delight in war. +068:031 Princes shall come out of Egypt. Ethiopia shall hurry to stretch + out her hands to God. +068:032 Sing to God, you kingdoms of the earth! Sing praises to + the Lord! Selah. +068:033 To him who rides on the heaven of heavens, which are of old; + behold, he utters his voice, a mighty voice. +068:034 Ascribe strength to God! His excellency is over Israel, + his strength is in the skies. +068:035 You are awesome, God, in your sanctuaries. + The God of Israel gives strength and power to his people. + Praise be to God! +069:001 <<For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Lilies." By David.>> + Save me, God, for the waters have come up to my neck! +069:002 I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. + I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me. +069:003 I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail, + looking for my God. +069:004 Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. + Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, + are mighty. I have to restore what I didn't take away. +069:005 God, you know my foolishness. My sins aren't hidden from you. +069:006 Don't let those who wait for you be shamed through me, + Lord Yahweh of Armies. Don't let those who seek you be brought + to dishonor through me, God of Israel. +069:007 Because for your sake, I have borne reproach. Shame has + covered my face. +069:008 I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to + my mother's children. +069:009 For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches + of those who reproach you have fallen on me. +069:010 When I wept and I fasted, that was to my reproach. +069:011 When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them. +069:012 Those who sit in the gate talk about me. I am the song + of the drunkards. +069:013 But as for me, my prayer is to you, Yahweh, in an acceptable time. + God, in the abundance of your loving kindness, answer me + in the truth of your salvation. +069:014 Deliver me out of the mire, and don't let me sink. + Let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of + the deep waters. +069:015 Don't let the flood waters overwhelm me, neither let the deep + swallow me up. Don't let the pit shut its mouth on me. +069:016 Answer me, Yahweh, for your loving kindness is good. + According to the multitude of your tender mercies, turn to me. +069:017 Don't hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress. + Answer me speedily! +069:018 Draw near to my soul, and redeem it. Ransom me because + of my enemies. +069:019 You know my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor. + My adversaries are all before you. +069:020 Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. + I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; + for comforters, but I found none. +069:021 They also gave me gall for my food. In my thirst, they gave + me vinegar to drink. +069:022 Let their table before them become a snare. May it become + a retribution and a trap. +069:023 Let their eyes be darkened, so that they can't see. + Let their backs be continually bent. +069:024 Pour out your indignation on them. Let the fierceness of your + anger overtake them. +069:025 Let their habitation be desolate. Let no one dwell in their tents. +069:026 For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell + of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt. +069:027 Charge them with crime upon crime. Don't let them come + into your righteousness. +069:028 Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written + with the righteous. +069:029 But I am in pain and distress. Let your salvation, God, protect me. +069:030 I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify + him with thanksgiving. +069:031 It will please Yahweh better than an ox, or a bull that has + horns and hoofs. +069:032 The humble have seen it, and are glad. You who seek after God, + let your heart live. +069:033 For Yahweh hears the needy, and doesn't despise his captive people. +069:034 Let heaven and earth praise him; the seas, and everything + that moves therein! +069:035 For God will save Zion, and build the cities of Judah. + They shall settle there, and own it. +069:036 The children also of his servants shall inherit it. + Those who love his name shall dwell therein. +070:001 <<For the Chief Musician. By David. A reminder.>> Hurry, God, + to deliver me. Come quickly to help me, Yahweh. +070:002 Let them be disappointed and confounded who seek my soul. + Let those who desire my ruin be turned back in disgrace. +070:003 Let them be turned because of their shame Who say, "Aha! Aha!" +070:004 Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you. + Let those who love your salvation continually say, + "Let God be exalted!" +070:005 But I am poor and needy. Come to me quickly, God. You are + my help and my deliverer. Yahweh, don't delay. +071:001 In you, Yahweh, I take refuge. Never let me be disappointed. +071:002 Deliver me in your righteousness, and rescue me. + Turn your ear to me, and save me. +071:003 Be to me a rock of refuge to which I may always go. + Give the command to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress. +071:004 Rescue me, my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the hand + of the unrighteous and cruel man. +071:005 For you are my hope, Lord Yahweh; my confidence from my youth. +071:006 I have relied on you from the womb. You are he who took me + out of my mother's womb. I will always praise you. +071:007 I am a marvel to many, but you are my strong refuge. +071:008 My mouth shall be filled with your praise, with your honor + all the day. +071:009 Don't reject me in my old age. Don't forsake me when + my strength fails. +071:010 For my enemies talk about me. Those who watch for my + soul conspire together, +071:011 saying, "God has forsaken him. Pursue and take him, for no + one will rescue him." +071:012 God, don't be far from me. My God, hurry to help me. +071:013 Let my accusers be disappointed and consumed. Let them be + covered with disgrace and scorn who want to harm me. +071:014 But I will always hope, and will add to all of your praise. +071:015 My mouth will tell about your righteousness, and of your + salvation all day, though I don't know its full measure. +071:016 I will come with the mighty acts of the Lord Yahweh. + I will make mention of your righteousness, even of yours alone. +071:017 God, you have taught me from my youth. Until now, I have + declared your wondrous works. +071:018 Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don't forsake me, + until I have declared your strength to the next generation, + your might to everyone who is to come. +071:019 Your righteousness also, God, reaches to the heavens; + you have done great things. God, who is like you? +071:020 You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will + let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths + of the earth. +071:021 Increase my honor, and comfort me again. +071:022 I will also praise you with the harp for your faithfulness, my God. + I sing praises to you with the lyre, Holy One of Israel. +071:023 My lips shall shout for joy! My soul, which you have redeemed, + sings praises to you! +071:024 My tongue will also talk about your righteousness all day long, + for they are disappointed, and they are confounded, who want + to harm me. +072:001 <<By Solomon.>> God, give the king your justice; your righteousness + to the royal son. +072:002 He will judge your people with righteousness, and your + poor with justice. +072:003 The mountains shall bring prosperity to the people. + The hills bring the fruit of righteousness. +072:004 He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children + of the needy, and will break the oppressor in pieces. +072:005 They shall fear you while the sun endures; and as long as the moon, + throughout all generations. +072:006 He will come down like rain on the mown grass, as showers + that water the earth. +072:007 In his days, the righteous shall flourish, and abundance of peace, + until the moon is no more. +072:008 He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, from the River + to the ends of the earth. +072:009 Those who dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him. + His enemies shall lick the dust. +072:010 The kings of Tarshish and of the islands will bring tribute. + The kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts. +072:011 Yes, all kings shall fall down before him. All nations + shall serve him. +072:012 For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor, + who has no helper. +072:013 He will have pity on the poor and needy. He will save the souls + of the needy. +072:014 He will redeem their soul from oppression and violence. + Their blood will be precious in his sight. +072:015 They shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba. + Men shall pray for him continually. They shall bless him + all day long. +072:016 There shall be abundance of grain throughout the land. + Its fruit sways like Lebanon. Let it flourish, thriving like + the grass of the field. +072:017 His name endures forever. His name continues as long as the sun. + Men shall be blessed by him. All nations will call him blessed. +072:018 Praise be to Yahweh God, the God of Israel, who alone + does marvelous deeds. +072:019 Blessed be his glorious name forever! Let the whole earth + be filled with his glory! Amen and amen. +072:020 This ends the prayers by David, the son of Jesse. +073:001 <<A Psalm by Asaph.>> Surely God is good to Israel, to those + who are pure in heart. +073:002 But as for me, my feet were almost gone. My steps + had nearly slipped. +073:003 For I was envious of the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity + of the wicked. +073:004 For there are no struggles in their death, but their + strength is firm. +073:005 They are free from burdens of men, neither are they plagued + like other men. +073:006 Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck. + Violence covers them like a garment. +073:007 Their eyes bulge with fat. Their minds pass the limits of conceit. +073:008 They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, + they threaten oppression. +073:009 They have set their mouth in the heavens. Their tongue walks + through the earth. +073:010 Therefore their people return to them, and they drink up + waters of abundance. +073:011 They say, "How does God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?" +073:012 Behold, these are the wicked. Being always at ease, + they increase in riches. +073:013 Surely in vain I have cleansed my heart, and washed my + hands in innocence, +073:014 For all day long have I been plagued, and punished every morning. +073:015 If I had said, "I will speak thus;" behold, I would have betrayed + the generation of your children. +073:016 When I tried to understand this, it was too painful for me; +073:017 Until I entered God's sanctuary, and considered their latter end. +073:018 Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them + down to destruction. +073:019 How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept + away with terrors. +073:020 As a dream when one wakes up, so, Lord, when you awake, + you will despise their fantasies. +073:021 For my soul was grieved. I was embittered in my heart. +073:022 I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you. +073:023 Nevertheless, I am continually with you. You have held + my right hand. +073:024 You will guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive + me to glory. +073:025 Who do I have in heaven? There is no one on earth who I + desire besides you. +073:026 My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart + and my portion forever. +073:027 For, behold, those who are far from you shall perish. + You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to you. +073:028 But it is good for me to come close to God. I have made + the Lord Yahweh my refuge, that I may tell of all your works. +074:001 <<A contemplation by Asaph.>> God, why have you rejected us forever? + Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture? +074:002 Remember your congregation, which you purchased of old, + which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your inheritance; + Mount Zion, in which you have lived. +074:003 Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins, all the evil that + the enemy has done in the sanctuary. +074:004 Your adversaries have roared in the midst of your assembly. + They have set up their standards as signs. +074:005 They behaved like men wielding axes, cutting through a + thicket of trees. +074:006 Now they break all its carved work down with hatchet and hammers. +074:007 They have burned your sanctuary to the ground. + They have profaned the dwelling place of your Name. +074:008 They said in their heart, "We will crush them completely." + They have burned up all the places in the land where + God was worshiped. +074:009 We see no miraculous signs. There is no longer any prophet, + neither is there among us anyone who knows how long. +074:010 How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy + blaspheme your name forever? +074:011 Why do you draw back your hand, even your right hand? + Take it out of your pocket and consume them! +074:012 Yet God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst + of the earth. +074:013 You divided the sea by your strength. You broke the heads + of the sea monsters in the waters. +074:014 You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces. You gave him + as food to people and desert creatures. +074:015 You opened up spring and stream. You dried up mighty rivers. +074:016 The day is yours, the night is also yours. You have prepared + the light and the sun. +074:017 You have set all the boundaries of the earth. You have made + summer and winter. +074:018 Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, Yahweh. + Foolish people have blasphemed your name. +074:019 Don't deliver the soul of your dove to wild beasts. + Don't forget the life of your poor forever. +074:020 Honor your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark + places of the earth. +074:021 Don't let the oppressed return ashamed. Let the poor and needy + praise your name. +074:022 Arise, God! Plead your own cause. Remember how the foolish + man mocks you all day. +074:023 Don't forget the voice of your adversaries. The tumult + of those who rise up against you ascends continually. +075:001 <<For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Do Not Destroy." + A Psalm by Asaph. A song.>> We give thanks to you, God. + We give thanks, for your Name is near. Men tell about + your wondrous works. +075:002 When I choose the appointed time, I will judge blamelessly. +075:003 The earth and all its inhabitants quake. I firmly hold + its pillars. Selah. +075:004 I said to the arrogant, "Don't boast!" I said to the wicked, + "Don't lift up the horn. +075:005 Don't lift up your horn on high. Don't speak with a stiff neck." +075:006 For neither from the east, nor from the west, nor yet from + the south, comes exaltation. +075:007 But God is the judge. He puts down one, and lifts up another. +075:008 For in the hand of Yahweh there is a cup, full of foaming + wine mixed with spices. He pours it out. Indeed the wicked + of the earth drink and drink it to its very dregs. +075:009 But I will declare this forever: I will sing praises to + the God of Jacob. +075:010 I will cut off all the horns of the wicked, but the horns + of the righteous shall be lifted up. +076:001 <<For the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. + A Psalm by Asaph. A song.>> In Judah, God is known. + His name is great in Israel. +076:002 His tent is also in Salem; His dwelling place in Zion. +076:003 There he broke the flaming arrows of the bow, the shield, + and the sword, and the weapons of war. Selah. +076:004 Glorious are you, and excellent, more than mountains of game. +076:005 Valiant men lie plundered, they have slept their last sleep. + None of the men of war can lift their hands. +076:006 At your rebuke, God of Jacob, both chariot and horse are cast + into a deep sleep. +076:007 You, even you, are to be feared. Who can stand in your sight + when you are angry? +076:008 You pronounced judgment from heaven. The earth feared, + and was silent, +076:009 when God arose to judgment, to save all the afflicted ones + of the earth. Selah. +076:010 Surely the wrath of man praises you. The survivors of your + wrath are restrained. +076:011 Make vows to Yahweh your God, and fulfill them! Let all of his + neighbors bring presents to him who is to be feared. +076:012 He will cut off the spirit of princes. He is feared by the kings + of the earth. +077:001 <<For the Chief Musician. To Jeduthun. A Psalm by Asaph.>> My + cry goes to God! Indeed, I cry to God for help, and for him + to listen to me. +077:002 In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand + was stretched out in the night, and didn't get tired. + My soul refused to be comforted. +077:003 I remember God, and I groan. I complain, and my spirit + is overwhelmed. Selah. +077:004 You hold my eyelids open. I am so troubled that I can't speak. +077:005 I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times. +077:006 I remember my song in the night. I consider in my own heart; + my spirit diligently inquires: +077:007 "Will the Lord reject us forever? Will he be favorable no more? +077:008 Has his loving kindness vanished forever? Does his promise + fail for generations? +077:009 Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he, in anger, + withheld his compassion?" Selah. +077:010 Then I thought, "I will appeal to this: the years of the right + hand of the Most High." +077:011 I will remember Yah's deeds; for I will remember your + wonders of old. +077:012 I will also meditate on all your work, and consider your doings. +077:013 Your way, God, is in the sanctuary. What god is great like God? +077:014 You are the God who does wonders. You have made your strength + known among the peoples. +077:015 You have redeemed your people with your arm, the sons of Jacob + and Joseph. Selah. +077:016 The waters saw you, God. The waters saw you, and they writhed. + The depths also convulsed. +077:017 The clouds poured out water. The skies resounded with thunder. + Your arrows also flashed around. +077:018 The voice of your thunder was in the whirlwind. The lightnings + lit up the world. The earth trembled and shook. +077:019 Your way was through the sea; your paths through the great waters. + Your footsteps were not known. +077:020 You led your people like a flock, by the hand of Moses and Aaron. +078:001 <<A contemplation by Asaph.>> Hear my teaching, my people. + Turn your ears to the words of my mouth. +078:002 I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark + sayings of old, +078:003 Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. +078:004 We will not hide them from their children, telling to + the generation to come the praises of Yahweh, his strength, + and his wondrous works that he has done. +078:005 For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed + a teaching in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, + that they should make them known to their children; +078:006 that the generation to come might know, even the children + who should be born; who should arise and tell their children, +078:007 that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works + of God, but keep his commandments, +078:008 and might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious + generation, a generation that didn't make their hearts loyal, + whose spirit was not steadfast with God. +078:009 The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, + turned back in the day of battle. +078:010 They didn't keep God's covenant, and refused to walk in his law. +078:011 They forgot his doings, his wondrous works that he had shown them. +078:012 He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers, + in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. +078:013 He split the sea, and caused them to pass through. + He made the waters stand as a heap. +078:014 In the daytime he also led them with a cloud, and all night + with a light of fire. +078:015 He split rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly + as out of the depths. +078:016 He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters + to run down like rivers. +078:017 Yet they still went on to sin against him, to rebel against + the Most High in the desert. +078:018 They tempted God in their heart by asking food according + to their desire. +078:019 Yes, they spoke against God. They said, "Can God prepare + a table in the wilderness? +078:020 Behold, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out, + and streams overflowed. Can he give bread also? + Will he provide flesh for his people?" +078:021 Therefore Yahweh heard, and was angry. A fire was kindled + against Jacob, anger also went up against Israel, +078:022 because they didn't believe in God, and didn't trust + in his salvation. +078:023 Yet he commanded the skies above, and opened the doors of heaven. +078:024 He rained down manna on them to eat, and gave them food + from the sky. +078:025 Man ate the bread of angels. He sent them food to the full. +078:026 He caused the east wind to blow in the sky. By his power + he guided the south wind. +078:027 He rained also flesh on them as the dust; winged birds + as the sand of the seas. +078:028 He let them fall in the midst of their camp, + around their habitations. +078:029 So they ate, and were well filled. He gave them their own desire. +078:030 They didn't turn from their cravings. Their food was yet + in their mouths, +078:031 when the anger of God went up against them, killed some of + the fattest of them, and struck down the young men of Israel. +078:032 For all this they still sinned, and didn't believe in + his wondrous works. +078:033 Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their + years in terror. +078:034 When he killed them, then they inquired after him. + They returned and sought God earnestly. +078:035 They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God, + their redeemer. +078:036 But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied to him + with their tongue. +078:037 For their heart was not right with him, neither were they + faithful in his covenant. +078:038 But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and didn't destroy them. + Yes, many times he turned his anger away, and didn't stir up + all his wrath. +078:039 He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, + and doesn't come again. +078:040 How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, + and grieved him in the desert! +078:041 They turned again and tempted God, and provoked the + Holy One of Israel. +078:042 They didn't remember his hand, nor the day when he redeemed + them from the adversary; +078:043 how he set his signs in Egypt, his wonders in the field of Zoan, +078:044 he turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, + so that they could not drink. +078:045 He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; + and frogs, which destroyed them. +078:046 He gave also their increase to the caterpillar, and their labor + to the locust. +078:047 He destroyed their vines with hail, their sycamore fig + trees with frost. +078:048 He gave over their livestock also to the hail, and their flocks + to hot thunderbolts. +078:049 He threw on them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, indignation, + and trouble, and a band of angels of evil. +078:050 He made a path for his anger. He didn't spare their soul + from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence, +078:051 and struck all the firstborn in Egypt, the chief of their + strength in the tents of Ham. +078:052 But he led forth his own people like sheep, and guided them + in the wilderness like a flock. +078:053 He led them safely, so that they weren't afraid, but the sea + overwhelmed their enemies. +078:054 He brought them to the border of his sanctuary, to this mountain, + which his right hand had taken. +078:055 He also drove out the nations before them, allotted them + for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel + to dwell in their tents. +078:056 Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, + and didn't keep his testimonies; +078:057 but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers. + They were turned aside like a deceitful bow. +078:058 For they provoked him to anger with their high places, + and moved him to jealousy with their engraved images. +078:059 When God heard this, he was angry, and greatly abhorred Israel; +078:060 So that he forsook the tent of Shiloh, the tent which he + placed among men; +078:061 and delivered his strength into captivity, his glory into + the adversary's hand. +078:062 He also gave his people over to the sword, and was angry + with his inheritance. +078:063 Fire devoured their young men. Their virgins had no wedding song. +078:064 Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows couldn't weep. +078:065 Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep, like a mighty man + who shouts by reason of wine. +078:066 He struck his adversaries backward. He put them to + a perpetual reproach. +078:067 Moreover he rejected the tent of Joseph, and didn't choose + the tribe of Ephraim, +078:068 But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which he loved. +078:069 He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth + which he has established forever. +078:070 He also chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds; +078:071 from following the ewes that have their young, he brought him to be + the shepherd of Jacob, his people, and Israel, his inheritance. +078:072 So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart, + and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands. +079:001 <<A Psalm by Asaph.>> God, the nations have come into + your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. + They have laid Jerusalem in heaps. +079:002 They have given the dead bodies of your servants to be food + for the birds of the sky, the flesh of your saints to the animals + of the earth. +079:003 Their blood they have shed like water around Jerusalem. + There was no one to bury them. +079:004 We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and + derision to those who are around us. +079:005 How long, Yahweh? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy + burn like fire? +079:006 Pour out your wrath on the nations that don't know you; + on the kingdoms that don't call on your name; +079:007 For they have devoured Jacob, and destroyed his homeland. +079:008 Don't hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us. + Let your tender mercies speedily meet us, for we are + in desperate need. +079:009 Help us, God of our salvation, for the glory of your name. + Deliver us, and forgive our sins, for your name's sake. +079:010 Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?" Let it + be known among the nations, before our eyes, that vengeance + for your servants' blood is being poured out. +079:011 Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you. + According to the greatness of your power, preserve those who + are sentenced to death. +079:012 Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom their + reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord. +079:013 So we, your people and sheep of your pasture, will give you + thanks forever. We will praise you forever, to all generations. +080:001 <<For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "The Lilies of + the Covenant." A Psalm by Asaph.>> Hear us, Shepherd of Israel, + you who lead Joseph like a flock, you who sit above + the cherubim, shine forth. +080:002 Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up your might! + Come to save us! +080:003 Turn us again, God. Cause your face to shine, and we + will be saved. +080:004 Yahweh God of Armies, How long will you be angry against + the prayer of your people? +080:005 You have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them + tears to drink in large measure. +080:006 You make us a source of contention to our neighbors. + Our enemies laugh among themselves. +080:007 Turn us again, God of Armies. Cause your face to shine, + and we will be saved. +080:008 You brought a vine out of Egypt. You drove out the nations, + and planted it. +080:009 You cleared the ground for it. It took deep root, + and filled the land. +080:010 The mountains were covered with its shadow. Its boughs were + like God's cedars. +080:011 It sent out its branches to the sea, Its shoots to the River. +080:012 Why have you broken down its walls, so that all those who pass + by the way pluck it? +080:013 The boar out of the wood ravages it. The wild animals + of the field feed on it. +080:014 Turn again, we beg you, God of Armies. Look down from heaven, + and see, and visit this vine, +080:015 the stock which your right hand planted, the branch that you + made strong for yourself. +080:016 It's burned with fire. It's cut down. They perish at your rebuke. +080:017 Let your hand be on the man of your right hand, on the son + of man whom you made strong for yourself. +080:018 So we will not turn away from you. Revive us, and we will call + on your name. +080:019 Turn us again, Yahweh God of Armies. Cause your face to shine, + and we will be saved. +081:001 <<For the Chief Musician. On an instrument of Gath. + By Asaph.>> Sing aloud to God, our strength! Make a joyful + shout to the God of Jacob! +081:002 Raise a song, and bring here the tambourine, the pleasant lyre + with the harp. +081:003 Blow the trumpet at the New Moon, at the full moon, + on our feast day. +081:004 For it is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob. +081:005 He appointed it in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out over + the land of Egypt, I heard a language that I didn't know. +081:006 "I removed his shoulder from the burden. His hands were freed + from the basket. +081:007 You called in trouble, and I delivered you. I answered you + in the secret place of thunder. I tested you at the waters + of Meribah." Selah. +081:008 "Hear, my people, and I will testify to you, Israel, if you + would listen to me! +081:009 There shall be no strange god in you, neither shall you worship + any foreign god. +081:010 I am Yahweh, your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. + Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it. +081:011 But my people didn't listen to my voice. Israel desired + none of me. +081:012 So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, + that they might walk in their own counsels. +081:013 Oh that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk + in my ways! +081:014 I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn my hand + against their adversaries. +081:015 The haters of Yahweh would cringe before him, and their punishment + would last forever. +081:016 But he would have also fed them with the finest of the wheat. + I will satisfy you with honey out of the rock." +082:001 <<A Psalm by Asaph.>> God presides in the great assembly. + He judges among the gods. +082:002 "How long will you judge unjustly, and show partiality + to the wicked?" Selah. +082:003 "Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. + Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed. +082:004 Rescue the weak and needy. Deliver them out of the hand + of the wicked." +082:005 They don't know, neither do they understand. + They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations + of the earth are shaken. +082:006 I said, "You are gods, all of you are sons of the Most High. +082:007 Nevertheless you shall die like men, and fall like one + of the rulers." +082:008 Arise, God, judge the earth, for you inherit all of the nations. +083:001 <<A song. A Psalm by Asaph.>> God, don't keep silent. + Don't keep silent, and don't be still, God. +083:002 For, behold, your enemies are stirred up. Those who hate you + have lifted up their heads. +083:003 They conspire with cunning against your people. + They plot against your cherished ones. +083:004 "Come," they say, "and let's destroy them as a nation, + that the name of Israel may be remembered no more." +083:005 For they have conspired together with one mind. + They form an alliance against you. +083:006 The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab, and the Hagrites; +083:007 Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre; +083:008 Assyria also is joined with them. They have helped the children + of Lot. Selah. +083:009 Do to them as you did to Midian, as to Sisera, as to Jabin, + at the river Kishon; +083:010 who perished at Endor, who became as dung for the earth. +083:011 Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb; yes, all their princes + like Zebah and Zalmunna; +083:012 who said, "Let us take possession of God's pasturelands." +083:013 My God, make them like tumbleweed; like chaff before the wind. +083:014 As the fire that burns the forest, as the flame that sets + the mountains on fire, +083:015 so pursue them with your tempest, and terrify them with your storm. +083:016 Fill their faces with confusion, that they may seek + your name, Yahweh. +083:017 Let them be disappointed and dismayed forever. Yes, let them + be confounded and perish; +083:018 that they may know that you alone, whose name is Yahweh, + are the Most High over all the earth. +084:001 <<For the Chief Musician. On an instrument of Gath. + A Psalm by the sons of Korah.>> How lovely are your dwellings, + Yahweh of Armies! +084:002 My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of Yahweh. + My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God. +084:003 Yes, the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest + for herself, where she may have her young, near your altars, + Yahweh of Armies, my King, and my God. +084:004 Blessed are those who dwell in your house. They are always + praising you. Selah. +084:005 Blessed are those whose strength is in you; who have set + their hearts on a pilgrimage. +084:006 Passing through the valley of Weeping, they make it a place + of springs. Yes, the autumn rain covers it with blessings. +084:007 They go from strength to strength. Everyone of them appears + before God in Zion. +084:008 Yahweh, God of Armies, hear my prayer. Listen, God of Jacob. Selah. +084:009 Behold, God our shield, look at the face of your anointed. +084:010 For a day in your courts is better than a thousand. + I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, + than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. +084:011 For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give + grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those + who walk blamelessly. +084:012 Yahweh of Armies, blessed is the man who trusts in you. +085:001 <<For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by the sons of Korah.>> Yahweh, + you have been favorable to your land. You have restored + the fortunes of Jacob. +085:002 You have forgiven the iniquity of your people. You have covered + all their sin. Selah. +085:003 You have taken away all your wrath. You have turned from + the fierceness of your anger. +085:004 Turn us, God of our salvation, and cause your indignation + toward us to cease. +085:005 Will you be angry with us forever? Will you draw out your anger + to all generations? +085:006 Won't you revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you? +085:007 Show us your loving kindness, Yahweh. Grant us your salvation. +085:008 I will hear what God, Yahweh, will speak, for he will speak + peace to his people, his saints; but let them not turn + again to folly. +085:009 Surely his salvation is near those who fear him, that glory + may dwell in our land. +085:010 Mercy and truth meet together. Righteousness and peace have + kissed each other. +085:011 Truth springs out of the earth. Righteousness has looked + down from heaven. +085:012 Yes, Yahweh will give that which is good. Our land will + yield its increase. +085:013 Righteousness goes before him, And prepares the way for his steps. +086:001 <<A Prayer by David.>> Hear, Yahweh, and answer me, for I am + poor and needy. +086:002 Preserve my soul, for I am godly. You, my God, save your + servant who trusts in you. +086:003 Be merciful to me, Lord, for I call to you all day long. +086:004 Bring joy to the soul of your servant, for to you, Lord, do I + lift up my soul. +086:005 For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive; abundant in loving + kindness to all those who call on you. +086:006 Hear, Yahweh, my prayer. Listen to the voice of my petitions. +086:007 In the day of my trouble I will call on you, for you + will answer me. +086:008 There is no one like you among the gods, Lord, nor any deeds + like your deeds. +086:009 All nations you have made will come and worship before you, Lord. + They shall glorify your name. +086:010 For you are great, and do wondrous things. You are God alone. +086:011 Teach me your way, Yahweh. I will walk in your truth. + Make my heart undivided to fear your name. +086:012 I will praise you, Lord my God, with my whole heart. + I will glorify your name forevermore. +086:013 For your loving kindness is great toward me. You have delivered + my soul from the lowest Sheol. +086:014 God, the proud have risen up against me. A company of violent + men have sought after my soul, and they don't hold regard + for you before them. +086:015 But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, + and abundant in loving kindness and truth. +086:016 Turn to me, and have mercy on me! Give your strength to + your servant. Save the son of your handmaid. +086:017 Show me a sign of your goodness, that those who hate me may + see it, and be shamed, because you, Yahweh, have helped me, + and comforted me. +087:001 <<A Psalm by the sons of Korah; a Song.>> His foundation + is in the holy mountains. +087:002 Yahweh loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob. +087:003 Glorious things are spoken about you, city of God. Selah. +087:004 I will record Rahab{Rahab is a reference to Egypt.} and Babylon + among those who acknowledge me. Behold, Philistia, Tyre, + and also Ethiopia: "This one was born there." +087:005 Yes, of Zion it will be said, "This one and that one was born + in her;" the Most High himself will establish her. +087:006 Yahweh will count, when he writes up the peoples, "This one + was born there." Selah. +087:007 Those who sing as well as those who dance say, "All my springs + are in you." +088:001 <<A Song. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. For the Chief Musician. + To the tune of "The Suffering of Affliction." A contemplation + by Heman, the Ezrahite.>> Yahweh, the God of my salvation, + I have cried day and night before you. +088:002 Let my prayer enter into your presence. Turn your ear to my cry. +088:003 For my soul is full of troubles. My life draws near to Sheol. +088:004 I am counted among those who go down into the pit. + I am like a man who has no help, +088:005 set apart among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, + whom you remember no more. They are cut off from your hand. +088:006 You have laid me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths. +088:007 Your wrath lies heavily on me. You have afflicted me with all + your waves. Selah. +088:008 You have taken my friends from me. You have made me an abomination + to them. I am confined, and I can't escape. +088:009 My eyes are dim from grief. I have called on you daily, Yahweh. + I have spread out my hands to you. +088:010 Do you show wonders to the dead? Do the dead rise up and + praise you? Selah. +088:011 Is your loving kindness declared in the grave? + Or your faithfulness in Destruction? +088:012 Are your wonders made known in the dark? Or your righteousness + in the land of forgetfulness? +088:013 But to you, Yahweh, I have cried. In the morning, my prayer + comes before you. +088:014 Yahweh, why do you reject my soul? Why do you hide your + face from me? +088:015 I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. + While I suffer your terrors, I am distracted. +088:016 Your fierce wrath has gone over me. Your terrors have cut me off. +088:017 They came around me like water all day long. + They completely engulfed me. +088:018 You have put lover and friend far from me, and my + friends into darkness. +089:001 <<A contemplation by Ethan, the Ezrahite.>> I will sing + of the loving kindness of Yahweh forever. With my mouth, + I will make known your faithfulness to all generations. +089:002 I indeed declare, "Love stands firm forever. You established + the heavens. Your faithfulness is in them." +089:003 "I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn + to David, my servant, +089:004 'I will establish your seed forever, and build up your throne + to all generations.'" Selah. +089:005 The heavens will praise your wonders, Yahweh; your faithfulness + also in the assembly of the holy ones. +089:006 For who in the skies can be compared to Yahweh? Who among + the sons of the heavenly beings is like Yahweh, +089:007 a very awesome God in the council of the holy ones, to be feared + above all those who are around him? +089:008 Yahweh, God of Armies, who is a mighty one, like you? + Yah, your faithfulness is around you. +089:009 You rule the pride of the sea. When its waves rise up, + you calm them. +089:010 You have broken Rahab in pieces, like one of the slain. + You have scattered your enemies with your mighty arm. +089:011 The heavens are yours. The earth also is yours; the world + and its fullness. You have founded them. +089:012 The north and the south, you have created them. + Tabor and Hermon rejoice in your name. +089:013 You have a mighty arm. Your hand is strong, and your right + hand is exalted. +089:014 Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne. + Loving kindness and truth go before your face. +089:015 Blessed are the people who learn to acclaim you. + They walk in the light of your presence, Yahweh. +089:016 In your name they rejoice all day. In your righteousness, + they are exalted. +089:017 For you are the glory of their strength. In your favor, + our horn will be exalted. +089:018 For our shield belongs to Yahweh; our king to the Holy One of Israel. +089:019 Then you spoke in vision to your saints, and said, "I have + bestowed strength on the warrior. I have exalted a young + man from the people. +089:020 I have found David, my servant. I have anointed him with + my holy oil, +089:021 with whom my hand shall be established. My arm will + also strengthen him. +089:022 No enemy will tax him. No wicked man will oppress him. +089:023 I will beat down his adversaries before him, and strike + those who hate him. +089:024 But my faithfulness and my loving kindness will be with him. + In my name, his horn will be exalted. +089:025 I will set his hand also on the sea, and his right hand + on the rivers. +089:026 He will call to me, 'You are my Father, my God, and the rock + of my salvation!' +089:027 I will also appoint him my firstborn, the highest of the kings + of the earth. +089:028 I will keep my loving kindness for him forevermore. + My covenant will stand firm with him. +089:029 I will also make his seed endure forever, and his throne + as the days of heaven. +089:030 If his children forsake my law, and don't walk in my ordinances; +089:031 if they break my statutes, and don't keep my commandments; +089:032 then I will punish their sin with the rod, and their + iniquity with stripes. +089:033 But I will not completely take my loving kindness from him, + nor allow my faithfulness to fail. +089:034 I will not break my covenant, nor alter what my lips have uttered. +089:035 Once have I sworn by my holiness, I will not lie to David. +089:036 His seed will endure forever, his throne like the sun before me. +089:037 It will be established forever like the moon, the faithful + witness in the sky." Selah. +089:038 But you have rejected and spurned. You have been angry + with your anointed. +089:039 You have renounced the covenant of your servant. + You have defiled his crown in the dust. +089:040 You have broken down all his hedges. You have brought his + strongholds to ruin. +089:041 All who pass by the way rob him. He has become a reproach + to his neighbors. +089:042 You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries. + You have made all of his enemies rejoice. +089:043 Yes, you turn back the edge of his sword, and haven't supported + him in battle. +089:044 You have ended his splendor, and thrown his throne down + to the ground. +089:045 You have shortened the days of his youth. You have covered + him with shame. Selah. +089:046 How long, Yahweh? Will you hide yourself forever? + Will your wrath burn like fire? +089:047 Remember how short my time is! For what vanity have you + created all the children of men! +089:048 What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall + deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah. +089:049 Lord, where are your former loving kindnesses, which you swore + to David in your faithfulness? +089:050 Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants, how I bear + in my heart the taunts of all the mighty peoples, +089:051 With which your enemies have mocked, Yahweh, with which they + have mocked the footsteps of your anointed one. +089:052 Blessed be Yahweh forevermore. Amen, and Amen. +090:001 <<A Prayer by Moses, the man of God.>> Lord, you have been + our dwelling place for all generations. +090:002 Before the mountains were brought forth, before you had formed + the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, + you are God. +090:003 You turn man to destruction, saying, "Return, you children of men." +090:004 For a thousand years in your sight are just like yesterday + when it is past, like a watch in the night. +090:005 You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout + like new grass. +090:006 In the morning it sprouts and springs up. By evening, + it is withered and dry. +090:007 For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath. +090:008 You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins + in the light of your presence. +090:009 For all our days have passed away in your wrath. + We bring our years to an end as a sigh. +090:010 The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength + eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, + for it passes quickly, and we fly away. +090:011 Who knows the power of your anger, your wrath according + to the fear that is due to you? +090:012 So teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom. +090:013 Relent, Yahweh! How long? Have compassion on your servants! +090:014 Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness, that we + may rejoice and be glad all our days. +090:015 Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, + for as many years as we have seen evil. +090:016 Let your work appear to your servants; your glory to their children. +090:017 Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us; establish the work + of our hands for us; yes, establish the work of our hands. +091:001 He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest + in the shadow of the Almighty. +091:002 I will say of Yahweh, "He is my refuge and my fortress; + my God, in whom I trust." +091:003 For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, + and from the deadly pestilence. +091:004 He will cover you with his feathers. Under his wings you will + take refuge. His faithfulness is your shield and rampart. +091:005 You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, nor of the arrow + that flies by day; +091:006 nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, nor of the destruction + that wastes at noonday. +091:007 A thousand may fall at your side, and ten thousand at your + right hand; but it will not come near you. +091:008 You will only look with your eyes, and see the recompense + of the wicked. +091:009 Because you have made Yahweh your refuge, and the Most High + your dwelling place, +091:010 no evil shall happen to you, neither shall any plague come + near your dwelling. +091:011 For he will give his angels charge over you, to guard you + in all your ways. +091:012 They will bear you up in their hands, so that you won't dash + your foot against a stone. +091:013 You will tread on the lion and cobra. You will trample + the young lion and the serpent underfoot. +091:014 "Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will deliver him. + I will set him on high, because he has known my name. +091:015 He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him + in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him. +091:016 I will satisfy him with long life, and show him my salvation." +092:001 <<A Psalm. A song for the Sabbath day.>> It is a good thing + to give thanks to Yahweh, to sing praises to your name, Most High; +092:002 to proclaim your loving kindness in the morning, and your + faithfulness every night, +092:003 with the ten-stringed lute, with the harp, and with the melody + of the lyre. +092:004 For you, Yahweh, have made me glad through your work. + I will triumph in the works of your hands. +092:005 How great are your works, Yahweh! Your thoughts are very deep. +092:006 A senseless man doesn't know, neither does a fool understand this: +092:007 though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evil-doers + flourish, they will be destroyed forever. +092:008 But you, Yahweh, are on high forevermore. +092:009 For, behold, your enemies, Yahweh, for, behold, your enemies + shall perish. All the evil-doers will be scattered. +092:010 But you have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox. + I am anointed with fresh oil. +092:011 My eye has also seen my enemies. My ears have heard of the wicked + enemies who rise up against me. +092:012 The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree. + He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon. +092:013 They are planted in Yahweh's house. They will flourish + in our God's courts. +092:014 They will still bring forth fruit in old age. They will be + full of sap and green, +092:015 to show that Yahweh is upright. He is my rock, and there + is no unrighteousness in him. +093:001 Yahweh reigns! He is clothed with majesty! Yahweh is + armed with strength. The world also is established. + It can't be moved. +093:002 Your throne is established from long ago. You are from everlasting. +093:003 The floods have lifted up, Yahweh, the floods have lifted up + their voice. The floods lift up their waves. +093:004 Above the voices of many waters, the mighty breakers of the sea, + Yahweh on high is mighty. +093:005 Your statutes stand firm. Holiness adorns your house, + Yahweh, forevermore. +094:001 Yahweh, you God to whom vengeance belongs, you God to whom + vengeance belongs, shine forth. +094:002 Rise up, you judge of the earth. Pay back the proud + what they deserve. +094:003 Yahweh, how long will the wicked, how long will the wicked triumph? +094:004 They pour out arrogant words. All the evil-doers boast. +094:005 They break your people in pieces, Yahweh, and afflict your heritage. +094:006 They kill the widow and the alien, and murder the fatherless. +094:007 They say, "Yah will not see, neither will Jacob's God consider." +094:008 Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, + when will you be wise? +094:009 He who implanted the ear, won't he hear? He who formed the eye, + won't he see? +094:010 He who disciplines the nations, won't he punish? + He who teaches man knows. +094:011 Yahweh knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile. +094:012 Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah, and teach out + of your law; +094:013 that you may give him rest from the days of adversity, + until the pit is dug for the wicked. +094:014 For Yahweh won't reject his people, neither will he + forsake his inheritance. +094:015 For judgment will return to righteousness. All the upright + in heart shall follow it. +094:016 Who will rise up for me against the wicked? Who will stand + up for me against the evil-doers? +094:017 Unless Yahweh had been my help, my soul would have soon + lived in silence. +094:018 When I said, "My foot is slipping!" Your loving kindness, + Yahweh, held me up. +094:019 In the multitude of my thoughts within me, your comforts + delight my soul. +094:020 Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with you, + which brings about mischief by statute? +094:021 They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, + and condemn the innocent blood. +094:022 But Yahweh has been my high tower, my God, the rock of my refuge. +094:023 He has brought on them their own iniquity, and will cut them off + in their own wickedness. Yahweh, our God, will cut them off. +095:001 Oh come, let's sing to Yahweh. Let's shout aloud to the rock + of our salvation! +095:002 Let's come before his presence with thanksgiving. + Let's extol him with songs! +095:003 For Yahweh is a great God, a great King above all gods. +095:004 In his hand are the deep places of the earth. The heights + of the mountains are also his. +095:005 The sea is his, and he made it. His hands formed the dry land. +095:006 Oh come, let's worship and bow down. Let's kneel + before Yahweh, our Maker, +095:007 for he is our God. We are the people of his pasture, and the sheep + in his care. Today, oh that you would hear his voice! +095:008 Don't harden your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah + in the wilderness, +095:009 when your fathers tempted me, tested me, and saw my work. +095:010 Forty long years I was grieved with that generation, + and said, "It is a people that errs in their heart. + They have not known my ways." +095:011 Therefore I swore in my wrath, "They won't enter into my rest." +096:001 Sing to Yahweh a new song! Sing to Yahweh, all the earth. +096:002 Sing to Yahweh! Bless his name! Proclaim his salvation + from day to day! +096:003 Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among + all the peoples. +096:004 For great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised! + He is to be feared above all gods. +096:005 For all the gods of the peoples are idols, but Yahweh + made the heavens. +096:006 Honor and majesty are before him. Strength and beauty are + in his sanctuary. +096:007 Ascribe to Yahweh, you families of nations, ascribe to Yahweh + glory and strength. +096:008 Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due to his name. Bring an offering, + and come into his courts. +096:009 Worship Yahweh in holy array. Tremble before him, all the earth. +096:010 Say among the nations, "Yahweh reigns." The world is + also established. It can't be moved. He will judge + the peoples with equity. +096:011 Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice. + Let the sea roar, and its fullness! +096:012 Let the field and all that is in it exult! Then all the trees + of the woods shall sing for joy +096:013 before Yahweh; for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth. + He will judge the world with righteousness, the peoples + with his truth. +097:001 Yahweh reigns! Let the earth rejoice! Let the multitude + of islands be glad! +097:002 Clouds and darkness are around him. Righteousness and justice + are the foundation of his throne. +097:003 A fire goes before him, and burns up his adversaries on every side. +097:004 His lightning lights up the world. The earth sees, and trembles. +097:005 The mountains melt like wax at the presence of Yahweh, + at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth. +097:006 The heavens declare his righteousness. All the peoples have + seen his glory. +097:007 Let all them be shamed who serve engraved images, who boast + in their idols. Worship him, all you gods! +097:008 Zion heard and was glad. The daughters of Judah rejoiced, + because of your judgments, Yahweh. +097:009 For you, Yahweh, are most high above all the earth. + You are exalted far above all gods. +097:010 You who love Yahweh, hate evil. He preserves the souls of + his saints. He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked. +097:011 Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the + upright in heart. +097:012 Be glad in Yahweh, you righteous people! Give thanks to + his holy Name. +098:001 <<A Psalm.>> Sing to Yahweh a new song, for he has done + marvelous things! His right hand, and his holy arm, + have worked salvation for him. +098:002 Yahweh has made known his salvation. He has openly shown + his righteousness in the sight of the nations. +098:003 He has remembered his loving kindness and his faithfulness + toward the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have + seen the salvation of our God. +098:004 Make a joyful noise to Yahweh, all the earth! Burst out and sing + for joy, yes, sing praises! +098:005 Sing praises to Yahweh with the harp, with the harp and + the voice of melody. +098:006 With trumpets and sound of the ram's horn, make a joyful noise + before the King, Yahweh. +098:007 Let the sea roar with its fullness; the world, and those + who dwell therein. +098:008 Let the rivers clap their hands. Let the mountains sing + for joy together. +098:009 Let them sing before Yahweh, for he comes to judge the earth. + He will judge the world with righteousness, and the + peoples with equity. +099:001 Yahweh reigns! Let the peoples tremble. He sits enthroned + among the cherubim. Let the earth be moved. +099:002 Yahweh is great in Zion. He is high above all the peoples. +099:003 Let them praise your great and awesome name. He is Holy! +099:004 The King's strength also loves justice. You do establish equity. + You execute justice and righteousness in Jacob. +099:005 Exalt Yahweh our God. Worship at his footstool. + He is Holy! +099:006 Moses and Aaron were among his priests, Samuel among those who call + on his name; they called on Yahweh, and he answered them. +099:007 He spoke to them in the pillar of cloud. They kept his testimonies, + the statute that he gave them. +099:008 You answered them, Yahweh our God. You are a God who forgave them, + although you took vengeance for their doings. +099:009 Exalt Yahweh, our God. Worship at his holy hill, for Yahweh, + our God, is holy! +100:001 <<A Psalm of thanksgiving.>> Shout for joy to Yahweh, + all you lands! +100:002 Serve Yahweh with gladness. Come before his presence with singing. +100:003 Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we + are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. +100:004 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, into his courts with praise. + Give thanks to him, and bless his name. +100:005 For Yahweh is good. His loving kindness endures forever, + his faithfulness to all generations. +101:001 <<A Psalm by David.>> I will sing of loving kindness and justice. + To you, Yahweh, I will sing praises. +101:002 I will be careful to live a blameless life. When will you come + to me? I will walk within my house with a blameless heart. +101:003 I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds + of faithless men. They will not cling to me. +101:004 A perverse heart will be far from me. I will have nothing + to do with evil. +101:005 I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. + I won't tolerate one who is haughty and conceited. +101:006 My eyes will be on the faithful of the land, that they may dwell + with me. He who walks in a perfect way, he will serve me. +101:007 He who practices deceit won't dwell within my house. + He who speaks falsehood won't be established before my eyes. +101:008 Morning by morning, I will destroy all the wicked of the land; + to cut off all the workers of iniquity from Yahweh's city. +102:001 <<A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed and pours out + his complaint before Yahweh.>> Hear my prayer, Yahweh! Let my + cry come to you. +102:002 Don't hide your face from me in the day of my distress. + Turn your ear to me. Answer me quickly in the day when I call. +102:003 For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned + as a firebrand. +102:004 My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, for I forget + to eat my bread. +102:005 By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones stick to my skin. +102:006 I am like a pelican of the wilderness. I have become as an owl + of the waste places. +102:007 I watch, and have become like a sparrow that is alone + on the housetop. +102:008 My enemies reproach me all day. Those who are mad at me use + my name as a curse. +102:009 For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mixed my drink with tears, +102:010 Because of your indignation and your wrath, for you have taken + me up, and thrown me away. +102:011 My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass. +102:012 But you, Yahweh, will abide forever; your renown endures + to all generations. +102:013 You will arise and have mercy on Zion; for it is time to have + pity on her. Yes, the set time has come. +102:014 For your servants take pleasure in her stones, and have pity + on her dust. +102:015 So the nations will fear the name of Yahweh; all the kings + of the earth your glory. +102:016 For Yahweh has built up Zion. He has appeared in his glory. +102:017 He has responded to the prayer of the destitute, and has not + despised their prayer. +102:018 This will be written for the generation to come. + A people which will be created will praise Yah. +102:019 For he has looked down from the height of his sanctuary. + From heaven, Yahweh saw the earth; +102:020 to hear the groans of the prisoner; to free those who are + condemned to death; +102:021 that men may declare the name of Yahweh in Zion, and his + praise in Jerusalem; +102:022 when the peoples are gathered together, the kingdoms, + to serve Yahweh. +102:023 He weakened my strength along the course. He shortened my days. +102:024 I said, "My God, don't take me away in the midst of my days. + Your years are throughout all generations. +102:025 Of old, you laid the foundation of the earth. The heavens + are the work of your hands. +102:026 They will perish, but you will endure. Yes, all of them will + wear out like a garment. You will change them like a cloak, + and they will be changed. +102:027 But you are the same. Your years will have no end. +102:028 The children of your servants will continue. Their seed + will be established before you." +103:001 <<By David.>> Praise Yahweh, my soul! All that is within me, + praise his holy name! +103:002 Praise Yahweh, my soul, and don't forget all his benefits; +103:003 who forgives all your sins; who heals all your diseases; +103:004 who redeems your life from destruction; who crowns you with + loving kindness and tender mercies; +103:005 who satisfies your desire with good things, so that your youth + is renewed like the eagle's. +103:006 Yahweh executes righteous acts, and justice for all + who are oppressed. +103:007 He made known his ways to Moses, his deeds to the children of Israel. +103:008 Yahweh is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant + in loving kindness. +103:009 He will not always accuse; neither will he stay angry forever. +103:010 He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor repaid us + for our iniquities. +103:011 For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is his + loving kindness toward those who fear him. +103:012 As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed + our transgressions from us. +103:013 Like a father has compassion on his children, so Yahweh has + compassion on those who fear him. +103:014 For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust. +103:015 As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field, + so he flourishes. +103:016 For the wind passes over it, and it is gone. Its place + remembers it no more. +103:017 But Yahweh's loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting + with those who fear him, his righteousness to children's children; +103:018 to those who keep his covenant, to those who remember to + obey his precepts. +103:019 Yahweh has established his throne in the heavens. + His kingdom rules over all. +103:020 Praise Yahweh, you angels of his, who are mighty in strength, + who fulfill his word, obeying the voice of his word. +103:021 Praise Yahweh, all you armies of his, you servants of his, + who do his pleasure. +103:022 Praise Yahweh, all you works of his, in all places of his dominion. + Praise Yahweh, my soul! +104:001 Bless Yahweh, my soul. Yahweh, my God, you are very great. + You are clothed with honor and majesty. +104:002 He covers himself with light as with a garment. + He stretches out the heavens like a curtain. +104:003 He lays the beams of his chambers in the waters. + He makes the clouds his chariot. He walks on the wings + of the wind. +104:004 He makes his messengers{or, angels} winds; his servants + flames of fire. +104:005 He laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not + be moved forever. +104:006 You covered it with the deep as with a cloak. The waters + stood above the mountains. +104:007 At your rebuke they fled. At the voice of your thunder + they hurried away. +104:008 The mountains rose, the valleys sank down, to the place + which you had assigned to them. +104:009 You have set a boundary that they may not pass over; + that they don't turn again to cover the earth. +104:010 He sends forth springs into the valleys. They run + among the mountains. +104:011 They give drink to every animal of the field. The wild donkeys + quench their thirst. +104:012 The birds of the sky nest by them. They sing among the branches. +104:013 He waters the mountains from his chambers. The earth is filled + with the fruit of your works. +104:014 He causes the grass to grow for the livestock, and plants for man + to cultivate, that he may bring forth food out of the earth: +104:015 wine that makes glad the heart of man, oil to make his face + to shine, and bread that strengthens man's heart. +104:016 Yahweh's trees are well watered, the cedars of Lebanon, + which he has planted; +104:017 where the birds make their nests. The stork makes its home + in the fir trees. +104:018 The high mountains are for the wild goats. The rocks are + a refuge for the rock badgers. +104:019 He appointed the moon for seasons. The sun knows when to set. +104:020 You make darkness, and it is night, in which all the animals + of the forest prowl. +104:021 The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their + food from God. +104:022 The sun rises, and they steal away, and lay down in their dens. +104:023 Man goes forth to his work, to his labor until the evening. +104:024 Yahweh, how many are your works! In wisdom have you made them all. + The earth is full of your riches. +104:025 There is the sea, great and wide, in which are innumerable + living things, both small and large animals. +104:026 There the ships go, and leviathan, whom you formed to play there. +104:027 These all wait for you, that you may give them their food + in due season. +104:028 You give to them; they gather. You open your hand; + they are satisfied with good. +104:029 You hide your face: they are troubled; you take away their breath: + they die, and return to the dust. +104:030 You send forth your Spirit: they are created. You renew + the face of the ground. +104:031 Let the glory of Yahweh endure forever. Let Yahweh rejoice + in his works. +104:032 He looks at the earth, and it trembles. He touches the mountains, + and they smoke. +104:033 I will sing to Yahweh as long as I live. I will sing praise + to my God while I have any being. +104:034 Let your meditation be sweet to him. I will rejoice in Yahweh. +104:035 Let sinners be consumed out of the earth. Let the wicked be no more. + Bless Yahweh, my soul. Praise Yah! +105:001 Give thanks to Yahweh! Call on his name! Make his doings + known among the peoples. +105:002 Sing to him, sing praises to him! Tell of all his marvelous works. +105:003 Glory in his holy name. Let the heart of those who + seek Yahweh rejoice. +105:004 Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more. +105:005 Remember his marvelous works that he has done; his wonders, + and the judgments of his mouth, +105:006 you seed of Abraham, his servant, you children of Jacob, + his chosen ones. +105:007 He is Yahweh, our God. His judgments are in all the earth. +105:008 He has remembered his covenant forever, the word which he commanded + to a thousand generations, +105:009 the covenant which he made with Abraham, his oath to Isaac, +105:010 and confirmed the same to Jacob for a statute; to Israel + for an everlasting covenant, +105:011 saying, "To you I will give the land of Canaan, the lot + of your inheritance;" +105:012 when they were but a few men in number, yes, very few, + and foreigners in it. +105:013 They went about from nation to nation, from one kingdom + to another people. +105:014 He allowed no one to do them wrong. Yes, he reproved kings + for their sakes, +105:015 "Don't touch my anointed ones! Do my prophets no harm!" +105:016 He called for a famine on the land. He destroyed the food supplies. +105:017 He sent a man before them. Joseph was sold for a slave. +105:018 They bruised his feet with shackles. His neck was locked in irons, +105:019 until the time that his word happened, and Yahweh's word + proved him true. +105:020 The king sent and freed him; even the ruler of peoples, + and let him go free. +105:021 He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all of his possessions; +105:022 to discipline his princes at his pleasure, and to teach + his elders wisdom. +105:023 Israel also came into Egypt. Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham. +105:024 He increased his people greatly, and made them stronger + than their adversaries. +105:025 He turned their heart to hate his people, to conspire + against his servants. +105:026 He sent Moses, his servant, and Aaron, whom he had chosen. +105:027 They performed miracles among them, and wonders in the land of Ham. +105:028 He sent darkness, and made it dark. They didn't rebel + against his words. +105:029 He turned their waters into blood, and killed their fish. +105:030 Their land swarmed with frogs, even in the chambers of their kings. +105:031 He spoke, and swarms of flies came, and lice in all their borders. +105:032 He gave them hail for rain, with lightning in their land. +105:033 He struck their vines and also their fig trees, and shattered + the trees of their country. +105:034 He spoke, and the locusts came, and the grasshoppers, without number, +105:035 ate up every plant in their land; and ate up the fruit + of their ground. +105:036 He struck also all the firstborn in their land, the first fruits + of all their manhood. +105:037 He brought them forth with silver and gold. There was not + one feeble person among his tribes. +105:038 Egypt was glad when they departed, for the fear of them had + fallen on them. +105:039 He spread a cloud for a covering, fire to give light in the night. +105:040 They asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with + the bread of the sky. +105:041 He opened the rock, and waters gushed out. They ran as a river + in the dry places. +105:042 For he remembered his holy word, and Abraham, his servant. +105:043 He brought forth his people with joy, his chosen with singing. +105:044 He gave them the lands of the nations. They took the labor + of the peoples in possession, +105:045 that they might keep his statutes, and observe his laws. + Praise Yah! +106:001 Praise Yahweh! Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, + for his loving kindness endures forever. +106:002 Who can utter the mighty acts of Yahweh, or fully declare + all his praise? +106:003 Blessed are those who keep justice. Blessed is one who does + what is right at all times. +106:004 Remember me, Yahweh, with the favor that you show to your people. + Visit me with your salvation, +106:005 that I may see the prosperity of your chosen, that I may + rejoice in the gladness of your nation, that I may glory + with your inheritance. +106:006 We have sinned with our fathers. We have committed iniquity. + We have done wickedly. +106:007 Our fathers didn't understand your wonders in Egypt. They didn't + remember the multitude of your loving kindnesses, but were + rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea{or, Sea of Reeds}. +106:008 Nevertheless he saved them for his name's sake, that he might + make his mighty power known. +106:009 He rebuked the Red Sea{or, Sea of Reeds} also, and it was dried up; + so he led them through the depths, as through a desert. +106:010 He saved them from the hand of him who hated them, and redeemed + them from the hand of the enemy. +106:011 The waters covered their adversaries. There was not one + of them left. +106:012 Then they believed his words. They sang his praise. +106:013 They soon forgot his works. They didn't wait for his counsel, +106:014 but gave in to craving in the desert, and tested God + in the wasteland. +106:015 He gave them their request, but sent leanness into their soul. +106:016 They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron, Yahweh's saint. +106:017 The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered + the company of Abiram. +106:018 A fire was kindled in their company. The flame burned + up the wicked. +106:019 They made a calf in Horeb, and worshiped a molten image. +106:020 Thus they exchanged their glory for an image of a bull + that eats grass. +106:021 They forgot God, their Savior, who had done great things in Egypt, +106:022 Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and awesome things by + the Red Sea{or, Sea of Reeds}. +106:023 Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had Moses, + his chosen, not stood before him in the breach, to turn away + his wrath, so that he wouldn't destroy them. +106:024 Yes, they despised the pleasant land. They didn't believe his word, +106:025 but murmured in their tents, and didn't listen to Yahweh's voice. +106:026 Therefore he swore to them that he would overthrow them + in the wilderness, +106:027 that he would overthrow their seed among the nations, + and scatter them in the lands. +106:028 They joined themselves also to Baal Peor, and ate the sacrifices + of the dead. +106:029 Thus they provoked him to anger with their deeds. + The plague broke in on them. +106:030 Then Phinehas stood up, and executed judgment, so the + plague was stopped. +106:031 That was credited to him for righteousness, for all + generations to come. +106:032 They angered him also at the waters of Meribah, so that Moses + was troubled for their sakes; +106:033 because they were rebellious against his spirit, he spoke + rashly with his lips. +106:034 They didn't destroy the peoples, as Yahweh commanded them, +106:035 but mixed themselves with the nations, and learned their works. +106:036 They served their idols, which became a snare to them. +106:037 Yes, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons. +106:038 They shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of + their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. + The land was polluted with blood. +106:039 Thus were they defiled with their works, and prostituted + themselves in their deeds. +106:040 Therefore Yahweh burned with anger against his people. + He abhorred his inheritance. +106:041 He gave them into the hand of the nations. Those who hated + them ruled over them. +106:042 Their enemies also oppressed them. They were brought into + subjection under their hand. +106:043 Many times he delivered them, but they were rebellious + in their counsel, and were brought low in their iniquity. +106:044 Nevertheless he regarded their distress, when he heard their cry. +106:045 He remembered for them his covenant, and repented according + to the multitude of his loving kindnesses. +106:046 He made them also to be pitied by all those who carried them captive. +106:047 Save us, Yahweh, our God, gather us from among the nations, + to give thanks to your holy name, to triumph in your praise! +106:048 Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, from everlasting even + to everlasting! Let all the people say, "Amen." Praise Yah! +107:001 Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving + kindness endures forever. +107:002 Let the redeemed by Yahweh say so, whom he has redeemed from + the hand of the adversary, +107:003 And gathered out of the lands, from the east and from the west, + from the north and from the south. +107:004 They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way. + They found no city to live in. +107:005 Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them. +107:006 Then they cried to Yahweh in their trouble, and he delivered + them out of their distresses, +107:007 he led them also by a straight way, that they might go to a city + to live in. +107:008 Let them praise Yahweh for his loving kindness, for his wonderful + works to the children of men! +107:009 For he satisfies the longing soul. He fills the hungry + soul with good. +107:010 Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound + in affliction and iron, +107:011 because they rebelled against the words of God, and condemned + the counsel of the Most High. +107:012 Therefore he brought down their heart with labor. + They fell down, and there was none to help. +107:013 Then they cried to Yahweh in their trouble, and he saved them + out of their distresses. +107:014 He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, + and broke their bonds in sunder. +107:015 Let them praise Yahweh for his loving kindness, for his wonderful + works to the children of men! +107:016 For he has broken the gates of brass, and cut through bars of iron. +107:017 Fools are afflicted because of their disobedience, and because + of their iniquities. +107:018 Their soul abhors all kinds of food. They draw near to + the gates of death. +107:019 Then they cry to Yahweh in their trouble, he saves them out + of their distresses. +107:020 He sends his word, and heals them, and delivers them + from their graves. +107:021 Let them praise Yahweh for his loving kindness, for his wonderful + works to the children of men! +107:022 Let them offer the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare + his works with singing. +107:023 Those who go down to the sea in ships, who do business + in great waters; +107:024 These see Yahweh's works, and his wonders in the deep. +107:025 For he commands, and raises the stormy wind, which lifts + up its waves. +107:026 They mount up to the sky; they go down again to the depths. + Their soul melts away because of trouble. +107:027 They reel back and forth, and stagger like a drunken man, + and are at their wits' end. +107:028 Then they cry to Yahweh in their trouble, and he brings them + out of their distress. +107:029 He makes the storm a calm, so that its waves are still. +107:030 Then they are glad because it is calm, so he brings them + to their desired haven. +107:031 Let them praise Yahweh for his loving kindness, for his wonderful + works for the children of men! +107:032 Let them exalt him also in the assembly of the people, + and praise him in the seat of the elders. +107:033 He turns rivers into a desert, water springs into a thirsty ground, +107:034 and a fruitful land into a salt waste, for the wickedness + of those who dwell in it. +107:035 He turns a desert into a pool of water, and a dry land + into water springs. +107:036 There he makes the hungry live, that they may prepare a city + to live in, +107:037 sow fields, plant vineyards, and reap the fruits of increase. +107:038 He blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly. + He doesn't allow their livestock to decrease. +107:039 Again, they are diminished and bowed down through oppression, + trouble, and sorrow. +107:040 He pours contempt on princes, and causes them to wander + in a trackless waste. +107:041 Yet he lifts the needy out of their affliction, and increases + their families like a flock. +107:042 The upright will see it, and be glad. All the wicked will + shut their mouths. +107:043 Whoever is wise will pay attention to these things. + They will consider the loving kindnesses of Yahweh. +108:001 <<A Song. A Psalm by David.>> My heart is steadfast, God. + I will sing and I will make music with my soul. +108:002 Wake up, harp and lyre! I will wake up the dawn. +108:003 I will give thanks to you, Yahweh, among the nations. + I will sing praises to you among the peoples. +108:004 For your loving kindness is great above the heavens. + Your faithfulness reaches to the skies. +108:005 Be exalted, God, above the heavens! Let your glory be over + all the earth. +108:006 That your beloved may be delivered, save with your right hand, + and answer us. +108:007 God has spoken from his sanctuary: "In triumph, I will + divide Shechem, and measure out the valley of Succoth. +108:008 Gilead is mine. Manasseh is mine. Ephraim also is my helmet. + Judah is my scepter. +108:009 Moab is my wash pot. I will toss my sandal on Edom. + I will shout over Philistia." +108:010 Who will bring me into the fortified city? Who has led + me to Edom? +108:011 Haven't you rejected us, God? You don't go forth, God, + with our armies. +108:012 Give us help against the enemy, for the help of man is vain. +108:013 Through God, we will do valiantly. For it is he who will tread + down our enemies. +109:001 <<For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.>> God of my praise, + don't remain silent, +109:002 for they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of + deceit against me. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue. +109:003 They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, and fought + against me without a cause. +109:004 In return for my love, they are my adversaries; but I + am in prayer. +109:005 They have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love. +109:006 Set a wicked man over him. Let an adversary stand at + his right hand. +109:007 When he is judged, let him come forth guilty. Let his prayer + be turned into sin. +109:008 Let his days be few. Let another take his office. +109:009 Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. +109:010 Let his children be wandering beggars. Let them be sought + from their ruins. +109:011 Let the creditor seize all that he has. Let strangers plunder + the fruit of his labor. +109:012 Let there be none to extend kindness to him, neither let there + be any to have pity on his fatherless children. +109:013 Let his posterity be cut off. In the generation following + let their name be blotted out. +109:014 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered by Yahweh. + Don't let the sin of his mother be blotted out. +109:015 Let them be before Yahweh continually, that he may cut off + the memory of them from the earth; +109:016 because he didn't remember to show kindness, but persecuted + the poor and needy man, the broken in heart, to kill them. +109:017 Yes, he loved cursing, and it came to him. He didn't delight + in blessing, and it was far from him. +109:018 He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment. + It came into his inward parts like water, like oil into his bones. +109:019 Let it be to him as the clothing with which he covers himself, + for the belt that is always around him. +109:020 This is the reward of my adversaries from Yahweh, of those + who speak evil against my soul. +109:021 But deal with me, Yahweh the Lord, for your name's sake, + because your loving kindness is good, deliver me; +109:022 for I am poor and needy. My heart is wounded within me. +109:023 I fade away like an evening shadow. I am shaken off like a locust. +109:024 My knees are weak through fasting. My body is thin and lacks fat. +109:025 I have also become a reproach to them. When they see me, + they shake their head. +109:026 Help me, Yahweh, my God. Save me according to your loving kindness; +109:027 that they may know that this is your hand; that you, Yahweh, + have done it. +109:028 They may curse, but you bless. When they arise, they will + be shamed, but your servant shall rejoice. +109:029 Let my adversaries be clothed with dishonor. Let them cover + themselves with their own shame as with a robe. +109:030 I will give great thanks to Yahweh with my mouth. Yes, I will + praise him among the multitude. +109:031 For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, to save him + from those who judge his soul. +110:001 <<A Psalm by David.>> Yahweh says to my Lord, "Sit at my right hand, + until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet." +110:002 Yahweh will send forth the rod of your strength out of Zion. + Rule in the midst of your enemies. +110:003 Your people offer themselves willingly in the day of your power, + in holy array. Out of the womb of the morning, you have + the dew of your youth. +110:004 Yahweh has sworn, and will not change his mind: + "You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek." +110:005 The Lord is at your right hand. He will crush kings in the day + of his wrath. +110:006 He will judge among the nations. He will heap up dead bodies. + He will crush the ruler of the whole earth. +110:007 He will drink of the brook in the way; therefore he will lift + up his head. +111:001 Praise Yah!{Psalm 111 is an acrostic poem, with each verse + after the initial "Praise Yah!" starting with a letter of + the alphabet (ordered from Alef to Tav).} I will give thanks + to Yahweh with my whole heart, in the council of the upright, + and in the congregation. +111:002 Yahweh's works are great, pondered by all those who delight in them. +111:003 His work is honor and majesty. His righteousness endures forever. +111:004 He has caused his wonderful works to be remembered. + Yahweh is gracious and merciful. +111:005 He has given food to those who fear him. He always + remembers his covenant. +111:006 He has shown his people the power of his works, in giving them + the heritage of the nations. +111:007 The works of his hands are truth and justice. + All his precepts are sure. +111:008 They are established forever and ever. They are done in + truth and uprightness. +111:009 He has sent redemption to his people. He has ordained his + covenant forever. His name is holy and awesome! +111:010 The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. + All those who do his work have a good understanding. + His praise endures forever! +112:001 Praise Yah!{Psalm 112 is an acrostic poem, with each verse after + the initial "Praise Yah!" starting with a letter of the alphabet + (ordered from Alef to Tav).} Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh, + who delights greatly in his commandments. +112:002 His seed will be mighty in the land. The generation of the upright + will be blessed. +112:003 Wealth and riches are in his house. His righteousness + endures forever. +112:004 Light dawns in the darkness for the upright, gracious, + merciful, and righteous. +112:005 It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends. + He will maintain his cause in judgment. +112:006 For he will never be shaken. The righteous will + be remembered forever. +112:007 He will not be afraid of evil news. His heart is steadfast, + trusting in Yahweh. +112:008 His heart is established. He will not be afraid in the end + when he sees his adversaries. +112:009 He has dispersed, he has given to the poor. His righteousness + endures forever. His horn will be exalted with honor. +112:010 The wicked will see it, and be grieved. He shall gnash with + his teeth, and melt away. The desire of the wicked will perish. +113:001 Praise Yah! Praise, you servants of Yahweh, praise the + name of Yahweh. +113:002 Blessed be the name of Yahweh, from this time forth and forevermore. +113:003 From the rising of the sun to the going down of the same, + Yahweh's name is to be praised. +113:004 Yahweh is high above all nations, his glory above the heavens. +113:005 Who is like Yahweh, our God, who has his seat on high, +113:006 Who stoops down to see in heaven and in the earth? +113:007 He raises up the poor out of the dust. Lifts up the needy + from the ash heap; +113:008 that he may set him with princes, even with the princes + of his people. +113:009 He settles the barren woman in her home, as a joyful mother + of children. Praise Yah! +114:001 When Israel went forth out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from + a people of foreign language; +114:002 Judah became his sanctuary, Israel his dominion. +114:003 The sea saw it, and fled. The Jordan was driven back. +114:004 The mountains skipped like rams, the little hills like lambs. +114:005 What was it, you sea, that you fled? You Jordan, + that you turned back? +114:006 You mountains, that you skipped like rams; you little hills, + like lambs? +114:007 Tremble, you earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence + of the God of Jacob, +114:008 who turned the rock into a pool of water, the flint into + a spring of waters. +115:001 Not to us, Yahweh, not to us, but to your name give glory, + for your loving kindness, and for your truth's sake. +115:002 Why should the nations say, "Where is their God, now?" +115:003 But our God is in the heavens. He does whatever he pleases. +115:004 Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. +115:005 They have mouths, but they don't speak. They have eyes, + but they don't see. +115:006 They have ears, but they don't hear. They have noses, + but they don't smell. +115:007 They have hands, but they don't feel. They have feet, but they + don't walk, neither do they speak through their throat. +115:008 Those who make them will be like them; yes, everyone who + trusts in them. +115:009 Israel, trust in Yahweh! He is their help and their shield. +115:010 House of Aaron, trust in Yahweh! He is their help and their shield. +115:011 You who fear Yahweh, trust in Yahweh! He is their help + and their shield. +115:012 Yahweh remembers us. He will bless us. He will bless the house + of Israel. He will bless the house of Aaron. +115:013 He will bless those who fear Yahweh, both small and great. +115:014 May Yahweh increase you more and more, you and your children. +115:015 Blessed are you by Yahweh, who made heaven and earth. +115:016 The heavens are the heavens of Yahweh; but the earth has + he given to the children of men. +115:017 The dead don't praise Yah, neither any who go down into silence; +115:018 But we will bless Yah, from this time forth and forevermore. + Praise Yah! +116:001 I love Yahweh, because he listens to my voice, and my + cries for mercy. +116:002 Because he has turned his ear to me, therefore I will call + on him as long as I live. +116:003 The cords of death surrounded me, the pains of Sheol got a hold + of me. I found trouble and sorrow. +116:004 Then called I on the name of Yahweh: "Yahweh, I beg you, + deliver my soul." +116:005 Gracious is Yahweh, and righteous; yes, our God is merciful. +116:006 Yahweh preserves the simple. I was brought low, and he saved me. +116:007 Return to your rest, my soul, for Yahweh has dealt + bountifully with you. +116:008 For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, + and my feet from falling. +116:009 I will walk before Yahweh in the land of the living. +116:010 I believed, therefore I said, "I was greatly afflicted." +116:011 I said in my haste, "All men are liars." +116:012 What will I give to Yahweh for all his benefits toward me? +116:013 I will take the cup of salvation, and call on the name of Yahweh. +116:014 I will pay my vows to Yahweh, yes, in the presence of + all his people. +116:015 Precious in the sight of Yahweh is the death of his saints. +116:016 Yahweh, truly I am your servant. I am your servant, the son + of your handmaid. You have freed me from my chains. +116:017 I will offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will + call on the name of Yahweh. +116:018 I will pay my vows to Yahweh, yes, in the presence of + all his people, +116:019 in the courts of Yahweh's house, in the midst of you, Jerusalem. + Praise Yah! +117:001 Praise Yahweh, all you nations! Extol him, all you peoples! +117:002 For his loving kindness is great toward us. Yahweh's faithfulness + endures forever. Praise Yah! +118:001 Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving + kindness endures forever. +118:002 Let Israel now say that his loving kindness endures forever. +118:003 Let the house of Aaron now say that his loving kindness + endures forever. +118:004 Now let those who fear Yahweh say that his loving + kindness endures forever. +118:005 Out of my distress, I called on Yah. Yah answered me with freedom. +118:006 Yahweh is on my side. I will not be afraid. What can man + do to me? +118:007 Yahweh is on my side among those who help me. Therefore I + will look in triumph at those who hate me. +118:008 It is better to take refuge in Yahweh, than to put confidence in man. +118:009 It is better to take refuge in Yahweh, than to put + confidence in princes. +118:010 All the nations surrounded me, but in the name of Yahweh, I + cut them off. +118:011 They surrounded me, yes, they surrounded me. In the name + of Yahweh I indeed cut them off. +118:012 They surrounded me like bees. They are quenched like the + burning thorns. In the name of Yahweh I cut them off. +118:013 You pushed me back hard, to make me fall, but Yahweh helped me. +118:014 Yah is my strength and song. He has become my salvation. +118:015 The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tents of + the righteous. "The right hand of Yahweh does valiantly. +118:016 The right hand of Yahweh is exalted! The right hand of + Yahweh does valiantly!" +118:017 I will not die, but live, and declare Yah's works. +118:018 Yah has punished me severely, but he has not given me + over to death. +118:019 Open to me the gates of righteousness. I will enter into them. + I will give thanks to Yah. +118:020 This is the gate of Yahweh; the righteous will enter into it. +118:021 I will give thanks to you, for you have answered me, and have + become my salvation. +118:022 The stone which the builders rejected has become the head + of the corner. +118:023 This is Yahweh's doing. It is marvelous in our eyes. +118:024 This is the day that Yahweh has made. We will rejoice and be + glad in it! +118:025 Save us now, we beg you, Yahweh! Yahweh, we beg you, + send prosperity now. +118:026 Blessed is he who comes in the name of Yahweh! We have blessed + you out of the house of Yahweh. +118:027 Yahweh is God, and he has given us light. Bind the sacrifice + with cords, even to the horns of the altar. +118:028 You are my God, and I will give thanks to you. + You are my God, I will exalt you. +118:029 Oh give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving + kindness endures forever. +119:001 <<ALEPH>> Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, + who walk according to Yahweh's law. +119:002 Blessed are those who keep his statutes, who seek him with + their whole heart. +119:003 Yes, they do nothing wrong. They walk in his ways. +119:004 You have commanded your precepts, that we should fully obey them. +119:005 Oh that my ways were steadfast to obey your statutes! +119:006 Then I wouldn't be disappointed, when I consider all + of your commandments. +119:007 I will give thanks to you with uprightness of heart, when I + learn your righteous judgments. +119:008 I will observe your statutes. Don't utterly forsake me. +119:009 How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according + to your word. +119:010 With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don't let me wander + from your commandments. +119:011 I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not + sin against you. +119:012 Blessed are you, Yahweh. Teach me your statutes. +119:013 With my lips, I have declared all the ordinances of your mouth. +119:014 I have rejoiced in the way of your testimonies, as much + as in all riches. +119:015 I will meditate on your precepts, and consider your ways. +119:016 I will delight myself in your statutes. I will not + forget your word. +119:017 Do good to your servant. I will live and I will obey your word. +119:018 Open my eyes, that I may see wondrous things out of your law. +119:019 I am a stranger on the earth. Don't hide your commandments from me. +119:020 My soul is consumed with longing for your ordinances at all times. +119:021 You have rebuked the proud who are cursed, who wander + from your commandments. +119:022 Take reproach and contempt away from me, for I have + kept your statutes. +119:023 Though princes sit and slander me, your servant will meditate + on your statutes. +119:024 Indeed your statutes are my delight, and my counselors. +119:025 My soul is laid low in the dust. Revive me according + to your word! +119:026 I declared my ways, and you answered me. Teach me your statutes. +119:027 Let me understand the teaching of your precepts! + Then I will meditate on your wondrous works. +119:028 My soul is weary with sorrow: strengthen me according + to your word. +119:029 Keep me from the way of deceit. Grant me your law graciously! +119:030 I have chosen the way of truth. I have set your ordinances + before me. +119:031 I cling to your statutes, Yahweh. Don't let me be disappointed. +119:032 I run in the path of your commandments, for you have set + my heart free. +119:033 Teach me, Yahweh, the way of your statutes. I will keep them + to the end. +119:034 Give me understanding, and I will keep your law. Yes, I will + obey it with my whole heart. +119:035 Direct me in the path of your commandments, for I delight in them. +119:036 Turn my heart toward your statutes, not toward selfish gain. +119:037 Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things. + Revive me in your ways. +119:038 Fulfill your promise to your servant, that you may be feared. +119:039 Take away my disgrace that I dread, for your ordinances are good. +119:040 Behold, I long for your precepts! Revive me in your righteousness. +119:041 Let your loving kindness also come to me, Yahweh, your salvation, + according to your word. +119:042 So I will have an answer for him who reproaches me, for I + trust in your word. +119:043 Don't snatch the word of truth out of my mouth, for I put + my hope in your ordinances. +119:044 So I will obey your law continually, forever and ever. +119:045 I will walk in liberty, for I have sought your precepts. +119:046 I will also speak of your statutes before kings, and will + not be disappointed. +119:047 I will delight myself in your commandments, because I love them. +119:048 I reach out my hands for your commandments, which I love. + I will meditate on your statutes. +119:049 Remember your word to your servant, because you gave me hope. +119:050 This is my comfort in my affliction, for your word has revived me. +119:051 The arrogant mock me excessively, but I don't swerve from your law. +119:052 I remember your ordinances of old, Yahweh, and have comforted myself. +119:053 Indignation has taken hold on me, because of the wicked + who forsake your law. +119:054 Your statutes have been my songs, in the house where I live. +119:055 I have remembered your name, Yahweh, in the night, and I + obey your law. +119:056 This is my way, that I keep your precepts. +119:057 Yahweh is my portion. I promised to obey your words. +119:058 I sought your favor with my whole heart. Be merciful to me + according to your word. +119:059 I considered my ways, and turned my steps to your statutes. +119:060 I will hurry, and not delay, to obey your commandments. +119:061 The ropes of the wicked bind me, but I won't forget your law. +119:062 At midnight I will rise to give thanks to you, because of + your righteous ordinances. +119:063 I am a friend of all those who fear you, of those who + observe your precepts. +119:064 The earth is full of your loving kindness, Yahweh. + Teach me your statutes. +119:065 Do good to your servant, according to your word, Yahweh. +119:066 Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe + in your commandments. +119:067 Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I observe your word. +119:068 You are good, and do good. Teach me your statutes. +119:069 The proud have smeared a lie upon me. With my whole heart, + I will keep your precepts. +119:070 Their heart is as callous as the fat, but I delight in your law. +119:071 It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may + learn your statutes. +119:072 The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of pieces + of gold and silver. +119:073 Your hands have made me and formed me. Give me understanding, + that I may learn your commandments. +119:074 Those who fear you will see me and be glad, because I have put + my hope in your word. +119:075 Yahweh, I know that your judgments are righteous, that in + faithfulness you have afflicted me. +119:076 Please let your loving kindness be for my comfort, according to + your word to your servant. +119:077 Let your tender mercies come to me, that I may live; + for your law is my delight. +119:078 Let the proud be disappointed, for they have overthrown + me wrongfully. I will meditate on your precepts. +119:079 Let those who fear you turn to me. They will know your statutes. +119:080 Let my heart be blameless toward your decrees, that I may + not be disappointed. +119:081 My soul faints for your salvation. I hope in your word. +119:082 My eyes fail for your word. I say, "When will you comfort me?" +119:083 For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke. + I don't forget your statutes. +119:084 How many are the days of your servant? When will you execute + judgment on those who persecute me? +119:085 The proud have dug pits for me, contrary to your law. +119:086 All of your commandments are faithful. They persecute + me wrongfully. Help me! +119:087 They had almost wiped me from the earth, but I didn't + forsake your precepts. +119:088 Preserve my life according to your loving kindness, so I + will obey the statutes of your mouth. +119:089 Yahweh, your word is settled in heaven forever. +119:090 Your faithfulness is to all generations. You have established + the earth, and it remains. +119:091 Your laws remain to this day, for all things serve you. +119:092 Unless your law had been my delight, I would have perished + in my affliction. +119:093 I will never forget your precepts, for with them, + you have revived me. +119:094 I am yours. Save me, for I have sought your precepts. +119:095 The wicked have waited for me, to destroy me. + I will consider your statutes. +119:096 I have seen a limit to all perfection, but your commands + are boundless. +119:097 How I love your law! It is my meditation all day. +119:098 Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for your + commandments are always with me. +119:099 I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your + testimonies are my meditation. +119:100 I understand more than the aged, because I have kept your precepts. +119:101 I have kept my feet from every evil way, that I might + observe your word. +119:102 I have not turned aside from your ordinances, for you + have taught me. +119:103 How sweet are your promises to my taste, more than honey + to my mouth! +119:104 Through your precepts, I get understanding; therefore I hate + every false way. +119:105 Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path. +119:106 I have sworn, and have confirmed it, that I will obey + your righteous ordinances. +119:107 I am afflicted very much. Revive me, Yahweh, according to your word. +119:108 Accept, I beg you, the willing offerings of my mouth. + Yahweh, teach me your ordinances. +119:109 My soul is continually in my hand, yet I won't forget your law. +119:110 The wicked have laid a snare for me, yet I haven't gone astray + from your precepts. +119:111 I have taken your testimonies as a heritage forever, for they + are the joy of my heart. +119:112 I have set my heart to perform your statutes forever, + even to the end. +119:113 I hate double-minded men, but I love your law. +119:114 You are my hiding place and my shield. I hope in your word. +119:115 Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may keep the commandments + of my God. +119:116 Uphold me according to your word, that I may live. + Let me not be ashamed of my hope. +119:117 Hold me up, and I will be safe, and will have respect for + your statutes continually. +119:118 You reject all those who stray from your statutes, for their + deceit is in vain. +119:119 You put away all the wicked of the earth like dross. + Therefore I love your testimonies. +119:120 My flesh trembles for fear of you. I am afraid of your judgments. +119:121 I have done what is just and righteous. Don't leave me + to my oppressors. +119:122 Ensure your servant's well-being. Don't let the proud oppress me. +119:123 My eyes fail looking for your salvation, for your righteous word. +119:124 Deal with your servant according to your loving kindness. + Teach me your statutes. +119:125 I am your servant. Give me understanding, that I may + know your testimonies. +119:126 It is time to act, Yahweh, for they break your law. +119:127 Therefore I love your commandments more than gold, yes, + more than pure gold. +119:128 Therefore I consider all of your precepts to be right. + I hate every false way. +119:129 Your testimonies are wonderful, therefore my soul keeps them. +119:130 The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding + to the simple. +119:131 I opened my mouth wide and panted, for I longed + for your commandments. +119:132 Turn to me, and have mercy on me, as you always do to those + who love your name. +119:133 Establish my footsteps in your word. Don't let any iniquity + have dominion over me. +119:134 Redeem me from the oppression of man, so I will observe + your precepts. +119:135 Make your face shine on your servant. Teach me your statutes. +119:136 Streams of tears run down my eyes, because they don't + observe your law. +119:137 You are righteous, Yahweh. Your judgments are upright. +119:138 You have commanded your statutes in righteousness. + They are fully trustworthy. +119:139 My zeal wears me out, because my enemies ignore your words. +119:140 Your promises have been thoroughly tested, and your + servant loves them. +119:141 I am small and despised. I don't forget your precepts. +119:142 Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness. + Your law is truth. +119:143 Trouble and anguish have taken hold of me. Your commandments + are my delight. +119:144 Your testimonies are righteous forever. Give me understanding, + that I may live. +119:145 I have called with my whole heart. Answer me, Yahweh! I will + keep your statutes. +119:146 I have called to you. Save me! I will obey your statutes. +119:147 I rise before dawn and cry for help. I put my hope in your words. +119:148 My eyes stay open through the night watches, that I might + meditate on your word. +119:149 Hear my voice according to your loving kindness. + Revive me, Yahweh, according to your ordinances. +119:150 They draw near who follow after wickedness. They are far + from your law. +119:151 You are near, Yahweh. All your commandments are truth. +119:152 Of old I have known from your testimonies, that you have + founded them forever. +119:153 Consider my affliction, and deliver me, for I don't forget your law. +119:154 Plead my cause, and redeem me! Revive me according to your promise. +119:155 Salvation is far from the wicked, for they don't seek your statutes. +119:156 Great are your tender mercies, Yahweh. Revive me according + to your ordinances. +119:157 Many are my persecutors and my adversaries. I haven't swerved + from your testimonies. +119:158 I look at the faithless with loathing, because they don't + observe your word. +119:159 Consider how I love your precepts. Revive me, Yahweh, according to + your loving kindness. +119:160 All of your words are truth. Every one of your righteous + ordinances endures forever. +119:161 Princes have persecuted me without a cause, but my heart stands + in awe of your words. +119:162 I rejoice at your word, as one who finds great spoil. +119:163 I hate and abhor falsehood. I love your law. +119:164 Seven times a day, I praise you, because of your + righteous ordinances. +119:165 Those who love your law have great peace. Nothing causes + them to stumble. +119:166 I have hoped for your salvation, Yahweh. I have + done your commandments. +119:167 My soul has observed your testimonies. I love them exceedingly. +119:168 I have obeyed your precepts and your testimonies, for all my + ways are before you. +119:169 Let my cry come before you, Yahweh. Give me understanding + according to your word. +119:170 Let my supplication come before you. Deliver me according + to your word. +119:171 Let my lips utter praise, for you teach me your statutes. +119:172 Let my tongue sing of your word, for all your commandments + are righteousness. +119:173 Let your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen your precepts. +119:174 I have longed for your salvation, Yahweh. Your law is my delight. +119:175 Let my soul live, that I may praise you. Let your + ordinances help me. +119:176 I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, + for I don't forget your commandments. +120:001 <<A Song of Ascents.>> In my distress, I cried to Yahweh. + He answered me. +120:002 Deliver my soul, Yahweh, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue. +120:003 What will be given to you, and what will be done more to you, + you deceitful tongue? +120:004 Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper. +120:005 Woe is me, that I live in Meshech, that I dwell among + the tents of Kedar! +120:006 My soul has had her dwelling too long with him who hates peace. +120:007 I am for peace, but when I speak, they are for war. +121:001 <<A Song of Ascents.>> I will lift up my eyes to the hills. + Where does my help come from? +121:002 My help comes from Yahweh, who made heaven and earth. +121:003 He will not allow your foot to be moved. He who keeps you + will not slumber. +121:004 Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. +121:005 Yahweh is your keeper. Yahweh is your shade on your right hand. +121:006 The sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night. +121:007 Yahweh will keep you from all evil. He will keep your soul. +121:008 Yahweh will keep your going out and your coming in, from this + time forth, and forevermore. +122:001 <<A Song of Ascents. By David.>> I was glad when they said to me, + "Let's go to Yahweh's house!" +122:002 Our feet are standing within your gates, Jerusalem; +122:003 Jerusalem, that is built as a city that is compact together; +122:004 where the tribes go up, even Yah's tribes, according to an + ordinance for Israel, to give thanks to the name of Yahweh. +122:005 For there are set thrones for judgment, the thrones + of David's house. +122:006 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. Those who love you will prosper. +122:007 Peace be within your walls, and prosperity within your palaces. +122:008 For my brothers' and companions' sakes, I will now say, + "Peace be within you." +122:009 For the sake of the house of Yahweh our God, I will seek your good. +123:001 <<A Song of Ascents.>> To you I do lift up my eyes, you who sit + in the heavens. +123:002 Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, + as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress; so our eyes + look to Yahweh, our God, until he has mercy on us. +123:003 Have mercy on us, Yahweh, have mercy on us, for we have + endured much contempt. +123:004 Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who + are at ease, with the contempt of the proud. +124:001 <<A Song of Ascents. By David.>> If it had not been Yahweh + who was on our side, let Israel now say, +124:002 if it had not been Yahweh who was on our side, when men rose + up against us; +124:003 then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath + was kindled against us; +124:004 then the waters would have overwhelmed us, the stream would + have gone over our soul; +124:005 then the proud waters would have gone over our soul. +124:006 Blessed be Yahweh, who has not given us as a prey to their teeth. +124:007 Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the fowler's snare. + The snare is broken, and we have escaped. +124:008 Our help is in the name of Yahweh, who made heaven and earth. +125:001 <<A Song of Ascents.>> Those who trust in Yahweh are as Mount Zion, + which can't be moved, but remains forever. +125:002 As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so Yahweh surrounds his + people from this time forth and forevermore. +125:003 For the scepter of wickedness won't remain over the allotment + of the righteous; so that the righteous won't use their hands + to do evil. +125:004 Do good, Yahweh, to those who are good, to those who are upright + in their hearts. +125:005 But as for those who turn aside to their crooked ways, + Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. + Peace be on Israel. +126:001 <<A Song of Ascents.>> When Yahweh brought back those who returned + to Zion, we were like those who dream. +126:002 Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing. + Then they said among the nations, "Yahweh has done great + things for them." +126:003 Yahweh has done great things for us, and we are glad. +126:004 Restore our fortunes again, Yahweh, like the streams in the Negev. +126:005 Those who sow in tears will reap in joy. +126:006 He who goes out weeping, carrying seed for sowing, will certainly + come again with joy, carrying his sheaves. +127:001 <<A Song of Ascents. By Solomon.>> Unless Yahweh builds + the house, they labor in vain who build it. Unless Yahweh + watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain. +127:002 It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, + eating the bread of toil; for he gives sleep to his loved ones. +127:003 Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb + is his reward. +127:004 As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the children of youth. +127:005 Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them. + They won't be disappointed when they speak with their enemies + in the gate. +128:001 <<A Song of Ascents.>> Blessed is everyone who fears Yahweh, + who walks in his ways. +128:002 For you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy, + and it will be well with you. +128:003 Your wife will be as a fruitful vine, in the innermost + parts of your house; your children like olive plants, + around your table. +128:004 Behold, thus is the man blessed who fears Yahweh. +128:005 May Yahweh bless you out of Zion, and may you see the good + of Jerusalem all the days of your life. +128:006 Yes, may you see your children's children. Peace be upon Israel. +129:001 <<A Song of Ascents.>> Many times they have afflicted me + from my youth up. Let Israel now say, +129:002 many times they have afflicted me from my youth up, yet they + have not prevailed against me. +129:003 The plowers plowed on my back. They made their furrows long. +129:004 Yahweh is righteous. He has cut apart the cords of the wicked. +129:005 Let them be disappointed and turned backward, all those + who hate Zion. +129:006 Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers + before it grows up; +129:007 with which the reaper doesn't fill his hand, nor he who + binds sheaves, his bosom. +129:008 Neither do those who go by say, "The blessing of Yahweh be on you. + We bless you in the name of Yahweh." +130:001 <<A Song of Ascents.>> Out of the depths I have cried + to you, Yahweh. +130:002 Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to the voice + of my petitions. +130:003 If you, Yah, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand? +130:004 But there is forgiveness with you, therefore you are feared. +130:005 I wait for Yahweh. My soul waits. I hope in his word. +130:006 My soul longs for the Lord more than watchmen long for the morning; + more than watchmen for the morning. +130:007 Israel, hope in Yahweh, for with Yahweh there is loving kindness. + With him is abundant redemption. +130:008 He will redeem Israel from all their sins. +131:001 <<A Song of Ascents. By David.>> Yahweh, my heart isn't haughty, + nor my eyes lofty; nor do I concern myself with great matters, + or things too wonderful for me. +131:002 Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul, like a weaned child + with his mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me. +131:003 Israel, hope in Yahweh, from this time forth and forevermore. +132:001 <<A Song of Ascents.>> Yahweh, remember David and all his affliction, +132:002 how he swore to Yahweh, and vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob: +132:003 "Surely I will not come into the structure of my house, + nor go up into my bed; +132:004 I will not give sleep to my eyes, or slumber to my eyelids; +132:005 until I find out a place for Yahweh, a dwelling for the + Mighty One of Jacob." +132:006 Behold, we heard of it in Ephrathah. We found it in the + field of Jaar: +132:007 "We will go into his dwelling place. We will worship + at his footstool. +132:008 Arise, Yahweh, into your resting place; you, and the ark + of your strength. +132:009 Let your priest be clothed with righteousness. Let your saints + shout for joy!" +132:010 For your servant David's sake, don't turn away the face + of your anointed one. +132:011 Yahweh has sworn to David in truth. He will not turn from it: + "I will set the fruit of your body on your throne. +132:012 If your children will keep my covenant, my testimony + that I will teach them, their children also will sit on + your throne forevermore." +132:013 For Yahweh has chosen Zion. He has desired it for his habitation. +132:014 "This is my resting place forever. Here I will live, for I + have desired it. +132:015 I will abundantly bless her provision. I will satisfy her + poor with bread. +132:016 Her priests I will also clothe with salvation. Her saints + will shout aloud for joy. +132:017 There I will make the horn of David to bud. I have ordained + a lamp for my anointed. +132:018 I will clothe his enemies with shame, but on himself, + his crown will be resplendent." +133:001 <<A Song of Ascents. By David.>> See how good and how pleasant + it is for brothers to live together in unity! +133:002 It is like the precious oil on the head, that ran down on the beard, + even Aaron's beard; that came down on the edge of his robes; +133:003 like the dew of Hermon, that comes down on the hills of Zion: + for there Yahweh gives the blessing, even life forevermore. +134:001 <<A Song of Ascents.>> Look! Praise Yahweh, all you servants + of Yahweh, who stand by night in Yahweh's house! +134:002 Lift up your hands in the sanctuary. Praise Yahweh! +134:003 May Yahweh bless you from Zion; even he who made heaven and earth. +135:001 Praise Yah! Praise the name of Yahweh! Praise him, + you servants of Yahweh, +135:002 you who stand in the house of Yahweh, in the courts of + our God's house. +135:003 Praise Yah, for Yahweh is good. Sing praises to his name, + for that is pleasant. +135:004 For Yah has chosen Jacob for himself; Israel for his own possession. +135:005 For I know that Yahweh is great, that our Lord is above all gods. +135:006 Whatever Yahweh pleased, that he has done, in heaven and in earth, + in the seas and in all deeps; +135:007 who causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth; + who makes lightnings with the rain; who brings forth the wind + out of his treasuries; +135:008 Who struck the firstborn of Egypt, both of man and animal; +135:009 Who sent signs and wonders into the midst of you, Egypt, on Pharaoh, + and on all his servants; +135:010 who struck many nations, and killed mighty kings, +135:011 Sihon king of the Amorites, Og king of Bashan, and all + the kingdoms of Canaan, +135:012 and gave their land for a heritage, a heritage to Israel, his people. +135:013 Your name, Yahweh, endures forever; your renown, Yahweh, + throughout all generations. +135:014 For Yahweh will judge his people, and have compassion + on his servants. +135:015 The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work + of men's hands. +135:016 They have mouths, but they can't speak. They have eyes, + but they can't see. +135:017 They have ears, but they can't hear; neither is there any breath + in their mouths. +135:018 Those who make them will be like them; yes, everyone who + trusts in them. +135:019 House of Israel, praise Yahweh! House of Aaron, praise Yahweh! +135:020 House of Levi, praise Yahweh! You who fear Yahweh, praise Yahweh! +135:021 Blessed be Yahweh from Zion, Who dwells at Jerusalem. + Praise Yah! +136:001 Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good; for his loving + kindness endures forever. +136:002 Give thanks to the God of gods; for his loving kindness + endures forever. +136:003 Give thanks to the Lord of lords; for his loving + kindness endures forever: +136:004 To him who alone does great wonders; for his loving + kindness endures forever: +136:005 To him who by understanding made the heavens; for his loving + kindness endures forever: +136:006 To him who spread out the earth above the waters; for his loving + kindness endures forever: +136:007 To him who made the great lights; for his loving + kindness endures forever: +136:008 The sun to rule by day; for his loving kindness endures forever; +136:009 The moon and stars to rule by night; for his loving + kindness endures forever: +136:010 To him who struck down the Egyptian firstborn; for his loving + kindness endures forever; +136:011 And brought out Israel from among them; for his loving + kindness endures forever; +136:012 With a strong hand, and with an outstretched arm; for his loving + kindness endures forever: +136:013 To him who divided the Red Sea{or, Sea of Reeds} apart; + for his loving kindness endures forever; +136:014 And made Israel to pass through the midst of it; for his loving + kindness endures forever; +136:015 But overthrew Pharaoh and his army in the Red Sea{or, Sea of Reeds}; + for his loving kindness endures forever: +136:016 To him who led his people through the wilderness; for his loving + kindness endures forever: +136:017 To him who struck great kings; for his loving kindness + endures forever; +136:018 And killed mighty kings; for his loving kindness endures forever: +136:019 Sihon king of the Amorites; for his loving kindness endures forever; +136:020 Og king of Bashan; for his loving kindness endures forever; +136:021 And gave their land as an inheritance; for his loving + kindness endures forever; +136:022 Even a heritage to Israel his servant; for his loving + kindness endures forever: +136:023 Who remembered us in our low estate; for his loving + kindness endures forever; +136:024 And has delivered us from our adversaries; for his loving + kindness endures forever: +136:025 Who gives food to every creature; for his loving + kindness endures forever. +136:026 Oh give thanks to the God of heaven; for his loving + kindness endures forever. +137:001 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down. Yes, we wept, + when we remembered Zion. +137:002 On the willows in the midst of it, we hung up our harps. +137:003 For there, those who led us captive asked us for songs. + Those who tormented us demanded songs of joy: "Sing us one + of the songs of Zion!" +137:004 How can we sing Yahweh's song in a foreign land? +137:005 If I forget you, Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its skill. +137:006 Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I don't remember you; + if I don't prefer Jerusalem above my chief joy. +137:007 Remember, Yahweh, against the children of Edom, the day of Jerusalem; + who said, "Raze it! Raze it even to its foundation!" +137:008 Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, he will be happy + who rewards you, as you have served us. +137:009 Happy shall he be, who takes and dashes your little ones + against the rock. +138:001 <<By David.>> I will give you thanks with my whole heart. + Before the gods, I will sing praises to you. +138:002 I will bow down toward your holy temple, and give thanks + to your Name for your loving kindness and for your truth; + for you have exalted your Name and your Word above all. +138:003 In the day that I called, you answered me. You encouraged me + with strength in my soul. +138:004 All the kings of the earth will give you thanks, Yahweh, for they + have heard the words of your mouth. +138:005 Yes, they will sing of the ways of Yahweh; for great + is Yahweh's glory. +138:006 For though Yahweh is high, yet he looks after the lowly; + but the proud, he knows from afar. +138:007 Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you will revive me. + You will stretch forth your hand against the wrath of my enemies. + Your right hand will save me. +138:008 Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me; your loving + kindness, Yahweh, endures forever. Don't forsake the works + of your own hands. +139:001 <<For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.>> Yahweh, + you have searched me, and you know me. +139:002 You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive + my thoughts from afar. +139:003 You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted + with all my ways. +139:004 For there is not a word on my tongue, but, behold, Yahweh, + you know it altogether. +139:005 You hem me in behind and before. You laid your hand on me. +139:006 This knowledge is beyond me. It's lofty. I can't attain it. +139:007 Where could I go from your Spirit? Or where could I flee + from your presence? +139:008 If I ascend up into heaven, you are there. If I make my bed + in Sheol, behold, you are there! +139:009 If I take the wings of the dawn, and settle in the uttermost + parts of the sea; +139:010 Even there your hand will lead me, and your right hand + will hold me. +139:011 If I say, "Surely the darkness will overwhelm me; the light + around me will be night;" +139:012 even the darkness doesn't hide from you, but the night shines + as the day. The darkness is like light to you. +139:013 For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in + my mother's womb. +139:014 I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. + Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well. +139:015 My frame wasn't hidden from you, when I was made in secret, + woven together in the depths of the earth. +139:016 Your eyes saw my body. In your book they were all written, + the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there were + none of them. +139:017 How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is + the sum of them! +139:018 If I would count them, they are more in number than the sand. + When I wake up, I am still with you. +139:019 If only you, God, would kill the wicked. Get away from me, + you bloodthirsty men! +139:020 For they speak against you wickedly. Your enemies take your + name in vain. +139:021 Yahweh, don't I hate those who hate you? Am I not grieved + with those who rise up against you? +139:022 I hate them with perfect hatred. They have become my enemies. +139:023 Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts. +139:024 See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in + the everlasting way. +140:001 <<For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.>> Deliver me, + Yahweh, from the evil man. Preserve me from the violent man; +140:002 those who devise mischief in their hearts. They continually + gather themselves together for war. +140:003 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. + Viper's poison is under their lips. Selah. +140:004 Yahweh, keep me from the hands of the wicked. Preserve me + from the violent men who have determined to trip my feet. +140:005 The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords + of a net by the path. They have set traps for me. Selah. +140:006 I said to Yahweh, "You are my God." Listen to the cry + of my petitions, Yahweh. +140:007 Yahweh, the Lord, the strength of my salvation, you have covered + my head in the day of battle. +140:008 Yahweh, don't grant the desires of the wicked. Don't let + their evil plans succeed, or they will become proud. Selah. +140:009 As for the head of those who surround me, let the mischief + of their own lips cover them. +140:010 Let burning coals fall on them. Let them be thrown into the fire, + into miry pits, from where they never rise. +140:011 An evil speaker won't be established in the earth. + Evil will hunt the violent man to overthrow him. +140:012 I know that Yahweh will maintain the cause of the afflicted, + and justice for the needy. +140:013 Surely the righteous will give thanks to your name. + The upright will dwell in your presence. +141:001 <<A Psalm by David.>> Yahweh, I have called on you. + Come to me quickly! Listen to my voice when I call to you. +141:002 Let my prayer be set before you like incense; the lifting up + of my hands like the evening sacrifice. +141:003 Set a watch, Yahweh, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips. +141:004 Don't incline my heart to any evil thing, to practice deeds + of wickedness with men who work iniquity. Don't let me eat + of their delicacies. +141:005 Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; let him reprove me, + it is like oil on the head; don't let my head refuse it; + Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds. +141:006 Their judges are thrown down by the sides of the rock. + They will hear my words, for they are well spoken. +141:007 "As when one plows and breaks up the earth, our bones are + scattered at the mouth of Sheol." +141:008 For my eyes are on you, Yahweh, the Lord. In you, I take refuge. + Don't leave my soul destitute. +141:009 Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, + from the traps of the workers of iniquity. +141:010 Let the wicked fall together into their own nets, while I pass by. +142:001 <<A contemplation by David, when he was in the cave. + A Prayer.>> I cry with my voice to Yahweh. With my voice, + I ask Yahweh for mercy. +142:002 I pour out my complaint before him. I tell him my troubles. +142:003 When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, you knew my path. + In the way in which I walk, they have hidden a snare for me. +142:004 Look on my right, and see; for there is no one who is concerned + for me. Refuge has fled from me. No one cares for my soul. +142:005 I cried to you, Yahweh. I said, "You are my refuge, my portion + in the land of the living." +142:006 Listen to my cry, for I am in desperate need. deliver me + from my persecutors, For they are stronger than me. +142:007 Bring my soul out of prison, that I may give thanks to your name. + The righteous will surround me, for you will be good to me. +143:001 <<A Psalm by David.>> Hear my prayer, Yahweh. Listen to + my petitions. In your faithfulness and righteousness, relieve me. +143:002 Don't enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight + no man living is righteous. +143:003 For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life + down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, + as those who have been long dead. +143:004 Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me. My heart within + me is desolate. +143:005 I remember the days of old. I meditate on all your doings. + I contemplate the work of your hands. +143:006 I spread forth my hands to you. My soul thirsts for you, + like a parched land. Selah. +143:007 Hurry to answer me, Yahweh. My spirit fails. Don't hide + your face from me, so that I don't become like those who go + down into the pit. +143:008 Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I + trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, + for I lift up my soul to you. +143:009 Deliver me, Yahweh, from my enemies. I flee to you to hide me. +143:010 Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. Your Spirit is good. + Lead me in the land of uprightness. +143:011 Revive me, Yahweh, for your name's sake. In your righteousness, + bring my soul out of trouble. +143:012 In your loving kindness, cut off my enemies, and destroy all + those who afflict my soul, For I am your servant. +144:001 <<By David.>> Blessed be Yahweh, my rock, who teaches my hands + to war, and my fingers to battle: +144:002 my loving kindness, my fortress, my high tower, my deliverer, + my shield, and he in whom I take refuge; who subdues my + people under me. +144:003 Yahweh, what is man, that you care for him? Or the son of man, + that you think of him? +144:004 Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away. +144:005 Part your heavens, Yahweh, and come down. Touch the mountains, + and they will smoke. +144:006 Throw out lightning, and scatter them. Send out your arrows, + and rout them. +144:007 Stretch out your hand from above, rescue me, and deliver me + out of great waters, out of the hands of foreigners; +144:008 whose mouths speak deceit, Whose right hand is a right + hand of falsehood. +144:009 I will sing a new song to you, God. On a ten-stringed lyre, + I will sing praises to you. +144:010 You are he who gives salvation to kings, who rescues David, + his servant, from the deadly sword. +144:011 Rescue me, and deliver me out of the hands of foreigners, + whose mouths speak deceit, whose right hand is a right + hand of falsehood. +144:012 Then our sons will be like well-nurtured plants, our daughters + like pillars carved to adorn a palace. +144:013 Our barns are full, filled with all kinds of provision. + Our sheep bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our fields. +144:014 Our oxen will pull heavy loads. There is no breaking in, + and no going away, and no outcry in our streets. +144:015 Happy are the people who are in such a situation. + Happy are the people whose God is Yahweh. {} +145:001 <<A praise psalm by David.This is an acrostic psalm, + with every verse (including the second half of verse 13) + starting with a consecutive letter of the Hebrew alphabet.>> + I will exalt you, my God, the King. I will praise your name + forever and ever. +145:002 Every day I will praise you. I will extol your name + forever and ever. +145:003 Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised! + His greatness is unsearchable. +145:004 One generation will commend your works to another, and will + declare your mighty acts. +145:005 Of the glorious majesty of your honor, of your wondrous works, + I will meditate. +145:006 Men will speak of the might of your awesome acts. + I will declare your greatness. +145:007 They will utter the memory of your great goodness, and will + sing of your righteousness. +145:008 Yahweh is gracious, merciful, slow to anger, and of + great loving kindness. +145:009 Yahweh is good to all. His tender mercies are over all his works. +145:010 All your works will give thanks to you, Yahweh. Your saints + will extol you. +145:011 They will speak of the glory of your kingdom, and talk + about your power; +145:012 to make known to the sons of men his mighty acts, the glory + of the majesty of his kingdom. +145:013 Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom. Your dominion endures + throughout all generations. Yahweh is faithful in all his words, + and loving in all his deeds.{Some manuscripts omit these + last two lines.} +145:014 Yahweh upholds all who fall, and raises up all those who + are bowed down. +145:015 The eyes of all wait for you. You give them their food + in due season. +145:016 You open your hand, and satisfy the desire of every living thing. +145:017 Yahweh is righteous in all his ways, and gracious in all his works. +145:018 Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call + on him in truth. +145:019 He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. + He also will hear their cry, and will save them. +145:020 Yahweh preserves all those who love him, but all the wicked + he will destroy. +145:021 My mouth will speak the praise of Yahweh. Let all flesh bless + his holy name forever and ever. +146:001 Praise Yah! Praise Yahweh, my soul. +146:002 While I live, I will praise Yahweh. I will sing praises + to my God as long as I exist. +146:003 Don't put your trust in princes, each a son of man in whom + there is no help. +146:004 His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. + In that very day, his thoughts perish. +146:005 Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope + is in Yahweh, his God: +146:006 who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them; + who keeps truth forever; +146:007 who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. + Yahweh frees the prisoners. +146:008 Yahweh opens the eyes of the blind. Yahweh raises up those + who are bowed down. Yahweh loves the righteous. +146:009 Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless + and widow, but the way of the wicked he turns upside down. +146:010 Yahweh will reign forever; your God, O Zion, to all generations. + Praise Yah! +147:001 Praise Yah, for it is good to sing praises to our God; + for it is pleasant and fitting to praise him. +147:002 Yahweh builds up Jerusalem. He gathers together the + outcasts of Israel. +147:003 He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds. +147:004 He counts the number of the stars. He calls them all + by their names. +147:005 Great is our Lord, and mighty in power. His understanding + is infinite. +147:006 Yahweh upholds the humble. He brings the wicked down + to the ground. +147:007 Sing to Yahweh with thanksgiving. Sing praises on the harp + to our God, +147:008 who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, + who makes grass grow on the mountains. +147:009 He provides food for the livestock, and for the young ravens + when they call. +147:010 He doesn't delight in the strength of the horse. + He takes no pleasure in the legs of a man. +147:011 Yahweh takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope + in his loving kindness. +147:012 Praise Yahweh, Jerusalem! Praise your God, Zion! +147:013 For he has strengthened the bars of your gates. + He has blessed your children within you. +147:014 He makes peace in your borders. He fills you with the finest + of the wheat. +147:015 He sends out his commandment to the earth. His word + runs very swiftly. +147:016 He gives snow like wool, and scatters frost like ashes. +147:017 He hurls down his hail like pebbles. Who can stand before his cold? +147:018 He sends out his word, and melts them. He causes his wind + to blow, and the waters flow. +147:019 He shows his word to Jacob; his statutes and his ordinances + to Israel. +147:020 He has not done this for just any nation. They don't know + his ordinances. Praise Yah! +148:001 Praise Yah! Praise Yahweh from the heavens! Praise him + in the heights! +148:002 Praise him, all his angels! Praise him, all his army! +148:003 Praise him, sun and moon! Praise him, all you shining stars! +148:004 Praise him, you heavens of heavens, You waters that are + above the heavens. +148:005 Let them praise the name of Yahweh, For he commanded, + and they were created. +148:006 He has also established them forever and ever. He has made + a decree which will not pass away. +148:007 Praise Yahweh from the earth, you great sea creatures, + and all depths! +148:008 Lightning and hail, snow and clouds; stormy wind, + fulfilling his word; +148:009 mountains and all hills; fruit trees and all cedars; +148:010 wild animals and all livestock; small creatures and flying birds; +148:011 kings of the earth and all peoples; princes and all judges + of the earth; +148:012 both young men and maidens; old men and children: +148:013 let them praise the name of Yahweh, for his name alone is exalted. + His glory is above the earth and the heavens. +148:014 He has lifted up the horn of his people, the praise of all + his saints; even of the children of Israel, a people near + to him. Praise Yah! +149:001 Praise Yahweh! Sing to Yahweh a new song, his praise in + the assembly of the saints. +149:002 Let Israel rejoice in him who made them. Let the children + of Zion be joyful in their King. +149:003 Let them praise his name in the dance! Let them sing praises + to him with tambourine and harp! +149:004 For Yahweh takes pleasure in his people. He crowns + the humble with salvation. +149:005 Let the saints rejoice in honor. Let them sing for joy + on their beds. +149:006 May the high praises of God be in their mouths, and a two-edged + sword in their hand; +149:007 To execute vengeance on the nations, and punishments on the peoples; +149:008 To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with + fetters of iron; +149:009 to execute on them the written judgment. All his saints + have this honor. Praise Yah! +150:001 Praise Yah! Praise God in his sanctuary! Praise him in his + heavens for his acts of power! +150:002 Praise him for his mighty acts! Praise him according to + his excellent greatness! +150:003 Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet! Praise him + with harp and lyre! +150:004 Praise him with tambourine and dancing! Praise him with stringed + instruments and flute! +150:005 Praise him with loud cymbals! Praise him with resounding cymbals! +150:006 Let everything that has breath praise Yah! Praise Yah! +Book 20 Proverbs +001:001 The proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel: +001:002 to know wisdom and instruction; to discern the words of understanding; +001:003 to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, + justice, and equity; +001:004 to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion + to the young man: +001:005 that the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; + that the man of understanding may attain to sound counsel: +001:006 to understand a proverb, and parables, the words and riddles + of the wise. +001:007 The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish + despise wisdom and instruction. +001:008 My son, listen to your father's instruction, and don't forsake + your mother's teaching: +001:009 for they will be a garland to grace your head, and chains + around your neck. +001:010 My son, if sinners entice you, don't consent. +001:011 If they say, "Come with us, Let's lay in wait for blood; + let's lurk secretly for the innocent without cause; +001:012 let's swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those + who go down into the pit. +001:013 We'll find all valuable wealth. We'll fill our houses with spoil. +001:014 You shall cast your lot among us. We'll all have one purse." +001:015 My son, don't walk in the way with them. Keep your foot + from their path, +001:016 for their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood. +001:017 For in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird: +001:018 but these lay wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly + for their own lives. +001:019 So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain. + It takes away the life of its owners. +001:020 Wisdom calls aloud in the street. She utters her voice + in the public squares. +001:021 She calls at the head of noisy places. At the entrance + of the city gates, she utters her words: +001:022 "How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? + How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, + and fools hate knowledge? +001:023 Turn at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my spirit on you. + I will make known my words to you. +001:024 Because I have called, and you have refused; I have stretched + out my hand, and no one has paid attention; +001:025 but you have ignored all my counsel, and wanted none of my reproof; +001:026 I also will laugh at your disaster. I will mock when + calamity overtakes you; +001:027 when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when your disaster comes + on like a whirlwind; when distress and anguish come on you. +001:028 Then will they call on me, but I will not answer. + They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me; +001:029 because they hated knowledge, and didn't choose the fear of Yahweh. +001:030 They wanted none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof. +001:031 Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, + and be filled with their own schemes. +001:032 For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. + The careless ease of fools will destroy them. +001:033 But whoever listens to me will dwell securely, and will be at ease, + without fear of harm." +002:001 My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my + commandments within you; +002:002 So as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your + heart to understanding; +002:003 Yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your + voice for understanding; +002:004 If you seek her as silver, and search for her as + for hidden treasures: +002:005 then you will understand the fear of Yahweh, and find + the knowledge of God. +002:006 For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes + knowledge and understanding. +002:007 He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield + to those who walk in integrity; +002:008 that he may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way + of his saints. +002:009 Then you will understand righteousness and justice, equity and + every good path. +002:010 For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be + pleasant to your soul. +002:011 Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you, +002:012 to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who + speak perverse things; +002:013 who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness; +002:014 who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil; +002:015 who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths: +002:016 To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner + who flatters with her words; +002:017 who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant + of her God: +002:018 for her house leads down to death, her paths to the dead. +002:019 None who go to her return again, neither do they attain + to the paths of life: +002:020 that you may walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths + of the righteous. +002:021 For the upright will dwell in the land. The perfect will + remain in it. +002:022 But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous + will be rooted out of it. +003:001 My son, don't forget my teaching; but let your heart + keep my commandments: +003:002 for length of days, and years of life, and peace, will they + add to you. +003:003 Don't let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around + your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart. +003:004 So you will find favor, and good understanding in the sight + of God and man. +003:005 Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don't lean on + your own understanding. +003:006 In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make + your paths straight. +003:007 Don't be wise in your own eyes. Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil. +003:008 It will be health to your body, and nourishment to your bones. +003:009 Honor Yahweh with your substance, with the first fruits + of all your increase: +003:010 so your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will + overflow with new wine. +003:011 My son, don't despise Yahweh's discipline, neither be weary + of his reproof: +003:012 for whom Yahweh loves, he reproves; even as a father reproves + the son in whom he delights. +003:013 Happy is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gets understanding. +003:014 For her good profit is better than getting silver, and her + return is better than fine gold. +003:015 She is more precious than rubies. None of the things you can + desire are to be compared to her. +003:016 Length of days is in her right hand. In her left hand are + riches and honor. +003:017 Her ways are ways of pleasantness. All her paths are peace. +003:018 She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her. + Happy is everyone who retains her. +003:019 By wisdom Yahweh founded the earth. By understanding, + he established the heavens. +003:020 By his knowledge, the depths were broken up, and the skies + drop down the dew. +003:021 My son, let them not depart from your eyes. Keep sound + wisdom and discretion: +003:022 so they will be life to your soul, and grace for your neck. +003:023 Then you shall walk in your way securely. Your foot won't stumble. +003:024 When you lie down, you will not be afraid. Yes, you will lie down, + and your sleep will be sweet. +003:025 Don't be afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation + of the wicked, when it comes: +003:026 for Yahweh will be your confidence, and will keep your foot + from being taken. +003:027 Don't withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it + is in the power of your hand to do it. +003:028 Don't say to your neighbor, "Go, and come again; tomorrow I + will give it to you," when you have it by you. +003:029 Don't devise evil against your neighbor, seeing he dwells + securely by you. +003:030 Don't strive with a man without cause, if he has done you no harm. +003:031 Don't envy the man of violence. Choose none of his ways. +003:032 For the perverse is an abomination to Yahweh, but his friendship + is with the upright. +003:033 Yahweh's curse is in the house of the wicked, but he blesses + the habitation of the righteous. +003:034 Surely he mocks the mockers, but he gives grace to the humble. +003:035 The wise will inherit glory, but shame will be the promotion + of fools. +004:001 Listen, sons, to a father's instruction. Pay attention + and know understanding; +004:002 for I give you sound learning. Don't forsake my law. +004:003 For I was a son to my father, tender and an only child + in the sight of my mother. +004:004 He taught me, and said to me: "Let your heart retain my words. + Keep my commandments, and live. +004:005 Get wisdom. Get understanding. Don't forget, neither swerve + from the words of my mouth. +004:006 Don't forsake her, and she will preserve you. Love her, + and she will keep you. +004:007 Wisdom is supreme. Get wisdom. Yes, though it costs all + your possessions, get understanding. +004:008 Esteem her, and she will exalt you. She will bring you to honor, + when you embrace her. +004:009 She will give to your head a garland of grace. She will deliver + a crown of splendor to you." +004:010 Listen, my son, and receive my sayings. The years of your life + will be many. +004:011 I have taught you in the way of wisdom. I have led you + in straight paths. +004:012 When you go, your steps will not be hampered. When you run, + you will not stumble. +004:013 Take firm hold of instruction. Don't let her go. + Keep her, for she is your life. +004:014 Don't enter into the path of the wicked. Don't walk in the way + of evil men. +004:015 Avoid it, and don't pass by it. Turn from it, and pass on. +004:016 For they don't sleep, unless they do evil. Their sleep is + taken away, unless they make someone fall. +004:017 For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence. +004:018 But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light, + that shines more and more until the perfect day. +004:019 The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don't know + what they stumble over. +004:020 My son, attend to my words. Turn your ear to my sayings. +004:021 Let them not depart from your eyes. Keep them in the midst + of your heart. +004:022 For they are life to those who find them, and health to + their whole body. +004:023 Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the + wellspring of life. +004:024 Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips + far from you. +004:025 Let your eyes look straight ahead. Fix your gaze + directly before you. +004:026 Make the path of your feet level. Let all of your + ways be established. +004:027 Don't turn to the right hand nor to the left. Remove your + foot from evil. +005:001 My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Turn your ear + to my understanding: +005:002 that you may maintain discretion, that your lips + may preserve knowledge. +005:003 For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is + smoother than oil, +005:004 But in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp + as a two-edged sword. +005:005 Her feet go down to death. Her steps lead straight to Sheol. +005:006 She gives no thought to the way of life. Her ways are crooked, + and she doesn't know it. +005:007 Now therefore, my sons, listen to me. Don't depart from + the words of my mouth. +005:008 Remove your way far from her. Don't come near the door + of her house, +005:009 lest you give your honor to others, and your years to the cruel one; +005:010 lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich + another man's house. +005:011 You will groan at your latter end, when your flesh and your + body are consumed, +005:012 and say, "How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof; +005:013 neither have I obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor turned + my ear to those who instructed me! +005:014 I have come to the brink of utter ruin, in the midst of + the gathered assembly." +005:015 Drink water out of your own cistern, running water out of + your own well. +005:016 Should your springs overflow in the streets, streams of water + in the public squares? +005:017 Let them be for yourself alone, not for strangers with you. +005:018 Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth. +005:019 A loving doe and a graceful deer--let her breasts satisfy you + at all times. Be captivated always with her love. +005:020 For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? + Why embrace the bosom of another? +005:021 For the ways of man are before the eyes of Yahweh. + He examines all his paths. +005:022 The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him. The cords of his sin + hold him firmly. +005:023 He will die for lack of instruction. In the greatness of his folly, + he will go astray. +006:001 My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbor, + if you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger; +006:002 You are trapped by the words of your mouth. You are ensnared + with the words of your mouth. +006:003 Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself, seeing you have + come into the hand of your neighbor. Go, humble yourself. + Press your plea with your neighbor. +006:004 Give no sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids. +006:005 Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, + like a bird from the snare of the fowler. +006:006 Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise; +006:007 which having no chief, overseer, or ruler, +006:008 provides her bread in the summer, and gathers her food + in the harvest. +006:009 How long will you sleep, sluggard? When will you arise out + of your sleep? +006:010 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the + hands to sleep: +006:011 so your poverty will come as a robber, and your scarcity + as an armed man. +006:012 A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with + a perverse mouth; +006:013 who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet, who motions + with his fingers; +006:014 in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, + who always sows discord. +006:015 Therefore his calamity will come suddenly. He will be + broken suddenly, and that without remedy. +006:016 There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are + an abomination to him: +006:017 haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood; +006:018 a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are swift + in running to mischief, +006:019 a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows + discord among brothers. +006:020 My son, keep your father's commandment, and don't forsake + your mother's teaching. +006:021 Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your neck. +006:022 When you walk, it will lead you. When you sleep, it will watch + over you. When you awake, it will talk with you. +006:023 For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. + Reproofs of instruction are the way of life, +006:024 to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of + the wayward wife's tongue. +006:025 Don't lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her + captivate you with her eyelids. +006:026 For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. + The adulteress hunts for your precious life. +006:027 Can a man scoop fire into his lap, and his clothes not be burned? +006:028 Or can one walk on hot coals, and his feet not be scorched? +006:029 So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife. Whoever touches + her will not be unpunished. +006:030 Men don't despise a thief, if he steals to satisfy himself + when he is hungry: +006:031 but if he is found, he shall restore seven times. + He shall give all the wealth of his house. +006:032 He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. + He who does it destroys his own soul. +006:033 He will get wounds and dishonor. His reproach will not + be wiped away. +006:034 For jealousy arouses the fury of the husband. He won't spare + in the day of vengeance. +006:035 He won't regard any ransom, neither will he rest content, + though you give many gifts. +007:001 My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you. +007:002 Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple + of your eye. +007:003 Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart. +007:004 Tell wisdom, "You are my sister." Call understanding your relative, +007:005 that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner + who flatters with her words. +007:006 For at the window of my house, I looked out through my lattice. +007:007 I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths + a young man void of understanding, +007:008 passing through the street near her corner, he went the way + to her house, +007:009 in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the middle + of the night and in the darkness. +007:010 Behold, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute, + and with crafty intent. +007:011 She is loud and defiant. Her feet don't stay in her house. +007:012 Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, and lurking + at every corner. +007:013 So she caught him, and kissed him. With an impudent face she + said to him: +007:014 "Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me. This day I have + paid my vows. +007:015 Therefore I came out to meet you, to diligently seek your face, + and I have found you. +007:016 I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry, with striped + cloths of the yarn of Egypt. +007:017 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. +007:018 Come, let's take our fill of loving until the morning. + Let's solace ourselves with loving. +007:019 For my husband isn't at home. He has gone on a long journey. +007:020 He has taken a bag of money with him. He will come home + at the full moon." +007:021 With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering + of her lips, she seduced him. +007:022 He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, + as a fool stepping into a noose. +007:023 Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries + to the snare, and doesn't know that it will cost his life. +007:024 Now therefore, sons, listen to me. Pay attention to the words + of my mouth. +007:025 Don't let your heart turn to her ways. Don't go astray + in her paths, +007:026 for she has thrown down many wounded. Yes, all her slain + are a mighty army. +007:027 Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death. +008:001 Doesn't wisdom cry out? Doesn't understanding raise her voice? +008:002 On the top of high places by the way, where the paths meet, + she stands. +008:003 Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, at the entry doors, + she cries aloud: +008:004 "To you men, I call! I send my voice to the sons of mankind. +008:005 You simple, understand prudence. You fools, be of + an understanding heart. +008:006 Hear, for I will speak excellent things. The opening of my + lips is for right things. +008:007 For my mouth speaks truth. Wickedness is an abomination + to my lips. +008:008 All the words of my mouth are in righteousness. + There is nothing crooked or perverse in them. +008:009 They are all plain to him who understands, right to those + who find knowledge. +008:010 Receive my instruction rather than silver; knowledge rather + than choice gold. +008:011 For wisdom is better than rubies. All the things that may be + desired can't be compared to it. +008:012 "I, wisdom, have made prudence my dwelling. Find out + knowledge and discretion. +008:013 The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, + the evil way, and the perverse mouth. +008:014 Counsel and sound knowledge are mine. I have understanding + and power. +008:015 By me kings reign, and princes decree justice. +008:016 By me princes rule; nobles, and all the righteous rulers + of the earth. +008:017 I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently + will find me. +008:018 With me are riches, honor, enduring wealth, and prosperity. +008:019 My fruit is better than gold, yes, than fine gold; my yield + than choice silver. +008:020 I walk in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the + paths of justice; +008:021 That I may give wealth to those who love me. + I fill their treasuries. +008:022 "Yahweh possessed me in the beginning of his work, before his + deeds of old. +008:023 I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, + before the earth existed. +008:024 When there were no depths, I was brought forth, when there + were no springs abounding with water. +008:025 Before the mountains were settled in place, before the hills, + I was brought forth; +008:026 while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, + nor the beginning of the dust of the world. +008:027 When he established the heavens, I was there; when he set + a circle on the surface of the deep, +008:028 when he established the clouds above, when the springs + of the deep became strong, +008:029 when he gave to the sea its boundary, that the waters should not + violate his commandment, when he marked out the foundations + of the earth; +008:030 then I was the craftsman by his side. I was a delight day by day, + always rejoicing before him, +008:031 Rejoicing in his whole world. My delight was with the sons of men. +008:032 "Now therefore, my sons, listen to me, for blessed are those + who keep my ways. +008:033 Hear instruction, and be wise. Don't refuse it. +008:034 Blessed is the man who hears me, watching daily at my gates, + waiting at my door posts. +008:035 For whoever finds me, finds life, and will obtain favor from Yahweh. +008:036 But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. + All those who hate me love death." +009:001 Wisdom has built her house. She has carved out her seven pillars. +009:002 She has prepared her meat. She has mixed her wine. + She has also set her table. +009:003 She has sent out her maidens. She cries from the highest + places of the city: +009:004 "Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!" As for him who is + void of understanding, she says to him, +009:005 "Come, eat some of my bread, Drink some of the wine which + I have mixed! +009:006 Leave your simple ways, and live. Walk in the way of understanding." +009:007 He who corrects a mocker invites insult. He who reproves + a wicked man invites abuse. +009:008 Don't reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you. Reprove a wise man, + and he will love you. +009:009 Instruct a wise man, and he will be still wiser. + Teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning. +009:010 The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. The knowledge + of the Holy One is understanding. +009:011 For by me your days will be multiplied. The years of your life + will be increased. +009:012 If you are wise, you are wise for yourself. If you mock, + you alone will bear it. +009:013 The foolish woman is loud, Undisciplined, and knows nothing. +009:014 She sits at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places + of the city, +009:015 To call to those who pass by, who go straight on their ways, +009:016 "Whoever is simple, let him turn in here." as for him who is + void of understanding, she says to him, +009:017 "Stolen water is sweet. Food eaten in secret is pleasant." +009:018 But he doesn't know that the dead are there, that her guests + are in the depths of Sheol. +010:001 The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; + but a foolish son brings grief to his mother. +010:002 Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness + delivers from death. +010:003 Yahweh will not allow the soul of the righteous to go hungry, + but he thrusts away the desire of the wicked. +010:004 He becomes poor who works with a lazy hand, but the hand + of the diligent brings wealth. +010:005 He who gathers in summer is a wise son, but he who sleeps + during the harvest is a son who causes shame. +010:006 Blessings are on the head of the righteous, but violence covers + the mouth of the wicked. +010:007 The memory of the righteous is blessed, but the name of + the wicked will rot. +010:008 The wise in heart accept commandments, but a chattering + fool will fall. +010:009 He who walks blamelessly walks surely, but he who perverts + his ways will be found out. +010:010 One winking with the eye causes sorrow, but a chattering + fool will fall. +010:011 The mouth of the righteous is a spring of life, but violence + covers the mouth of the wicked. +010:012 Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs. +010:013 Wisdom is found on the lips of him who has discernment, + but a rod is for the back of him who is void of understanding. +010:014 Wise men lay up knowledge, but the mouth of the foolish + is near ruin. +010:015 The rich man's wealth is his strong city. The destruction + of the poor is their poverty. +010:016 The labor of the righteous leads to life. The increase + of the wicked leads to sin. +010:017 He is in the way of life who heeds correction, but he who forsakes + reproof leads others astray. +010:018 He who hides hatred has lying lips. He who utters a slander + is a fool. +010:019 In the multitude of words there is no lack of disobedience, + but he who restrains his lips does wisely. +010:020 The tongue of the righteous is like choice silver. + The heart of the wicked is of little worth. +010:021 The lips of the righteous feed many, but the foolish die + for lack of understanding. +010:022 Yahweh's blessing brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it. +010:023 It is a fool's pleasure to do wickedness, but wisdom is a man + of understanding's pleasure. +010:024 What the wicked fear, will overtake them, but the desire + of the righteous will be granted. +010:025 When the whirlwind passes, the wicked is no more; + but the righteous stand firm forever. +010:026 As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is + the sluggard to those who send him. +010:027 The fear of Yahweh prolongs days, but the years of the wicked + shall be shortened. +010:028 The prospect of the righteous is joy, but the hope of the + wicked will perish. +010:029 The way of Yahweh is a stronghold to the upright, but it + is a destruction to the workers of iniquity. +010:030 The righteous will never be removed, but the wicked will not + dwell in the land. +010:031 The mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom, but the perverse + tongue will be cut off. +010:032 The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable, but the mouth + of the wicked is perverse. +011:001 A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh, but accurate + weights are his delight. +011:002 When pride comes, then comes shame, but with humility comes wisdom. +011:003 The integrity of the upright shall guide them, but the perverseness + of the treacherous shall destroy them. +011:004 Riches don't profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness + delivers from death. +011:005 The righteousness of the blameless will direct his way, + but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness. +011:006 The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them, + but the unfaithful will be trapped by evil desires. +011:007 When a wicked man dies, hope perishes, and expectation of power + comes to nothing. +011:008 A righteous person is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked + takes his place. +011:009 With his mouth the godless man destroys his neighbor, + but the righteous will be delivered through knowledge. +011:010 When it goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices. + When the wicked perish, there is shouting. +011:011 By the blessing of the upright, the city is exalted, but it + is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked. +011:012 One who despises his neighbor is void of wisdom, but a man + of understanding holds his peace. +011:013 One who brings gossip betrays a confidence, but one who is + of a trustworthy spirit is one who keeps a secret. +011:014 Where there is no wise guidance, the nation falls, but in + the multitude of counselors there is victory. +011:015 He who is collateral for a stranger will suffer for it, + but he who refuses pledges of collateral is secure. +011:016 A gracious woman obtains honor, but violent men obtain riches. +011:017 The merciful man does good to his own soul, but he who is cruel + troubles his own flesh. +011:018 Wicked people earn deceitful wages, but one who sows righteousness + reaps a sure reward. +011:019 He who is truly righteous gets life. He who pursues + evil gets death. +011:020 Those who are perverse in heart are an abomination to Yahweh, + but those whose ways are blameless are his delight. +011:021 Most certainly, the evil man will not be unpunished, + but the seed of the righteous will be delivered. +011:022 Like a gold ring in a pig's snout, is a beautiful woman + who lacks discretion. +011:023 The desire of the righteous is only good. The expectation + of the wicked is wrath. +011:024 There is one who scatters, and increases yet more. + There is one who withholds more than is appropriate, + but gains poverty. +011:025 The liberal soul shall be made fat. He who waters shall + be watered also himself. +011:026 People curse someone who withholds grain, but blessing will + be on the head of him who sells it. +011:027 He who diligently seeks good seeks favor, but he who searches + after evil, it shall come to him. +011:028 He who trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous shall + flourish as the green leaf. +011:029 He who troubles his own house shall inherit the wind. + The foolish shall be servant to the wise of heart. +011:030 The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. He who is + wise wins souls. +011:031 Behold, the righteous shall be repaid in the earth; how much + more the wicked and the sinner! +012:001 Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates + reproof is stupid. +012:002 A good man shall obtain favor from Yahweh, but he will condemn + a man of wicked devices. +012:003 A man shall not be established by wickedness, but the root + of the righteous shall not be moved. +012:004 A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful + wife is as rottenness in his bones. +012:005 The thoughts of the righteous are just, but the advice + of the wicked is deceitful. +012:006 The words of the wicked are about lying in wait for blood, + but the speech of the upright rescues them. +012:007 The wicked are overthrown, and are no more, but the house + of the righteous shall stand. +012:008 A man shall be commended according to his wisdom, but he who has + a warped mind shall be despised. +012:009 Better is he who is lightly esteemed, and has a servant, + than he who honors himself, and lacks bread. +012:010 A righteous man regards the life of his animal, but the tender + mercies of the wicked are cruel. +012:011 He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who + chases fantasies is void of understanding. +012:012 The wicked desires the plunder of evil men, but the root + of the righteous flourishes. +012:013 An evil man is trapped by sinfulness of lips, but the righteous + shall come out of trouble. +012:014 A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth. + The work of a man's hands shall be rewarded to him. +012:015 The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who is wise + listens to counsel. +012:016 A fool shows his annoyance the same day, but one who overlooks + an insult is prudent. +012:017 He who is truthful testifies honestly, but a false witness lies. +012:018 There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, + but the tongue of the wise heals. +012:019 Truth's lips will be established forever, but a lying tongue + is only momentary. +012:020 Deceit is in the heart of those who plot evil, but joy comes + to the promoters of peace. +012:021 No mischief shall happen to the righteous, but the wicked + shall be filled with evil. +012:022 Lying lips are an abomination to Yahweh, but those who do + the truth are his delight. +012:023 A prudent man keeps his knowledge, but the hearts of + fools proclaim foolishness. +012:024 The hands of the diligent ones shall rule, but laziness ends + in slave labor. +012:025 Anxiety in a man's heart weighs it down, but a kind word + makes it glad. +012:026 A righteous person is cautious in friendship, but the way + of the wicked leads them astray. +012:027 The slothful man doesn't roast his game, but the possessions + of diligent men are prized. +012:028 In the way of righteousness is life; in its path there + is no death. +013:001 A wise son listens to his father's instruction, but a scoffer + doesn't listen to rebuke. +013:002 By the fruit of his lips, a man enjoys good things; + but the unfaithful crave violence. +013:003 He who guards his mouth guards his soul. One who opens wide + his lips comes to ruin. +013:004 The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire + of the diligent shall be fully satisfied. +013:005 A righteous man hates lies, but a wicked man brings + shame and disgrace. +013:006 Righteousness guards the way of integrity, but wickedness + overthrows the sinner. +013:007 There are some who pretend to be rich, yet have nothing. + There are some who pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth. +013:008 The ransom of a man's life is his riches, but the poor + hear no threats. +013:009 The light of the righteous shines brightly, but the lamp + of the wicked is snuffed out. +013:010 Pride only breeds quarrels, but with ones who take advice is wisdom. +013:011 Wealth gained dishonestly dwindles away, but he who gathers + by hand makes it grow. +013:012 Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when longing is fulfilled, + it is a tree of life. +013:013 Whoever despises instruction will pay for it, but he who respects + a command will be rewarded. +013:014 The teaching of the wise is a spring of life, to turn from + the snares of death. +013:015 Good understanding wins favor; but the way of the unfaithful is hard. +013:016 Every prudent man acts from knowledge, but a fool exposes folly. +013:017 A wicked messenger falls into trouble, but a trustworthy + envoy gains healing. +013:018 Poverty and shame come to him who refuses discipline, + but he who heeds correction shall be honored. +013:019 Longing fulfilled is sweet to the soul, but fools detest + turning from evil. +013:020 One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion + of fools suffers harm. +013:021 Misfortune pursues sinners, but prosperity rewards the righteous. +013:022 A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, + but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous. +013:023 An abundance of food is in poor people's fields, but injustice + sweeps it away. +013:024 One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him + is careful to discipline him. +013:025 The righteous one eats to the satisfying of his soul, + but the belly of the wicked goes hungry. +014:001 Every wise woman builds her house, but the foolish one tears + it down with her own hands. +014:002 He who walks in his uprightness fears Yahweh, but he who is + perverse in his ways despises him. +014:003 The fool's talk brings a rod to his back, but the lips + of the wise protect them. +014:004 Where no oxen are, the crib is clean, but much increase is + by the strength of the ox. +014:005 A truthful witness will not lie, but a false witness + pours out lies. +014:006 A scoffer seeks wisdom, and doesn't find it, but knowledge + comes easily to a discerning person. +014:007 Stay away from a foolish man, for you won't find knowledge + on his lips. +014:008 The wisdom of the prudent is to think about his way, + but the folly of fools is deceit. +014:009 Fools mock at making atonement for sins, but among the upright + there is good will. +014:010 The heart knows its own bitterness and joy; he will not share + these with a stranger. +014:011 The house of the wicked will be overthrown, but the tent + of the upright will flourish. +014:012 There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it + leads to death. +014:013 Even in laughter the heart may be sorrowful, and mirth may + end in heaviness. +014:014 The unfaithful will be repaid for his own ways; likewise a good + man will be rewarded for his ways. +014:015 A simple man believes everything, but the prudent man carefully + considers his ways. +014:016 A wise man fears, and shuns evil, but the fool is + hotheaded and reckless. +014:017 He who is quick to become angry will commit folly, and a crafty + man is hated. +014:018 The simple inherit folly, but the prudent are crowned with knowledge. +014:019 The evil bow down before the good, and the wicked at the gates + of the righteous. +014:020 The poor person is shunned even by his own neighbor, + but the rich person has many friends. +014:021 He who despises his neighbor sins, but blessed is he who has + pity on the poor. +014:022 Don't they go astray who plot evil? But love and faithfulness + belong to those who plan good. +014:023 In all hard work there is profit, but the talk of the lips + leads only to poverty. +014:024 The crown of the wise is their riches, but the folly of fools + crowns them with folly. +014:025 A truthful witness saves souls, but a false witness is deceitful. +014:026 In the fear of Yahweh is a secure fortress, and he will be + a refuge for his children. +014:027 The fear of Yahweh is a fountain of life, turning people + from the snares of death. +014:028 In the multitude of people is the king's glory, but in the lack + of people is the destruction of the prince. +014:029 He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has + a quick temper displays folly. +014:030 The life of the body is a heart at peace, but envy rots the bones. +014:031 He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, + but he who is kind to the needy honors him. +014:032 The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, + the righteous has a refuge. +014:033 Wisdom rests in the heart of one who has understanding, + and is even made known in the inward part of fools. +014:034 Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people. +014:035 The king's favor is toward a servant who deals wisely, + but his wrath is toward one who causes shame. +015:001 A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. +015:002 The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouth + of fools gush out folly. +015:003 Yahweh's eyes are everywhere, keeping watch on the evil + and the good. +015:004 A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but deceit in it + crushes the spirit. +015:005 A fool despises his father's correction, but he who heeds + reproof shows prudence. +015:006 In the house of the righteous is much treasure, but the income + of the wicked brings trouble. +015:007 The lips of the wise spread knowledge; not so with the + heart of fools. +015:008 The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, + but the prayer of the upright is his delight. +015:009 The way of the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but he loves + him who follows after righteousness. +015:010 There is stern discipline for one who forsakes the way: + whoever hates reproof shall die. +015:011 Sheol and Abaddon are before Yahweh--how much more then + the hearts of the children of men! +015:012 A scoffer doesn't love to be reproved; he will not go to the wise. +015:013 A glad heart makes a cheerful face; but an aching heart + breaks the spirit. +015:014 The heart of one who has understanding seeks knowledge, + but the mouths of fools feed on folly. +015:015 All the days of the afflicted are wretched, but one who has + a cheerful heart enjoys a continual feast. +015:016 Better is little, with the fear of Yahweh, than great + treasure with trouble. +015:017 Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is, than a fattened + calf with hatred. +015:018 A wrathful man stirs up contention, but one who is slow + to anger appeases strife. +015:019 The way of the sluggard is like a thorn patch, but the path + of the upright is a highway. +015:020 A wise son makes a father glad, but a foolish man + despises his mother. +015:021 Folly is joy to one who is void of wisdom, but a man of + understanding keeps his way straight. +015:022 Where there is no counsel, plans fail; but in a multitude + of counselors they are established. +015:023 Joy comes to a man with the reply of his mouth. + How good is a word at the right time! +015:024 The path of life leads upward for the wise, to keep him from + going downward to Sheol. +015:025 Yahweh will uproot the house of the proud, but he will keep + the widow's borders intact. +015:026 Yahweh detests the thoughts of the wicked, but the thoughts + of the pure are pleasing. +015:027 He who is greedy for gain troubles his own house, but he who + hates bribes will live. +015:028 The heart of the righteous weighs answers, but the mouth + of the wicked gushes out evil. +015:029 Yahweh is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer + of the righteous. +015:030 The light of the eyes rejoices the heart. Good news gives + health to the bones. +015:031 The ear that listens to reproof lives, and will be at home + among the wise. +015:032 He who refuses correction despises his own soul, but he who + listens to reproof gets understanding. +015:033 The fear of Yahweh teaches wisdom. Before honor is humility. +016:001 The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue + is from Yahweh. +016:002 All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but Yahweh + weighs the motives. +016:003 Commit your deeds to Yahweh, and your plans shall succeed. +016:004 Yahweh has made everything for its own end--yes, even the wicked + for the day of evil. +016:005 Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to Yahweh: + they shall certainly not be unpunished. +016:006 By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for. By the fear + of Yahweh men depart from evil. +016:007 When a man's ways please Yahweh, he makes even his enemies + to be at peace with him. +016:008 Better is a little with righteousness, than great + revenues with injustice. +016:009 A man's heart plans his course, but Yahweh directs his steps. +016:010 Inspired judgments are on the lips of the king. + He shall not betray his mouth. +016:011 Honest balances and scales are Yahweh's; all the weights + in the bag are his work. +016:012 It is an abomination for kings to do wrong, for the throne + is established by righteousness. +016:013 Righteous lips are the delight of kings. They value one who + speaks the truth. +016:014 The king's wrath is a messenger of death, but a wise man + will pacify it. +016:015 In the light of the king's face is life. His favor is like + a cloud of the spring rain. +016:016 How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! Yes, to get + understanding is to be chosen rather than silver. +016:017 The highway of the upright is to depart from evil. + He who keeps his way preserves his soul. +016:018 Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. +016:019 It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor, than to + divide the plunder with the proud. +016:020 He who heeds the Word finds prosperity. Whoever trusts + in Yahweh is blessed. +016:021 The wise in heart shall be called prudent. Pleasantness of + the lips promotes instruction. +016:022 Understanding is a fountain of life to one who has it, + but the punishment of fools is their folly. +016:023 The heart of the wise instructs his mouth, and adds learning + to his lips. +016:024 Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health + to the bones. +016:025 There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it + leads to death. +016:026 The appetite of the laboring man labors for him; for his mouth + urges him on. +016:027 A worthless man devises mischief. His speech is like + a scorching fire. +016:028 A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends. +016:029 A man of violence entices his neighbor, and leads him in a way + that is not good. +016:030 One who winks his eyes to plot perversities, one who compresses + his lips, is bent on evil. +016:031 Gray hair is a crown of glory. It is attained by a + life of righteousness. +016:032 One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; + one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city. +016:033 The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision + is from Yahweh. +017:001 Better is a dry morsel with quietness, than a house full + of feasting with strife. +017:002 A servant who deals wisely will rule over a son who causes shame, + and shall have a part in the inheritance among the brothers. +017:003 The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, + but Yahweh tests the hearts. +017:004 An evil-doer heeds wicked lips. A liar gives ear to + a mischievous tongue. +017:005 Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker. He who is glad + at calamity shall not be unpunished. +017:006 Children's children are the crown of old men; the glory + of children are their parents. +017:007 Arrogant speech isn't fitting for a fool, much less do lying + lips fit a prince. +017:008 A bribe is a precious stone in the eyes of him who gives it; + wherever he turns, he prospers. +017:009 He who covers an offense promotes love; but he who repeats + a matter separates best friends. +017:010 A rebuke enters deeper into one who has understanding than + a hundred lashes into a fool. +017:011 An evil man seeks only rebellion; therefore a cruel messenger + shall be sent against him. +017:012 Let a bear robbed of her cubs meet a man, rather than a fool + in his folly. +017:013 Whoever rewards evil for good, evil shall not depart + from his house. +017:014 The beginning of strife is like breaching a dam, therefore stop + contention before quarreling breaks out. +017:015 He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the righteous, + both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh. +017:016 Why is there money in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, + seeing he has no understanding? +017:017 A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity. +017:018 A man void of understanding strikes hands, and becomes collateral + in the presence of his neighbor. +017:019 He who loves disobedience loves strife. One who builds a high + gate seeks destruction. +017:020 One who has a perverse heart doesn't find prosperity, + and one who has a deceitful tongue falls into trouble. +017:021 He who becomes the father of a fool grieves. The father + of a fool has no joy. +017:022 A cheerful heart makes good medicine, but a crushed spirit + dries up the bones. +017:023 A wicked man receives a bribe in secret, to pervert + the ways of justice. +017:024 Wisdom is before the face of one who has understanding, + but the eyes of a fool wander to the ends of the earth. +017:025 A foolish son brings grief to his father, and bitterness + to her who bore him. +017:026 Also to punish the righteous is not good, nor to flog officials + for their integrity. +017:027 He who spares his words has knowledge. He who is even tempered + is a man of understanding. +017:028 Even a fool, when he keeps silent, is counted wise. + When he shuts his lips, he is thought to be discerning. +018:001 An unfriendly man pursues selfishness, and defies all sound judgment. +018:002 A fool has no delight in understanding, but only in revealing + his own opinion. +018:003 When wickedness comes, contempt also comes, and with + shame comes disgrace. +018:004 The words of a man's mouth are like deep waters. + The fountain of wisdom is like a flowing brook. +018:005 To be partial to the faces of the wicked is not good, + nor to deprive the innocent of justice. +018:006 A fool's lips come into strife, and his mouth invites beatings. +018:007 A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are a snare + to his soul. +018:008 The words of a gossip are like dainty morsels: they go down + into a person's innermost parts. +018:009 One who is slack in his work is brother to him who is a + master of destruction. +018:010 The name of Yahweh is a strong tower: the righteous run to him, + and are safe. +018:011 The rich man's wealth is his strong city, like an unscalable + wall in his own imagination. +018:012 Before destruction the heart of man is proud, but before + honor is humility. +018:013 He who gives answer before he hears, that is folly and + shame to him. +018:014 A man's spirit will sustain him in sickness, but a crushed spirit, + who can bear? +018:015 The heart of the discerning gets knowledge. The ear of + the wise seeks knowledge. +018:016 A man's gift makes room for him, and brings him before great men. +018:017 He who pleads his cause first seems right; until another comes + and questions him. +018:018 The lot settles disputes, and keeps strong ones apart. +018:019 A brother offended is more difficult than a fortified city; + and disputes are like the bars of a castle. +018:020 A man's stomach is filled with the fruit of his mouth. + With the harvest of his lips he is satisfied. +018:021 Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love + it will eat its fruit. +018:022 Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains + favor of Yahweh. +018:023 The poor plead for mercy, but the rich answer harshly. +018:024 A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend + who sticks closer than a brother. +019:001 Better is the poor who walks in his integrity than he who is + perverse in his lips and is a fool. +019:002 It isn't good to have zeal without knowledge; nor being hasty + with one's feet and missing the way. +019:003 The foolishness of man subverts his way; his heart + rages against Yahweh. +019:004 Wealth adds many friends, but the poor is separated from his friend. +019:005 A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who pours out lies + shall not go free. +019:006 Many will entreat the favor of a ruler, and everyone is a friend + to a man who gives gifts. +019:007 All the relatives of the poor shun him: how much more + do his friends avoid him! He pursues them with pleas, + but they are gone. +019:008 He who gets wisdom loves his own soul. He who keeps understanding + shall find good. +019:009 A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who utters + lies shall perish. +019:010 Delicate living is not appropriate for a fool, much less + for a servant to have rule over princes. +019:011 The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. + It is his glory to overlook an offense. +019:012 The king's wrath is like the roaring of a lion, but his favor + is like dew on the grass. +019:013 A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife's quarrels + are a continual dripping. +019:014 House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent + wife is from Yahweh. +019:015 Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep. The idle soul + shall suffer hunger. +019:016 He who keeps the commandment keeps his soul, but he who is + contemptuous in his ways shall die. +019:017 He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him. +019:018 Discipline your son, for there is hope; don't be a willing + party to his death. +019:019 A hot-tempered man must pay the penalty, for if you rescue him, + you must do it again. +019:020 Listen to counsel and receive instruction, that you may be wise + in your latter end. +019:021 There are many plans in a man's heart, but Yahweh's + counsel will prevail. +019:022 That which makes a man to be desired is his kindness. + A poor man is better than a liar. +019:023 The fear of Yahweh leads to life, then contentment; he rests + and will not be touched by trouble. +019:024 The sluggard buries his hand in the dish; he will not so much + as bring it to his mouth again. +019:025 Flog a scoffer, and the simple will learn prudence; + rebuke one who has understanding, and he will gain knowledge. +019:026 He who robs his father and drives away his mother, is a son + who causes shame and brings reproach. +019:027 If you stop listening to instruction, my son, you will stray + from the words of knowledge. +019:028 A corrupt witness mocks justice, and the mouth of the wicked + gulps down iniquity. +019:029 Penalties are prepared for scoffers, and beatings for the + backs of fools. +020:001 Wine is a mocker, and beer is a brawler. Whoever is led astray + by them is not wise. +020:002 The terror of a king is like the roaring of a lion. + He who provokes him to anger forfeits his own life. +020:003 It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife; but every + fool will be quarreling. +020:004 The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; + therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing. +020:005 Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man + of understanding will draw it out. +020:006 Many men claim to be men of unfailing love, but who can find + a faithful man? +020:007 A righteous man walks in integrity. Blessed are his + children after him. +020:008 A king who sits on the throne of judgment scatters away all + evil with his eyes. +020:009 Who can say, "I have made my heart pure. I am clean + and without sin?" +020:010 Differing weights and differing measures, both of them alike + are an abomination to Yahweh. +020:011 Even a child makes himself known by his doings, whether his + work is pure, and whether it is right. +020:012 The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, Yahweh has made even + both of them. +020:013 Don't love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, + and you shall be satisfied with bread. +020:014 "It's no good, it's no good," says the buyer; but when he is + gone his way, then he boasts. +020:015 There is gold and abundance of rubies; but the lips of knowledge + are a rare jewel. +020:016 Take the garment of one who puts up collateral for a stranger; + and hold him in pledge for a wayward woman. +020:017 Fraudulent food is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth + is filled with gravel. +020:018 Plans are established by advice; by wise guidance you wage war! +020:019 He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets; + therefore don't keep company with him who opens wide his lips. +020:020 Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put + out in blackness of darkness. +020:021 An inheritance quickly gained at the beginning, won't be blessed + in the end. +020:022 Don't say, "I will pay back evil." Wait for Yahweh, + and he will save you. +020:023 Yahweh detests differing weights, and dishonest scales + are not pleasing. +020:024 A man's steps are from Yahweh; how then can man understand his way? +020:025 It is a snare to a man to make a rash dedication, then later + to consider his vows. +020:026 A wise king winnows out the wicked, and drives the threshing + wheel over them. +020:027 The spirit of man is Yahweh's lamp, searching all + his innermost parts. +020:028 Love and faithfulness keep the king safe. His throne is + sustained by love. +020:029 The glory of young men is their strength. The splendor of old + men is their gray hair. +020:030 Wounding blows cleanse away evil, and beatings purge + the innermost parts. +021:001 The king's heart is in Yahweh's hand like the watercourses. + He turns it wherever he desires. +021:002 Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but Yahweh + weighs the hearts. +021:003 To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to + Yahweh than sacrifice. +021:004 A high look, and a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked, is sin. +021:005 The plans of the diligent surely lead to profit; and everyone + who is hasty surely rushes to poverty. +021:006 Getting treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor + for those who seek death. +021:007 The violence of the wicked will drive them away, because they + refuse to do what is right. +021:008 The way of the guilty is devious, but the conduct of the + innocent is upright. +021:009 It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, + than to share a house with a contentious woman. +021:010 The soul of the wicked desires evil; his neighbor finds no mercy + in his eyes. +021:011 When the mocker is punished, the simple gains wisdom. + When the wise is instructed, he receives knowledge. +021:012 The Righteous One considers the house of the wicked, and brings + the wicked to ruin. +021:013 Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, + but shall not be heard. +021:014 A gift in secret pacifies anger; and a bribe in the cloak, + strong wrath. +021:015 It is joy to the righteous to do justice; but it is a destruction + to the workers of iniquity. +021:016 The man who wanders out of the way of understanding shall rest + in the assembly of the dead. +021:017 He who loves pleasure shall be a poor man. He who loves wine + and oil shall not be rich. +021:018 The wicked is a ransom for the righteous; the treacherous + for the upright. +021:019 It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious + and fretful woman. +021:020 There is precious treasure and oil in the dwelling of the wise; + but a foolish man swallows it up. +021:021 He who follows after righteousness and kindness finds life, + righteousness, and honor. +021:022 A wise man scales the city of the mighty, and brings down + the strength of its confidence. +021:023 Whoever guards his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles. +021:024 The proud and haughty man, "scoffer" is his name; he works + in the arrogance of pride. +021:025 The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor. +021:026 There are those who covet greedily all day long; but the righteous + give and don't withhold. +021:027 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination: how much more, + when he brings it with a wicked mind! +021:028 A false witness will perish, and a man who listens + speaks to eternity. +021:029 A wicked man hardens his face; but as for the upright, + he establishes his ways. +021:030 There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Yahweh. +021:031 The horse is prepared for the day of battle; but victory + is with Yahweh. +022:001 A good name is more desirable than great riches, and loving + favor is better than silver and gold. +022:002 The rich and the poor have this in common: Yahweh is the maker + of them all. +022:003 A prudent man sees danger, and hides himself; but the simple + pass on, and suffer for it. +022:004 The result of humility and the fear of Yahweh is wealth, + honor, and life. +022:005 Thorns and snares are in the path of the wicked: + whoever guards his soul stays from them. +022:006 Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old + he will not depart from it. +022:007 The rich rule over the poor. The borrower is servant + to the lender. +022:008 He who sows wickedness reaps trouble, and the rod of his fury + will be destroyed. +022:009 He who has a generous eye will be blessed; for he shares his + food with the poor. +022:010 Drive out the mocker, and strife will go out; yes, quarrels and + insults will stop. +022:011 He who loves purity of heart and speaks gracefully is + the king's friend. +022:012 The eyes of Yahweh watch over knowledge; but he frustrates + the words of the unfaithful. +022:013 The sluggard says, "There is a lion outside! I will be killed + in the streets!" +022:014 The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit: he who is under + Yahweh's wrath will fall into it. +022:015 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline + drives it far from him. +022:016 Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever + gives to the rich, both come to poverty. +022:017 Turn your ear, and listen to the words of the wise. + Apply your heart to my teaching. +022:018 For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you, + if all of them are ready on your lips. +022:019 That your trust may be in Yahweh, I teach you today, even you. +022:020 Haven't I written to you thirty excellent things of + counsel and knowledge, +022:021 To teach you truth, reliable words, to give sound answers + to the ones who sent you? +022:022 Don't exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don't crush + the needy in court; +022:023 for Yahweh will plead their case, and plunder the life + of those who plunder them. +022:024 Don't befriend a hot-tempered man, and don't associate with one + who harbors anger: +022:025 lest you learn his ways, and ensnare your soul. +022:026 Don't you be one of those who strike hands, of those who are + collateral for debts. +022:027 If you don't have means to pay, why should he take away your + bed from under you? +022:028 Don't move the ancient boundary stone, which your fathers + have set up. +022:029 Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will serve kings. + He won't serve obscure men. +023:001 When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what + is before you; +023:002 put a knife to your throat, if you are a man given to appetite. +023:003 Don't be desirous of his dainties, seeing they are deceitful food. +023:004 Don't weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint. +023:005 Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly + sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky. +023:006 Don't eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don't + crave his delicacies: +023:007 for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. "Eat and drink!" + he says to you, but his heart is not with you. +023:008 The morsel which you have eaten you shall vomit up, and lose + your good words. +023:009 Don't speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom + of your words. +023:010 Don't move the ancient boundary stone. Don't encroach on + the fields of the fatherless: +023:011 for their Defender is strong. He will plead their case against you. +023:012 Apply your heart to instruction, and your ears to the + words of knowledge. +023:013 Don't withhold correction from a child. If you punish him + with the rod, he will not die. +023:014 Punish him with the rod, and save his soul from Sheol. +023:015 My son, if your heart is wise, then my heart will be glad, even mine: +023:016 yes, my heart will rejoice, when your lips speak what is right. +023:017 Don't let your heart envy sinners; but rather fear Yahweh + all the day long. +023:018 Indeed surely there is a future hope, and your hope will not + be cut off. +023:019 Listen, my son, and be wise, and keep your heart on the right path! +023:020 Don't be among ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge + themselves on meat: +023:021 for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; + and drowsiness clothes them in rags. +023:022 Listen to your father who gave you life, and don't despise + your mother when she is old. +023:023 Buy the truth, and don't sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, + and understanding. +023:024 The father of the righteous has great joy. Whoever fathers + a wise child delights in him. +023:025 Let your father and your mother be glad! Let her who + bore you rejoice! +023:026 My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways. +023:027 For a prostitute is a deep pit; and a wayward wife is + a narrow well. +023:028 Yes, she lies in wait like a robber, and increases the + unfaithful among men. +023:029 Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaints? + Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes? +023:030 Those who stay long at the wine; those who go to seek + out mixed wine. +023:031 Don't look at the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, + when it goes down smoothly. +023:032 In the end, it bites like a snake, and poisons like a viper. +023:033 Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will + imagine confusing things. +023:034 Yes, you will be as he who lies down in the midst of the sea, + or as he who lies on top of the rigging: +023:035 "They hit me, and I was not hurt! They beat me, and I + don't feel it! When will I wake up? I can do it again. + I can find another." +024:001 Don't be envious of evil men; neither desire to be with them: +024:002 for their hearts plot violence, and their lips talk about mischief. +024:003 Through wisdom a house is built; by understanding it is established; +024:004 by knowledge the rooms are filled with all rare + and beautiful treasure. +024:005 A wise man has great power; and a knowledgeable + man increases strength; +024:006 for by wise guidance you wage your war; and victory is + in many advisors. +024:007 Wisdom is too high for a fool: he doesn't open his mouth + in the gate. +024:008 One who plots to do evil will be called a schemer. +024:009 The schemes of folly are sin. The mocker is detested by men. +024:010 If you falter in the time of trouble, your strength is small. +024:011 Rescue those who are being led away to death! Indeed, hold back + those who are staggering to the slaughter! +024:012 If you say, "Behold, we didn't know this;" doesn't he who weighs + the hearts consider it? He who keeps your soul, doesn't he know it? + Shall he not render to every man according to his work? +024:013 My son, eat honey, for it is good; the droppings of the honeycomb, + which are sweet to your taste: +024:014 so you shall know wisdom to be to your soul; if you have found it, + then there will be a reward, your hope will not be cut off. +024:015 Don't lay in wait, wicked man, against the habitation of + the righteous. Don't destroy his resting place: +024:016 for a righteous man falls seven times, and rises up again; + but the wicked are overthrown by calamity. +024:017 Don't rejoice when your enemy falls. Don't let your heart + be glad when he is overthrown; +024:018 lest Yahweh see it, and it displease him, and he turn away + his wrath from him. +024:019 Don't fret yourself because of evildoers; neither be envious + of the wicked: +024:020 for there will be no reward to the evil man; and the lamp + of the wicked shall be snuffed out. +024:021 My son, fear Yahweh and the king. Don't join those + who are rebellious: +024:022 for their calamity will rise suddenly; the destruction from + them both--who knows? +024:023 These also are sayings of the wise. To show partiality + in judgment is not good. +024:024 He who says to the wicked, "You are righteous;" peoples shall + curse him, and nations shall abhor him-- +024:025 but it will go well with those who convict the guilty, + and a rich blessing will come on them. +024:026 An honest answer is like a kiss on the lips. +024:027 Prepare your work outside, and get your fields ready. + Afterwards, build your house. +024:028 Don't be a witness against your neighbor without cause. + Don't deceive with your lips. +024:029 Don't say, "I will do to him as he has done to me; I will render + to the man according to his work." +024:030 I went by the field of the sluggard, by the vineyard of the man + void of understanding; +024:031 Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was + covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down. +024:032 Then I saw, and considered well. I saw, and received instruction: +024:033 a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the + hands to sleep; +024:034 so shall your poverty come as a robber, and your want as + an armed man. +025:001 These also are proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah + king of Judah copied out. +025:002 It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but the glory + of kings is to search out a matter. +025:003 As the heavens for height, and the earth for depth, so the hearts + of kings are unsearchable. +025:004 Take away the dross from the silver, and material comes out + for the refiner; +025:005 Take away the wicked from the king's presence, and his throne + will be established in righteousness. +025:006 Don't exalt yourself in the presence of the king, or claim + a place among great men; +025:007 for it is better that it be said to you, "Come up here," + than that you should be put lower in the presence of the prince, + whom your eyes have seen. +025:008 Don't be hasty in bringing charges to court. What will you + do in the end when your neighbor shames you? +025:009 Debate your case with your neighbor, and don't betray + the confidence of another; +025:010 lest one who hears it put you to shame, and your bad + reputation never depart. +025:011 A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver. +025:012 As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, + so is a wise reprover to an obedient ear. +025:013 As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful + messenger to those who send him; for he refreshes the soul + of his masters. +025:014 As clouds and wind without rain, so is he who boasts + of gifts deceptively. +025:015 By patience a ruler is persuaded. A soft tongue breaks the bone. +025:016 Have you found honey? Eat as much as is sufficient for you, + lest you eat too much, and vomit it. +025:017 Let your foot be seldom in your neighbor's house, lest he be + weary of you, and hate you. +025:018 A man who gives false testimony against his neighbor is like a club, + a sword, or a sharp arrow. +025:019 Confidence in someone unfaithful in time of trouble is like + a bad tooth, or a lame foot. +025:020 As one who takes away a garment in cold weather, or vinegar + on soda, so is one who sings songs to a heavy heart. +025:021 If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat. If he is thirsty, + give him water to drink: +025:022 for you will heap coals of fire on his head, and Yahweh + will reward you. +025:023 The north wind brings forth rain: so a backbiting tongue + brings an angry face. +025:024 It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, + than to share a house with a contentious woman. +025:025 Like cold water to a thirsty soul, so is good news from + a far country. +025:026 Like a muddied spring, and a polluted well, so is a righteous + man who gives way before the wicked. +025:027 It is not good to eat much honey; nor is it honorable to seek + one's own honor. +025:028 Like a city that is broken down and without walls is a man + whose spirit is without restraint. +026:001 Like snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honor is not + fitting for a fool. +026:002 Like a fluttering sparrow, like a darting swallow, + so the undeserved curse doesn't come to rest. +026:003 A whip is for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod + for the back of fools! +026:004 Don't answer a fool according to his folly, lest you also + be like him. +026:005 Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in + his own eyes. +026:006 One who sends a message by the hand of a fool is cutting off + feet and drinking violence. +026:007 Like the legs of the lame that hang loose: so is a parable + in the mouth of fools. +026:008 As one who binds a stone in a sling, so is he who gives honor + to a fool. +026:009 Like a thornbush that goes into the hand of a drunkard, + so is a parable in the mouth of fools. +026:010 As an archer who wounds all, so is he who hires a fool + or he who hires those who pass by. +026:011 As a dog that returns to his vomit, so is a fool who + repeats his folly. +026:012 Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope + for a fool than for him. +026:013 The sluggard says, "There is a lion in the road! + A fierce lion roams the streets!" +026:014 As the door turns on its hinges, so does the sluggard on his bed. +026:015 The sluggard buries his hand in the dish. He is too lazy + to bring it back to his mouth. +026:016 The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who + answer with discretion. +026:017 Like one who grabs a dog's ears is one who passes by and meddles + in a quarrel not his own. +026:018 Like a madman who shoots firebrands, arrows, and death, +026:019 is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, "Am I not joking?" +026:020 For lack of wood a fire goes out. Without gossip, + a quarrel dies down. +026:021 As coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire, so is a contentious + man to kindling strife. +026:022 The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, they go down + into the innermost parts. +026:023 Like silver dross on an earthen vessel are the lips of a fervent + one with an evil heart. +026:024 A malicious man disguises himself with his lips, but he harbors + evil in his heart. +026:025 When his speech is charming, don't believe him; for there + are seven abominations in his heart. +026:026 His malice may be concealed by deception, but his wickedness + will be exposed in the assembly. +026:027 Whoever digs a pit shall fall into it. Whoever rolls a stone, + it will come back on him. +026:028 A lying tongue hates those it hurts; and a flattering + mouth works ruin. +027:001 Don't boast about tomorrow; for you don't know what a day + may bring forth. +027:002 Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, + and not your own lips. +027:003 A stone is heavy, and sand is a burden; but a fool's provocation + is heavier than both. +027:004 Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able + to stand before jealousy? +027:005 Better is open rebuke than hidden love. +027:006 Faithful are the wounds of a friend; although the kisses + of an enemy are profuse. +027:007 A full soul loathes a honeycomb; but to a hungry soul, + every bitter thing is sweet. +027:008 As a bird that wanders from her nest, so is a man who wanders + from his home. +027:009 Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; so does earnest + counsel from a man's friend. +027:010 Don't forsake your friend and your father's friend. + Don't go to your brother's house in the day of your disaster: + better is a neighbor who is near than a distant brother. +027:011 Be wise, my son, and bring joy to my heart, then I can + answer my tormentor. +027:012 A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge; but the simple + pass on, and suffer for it. +027:013 Take his garment when he puts up collateral for a stranger. + Hold it for a wayward woman! +027:014 He who blesses his neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning, + it will be taken as a curse by him. +027:015 A continual dropping on a rainy day and a contentious + wife are alike: +027:016 restraining her is like restraining the wind, or like grasping + oil in his right hand. +027:017 Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend's countenance. +027:018 Whoever tends the fig tree shall eat its fruit. + He who looks after his master shall be honored. +027:019 As water reflects a face, so a man's heart reflects the man. +027:020 Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; and a man's eyes + are never satisfied. +027:021 The crucible is for silver, and the furnace for gold; + but man is refined by his praise. +027:022 Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, + yet his foolishness will not be removed from him. +027:023 Know well the state of your flocks, and pay attention + to your herds: +027:024 for riches are not forever, nor does even the crown endure + to all generations. +027:025 The hay is removed, and the new growth appears, the grasses + of the hills are gathered in. +027:026 The lambs are for your clothing, and the goats are the price + of a field. +027:027 There will be plenty of goats' milk for your food, for your + family's food, and for the nourishment of your servant girls. +028:001 The wicked flee when no one pursues; but the righteous are + as bold as a lion. +028:002 In rebellion, a land has many rulers, but order is maintained + by a man of understanding and knowledge. +028:003 A needy man who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain + which leaves no crops. +028:004 Those who forsake the law praise the wicked; but those who keep + the law contend with them. +028:005 Evil men don't understand justice; but those who seek Yahweh + understand it fully. +028:006 Better is the poor who walks in his integrity, than he who is + perverse in his ways, and he is rich. +028:007 Whoever keeps the law is a wise son; but he who is a companion + of gluttons shames his father. +028:008 He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it + for one who has pity on the poor. +028:009 He who turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer + is an abomination. +028:010 Whoever causes the upright to go astray in an evil way, he will + fall into his own trap; but the blameless will inherit good. +028:011 The rich man is wise in his own eyes; but the poor who has + understanding sees through him. +028:012 When the righteous triumph, there is great glory; but when + the wicked rise, men hide themselves. +028:013 He who conceals his sins doesn't prosper, but whoever confesses + and renounces them finds mercy. +028:014 Blessed is the man who always fears; but one who hardens his + heart falls into trouble. +028:015 As a roaring lion or a charging bear, so is a wicked ruler + over helpless people. +028:016 A tyrannical ruler lacks judgment. One who hates ill-gotten + gain will have long days. +028:017 A man who is tormented by life blood will be a fugitive until death; + no one will support him. +028:018 Whoever walks blamelessly is kept safe; but one with perverse + ways will fall suddenly. +028:019 One who works his land will have an abundance of food; + but one who chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty. +028:020 A faithful man is rich with blessings; but one who is eager + to be rich will not go unpunished. +028:021 To show partiality is not good; yet a man will do wrong + for a piece of bread. +028:022 A stingy man hurries after riches, and doesn't know that poverty + waits for him. +028:023 One who rebukes a man will afterward find more favor than one + who flatters with the tongue. +028:024 Whoever robs his father or his mother, and says, "It's not wrong." + He is a partner with a destroyer. +028:025 One who is greedy stirs up strife; but one who trusts in + Yahweh will prosper. +028:026 One who trusts in himself is a fool; but one who walks in wisdom + is kept safe. +028:027 One who gives to the poor has no lack; but one who closes + his eyes will have many curses. +028:028 When the wicked rise, men hide themselves; but when they perish, + the righteous thrive. +029:001 He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be + destroyed suddenly, with no remedy. +029:002 When the righteous thrive, the people rejoice; but when + the wicked rule, the people groan. +029:003 Whoever loves wisdom brings joy to his father; but a companion + of prostitutes squanders his wealth. +029:004 The king by justice makes the land stable, but he who takes + bribes tears it down. +029:005 A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet. +029:006 An evil man is snared by his sin, but the righteous can sing + and be glad. +029:007 The righteous care about justice for the poor. The wicked + aren't concerned about knowledge. +029:008 Mockers stir up a city, but wise men turn away anger. +029:009 If a wise man goes to court with a foolish man, the fool rages + or scoffs, and there is no peace. +029:010 The bloodthirsty hate a man of integrity; and they seek the life + of the upright. +029:011 A fool vents all of his anger, but a wise man brings + himself under control. +029:012 If a ruler listens to lies, all of his officials are wicked. +029:013 The poor man and the oppressor have this in common: + Yahweh gives sight to the eyes of both. +029:014 The king who fairly judges the poor, his throne shall + be established forever. +029:015 The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself + causes shame to his mother. +029:016 When the wicked increase, sin increases; but the righteous + will see their downfall. +029:017 Correct your son, and he will give you peace; yes, he will bring + delight to your soul. +029:018 Where there is no revelation, the people cast off restraint; + but one who keeps the law is blessed. +029:019 A servant can't be corrected by words. Though he understands, + yet he will not respond. +029:020 Do you see a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope + for a fool than for him. +029:021 He who pampers his servant from youth will have him become + a son in the end. +029:022 An angry man stirs up strife, and a wrathful man abounds in sin. +029:023 A man's pride brings him low, but one of lowly spirit gains honor. +029:024 Whoever is an accomplice of a thief is an enemy of his own soul. + He takes an oath, but dares not testify. +029:025 The fear of man proves to be a snare, but whoever puts his trust + in Yahweh is kept safe. +029:026 Many seek the ruler's favor, but a man's justice comes from Yahweh. +029:027 A dishonest man detests the righteous, and the upright in their + ways detest the wicked. +030:001 The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, the oracle: + the man says to Ithiel, to Ithiel and Ucal: +030:002 "Surely I am the most ignorant man, and don't have + a man's understanding. +030:003 I have not learned wisdom, neither do I have the knowledge + of the Holy One. +030:004 Who has ascended up into heaven, and descended? Who has + gathered the wind in his fists? Who has bound the waters + in his garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? + What is his name, and what is his son's name, if you know? +030:005 "Every word of God is flawless. He is a shield to those who take + refuge in him. +030:006 Don't you add to his words, lest he reprove you, and you + be found a liar. +030:007 "Two things I have asked of you; don't deny me before I die: +030:008 Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty + nor riches. Feed me with the food that is needful for me; +030:009 lest I be full, deny you, and say, 'Who is Yahweh?' or lest + I be poor, and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God. +030:010 "Don't slander a servant to his master, lest he curse you, + and you be held guilty. +030:011 There is a generation that curses their father, and doesn't + bless their mother. +030:012 There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes, + yet are not washed from their filthiness. +030:013 There is a generation, oh how lofty are their eyes! + Their eyelids are lifted up. +030:014 There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, and their + jaws like knives, to devour the poor from the earth, + and the needy from among men. +030:015 "The leach has two daughters: 'Give, give.' "There are three + things that are never satisfied; four that don't say, 'Enough:' +030:016 Sheol, the barren womb; the earth that is not satisfied with water; + and the fire that doesn't say, 'Enough.' +030:017 "The eye that mocks at his father, and scorns obedience + to his mother: the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, + the young eagles shall eat it. +030:018 "There are three things which are too amazing for me, + four which I don't understand: +030:019 The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent on a rock; + the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man + with a maiden. +030:020 "So is the way of an adulterous woman: she eats and wipes + her mouth, and says, 'I have done nothing wrong.' +030:021 "For three things the earth tremble, and under four, + it can't bear up: +030:022 For a servant when he is king; a fool when he is filled with food; +030:023 for an unloved woman when she is married; and a handmaid + who is heir to her mistress. +030:024 "There are four things which are little on the earth, + but they are exceedingly wise: +030:025 the ants are not a strong people, yet they provide their food + in the summer. +030:026 The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses + in the rocks. +030:027 The locusts have no king, yet they advance in ranks. +030:028 You can catch a lizard with your hands, yet it is in kings' palaces. +030:029 "There are three things which are stately in their march, + four which are stately in going: +030:030 The lion, which is mightiest among animals, and doesn't turn + away for any; +030:031 the greyhound, the male goat also; and the king against whom + there is no rising up. +030:032 "If you have done foolishly in lifting up yourself, or if you + have thought evil, put your hand over your mouth. +030:033 For as the churning of milk brings forth butter, and the wringing + of the nose brings forth blood; so the forcing of wrath + brings forth strife." +031:001 The words of king Lemuel; the oracle which his mother taught him. +031:002 "Oh, my son! Oh, son of my womb! Oh, son of my vows! +031:003 Don't give your strength to women, nor your ways to that + which destroys kings. +031:004 It is not for kings, Lemuel; it is not for kings to drink wine; + nor for princes to say, 'Where is strong drink?' +031:005 lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the justice + due to anyone who is afflicted. +031:006 Give strong drink to him who is ready to perish; and wine + to the bitter in soul: +031:007 Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his + misery no more. +031:008 Open your mouth for the mute, in the cause of all who + are left desolate. +031:009 Open your mouth, judge righteously, and serve justice to + the poor and needy." +031:010 {Proverbs 31:10-31 form an acrostic, with each verse starting + with each letter of the Hebrew alphabet, in order.}Who can + find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies. +031:011 The heart of her husband trusts in her. He shall have no + lack of gain. +031:012 She does him good, and not harm, all the days of her life. +031:013 She seeks wool and flax, and works eagerly with her hands. +031:014 She is like the merchant ships. She brings her bread from afar. +031:015 She rises also while it is yet night, gives food to her household, + and portions for her servant girls. +031:016 She considers a field, and buys it. With the fruit of her hands, + she plants a vineyard. +031:017 She girds her waist with strength, and makes her arms strong. +031:018 She perceives that her merchandise is profitable. + Her lamp doesn't go out by night. +031:019 She lays her hands to the distaff, and her hands hold the spindle. +031:020 She opens her arms to the poor; yes, she extends her hands + to the needy. +031:021 She is not afraid of the snow for her household; for all her + household are clothed with scarlet. +031:022 She makes for herself carpets of tapestry. Her clothing + is fine linen and purple. +031:023 Her husband is respected in the gates, when he sits among + the elders of the land. +031:024 She makes linen garments and sells them, and delivers sashes + to the merchant. +031:025 Strength and dignity are her clothing. She laughs at + the time to come. +031:026 She opens her mouth with wisdom. Faithful instruction is + on her tongue. +031:027 She looks well to the ways of her household, and doesn't eat + the bread of idleness. +031:028 Her children rise up and call her blessed. Her husband + also praises her: +031:029 "Many women do noble things, but you excel them all." +031:030 Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, + she shall be praised. +031:031 Give her of the fruit of her hands! Let her works praise + her in the gates! +Book 21 Ecclesiastes +001:001 The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem: +001:002 "Vanity of vanities," says the Preacher; "Vanity of vanities, + all is vanity." +001:003 What does man gain from all his labor in which he labors + under the sun? +001:004 One generation goes, and another generation comes; + but the earth remains forever. +001:005 The sun also rises, and the sun goes down, and hurries to its + place where it rises. +001:006 The wind goes toward the south, and turns around to the north. + It turns around continually as it goes, and the wind returns + again to its courses. +001:007 All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full. + To the place where the rivers flow, there they flow again. +001:008 All things are full of weariness beyond uttering. The eye is + not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. +001:009 That which has been is that which shall be; and that which has + been done is that which shall be done: and there is no new + thing under the sun. +001:010 Is there a thing of which it may be said, "Behold, this is new?" + It has been long ago, in the ages which were before us. +001:011 There is no memory of the former; neither shall there be any + memory of the latter that are to come, among those that + shall come after. +001:012 I, the Preacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem. +001:013 I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning + all that is done under the sky. It is a heavy burden that God + has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with. +001:014 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; + and behold, all is vanity and a chasing after wind. +001:015 That which is crooked can't be made straight; and that which is + lacking can't be counted. +001:016 I said to myself, "Behold, I have obtained for myself + great wisdom above all who were before me in Jerusalem. + Yes, my heart has had great experience of wisdom and knowledge." +001:017 I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. + I perceived that this also was a chasing after wind. +001:018 For in much wisdom is much grief; and he who increases + knowledge increases sorrow. +002:001 I said in my heart, "Come now, I will test you with mirth: + therefore enjoy pleasure;" and behold, this also was vanity. +002:002 I said of laughter, "It is foolishness;" and of mirth, + "What does it accomplish?" +002:003 I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart + yet guiding me with wisdom, and how to lay hold of folly, + until I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they + should do under heaven all the days of their lives. +002:004 I made myself great works. I built myself houses. + I planted myself vineyards. +002:005 I made myself gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them + of all kinds of fruit. +002:006 I made myself pools of water, to water from it the forest + where trees were reared. +002:007 I bought male servants and female servants, and had servants born + in my house. I also had great possessions of herds and flocks, + above all who were before me in Jerusalem; +002:008 I also gathered silver and gold for myself, and the treasure of kings + and of the provinces. I got myself male and female singers, + and the delights of the sons of men--musical instruments, + and that of all sorts. +002:009 So I was great, and increased more than all who were before me + in Jerusalem. My wisdom also remained with me. +002:010 Whatever my eyes desired, I didn't keep from them. + I didn't withhold my heart from any joy, for my heart + rejoiced because of all my labor, and this was my portion + from all my labor. +002:011 Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, + and at the labor that I had labored to do; and behold, + all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no + profit under the sun. +002:012 I turned myself to consider wisdom, madness, and folly: + for what can the king's successor do? Just that which has + been done long ago. +002:013 Then I saw that wisdom excels folly, as far as light excels darkness. +002:014 The wise man's eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness-- + and yet I perceived that one event happens to them all. +002:015 Then said I in my heart, "As it happens to the fool, + so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise?" + Then said I in my heart that this also is vanity. +002:016 For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no memory + for ever, seeing that in the days to come all will have + been long forgotten. Indeed, the wise man must die just + like the fool! +002:017 So I hated life, because the work that is worked under the sun + was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a chasing after wind. +002:018 I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun, + seeing that I must leave it to the man who comes after me. +002:019 Who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? + Yet he will have rule over all of my labor in which I have labored, + and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. + This also is vanity. +002:020 Therefore I began to cause my heart to despair concerning + all the labor in which I had labored under the sun. +002:021 For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, with knowledge, + and with skillfulness; yet he shall leave it for his portion + to a man who has not labored for it. This also is vanity + and a great evil. +002:022 For what has a man of all his labor, and of the striving + of his heart, in which he labors under the sun? +002:023 For all his days are sorrows, and his travail is grief; + yes, even in the night his heart takes no rest. + This also is vanity. +002:024 There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat + and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. + This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God. +002:025 For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more than I? +002:026 For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, + and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather + and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. + This also is vanity and a chasing after wind. +003:001 For everything there is a season, and a time for every + purpose under heaven: +003:002 a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, + and a time to pluck up that which is planted; +003:003 a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, + and a time to build up; +003:004 a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, + and a time to dance; +003:005 a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; + a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; +003:006 a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time + to cast away; +003:007 a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, + and a time to speak; +003:008 a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, + and a time for peace. +003:009 What profit has he who works in that in which he labors? +003:010 I have seen the burden which God has given to the sons of men + to be afflicted with. +003:011 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set + eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can't find out the work + that God has done from the beginning even to the end. +003:012 I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice, + and to do good as long as they live. +003:013 Also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all + his labor, is the gift of God. +003:014 I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever. + Nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; + and God has done it, that men should fear before him. +003:015 That which is has been long ago, and that which is to be has + been long ago: and God seeks again that which is passed away. +003:016 Moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, + that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, + that wickedness was there. +003:017 I said in my heart, "God will judge the righteous and the wicked; + for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work." +003:018 I said in my heart, "As for the sons of men, God tests them, + so that they may see that they themselves are like animals. +003:019 For that which happens to the sons of men happens to animals. + Even one thing happens to them. As the one dies, + so the other dies. Yes, they have all one breath; and man + has no advantage over the animals: for all is vanity. +003:020 All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn + to dust again. +003:021 Who knows the spirit of man, whether it goes upward, + and the spirit of the animal, whether it goes downward + to the earth?" +003:022 Therefore I saw that there is nothing better, than that a man + should rejoice in his works; for that is his portion: + for who can bring him to see what will be after him? +004:001 Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under + the sun: and behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, + and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors + there was power; but they had no comforter. +004:002 Therefore I praised the dead who have been long dead more than + the living who are yet alive. +004:003 Yes, better than them both is him who has not yet been, + who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun. +004:004 Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a + man's neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind. +004:005 The fool folds his hands together and ruins himself. +004:006 Better is a handful, with quietness, than two handfuls with labor + and chasing after wind. +004:007 Then I returned and saw vanity under the sun. +004:008 There is one who is alone, and he has neither son nor brother. + There is no end to all of his labor, neither are his eyes + satisfied with wealth. For whom then, do I labor, and deprive + my soul of enjoyment? This also is vanity, yes, it is + a miserable business. +004:009 Two are better than one, because they have a good reward + for their labor. +004:010 For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe + to him who is alone when he falls, and doesn't have another + to lift him up. +004:011 Again, if two lie together, then they have warmth; but how can + one keep warm alone? +004:012 If a man prevails against one who is alone, two shall withstand him; + and a threefold cord is not quickly broken. +004:013 Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king + who doesn't know how to receive admonition any more. +004:014 For out of prison he came forth to be king; yes, even in his + kingdom he was born poor. +004:015 I saw all the living who walk under the sun, that they were + with the youth, the other, who succeeded him. +004:016 There was no end of all the people, even of all them over whom + he was--yet those who come after shall not rejoice in him. + Surely this also is vanity and a chasing after wind. +005:001 Guard your steps when you go to God's house; for to draw near + to listen is better than to give the sacrifice of fools, + for they don't know that they do evil. +005:002 Don't be rash with your mouth, and don't let your heart be + hasty to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven, + and you on earth. Therefore let your words be few. +005:003 For as a dream comes with a multitude of cares, so a fool's + speech with a multitude of words. +005:004 When you vow a vow to God, don't defer to pay it; for he has + no pleasure in fools. Pay that which you vow. +005:005 It is better that you should not vow, than that you should vow + and not pay. +005:006 Don't allow your mouth to lead you into sin. + Don't protest before the messenger that this was a mistake. + Why should God be angry at your voice, and destroy the work + of your hands? +005:007 For in the multitude of dreams there are vanities, as well + as in many words: but you must fear God. +005:008 If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking + away of justice and righteousness in a district, don't marvel + at the matter: for one official is eyed by a higher one; + and there are officials over them. +005:009 Moreover the profit of the earth is for all. The king profits + from the field. +005:010 He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; + nor he who loves abundance, with increase: this also is vanity. +005:011 When goods increase, those who eat them are increased; + and what advantage is there to its owner, except to feast + on them with his eyes? +005:012 The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; + but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep. +005:013 There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: + wealth kept by its owner to his harm. +005:014 Those riches perish by misfortune, and if he has fathered a son, + there is nothing in his hand. +005:015 As he came forth from his mother's womb, naked shall he go + again as he came, and shall take nothing for his labor, + which he may carry away in his hand. +005:016 This also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, + so shall he go. And what profit does he have who labors + for the wind? +005:017 All his days he also eats in darkness, he is frustrated, + and has sickness and wrath. +005:018 Behold, that which I have seen to be good and proper is for + one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labor, + in which he labors under the sun, all the days of his life + which God has given him; for this is his portion. +005:019 Every man also to whom God has given riches and wealth, + and has given him power to eat of it, and to take his portion, + and to rejoice in his labor--this is the gift of God. +005:020 For he shall not often reflect on the days of his life; + because God occupies him with the joy of his heart. +006:001 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it + is heavy on men: +006:002 a man to whom God gives riches, wealth, and honor, + so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, + yet God gives him no power to eat of it, but an alien eats it. + This is vanity, and it is an evil disease. +006:003 If a man fathers a hundred children, and lives many years, + so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not + filled with good, and moreover he has no burial; I say, + that an untimely birth is better than he: +006:004 for it comes in vanity, and departs in darkness, and its name + is covered with darkness. +006:005 Moreover it has not seen the sun nor known it. This has rest + rather than the other. +006:006 Yes, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet fails + to enjoy good, don't all go to one place? +006:007 All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite + is not filled. +006:008 For what advantage has the wise more than the fool? + What has the poor man, that knows how to walk before the living? +006:009 Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire. + This also is vanity and a chasing after wind. +006:010 Whatever has been, its name was given long ago; and it is + known what man is; neither can he contend with him who is + mightier than he. +006:011 For there are many words that create vanity. What does + that profit man? +006:012 For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days + of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? + For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun? +007:001 A good name is better than fine perfume; and the day of death + better than the day of one's birth. +007:002 It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go + to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men, + and the living should take this to heart. +007:003 Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the face + the heart is made good. +007:004 The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart + of fools is in the house of mirth. +007:005 It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man + to hear the song of fools. +007:006 For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter + of the fool. This also is vanity. +007:007 Surely extortion makes the wise man foolish; and a bribe + destroys the understanding. +007:008 Better is the end of a thing than its beginning. + The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit. +007:009 Don't be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests + in the bosom of fools. +007:010 Don't say, "Why were the former days better than these?" + For you do not ask wisely about this. +007:011 Wisdom is as good as an inheritance. Yes, it is more excellent + for those who see the sun. +007:012 For wisdom is a defense, even as money is a defense; + but the excellency of knowledge is that wisdom preserves + the life of him who has it. +007:013 Consider the work of God, for who can make that straight, + which he has made crooked? +007:014 In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of + adversity consider; yes, God has made the one side by side + with the other, to the end that man should not find out + anything after him. +007:015 All this have I seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous + man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked + man who lives long in his evil-doing. +007:016 Don't be overly righteous, neither make yourself overly wise. + Why should you destroy yourself? +007:017 Don't be too wicked, neither be foolish. Why should you die + before your time? +007:018 It is good that you should take hold of this. Yes, also from + that don't withdraw your hand; for he who fears God will come + forth from them all. +007:019 Wisdom is a strength to the wise man more than ten rulers + who are in a city. +007:020 Surely there is not a righteous man on earth, who does good + and doesn't sin. +007:021 Also don't take heed to all words that are spoken, lest you + hear your servant curse you; +007:022 for often your own heart knows that you yourself have + likewise cursed others. +007:023 All this have I proved in wisdom. I said, "I will be wise;" + but it was far from me. +007:024 That which is, is far off and exceedingly deep. + Who can find it out? +007:025 I turned around, and my heart sought to know and to search out, + and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know + that wickedness is stupidity, and that foolishness is madness. +007:026 I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares + and traps, whose hands are chains. Whoever pleases God shall + escape from her; but the sinner will be ensnared by her. +007:027 Behold, this have I found, says the Preacher, one to another, + to find out the scheme; +007:028 which my soul still seeks; but I have not found: + one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among + all those have I not found. +007:029 Behold, this only have I found: that God made man upright; + but they search for many schemes. +008:001 Who is like the wise man? And who knows the interpretation of + a thing? A man's wisdom makes his face shine, and the hardness + of his face is changed. +008:002 I say, "Keep the king's command!" because of the oath to God. +008:003 Don't be hasty to go out of his presence. Don't persist + in an evil thing, for he does whatever pleases him, +008:004 for the king's word is supreme. Who can say to him, + "What are you doing?" +008:005 Whoever keeps the commandment shall not come to harm, + and his wise heart will know the time and procedure. +008:006 For there is a time and procedure for every purpose, + although the misery of man is heavy on him. +008:007 For he doesn't know that which will be; for who can tell him + how it will be? +008:008 There is no man who has power over the spirit to contain + the spirit; neither does he have power over the day of death. + There is no discharge in war; neither shall wickedness deliver + those who practice it. +008:009 All this have I seen, and applied my mind to every work that is + done under the sun. There is a time in which one man has + power over another to his hurt. +008:010 So I saw the wicked buried. Indeed they came also from holiness. + They went and were forgotten in the city where they did this. + This also is vanity. +008:011 Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, + therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them + to do evil. +008:012 Though a sinner commits crimes a hundred times, and lives long, + yet surely I know that it will be better with those who fear God, + who are reverent before him. +008:013 But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall + he lengthen days like a shadow; because he doesn't fear God. +008:014 There is a vanity which is done on the earth, that there + are righteous men to whom it happens according to the work + of the wicked. Again, there are wicked men to whom + it happens according to the work of the righteous. + I said that this also is vanity. +008:015 Then I commended mirth, because a man has no better thing + under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be joyful: + for that will accompany him in his labor all the days of his + life which God has given him under the sun. +008:016 When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business + that is done on the earth (for also there is that neither + day nor night sees sleep with his eyes), +008:017 then I saw all the work of God, that man can't find out + the work that is done under the sun, because however + much a man labors to seek it out, yet he won't find it. + Yes even though a wise man thinks he can comprehend it, + he won't be able to find it. +009:001 For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this: + that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand + of God; whether it is love or hatred, man doesn't know it; + all is before them. +009:002 All things come alike to all. There is one event to the righteous + and to the wicked; to the good, to the clean, to the unclean, + to him who sacrifices, and to him who doesn't sacrifice. + As is the good, so is the sinner; he who takes an oath, + as he who fears an oath. +009:003 This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there + is one event to all: yes also, the heart of the sons of men + is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, + and after that they go to the dead. +009:004 For to him who is joined with all the living there is hope; + for a living dog is better than a dead lion. +009:005 For the living know that they will die, but the dead don't + know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; + for the memory of them is forgotten. +009:006 Also their love, their hatred, and their envy has perished long ago; + neither have they any more a portion forever in anything + that is done under the sun. +009:007 Go your way--eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine + with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works. +009:008 Let your garments be always white, and don't let your + head lack oil. +009:009 Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of + your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, + all your days of vanity: for that is your portion in life, + and in your labor in which you labor under the sun. +009:010 Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; + for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, + in Sheol, where you are going. +009:011 I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, + nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, + nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men + of skill; but time and chance happen to them all. +009:012 For man also doesn't know his time. As the fish that are taken + in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, + even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it + falls suddenly on them. +009:013 I have also seen wisdom under the sun in this way, and it + seemed great to me. +009:014 There was a little city, and few men within it; and a great king + came against it, besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it. +009:015 Now a poor wise man was found in it, and he by his wisdom + delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man. +009:016 Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength. Nevertheless the poor + man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard. +009:017 The words of the wise heard in quiet are better than the cry + of him who rules among fools. +009:018 Wisdom is better than weapons of war; but one sinner + destroys much good. +010:001 Dead flies cause the oil of the perfumer to send forth an evil odor; + so does a little folly outweigh wisdom and honor. +010:002 A wise man's heart is at his right hand, but a fool's heart + at his left. +010:003 Yes also, when the fool walks by the way, his understanding + fails him, and he says to everyone that he is a fool. +010:004 If the spirit of the ruler rises up against you, don't leave + your place; for gentleness lays great offenses to rest. +010:005 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, the sort + of error which proceeds from the ruler. +010:006 Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in a low place. +010:007 I have seen servants on horses, and princes walking like servants + on the earth. +010:008 He who digs a pit may fall into it; and whoever breaks through + a wall may be bitten by a snake. +010:009 Whoever carves out stones may be injured by them. + Whoever splits wood may be endangered thereby. +010:010 If the axe is blunt, and one doesn't sharpen the edge, + then he must use more strength; but skill brings success. +010:011 If the snake bites before it is charmed, then is there no profit + for the charmer's tongue. +010:012 The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but a fool + is swallowed by his own lips. +010:013 The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness; + and the end of his talk is mischievous madness. +010:014 A fool also multiplies words. Man doesn't know what will be; + and that which will be after him, who can tell him? +010:015 The labor of fools wearies every one of them; for he doesn't + know how to go to the city. +010:016 Woe to you, land, when your king is a child, and your princes + eat in the morning! +010:017 Happy are you, land, when your king is the son of nobles, + and your princes eat in due season, for strength, + and not for drunkenness! +010:018 By slothfulness the roof sinks in; and through idleness + of the hands the house leaks. +010:019 A feast is made for laughter, and wine makes the life glad; + and money is the answer for all things. +010:020 Don't curse the king, no, not in your thoughts; and don't curse + the rich in your bedchamber: for a bird of the sky may carry + your voice, and that which has wings may tell the matter. +011:001 Cast your bread on the waters; for you shall find it + after many days. +011:002 Give a portion to seven, yes, even to eight; for you don't + know what evil will be on the earth. +011:003 If the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves on the earth; + and if a tree falls toward the south, or toward the north, + in the place where the tree falls, there shall it be. +011:004 He who observes the wind won't sow; and he who regards + the clouds won't reap. +011:005 As you don't know what is the way of the wind, nor how the bones + grow in the womb of her who is with child; even so you don't + know the work of God who does all. +011:006 In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening don't withhold + your hand; for you don't know which will prosper, whether this + or that, or whether they both will be equally good. +011:007 Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes + to see the sun. +011:008 Yes, if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; + but let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. + All that comes is vanity. +011:009 Rejoice, young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you + in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, + and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these + things God will bring you into judgment. +011:010 Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil + from your flesh; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity. +012:001 Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, + before the evil days come, and the years draw near, when you + will say, "I have no pleasure in them;" +012:002 Before the sun, the light, the moon, and the stars are darkened, + and the clouds return after the rain; +012:003 in the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, + and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders + cease because they are few, and those who look out of the + windows are darkened, +012:004 and the doors shall be shut in the street; when the sound + of the grinding is low, and one shall rise up at the voice + of a bird, and all the daughters of music shall be brought low; +012:005 yes, they shall be afraid of heights, and terrors will be in the way; + and the almond tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall + be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goes to his + everlasting home, and the mourners go about the streets: +012:006 before the silver cord is severed, or the golden bowl is broken, + or the pitcher is broken at the spring, or the wheel broken + at the cistern, +012:007 and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit + returns to God who gave it. +012:008 Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher. All is vanity! +012:009 Further, because the Preacher was wise, he still taught + the people knowledge. Yes, he pondered, sought out, and set + in order many proverbs. +012:010 The Preacher sought to find out acceptable words, and that + which was written blamelessly, words of truth. +012:011 The words of the wise are like goads; and like nails + well fastened are words from the masters of assemblies, + which are given from one shepherd. +012:012 Furthermore, my son, be admonished: of making many books there + is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh. +012:013 This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. + Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole + duty of man. +012:014 For God will bring every work into judgment, with every + hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil. +Book 22 Song of Solomon +001:001 The Song of songs, which is Solomon's. Beloved +001:002 Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth; for your love + is better than wine. +001:003 Your oils have a pleasing fragrance. Your name is oil poured forth, + therefore the virgins love you. +001:004 Take me away with you. Let us hurry. The king has brought me + into his chambers. Friends We will be glad and rejoice in you. + We will praise your love more than wine! Beloved They are + right to love you. +001:005 I am dark, but lovely, you daughters of Jerusalem, + like Kedar's tents, like Solomon's curtains. +001:006 Don't stare at me because I am dark, because the sun has scorched me. + My mother's sons were angry with me. They made me keeper + of the vineyards. I haven't kept my own vineyard. +001:007 Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where you graze your flock, + where you rest them at noon; For why should I be as one who is + veiled beside the flocks of your companions? Lover +001:008 If you don't know, most beautiful among women, follow the tracks + of the sheep. Graze your young goats beside the shepherds' tents. +001:009 I have compared you, my love, to a steed in Pharaoh's chariots. +001:010 Your cheeks are beautiful with earrings, your neck with + strings of jewels. +001:011 We will make you earrings of gold, with studs of silver. + Beloved +001:012 While the king sat at his table, my perfume spread its fragrance. +001:013 My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh, that lies between my breasts. +001:014 My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms from the vineyards + of En Gedi. Lover +001:015 Behold, you are beautiful, my love. Behold, you are beautiful. + Your eyes are doves. Beloved +001:016 Behold, you are beautiful, my beloved, yes, pleasant; and our + couch is verdant. Lover +001:017 The beams of our house are cedars. Our rafters are firs. + Beloved +002:001 I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys. Lover +002:002 As a lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters. + Beloved +002:003 As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved + among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, + his fruit was sweet to my taste. +002:004 He brought me to the banquet hall. His banner over me is love. +002:005 Strengthen me with raisins, refresh me with apples; For I am + faint with love. +002:006 His left hand is under my head. His right hand embraces me. +002:007 I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, or by + the hinds of the field, that you not stir up, nor awaken love, + until it so desires. +002:008 The voice of my beloved! Behold, he comes, leaping on the mountains, + skipping on the hills. +002:009 My beloved is like a roe or a young hart. Behold, he stands + behind our wall! He looks in at the windows. He glances + through the lattice. +002:010 My beloved spoke, and said to me, "Rise up, my love, + my beautiful one, and come away. +002:011 For, behold, the winter is past. The rain is over and gone. +002:012 The flowers appear on the earth. The time of the singing has come, + and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land. +002:013 The fig tree ripens her green figs. The vines are in blossom. + They give forth their fragrance. Arise, my love, my beautiful one, + and come away." Lover +002:014 My dove in the clefts of the rock, In the hiding places of + the mountainside, Let me see your face. Let me hear your voice; + for your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely. +002:015 Catch for us the foxes, the little foxes that spoil the vineyards; + for our vineyards are in blossom. Beloved +002:016 My beloved is mine, and I am his. He browses among the lilies. +002:017 Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, + and be like a roe or a young hart on the mountains of Bether. +003:001 By night on my bed, I sought him whom my soul loves. + I sought him, but I didn't find him. +003:002 I will get up now, and go about the city; in the streets + and in the squares I will seek him whom my soul loves. + I sought him, but I didn't find him. +003:003 The watchmen who go about the city found me; "Have you seen + him whom my soul loves?" +003:004 I had scarcely passed from them, when I found him whom my soul loves. + I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him + into my mother's house, into the chamber of her who conceived me. +003:005 I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, or by + the hinds of the field, that you not stir up, nor awaken love, + until it so desires. +003:006 Who is this who comes up from the wilderness like pillars + of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all spices + of the merchant? +003:007 Behold, it is Solomon's carriage! Sixty mighty men are around it, + of the mighty men of Israel. +003:008 They all handle the sword, and are expert in war. + Every man has his sword on his thigh, because of fear + in the night. +003:009 King Solomon made himself a carriage of the wood of Lebanon. +003:010 He made its pillars of silver, its bottom of gold, + its seat of purple, its midst being paved with love, + from the daughters of Jerusalem. +003:011 Go forth, you daughters of Zion, and see king Solomon, + with the crown with which his mother has crowned him, + in the day of his weddings, in the day of the gladness + of his heart. Lover +004:001 Behold, you are beautiful, my love. Behold, you are beautiful. + Your eyes are doves behind your veil. Your hair is as a flock + of goats, that descend from Mount Gilead. +004:002 Your teeth are like a newly shorn flock, which have come + up from the washing, where every one of them has twins. + None is bereaved among them. +004:003 Your lips are like scarlet thread. Your mouth is lovely. + Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil. +004:004 Your neck is like David's tower built for an armory, whereon a + thousand shields hang, all the shields of the mighty men. +004:005 Your two breasts are like two fawns that are twins of a roe, + which feed among the lilies. +004:006 Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away, I will go + to the mountain of myrrh, to the hill of frankincense. +004:007 You are all beautiful, my love. There is no spot in you. +004:008 Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, with me from Lebanon. + Look from the top of Amana, from the top of Senir and Hermon, + from the lions' dens, from the mountains of the leopards. +004:009 You have ravished my heart, my sister, my bride. + You have ravished my heart with one of your eyes, with one + chain of your neck. +004:010 How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride! + How much better is your love than wine! The fragrance of your + perfumes than all manner of spices! +004:011 Your lips, my bride, drip like the honeycomb. Honey and milk + are under your tongue. The smell of your garments is like + the smell of Lebanon. +004:012 A locked up garden is my sister, my bride; a locked up spring, + a sealed fountain. +004:013 Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits: + henna with spikenard plants, +004:014 spikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with every kind + of incense tree; myrrh and aloes, with all the best spices, +004:015 a fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, flowing streams + from Lebanon. Beloved +004:016 Awake, north wind; and come, you south! Blow on my garden, + that its spices may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, + and taste his precious fruits. Lover +005:001 I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride. + I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my + honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. + Friends Eat, friends! Drink, yes, drink abundantly, beloved. + Beloved +005:002 I was asleep, but my heart was awake. It is the voice + of my beloved who knocks: "Open to me, my sister, my love, + my dove, my undefiled; for my head is filled with dew, + and my hair with the dampness of the night." +005:003 I have taken off my robe. Indeed, must I put it on? + I have washed my feet. Indeed, must I soil them? +005:004 My beloved thrust his hand in through the latch opening. + My heart pounded for him. +005:005 I rose up to open for my beloved. My hands dripped with myrrh, + my fingers with liquid myrrh, on the handles of the lock. +005:006 I opened to my beloved; but my beloved left; and had gone away. + My heart went out when he spoke. I looked for him, but I + didn't find him. I called him, but he didn't answer. +005:007 The watchmen who go about the city found me. They beat me. + They bruised me. The keepers of the walls took my cloak + away from me. +005:008 I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, If you find my beloved, + that you tell him that I am faint with love. Friends +005:009 How is your beloved better than another beloved, you fairest + among women? How is your beloved better than another beloved, + that you do so adjure us? Beloved +005:010 My beloved is white and ruddy. The best among ten thousand. +005:011 His head is like the purest gold. His hair is bushy, + black as a raven. +005:012 His eyes are like doves beside the water brooks, washed with milk, + mounted like jewels. +005:013 His cheeks are like a bed of spices with towers of perfumes. + His lips are like lilies, dropping liquid myrrh. +005:014 His hands are like rings of gold set with beryl. + His body is like ivory work overlaid with sapphires. +005:015 His legs are like pillars of marble set on sockets of fine gold. + His appearance is like Lebanon, excellent as the cedars. +005:016 His mouth is sweetness; yes, he is altogether lovely. + This is my beloved, and this is my friend, daughters of Jerusalem. + Friends +006:001 Where has your beloved gone, you fairest among women? + Where has your beloved turned, that we may seek him with you? + Beloved +006:002 My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, + to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies. +006:003 I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine. He browses + among the lilies, +006:004 You are beautiful, my love, as Tirzah, lovely as Jerusalem, + awesome as an army with banners. +006:005 Turn away your eyes from me, for they have overcome me. + Your hair is like a flock of goats, that lie along + the side of Gilead. +006:006 Your teeth are like a flock of ewes, which have come up + from the washing; of which every one has twins; none is + bereaved among them. +006:007 Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil. +006:008 There are sixty queens, eighty concubines, and virgins + without number. +006:009 My dove, my perfect one, is unique. She is her mother's + only daughter. She is the favorite one of her who bore her. + The daughters saw her, and called her blessed; the queens + and the concubines, and they praised her. +006:010 Who is she who looks forth as the morning, beautiful as the moon, + clear as the sun, and awesome as an army with banners? +006:011 I went down into the nut tree grove, to see the green + plants of the valley, to see whether the vine budded, + and the pomegranates were in flower. +006:012 Without realizing it, my desire set me with my royal + people's chariots. Friends +006:013 Return, return, Shulammite! Return, return, that we may gaze + at you. Lover Why do you desire to gaze at the Shulammite, + as at the dance of Mahanaim? +007:001 How beautiful are your feet in sandals, prince's daughter! + Your rounded thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands + of a skillful workman. +007:002 Your body is like a round goblet, no mixed wine is wanting. + Your waist is like a heap of wheat, set about with lilies. +007:003 Your two breasts are like two fawns, that are twins of a roe. +007:004 Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are like the pools + in Heshbon by the gate of Bathrabbim. Your nose is like + the tower of Lebanon which looks toward Damascus. +007:005 Your head on you is like Carmel. The hair of your head like purple. + The king is held captive in its tresses. +007:006 How beautiful and how pleasant you are, love, for delights! +007:007 This, your stature, is like a palm tree, your breasts + like its fruit. +007:008 I said, "I will climb up into the palm tree. I will take hold + of its fruit." Let your breasts be like clusters of the vine, + the smell of your breath like apples, Beloved +007:009 Your mouth like the best wine, that goes down smoothly for + my beloved, gliding through the lips of those who are asleep. +007:010 I am my beloved's. His desire is toward me. +007:011 Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field. + Let us lodge in the villages. +007:012 Let's go early up to the vineyards. Let's see whether the vine + has budded, its blossom is open, and the pomegranates are in flower. + There I will give you my love. +007:013 The mandrakes give forth fragrance. At our doors are all + kinds of precious fruits, new and old, which I have stored + up for you, my beloved. +008:001 Oh that you were like my brother, who sucked the breasts + of my mother! If I found you outside, I would kiss you; + yes, and no one would despise me. +008:002 I would lead you, bringing you into my mother's house, + who would instruct me. I would have you drink spiced wine, + of the juice of my pomegranate. +008:003 His left hand would be under my head. His right hand + would embrace me. +008:004 I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, that you not stir up, + nor awaken love, until it so desires. Friends +008:005 Who is this who comes up from the wilderness, leaning on + her beloved? Under the apple tree I aroused you. + There your mother conceived you. There she was in labor + and bore you. +008:006 Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm; + for love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol. + Its flashes are flashes of fire, a very flame of Yahweh. +008:007 Many waters can't quench love, neither can floods drown it. + If a man would give all the wealth of his house for love, + he would be utterly scorned. Friends +008:008 We have a little sister. She has no breasts. What shall we + do for our sister in the day when she is to be spoken for? +008:009 If she is a wall, we will build on her a turret of silver. + if she is a door, we will enclose her with boards of cedar. + Beloved +008:010 I am a wall, and my breasts like towers, then I was in his eyes + like one who found peace. +008:011 Solomon had a vineyard at Baal Hamon. He leased out the vineyard + to keepers. Each was to bring a thousand shekels of silver + for its fruit. +008:012 My own vineyard is before me. The thousand are for you, Solomon; + two hundred for those who tend its fruit. Lover +008:013 You who dwell in the gardens, with friends in attendance, + let me hear your voice! Beloved +008:014 Come away, my beloved! Be like a gazelle or a young stag + on the mountains of spices! +Book 23 Isaiah +001:001 The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah + and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, + kings of Judah. +001:002 Hear, heavens, and listen, earth; for Yahweh has spoken: + I have nourished and brought up children, and they have + rebelled against me. +001:003 The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master's crib; + but Israel doesn't know, my people don't consider. +001:004 Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, a seed + of evil-doers, children who deal corruptly! They have + forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. + They are estranged and backward. +001:005 Why should you be beaten more, that you revolt more and more? + The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. +001:006 From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness + in it: wounds, welts, and open sores. They haven't been closed, + neither bandaged, neither soothed with oil. +001:007 Your country is desolate. Your cities are burned with fire. + Strangers devour your land in your presence, and it is desolate, + as overthrown by strangers. +001:008 The daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, + like a hut in a field of melons, like a besieged city. +001:009 Unless Yahweh of Armies had left to us a very small remnant, + we would have been as Sodom; we would have been like Gomorrah. +001:010 Hear the word of Yahweh, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the law + of our God, you people of Gomorrah! +001:011 "What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?," says Yahweh. + "I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat + of fed animals. I don't delight in the blood of bulls, + or of lambs, or of male goats. +001:012 When you come to appear before me, who has required this + at your hand, to trample my courts? +001:013 Bring no more vain offerings. Incense is an abomination to me; + new moons, Sabbaths, and convocations: I can't bear + with evil assemblies. +001:014 My soul hates your New Moons and your appointed feasts. + They are a burden to me. I am weary of bearing them. +001:015 When you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. + Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. + Your hands are full of blood. +001:016 Wash yourselves, make yourself clean. Put away the evil + of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil. +001:017 Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. + Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow." +001:018 "Come now, and let us reason together," says Yahweh: "Though your + sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. + Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. +001:019 If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good + of the land; +001:020 but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword; + for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it." +001:021 How the faithful city has become a prostitute! She was full + of justice; righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers. +001:022 Your silver has become dross, your wine mixed with water. +001:023 Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves. + Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. + They don't judge the fatherless, neither does the cause + of the widow come to them. +001:024 Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, the Mighty One + of Israel, says: "Ah, I will get relief from my adversaries, + and avenge myself of my enemies; +001:025 and I will turn my hand on you, thoroughly purge away your dross, + and will take away all your tin. +001:026 I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counselors + as at the beginning. Afterward you shall be called 'The city + of righteousness, a faithful town.' +001:027 Zion shall be redeemed with justice, and her converts + with righteousness. +001:028 But the destruction of transgressors and sinners shall be together, + and those who forsake Yahweh shall be consumed. +001:029 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which you have desired, + and you shall be confounded for the gardens that you have chosen. +001:030 For you shall be as an oak whose leaf fades, and as a garden + that has no water. +001:031 The strong will be like tinder, and his work like a spark. + They will both burn together, and no one will quench them." +002:001 This is what Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning + Judah and Jerusalem. +002:002 It shall happen in the latter days, that the mountain of Yahweh's + house shall be established on the top of the mountains, + and shall be raised above the hills; and all nations shall + flow to it. +002:003 Many peoples shall go and say, "Come, let's go up to + the mountain of Yahweh, to the house of the God of Jacob; + and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths." + For out of Zion the law shall go forth, and the word of + Yahweh from Jerusalem. +002:004 He will judge between the nations, and will decide + concerning many peoples; and they shall beat their swords + into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. + Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall + they learn war any more. +002:005 House of Jacob, come, and let us walk in the light of Yahweh. +002:006 For you have forsaken your people, the house of Jacob, + because they are filled from the east, with those who practice + divination like the Philistines, and they clasp hands with + the children of foreigners. +002:007 Their land is full of silver and gold, neither is there any + end of their treasures. Their land also is full of horses, + neither is there any end of their chariots. +002:008 Their land also is full of idols. They worship the work + of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made. +002:009 Man is brought low, and mankind is humbled; therefore don't + forgive them. +002:010 Enter into the rock, and hide in the dust, from before the terror + of Yahweh, and from the glory of his majesty. +002:011 The lofty looks of man will be brought low, the haughtiness + of men will be bowed down, and Yahweh alone will be exalted + in that day. +002:012 For there will be a day of Yahweh of Armies for all that + is proud and haughty, and for all that is lifted up; + and it shall be brought low: +002:013 For all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, + for all the oaks of Bashan, +002:014 For all the high mountains, for all the hills that are lifted up, +002:015 For every lofty tower, for every fortified wall, +002:016 For all the ships of Tarshish, and for all pleasant imagery. +002:017 The loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness + of men shall be brought low; and Yahweh alone shall be exalted + in that day. +002:018 The idols shall utterly pass away. +002:019 Men shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the holes + of the earth, from before the terror of Yahweh, and from the glory + of his majesty, when he arises to shake the earth mightily. +002:020 In that day, men shall cast away their idols of silver, + and their idols of gold, which have been made for themselves + to worship, to the moles and to the bats; +002:021 To go into the caverns of the rocks, and into the clefts + of the ragged rocks, from before the terror of Yahweh, + and from the glory of his majesty, when he arises to shake + the earth mightily. +002:022 Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; + for of what account is he? +003:001 For, behold, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, takes away from Jerusalem + and from Judah supply and support, the whole supply of bread, + and the whole supply of water; +003:002 the mighty man, the man of war, the judge, the prophet, + the diviner, the elder, +003:003 the captain of fifty, the honorable man, the counselor, + the skilled craftsman, and the clever enchanter. +003:004 I will give boys to be their princes, and children shall + rule over them. +003:005 The people will be oppressed, everyone by another, and everyone + by his neighbor. The child will behave himself proudly + against the old man, and the base against the honorable. +003:006 Indeed a man shall take hold of his brother in the house + of his father, saying, "You have clothing, you be our ruler, + and let this ruin be under your hand." +003:007 In that day he will cry out, saying, I will not be a healer; + for in my house is neither bread nor clothing. + You shall not make me ruler of the people. +003:008 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen; because their + tongue and their doings are against Yahweh, to provoke the eyes + of his glory. +003:009 The look of their faces testify against them. They parade + their sin like Sodom. They don't hide it. Woe to their soul! + For they have brought disaster upon themselves. +003:010 Tell the righteous "Good!" For they shall eat the fruit + of their deeds. +003:011 Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them; for the deeds + of his hands will be paid back to him. +003:012 As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule + over them. My people, those who lead you cause you to err, + and destroy the way of your paths. +003:013 Yahweh stands up to contend, and stands to judge the peoples. +003:014 Yahweh will enter into judgment with the elders of his people, + and their leaders: "It is you who have eaten up the vineyard. + The spoil of the poor is in your houses. +003:015 What do you mean that you crush my people, and grind the face + of the poor?" says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies. +003:016 Moreover Yahweh said, "Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, + and walk with outstretched necks and flirting eyes, + walking to trip as they go, jingling ornaments on their feet; +003:017 therefore the Lord brings sores on the crown of the head + of the women of Zion, and Yahweh will make their scalps bald." +003:018 In that day the Lord will take away the beauty of their anklets, + the headbands, the crescent necklaces, +003:019 the earrings, the bracelets, the veils, +003:020 the headdresses, the ankle chains, the sashes, the perfume + bottles, the charms, +003:021 the signet rings, the nose rings, +003:022 the fine robes, the capes, the cloaks, the purses, +003:023 the hand mirrors, the fine linen garments, the tiaras, + and the shawls. +003:024 It shall happen that instead of sweet spices, there shall + be rottenness; instead of a belt, a rope; instead of well + set hair, baldness; instead of a robe, a girding of sackcloth; + and branding instead of beauty. +003:025 Your men shall fall by the sword, and your mighty in the war. +003:026 Her gates shall lament and mourn; and she shall be desolate + and sit on the ground. +004:001 Seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, + "We will eat our own bread, and wear our own clothing: + only let us be called by your name. Take away our reproach." +004:002 In that day, Yahweh's branch will be beautiful and glorious, + and the fruit of the land will be the beauty and glory + of the survivors of Israel. +004:003 It will happen, that he who is left in Zion, and he who remains + in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even everyone who is + written among the living in Jerusalem; +004:004 when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters + of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from its midst, + by the spirit of justice, and by the spirit of burning. +004:005 Yahweh will create over the whole habitation of Mount Zion, + and over her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, + and the shining of a flaming fire by night; for over all + the glory will be a canopy. +004:006 There will be a pavilion for a shade in the daytime from the heat, + and for a refuge and for a shelter from storm and from rain. +005:001 Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about + his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill. +005:002 He dug it up, gathered out its stones, planted it with + the choicest vine, built a tower in its midst, and also cut + out a winepress therein. He looked for it to yield grapes, + but it yielded wild grapes. +005:003 "Now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, please judge + between me and my vineyard. +005:004 What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have + not done in it? Why, when I looked for it to yield grapes, + did it yield wild grapes? +005:005 Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. + I will take away its hedge, and it will be eaten up. + I will break down its wall of it, and it will be trampled down. +005:006 I will lay it a wasteland. It won't be pruned nor hoed, + but it will grow briers and thorns. I will also command + the clouds that they rain no rain on it." +005:007 For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel, + and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked + for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, + but, behold, a cry of distress. +005:008 Woe to those who join house to house, who lay field to field, + until there is no room, and you are made to dwell alone + in the midst of the land! +005:009 In my ears, Yahweh of Armies says: "Surely many houses will + be desolate, even great and beautiful, unoccupied. +005:010 For ten acres{literally, ten yokes, or the amount of land + that ten yokes of oxen can plow in one day, which is about 10 + acres or 4 hectares.} of vineyard shall yield one bath,{1 + bath is about 22 litres, 5.8 U. S. gallons, or 4.8 imperial + gallons} and a homer{1 homer is about 220 litres or 6 bushels} + of seed shall yield an ephah.{1 ephah is about 22 litres or 0.6 + bushels or about 2 pecks)--only one tenth of what was sown.}" +005:011 Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they + may follow strong drink; who stay late into the night, + until wine inflames them! +005:012 The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute, with wine, are at + their feasts; but they don't regard the work of Yahweh, + neither have they considered the operation of his hands. +005:013 Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge. + Their honorable men are famished, and their multitudes are + parched with thirst. +005:014 Therefore Sheol{Sheol is the place of the dead.} has enlarged + its desire, and opened its mouth without measure; and their glory, + their multitude, their pomp, and he who rejoices among them, + descend into it. +005:015 So man is brought low, mankind is humbled, and the eyes + of the arrogant ones are humbled; +005:016 but Yahweh of Armies is exalted in justice, and God the Holy One + is sanctified in righteousness. +005:017 Then the lambs will graze as in their pasture, and strangers + will eat the ruins of the rich. +005:018 Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, + and wickedness as with cart rope; +005:019 Who say, "Let him make speed, let him hasten his work, + that we may see it; and let the counsel of the Holy One + of Israel draw near and come, that we may know it!" +005:020 Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness + for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, + and sweet for bitter! +005:021 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent + in their own sight! +005:022 Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine, and champions + at mixing strong drink; +005:023 who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice + for the innocent! +005:024 Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, + and as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root + shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust; + because they have rejected the law of Yahweh of Armies, + and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel. +005:025 Therefore Yahweh's anger burns against his people, and he has + stretched out his hand against them, and has struck them. + The mountains tremble, and their dead bodies are as refuse + in the midst of the streets. For all this, his anger is not + turned away, but his hand is still stretched out. +005:026 He will lift up a banner to the nations from far, + and he will whistle for them from the end of the earth. + Behold, they will come speedily and swiftly. +005:027 None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber + nor sleep; neither shall the belt of their waist be untied, + nor the latchet of their shoes be broken: +005:028 whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent. Their horses' + hoofs will be like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind. +005:029 Their roaring will be like a lioness. They will roar like + young lions. Yes, they shall roar, and seize their prey + and carry it off, and there will be no one to deliver. +005:030 They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. + If one looks to the land behold, darkness and distress. + The light is darkened in its clouds. +006:001 In the year that king Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on + a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple. +006:002 Above him stood the seraphim. Each one had six wings. + With two he covered his face. With two he covered his feet. + With two he flew. +006:003 One called to another, and said, "Holy, holy, holy, is Yahweh + of Armies! The whole earth is full of his glory!" +006:004 The foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him + who called, and the house was filled with smoke. +006:005 Then I said, "Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of + unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: + for my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh of Armies!" +006:006 Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having a live coal in his hand, + which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar. +006:007 He touched my mouth with it, and said, "Behold, this has + touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away, + and your sin forgiven." +006:008 I heard the Lord's voice, saying, "Whom shall I send, + and who will go for us?" Then I said, "Here I am. Send me!" +006:009 He said, "Go, and tell this people, 'You hear indeed, + but don't understand; and you see indeed, but don't perceive.' +006:010 Make the heart of this people fat. Make their ears heavy, + and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, + and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, + and turn again, and be healed." +006:011 Then I said, "Lord, how long?" He answered, "Until cities + are waste without inhabitant, and houses without man, + and the land becomes utterly waste, +006:012 And Yahweh has removed men far away, and the forsaken places + are many in the midst of the land. +006:013 If there is a tenth left in it, that also will in turn be consumed: + as a terebinth, and as an oak, whose stock remains when they + are felled; so the holy seed is its stock." +007:001 It happened in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son + of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, + and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to + Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it. +007:002 It was told the house of David, saying, "Syria is allied + with Ephraim." His heart trembled, and the heart of his people, + as the trees of the forest tremble with the wind. +007:003 Then Yahweh said to Isaiah, "Go out now to meet Ahaz, + you, and Shearjashub your son, at the end of the conduit + of the upper pool, on the highway of the fuller's field. +007:004 Tell him, 'Be careful, and keep calm. Don't be afraid, + neither let your heart be faint because of these two tails + of smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, + and of the son of Remaliah. +007:005 Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have plotted + evil against you, saying, +007:006 "Let's go up against Judah, and tear it apart, and let's divide + it among ourselves, and set up a king in the midst of it, + even the son of Tabeel." +007:007 This is what the Lord Yahweh says: "It shall not stand, + neither shall it happen." +007:008 For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; + and within sixty-five years Ephraim shall be broken in pieces, + so that it shall not be a people; +007:009 and the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria + is Remaliah's son. If you will not believe, surely you shall + not be established.'" +007:010 Yahweh spoke again to Ahaz, saying, +007:011 "Ask a sign of Yahweh your God; ask it either in the depth, + or in the height above." +007:012 But Ahaz said, "I will not ask, neither will I tempt Yahweh." +007:013 He said, "Listen now, house of David: Is it not enough for you + to try the patience of men, that you will try the patience + of my God also? +007:014 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. + Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall + call his name Immanuel.{"Immanuel" means "God with us."} +007:015 He shall eat butter and honey when he knows to refuse the evil, + and choose the good. +007:016 For before the child knows to refuse the evil, and choose the good, + the land whose two kings you abhor shall be forsaken. +007:017 Yahweh will bring on you, on your people, and on your father's house, + days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed + from Judah; even the king of Assyria. +007:018 It will happen in that day that Yahweh will whistle for the fly + that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, + and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria. +007:019 They shall come, and shall all rest in the desolate valleys, + in the clefts of the rocks, on all thorn hedges, + and on all pastures. +007:020 In that day the Lord will shave with a razor that is hired + in the parts beyond the River, even with the king of Assyria, + the head and the hair of the feet; and it shall also + consume the beard. +007:021 It shall happen in that day that a man shall keep alive a young cow, + and two sheep; +007:022 and it shall happen, that because of the abundance of milk + which they shall give he shall eat butter: for everyone will + eat butter and honey that is left in the midst of the land. +007:023 It will happen in that day that every place where there + were a thousand vines at a thousand silver shekels, shall be + for briers and thorns. +007:024 People will go there with arrows and with bow, because all + the land will be briers and thorns. +007:025 All the hills that were cultivated with the hoe, you shall + not come there for fear of briers and thorns; but it shall be + for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of sheep." +008:001 Yahweh said to me, "Take a large tablet, and write on it with a + man's pen, 'For Maher Shalal Hash Baz;{"Maher Shalal Hash Baz" + means "quick to the plunder, swift to the spoil."}' +008:002 and I will take for myself faithful witnesses to testify: + Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah." +008:003 I went to the prophetess, and she conceived, and bore a son. + Then said Yahweh to me, "Call his name 'Maher Shalal Hash Baz.' +008:004 For before the child knows how to say, 'My father,' and, 'My mother,' + the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria will be carried + away by the king of Assyria." +008:005 Yahweh spoke to me yet again, saying, +008:006 "Because this people have refused the waters of Shiloah + that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son; +008:007 now therefore, behold, the Lord brings upon them the mighty flood + waters of the River: the king of Assyria and all his glory. + It will come up over all its channels, and go over all its banks. +008:008 It will sweep onward into Judah. It will overflow and pass through; + it will reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of its + wings will fill the breadth of your land, Immanuel. +008:009 Make an uproar, you peoples, and be broken in pieces! Listen, all you + from far countries: dress for battle, and be shattered! + Dress for battle, and be shattered! +008:010 Take counsel together, and it will be brought to nothing; + speak the word, and it will not stand: for God is with us." +008:011 For Yahweh spoke thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed + me not to walk in the way of this people, saying, +008:012 "Don't say, 'A conspiracy!' concerning all about which this + people say, 'A conspiracy!' neither fear their threats, + nor be terrorized. +008:013 Yahweh of Armies is who you must regard as holy. + He is the one you must fear. He is the one you must dread. +008:014 He will be a sanctuary, but for both houses of Israel, + he will be a trap and a snare for the inhabitants of Jerusalem. +008:015 Many will stumble over it, fall, be broken, be snared, + and be captured." +008:016 Wrap up the testimony. Seal the law among my disciples. +008:017 I will wait for Yahweh, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, + and I will look for him. +008:018 Behold, I and the children whom Yahweh has given me are + for signs and for wonders in Israel from Yahweh of Armies, + who dwells in Mount Zion. +008:019 When they tell you, "Consult with those who have familiar + spirits and with the wizards, who chirp and who mutter:" + shouldn't a people consult with their God? Should they + consult the dead on behalf of the living? +008:020 Turn to the law and to the testimony! If they don't speak + according to this word, surely there is no morning for them. +008:021 They will pass through it, sore distressed and hungry; + and it will happen that when they are hungry, they will worry, + and curse by their king and by their God. They will turn + their faces upward, +008:022 and look to the earth, and see distress, darkness, and the gloom + of anguish. They will be driven into thick darkness. +009:001 But there shall be no more gloom for her who was in anguish. + In the former time, he brought into contempt the land + of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali; but in the latter + time he has made it glorious, by the way of the sea, + beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations. +009:002 The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. + Those who lived in the land of the shadow of death, on them + the light has shined. +009:003 You have multiplied the nation. You have increased their joy. + They rejoice before you according to the joy in harvest, + as men rejoice when they divide the spoil. +009:004 For the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, + the rod of his oppressor, you have broken as in the day of Midian. +009:005 For all the armor of the armed man in the noisy battle, + and the garments rolled in blood, will be for burning, + fuel for the fire. +009:006 For to us a child is born. To us a son is given; + and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be + called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, + Prince of Peace. +009:007 Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall + be no end, on the throne of David, and on his kingdom, + to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and + with righteousness from that time on, even forever. + The zeal of Yahweh of Armies will perform this. +009:008 The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it falls on Israel. +009:009 All the people will know, including Ephraim and the inhabitants + of Samaria, who say in pride and in arrogance of heart, +009:010 "The bricks have fallen, but we will build with hewn stone. + The sycamore fig trees have been cut down, but we will put + cedars in their place." +009:011 Therefore Yahweh will set up on high against him the adversaries + of Rezin, and will stir up his enemies, +009:012 The Syrians in front, and the Philistines behind; and they + will devour Israel with open mouth. For all this, his anger + is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. +009:013 Yet the people have not turned to him who struck them, + neither have they sought Yahweh of Armies. +009:014 Therefore Yahweh will cut off from Israel head and tail, + palm branch and reed, in one day. +009:015 The elder and the honorable man is the head, and the prophet + who teaches lies is the tail. +009:016 For those who lead this people lead them astray; and those + who are led by them are destroyed. +009:017 Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men, + neither will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows; + for everyone is profane and an evil-doer, and every mouth + speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, + but his hand is stretched out still. +009:018 For wickedness burns like a fire. It devours the briers + and thorns; yes, it kindles in the thickets of the forest, + and they roll upward in a column of smoke. +009:019 Through the wrath of Yahweh of Armies, the land is + burnt up; and the people are the fuel for the fire. + No one spares his brother. +009:020 One will devour on the right hand, and be hungry; and he will + eat on the left hand, and they will not be satisfied. + Everyone will eat the flesh of his own arm: +009:021 Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh; and they together shall + be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, + but his hand is stretched out still. +010:001 Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers + who write oppressive decrees; +010:002 to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among + my people of their rights, that widows may be their spoil, + and that they may make the fatherless their prey! +010:003 What will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation + which will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help? + Where will you leave your wealth? +010:004 They will only bow down under the prisoners, and will fall + under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, + but his hand is stretched out still. +010:005 Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand + is my indignation! +010:006 I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people + who anger me will I give him a charge to take the spoil + and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire + of the streets. +010:007 However he doesn't mean so, neither does his heart think so; + but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off not + a few nations. +010:008 For he says, "Aren't all of my princes kings? +010:009 Isn't Calno like Carchemish? Isn't Hamath like Arpad? + Isn't Samaria like Damascus?" +010:010 As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, whose engraved + images exceeded those of Jerusalem and of Samaria; +010:011 shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and her idols, + so do to Jerusalem and her idols? +010:012 Therefore it will happen that, when the Lord has performed + his whole work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish + the fruit of the willful proud heart of the king of Assyria, + and the insolence of his haughty looks. +010:013 For he has said, "By the strength of my hand I have done it, + and by my wisdom; for I have understanding: and I have removed + the boundaries of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures. + Like a valiant man I have brought down their rulers. +010:014 My hand has found the riches of the peoples like a nest, + and like one gathers eggs that are abandoned, have I gathered + all the earth. There was no one who moved their wing, + or that opened their mouth, or chirped." +010:015 Should an axe brag against him who chops with it? + Should a saw exalt itself above him who saws with it? + As if a rod should lift those who lift it up, or as if a staff + should lift up someone who is not wood. +010:016 Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will send among his fat + ones leanness; and under his glory a burning will be kindled + like the burning of fire. +010:017 The light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One + for a flame; and it will burn and devour his thorns and his + briers in one day. +010:018 He will consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, + both soul and body. It will be as when a standard bearer faints. +010:019 The remnant of the trees of his forest shall be few, + so that a child could write their number. +010:020 It will come to pass in that day that the remnant of Israel, + and those who have escaped from the house of Jacob will no more + again lean on him who struck them, but shall lean on Yahweh, + the Holy One of Israel, in truth. +010:021 A remnant will return, even the remnant of Jacob, + to the mighty God. +010:022 For though your people, Israel, are like the sand of the sea, + only a remnant of them will return. A destruction is determined, + overflowing with righteousness. +010:023 For the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will make a full end, + and that determined, in the midst of all the earth. +010:024 Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, says "My people who dwell + in Zion, don't be afraid of the Assyrian, though he strike + you with the rod, and lift up his staff against you, + as Egypt did. +010:025 For yet a very little while, and the indignation against + you will be accomplished, and my anger will be directed + to his destruction." +010:026 Yahweh of Armies will stir up a scourge against him, + as in the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb. + His rod will be over the sea, and he will lift it up like + he did against Egypt. +010:027 It will happen in that day, that his burden will depart + from off your shoulder, and his yoke from off your neck, + and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing oil. +010:028 He has come to Aiath. He has passed through Migron. + At Michmash he stores his baggage. +010:029 They have gone over the pass. They have taken up their lodging + at Geba. Ramah trembles. Gibeah of Saul has fled. +010:030 Cry aloud with your voice, daughter of Gallim! Listen, Laishah! + You poor Anathoth! +010:031 Madmenah is a fugitive. The inhabitants of Gebim flee for safety. +010:032 This very day he will halt at Nob. He shakes his hand at + the mountain of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem. +010:033 Behold, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will lop the boughs with terror. + The tall will be cut down, and the lofty will be brought low. +010:034 He will cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, + and Lebanon will fall by the Mighty One. +011:001 A shoot will come out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch + out of his roots will bear fruit. +011:002 The Spirit of Yahweh will rest on him: the spirit of wisdom + and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit + of knowledge and of the fear of Yahweh. +011:003 His delight will be in the fear of Yahweh. He will not judge + by the sight of his eyes, neither decide by the hearing + of his ears; +011:004 but with righteousness he will judge the poor, and decide + with equity for the humble of the earth. He will strike + the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath + of his lips he will kill the wicked. +011:005 Righteousness will be the belt of his waist, and faithfulness + the belt of his waist. +011:006 The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down + with the young goat; The calf, the young lion, and the fattened + calf together; and a little child will lead them. +011:007 The cow and the bear will graze. Their young ones will lie + down together. The lion will eat straw like the ox. +011:008 The nursing child will play near a cobra's hole, and the weaned + child will put his hand on the viper's den. +011:009 They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; + for the earth will be full of the knowledge of Yahweh, + as the waters cover the sea. +011:010 It will happen in that day that the nations will seek + the root of Jesse, who stands as a banner of the peoples; + and his resting place will be glorious. +011:011 It will happen in that day that the Lord will set his hand + again the second time to recover the remnant that is left + of his people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, + from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands + of the sea. +011:012 He will set up a banner for the nations, and will assemble + the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed + of Judah from the four corners of the earth. +011:013 The envy also of Ephraim will depart, and those who persecute + Judah will be cut off. Ephraim won't envy Judah, and Judah + won't persecute Ephraim. +011:014 They will fly down on the shoulders of the Philistines on the west. + Together they will plunder the children of the east. + They will extend their power over Edom and Moab, and the children + of Ammon will obey them. +011:015 Yahweh will utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; + and with his scorching wind he will wave his hand over the River, + and will split it into seven streams, and cause men to march + over in sandals. +011:016 There will be a highway for the remnant that is left of his + people from Assyria, like there was for Israel in the day + that he came up out of the land of Egypt. +012:001 In that day you will say, "I will give thanks to you, Yahweh; + for though you were angry with me, your anger has turned away + and you comfort me. +012:002 Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not + be afraid; for Yah, Yahweh, is my strength and song; + and he has become my salvation." +012:003 Therefore with joy you will draw water out of the wells of salvation. +012:004 In that day you will say, "Give thanks to Yahweh! Call on his name. + Declare his doings among the peoples. Proclaim that his + name is exalted! +012:005 Sing to Yahweh, for he has done excellent things! + Let this be known in all the earth! +012:006 Cry aloud and shout, you inhabitant of Zion; for the Holy One + of Israel is great in the midst of you!" +013:001 The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw: +013:002 Set up a banner on the bare mountain! Lift up your voice to them! + Wave your hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles. +013:003 I have commanded my consecrated ones; yes, I have called + my mighty men for my anger, even my proudly exulting ones. +013:004 The noise of a multitude is in the mountains, as of a great people; + the noise of an uproar of the kingdoms of the nations + gathered together! Yahweh of Armies is mustering the army + for the battle. +013:005 They come from a far country, from the uttermost part of heaven, + even Yahweh, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy + the whole land. +013:006 Wail; for the day of Yahweh is at hand! It will come as + destruction from the Almighty. +013:007 Therefore all hands will be feeble, and everyone's heart will melt. +013:008 They will be dismayed. Pangs and sorrows will seize them. + They will be in pain like a woman in labor. They will look + in amazement one at another. Their faces will be faces of flame. +013:009 Behold, the day of Yahweh comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; + to make the land a desolation, and to destroy its sinners + out of it. +013:010 For the stars of the sky and its constellations will not give + their light. The sun will be darkened in its going forth, + and the moon will not cause its light to shine. +013:011 I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked + for their iniquity. I will cause the arrogance of the proud + to cease, and will humble the haughtiness of the terrible. +013:012 I will make people more rare than fine gold, even a person + than the pure gold of Ophir. +013:013 Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will + be shaken out of its place in the wrath of Yahweh of Armies, + and in the day of his fierce anger. +013:014 It will happen that like a a hunted gazelle, and like sheep + that no one gathers, they will each turn to their own people, + and will each flee to their own land. +013:015 Everyone who is found will be thrust through. Everyone who is + captured will fall by the sword. +013:016 Their infants also will be dashed in pieces before their eyes. + Their houses will be ransacked, and their wives raped. +013:017 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who will not + value silver, and as for gold, they will not delight in it. +013:018 Their bows will dash the young men in pieces; + and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb. + Their eyes will not spare children. +013:019 Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans' + pride, will be like when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. +013:020 It will never be inhabited, neither will it be lived in from + generation to generation. The Arabian will not pitch a tent there, + neither will shepherds make their flocks lie down there. +013:021 But wild animals of the desert will lie there, and their + houses will be full of jackals. Ostriches will dwell there, + and wild goats will frolic there. +013:022 Wolves will cry in their castles, and jackals in the + pleasant palaces. Her time is near to come, and her days + will not be prolonged. +014:001 For Yahweh will have compassion on Jacob, and will + yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land. + The foreigner will join himself with them, and they will unite + with the house of Jacob. +014:002 The peoples will take them, and bring them to their place. + The house of Israel will possess them in Yahweh's land for servants + and for handmaids. They will take as captives those whose + captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors. +014:003 It will happen in the day that Yahweh will give you rest from + your sorrow, from your trouble, and from the hard service + in which you were made to serve, +014:004 that you will take up this parable against the king + of Babylon, and say, "How the oppressor has ceased! + The golden city has ceased!" +014:005 Yahweh has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter + of the rulers, +014:006 who struck the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, who ruled + the nations in anger, with a persecution that none restrained. +014:007 The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet. They break out song. +014:008 Yes, the fir trees rejoice with you, with the cedars + of Lebanon, saying, "Since you are humbled, no lumberjack + has come up against us." +014:009 Sheol from beneath has moved for you to meet you at your coming. + It stirs up the dead for you, even all the rulers of the earth. + It has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. +014:010 They all will answer and ask you, "Have you also become as weak + as we are? Have you become like us?" +014:011 Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, with the sound of your + stringed instruments. Maggots are spread out under you, + and worms cover you. +014:012 How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! + How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low! +014:013 You said in your heart, "I will ascend into heaven! + I will exalt my throne above the stars of God! I will sit + on the mountain of assembly, in the far north! +014:014 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds! I will make + myself like the Most High!" +014:015 Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the depths of the pit. +014:016 Those who see you will stare at you. They will ponder you, + saying, "Is this the man who made the earth to tremble, + who shook kingdoms; +014:017 who made the world like a wilderness, and overthrew its cities; + who didn't release his prisoners to their home?" +014:018 All the kings of the nations, sleep in glory, everyone in + his own house. +014:019 But you are cast away from your tomb like an abominable branch, + clothed with the slain, who are thrust through with the sword, + who go down to the stones of the pit; like a dead body + trodden under foot. +014:020 You will not join them in burial, because you have destroyed + your land. You have killed your people. The seed of evil-doers + will not be named forever. +014:021 Prepare for slaughter of his children because of the iniquity + of their fathers, that they not rise up and possess the earth, + and fill the surface of the world with cities. +014:022 "I will rise up against them," says Yahweh of Armies, + "and cut off from Babylon name and remnant, and son and + son's son," says Yahweh. +014:023 "I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, and pools + of water. I will sweep it with the broom of destruction," + says Yahweh of Armies. +014:024 Yahweh of Armies has sworn, saying, "Surely, as I have thought, + so shall it happen; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand: +014:025 that I will break the Assyrian in my land, and tread him + under foot on my mountains. Then his yoke will leave them, + and his burden leave their shoulders. +014:026 This is the plan that is determined for the whole earth. + This is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations. +014:027 For Yahweh of Armies has planned, and who can stop it? + His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?" +014:028 This burden was in the year that king Ahaz died. +014:029 Don't rejoice, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod that + struck you is broken; for out of the serpent's root an adder + will emerge, and his fruit will be a fiery flying serpent. +014:030 The firstborn of the poor will eat, and the needy will lie + down in safety; and I will kill your root with famine, + and your remnant will be killed. +014:031 Howl, gate! Cry, city! You are melted away, Philistia, all of you; + for smoke comes out of the north, and there is no straggler + in his ranks. +014:032 What will they answer the messengers of the nation? + That Yahweh has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his + people will take refuge. +015:001 The burden of Moab: for in a night, Ar of Moab is laid waste, + and brought to nothing; for in a night Kir of Moab is laid waste, + and brought to nothing. +015:002 They have gone up to Bayith, and to Dibon, to the high places, + to weep. Moab wails over Nebo and over Medeba. + Baldness is on all of their heads. Every beard is cut off. +015:003 In their streets, they dress themselves in sackcloth. + In their streets and on their housetops, everyone wails, + weeping abundantly. +015:004 Heshbon cries out with Elealeh. Their voice is heard even + to Jahaz. Therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud. + Their souls tremble within them. +015:005 My heart cries out for Moab! Her nobles flee to Zoar, + to Eglath Shelishiyah; for they go up by the ascent of Luhith + with weeping; for in the way of Horonaim, they raise up + a cry of destruction. +015:006 For the waters of Nimrim will be desolate; for the grass has + withered away, the tender grass fails, there is no green thing. +015:007 Therefore they will carry away the abundance they have gotten, + and that which they have stored up, over the brook of the willows. +015:008 For the cry has gone around the borders of Moab; its wailing + to Eglaim, and its wailing to Beer Elim. +015:009 For the waters of Dimon are full of blood; for I will bring + yet more on Dimon, a lion on those of Moab who escape, + and on the remnant of the land. +016:001 Send the lambs for the ruler of the land from Selah to the wilderness, + to the mountain of the daughter of Zion. +016:002 For it will be that as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, + so will the daughters of Moab be at the fords of the Arnon. +016:003 Give counsel! Execute justice! Make your shade like + the night in the midst of the noonday! Hide the outcasts! + Don't betray the fugitive! +016:004 Let my outcasts dwell with you! As for Moab, be a + hiding place for him from the face of the destroyer. + For the extortioner is brought to nothing. Destruction ceases. + The oppressors are consumed out of the land. +016:005 A throne will be established in loving kindness. One will sit + on it in truth, in the tent of David, judging, seeking justice, + and swift to do righteousness. +016:006 We have heard of the pride of Moab, that he is very proud; + even of his arrogance, his pride, and his wrath. + His boastings are nothing. +016:007 Therefore Moab will wail for Moab. Everyone will wail. + You will mourn for the raisin cakes of Kir Hareseth, + utterly stricken. +016:008 For the fields of Heshbon languish with the vine of Sibmah. + The lords of the nations have broken down its choice branches, + which reached even to Jazer, which wandered into the wilderness. + Its shoots were spread abroad. They passed over the sea. +016:009 Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine + of Sibmah. I will water you with my tears, Heshbon, and Elealeh: + for on your summer fruits and on your harvest the battle + shout has fallen. +016:010 Gladness is taken away, and joy out of the fruitful field; + and in the vineyards there will be no singing, neither + joyful noise. Nobody will tread out wine in the presses. + I have made the shouting stop. +016:011 Therefore my heart sounds like a harp for Moab, and my inward + parts for Kir Heres. +016:012 It will happen that when Moab presents himself, when he wearies + himself on the high place, and comes to his sanctuary to pray, + that he will not prevail. +016:013 This is the word that Yahweh spoke concerning Moab in time past. +016:014 But now Yahweh has spoken, saying, "Within three years, + as a worker bound by contract would count them, the glory of Moab + shall be brought into contempt, with all his great multitude; + and the remnant will be very small and feeble." +017:001 The burden of Damascus: "Behold, Damascus is taken away + from being a city, and it will be a ruinous heap. +017:002 The cities of Aroer are forsaken. They will be for flocks, + which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid. +017:003 The fortress shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom + from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria. They will be as + the glory of the children of Israel," says Yahweh of Armies. +017:004 "It will happen in that day that the glory of Jacob will be + made thin, and the fatness of his flesh will become lean. +017:005 It will be like when the harvester gathers the wheat, and his + arm reaps the grain. Yes, it will be like when one gleans + grain in the valley of Rephaim. +017:006 Yet gleanings will be left there, like the shaking of an olive tree, + two or three olives in the top of the uppermost bough, + four or five in the outermost branches of a fruitful tree," + says Yahweh, the God of Israel. +017:007 In that day, people will look to their Maker, and their eyes + will have respect for the Holy One of Israel. +017:008 They will not look to the altars, the work of their hands; + neither shall they respect that which their fingers have made, + either the Asherim, or the incense altars. +017:009 In that day, their strong cities will be like the forsaken places + in the woods and on the mountain top, which were forsaken from + before the children of Israel; and it will be a desolation. +017:010 For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not + remembered the rock of your strength. Therefore you plant + pleasant plants, and set out foreign seedlings. +017:011 In the day of your planting, you hedge it in. In the morning, + you make your seed blossom, but the harvest flees away + in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow. +017:012 Ah, the uproar of many peoples, who roar like the roaring of the seas; + and the rushing of nations, that rush like the rushing + of mighty waters! +017:013 The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters: + but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far off, and will + be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, + and like the whirling dust before the storm. +017:014 At evening, behold, terror! Before the morning, they are no more. + This is the portion of those who plunder us, and the lot + of those who rob us. +018:001 Ah, the land of the rustling of wings, which is beyond + the rivers of Ethiopia; +018:002 that sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of + papyrus on the waters, saying, "Go, you swift messengers, + to a nation tall and smooth, to a people awesome from their + beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, + whose land the rivers divide!" +018:003 All you inhabitants of the world, and you dwellers on the earth, + when a banner is lifted up on the mountains, look! + When the trumpet is blown, listen! +018:004 For Yahweh said to me, "I will be still, and I will see in my + dwelling place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud + of dew in the heat of harvest." +018:005 For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, + and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off + the sprigs with pruning hooks, and he will cut down and take + away the spreading branches. +018:006 They will be left together for the ravenous birds + of the mountains, and for the animals of the earth. + The ravenous birds will summer on them, and all the animals + of the earth will winter on them. +018:007 In that time, a present will be brought to Yahweh of Armies + from a people tall and smooth, even from a people awesome + from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out + and treads down, whose land the rivers divide, to the place + of the name of Yahweh of Armies, Mount Zion. +019:001 The burden of Egypt: "Behold, Yahweh rides on a swift cloud, + and comes to Egypt. The idols of Egypt will tremble at his presence; + and the heart of Egypt will melt in its midst. +019:002 I will stir up the Egyptians against the Egyptians, and they + will fight everyone against his brother, and everyone against + his neighbor; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom. +019:003 The spirit of Egypt will fail in its midst. I will destroy + its counsel. They will seek the idols, the charmers, + those who have familiar spirits, and the wizards. +019:004 I will give over the Egyptians into the hand of a cruel lord. + A fierce king will rule over them," says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies. +019:005 The waters will fail from the sea, and the river will be wasted + and become dry. +019:006 The rivers will become foul. The streams of Egypt will be + diminished and dried up. The reeds and flags will wither away. +019:007 The meadows by the Nile, by the brink of the Nile, and all + the sown fields of the Nile, will become dry, be driven away, + and be no more. +019:008 The fishermen will lament, and all those who fish in the Nile + will mourn, and those who spread nets on the waters will languish. +019:009 Moreover those who work in combed flax, and those who weave + white cloth, will be confounded. +019:010 The pillars will be broken in pieces. All those who work + for hire will be grieved in soul. +019:011 The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish. The counsel + of the wisest counselors of Pharaoh has become stupid. + How do you say to Pharaoh, "I am the son of the wise, + the son of ancient kings?" +019:012 Where then are your wise men? Let them tell you now; and let + them know what Yahweh of Armies has purposed concerning Egypt. +019:013 The princes of Zoan have become fools. The princes of Memphis + are deceived. They have caused Egypt to go astray, who are + the cornerstone of her tribes. +019:014 Yahweh has mixed a spirit of perverseness in the midst of her; + and they have caused Egypt to go astray in all of its works, + like a drunken man staggers in his vomit. +019:015 Neither shall there be for Egypt any work, which head or tail, + palm branch or rush, may do. +019:016 In that day the Egyptians will be like women. They will tremble + and fear because of the shaking of the hand of Yahweh of Armies, + which he shakes over them. +019:017 The land of Judah will become a terror to Egypt. Everyone to whom + mention is made of it will be afraid, because of the plans + of Yahweh of Armies, which he determines against it. +019:018 In that day, there will be five cities in the land of Egypt that + speak the language of Canaan, and swear to Yahweh of Armies. + One will be called "The city of destruction." +019:019 In that day, there will be an altar to Yahweh in the midst + of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to Yahweh at its border. +019:020 It will be for a sign and for a witness to Yahweh of Armies + in the land of Egypt; for they will cry to Yahweh because + of oppressors, and he will send them a savior and a defender, + and he will deliver them. +019:021 Yahweh will be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians will know Yahweh + in that day. Yes, they will worship with sacrifice and offering, + and will vow a vow to Yahweh, and will perform it. +019:022 Yahweh will strike Egypt, striking and healing. + They will return to Yahweh, and he will be entreated by them, + and will heal them. +019:023 In that day there will be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, + and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian + into Assyria; and the Egyptians will worship with the Assyrians. +019:024 In that day, Israel will be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, + a blessing in the midst of the earth; +019:025 because Yahweh of Armies has blessed them, saying, + "Blessed be Egypt my people, Assyria the work of my hands, + and Israel my inheritance." +020:001 In the year that Tartan came to Ashdod, when Sargon the king + of Assyria sent him, and he fought against Ashdod and took it; +020:002 at that time Yahweh spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, + saying, "Go, and loosen the sackcloth from off your waist, + and take your shoes from off your feet." He did so, + walking naked and barefoot. +020:003 Yahweh said, "As my servant Isaiah has walked naked and + barefoot three years for a sign and a wonder concerning Egypt + and concerning Ethiopia, +020:004 so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt + and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, + and with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt. +020:005 They will be dismayed and confounded, because of Ethiopia + their expectation, and of Egypt their glory. +020:006 The inhabitants of this coast land will say in that day, 'Behold, + this is our expectation, where we fled for help to be delivered + from the king of Assyria. And we, how will we escape?'" +021:001 The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds + in the South sweep through, it comes from the wilderness, + from an awesome land. +021:002 A grievous vision is declared to me. The treacherous + man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. + Go up, Elam; attack! I have stopped all of Media's sighing. +021:003 Therefore my thighs are filled with anguish. Pains have + taken hold on me, like the pains of a woman in labor. + I am in so much pain that I can't hear. I so am dismayed + that I can't see. +021:004 My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight + that I desired has been turned into trembling for me. +021:005 They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. + They drink. Rise up, you princes, oil the shield! +021:006 For the Lord said to me, "Go, set a watchman. Let him declare + what he sees. +021:007 When he sees a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of donkeys, a troop + of camels, he shall listen diligently with great attentiveness." +021:008 He cried like a lion: "Lord, I stand continually on the watchtower + in the daytime, and every night I stay at my post. +021:009 Behold, here comes a troop of men, horsemen in pairs." + He answered, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the engraved + images of her gods are broken to the ground. +021:010 You are my threshing, and the grain of my floor!" + That which I have heard from Yahweh of Armies, the God + of Israel, I have declared to you. +021:011 The burden of Dumah. One calls to me out of Seir, "Watchman, + what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?" +021:012 The watchman said, "The morning comes, and also the night. + If you will inquire, inquire. Come back again." +021:013 The burden on Arabia. In the forest in Arabia you will lodge, + you caravans of Dedanites. +021:014 They brought water to him who was thirsty. The inhabitants + of the land of Tema met the fugitives with their bread. +021:015 For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, + from the bent bow, and from the heat of battle. +021:016 For the Lord said to me, "Within a year, as a worker bound + by contract would count it, all the glory of Kedar will fail, +021:017 and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty + men of the children of Kedar, will be few; for Yahweh, + the God of Israel, has spoken it." +022:001 The burden of the valley of vision. What ails you now, + that you have all gone up to the housetops? +022:002 You that are full of shouting, a tumultuous city, a joyous town; + your slain are not slain with the sword, neither are they + dead in battle. +022:003 All your rulers fled away together. They were bound by + the archers. All who were found by you were bound together. + They fled far away. +022:004 Therefore I said, "Look away from me. I will weep bitterly. + Don't labor to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter + of my people. +022:005 For it is a day of confusion, and of treading down, and of perplexity, + from the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, in the valley of vision; + a breaking down of the walls, and a crying to the mountains." +022:006 Elam carried his quiver, with chariots of men and horsemen; + and Kir uncovered the shield. +022:007 It happened that your choicest valleys were full of chariots, + and the horsemen set themselves in array at the gate. +022:008 He took away the covering of Judah; and you looked in that day + to the armor in the house of the forest. +022:009 You saw the breaches of the city of David, that they were many; + and you gathered together the waters of the lower pool. +022:010 You numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke down + the houses to fortify the wall. +022:011 You also made a reservoir between the two walls for the water + of the old pool. But you didn't look to him who had done this, + neither did you have respect for him who purposed it long ago. +022:012 In that day, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, called to weeping, + and to mourning, and to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth: +022:013 and behold, joy and gladness, killing oxen and killing sheep, + eating flesh and drinking wine: "Let us eat and drink, + for tomorrow we will die." +022:014 Yahweh of Armies revealed himself in my ears, "Surely this + iniquity will not be forgiven you until you die," + says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies. +022:015 Thus says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, "Go, get yourself to + this treasurer, even to Shebna, who is over the house, and say, +022:016 'What are you doing here? Who has you here, that you have + dug out a tomb here?' Cutting himself out a tomb on high, + chiseling a habitation for himself in the rock!" +022:017 Behold, Yahweh will overcome you and hurl you away violently. + Yes, he will grasp you firmly. +022:018 He will surely wind you around and around, and throw you + like a ball into a large country. There you will die, + and there the chariots of your glory will be, you shame + of your lord's house. +022:019 I will thrust you from your office. You will be pulled down + from your station. +022:020 It will happen in that day that I will call my servant Eliakim + the son of Hilkiah, +022:021 and I will clothe him with your robe, and strengthen him + with your belt. I will commit your government into his hand; + and he will be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, + and to the house of Judah. +022:022 I will lay the key of the house of David on his shoulder. + He will open, and no one will shut. He will shut, and no + one will open. +022:023 I will fasten him like a nail in a sure place. + He will be for a throne of glory to his father's house. +022:024 They will hang on him all the glory of his father's house, + the offspring and the issue, every small vessel, from the cups + even to all the pitchers. +022:025 "In that day," says Yahweh of Armies, "the nail that was fastened + in a sure place will give way. It will be cut down, and fall. + The burden that was on it will be cut off, for Yahweh + has spoken it." +023:001 The burden of Tyre. Howl, you ships of Tarshish! For it + is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in. + From the land of Kittim it is revealed to them. +023:002 Be still, you inhabitants of the coast, you whom the merchants + of Sidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished. +023:003 On great waters, the seed of the Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, + was her revenue. She was the market of nations. +023:004 Be ashamed, Sidon; for the sea has spoken, the stronghold + of the sea, saying, "I have not travailed, nor brought forth, + neither have I nourished young men, nor brought up virgins." +023:005 When the report comes to Egypt, they will be in anguish at + the report of Tyre. +023:006 Pass over to Tarshish! Wail, you inhabitants of the coast! +023:007 Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days, + whose feet carried her far away to travel? +023:008 Who has planned this against Tyre, the giver of crowns, + whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honorable + of the earth? +023:009 Yahweh of Armies has planned it, to stain the pride of all glory, + to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth. +023:010 Pass through your land like the Nile, daughter of Tarshish. + There is no restraint any more. +023:011 He has stretched out his hand over the sea. He has + shaken the kingdoms. Yahweh has ordered the destruction + of Canaan's strongholds. +023:012 He said, "You shall rejoice no more, you oppressed + virgin daughter of Sidon. Arise, pass over to Kittim. + Even there you will have no rest." +023:013 Behold, the land of the Chaldeans. This people was not. + The Assyrians founded it for those who dwell in the wilderness. + They set up their towers. They overthrew its palaces. + They made it a ruin. +023:014 Howl, you ships of Tarshish, for your stronghold is laid waste! +023:015 It will come to pass in that day that Tyre will be forgotten + seventy years, according to the days of one king. + After the end of seventy years it will be to Tyre like in + the song of the prostitute. +023:016 Take a harp; go about the city, you prostitute that has + been forgotten. Make sweet melody. Sing many songs, + that you may be remembered. +023:017 It will happen after the end of seventy years that Yahweh + will visit Tyre, and she shall return to her wages, + and will play the prostitute with all the kingdoms of the world + on the surface of the earth. +023:018 Her merchandise and her wages will be holiness to Yahweh. + It will not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise + will be for those who dwell before Yahweh, to eat sufficiently, + and for durable clothing. +024:001 Behold, Yahweh makes the earth empty, makes it waste, + turns it upside down, and scatters its inhabitants. +024:002 It will be as with the people, so with the priest; + as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, + so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; + as with the creditor, so with the debtor; as with the taker + of interest, so with the giver of interest. +024:003 The earth will be utterly emptied and utterly laid waste; + for Yahweh has spoken this word. +024:004 The earth mourns and fades away. The world languishes and + fades away. The lofty people of the earth languish. +024:005 The earth also is polluted under its inhabitants, because they + have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, and broken + the everlasting covenant. +024:006 Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, and those who + dwell therein are found guilty. Therefore the inhabitants + of the earth are burned, and few men left. +024:007 The new wine mourns. The vine languishes. + All the merry-hearted sigh. +024:008 The mirth of tambourines ceases. The sound of those who + rejoice ends. The joy of the harp ceases. +024:009 They will not drink wine with a song. Strong drink will be + bitter to those who drink it. +024:010 The confused city is broken down. Every house is shut up, + that no man may come in. +024:011 There is a crying in the streets because of the wine. + All joy is darkened. The mirth of the land is gone. +024:012 The city is left in desolation, and the gate is + struck with destruction. +024:013 For it will be so in the midst of the earth among the peoples, + as the shaking of an olive tree, as the gleanings when + the vintage is done. +024:014 These shall lift up their voice. They will shout for the majesty + of Yahweh. They cry aloud from the sea. +024:015 Therefore glorify Yahweh in the east, even the name of Yahweh, + the God of Israel, in the islands of the sea! +024:016 From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs. + Glory to the righteous! But I said, "I pine away! + I pine away! woe is me!" The treacherous have dealt treacherously. + Yes, the treacherous have dealt very treacherously. +024:017 Fear, the pit, and the snare, are on you who inhabitant the earth. +024:018 It will happen that he who flees from the noise of the fear + will fall into the pit; and he who comes up out of the midst + of the pit will be taken in the snare; for the windows on high + are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble. +024:019 The earth is utterly broken. The earth is torn apart. + The earth is shaken violently. +024:020 The earth will stagger like a drunken man, and will sway back + and forth like a hammock. Its disobedience will be heavy on it, + and it will fall and not rise again. +024:021 It shall happen in that day that Yahweh will punish the army + of the high ones on high, and the kings of the earth + on the earth. +024:022 They shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered + in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison; and after + many days shall they be visited. +024:023 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed; + for Yahweh of Armies will reign on Mount Zion, and in Jerusalem; + and before his elders will be glory. +025:001 Yahweh, you are my God. I will exalt you! I will praise your name, + for you have done wonderful things, things planned long ago, + in complete faithfulness and truth. +025:002 For you have made a city into a heap, a fortified city + into a ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city. + It will never be built. +025:003 Therefore a strong people will glorify you. A city of awesome + nations will fear you. +025:004 For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold + to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, + a shade from the heat, when the blast of the dreaded ones + is like a storm against the wall. +025:005 As the heat in a dry place will you bring down the noise + of strangers; as the heat by the shade of a cloud, the song + of the dreaded ones will be brought low. +025:006 In this mountain, Yahweh of Armies will make all peoples a feast + of fat things, a feast of choice wines, of fat things full + of marrow, of well refined choice wines. +025:007 He will destroy in this mountain the surface of the covering + that covers all peoples, and the veil that is spread + over all nations. +025:008 He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord Yahweh will wipe + away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach + of his people away from off all the earth, for Yahweh + has spoken it. +025:009 It shall be said in that day, "Behold, this is our God! We have + waited for him, and he will save us! This is Yahweh! We have + waited for him. We will be glad and rejoice in his salvation!" +025:010 For in this mountain the hand of Yahweh will rest. + Moab will be trodden down in his place, even like straw + is trodden down in the water of the dunghill. +025:011 He will spread out his hands in its midst, like one who swims + spreads out hands to swim, but his pride will be humbled + together with the craft of his hands. +025:012 He has brought the high fortress of your walls down, laid low, + and brought to the ground, even to the dust. +026:001 In that day, this song will be sung in the land of Judah: "We have + a strong city. God appoints salvation for walls and bulwarks. +026:002 Open the gates, that the righteous nation may enter: + the one which keeps faith. +026:003 You will keep whoever's mind is steadfast in perfect peace, + because he trusts in you. +026:004 Trust in Yahweh forever; for in Yah, Yahweh, is an everlasting Rock. +026:005 For he has brought down those who dwell on high, the lofty city. + He lays it low. He lays it low even to the ground. + He brings it even to the dust. +026:006 The foot shall tread it down; Even the feet of the poor, + and the steps of the needy." +026:007 The way of the just is uprightness. You who are upright make + the path of the righteous level. +026:008 Yes, in the way of your judgments, Yahweh, have we waited for you. + Your name and your renown are the desire of our soul. +026:009 With my soul have I desired you in the night. + Yes, with my spirit within me will I seek you earnestly; + for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants + of the world learn righteousness. +026:010 Let favor be shown to the wicked, yet he will not + learn righteousness. In the land of uprightness he will + deal wrongfully, and will not see Yahweh's majesty. +026:011 Yahweh, your hand is lifted up, yet they don't see; but they + will see your zeal for the people, and be disappointed. + Yes, fire will consume your adversaries. +026:012 Yahweh, you will ordain peace for us, for you have also worked + all our works for us. +026:013 Yahweh our God, other lords besides you have had dominion over us, + but by you only will we make mention of your name. +026:014 The dead shall not live. The deceased shall not rise. + Therefore have you visited and destroyed them, and caused + all memory of them to perish. +026:015 You have increased the nation, O Yahweh. You have increased + the nation! You are glorified! You have enlarged all + the borders of the land. +026:016 Yahweh, in trouble they have visited you. They poured out + a prayer when your chastening was on them. +026:017 Like as a woman with child, who draws near the time + of her delivery, is in pain and cries out in her pangs; + so we have been before you, Yahweh. +026:018 We have been with child. We have been in pain. We gave birth, + it seems, only to wind. We have not worked any deliverance + in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen. +026:019 Your dead shall live. My dead bodies shall arise. + Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is + like the dew of herbs, and the earth will cast forth the dead. +026:020 Come, my people, enter into your chambers, and shut your + doors behind you. Hide yourself for a little moment, + until the indignation is past. +026:021 For, behold, Yahweh comes forth out of his place to punish + the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. + The earth also will disclose her blood, and will no longer + cover her slain. +027:001 In that day, Yahweh with his hard and great and strong sword + will punish leviathan, the fleeing serpent, and leviathan + the twisted serpent; and he will kill the dragon that is + in the sea. +027:002 In that day, sing to her, "A pleasant vineyard! +027:003 I, Yahweh, am its keeper. I will water it every moment. + Lest anyone damage it, I will keep it night and day. +027:004 Wrath is not in me, but if I should find briers and thorns, + I would do battle! I would march on them and I would + burn them together. +027:005 Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may make + peace with me. Let him make peace with me." +027:006 In days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will blossom and bud. + They will fill the surface of the world with fruit. +027:007 Has he struck them as he struck those who struck them? + Or are they killed like those who killed them were killed? +027:008 In measure, when you send them away, you contend with them. + He has removed them with his rough blast in the day of + the east wind. +027:009 Therefore, by this the iniquity of Jacob will be forgiven, + and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: + that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones + that are beaten in pieces, so that the Asherim and the incense + altars shall rise no more. +027:010 For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted + and forsaken, like the wilderness. The calf will feed there, + and there he will lie down, and consume its branches. +027:011 When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. + The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people + of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not + have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show + them no favor. +027:012 It will happen in that day, that Yahweh will thresh from + the flowing stream of the Euphrates to the brook of Egypt; + and you will be gathered one by one, children of Israel. +027:013 It will happen in that day that a great trumpet will be blown; + and those who were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, + and those who were outcasts in the land of Egypt, shall come; + and they will worship Yahweh in the holy mountain at Jerusalem. +028:001 Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to + the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head + of the fertile valley of those who are overcome with wine! +028:002 Behold, the Lord has a mighty and strong one. Like a storm of hail, + a destroying storm, and like a storm of mighty waters overflowing, + he will cast them down to the earth with his hand. +028:003 The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim will be + trodden under foot. +028:004 The fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head + of the fertile valley, shall be like the first-ripe fig + before the summer; which someone picks and eats as soon + as he sees it. +028:005 In that day, Yahweh of Armies will become a crown of glory, + and a diadem of beauty, to the residue of his people; +028:006 and a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, + and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate. +028:007 They also reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink. + The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink. + They are swallowed up by wine. They stagger with strong drink. + They err in vision. They stumble in judgment. +028:008 For all tables are completely full of filthy vomit and filthiness. +028:009 Whom will he teach knowledge? To whom will he explain the message? + Those who are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts? +028:010 For it is precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, + line on line; here a little, there a little. +028:011 But he will speak to this nation with stammering lips and + in another language; +028:012 to whom he said, "This is the resting place. Give rest to weary;" + and "This is the refreshing;" yet they would not hear. +028:013 Therefore the word of Yahweh will be to them precept on precept, + precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, + there a little; that they may go, fall backward, be broken, + be snared, and be taken. +028:014 Therefore hear the word of Yahweh, you scoffers, that rule + this people in Jerusalem: +028:015 "Because you have said, 'We have made a covenant with death, + and with Sheol are we in agreement. When the overflowing scourge + passes through, it won't come to us; for we have made lies + our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves under falsehood.'" +028:016 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, "Behold, I lay in Zion + for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone + of a sure foundation. He who believes shall not act hastily. +028:017 I will make justice the measuring line, and righteousness + the plumb line. The hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, + and the waters will overflow the hiding place. +028:018 Your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement + with Sheol shall not stand. When the overflowing scourge + passes through, then you will be trampled down by it. +028:019 As often as it passes through, it will seize you; for morning + by morning it will pass through, by day and by night; + and it will be nothing but terror to understand the message." +028:020 For the bed is too short to stretch out on, and the blanket + is too narrow to wrap oneself in. +028:021 For Yahweh will rise up as on Mount Perazim. + He will be angry as in the valley of Gibeon; that he may + do his work, his unusual work, and bring to pass his act, + his extraordinary act. +028:022 Now therefore don't be scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; + for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord, Yahweh + of Armies, on the whole earth. +028:023 Give ear, and hear my voice! Listen, and hear my speech! +028:024 Does he who plows to sow plow continually? Does he keep + turning the soil and breaking the clods? +028:025 When he has leveled its surface, doesn't he plant the dill, + and scatter the cumin seed, and put in the wheat in rows, + the barley in the appointed place, and the spelt in its place? +028:026 For his God instructs him in right judgment, and teaches him. +028:027 For the dill are not threshed with a sharp instrument, + neither is a cart wheel turned over the cumin; but the dill + is beaten out with a stick, and the cumin with a rod. +028:028 Bread flour must be ground; so he will not always be threshing it. + Although he drives the wheel of his threshing cart over it, + his horses don't grind it. +028:029 This also comes forth from Yahweh of Armies, who is wonderful + in counsel, and excellent in wisdom. +029:001 Woe to Ariel! Ariel, the city where David encamped! + Add year to year; let the feasts come around; +029:002 then I will distress Ariel, and there will be mourning + and lamentation. She shall be to me as an altar hearth{or, Ariel}. +029:003 I will encamp against you all around you, and will lay + siege against you with posted troops. I will raise siege + works against you. +029:004 You will be brought down, and will speak out of the ground. + Your speech will mumble out of the dust. Your voice will + be as of one who has a familiar spirit, out of the ground, + and your speech will whisper out of the dust. +029:005 But the multitude of your foes will be like fine dust, + and the multitude of the ruthless ones like chaff that blows away. + Yes, it will be in an instant, suddenly. +029:006 She will be visited by Yahweh of Armies with thunder, + with earthquake, with great noise, with whirlwind and storm, + and with the flame of a devouring fire. +029:007 The multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, + even all who fight against her and her stronghold, and who + distress her, will be like a dream, a vision of the night. +029:008 It will be like when a hungry man dreams, and behold, + he eats; but he awakes, and his hunger isn't satisfied; + or like when a thirsty man dreams, and behold, he drinks; + but he awakes, and behold, he is faint, and he is still thirsty. + The multitude of all the nations that fight against Mount Zion + will be like that. +029:009 Pause and wonder! Blind yourselves and be blind! + They are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not + with strong drink. +029:010 For Yahweh has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep, + and has closed your eyes, the prophets; and he has covered + your heads, the seers. +029:011 All vision has become to you like the words of a book that + is sealed, which men deliver to one who is educated, saying, + "Read this, please;" and he says, "I can't, for it is sealed:" +029:012 and the book is delivered to one who is not educated, saying, + "Read this, please;" and he says, "I can't read." +029:013 The Lord said, "Because this people draws near with their mouth + and with their lips to honor me, but they have removed their + heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment + of men which has been taught; +029:014 therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work + among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder; + and the wisdom of their wise men will perish, and the understanding + of their prudent men will be hidden." +029:015 Woe to those who deeply hide their counsel from Yahweh, + and whose works are in the dark, and who say, "Who sees us?" + and "Who knows us?" +029:016 You turn things upside down! Should the potter be thought + to be like clay; that the thing made should say about him + who made it, "He didn't make me;" or the thing formed say + of him who formed it, "He has no understanding?" +029:017 Isn't it yet a very little while, and Lebanon will be turned + into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field will be regarded + as a forest? +029:018 In that day, the deaf will hear the words of the book, + and the eyes of the blind will see out of obscurity and + out of darkness. +029:019 The humble also will increase their joy in Yahweh, and the poor + among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel. +029:020 For the ruthless is brought to nothing, and the scoffer ceases, + and all those who are alert to do evil are cut off-- +029:021 who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare + for the arbiter in the gate, and who deprive the innocent + of justice with false testimony. +029:022 Therefore thus says Yahweh, who redeemed Abraham, concerning + the house of Jacob: "Jacob shall no longer be ashamed, + neither shall his face grow pale. +029:023 But when he sees his children, the work of my hands, + in the midst of him, they will sanctify my name. + Yes, they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and will stand + in awe of the God of Israel. +029:024 They also who err in spirit will come to understanding, + and those who grumble will receive instruction." +030:001 "Woe to the rebellious children," says Yahweh, "who take counsel, + but not from me; and who make an alliance, but not with my Spirit, + that they may add sin to sin, +030:002 who set out to go down into Egypt, and have not asked my advice; + to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, + and to take refuge in the shadow of Egypt! +030:003 Therefore the strength of Pharaoh will be your shame, + and the refuge in the shadow of Egypt your confusion. +030:004 For their princes are at Zoan, and their ambassadors have + come to Hanes. +030:005 They shall all be ashamed because of a people that can't + profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, + and also a reproach." +030:006 The burden of the animals of the South. Through the land + of trouble and anguish, of the lioness and the lion, the viper + and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches on the shoulders + of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, + to an unprofitable people. +030:007 For Egypt helps in vain, and to no purpose; therefore have I + called her Rahab who sits still. +030:008 Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, + that it may be for the time to come forever and ever. +030:009 For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children who + will not hear the law of Yahweh; +030:010 who tell the seers, "Don't see!" and to the prophets, + "Don't prophesy to us right things. Tell us pleasant things. + Prophesy deceits. +030:011 Get out of the way. Turn aside from the path. + Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us." +030:012 Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, "Because you + despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, + and rely on it; +030:013 therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach ready + to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes + suddenly in an instant. +030:014 He will break it as a potter's vessel is broken, breaking it + in pieces without sparing, so that there won't be found among + the broken piece a piece good enough to take fire from the hearth, + or to dip up water out of the cistern." +030:015 For thus said the Lord Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, "You will + be saved in returning and rest. Your strength will be in + quietness and in confidence." You refused, +030:016 but you said, "No, for we will flee on horses;" + therefore you will flee; and, "We will ride on the swift;" + therefore those who pursue you will be swift. +030:017 One thousand will flee at the threat of one. At the threat + of five, you will flee until you are left like a beacon + on the top of a mountain, and like a banner on a hill. +030:018 Therefore Yahweh will wait, that he may be gracious to you; + and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you, + for Yahweh is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who + wait for him. +030:019 For the people will dwell in Zion at Jerusalem. You will weep + no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the voice + of your cry. When he hears you, he will answer you. +030:020 Though the Lord may give you the bread of adversity and the water + of affliction, yet your teachers won't be hidden anymore, + but your eyes will see your teachers; +030:021 and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, + your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, "This is the way. + Walk in it." +030:022 You shall defile the overlaying of your engraved images + of silver, and the plating of your molten images of gold. + You shall cast them away as an unclean thing. You shall + tell it, "Go away!" +030:023 He will give the rain for your seed, with which you will sow + the ground; and bread of the increase of the ground will be + rich and plentiful. In that day, your livestock will feed + in large pastures. +030:024 The oxen likewise and the young donkeys that till the ground will + eat savory provender, which has been winnowed with the shovel + and with the fork. +030:025 There shall be brooks and streams of water on every lofty mountain + and on every high hill in the day of the great slaughter, + when the towers fall. +030:026 Moreover the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun, + and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter, + like the light of seven days, in the day that Yahweh binds + up the fracture of his people, and heals the wound they + were struck with. +030:027 Behold, the name of Yahweh comes from far away, burning with + his anger, and in thick rising smoke. His lips are full + of indignation, and his tongue is as a devouring fire. +030:028 His breath is as an overflowing stream that reaches even to + the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction; + and a bridle that leads to ruin will be in the jaws + of the peoples. +030:029 You will have a song, as in the night when a holy feast is kept; + and gladness of heart, as when one goes with a flute to come + to Yahweh's mountain, to Israel's Rock. +030:030 Yahweh will cause his glorious voice to be heard, and will show + the descent of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, + and the flame of a devouring fire, with a blast, + storm, and hailstones. +030:031 For through the voice of Yahweh the Assyrian will be dismayed. + He will strike him with his rod. +030:032 Every stroke of the rod of punishment, which Yahweh will lay + on him, will be with the sound of tambourines and harps. + He will fight with them in battles, brandishing weapons. +030:033 For his burning place has long been ready. Yes, for the king + it is made ready. He has made its pyre deep and large + with fire and much wood. Yahweh's breath, like a stream + of sulfur, kindles it. +031:001 Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, and rely on horses, + and trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen + because they are very strong, but they don't look to the Holy One + of Israel, and they don't seek Yahweh! +031:002 Yet he also is wise, and will bring disaster, and will not call back + his words, but will arise against the house of the evil-doers, + and against the help of those who work iniquity. +031:003 Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, + and not spirit. When Yahweh stretches out his hand, + both he who helps shall stumble, and he who is helped shall fall, + and they all shall be consumed together. +031:004 For thus says Yahweh to me, "As the lion and the young lion + growling over his prey, if a multitude of shepherds is called + together against him, will not be dismayed at their voice, + nor abase himself for the noise of them, so Yahweh of Armies + will come down to fight on Mount Zion and on its heights. +031:005 As birds hovering, so Yahweh of Armies will protect Jerusalem. + He will protect and deliver it. He will pass over + and preserve it." +031:006 Return to him from whom you have deeply revolted, + children of Israel. +031:007 For in that day everyone shall cast away his idols of silver and + his idols of gold--sin which your own hands have made for you. +031:008 "The Assyrian will fall by the sword, not of man; and the sword, + not of mankind, shall devour him. He will flee from the sword, + and his young men will become subject to forced labor. +031:009 His rock will pass away by reason of terror, and his princes will + be afraid of the banner," says Yahweh, whose fire is in Zion, + and his furnace in Jerusalem. +032:001 Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall + rule in justice. +032:002 A man shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a covert + from the storm, as streams of water in a dry place, + as the shade of a large rock in a weary land. +032:003 The eyes of those who see will not be dim, and the ears + of those who hear will listen. +032:004 The heart of the rash will understand knowledge, and the tongue + of the stammerers will be ready to speak plainly. +032:005 The fool will no longer be called noble, nor the scoundrel + be highly respected. +032:006 For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work iniquity, + to practice profanity, and to utter error against Yahweh, To make + empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of + the thirsty to fail. +032:007 The ways of the scoundrel are evil. He devises wicked + devices to destroy the humble with lying words, even when + the needy speaks right. +032:008 But the noble devises noble things; and he will continue + in noble things. +032:009 Rise up, you women who are at ease! Hear my voice! + You careless daughters, give ear to my speech! +032:010 For days beyond a year you will be troubled, you careless women; + for the vintage shall fail. The harvest won't come. +032:011 Tremble, you women who are at ease! Be troubled, you careless ones! + Strip yourselves, make yourselves naked, and put sackcloth + on your waist. +032:012 Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine. +032:013 Thorns and briars will come up on my people's land; yes, on all + the houses of joy in the joyous city. +032:014 For the palace will be forsaken. The populous city will be deserted. + The hill and the watchtower will be for dens forever, + a delight for wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks; +032:015 Until the Spirit is poured on us from on high, and the + wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field + is considered a forest. +032:016 Then justice will dwell in the wilderness; and righteousness + will remain in the fruitful field. +032:017 The work of righteousness will be peace; and the effect + of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever. +032:018 My people will abide in a peaceful habitation, in safe dwellings, + and in quiet resting places. +032:019 Though hail flattens the forest, and the city is leveled completely. +032:020 Blessed are you who sow beside all waters, who send out the feet + of the ox and the donkey. +033:001 Woe to you who destroy, but you weren't destroyed; and who betray, + but nobody betrayed you! When you have finished destroying, + you will be destroyed; and when you have made an end of betrayal, + you will be betrayed. +033:002 Yahweh, be gracious to us. We have waited for you. + Be our strength every morning, our salvation also in the + time of trouble. +033:003 At the noise of the thunder, the peoples have fled. + When you lift yourself up, the nations are scattered. +033:004 Your spoil will be gathered as the caterpillar gathers. + Men will leap on it as locusts leap. +033:005 Yahweh is exalted, for he dwells on high. He has filled Zion + with justice and righteousness. +033:006 There will be stability in your times, abundance of salvation, + wisdom, and knowledge. The fear of Yahweh is your treasure. +033:007 Behold, their valiant ones cry outside; the ambassadors + of peace weep bitterly. +033:008 The highways are desolate. The traveling man ceases. + The covenant is broken. He has despised the cities. + He doesn't regard man. +033:009 The land mourns and languishes. Lebanon is confounded and + withers away. Sharon is like a desert, and Bashan and Carmel + are stripped bare. +033:010 "Now I will arise," says Yahweh; "Now I will lift myself up. + Now I will be exalted. +033:011 You will conceive chaff. You will bring forth stubble. + Your breath is a fire that will devour you. +033:012 The peoples will be like the burning of lime, like thorns + that are cut down and burned in the fire. +033:013 Hear, you who are far off, what I have done; and, you who are near, + acknowledge my might." +033:014 The sinners in Zion are afraid. Trembling has seized the + godless ones. Who among us can live with the devouring fire? + Who among us can live with everlasting burning? +033:015 He who walks righteously, and speaks blamelessly; He who + despises the gain of oppressions, who gestures with his hands, + refusing to take a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing + of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil-- +033:016 he will dwell on high. His place of defense will be + the fortress of rocks. His bread will be supplied. + His waters will be sure. +033:017 Your eyes will see the king in his beauty. They will see + a distant land. +033:018 Your heart will meditate on the terror. Where is he who counted? + Where is he who weighed? Where is he who counted the towers? +033:019 You will no longer see the fierce people, a people of a deep + speech that you can't comprehend, with a strange language + that you can't understand. +033:020 Look at Zion, the city of our appointed festivals. + Your eyes will see Jerusalem, a quiet habitation, a tent + that won't be removed. Its stakes will never be plucked up, + nor will any of its cords be broken. +033:021 But there Yahweh will be with us in majesty, a place of broad + rivers and streams, in which no galley with oars will go, + neither will any gallant ship pass by there. +033:022 For Yahweh is our judge. Yahweh is our lawgiver. + Yahweh is our king. He will save us. +033:023 Your rigging is untied. They couldn't strengthen the foot + of their mast. They couldn't spread the sail. Then the prey + of a great spoil was divided. The lame took the prey. +033:024 The inhabitant won't say, "I am sick." The people who dwell + therein will be forgiven their iniquity. +034:001 Come near, you nations, to hear! Listen, you peoples. + Let the earth and all it contains hear; the world, + and everything that comes from it. +034:002 For Yahweh is enraged against all the nations, and angry + with all their armies. He has utterly destroyed them. + He has given them over for slaughter. +034:003 Their slain will also be cast out, and the stench of their dead + bodies will come up; and the mountains will melt in their blood. +034:004 All of the army of the sky will be dissolved. The sky will be + rolled up like a scroll, and all its armies will fade away, + as a leaf fades from off a vine or a fig tree. +034:005 For my sword has drunk its fill in the sky. Behold, it will come + down on Edom, and on the people of my curse, for judgment. +034:006 Yahweh's sword is filled with blood. It is covered with fat, + with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys + of rams; for Yahweh has a sacrifice in Bozrah, And a great + slaughter in the land of Edom. +034:007 The wild oxen will come down with them, and the young bulls + with the mighty bulls; and their land will be drunken with blood, + and their dust made greasy with fat. +034:008 For Yahweh has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense + for the cause of Zion. +034:009 Its streams will be turned into pitch, its dust into sulfur, + And its land will become burning pitch. +034:010 It won't be quenched night nor day. Its smoke will go up forever. + From generation to generation, it will lie waste. + No one will pass through it forever and ever. +034:011 But the pelican and the porcupine will possess it. + The owl and the raven will dwell in it. He will stretch + the line of confusion over it, and the plumb line of emptiness. +034:012 They shall call its nobles to the kingdom, but none shall be there; + and all its princes shall be nothing. +034:013 Thorns will come up in its palaces, nettles and thistles + in its fortresses; and it will be a habitation of jackals, + a court for ostriches. +034:014 The wild animals of the desert will meet with the wolves, + and the wild goat will cry to his fellow. Yes, the night + creature{literally, lilith, which could also be a night demon + or night monster} shall settle there, and shall find herself + a place of rest. +034:015 The arrow snake will make her nest there, and lay, hatch, and gather + under her shade. Yes, the kites will be gathered there, + every one with her mate. +034:016 Search in the book of Yahweh, and read: not one of these will + be missing. none will lack her mate. For my mouth has commanded, + and his Spirit has gathered them. +034:017 He has cast the lot for them, and his hand has divided it + to them with a measuring line. They shall possess it forever. + From generation to generation they will dwell in it. +035:001 The wilderness and the dry land will be glad. The desert + will rejoice and blossom like a rose. +035:002 It will blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing. + Lebanon's glory Lebanon will be given to it, the excellence + of Carmel and Sharon. They will see Yahweh's glory, + the excellence of our God. +035:003 Strengthen the weak hands, and make firm the feeble knees. +035:004 Tell those who have a fearful heart, "Be strong. Don't be afraid. + Behold, your God will come with vengeance, God's retribution. + He will come and save you. +035:005 Then the eyes of the blind will be opened, and the ears + of the deaf will be unstopped. +035:006 Then the lame man will leap like a deer, and the tongue of + the mute will sing; for waters will break out in the wilderness, + and streams in the desert. +035:007 The burning sand will become a pool, and the thirsty ground + springs of water. Grass with reeds and rushes will be in + the habitation of jackals, where they lay. +035:008 A highway will be there, a road, and it will be called The Holy Way. + The unclean shall not pass over it, but it will be for those + who walk in the Way. Wicked fools will not go there. +035:009 No lion will be there, nor will any ravenous animal go up on it. + They will not be found there; but the redeemed will walk there. +035:010 The Yahweh's ransomed ones will return, and come with singing + to Zion; and everlasting joy will be on their heads. + They will obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing + will flee away." +036:001 Now it happened in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, + that Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all of the fortified + cities of Judah, and captured them. +036:002 The king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem + to king Hezekiah with a large army. He stood by the aqueduct + from the upper pool in the fuller's field highway. +036:003 Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, + and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder + came out to him. +036:004 Rabshakeh said to them, "Now tell Hezekiah, 'Thus says + the great king, the king of Assyria, "What confidence is this + in which you trust? +036:005 I say that your counsel and strength for the war are only vain words. + Now in whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me? +036:006 Behold, you trust in the staff of this bruised reed, even in Egypt, + which if a man leans on it, it will go into his hand and pierce it. + So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him. +036:007 But if you tell me, 'We trust in Yahweh our God,' isn't that + he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, + and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, 'You shall worship + before this altar?'" +036:008 Now therefore, please make a pledge to my master the king + of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you + are able on your part to set riders on them. +036:009 How then can you turn away the face of one captain of the least + of my master's servants, and put your trust on Egypt for chariots + and for horsemen? +036:010 Have I come up now without Yahweh against this land to destroy it? + Yahweh said to me, "Go up against this land, and destroy it."'" +036:011 Then Eliakim, Shebna and Joah said to Rabshakeh, "Please speak + to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it; + and don't speak to us in the Jews' language in the hearing + of the people who are on the wall." +036:012 But Rabshakeh said, "Has my master sent me only to your master + and to you, to speak these words, and not to the men who sit + on the wall, who will eat their own dung and drink their own + urine with you?" +036:013 Then Rabshakeh stood, and called out with a loud voice in + the Jews' language, and said, "Hear the words of the great king, + the king of Assyria! +036:014 Thus says the king, 'Don't let Hezekiah deceive you; + for he will not be able to deliver you. +036:015 Don't let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, "Yahweh will + surely deliver us. This city won't be given into the hand + of the king of Assyria."' +036:016 Don't listen to Hezekiah, for thus says the king + of Assyria, 'Make your peace with me, and come out to me; + and each of you eat from his vine, and each one from his fig tree, + and each one of you drink the waters of his own cistern; +036:017 until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, + a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards. +036:018 Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, "Yahweh will deliver us." + Have any of the gods of the nations delivered their lands + from the hand of the king of Assyria? +036:019 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods + of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand? +036:020 Who are they among all the gods of these countries that have + delivered their country out of my hand, that Yahweh should + deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?'" +036:021 But they remained silent, and said nothing in reply, + for the king's commandment was, "Don't answer him." +036:022 Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, + and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, + came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him + the words of Rabshakeh. +037:001 It happened, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he tore his clothes, + covered himself with sackcloth, and went into Yahweh's house. +037:002 He sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, + and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, + to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz. +037:003 They said to him, "Thus says Hezekiah, 'This day is a day of trouble, + and of rebuke, and of rejection; for the children have come + to the birth, and there is no strength to bring forth. +037:004 It may be Yahweh your God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, + whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God, + and will rebuke the words which Yahweh your God has heard. + Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.'" +037:005 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah. +037:006 Isaiah said to them, "Tell your master, 'Thus says Yahweh, "Don't be + afraid of the words that you have heard, with which the servants + of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me. +037:007 Behold, I will put a spirit in him and he will hear news, + and will return to his own land. I will cause him to fall + by the sword in his own land."'" +037:008 So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring + against Libnah, for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish. +037:009 He heard news concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, "He has + come out to fight against you." When he heard it, he sent + messengers to Hezekiah, saying, +037:010 "Thus shall you speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, 'Don't let + your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, "Jerusalem won't + be given into the hand of the king of Assyria." +037:011 Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria + have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly. + Shall you be delivered? +037:012 Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers + have destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the children of Eden + who were in Telassar? +037:013 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king + of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?'" +037:014 Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers + and read it. Then Hezekiah went up to Yahweh's house, + and spread it before Yahweh. +037:015 Hezekiah prayed to Yahweh, saying, +037:016 "Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, who is enthroned among + the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms + of the earth. You have made heaven and earth. +037:017 Turn your ear, Yahweh, and hear. Open your eyes, Yahweh, and behold. + Hear all of the words of Sennacherib, who has sent to defy + the living God. +037:018 Truly, Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have destroyed all + the countries and their land, +037:019 and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, + but the work of men's hands, wood and stone; therefore they + have destroyed them. +037:020 Now therefore, Yahweh our God, save us from his hand, + that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you are Yahweh, + even you only." +037:021 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, "Thus + says Yahweh, the God of Israel, 'Because you have prayed + to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria, +037:022 this is the word which Yahweh has spoken concerning him. + The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you. + The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you. +037:023 Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against whom have + you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? + Against the Holy One of Israel. +037:024 By your servants, have you defied the Lord, and have said, + "With the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the height + of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon. + I will cut down its tall cedars and its choice fir trees. + I will enter into its farthest height, the forest of + its fruitful field. +037:025 I have dug and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet I + will dry up all the rivers of Egypt." +037:026 Have you not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it + in ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it + should be yours to destroy fortified cities, turning them + into ruinous heaps. +037:027 Therefore their inhabitants had little power. They were dismayed + and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, + and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, + and like a field before its crop has grown. +037:028 But I know your sitting down, your going out, your coming in, + and your raging against me. +037:029 Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance + has come up into my ears, therefore will I put my hook + in your nose and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you + back by the way by which you came. +037:030 This shall be the sign to you. You will eat this year that + which grows of itself, and in the second year that which + springs from the same; and in the third year sow and reap + and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit. +037:031 The remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah will again + take root downward, and bear fruit upward. +037:032 For out of Jerusalem a remnant will go forth, and survivors + will escape from Mount Zion. The zeal of Yahweh of Armies + will perform this.' +037:033 Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the king of Assyria, 'He will + not come to this city, nor shoot an arrow there, neither will + he come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it. +037:034 By the way that he came, by the same he shall return, + and he shall not come to this city,' says Yahweh. +037:035 'For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, + and for my servant David's sake.'" +037:036 The angel of Yahweh went out and struck one hundred and + eighty-five thousand men in the camp of the Assyrians. + When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were + all dead bodies. +037:037 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, went away, + returned to Nineveh, and stayed there. +037:038 It happened, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch + his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons struck him + with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. + Esar Haddon his son reigned in his place. +038:001 In those days was Hezekiah sick and near death. + Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him, and said to him, + "Thus says Yahweh, 'Set your house in order, for you will die, + and not live.'" +038:002 Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to Yahweh, +038:003 and said, "Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked + before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done + that which is good in your sight." Hezekiah wept bitterly. +038:004 Then the word of Yahweh came to Isaiah, saying, +038:005 "Go, and tell Hezekiah, 'Thus says Yahweh, the God of David + your father, "I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. + Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life. +038:006 I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king + of Assyria, and I will defend this city. +038:007 This shall be the sign to you from Yahweh, that Yahweh will + do this thing that he has spoken. +038:008 Behold, I will cause the shadow on the sundial, which has gone down + on the sundial of Ahaz with the sun, to return backward ten steps. + So the sun returned ten steps on the sundial on which it + had gone down."'" +038:009 The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, + and had recovered of his sickness. +038:010 I said, "In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol. + I am deprived of the residue of my years." +038:011 I said, "I won't see Yah, Yah in the land of the living. + I will see man no more with the inhabitants of the world. +038:012 My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me like a + shepherd's tent. I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life. + He will cut me off from the loom. From day even to night + you will make an end of me. +038:013 I waited patiently until morning. He breaks all my bones like + a lion. From day even to night you will make an end of me. +038:014 I chattered like a swallow or a crane. I moaned like a dove. + My eyes weaken looking upward. Lord, I am oppressed. + Be my security." +038:015 What will I say? He has both spoken to me, and himself has done it. + I will walk carefully all my years because of the anguish + of my soul. +038:016 Lord, men live by these things; and my spirit finds life + in all of them: you restore me, and cause me to live. +038:017 Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love + for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; + for you have cast all my sins behind your back. +038:018 For Sheol can't praise you. Death can't celebrate you. + Those who go down into the pit can't hope for your truth. +038:019 The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do this day. + The father shall make known your truth to the children. +038:020 Yahweh will save me. Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed + instruments all the days of our life in the house of Yahweh. +038:021 Now Isaiah had said, "Let them take a cake of figs, and lay + it for a poultice on the boil, and he shall recover." +038:022 Hezekiah also had said, "What is the sign that I will go up + to the house of Yahweh?" +039:001 At that time, Merodach Baladan the son of Baladan, + king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah; + for he heard that he had been sick, and had recovered. +039:002 Hezekiah was pleased with them, and showed them the house + of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, + the spices, and the precious oil, and all the house + of his armor, and all that was found in his treasures. + There was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, + that Hezekiah didn't show them. +039:003 Then Isaiah the prophet came to king Hezekiah, and asked him, + "What did these men say? Where did they come from to you?" + Hezekiah said, "They have come from a country far from me, + even from Babylon." +039:004 Then he asked, "What have they seen in your house?" + Hezekiah answered, "They have seen all that is in my house. + There is nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them." +039:005 Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, "Hear the word of Yahweh of Armies: +039:006 'Behold, the days are coming when all that is in your house, + and that which your fathers have stored up until this day, + will be carried to Babylon. Nothing will be left,' says Yahweh. +039:007 'They will take away your sons who will issue from you, + whom you shall father, and they will be eunuchs in the king + of Babylon's palace.'" +039:008 Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "Yahweh's word which you have + spoken is good." He said moreover, "For there will be peace + and truth in my days." +040:001 "Comfort, comfort my people," says your God. +040:002 "Speak comfortably to Jerusalem; and call out to her that her + warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, + that she has received of Yahweh's hand double for all her sins." +040:003 The voice of one who calls out, "Prepare the way of Yahweh + in the wilderness! Make a level highway in the desert + for our God. +040:004 Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall + be made low. The uneven shall be made level, and the rough + places a plain. +040:005 The glory of Yahweh shall be revealed, and all flesh shall + see it together; for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it." +040:006 The voice of one saying, "Cry!" One said, "What shall I cry?" + "All flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like the flower + of the field. +040:007 The grass withers, the flower fades, because Yahweh's breath + blows on it. Surely the people are like grass. +040:008 The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our + God stands forever." +040:009 You who tell good news to Zion, go up on a high mountain. + You who tell good news to Jerusalem, lift up your + voice with strength. Lift it up. Don't be afraid. + Say to the cities of Judah, "Behold, your God!" +040:010 Behold, the Lord Yahweh will come as a mighty one, and his + arm will rule for him. Behold, his reward is with him, + and his recompense before him. +040:011 He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather + the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom. + He will gently lead those who have their young. +040:012 Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, + and marked off the sky with his span, and calculated the dust + of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, + and the hills in a balance? +040:013 Who has directed the Spirit of Yahweh, or has taught him + as his counselor? +040:014 Who did he take counsel with, and who instructed him, + and taught him in the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, + and showed him the way of understanding? +040:015 Behold, the nations are like a drop in a bucket, and are + regarded as a speck of dust on a balance. Behold, he lifts + up the islands like a very little thing. +040:016 Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor its animals sufficient + for a burnt offering. +040:017 All the nations are like nothing before him. They are regarded + by him as less than nothing, and vanity. +040:018 To whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you + compare to him? +040:019 A workman has cast an image, and the goldsmith overlays it + with gold, and casts silver chains for it. +040:020 He who is too impoverished for such an offering chooses a tree + that will not rot. He seeks a skillful workman to set up + an engraved image for him that will not be moved. +040:021 Haven't you known? Haven't you heard, yet? Haven't you + been told from the beginning? Haven't you understood from + the foundations of the earth? +040:022 It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its + inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens + like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in; +040:023 who brings princes to nothing; who makes the judges of the + earth like meaningless. +040:024 They are planted scarcely. They are sown scarcely. + Their stock has scarcely taken root in the ground. + He merely blows on them, and they wither, and the whirlwind + takes them away as stubble. +040:025 "To whom then will you liken me? Who is my equal?" + says the Holy One. +040:026 Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these, + who brings out their army by number. He calls them all by name. + by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power, + Not one is lacking. +040:027 Why do you say, Jacob, and speak, Israel, "My way is hidden + from Yahweh, and the justice due me is disregarded by my God?" +040:028 Haven't you known? Haven't you heard? The everlasting + God, Yahweh, The Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn't faint. + He isn't weary. His understanding is unsearchable. +040:029 He gives power to the weak. He increases the strength of him + who has no might. +040:030 Even the youths faint and get weary, and the young men utterly fall; +040:031 But those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. + They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, + and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint. +041:001 "Keep silent before me, islands, and let the peoples renew + their strength. Let them come near, then let them speak. + Let's meet together for judgment. +041:002 Who has raised up one from the east? Whom called him to his foot + in righteousness? He hands over nations to him, and makes him + rule over kings. He gives them like the dust to his sword, + like the driven stubble to his bow. +041:003 He pursues them, and passes by safely, Even by a way that he had + not gone with his feet. +041:004 Who has worked and done it, calling the generations from + the beginning? I, Yahweh, the first, and with the last, + I am he." +041:005 The islands have seen, and fear. The ends of the earth tremble. + They approach, and come. +041:006 Everyone helps his neighbor. They say to their brothers, + "Be strong!" +041:007 So the carpenter encourages the goldsmith. He who smoothes + with the hammer encourages him who strikes the anvil, + saying of the soldering, "It is good;" and he fastens it + with nails, that it might not totter. +041:008 "But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, + the seed of Abraham my friend, +041:009 You whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth, + and called from its corners, and said to you, 'You are my servant, + I have chosen you and not cast you away;' +041:010 Don't you be afraid, for I am with you. Don't be dismayed, + for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. + Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness. +041:011 Behold, all those who are incensed against you will be disappointed + and confounded. Those who strive with you will be like nothing, + and shall perish. +041:012 You will seek them, and won't find them, even those who contend + with you. Those who war against you will be as nothing, + as a non-existent thing. +041:013 For I, Yahweh your God, will hold your right hand, saying to you, + 'Don't be afraid. I will help you.' +041:014 Don't be afraid, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel. + I will help you," says Yahweh, "and your Redeemer is + the Holy One of Israel. +041:015 Behold, I have made you into a new sharp threshing instrument + with teeth. You will thresh the mountains, and beat them small, + and will make the hills like chaff. +041:016 You will winnow them, and the wind will carry them away, + and the whirlwind will scatter them. You will rejoice in Yahweh. + You will glory in the Holy One of Israel. +041:017 The poor and needy seek water, and there is none. + Their tongue fails for thirst. I, Yahweh, will answer them. + I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them. +041:018 I will open rivers on the bare heights, and springs in the midst + of the valleys. I will make the wilderness a pool of water, + and the dry land springs of water. +041:019 I will put cedar, acacia, myrtle, and oil trees in the wilderness. + I will set fir trees, pine, and box trees together in the desert; +041:020 that they may see, know, consider, and understand together, + that the hand of Yahweh has done this, and the Holy One + of Israel has created it. +041:021 Produce your cause," says Yahweh. "Bring forth your strong reasons," + says the King of Jacob. +041:022 "Let them announce, and declare to us what shall happen. + Declare the former things, what they are, that we may consider them, + and know the latter end of them; or show us things to come. +041:023 Declare the things that are to come hereafter, that we + may know that you are gods. Yes, do good, or do evil, + that we may be dismayed, and see it together. +041:024 Behold, you are of nothing, and your work is of nothing. + He who chooses you is an abomination. +041:025 "I have raised up one from the north, and he has come; + from the rising of the sun, one who calls on my name; and he shall + come on rulers as on mortar, and as the potter treads clay. +041:026 Who has declared it from the beginning, that we may know? + And before, that we may say, 'He is right?' Surely, there is + no one who declares. Surely, there is no one who shows. + Surely, there is no one who hears your words. +041:027 I am the first to say to Zion, 'Behold, look at them;' + and I will give one who brings good news to Jerusalem. +041:028 When I look, there is no man; even among them there is no + counselor who, when I ask of them, can answer a word. +041:029 Behold, all of them, their works are vanity and nothing. + Their molten images are wind and confusion. +042:001 "Behold, my servant, whom I uphold; my chosen, + in whom my soul delights--I have put my Spirit on him. + He will bring justice to the nations. +042:002 He will not shout, nor raise his voice, nor cause it to be heard + in the street. +042:003 He won't break a bruised reed. He won't quench a dimly burning wick. + He will faithfully bring justice. +042:004 He will not fail nor be discouraged, until he has set justice + in the earth, and the islands will wait for his law." +042:005 Thus says God Yahweh, he who created the heavens and stretched + them out, he who spread out the earth and that which comes + out of it, he who gives breath to its people and spirit + to those who walk in it. +042:006 "I, Yahweh, have called you in righteousness, and will hold your hand, + and will keep you, and make you a covenant for the people, + as a light for the nations; +042:007 to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon, + and those who sit in darkness out of the prison. +042:008 "I am Yahweh. That is my name. I will not give my glory + to another, nor my praise to engraved images. +042:009 Behold, the former things have happened, and I declare new things. + I tell you about them before they come up." +042:010 Sing to Yahweh a new song, and his praise from the end of + the earth, you who go down to the sea, and all that is therein, + the islands and their inhabitants. +042:011 Let the wilderness and its cities raise their voices, with the + villages that Kedar inhabits. Let the inhabitants of Sela sing. + Let them shout from the top of the mountains! +042:012 Let them give glory to Yahweh, and declare his praise + in the islands. +042:013 Yahweh will go out like a mighty man. He will stir up zeal like a + man of war. He will raise a war cry. Yes, he will shout aloud. + He will triumph over his enemies. +042:014 "I have been silent a long time. I have been quiet and + restrained myself. Now I will cry out like a travailing woman. + I will both gasp and pant. +042:015 I will destroy mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs. + I will make the rivers islands, and will dry up the pools. +042:016 I will bring the blind by a way that they don't know. + I will lead them in paths that they don't know. I will make + darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. + I will do these things, and I will not forsake them. +042:017 "Those who trust in engraved images, who tell molten images, + 'You are our gods' will be turned back. They will + be utterly disappointed. +042:018 "Hear, you deaf, and look, you blind, that you may see. +042:019 Who is blind, but my servant? Or who is as deaf as my + messenger whom I send? Who is as blind as he who is at peace, + and as blind as Yahweh's servant? +042:020 You see many things, but don't observe. His ears are open, + but he doesn't listen. +042:021 It pleased Yahweh, for his righteousness' sake, to magnify + the law, and make it honorable. +042:022 But this is a robbed and plundered people. All of them + are snared in holes, and they are hidden in prisons. + They have become a prey, and no one delivers; and a spoil, + and no one says, 'Restore them!' +042:023 Who is there among you who will give ear to this? + Who will listen and hear for the time to come? +042:024 Who gave Jacob as plunder, and Israel to the robbers? + Didn't Yahweh, he against whom we have sinned? For they + would not walk in his ways, and they disobeyed his law. +042:025 Therefore he poured the fierceness of his anger on him, + and the strength of battle; and it set him on fire all around, + but he didn't know; and it burned him, but he didn't take + it to heart." +043:001 But now thus says Yahweh who created you, Jacob, and he who + formed you, Israel: "Don't be afraid, for I have redeemed you. + I have called you by your name. You are mine. +043:002 When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; + and through the rivers, they will not overflow you. + When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned, + and flame will not scorch you. +043:003 For I am Yahweh your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. + I have given Egypt as your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba + in your place. +043:004 Since you have been precious and honored in my sight, and I + have loved you; therefore I will give people in your place, + and nations instead of your life. +043:005 Don't be afraid; for I am with you. I will bring your seed + from the east, and gather you from the west. +043:006 I will tell the north, 'Give them up!' and tell the south, + 'Don't hold them back! Bring my sons from far, and my daughters + from the ends of the earth-- +043:007 everyone who is called by my name, and whom I have created + for my glory, whom I have formed, yes, whom I have made.'" +043:008 Bring out the blind people who have eyes, and the deaf + who have ears. +043:009 Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the peoples + be assembled. Who among them can declare this, and show us + former things? Let them bring their witnesses, that they + may be justified; or let them hear, and say, "That is true." +043:010 "You are my witnesses," says Yahweh, "With my servant + whom I have chosen; that you may know and believe me, + and understand that I am he. Before me there was no God formed, + neither will there be after me. +043:011 I myself am Yahweh; and besides me there is no savior. +043:012 I have declared, I have saved, and I have shown; and there was + no strange god among you. Therefore you are my witnesses," + says Yahweh, "and I am God. +043:013 Yes, since the day was I am he; and there is no one who can + deliver out of my hand. I will work, and who can hinder it?" +043:014 Thus says Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: + "For your sake, I have sent to Babylon, and I will bring all + of them down as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, in the ships + of their rejoicing. +043:015 I am Yahweh, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King." +043:016 Thus says Yahweh, who makes a way in the sea, and a path + in the mighty waters; +043:017 who brings forth the chariot and horse, the army and the mighty man + (they lie down together, they shall not rise; they are extinct, + they are quenched like a wick): +043:018 "Don't remember the former things, and don't consider + the things of old. +043:019 Behold, I will do a new thing. It springs forth now. + Don't you know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, + and rivers in the desert. +043:020 The animals of the field shall honor me, the jackals and + the ostriches; because I give water in the wilderness and rivers + in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen, +043:021 the people which I formed for myself, that they might set + forth my praise. +043:022 Yet you have not called on me, Jacob; but you have been weary + of me, Israel. +043:023 You have not brought me of your sheep for burnt offerings; + neither have you honored me with your sacrifices. + I have not burdened you with offerings, nor wearied + you with frankincense. +043:024 You have bought me no sweet cane with money, nor have you filled + me with the fat of your sacrifices; but you have burdened me + with your sins. You have wearied me with your iniquities. +043:025 I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; + and I will not remember your sins. +043:026 Put me in remembrance. Let us plead together. Set forth + your case, that you may be justified. +043:027 Your first father sinned, and your teachers have transgressed + against me. +043:028 Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary; + and I will make Jacob a curse, and Israel a reviling." +044:001 Yet listen now, Jacob my servant, and Israel, whom I have chosen. +044:002 This is what Yahweh who made you, and formed you from the womb, + who will help you says: "Don't be afraid, Jacob my servant; + and you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen. +044:003 For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and streams + on the dry ground. I will pour my Spirit on your seed, + and my blessing on your offspring: +044:004 and they will spring up among the grass, as willows + by the watercourses. +044:005 One will say, 'I am Yahweh's;' and another will be called by the name + of Jacob; and another will write with his hand 'to Yahweh,' + and honor the name of Israel." +044:006 This is what Yahweh, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Yahweh + of Armies, says: "I am the first, and I am the last; + and besides me there is no God. +044:007 Who is like me? Who will call, and will declare it, and set + it in order for me, since I established the ancient people? + Let them declare the things that are coming, and that will happen. +044:008 Don't fear, neither be afraid. Haven't I declared it + to you long ago, and shown it? You are my witnesses. + Is there a God besides me? Indeed, there is not. + I don't know any other Rock." +044:009 Everyone who makes an engraved image is vain. The things that they + delight in will not profit. Their own witnesses don't see, + nor know, that they may be disappointed. +044:010 Who has fashioned a god, or molds an image that is + profitable for nothing? +044:011 Behold, all his fellows will be disappointed; and the workmen are + mere men. Let them all be gathered together. Let them stand up. + They will fear. They will be put to shame together. +044:012 The blacksmith takes an axe, works in the coals, + fashions it with hammers, and works it with his strong arm. + He is hungry, and his strength fails; he drinks no water, + and is faint. +044:013 The carpenter stretches out a line. He marks it out with a pencil. + He shapes it with planes. He marks it out with compasses, + and shapes it like the figure of a man, with the beauty of a man, + to reside in a house. +044:014 He cuts down cedars for himself, and takes the cypress and the oak, + and strengthens for himself one among the trees of the forest. + He plants a fir tree, and the rain nourishes it. +044:015 Then it will be for a man to burn; and he takes some of it, + and warms himself. Yes, he burns it, and bakes bread. + Yes, he makes a god, and worships it; he makes it an engraved image, + and falls down to it. +044:016 He burns part of it in the fire. With part of it, he eats meat. + He roasts a roast, and is satisfied. Yes, he warms himself, + and says, "Aha! I am warm. I have seen the fire." +044:017 The rest of it he makes into a god, even his engraved image. + He bows down to it and worships, and prays to it, and says, + "Deliver me; for you are my god!" +044:018 They don't know, neither do they consider: for he has + shut their eyes, that they can't see; and their hearts, + that they can't understand. +044:019 No one thinks, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, + "I have burned part of it in the fire. Yes, I have also baked + bread on its coals. I have roasted meat and eaten it. + Shall I make the rest of it into an abomination? + Shall I bow down to a tree trunk?" +044:020 He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has turned him aside; + and he can't deliver his soul, nor say, "Isn't there a lie + in my right hand?" +044:021 Remember these things, Jacob and Israel; for you are my servant. + I have formed you. You are my servant. Israel, you will + not be forgotten by me. +044:022 I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, + as a cloud, your sins. Return to me, for I have redeemed you. +044:023 Sing, you heavens, for Yahweh has done it! Shout, you lower + parts of the earth! Break out into singing, you mountains, + O forest, all of your trees, for Yahweh has redeemed Jacob, + and will glorify himself in Israel. +044:024 Thus says Yahweh, your Redeemer, and he who formed you from the womb: + "I am Yahweh, who makes all things; who alone stretches out + the heavens; who spreads out the earth by myself; +044:025 who frustrates the signs of the liars, and makes diviners mad; + who turns wise men backward, and makes their knowledge foolish; +044:026 who confirms the word of his servant, and performs the counsel + of his messengers; who says of Jerusalem, 'She will be inhabited;' + and of the cities of Judah, 'They will be built,' and I + will raise up its waste places;' +044:027 who says to the deep, 'Be dry,' and 'I will dry up your rivers;' +044:028 Who says of Cyrus, 'He is my shepherd, and shall perform all + my pleasure,' even saying of Jerusalem, 'She will be built;' + and of the temple, 'Your foundation will be laid.'" +045:001 Thus says Yahweh to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand + I have held, to subdue nations before him, and strip kings + of their armor; to open the doors before him, and the gates + shall not be shut: +045:002 "I will go before you, and make the rough places smooth. + I will break the doors of brass in pieces, and cut apart + the bars of iron. +045:003 I will give you the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches + of secret places, that you may know that it is I, Yahweh, + who call you by your name, even the God of Israel. +045:004 For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel my chosen, I have + called you by your name. I have surnamed you, though you + have not known me. +045:005 I am Yahweh, and there is none else. Besides me, there is no God. + I will strengthen{or, equip} you, though you have not known me; +045:006 that they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, + that there is none besides me. I am Yahweh, and there is + no one else. +045:007 I form the light, and create darkness. I make peace, + and create calamity. I am Yahweh, who does all these things. +045:008 Distil, you heavens, from above, and let the skies pour + down righteousness. Let the earth open, that it may bring + forth salvation, and let it cause righteousness to spring up + with it. I, Yahweh, have created it. +045:009 Woe to him who strives with his Maker--a clay pot among the clay + pots of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, + 'What are you making?' or your work, 'He has no hands?' +045:010 Woe to him who says to a father, 'What have you become the father of?' + or to a mother, 'To what have you given birth?'" +045:011 Thus says Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker: "You ask + me about the things that are to come, concerning my sons, + and you command me concerning the work of my hands! +045:012 I have made the earth, and created man on it: I, even my hands, + have stretched out the heavens; and all their army + have I commanded. +045:013 I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will make straight + all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let my exiles + go free, not for price nor reward, says Yahweh of Armies. +045:014 Thus says Yahweh: "The labor of Egypt, and the merchandise + of Ethiopia, and the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over + to you, and they shall be yours. They shall go after you. + In chains they shall come over; and they shall fall down to you. + They shall make supplication to you: 'Surely God is in you; + and there is none else, there is no other god. +045:015 Most certainly you are a God who hid yourself, God of Israel, + the Savior.'" +045:016 They shall be disappointed, yes, confounded, all of them; + they shall go into confusion together who are makers of idols. +045:017 [But] Israel shall be saved by Yahweh with an everlasting salvation: + you shall not be disappointed nor confounded world without end. +045:018 For thus says Yahweh who created the heavens, the God + who formed the earth and made it, who established it and + didn't create it a waste, who formed it to be inhabited: + I am Yahweh; and there is no one else. +045:019 I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness; + I didn't say to the seed of Jacob, Seek you me in vain: + I, Yahweh, speak righteousness, I declare things that are right. +045:020 Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, you who + have escaped from the nations: they have no knowledge + who carry the wood of their engraved image, and pray to a god + that can't save. +045:021 Declare you, and bring [it] forth; yes, let them take + counsel together: who has shown this from ancient time? + who has declared it of old? Haven't I, Yahweh? and there + is no God else besides me, a just God and a Savior; + there is no one besides me. +045:022 Look to me, and be you saved, all the ends of the earth; + for I am God, and there is none else. +045:023 By myself have I sworn, the word is gone forth from my mouth + [in] righteousness, and shall not return, that to me every + knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear. +045:024 Only in Yahweh, it is said of me, is righteousness and strength; + even to him shall men come; and all those who were incensed + against him shall be disappointed. +045:025 In Yahweh shall all the seed of Israel be justified, + and shall glory. +046:001 Bel bows down, Nebo stoops; their idols are on the animals, + and on the livestock: the things that you carried about are + made a load, a burden to the weary [animal]. +046:002 They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver + the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity. +046:003 Listen to me, house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house + of Israel, that have been borne [by me] from their birth, + that have been carried from the womb; +046:004 and even to old age I am he, and even to gray hairs will I + carry you. I have made, and I will bear; yes, I will carry, + and will deliver. +046:005 To whom will you liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, + that we may be like? +046:006 Some pour out gold from the bag, and weigh silver in the balance. + They hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god. + They fall down--yes, they worship. +046:007 They bear it on the shoulder, they carry it, and set it in + its place, and it stands, from its place it shall not move: + yes, one may cry to it, yet it can not answer, nor save him + out of his trouble. +046:008 Remember this, and show yourselves men; bring it again + to mind, you transgressors. +046:009 Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there + is none else; [I am] God, and there is none like me; +046:010 declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times + things that are not [yet] done; saying, My counsel shall stand, + and I will do all my pleasure; +046:011 calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man of my counsel from + a far country; yes, I have spoken, I will also bring it to pass; + I have purposed, I will also do it. +046:012 Listen to me, you stout-hearted, who are far from righteousness: +046:013 I bring near my righteousness, it shall not be far off, + and my salvation shall not wait; and I will place salvation + in Zion for Israel my glory. +047:001 Come down, and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon; + sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of the Chaldeans: + for you shall no more be called tender and delicate. +047:002 Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove your veil, + strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers. +047:003 Your nakedness shall be uncovered, yes, your shame shall be seen: + I will take vengeance, and will spare no man. +047:004 Our Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies is his name, the Holy One of Israel. +047:005 Sit you silent, and get you into darkness, daughter of the Chaldeans; + for you shall no more be called The mistress of kingdoms. +047:006 I was angry with my people, I profaned my inheritance, + and gave them into your hand: you did show them no mercy; + on the aged have you very heavily laid your yoke. +047:007 You said, I shall be mistress forever; so that you did not lay + these things to your heart, neither did remember the latter + end of it. +047:008 Now therefore hear this, you who are given to pleasures, + who sit securely, who say in your heart, I am, and there + is none else besides me; I shall not sit as a widow, + neither shall I know the loss of children: +047:009 but these two things shall come to you in a moment in one day, + the loss of children, and widowhood; in their full measure + shall they come on you, in the multitude of your sorceries, + and the great abundance of your enchantments. +047:010 For you have trusted in your wickedness; you have said, None sees me; + your wisdom and your knowledge, it has perverted you, + and you have said in your heart, I am, and there is none + else besides me. +047:011 Therefore shall evil come on you; you shall not know the dawning + of it: and mischief shall fall on you; you shall not be able + to put it away: and desolation shall come on you suddenly, + which you don't know. +047:012 Stand now with your enchantments, and with the multitude + of your sorceries, in which you have labored from your youth; + if so be you shall be able to profit, if so be you may prevail. +047:013 You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels: let now + the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, + stand up, and save you from the things that shall come on you. +047:014 Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; + they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: + it shall not be a coal to warm at, nor a fire to sit before. +047:015 Thus shall the things be to you in which you have labored: + those who have trafficked with you from your youth shall wander + everyone to his quarter; there shall be none to save you. +048:001 Hear you this, house of Jacob, who are called by the name + of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah; + who swear by the name of Yahweh, and make mention of the God + of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness +048:002 (for they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves + on the God of Israel; Yahweh of Armies is his name): +048:003 I have declared the former things from of old; yes, they went + forth out of my mouth, and I shown them: suddenly I did them, + and they happened. +048:004 Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an + iron sinew, and your brow brass; +048:005 therefore I have declared it to you from of old; before it + came to pass I shown it you; lest you should say, My idol + has done them, and my engraved image, and my molten image, + has commanded them. +048:006 You have heard it; see all this; and you, will you not declare it? + I have shown you new things from this time, even hidden things, + which you have not known. +048:007 They are created now, and not from of old; and before this day + you didn't hear them; lest you should say, Behold, I knew them. +048:008 Yes, you didn't hear; yes, you didn't know; yes, from of old + your ear was not opened: for I knew that you did deal + very treacherously, and was called a transgressor from the womb. +048:009 For my name's sake will I defer my anger, and for my praise + will I refrain for you, that I not cut you off. +048:010 Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have chosen + you in the furnace of affliction. +048:011 For my own sake, for my own sake, will I do it; for how should [my + name] be profaned? and my glory I will not give to another. +048:012 Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel my called: I am he; + I am the first, I also am the last. +048:013 Yes, my hand has laid the foundation of the earth, and my + right hand has spread out the heavens: when I call to them, + they stand up together. +048:014 Assemble yourselves, all you, and hear; who among them has + declared these things? He whom Yahweh loves shall perform his + pleasure on Babylon, and his arm [shall be on] the Chaldeans. +048:015 I, even I, have spoken; yes, I have called him; I have brought him, + and he shall make his way prosperous. +048:016 Come you near to me, hear you this; from the beginning I have + not spoken in secret; from the time that it was, there am I: + and now the Lord Yahweh has sent me, and his Spirit. +048:017 Thus says Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am + Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you + by the way that you should go. +048:018 Oh that you had listened to my commandments! then had your + peace been as a river, and your righteousness as the waves + of the sea: +048:019 your seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of your + body like the grains of it: his name would not be cut off + nor destroyed from before me. +048:020 Go you forth from Babylon, flee you from the Chaldeans; + with a voice of singing declare you, tell this, utter it + even to the end of the earth: say you, Yahweh has redeemed + his servant Jacob. +048:021 They didn't thirst when he led them through the deserts; + he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them; + he split the rock also, and the waters gushed out. +048:022 There is no peace, says Yahweh, to the wicked. +049:001 Listen, islands, to me; and listen, you peoples, from far: + Yahweh has called me from the womb; from the bowels of my + mother has he made mention of my name: +049:002 and he has made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow + of his hand has he hid me: and he has made me a polished shaft; + in his quiver has he kept me close: +049:003 and he said to me, You are my servant; Israel, in whom I + will be glorified. +049:004 But I said, I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength + for nothing and vanity; yet surely the justice [due] to me + is with Yahweh, and my recompense with my God. +049:005 Now says Yahweh who formed me from the womb to be his servant, + to bring Jacob again to him, and that Israel be gathered to him + (for I am honorable in the eyes of Yahweh, and my God is + become my strength); +049:006 yes, he says, It is too light a thing that you should be my servant + to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved + of Israel: I will also give you for a light to the nations, + that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth. +049:007 Thus says Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, [and] his Holy One, + to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, + to a servant of rulers: Kings shall see and arise; princes, + and they shall worship; because of Yahweh who is faithful, + [even] the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you. +049:008 Thus says Yahweh, In an acceptable time have I answered you, + and in a day of salvation have I helped you; and I will preserve you, + and give you for a covenant of the people, to raise up the land, + to make them inherit the desolate heritage: +049:009 saying to those who are bound, Go forth; to those who are + in darkness, Show yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, + and on all bare heights shall be their pasture. +049:010 They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor + sun strike them: for he who has mercy on them will lead them, + even by springs of water he will guide them. +049:011 I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways + shall be exalted. +049:012 Behold, these shall come from far; and behold, these from + the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim. +049:013 Sing, heavens; and be joyful, earth; and break forth + into singing, mountains: for Yahweh has comforted his people, + and will have compassion on his afflicted. +049:014 But Zion said, Yahweh has forsaken me, and the Lord + has forgotten me. +049:015 Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have + compassion on the son of her womb? yes, these may forget, + yet I will not forget you. +049:016 Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; + your walls are continually before me. +049:017 Your children make haste; your destroyers and those who made + you waste shall go forth from you. +049:018 Lift up your eyes round about, and see: all these gather + themselves together, and come to you. As I live, says Yahweh, + you shall surely clothe you with them all as with an ornament, + and gird yourself with them, like a bride. +049:019 For, as for your waste and your desolate places, and your land + that has been destroyed, surely now shall you be too small + for the inhabitants, and those who swallowed you up shall + be far away. +049:020 The children of your bereavement shall yet say in your ears, + The place is too small for me; give place to me that I may dwell. +049:021 Then shall you say in your heart, Who has conceived these for me, + seeing I have been bereaved of my children, and am solitary, + an exile, and wandering back and forth? and who has brought + up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where were they? +049:022 Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Behold, I will lift up my hand + to the nations, and set up my banner to the peoples; + and they shall bring your sons in their bosom, and your + daughters shall be carried on their shoulders. +049:023 Kings shall be your nursing fathers, and their queens + your nursing mothers: they shall bow down to you with + their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of your feet; + and you shall know that I am Yahweh; and those who wait for me + shall not be disappointed. +049:024 Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful + captives be delivered? +049:025 But thus says Yahweh, Even the captives of the mighty shall + be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered; + for I will contend with him who contends with you, and I + will save your children. +049:026 I will feed those who oppress you with their own flesh; and they + shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: + and all flesh shall know that I, Yahweh, am your Savior, + and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob. +050:001 Thus says Yahweh, Where is the bill of your mother's divorce, + with which I have put her away? or which of my creditors is it + to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities were you sold, + and for your transgressions was your mother put away. +050:002 Why, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there + none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it can't + redeem? or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my + rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: + their fish stink, because there is no water, and die for thirst. +050:003 I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth + their covering. +050:004 The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught, + that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary: + he wakens morning by morning, he wakens my ear to hear + as those who are taught. +050:005 The Lord Yahweh has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious, + neither turned away backward. +050:006 I gave my back to the strikers, and my cheeks to those who plucked + off the hair; I didn't hide my face from shame and spitting. +050:007 For the Lord Yahweh will help me; therefore I have not + been confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, + and I know that I shall not be disappointed. +050:008 He is near who justifies me; who will bring charges against me? + Let us stand up together: who is my adversary? + Let him come near to me. +050:009 Behold, the Lord Yahweh will help me; who is he who shall + condemn me? Behold, all they shall wax old as a garment, + the moth shall eat them up. +050:010 Who is among you who fears Yahweh, who obeys the voice + of his servant? He who walks in darkness, and has no light, + let him trust in the name of Yahweh, and rely on his God. +050:011 Behold, all you who kindle a fire, who gird yourselves + about with firebrands; walk you in the flame of your fire, + and among the brands that you have kindled. This shall you + have of my hand; you shall lie down in sorrow. +051:001 Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness, + you who seek Yahweh: look to the rock whence you were hewn, + and to the hold of the pit whence you were dug. +051:002 Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who bore you; + for when he was but one I called him, and I blessed him, + and made him many. +051:003 For Yahweh has comforted Zion; he has comforted all her + waste places, and has made her wilderness like Eden, + and her desert like the garden of Yahweh; joy and gladness + shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody. +051:004 Attend to me, my people; and give ear to me, my nation: + for a law shall go forth from me, and I will establish my + justice for a light of the peoples. +051:005 My righteousness is near, my salvation is gone forth, and my + arms shall judge the peoples; the islands shall wait for me, + and on my arm shall they trust. +051:006 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look on the earth beneath; + for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth + shall wax old like a garment; and those who dwell therein + shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be forever, + and my righteousness shall not be abolished. +051:007 Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose + heart is my law; don't you fear the reproach of men, + neither be you dismayed at their insults. +051:008 For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall + eat them like wool; but my righteousness shall be forever, + and my salvation to all generations. +051:009 Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of Yahweh; awake, as in + the days of old, the generations of ancient times. + Isn't it you who did cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced the monster? +051:010 Isn't it you who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep; + who made the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed + to pass over? +051:011 The ransomed of Yahweh shall return, and come with singing + to Zion; and everlasting joy shall be on their heads: + they shall obtain gladness and joy; [and] sorrow and sighing + shall flee away. +051:012 I, even I, am he who comforts you: who are you, that you are + afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who shall + be made as grass; +051:013 and have forgotten Yahweh your Maker, who stretched forth + the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and fear + continually all the day because of the fury of the oppressor, + when he makes ready to destroy? and where is the fury + of the oppressor? +051:014 The captive exile shall speedily be freed; and he shall not die + [and go down] into the pit, neither shall his bread fail. +051:015 For I am Yahweh your God, who stirs up the sea, so that the waves + of it roar: Yahweh of Armies is his name. +051:016 I have put my words in your mouth, and have covered you in + the shadow of my hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay + the foundations of the earth, and tell Zion, You are my people. +051:017 Awake, awake, stand up, Jerusalem, that have drunk at the hand + of Yahweh the cup of his wrath; you have drunken the bowl + of the cup of staggering, and drained it. +051:018 There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she has + brought forth; neither is there any who takes her by the hand + among all the sons who she has brought up. +051:019 These two things have happened to you. Who will bemoan you? + Desolation and destruction, and the famine and the sword; + how shall I comfort you? +051:020 Your sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, + as an antelope in a net; they are full of the wrath of Yahweh, + the rebuke of your God. +051:021 Therefore hear now this, you afflicted, and drunken, + but now with wine: +051:022 Thus says your Lord Yahweh, and your God who pleads the cause + of his people, Behold, I have taken out of your hand the cup + of staggering, even the bowl of the cup of my wrath; + you shall no more drink it again: +051:023 and I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you, + who have said to your soul, Bow down, that we may go over; + and you have laid your back as the ground, and as the street, + to those who go over. +052:001 Awake, awake, put on your strength, Zion; put on your beautiful + garments, Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall + no more come into you the uncircumcised and the unclean. +052:002 Shake yourself from the dust; arise, sit [on your throne], Jerusalem: + loose yourself from the bonds of your neck, captive daughter + of Zion. +052:003 For thus says Yahweh, You were sold for nothing; and you shall + be redeemed without money. +052:004 For thus says the Lord Yahweh, My people went down at the first + into Egypt to sojourn there: and the Assyrian has oppressed + them without cause. +052:005 Now therefore, what do I here, says Yahweh, seeing that my people + is taken away for nothing? those who rule over them do howl, + says Yahweh, and my name continually all the day is blasphemed. +052:006 Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore [they shall + know] in that day that I am he who does speak; behold, it is I. +052:007 How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who brings + good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news of good, + who publishes salvation, who says to Zion, Your God reigns! +052:008 The voice of your watchmen! they lift up the voice, + together do they sing; for they shall see eye to eye, + when Yahweh returns to Zion. +052:009 Break forth into joy, sing together, you waste places of Jerusalem; + for Yahweh has comforted his people, he has redeemed Jerusalem. +052:010 Yahweh has made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; + and all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation + of our God. +052:011 Depart you, depart you, go you out from there, touch no unclean thing; + go you out of the midst of her; cleanse yourselves, + you who bear the vessels of Yahweh. +052:012 For you shall not go out in haste, neither shall you go by flight: + for Yahweh will go before you; and the God of Israel will + be your rearward. +052:013 Behold, my servant shall deal wisely, he shall be exalted + and lifted up, and shall be very high. +052:014 Like as many were astonished at you (his visage was so marred + more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men), +052:015 so shall he sprinkle many nations; kings shall shut their mouths + at him: for that which had not been told them shall they see; + and that which they had not heard shall they understand. +053:001 Who has believed our message? To whom has the arm of + Yahweh been revealed? +053:002 For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root + out of dry ground. He has no form nor comeliness. + When we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. +053:003 He was despised, and rejected by men; a man of suffering, + and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom + men hide their face; and we didn't respect him. +053:004 Surely he has borne our sickness, and carried our suffering; + yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted. +053:005 But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed + for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace + was on him; and by his wounds we are healed. +053:006 All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his + own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all. +053:007 He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn't open his mouth. + As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that + before its shearers is mute, so he didn't open his mouth. +053:008 He was taken away by oppression and judgment; and as for + his generation, who considered that he was cut off out + of the land of the living and stricken for the disobedience + of my people? +053:009 They made his grave with the wicked, and with a rich man + in his death; although he had done no violence, neither was + any deceit in his mouth. +053:010 Yet it pleased Yahweh to bruise him. He has caused him to suffer. + When you make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed. + He shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of Yahweh shall + prosper in his hand. +053:011 After the suffering of his soul, he will see the + light{So read the Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint. + Masoretic Text omits "the light".} and be satisfied. + My righteous servant will justify many by the knowledge of himself; + and he will bear their iniquities. +053:012 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, + and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he poured + out his soul to death, and was numbered with the transgressors; + yet he bore the sin of many, and made intercession + for the transgressors. +054:001 Sing, barren, you who didn't bear; break forth into singing, + and cry aloud, you who did not travail with child: + for more are the children of the desolate than the children + of the married wife, says Yahweh. +054:002 Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch + forth the curtains of your habitations; don't spare: + lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes. +054:003 For you shall spread aboard on the right hand and on the left; + and your seed shall possess the nations, and make the desolate + cities to be inhabited. +054:004 Don't be afraid; for you shall not be ashamed: + neither be confounded; for you shall not be disappointed: + for you shall forget the shame of your youth; and the reproach + of your widowhood shall you remember no more. +054:005 For your Maker is your husband; Yahweh of Armies is his name: + and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; the God of the whole + earth shall he be called. +054:006 For Yahweh has called you as a wife forsaken and grieved + in spirit, even a wife of youth, when she is cast off, + says your God. +054:007 For a small moment have I forsaken you; but with great mercies + will I gather you. +054:008 In overflowing wrath I hid my face from you for a moment; + but with everlasting loving kindness will I have mercy on you, + says Yahweh your Redeemer. +054:009 For this is [as] the waters of Noah to me; for as I have sworn + that the waters of Noah shall no more go over the earth, + so have I sworn that I will not be angry with you, + nor rebuke you. +054:010 For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed; + but my loving kindness shall not depart from you, + neither shall my covenant of peace be removed, says Yahweh + who has mercy on you. +054:011 You afflicted, tossed with storms, and not comforted, behold, + I will set your stones in beautiful colors, and lay your + foundations with sapphires. +054:012 I will make your pinnacles of rubies, and your gates of + sparkling jewels, and all your walls of precious stones. +054:013 All your children shall be taught of Yahweh; and great shall + be the peace of your children. +054:014 In righteousness shall you be established: you shall be far + from oppression, for you shall not be afraid; and from terror, + for it shall not come near you. +054:015 Behold, they may gather together, but not by me: whoever shall + gather together against you shall fall because of you. +054:016 Behold, I have created the smith who blows the fire of coals, + and brings forth a weapon for his work; and I have created + the waster to destroy. +054:017 No weapon that is formed against you shall prosper; and every + tongue that shall rise against you in judgment you shall condemn. + This is the heritage of the servants of Yahweh, and their + righteousness which is of me, says Yahweh. +055:001 Ho, everyone who thirsts, come you to the waters, and he who has + no money; come you, buy, and eat; yes, come, buy wine and milk + without money and without price. +055:002 Why do you spend money for that which is not bread? and your + labor for that which doesn't satisfy? listen diligently to me, + and eat you that which is good, and let your soul delight + itself in fatness. +055:003 Turn your ear, and come to me; hear, and your soul shall live: + and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure + mercies of David. +055:004 Behold, I have given him for a witness to the peoples, + a leader and commander to the peoples. +055:005 Behold, you shall call a nation that you don't know; + and a nation that didn't know you shall run to you, + because of Yahweh your God, and for the Holy One of Israel; + for he has glorified you. +055:006 Seek you Yahweh while he may be found; call you on him while + he is near: +055:007 let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; + and let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him; + and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. +055:008 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways + my ways, says Yahweh. +055:009 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways + higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. +055:010 For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky, + and doesn't return there, but waters the earth, and makes it + bring forth and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread + to the eater; +055:011 so shall my word be that goes forth out of my mouth: + it shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish + that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing I sent + it to do. +055:012 For you shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: + the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you + into singing; and all the trees of the fields shall + clap their hands. +055:013 Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree; + and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: + and it shall be to Yahweh for a name, for an everlasting sign + that shall not be cut off. +056:001 Thus says Yahweh, Keep you justice, and do righteousness; + for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness + to be revealed. +056:002 Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who holds + it fast; who keeps the Sabbath from profaning it, and keeps + his hand from doing any evil. +056:003 Neither let the foreigner, who has joined himself to Yahweh, + speak, saying, Yahweh will surely separate me from his people; + neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree. +056:004 For thus says Yahweh of the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, + and choose the things that please me, and hold fast my covenant: +056:005 To them will I give in my house and within my walls a memorial + and a name better than of sons and of daughters; I will give + them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off. +056:006 Also the foreigners who join themselves to Yahweh, to minister + to him, and to love the name of Yahweh, to be his servants, + everyone who keeps the Sabbath from profaning it, and holds + fast my covenant; +056:007 even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them + joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their + sacrifices shall be accepted on my altar; for my house shall + be called a house of prayer for all peoples. +056:008 The Lord Yahweh, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, says, Yet will + I gather [others] to him, besides his own who are gathered. +056:009 All you animals of the field, come to devour, [yes], all you + animals in the forest. +056:010 His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; + they are all mute dogs, they can't bark; dreaming, lying down, + loving to slumber. +056:011 Yes, the dogs are greedy, they can never have enough; + and these are shepherds who can't understand: + they have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, + from every quarter. +056:012 Come you, [say they], I will get wine, and we will fill + ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow shall be as this day, + [a day] great beyond measure. +057:001 The righteous perishes, and no man lays it to heart; and merciful + men are taken away, none considering that the righteous + is taken away from the evil [to come]. +057:002 He enters into peace; they rest in their beds, each one who walks + in his uprightness. +057:003 But draw near here, you sons of the sorceress, the seed + of the adulterer and the prostitute. +057:004 Against whom do you sport yourselves? against whom make you + a wide mouth, and put out the tongue? Aren't you children + of disobedience, a seed of falsehood, +057:005 you who inflame yourselves among the oaks, under every green tree; + who kill the children in the valleys, under the clefts + of the rocks? +057:006 Among the smooth [stones] of the valley is your portion; + they, they are your lot; even to them have you poured + a drink offering, you have offered an offering. + Shall I be appeased for these things? +057:007 On a high and lofty mountain have you set your bed; + there also you went up to offer sacrifice. +057:008 Behind the doors and the posts have you set up your memorial: + for you have uncovered [yourself] to another than me, + and are gone up; you have enlarged your bed, and made you + a covenant with them: you loved their bed where you saw it. +057:009 You went to the king with oil, and did increase your perfumes, + and did send your ambassadors far off, and did debase yourself + even to Sheol. +057:010 You were wearied with the length of your way; yet you didn't say, + It is in vain: you found a reviving of your strength; + therefore you weren't faint. +057:011 Of whom have you been afraid and in fear, that you lie, + and have not remembered me, nor laid it to your heart? + Haven't I held my peace even of long time, and you don't fear me? +057:012 I will declare your righteousness; and as for your works, + they shall not profit you. +057:013 When you cry, let those who you have gathered deliver you; + but the wind shall take them, a breath shall carry them all away: + but he who takes refuge in me shall possess the land, + and shall inherit my holy mountain. +057:014 He will say, Cast up, cast up, prepare the way, take up + the stumbling-block out of the way of my people. +057:015 For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, + whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place, + with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, + to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart + of the contrite. +057:016 For I will not contend forever, neither will I be always angry; + for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls who + I have made. +057:017 For the iniquity of his covetousness was I angry, and struck him; + I hid [my face] and was angry; and he went on backsliding + in the way of his heart. +057:018 I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, + and restore comforts to him and to his mourners. +057:019 I create the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace, to him who is far + off and to him who is near, says Yahweh; and I will heal him. +057:020 But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it can't rest, + and its waters cast up mire and dirt. +057:021 There is no peace, says my God, to the wicked. +058:001 Cry aloud, don't spare, lift up your voice like a trumpet, + and declare to my people their disobedience, and to the house + of Jacob their sins. +058:002 Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways: + as a nation that did righteousness, and didn't forsake + the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous judgments; + they delight to draw near to God. +058:003 Why have we fasted, [say they], and you don't see? [why] + have we afflicted our soul, and you take no knowledge? + Behold, in the day of your fast you find [your own] pleasure, + and exact all your labors. +058:004 Behold, you fast for strife and contention, and to strike + with the fist of wickedness: you don't fast this day so as + to make your voice to be heard on high. +058:005 Is such the fast that I have chosen? the day for a man + to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head as a rush, + and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? will you call + this a fast, and an acceptable day to Yahweh? +058:006 Isn't this the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bonds + of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let + the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke? +058:007 Isn't it to deal your bread to the hungry, and that you bring + the poor who are cast out to your house? when you see the naked, + that you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from + your own flesh? +058:008 Then shall your light break forth as the morning, and your healing + shall spring forth speedily; and your righteousness shall go + before you; the glory of Yahweh shall be your rear guard. +058:009 Then shall you call, and Yahweh will answer; you shall cry, + and he will say, Here I am. If you take away from + the midst of you the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, + and speaking wickedly; +058:010 and if you draw out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy + the afflicted soul: then shall your light rise in darkness, + and your obscurity be as the noonday; +058:011 and Yahweh will guide you continually, and satisfy your soul + in dry places, and make strong your bones; and you shall + be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, + whose waters don't fail. +058:012 Those who shall be of you shall build the old waste places; + you shall raise up the foundations of many generations; + and you shall be called The repairer of the breach, + The restorer of paths to dwell in. +058:013 If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your + pleasure on my holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, + [and] the holy of Yahweh honorable; and shall honor it, + not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, + nor speaking [your own] words: +058:014 then shall you delight yourself in Yahweh; and I will + make you to ride on the high places of the earth; + and I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father: + for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it. +059:001 Behold, Yahweh's hand is not shortened, that it can't save; + neither his ear heavy, that it can't hear: +059:002 but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, + and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he + will not hear. +059:003 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; + your lips have spoken lies, your tongue mutters wickedness. +059:004 None sues in righteousness, and none pleads in truth: + they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, + and bring forth iniquity. +059:005 They hatch adders' eggs, and weave the spider's web: + he who eats of their eggs dies; and that which is crushed + breaks out into a viper. +059:006 Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover + themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, + and the act of violence is in their hands. +059:007 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: + their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and + destruction are in their paths. +059:008 The way of peace they don't know; and there is no justice + in their goings: they have made them crooked paths; + whoever goes therein does not know peace. +059:009 Therefore is justice far from us, neither does righteousness + overtake us: we look for light, but, behold, darkness; + for brightness, but we walk in obscurity. +059:010 We grope for the wall like the blind; yes, we grope as those + who have no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the twilight; + among those who are lusty we are as dead men. +059:011 We roar all like bears, and moan sore like doves: + we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, + but it is far off from us. +059:012 For our transgressions are multiplied before you, and our sins + testify against us; for our transgressions are with us, + and as for our iniquities, we know them: +059:013 transgressing and denying Yahweh, and turning away from following + our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering + from the heart words of falsehood. +059:014 Justice is turned away backward, and righteousness stands afar off; + for truth is fallen in the street, and uprightness can't enter. +059:015 Yes, truth is lacking; and he who departs from evil makes himself + a prey. Yahweh saw it, and it displeased him that there + was no justice. +059:016 He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was + no intercessor: therefore his own arm brought salvation to him; + and his righteousness, it upheld him. +059:017 He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation + on his head; and he put on garments of vengeance for clothing, + and was clad with zeal as a mantle. +059:018 According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, + wrath to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies; + to the islands he will repay recompense. +059:019 So shall they fear the name of Yahweh from the west, + and his glory from the rising of the sun; for he will come + as a rushing stream, which the breath of Yahweh drives. +059:020 A Redeemer will come to Zion, and to those who turn from + disobedience in Jacob, says Yahweh. +059:021 As for me, this is my covenant with them, says Yahweh: + my Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth, + shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth + of your seed, nor out of the mouth of your seed's seed, + says Yahweh, from henceforth and forever. +060:001 Arise, shine; for your light is come, and the glory of Yahweh + is risen on you. +060:002 For, behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness + the peoples; but Yahweh will arise on you, and his glory + shall be seen on you. +060:003 Nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness + of your rising. +060:004 Lift up your eyes round about, and see: they all gather + themselves together, they come to you; your sons shall come + from far, and your daughters shall be carried in the arms. +060:005 Then you shall see and be radiant, and your heart shall thrill + and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be + turned to you, the wealth of the nations shall come to you. +060:006 The multitude of camels shall cover you, the dromedaries + of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come; + they shall bring gold and frankincense, and shall proclaim + the praises of Yahweh. +060:007 All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together to you, + the rams of Nebaioth shall minister to you; they shall come + up with acceptance on my altar; and I will glorify the house + of my glory. +060:008 Who are these who fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows? +060:009 Surely the islands shall wait for me, and the ships of + Tarshish first, to bring your sons from far, their silver + and their gold with them, for the name of Yahweh your God, + and for the Holy One of Israel, because he has glorified you. +060:010 Foreigners shall build up your walls, and their kings shall + minister to you: for in my wrath I struck you, but in my favor + have I had mercy on you. +060:011 Your gates also shall be open continually; they shall not be + shut day nor night; that men may bring to you the wealth + of the nations, and their kings led captive. +060:012 For that nation and kingdom that will not serve you shall perish; + yes, those nations shall be utterly wasted. +060:013 The glory of Lebanon shall come to you, the fir tree, the pine, + and the box tree together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; + and I will make the place of my feet glorious. +060:014 The sons of those who afflicted you shall come bending to you; + and all those who despised you shall bow themselves down at + the soles of your feet; and they shall call you The city + of Yahweh, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel. +060:015 Whereas you have been forsaken and hated, so that no man + passed through you, I will make you an eternal excellency, + a joy of many generations. +060:016 You shall also suck the milk of the nations, and shall suck the breast + of kings; and you shall know that I, Yahweh, am your Savior, + and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob. +060:017 For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, + and for wood brass, and for stones iron. I will also make + your officers peace, and righteousness your ruler. +060:018 Violence shall no more be heard in your land, desolation nor + destruction within your borders; but you shall call your + walls Salvation, and your gates Praise. +060:019 The sun shall be no more your light by day; neither for brightness + shall the moon give light to you: but Yahweh will be to you + an everlasting light, and your God your glory. +060:020 Your sun shall no more go down, neither shall your moon + withdraw itself; for Yahweh will be your everlasting light, + and the days of your mourning shall be ended. +060:021 Your people also shall be all righteous; they shall inherit + the land forever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, + that I may be glorified. +060:022 The little one shall become a thousand, and the small one + a strong nation; I, Yahweh, will hasten it in its time. +061:001 The Spirit of the Lord Yahweh is on me; because Yahweh has anointed + me to preach good news to the humble; he has sent me to bind + up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, + and the opening [of the prison] to those who are bound; +061:002 to proclaim the year of Yahweh's favor, and the day of vengeance + of our God; to comfort all who mourn; +061:003 to appoint to those who mourn in Zion, to give to them + a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment + of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be + called trees of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, + that he may be glorified. +061:004 They shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the + former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, + the desolations of many generations. +061:005 Strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners + shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers. +061:006 But you shall be named the priests of Yahweh; men shall call + you the ministers of our God: you shall eat the wealth + of the nations, and in their glory shall you boast yourselves. +061:007 Instead of your shame [you shall have] double; and instead + of dishonor they shall rejoice in their portion: + therefore in their land they shall possess double; + everlasting joy shall be to them. +061:008 For I, Yahweh, love justice, I hate robbery with iniquity; + and I will give them their recompense in truth, and I will + make an everlasting covenant with them. +061:009 Their seed shall be known among the nations, and their offspring + among the peoples; all who see them shall acknowledge them, + that they are the seed which Yahweh has blessed. +061:010 I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh, my soul shall be joyful in my God; + for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation, he has + covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom + decks himself with a garland, and as a bride adorns herself + with her jewels. +061:011 For as the earth brings forth its bud, and as the garden + causes the things that are sown in it to spring forth; + so the Lord Yahweh will cause righteousness and praise + to spring forth before all the nations. +062:001 For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake + I will not rest, until her righteousness go forth as brightness, + and her salvation as a lamp that burns. +062:002 The nations shall see your righteousness, and all kings your glory, + and you shall be called by a new name, which the mouth + of Yahweh shall name. +062:003 You shall also be a crown of beauty in the hand of Yahweh, + and a royal diadem in the hand of your God. +062:004 You shall no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall your land + any more be termed Desolate: but you shall be called Hephzibah, + and your land Beulah; for Yahweh delights in you, and your + land shall be married. +062:005 For as a young man marries a virgin, so shall your sons marry you; + and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall + your God rejoice over you. +062:006 I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem; they shall + never hold their peace day nor night: you who call on Yahweh, + take no rest, +062:007 and give him no rest, until he establishes, and until he makes + Jerusalem a praise in the earth. +062:008 Yahweh has sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, + Surely I will no more give your grain to be food for your enemies; + and foreigners shall not drink your new wine, for which + you have labored: +062:009 but those who have garnered it shall eat it, and praise Yahweh; + and those who have gathered it shall drink it in the courts + of my sanctuary. +062:010 Go through, go through the gates; prepare you the way of the people; + cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; + lift up a banner for the peoples. +062:011 Behold, Yahweh has proclaimed to the end of the earth, + Say you to the daughter of Zion, Behold, your salvation comes; + behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him. +062:012 They shall call them The holy people, The redeemed of Yahweh: + and you shall be called Sought out, A city not forsaken. +063:001 Who is this who comes from Edom, with dyed garments from + Bozrah? this who is glorious in his clothing, marching in + the greatness of his strength? I who speak in righteousness, + mighty to save. +063:002 Why are you red in your clothing, and your garments like him + who treads in the wine vat? +063:003 I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the peoples there was + no man with me: yes, I trod them in my anger, and trampled them + in my wrath; and their lifeblood is sprinkled on my garments, + and I have stained all my clothing. +063:004 For the day of vengeance was in my heart, and the year of my + redeemed is come. +063:005 I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there + was none to uphold: therefore my own arm brought salvation to me; + and my wrath, it upheld me. +063:006 I trod down the peoples in my anger, and made them drunk + in my wrath, and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth. +063:007 I will make mention of the loving kindnesses of Yahweh, + [and] the praises of Yahweh, according to all that Yahweh has + bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, + which he has bestowed on them according to his mercies, + and according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses. +063:008 For he said, Surely, they are my people, children who will + not deal falsely: so he was their Savior. +063:009 In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his + presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; + and he bore them, and carried them all the days of old. +063:010 But they rebelled, and grieved his holy Spirit: + therefore he was turned to be their enemy, [and] himself + fought against them. +063:011 Then he remembered the days of old, Moses [and] his people, + [saying], Where is he who brought them up out of the sea + with the shepherds of his flock? where is he who put his holy + Spirit in the midst of them? +063:012 who caused his glorious arm to go at the right hand of Moses? + who divided the waters before them, to make himself + an everlasting name? +063:013 who led them through the depths, as a horse in the wilderness, + so that they didn't stumble? +063:014 As the livestock that go down into the valley, the Spirit + of Yahweh caused them to rest; so did you lead your people, + to make yourself a glorious name. +063:015 Look down from heaven, and see from the habitation of your + holiness and of your glory: where are your zeal and your + mighty acts? the yearning of your heart and your compassion + is restrained toward me. +063:016 For you are our Father, though Abraham doesn't know us, + and Israel does not acknowledge us: you, Yahweh, are our Father; + our Redeemer from everlasting is your name. +063:017 O Yahweh, why do you make us to err from your ways, + and harden our heart from your fear? Return for your servants' + sake, the tribes of your inheritance. +063:018 Your holy people possessed [it] but a little while: + our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary. +063:019 We are become as they over whom you never bear rule, + as those who were not called by your name. +064:001 Oh that you would tear the heavens, that you would come down, + that the mountains might quake at your presence, +064:002 as when fire kindles the brushwood, [and] the fire causes + the waters to boil; to make your name known to your adversaries, + that the nations may tremble at your presence! +064:003 When you did terrible things which we didn't look for, + you came down, the mountains quaked at your presence. +064:004 For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, + neither has the eye seen a God besides you, who works for him + who waits for him. +064:005 You meet him who rejoices and works righteousness, those who remember + you in your ways: behold, you were angry, and we sinned: + in them [have we been] of long time; and shall we be saved? +064:006 For we have all become as one who is unclean, and all our + righteousness is as a polluted garment: and we all fade as a leaf; + and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away. +064:007 There is none who calls on your name, who stirs up himself + to take hold of you; for you have hid your face from us, + and have consumed us by means of our iniquities. +064:008 But now, Yahweh, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you + our potter; and we all are the work of your hand. +064:009 Don't be furious, Yahweh, neither remember iniquity forever: + see, look, we beg you, we are all your people. +064:010 Your holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion is become + a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. +064:011 Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, + is burned with fire; and all our pleasant places are laid waste. +064:012 Will you refrain yourself for these things, Yahweh? will you + hold your peace, and afflict us very sore? +065:001 I am inquired of by those who didn't ask; I am found by those + who didn't seek me: I said, See me, see me, to a nation + that was not called by my name. +065:002 I have spread out my hands all the day to a rebellious people, + who walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts; +065:003 a people who provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing + in gardens, and burning incense on bricks; +065:004 who sit among the graves, and lodge in the secret places; + who eat pig's flesh, and broth of abominable things is + in their vessels; +065:005 who say, Stand by yourself, don't come near to me, + for I am holier than you. These are a smoke in my nose, + a fire that burns all the day. +065:006 Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, + but will recompense, yes, I will recompense into their bosom, +065:007 your own iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, + says Yahweh, who have burned incense on the mountains, + and blasphemed me on the hills; therefore will I first measure + their work into their bosom. +065:008 Thus says Yahweh, As the new wine is found in the cluster, + and one says, Don't destroy it, for a blessing is in it: + so will I do for my servants' sake, that I may not + destroy them all. +065:009 I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah + an inheritor of my mountains; and my chosen shall inherit it, + and my servants shall dwell there. +065:010 Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place + for herds to lie down in, for my people who have sought me. +065:011 But you who forsake Yahweh, who forget my holy mountain, + who prepare a table for Fortune, and who fill up mixed + wine to Destiny; +065:012 I will destine you to the sword, and you shall all bow down + to the slaughter; because when I called, you did not answer; + when I spoke, you did not hear; but you did that which was + evil in my eyes, and chose that in which I didn't delight. +065:013 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, Behold, my servants shall eat, + but you shall be hungry; behold, my servants shall drink, + but you shall be thirsty; behold, my servants shall rejoice, + but you shall be disappointed; +065:014 behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but you shall + cry for sorrow of heart, and shall wail for vexation of spirit. +065:015 You shall leave your name for a curse to my chosen; + and the Lord Yahweh will kill you; and he will call his servants + by another name: +065:016 so that he who blesses himself in the earth shall bless himself + in the God of truth; and he who swears in the earth shall swear + by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, + and because they are hid from my eyes. +065:017 For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former + things shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. +065:018 But be you glad and rejoice forever in that which I create; + for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy. +065:019 I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people; + and there shall be heard in her no more the voice of weeping + and the voice of crying. +065:020 There shall be no more there an infant of days, nor an old + man who has not filled his days; for the child shall die + one hundred years old, and the sinner being one hundred years + old shall be accursed. +065:021 They shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall + plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them. +065:022 They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, + and another eat: for as the days of a tree shall be the days + of my people, and my chosen shall long enjoy the work + of their hands. +065:023 They shall not labor in vain, nor bring forth for calamity; + for they are the seed of the blessed of Yahweh, and their + offspring with them. +065:024 It shall happen that, before they call, I will answer; + and while they are yet speaking, I will hear. +065:025 The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall + eat straw like the ox; and dust shall be the serpent's food. + They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, + says Yahweh. +066:001 Thus says Yahweh, heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: + what manner of house will you build to me? and what place + shall be my rest? +066:002 For all these things has my hand made, and [so] all these things + came to be, says Yahweh: but to this man will I look, + even to him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who + trembles at my word. +066:003 He who kills an ox is as he who kills a man; he who sacrifices + a lamb, as he who breaks a dog's neck; he who offers an offering, + [as he who offers] pig's blood; he who burns frankincense, + as he who blesses an idol. Yes, they have chosen their own ways, + and their soul delights in their abominations: +066:004 I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears + on them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spoke, + they did not hear: but they did that which was evil in my eyes, + and chose that in which I didn't delight. +066:005 Hear the word of Yahweh, you who tremble at his word: + Your brothers who hate you, who cast you out for my name's sake, + have said, Let Yahweh be glorified, that we may see your joy; + but it is those who shall be disappointed. +066:006 A voice of tumult from the city, a voice from the temple, + a voice of Yahweh that renders recompense to his enemies. +066:007 Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, + she was delivered of a boy. +066:008 Who has heard such a thing? who has seen such things? + Shall a land be born in one day? shall a nation be brought + forth at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought + forth her children. +066:009 Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? + says Yahweh: shall I who cause to bring forth shut [the + womb]? says your God. +066:010 Rejoice you with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all you who + love her: rejoice for joy with her, all you who mourn over her; +066:011 that you may suck and be satisfied with the breasts of + her consolations; that you may milk out, and be delighted + with the abundance of her glory. +066:012 For thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, + and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream: + and you shall suck [of it]; you shall be borne on the side, + and shall be dandled on the knees. +066:013 As one whom his mother comforts, so will I comfort you; + and you shall be comforted in Jerusalem. +066:014 You shall see [it], and your heart shall rejoice, + and your bones shall flourish like the tender grass: + and the hand of Yahweh shall be known toward his servants; + and he will have indignation against his enemies. +066:015 For, behold, Yahweh will come with fire, and his chariots shall + be like the whirlwind; to render his anger with fierceness, + and his rebuke with flames of fire. +066:016 For by fire will Yahweh execute judgment, and by his sword, + on all flesh; and the slain of Yahweh shall be many. +066:017 Those who sanctify themselves and purify themselves [to go] + to the gardens, behind one in the midst, eating pig's flesh, + and the abomination, and the mouse, they shall come to an + end together, says Yahweh. +066:018 For I [know] their works and their thoughts: [the time] comes, + that I will gather all nations and languages; and they shall come, + and shall see my glory. +066:019 I will set a sign among them, and I will send such as escape + of them to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw + the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to the islands afar off, + who have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; + and they shall declare my glory among the nations. +066:020 They shall bring all your brothers out of all the nations for an + offering to Yahweh, on horses, and in chariots, and in litters, + and on mules, and on dromedaries, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, + says Yahweh, as the children of Israel bring their offering + in a clean vessel into the house of Yahweh. +066:021 Of them also will I take for priests [and] for Levites, says Yahweh. +066:022 For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, + shall remain before me, says Yahweh, so shall your seed + and your name remain. +066:023 It shall happen, that from one new moon to another, and from + one Sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship + before me, says Yahweh. +066:024 They shall go forth, and look on the dead bodies of the men + who have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, + neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be + an abhorring to all flesh. +Book 24 Jeremiah +001:001 The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests + who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin: +001:002 to whom the word of Yahweh came in the days of Josiah the son + of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign. +001:003 It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, + king of Judah, to the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah, + the son of Josiah, king of Judah, to the carrying away + of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month. +001:004 Now the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, +001:005 Before I formed you in the belly I knew you, and before you + came forth out of the womb I sanctified you; I have appointed + you a prophet to the nations. +001:006 Then said I, Ah, Lord Yahweh! behold, I don't know how to speak; + for I am a child. +001:007 But Yahweh said to me, Don't say, I am a child; for to whoever I + shall send you, you shall go, and whatever I shall command you, + you shall speak. +001:008 Don't be afraid because of them; for I am with you to + deliver you, says Yahweh. +001:009 Then Yahweh put forth his hand, and touched my mouth; and Yahweh + said to me, Behold, I have put my words in your mouth: +001:010 behold, I have this day set you over the nations and over + the kingdoms, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy + and to overthrow, to build and to plant. +001:011 Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, Jeremiah, + what see you? I said, I see a rod of an almond tree. +001:012 Then said Yahweh to me, You have well seen: for I watch + over my word to perform it. +001:013 The word of Yahweh came to me the second time, saying, What see you? + I said, I see a boiling caldron; and the face of it is + from the north. +001:014 Then Yahweh said to me, Out of the north evil shall break + forth on all the inhabitants of the land. +001:015 For, behold, I will call all the families of the kingdoms + of the north, says Yahweh; and they shall come, and they + shall set everyone his throne at the entrance of the gates + of Jerusalem, and against all the walls of it round about, + and against all the cities of Judah. +001:016 I will utter my judgments against them touching all their wickedness, + in that they have forsaken me, and have burned incense + to other gods, and worshiped the works of their own hands. +001:017 You therefore gird up your waist, and arise, and speak + to them all that I command you: don't be dismayed at them, + lest I dismay you before them. +001:018 For, behold, I have made you this day a fortified city, + and an iron pillar, and bronze walls, against the whole land, + against the kings of Judah, against the princes of it, + against the priests of it, and against the people of the land. +001:019 They shall fight against you; but they shall not prevail against you: + for I am with you, says Yahweh, to deliver you. +002:001 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, +002:002 Go, and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus says + Yahweh, I remember for you the kindness of your youth, the love + of your weddings; how you went after me in the wilderness, + in a land that was not sown. +002:003 Israel [was] holiness to Yahweh, the first fruits of his increase: + all who devour him shall be held guilty; evil shall come + on them, says Yahweh. +002:004 Hear you the word of Yahweh, O house of Jacob, and all the families + of the house of Israel: +002:005 thus says Yahweh, What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, + that they have gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, + and are become vain? +002:006 Neither said they, Where is Yahweh who brought us up out + of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, + through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of + drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that none + passed through, and where no man lived? +002:007 I brought you into a plentiful land, to eat the fruit of it and + the goodness of it; but when you entered, you defiled my land, + and made my heritage an abomination. +002:008 The priests didn't say, Where is Yahweh? and those who handle + the law didn't know me: the rulers also transgressed against me, + and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things + that do not profit. +002:009 Therefore I will yet contend with you, says Yahweh, and with + your children's children will I contend. +002:010 For pass over to the islands of Kittim, and see; and send + to Kedar, and consider diligently; and see if there has been + such a thing. +002:011 Has a nation changed [its] gods, which yet are no gods? but my + people have changed their glory for that which does not profit. +002:012 Be astonished, you heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, + be you very desolate, says Yahweh. +002:013 For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, + the spring of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, + broken cisterns, that can hold no water. +002:014 Is Israel a servant? is he a native-born [slave]? why is + he become a prey? +002:015 The young lions have roared on him, and yelled; and they have made + his land waste: his cities are burned up, without inhabitant. +002:016 The children also of Memphis and Tahpanhes have broken the crown + of your head. +002:017 Haven't you procured this to yourself, in that you have forsaken + Yahweh your God, when he led you by the way? +002:018 Now what have you to do in the way to Egypt, to drink the waters + of the Shihor? or what have you to do in the way to Assyria, + to drink the waters of the River? +002:019 Your own wickedness shall correct you, and your backsliding + shall reprove you: know therefore and see that it is an evil + thing and a bitter, that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, + and that my fear is not in you, says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies. +002:020 For of old time I have broken your yoke, and burst your bonds; + and you said, I will not serve; for on every high hill and under + every green tree you did bow yourself, playing the prostitute. +002:021 Yet I had planted you a noble vine, wholly a right seed: + how then are you turned into the degenerate branches of a + foreign vine to me? +002:022 For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, + yet your iniquity is marked before me, says the Lord Yahweh. +002:023 How can you say, I am not defiled, I have not gone after + the Baals? see your way in the valley, know what you have done: + [you are] a swift dromedary traversing her ways; +002:024 a wild donkey used to the wilderness, that snuffs up the wind + in her desire; in her occasion who can turn her away? all + those who seek her will not weary themselves; in her month + they shall find her. +002:025 Withhold your foot from being unshod, and your throat from thirst: + but you said, It is in vain; no, for I have loved strangers, + and after them will I go. +002:026 As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house + of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, + and their priests, and their prophets; +002:027 who tell a stock, You are my father; and to a stone, You have + brought me forth: for they have turned their back to me, + and not their face; but in the time of their trouble they + will say, Arise, and save us. +002:028 But where are your gods that you have made you? let them arise, + if they can save you in the time of your trouble: + for according to the number of your cities are your gods, Judah. +002:029 Why will you contend with me? you all have transgressed + against me, says Yahweh. +002:030 In vain have I struck your children; they received no correction: + your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion. +002:031 Generation, see the word of Yahweh. Have I been a wilderness + to Israel? or a land of thick darkness? why say my people, + We are broken loose; we will come no more to you? +002:032 Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet + my people have forgotten me days without number. +002:033 How trimmest you your way to seek love! therefore even the wicked + women have you taught your ways. +002:034 Also in your skirts is found the blood of the souls + of the innocent poor: you did not find them breaking in; + but it is because of all these things. +002:035 Yet you said, I am innocent; surely his anger is turned away + from me. Behold, I will enter into judgment with you, + because you say, I have not sinned. +002:036 Why go you about so much to change your way? you shall be + ashamed of Egypt also, as you were ashamed of Assyria. +002:037 From there also shall you go forth, with your hands on your head: + for Yahweh has rejected those in whom you trust, and you + shall not prosper with them. +003:001 They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, + and become another man's, will he return to her again? + Won't that land be greatly polluted? But you have played + the prostitute with many lovers; yet return again + to me, says Yahweh. +003:002 Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see; where have + you not been lain with? By the ways have you sat for them, + as an Arabian in the wilderness; and you have polluted the land + with your prostitution and with your wickedness. +003:003 Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has + been no latter rain; yet you have a prostitute's forehead, + you refused to be ashamed. +003:004 Will you not from this time cry to me, My Father, you are + the guide of my youth? +003:005 Will he retain [his anger] forever? will he keep it to the end? + Behold, you have spoken and have done evil things, and have + had your way. +003:006 Moreover Yahweh said to me in the days of Josiah the king, + Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? she + is gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, + and there has played the prostitute. +003:007 I said after she had done all these things, She will return to me; + but she didn't return: and her treacherous sister Judah saw it. +003:008 I saw, when, for this very cause that backsliding Israel had + committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a bill + of divorce, yet treacherous Judah, her sister, didn't fear; + but she also went and played the prostitute. +003:009 It happened through the lightness of her prostitution, + that the land was polluted, and she committed adultery + with stones and with stocks. +003:010 Yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah has not returned + to me with her whole heart, but only in pretense, says Yahweh. +003:011 Yahweh said to me, Backsliding Israel has shown herself more + righteous than treacherous Judah. +003:012 Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, + Return, you backsliding Israel, says Yahweh; I will not look + in anger on you; for I am merciful, says Yahweh, I will not + keep [anger] forever. +003:013 Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed + against Yahweh your God, and have scattered your ways to + the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed + my voice, says Yahweh. +003:014 Return, backsliding children, says Yahweh; for I am a husband to you: + and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, + and I will bring you to Zion: +003:015 and I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who shall + feed you with knowledge and understanding. +003:016 It shall come to pass, when you are multiplied and increased + in the land, in those days, says Yahweh, they shall say no more, + The ark of the covenant of Yahweh; neither shall it come to mind; + neither shall they remember it; neither shall they miss it; + neither shall it be made any more. +003:017 At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of Yahweh; + and all the nations shall be gathered to it, to the name + of Yahweh, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more + after the stubbornness of their evil heart. +003:018 In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house + of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land + of the north to the land that I gave for an inheritance + to your fathers. +003:019 But I said, How I will put you among the children, and give + you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the armies + of the nations! and I said, You shall call me My Father, + and shall not turn away from following me. +003:020 Surely as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so have + you dealt treacherously with me, house of Israel, says Yahweh. +003:021 A voice is heard on the bare heights, the weeping [and] + the petitions of the children of Israel; because they have + perverted their way, they have forgotten Yahweh their God. +003:022 Return, you backsliding children, I will heal your backsliding. + Behold, we are come to you; for you are Yahweh our God. +003:023 Truly in vain is [the help that is looked for] from the hills, + the tumult on the mountains: truly in Yahweh our God is + the salvation of Israel. +003:024 But the shameful thing has devoured the labor of our fathers + from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons + and their daughters. +003:025 Let us lie down in our shame, and let our confusion cover us; + for we have sinned against Yahweh our God, we and our fathers, + from our youth even to this day; and we have not obeyed + the voice of Yahweh our God. +004:001 If you will return, Israel, says Yahweh, if you will return to me, + and if you will put away your abominations out of my sight; + then you shall not be removed; +004:002 and you shall swear, As Yahweh lives, in truth, in justice, + and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves + in him, and in him shall they glory. +004:003 For thus says Yahweh to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, Break up + your fallow ground, and don't sow among thorns. +004:004 Circumcise yourselves to Yahweh, and take away the foreskins + of your heart, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; + lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn so that none can + quench it, because of the evil of your doings. +004:005 Declare you in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, + Blow you the trumpet in the land: cry aloud and say, + Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the fortified cities. +004:006 Set up a standard toward Zion: flee for safety, don't stay; + for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction. +004:007 A lion is gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations; + he is on his way, he is gone forth from his place, to make your + land desolate, that your cities be laid waste, without inhabitant. +004:008 For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and wail; + for the fierce anger of Yahweh hasn't turned back from us. +004:009 It shall happen at that day, says Yahweh, that the heart + of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; + and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder. +004:010 Then said I, Ah, Lord Yahweh! surely you have greatly deceived + this people and Jerusalem, saying, You shall have peace; + whereas the sword reaches to the life. +004:011 At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A hot + wind from the bare heights in the wilderness toward the daughter + of my people, not to winnow, nor to cleanse; +004:012 a full wind from these shall come for me: now will I also utter + judgments against them. +004:013 Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots [shall + be] as the whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. + Woe to us! for we are ruined. +004:014 Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. + How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you? +004:015 For a voice declares from Dan, and publishes evil from + the hills of Ephraim: +004:016 make you mention to the nations; behold, publish against Jerusalem, + [that] watchers come from a far country, and give out their + voice against the cities of Judah. +004:017 As keepers of a field are they against her round about, + because she has been rebellious against me, says Yahweh. +004:018 Your way and your doings have procured these things to you; + this is your wickedness; for it is bitter, for it reaches + to your heart. +004:019 My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart; + my heart is disquieted in me; I can't hold my peace; + because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, + the alarm of war. +004:020 Destruction on destruction is cried; for the whole land is + laid waste: suddenly are my tents destroyed, [and] my curtains + in a moment. +004:021 How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound + of the trumpet? +004:022 For my people are foolish, they don't know me; they are + foolish children, and they have no understanding; they are + wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge. +004:023 I saw the earth, and, behold, it was waste and void; + and the heavens, and they had no light. +004:024 I saw the mountains, and behold, they trembled, and all the hills + moved back and forth. +004:025 I saw, and behold, there was no man, and all the birds + of the sky were fled. +004:026 I saw, and behold, the fruitful field was a wilderness, and all + the cities of it were broken down at the presence of Yahweh, + [and] before his fierce anger. +004:027 For thus says Yahweh, The whole land shall be a desolation; + yet will I not make a full end. +004:028 For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black; + because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and I have + not repented, neither will I turn back from it. +004:029 Every city flees for the noise of the horsemen and archers; + they go into the thickets, and climb up on the rocks: + every city is forsaken, and not a man dwells therein. +004:030 You, when you are made desolate, what will you do? + Though you clothe yourself with scarlet, though you deck you + with ornaments of gold, though you enlarge your eyes with paint, + in vain do you make yourself beautiful; [your] lovers despise you, + they seek your life. +004:031 For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, + the anguish as of her who brings forth her first child, + the voice of the daughter of Zion, who gasps for breath, + who spreads her hands, [saying], Woe is me now! for my soul + faints before the murderers. +005:001 Run you back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, + and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places of it, + if you can find a man, if there are any who does justly, + who seeks truth; and I will pardon her. +005:002 Though they say, As Yahweh lives; surely they swear falsely. +005:003 O Yahweh, don't your eyes look on truth? you have stricken them, + but they were not grieved; you have consumed them, but they + have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces + harder than a rock; they have refused to return. +005:004 Then I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish; for they + don't know the way of Yahweh, nor the law of their God: +005:005 I will get me to the great men, and will speak to them; + for they know the way of Yahweh, and the law of their God. + But these with one accord have broken the yoke, + and burst the bonds. +005:006 Therefore a lion out of the forest shall kill them, a wolf + of the evenings shall destroy them, a leopard shall watch + against their cities; everyone who goes out there shall + be torn in pieces; because their transgressions are many, + [and] their backsliding is increased. +005:007 How can I pardon you? your children have forsaken me, and sworn + by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, + they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops + at the prostitutes' houses. +005:008 They were as fed horses roaming at large; everyone neighed + after his neighbor's wife. +005:009 Shall I not visit for these things? says Yahweh; and shall + not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? +005:010 Go up on her walls, and destroy; but don't make a full end: + take away her branches; for they are not Yahweh's. +005:011 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt + very treacherously against me, says Yahweh. +005:012 They have denied Yahweh, and said, It is not he; neither shall + evil come on us; neither shall we see sword nor famine: +005:013 and the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: + thus shall it be done to them. +005:014 Therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Armies, Because you speak + this word, behold, I will make my words in your mouth fire, + and this people wood, and it shall devour them. +005:015 Behold, I will bring a nation on you from far, house of Israel, + says Yahweh: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, + a nation whose language you don't know, neither understand + what they say. +005:016 Their quiver is an open tomb, they are all mighty men. +005:017 They shall eat up your harvest, and your bread, [which] your sons + and your daughters should eat; they shall eat up your flocks + and your herds; they shall eat up your vines and your fig trees; + they shall beat down your fortified cities, in which you trust, + with the sword. +005:018 But even in those days, says Yahweh, I will not make a full + end with you. +005:019 It shall happen, when you shall say, Why has Yahweh our God + done all these things to us? then shall you say to them, + Like as you have forsaken me, and served foreign gods in your land, + so shall you serve strangers in a land that is not yours. +005:020 Declare you this in the house of Jacob, and publish it + in Judah, saying, +005:021 Hear now this, foolish people, and without understanding; + who have eyes, and don't see; who have ears, and don't hear: +005:022 Don't you fear me? says Yahweh: won't you tremble at my presence, + who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, + by a perpetual decree, that it can't pass it? and though + the waves of it toss themselves, yet they can't prevail; + though they roar, yet they can't pass over it. +005:023 But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart; + they are revolted and gone. +005:024 Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear Yahweh our God, + who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season; + who preserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest. +005:025 Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins + have withheld good from you. +005:026 For among my people are found wicked men: they watch, + as fowlers lie in wait; they set a trap, they catch men. +005:027 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: + therefore they are become great, and grew rich. +005:028 They are grew fat, they shine: yes, they overpass in deeds + of wickedness; they don't plead the cause, the cause + of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and the right + of the needy they don't judge. +005:029 Shall I not visit for these things? says Yahweh; shall not my + soul be avenged on such a nation as this? +005:030 A wonderful and horrible thing is happen in the land: +005:031 the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule + by their means; and my people love to have it so: + and what will you do in the end of it? +006:001 Flee for safety, you children of Benjamin, out of the midst + of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and raise up + a signal on Beth Haccherem; for evil looks forth from the north, + and a great destruction. +006:002 The comely and delicate one, the daughter of Zion, will I cut off. +006:003 Shepherds with their flocks shall come to her; they shall + pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed + everyone in his place. +006:004 Prepare you war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. + Woe to us! for the day declines, for the shadows of the evening + are stretched out. +006:005 Arise, and let us go up by night, and let us destroy her palaces. +006:006 For thus has Yahweh of Armies said, Hew you down trees, and cast + up a mound against Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; + she is wholly oppression in the midst of her. +006:007 As a well casts forth its waters, so she casts forth her wickedness: + violence and destruction is heard in her; before me continually + is sickness and wounds. +006:008 Be instructed, Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from you; + lest I make you a desolation, a land not inhabited. +006:009 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, They shall thoroughly glean + the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn again your hand + as a grape gatherer into the baskets. +006:010 To whom shall I speak and testify, that they may hear? behold, + their ear is uncircumcised, and they can't listen: + behold, the word of Yahweh is become to them a reproach; + they have no delight in it. +006:011 Therefore I am full of the wrath of Yahweh; I am weary + with holding in: pour it out on the children in the street, + and on the assembly of young men together; for even the husband + with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him who is + full of days. +006:012 Their houses shall be turned to others, their fields and their + wives together; for I will stretch out my hand on the inhabitants + of the land, says Yahweh. +006:013 For from the least of them even to the greatest of them + everyone is given to covetousness; and from the prophet + even to the priest everyone deals falsely. +006:014 They have healed also the hurt of my people slightly, + saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace. +006:015 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, + they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: + therefore they shall fall among those who fall; at the time + that I visit them they shall be cast down, says Yahweh. +006:016 Thus says Yahweh, Stand you in the ways and see, and ask + for the old paths, where is the good way; and walk therein, + and you shall find rest for your souls: but they said, + We will not walk [therein]. +006:017 I set watchmen over you, [saying], Listen to the sound of the trumpet; + but they said, We will not listen. +006:018 Therefore hear, you nations, and know, congregation, + what is among them. +006:019 Hear, earth: behold, I will bring evil on this people, + even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not listened + to my words; and as for my law, they have rejected it. +006:020 To what purpose comes there to me frankincense from Sheba, + and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings + are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing to me. +006:021 Therefore thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will lay stumbling blocks + before this people; and the fathers and the sons together shall + stumble against them; the neighbor and his friend shall perish. +006:022 Thus says Yahweh, Behold, a people comes from the north country; + and a great nation shall be stirred up from the uttermost + parts of the earth. +006:023 They lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; + their voice roars like the sea, and they ride on horses, + everyone set in array, as a man to the battle, against you, + daughter of Zion. +006:024 We have heard the report of it; our hands wax feeble: + anguish has taken hold of us, [and] pangs as of a woman in travail. +006:025 Don't go forth into the field, nor walk by the way; + for the sword of the enemy, [and] terror, are on every side. +006:026 Daughter of my people, gird you with sackcloth, and wallow + yourself in ashes: make you mourning, as for an only son, + most bitter lamentation; for the destroyer shall suddenly + come on us. +006:027 I have made you a tester of metals [and] a fortress among my people; + that you may know and try their way. +006:028 They are all grievous rebels, going about with slanders; + they are brass and iron: they all of them deal corruptly. +006:029 The bellows blow fiercely; the lead is consumed of the fire: + in vain do they go on refining; for the wicked are + not plucked away. +006:030 Refuse silver shall men them, because Yahweh has rejected them. +007:001 The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying, +007:002 Stand in the gate of Yahweh's house, and proclaim there + this word, and say, Hear the word of Yahweh, all you of Judah, + who enter in at these gates to worship Yahweh. +007:003 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, Amend your ways + and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place. +007:004 Don't you trust in lying words, saying, The temple of Yahweh, + the temple of Yahweh, the temple of Yahweh, are these. +007:005 For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; + if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor; +007:006 if you don't oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, + and the widow, and don't shed innocent blood in this place, + neither walk after other gods to your own hurt: +007:007 then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land + that I gave to your fathers, from of old even forevermore. +007:008 Behold, you trust in lying words, that can't profit. +007:009 Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, + and burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods that you + have not known, +007:010 and come and stand before me in this house, which is called + by my name, and say, We are delivered; that you may do + all these abominations? +007:011 Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers + in your eyes? Behold, I, even I, have seen it, says Yahweh. +007:012 But go you now to my place which was in Shiloh, where I caused + my name to dwell at the first, and see what I did to it + for the wickedness of my people Israel. +007:013 Now, because you have done all these works, says Yahweh, and I + spoke to you, rising up early and speaking, but you didn't hear; + and I called you, but you didn't answer: +007:014 therefore will I do to the house which is called by my name, + in which you trust, and to the place which I gave to you + and to your fathers, as I did to Shiloh. +007:015 I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all + your brothers, even the whole seed of Ephraim. +007:016 Therefore don't you pray for this people, neither lift up + a cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me; + for I will not hear you. +007:017 Don't you see what they do in the cities of Judah and in + the streets of Jerusalem? +007:018 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, + and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen + of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to other gods, + that they may provoke me to anger. +007:019 Do they provoke me to anger? says Yahweh; [do they] not + [provoke] themselves, to the confusion of their own faces? +007:020 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, my anger and my + wrath shall be poured out on this place, on man, and on animal, + and on the trees of the field, and on the fruit of the ground; + and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched. +007:021 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Add your burnt + offerings to your sacrifices, and eat meat. +007:022 For I didn't speak to your fathers, nor command them in the day + that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt + offerings or sacrifices: +007:023 but this thing I commanded them, saying, Listen to my voice, + and I will be your God, and you shall be my people; + and walk you in all the way that I command you, that it may + be well with you. +007:024 But they didn't listen nor turn their ear, but walked in [their + own] counsels [and] in the stubbornness of their evil heart, + and went backward, and not forward. +007:025 Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt + to this day, I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, + daily rising up early and sending them: +007:026 yet they didn't listen to me, nor inclined their ear, but made + their neck stiff: they did worse than their fathers. +007:027 You shall speak all these words to them; but they will not + listen to you: you shall also call to them; but they will + not answer you. +007:028 You shall tell them, This is the nation that has not listened + to the voice of Yahweh their God, nor received instruction: + truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth. +007:029 Cut off your hair, [Jerusalem], and cast it away, and take up + a lamentation on the bare heights; for Yahweh has rejected + and forsaken the generation of his wrath. +007:030 For the children of Judah have done that which is evil in my sight, + says Yahweh: they have set their abominations in the house + which is called by my name, to defile it. +007:031 They have built the high places of Topheth, which is + in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons + and their daughters in the fire; which I didn't command, + nor did it come into my mind. +007:032 Therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that it shall + no more be called Topheth, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, + but The valley of Slaughter: for they shall bury in Topheth, + until there be no place [to bury]. +007:033 The dead bodies of this people shall be food for the birds + of the sky, and for the animals of the earth; and none shall + frighten them away. +007:034 Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from + the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth and the voice + of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; + for the land shall become a waste. +008:001 At that time, says Yahweh, they shall bring out the bones + of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, + and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, + and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves; +008:002 and they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, + and all the army of the sky, which they have loved, + and which they have served, and after which they have walked, + and which they have sought, and which they have worshiped: + they shall not be gathered, nor be buried, they shall be + for dung on the surface of the earth. +008:003 Death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue + that remain of this evil family, that remain in all the places + where I have driven them, says Yahweh of Armies. +008:004 Moreover you shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh: Shall men fall, + and not rise up again? Shall one turn away, and not return? +008:005 Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual + backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return. +008:006 I listened and heard, but they didn't speak aright: + no man repents him of his wickedness, saying, What have I + done? everyone turns to his course, as a horse that rushes + headlong in the battle. +008:007 Yes, the stork in the sky knows her appointed times; + and the turtledove and the swallow and the crane observe the time + of their coming; but my people don't know Yahweh's law. +008:008 How do you say, We are wise, and the law of Yahweh is with us? + But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has worked falsely. +008:009 The wise men are disappointed, they are dismayed and taken: + behold, they have rejected the word of Yahweh; and what manner + of wisdom is in them? +008:010 Therefore will I give their wives to others, and their + fields to those who shall possess them: for everyone from + the least even to the greatest is given to covetousness; + from the prophet even to the priest every one deals falsely. +008:011 They have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, + saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace. +008:012 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, + they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: + therefore shall they fall among those who fall; in the time + of their visitation they shall be cast down, says Yahweh. +008:013 I will utterly consume them, says Yahweh: there shall be no + grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf + shall fade; and [the things that] I have given them shall + pass away from them. +008:014 Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves, and let us enter + into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there; + for Yahweh our God has put us to silence, and given us water + of gall to drink, because we have sinned against Yahweh. +008:015 We looked for peace, but no good came; [and] for a time of healing, + and behold, dismay! +008:016 The snorting of his horses is heard from Dan: at the sound + of the neighing of his strong ones the whole land trembles; + for they are come, and have devoured the land and all that is in it; + the city and those who dwell therein. +008:017 For, behold, I will send serpents, adders, among you, which will + not be charmed; and they shall bite you, says Yahweh. +008:018 Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! My heart + is faint within me. +008:019 Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land + that is very far off: isn't Yahweh in Zion? Isn't her King in her? + Why have they provoked me to anger with their engraved images, + and with foreign vanities? +008:020 The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved. +008:021 For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt: + I mourn; dismay has taken hold on me. +008:022 Is there no balm in Gilead? is there no physician there? why + then isn't the health of the daughter of my people recovered? +009:001 Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a spring of tears, + that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter + of my people! +009:002 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; + that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they + are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. +009:003 They bend their tongue, [as it were] their bow, for falsehood; + and they are grown strong in the land, but not for truth: + for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don't + know me, says Yahweh. +009:004 Take you heed everyone of his neighbor, and don't you trust + in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, + and every neighbor will go about with slanders. +009:005 They will deceive everyone his neighbor, and will not speak + the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies; + they weary themselves to commit iniquity. +009:006 Your habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they + refuse to know me, says Yahweh. +009:007 Therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies, Behold, I will melt them, + and try them; for how [else] should I do, because of the daughter + of my people? +009:008 Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceit: + one speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, + but in his heart he lays wait for him. +009:009 Shall I not visit them for these things? says Yahweh; + shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? +009:010 For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, + and for the pastures of the wilderness a lamentation, + because they are burned up, so that none passes through; + neither can men hear the voice of the livestock; both the birds + of the sky and the animals are fled, they are gone. +009:011 I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling place of jackals; and I + will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant. +009:012 Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and [who is] + he to whom the mouth of Yahweh has spoken, that he may declare + it? why is the land perished and burned up like a wilderness, + so that none passes through? +009:013 Yahweh says, Because they have forsaken my law which I set + before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein, +009:014 but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, + and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them; +009:015 therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, Behold, I + will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give + them water of gall to drink. +009:016 I will scatter them also among the nations, whom neither they nor + their fathers have known; and I will send the sword after them, + until I have consumed them. +009:017 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, Consider you, and call for the mourning + women, that they may come; and send for the skillful women, + that they may come: +009:018 and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, + that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush + out with waters. +009:019 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we ruined! + we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, + because they have cast down our dwellings. +009:020 Yet hear the word of Yahweh, you women, and let your ear receive + the word of his mouth; and teach your daughters wailing, + and everyone her neighbor lamentation. +009:021 For death is come up into our windows, it is entered into our palaces; + to cut off the children from outside, [and] the young men + from the streets. +009:022 Speak, Thus says Yahweh, The dead bodies of men shall fall as dung + on the open field, and as the handful after the harvester; + and none shall gather [them]. +009:023 Thus says Yahweh, Don't let the wise man glory in his wisdom, + neither let the mighty man glory in his might, don't let + the rich man glory in his riches; +009:024 but let him who glories glory in this, that he has understanding, + and knows me, that I am Yahweh who exercises loving + kindness, justice, and righteousness, in the earth: + for in these things I delight, says Yahweh. +009:025 Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will punish all + those who are circumcised in [their] uncircumcision: +009:026 Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, + and all that have the corners [of their hair] cut off, who dwell + in the wilderness; for all the nations are uncircumcised, + and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart. +010:001 Hear the word which Yahweh speaks to you, house of Israel! +010:002 Thus says Yahweh, "Don't learn the way of the nations, + and don't be dismayed at the signs of the sky; for the nations + are dismayed at them. +010:003 For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cuts a tree + out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman + with the axe. +010:004 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails + and with hammers, that it not move. +010:005 They are like a palm tree, of turned work, and don't speak: + they must be carried, because they can't go. Don't be afraid + of them; for they can't do evil, neither is it in them + to do good." +010:006 There is none like you, Yahweh; you are great, and your name + is great in might. +010:007 Who should not fear you, King of the nations? for to you does + it appertain; because among all the wise men of the nations, + and in all their royal estate, there is none like you. +010:008 But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction + of idols! it is but a stock. +010:009 There is silver beaten into plates, which is brought from Tarshish, + and gold from Uphaz, the work of the artificer and of the hands + of the goldsmith; blue and purple for their clothing; + they are all the work of skillful men. +010:010 But Yahweh is the true God; he is the living God, + and an everlasting King: at his wrath the earth trembles, + and the nations are not able to abide his indignation. +010:011 Thus shall you say to them, The gods that have not made + the heavens and the earth, these shall perish from the earth, + and from under the heavens. +010:012 He has made the earth by his power, he has established the world + by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched + out the heavens: +010:013 when he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, + and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; + he makes lightnings for the rain, and brings forth the wind + out of his treasuries. +010:014 Every man is become brutish [and is] without knowledge; + every goldsmith is disappointed by his engraved image; + for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. +010:015 They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their + visitation they shall perish. +010:016 The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the former + of all things; and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance: + Yahweh of Armies is his name. +010:017 Gather up your wares out of the land, you who abide in the siege. +010:018 For thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants + of the land at this time, and will distress them, that they + may feel [it]. +010:019 Woe is me because of my hurt! my wound is grievous: + but I said, Truly this is [my] grief, and I must bear it. +010:020 My tent is destroyed, and all my cords are broken: + my children are gone forth from me, and they are no more: + there is none to spread my tent any more, and to set + up my curtains. +010:021 For the shepherds are become brutish, and have not inquired + of Yahweh: therefore they have not prospered, and all their + flocks are scattered. +010:022 The voice of news, behold, it comes, and a great commotion out + of the north country, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, + a dwelling place of jackals. +010:023 Yahweh, I know that the way of man is not in himself: + it is not in man who walks to direct his steps. +010:024 Yahweh, correct me, but in measure: not in your anger, + lest you bring me to nothing. +010:025 Pour out your wrath on the nations that don't know you, + and on the families that don't call on your name: + for they have devoured Jacob, yes, they have devoured him + and consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation. +011:001 The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying, +011:002 Hear you the words of this covenant, and speak to the men of Judah, + and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem; +011:003 and say you to them, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: Cursed be + the man who doesn't hear the words of this covenant, +011:004 which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them + forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace, saying, + Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I command you: + so shall you be my people, and I will be your God; +011:005 that I may establish the oath which I swore to your fathers, + to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as at this day. + Then answered I, and said, Amen, Yahweh. +011:006 Yahweh said to me, Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah, + and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Hear you the words + of this covenant, and do them. +011:007 For I earnestly protested to your fathers in the day that I + brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even to this day, + rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice. +011:008 Yet they didn't obey, nor turn their ear, but walked + everyone in the stubbornness of their evil heart: + therefore I brought on them all the words of this covenant, + which I commanded them to do, but they didn't do them. +011:009 Yahweh said to me, A conspiracy is found among the men of Judah, + and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem. +011:010 They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, + who refused to hear my words; and they are gone after other gods + to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah + have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers. +011:011 Therefore thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will bring evil on them, + which they shall not be able to escape; and they shall cry to me, + but I will not listen to them. +011:012 Then shall the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem + go and cry to the gods to which they offer incense: + but they will not save them at all in the time of their trouble. +011:013 For according to the number of your cities are your gods, Judah; + and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have + you set up altars to the shameful thing, even altars to burn + incense to Baal. +011:014 Therefore don't you pray for this people, neither lift up cry + nor prayer for them; for I will not hear them in the time + that they cry to me because of their trouble. +011:015 What has my beloved to do in my house, seeing she has worked + lewdness [with] many, and the holy flesh is passed from you? + when you do evil, then you rejoice. +011:016 Yahweh called your name, A green olive tree, beautiful with + goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he has kindled + fire on it, and the branches of it are broken. +011:017 For Yahweh of Armies, who planted you, has pronounced evil + against you, because of the evil of the house of Israel and + of the house of Judah, which they have worked for themselves + in provoking me to anger by offering incense to Baal. +011:018 Yahweh gave me knowledge of it, and I knew it: then you shown + me their doings. +011:019 But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; + and I didn't know that they had devised devices against me, + [saying], Let us destroy the tree with the fruit of it, + and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his + name may be no more remembered. +011:020 But, Yahweh of Armies, who judges righteously, who tests + the heart and the mind, I shall see your vengeance on them; + for to you have I revealed my cause. +011:021 Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the men of Anathoth, + who seek your life, saying, You shall not prophesy in the name + of Yahweh, that you not die by our hand; +011:022 therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies, Behold, I will punish them: + the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their + daughters shall die by famine; +011:023 and there shall be no remnant to them: for I will bring evil + on the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation. +012:001 Righteous are you, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet would + I reason the cause with you: why does the way of the wicked + prosper? why are all they at ease who deal very treacherously? +012:002 You have planted them, yes, they have taken root; they grow, + yes, they bring forth fruit: you are near in their mouth, + and far from their heart. +012:003 But you, Yahweh, know me; you see me, and try my heart toward you: + pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them + for the day of slaughter. +012:004 How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of the whole + country wither? for the wickedness of those who dwell therein, + the animals are consumed, and the birds; because they said, + He shall not see our latter end. +012:005 If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you, + then how can you contend with horses? and though in a land + of peace you are secure, yet how will you do in the pride + of the Jordan? +012:006 For even your brothers, and the house of your father, even they + have dealt treacherously with you; even they have cried aloud + after you: don't believe them, though they speak beautiful + words to you. +012:007 I have forsaken my house, I have cast off my heritage; + I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand + of her enemies. +012:008 My heritage is become to me as a lion in the forest: + she has uttered her voice against me; therefore I have hated her. +012:009 Is my heritage to me as a speckled bird of prey? are the birds + of prey against her round about? go you, assemble all the animals + of the field, bring them to devour. +012:010 Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden + my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion + a desolate wilderness. +012:011 They have made it a desolation; it mourns to me, being desolate; + the whole land is made desolate, because no man lays it to heart. +012:012 Destroyers are come on all the bare heights in the wilderness; + for the sword of Yahweh devours from the one end of the land + even to the other end of the land: no flesh has peace. +012:013 They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns; + they have put themselves to pain, and profit nothing: + and you shall be ashamed of your fruits, because of the fierce + anger of Yahweh. +012:014 Thus says Yahweh against all my evil neighbors, who touch + the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit: + behold, I will pluck them up from off their land, and will + pluck up the house of Judah from among them. +012:015 It shall happen, after that I have plucked them up, I will return + and have compassion on them; and I will bring them again, + every man to his heritage, and every man to his land. +012:016 It shall happen, if they will diligently learn the ways + of my people, to swear by my name, As Yahweh lives; + even as they taught my people to swear by Baal; then shall + they be built up in the midst of my people. +012:017 But if they will not hear, then will I pluck up that nation, + plucking up and destroying it, says Yahweh. +013:001 Thus says Yahweh to me, Go, and buy you a linen belt, and put + it on your waist, and don't put it in water. +013:002 So I bought a belt according to the word of Yahweh, and put + it on my waist. +013:003 The word of Yahweh came to me the second time, saying, +013:004 Take the belt that you have bought, which is on your waist, + and arise, go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a cleft + of the rock. +013:005 So I went, and hid it by the Euphrates, as Yahweh commanded me. +013:006 It happened after many days, that Yahweh said to me, Arise, + go to the Euphrates, and take the belt from there, which I + commanded you to hide there. +013:007 Then I went to the Euphrates, and dug, and took the belt from + the place where I had hid it; and behold, the belt was marred, + it was profitable for nothing. +013:008 Then the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, +013:009 Thus says Yahweh, After this manner will I mar the pride of Judah, + and the great pride of Jerusalem. +013:010 This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who walk in + the stubbornness of their heart, and are gone after other gods + to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this belt, + which is profitable for nothing. +013:011 For as the belt cleaves to the waist of a man, so have I caused + to cleave to me the whole house of Israel and the whole house + of Judah, says Yahweh; that they may be to me for a people, + and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory: + but they would not hear. +013:012 Therefore you shall speak to them this word: Thus says Yahweh, + the God of Israel, Every bottle shall be filled with wine: + and they shall tell you, Do we not certainly know that every + bottle shall be filled with wine? +013:013 Then shall you tell them, Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will fill + all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings who sit + on David's throne, and the priests, and the prophets, + and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness. +013:014 I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and + the sons together, says Yahweh: I will not pity, nor spare, + nor have compassion, that I should not destroy them. +013:015 Hear you, and give ear; don't be proud; for Yahweh has spoken. +013:016 Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he cause darkness, + and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and, + while you look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, + and make it gross darkness. +013:017 But if you will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret + for [your] pride; and my eye shall weep sore, and run down + with tears, because Yahweh's flock is taken captive. +013:018 Say you to the king and to the queen mother, Humble yourselves, + sit down; for your headdresses are come down, even the crown + of your glory. +013:019 The cities of the South are shut up, and there is none to open them: + Judah is carried away captive, all of it; it is wholly + carried away captive. +013:020 Lift up your eyes, and see those who come from the north: + where is the flock that was given you, your beautiful flock? +013:021 What will you say, when he shall set over you as head those + whom you have yourself taught to be friends to you? shall + not sorrows take hold of you, as of a woman in travail? +013:022 If you say in your heart, Why are these things come on me? + for the greatness of your iniquity are your skirts uncovered, + and your heels suffer violence. +013:023 Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? + then may you also do good, who are accustomed to do evil. +013:024 Therefore will I scatter them, as the stubble that passes away, + by the wind of the wilderness. +013:025 This is your lot, the portion measured to you from me, says Yahweh; + because you have forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood. +013:026 Therefore will I also uncover your skirts on your face, + and your shame shall appear. +013:027 I have seen your abominations, even your adulteries, + and your neighing, the lewdness of your prostitution, + on the hills in the field. Woe to you, Jerusalem! you will + not be made clean; how long shall it yet be? +014:001 The word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought. +014:002 Judah mourns, and the gates of it languish, they sit in black + on the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up. +014:003 Their nobles send their little ones to the waters: + they come to the cisterns, and find no water; they return + with their vessels empty; they are disappointed and confounded, + and cover their heads. +014:004 Because of the ground which is cracked, because no rain + has been in the land, the plowmen are disappointed, + they cover their heads. +014:005 Yes, the hind also in the field calves, and forsakes [her young], + because there is no grass. +014:006 The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights, they pant for air + like jackals; their eyes fail, because there is no herbage. +014:007 Though our iniquities testify against us, work you for + your name's sake, Yahweh; for our backslidings are many; + we have sinned against you. +014:008 You hope of Israel, the Savior of it in the time of trouble, + why should you be as a foreigner in the land, and as a wayfaring + man who turns aside to stay for a night? +014:009 Why should you be like a scared man, as a mighty man who can't + save? yet you, Yahweh, are in the midst of us, and we are + called by your name; don't leave us. +014:010 Thus says Yahweh to this people, Even so have they loved to wander; + they have not refrained their feet: therefore Yahweh does + not accept them; now he will remember their iniquity, + and visit their sins. +014:011 Yahweh said to me, Don't pray for this people for [their] good. +014:012 When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer + burnt offering and meal offering, I will not accept them; + but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, + and by the pestilence. +014:013 Then said I, Ah, Lord Yahweh! behold, the prophets tell them, + You shall not see the sword, neither shall you have famine; + but I will give you assured peace in this place. +014:014 Then Yahweh said to me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name; + I didn't send them, neither have I commanded them, neither spoke + I to them: they prophesy to you a lying vision, and divination, + and a thing of nothing, and the deceit of their own heart. +014:015 Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the prophets + who prophesy in my name, and I didn't send them, + yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land: + By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed. +014:016 The people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the + streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; + and they shall have none to bury them--them, their wives, + nor their sons, nor their daughters: for I will pour their + wickedness on them. +014:017 You shall say this word to them, Let my eyes run down with + tears night and day, and let them not cease; for the virgin + daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, + with a very grievous wound. +014:018 If I go forth into the field, then, behold, the slain with + the sword! and if I enter into the city, then, behold, those who + are sick with famine! for both the prophet and the priest go + about in the land, and have no knowledge. +014:019 Have you utterly rejected Judah? has your soul loathed Zion? + why have you struck us, and there is no healing for us? + We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, + and behold, dismay! +014:020 We acknowledge, Yahweh, our wickedness, and the iniquity + of our fathers; for we have sinned against you. +014:021 Do not abhor [us], for your name's sake; do not disgrace the throne + of your glory: remember, don't break your covenant with us. +014:022 Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can + cause rain? or can the sky give showers? Aren't you he, + Yahweh our God? therefore we will wait for you; for you + have made all these things. +015:001 Then said Yahweh to me, Though Moses and Samuel stood + before me, yet my mind would not be toward this people: + cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth. +015:002 It shall happen, when they tell you, Where shall we go + forth? then you shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh: Such as + are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, + to the sword; and such as are for the famine, to the famine; + and such as are for captivity, to captivity. +015:003 I will appoint over them four kinds, says Yahweh: + the sword to kill, and the dogs to tear, and the birds of the sky, + and the animals of the earth, to devour and to destroy. +015:004 I will cause them to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms + of the earth, because of Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah, + king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem. +015:005 For who will have pity on you, Jerusalem? or who will bemoan + you? or who will turn aside to ask of your welfare? +015:006 You have rejected me, says Yahweh, you are gone backward: + therefore have I stretched out my hand against you, + and destroyed you; I am weary with repenting. +015:007 I have winnowed them with a fan in the gates of the land; + I have bereaved [them] of children, I have destroyed my people; + they didn't return from their ways. +015:008 Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas; + I have brought on them against the mother of the young men + a destroyer at noonday: I have caused anguish and terrors + to fall on her suddenly. +015:009 She who has borne seven languishes; she has given up the spirit; + her sun is gone down while it was yet day; she has been + disappointed and confounded: and the residue of them will I + deliver to the sword before their enemies, says Yahweh. +015:010 Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me a man + of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! + I have not lent, neither have men lent to me; [yet] everyone + of them does curse me. +015:011 Yahweh said, Most certainly I will strengthen you for good; + most certainly I will cause the enemy to make supplication + to you in the time of evil and in the time of affliction. +015:012 Can one break iron, even iron from the north, and brass? +015:013 Your substance and your treasures will I give for a spoil + without price, and that for all your sins, even in all your borders. +015:014 I will make [them] to pass with your enemies into a land + which you don't know; for a fire is kindled in my anger, + which shall burn on you. +015:015 Yahweh, you know; remember me, and visit me, and avenge me + of my persecutors; don't take me away in your longsuffering: + know that for your sake I have suffered reproach. +015:016 Your words were found, and I ate them; and your words were + to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart: for I am called + by your name, Yahweh, God of Armies. +015:017 I didn't sit in the assembly of those who make merry, nor rejoiced; + I sat alone because of your hand; for you have filled + me with indignation. +015:018 Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses + to be healed? will you indeed be to me as a deceitful [brook], + as waters that fail? +015:019 Therefore thus says Yahweh, If you return, then will I bring + you again, that you may stand before me; and if you take + forth the precious from the vile, you shall be as my mouth: + they shall return to you, but you shall not return to them. +015:020 I will make you to this people a fortified bronze wall; and they + shall fight against you, but they shall not prevail against you; + for I am with you to save you and to deliver you, says Yahweh. +015:021 I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked, and I will + redeem you out of the hand of the terrible. +016:001 The word of Yahweh came also to me, saying, +016:002 You shall not take a wife, neither shall you have sons or daughters, + in this place. +016:003 For thus says Yahweh concerning the sons and concerning + the daughters who are born in this place, and concerning + their mothers who bore them, and concerning their fathers + who became the father of them in this land: +016:004 They shall die grievous deaths: they shall not be lamented, + neither shall they be buried; they shall be as dung on the surface + of the ground; and they shall be consumed by the sword, + and by famine; and their dead bodies shall be food for the birds + of the sky, and for the animals of the earth. +016:005 For thus says Yahweh, Don't enter into the house of mourning, + neither go to lament, neither bemoan them; for I have taken + away my peace from this people, says Yahweh, even loving + kindness and tender mercies. +016:006 Both great and small shall die in this land; they shall not + be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, + nor make themselves bald for them; +016:007 neither shall men break [bread] for them in mourning, + to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup + of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother. +016:008 You shall not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, + to eat and to drink. +016:009 For thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Behold, I will + cause to cease out of this place, before your eyes and in + your days, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, + the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride. +016:010 It shall happen, when you shall show this people all these words, + and they shall tell you, Why has Yahweh pronounced all this + great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is + our sin that we have committed against Yahweh our God? +016:011 Then shall you tell them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, + says Yahweh, and have walked after other gods, and have + served them, and have worshiped them, and have forsaken me, + and have not kept my law; +016:012 and you have done evil more than your fathers; for, behold, + you walk every one after the stubbornness of his evil heart, + so that you don't listen to me: +016:013 therefore will I cast you forth out of this land into the land + that you have not known, neither you nor your fathers; + and there shall you serve other gods day and night; + for I will show you no favor. +016:014 Therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that it shall + no more be said, As Yahweh lives, who brought up the children + of Israel out of the land of Egypt; +016:015 but, As Yahweh lives, who brought up the children of Israel + from the land of the north, and from all the countries where + he had driven them. I will bring them again into their land + that I gave to their fathers. +016:016 Behold, I will send for many fishermen, says Yahweh, and they + shall fish them up; and afterward I will send for many hunters, + and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, + and out of the clefts of the rocks. +016:017 For my eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from + my face, neither is their iniquity concealed from my eyes. +016:018 First I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double, + because they have polluted my land with the carcasses + of their detestable things, and have filled my inheritance + with their abominations. +016:019 Yahweh, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day + of affliction, to you shall the nations come from the ends + of the earth, and shall say, Our fathers have inherited + nothing but lies, [even] vanity and things in which there + is no profit. +016:020 Shall a man make to himself gods, which yet are no gods? +016:021 Therefore, behold, I will cause them to know, this once will I + cause them to know my hand and my might; and they shall know + that my name is Yahweh. +017:001 The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, [and] with the point + of a diamond: it is engraved on the tablet of their heart, + and on the horns of your altars; +017:002 while their children remember their altars and their Asherim + by the green trees on the high hills. +017:003 My mountain in the field, I will give your substance and all your + treasures for a spoil, [and] your high places, because of sin, + throughout all your borders. +017:004 You, even of yourself, shall discontinue from your heritage + that I gave you; and I will cause you to serve your enemies + in the land which you don't know: for you have kindled a fire + in my anger which shall burn forever. +017:005 Thus says Yahweh: Cursed is the man who trusts in man, + and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from Yahweh. +017:006 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not + see when good comes, but shall inhabit the parched places + in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited. +017:007 Blessed is the man who trusts in Yahweh, and whose trust Yahweh is. +017:008 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, who spreads + out its roots by the river, and shall not fear when heat comes, + but its leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year + of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit. +017:009 The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is + exceedingly corrupt: who can know it? +017:010 I, Yahweh, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give + every man according to his ways, according to the fruit + of his doings. +017:011 As the partridge that sits on [eggs] which she has not laid, + so is he who gets riches, and not by right; in the midst + of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall + be a fool. +017:012 A glorious throne, [set] on high from the beginning, + is the place of our sanctuary. +017:013 Yahweh, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you shall + be disappointed. Those who depart from me shall be written + in the earth, because they have forsaken Yahweh, the spring + of living waters. +017:014 Heal me, O Yahweh, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall + be saved: for you are my praise. +017:015 Behold, they tell me, Where is the word of Yahweh? let + it come now. +017:016 As for me, I have not hurried from being a shepherd after you; + neither have I desired the woeful day; you know: + that which came out of my lips was before your face. +017:017 Don't be a terror to me: you are my refuge in the day of evil. +017:018 Let them be disappointed who persecute me, but let not me + be disappointed; let them be dismayed, but don't let me + be dismayed; bring on them the day of evil, and destroy them + with double destruction. +017:019 Thus said Yahweh to me: Go, and stand in the gate of the children + of the people, through which the kings of Judah come in, + and by which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem; +017:020 and tell them, Hear you the word of Yahweh, you kings of Judah, + and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, + that enter in by these gates: +017:021 Thus says Yahweh, Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden + on the Sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem; +017:022 neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the Sabbath + day holy, neither do any work: but make the Sabbath day, + as I commanded your fathers. +017:023 But they didn't listen, neither turn their ear, but made + their neck stiff, that they might not hear, and might + not receive instruction. +017:024 It shall happen, if you diligently listen to me, says Yahweh, + to bring in no burden through the gates of this city + on the Sabbath day, but to make the Sabbath day holy, + to do no work therein; +017:025 then shall there enter in by the gates of this city + kings and princes sitting on the throne of David, + riding in chariots and on horses, they, and their princes, + the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem; + and this city shall remain forever. +017:026 They shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the places + round about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from + the lowland, and from the hill country, and from the South, + bringing burnt offerings, and sacrifices, and meal offerings, + and frankincense, and bringing [sacrifices of] thanksgiving, + to the house of Yahweh. +017:027 But if you will not listen to me to make the Sabbath day holy, + and not to bear a burden and enter in at the gates of Jerusalem + on the Sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates of it, + and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall + not be quenched. +018:001 The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying, +018:002 Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause + you to hear my words. +018:003 Then I went down to the potter's house, and behold, he was + making a work on the wheels. +018:004 When the vessel that he made of the clay was marred in the hand + of the potter, he made it again another vessel, as seemed + good to the potter to make it. +018:005 Then the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, +018:006 House of Israel, can't I do with you as this potter? says Yahweh. + Behold, as the clay in the potter's hand, so are you in my hand, + house of Israel. +018:007 At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning + a kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy it; +018:008 if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turn from their evil, + I will repent of the evil that I thought to do to them. +018:009 At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning + a kingdom, to build and to plant it; +018:010 if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they not obey + my voice, then I will repent of the good, with which I said + I would benefit them. +018:011 Now therefore, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants + of Jerusalem, saying, Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I frame + evil against you, and devise a device against you: + return you now everyone from his evil way, and amend your ways + and your doings. +018:012 But they say, It is in vain; for we will walk after our + own devices, and we will do everyone after the stubbornness + of his evil heart. +018:013 Therefore thus says Yahweh: Ask you now among the nations, + who has heard such things; the virgin of Israel has done + a very horrible thing. +018:014 Shall the snow of Lebanon fail from the rock of the field? [or] + shall the cold waters that flow down from afar be dried up? +018:015 For my people have forgotten me, they have burned incense to + false [gods]; and they have been made to stumble in their ways, + in the ancient paths, to walk in byways, in a way not built up; +018:016 to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing; + everyone who passes thereby shall be astonished, + and shake his head. +018:017 I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; + I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day + of their calamity. +018:018 Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; + for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel + from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let + us strike him with the tongue, and let us not give heed + to any of his words. +018:019 Give heed to me, Yahweh, and listen to the voice of those who + contend with me. +018:020 Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have dug a pit + for my soul. Remember how I stood before you to speak good + for them, to turn away your wrath from them. +018:021 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give + them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives + become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, + [and] their young men struck of the sword in battle. +018:022 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when you shall bring + a troop suddenly on them; for they have dug a pit to take me, + and hid snares for my feet. +018:023 Yet, Yahweh, you know all their counsel against me to kill me; + don't forgive their iniquity, neither blot out their sin + from your sight; but let them be overthrown before you; + deal you with them in the time of your anger. +019:001 Thus said Yahweh, Go, and buy a potter's earthen bottle, + and [take] of the elders of the people, and of the elders + of the priests; +019:002 and go forth to the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by + the entry of the gate Harsith, and proclaim there the words + that I shall tell you; +019:003 and say, Hear you the word of Yahweh, kings of Judah, + and inhabitants of Jerusalem: thus says Yahweh of Armies, + the God of Israel, Behold, I will bring evil on this place, + which whoever hears, his ears shall tingle. +019:004 Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, + and have burned incense in it to other gods, that they + didn't know, they and their fathers and the kings of Judah; + and have filled this place with the blood of innocents, +019:005 and have built the high places of Baal, to burn their sons + in the fire for burnt offerings to Baal; which I didn't command, + nor spoke it, neither came it into my mind: +019:006 therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that this place + shall no more be called Topheth, nor The valley of the son + of Hinnom, but The valley of Slaughter. +019:007 I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; + and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, + and by the hand of those who seek their life: and their dead + bodies will I give to be food for the birds of the sky, + and for the animals of the earth. +019:008 I will make this city an astonishment, and a hissing; + everyone who passes thereby shall be astonished and hiss + because of all the plagues of it. +019:009 I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and + the flesh of their daughters; and they shall eat everyone + the flesh of his friend, in the siege and in the distress, + with which their enemies, and those who seek their life, + shall distress them. +019:010 Then shall you break the bottle in the sight of the men + who go with you, +019:011 and shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh of Armies: Even so will I + break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter's vessel, + that can't be made whole again; and they shall bury in Topheth, + until there be no place to bury. +019:012 Thus will I do to this place, says Yahweh, and to the inhabitants + of it, even making this city as Topheth: +019:013 and the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings + of Judah, which are defiled, shall be as the place of Topheth, + even all the houses on whose roofs they have burned incense + to all the army of the sky, and have poured out drink offerings + to other gods. +019:014 Then came Jeremiah from Topheth, where Yahweh had sent him + to prophesy; and he stood in the court of Yahweh's house, + and said to all the people: +019:015 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, Behold, I will + bring on this city and on all its towns all the evil that I have + pronounced against it; because they have made their neck stiff, + that they may not hear my words. +020:001 Now Pashhur, the son of Immer the priest, who was chief officer + in the house of Yahweh, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things. +020:002 Then Pashhur struck Jeremiah the prophet, and put him + in the stocks that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, + which was in the house of Yahweh. +020:003 It happened on the next day, that Pashhur brought forth + Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah to him, + Yahweh has not called your name Pashhur, but Magormissabib. +020:004 For thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will make you a terror + to yourself, and to all your friends; and they shall fall + by the sword of their enemies, and your eyes shall see it; + and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, + and he shall carry them captive to Babylon, and shall kill + them with the sword. +020:005 Moreover I will give all the riches of this city, and all the gains + of it, and all the precious things of it, yes, all the treasures + of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies; + and they shall make them a prey, and take them, and carry + them to Babylon. +020:006 You, Pashhur, and all who dwell in your house shall go into captivity; + and you shall come to Babylon, and there you shall die, + and there shall you be buried, you, and all your friends, + to whom you have prophesied falsely. +020:007 Yahweh, you have persuaded me, and I was persuaded; + you are stronger than I, and have prevailed: I am become + a laughing-stock all the day, every one mocks me. +020:008 For as often as I speak, I cry out; I cry, Violence and + destruction! because the word of Yahweh is made a reproach to me, + and a derision, all the day. +020:009 If I say, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more + in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning + fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with forbearing, + and I can't [contain]. +020:010 For I have heard the defaming of many, terror on every side. + Denounce, and we will denounce him, [say] all my familiar friends, + those who watch for my fall; peradventure he will be persuaded, + and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our + revenge on him. +020:011 But Yahweh is with me as an awesome mighty one: therefore my + persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail; + they shall be utterly disappointed, because they have not + dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor which shall + never be forgotten. +020:012 But, Yahweh of Armies, who tests the righteous, who sees + the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance on them; + for to you have I revealed my cause. +020:013 Sing to Yahweh, praise you Yahweh; for he has delivered the soul + of the needy from the hand of evil-doers. +020:014 Cursed be the day in which I was born: don't let the day + in which my mother bore me be blessed. +020:015 Cursed be the man who brought news to my father, saying, A boy + is born to you; making him very glad. +020:016 Let that man be as the cities which Yahweh overthrew, + and didn't repent: and let him hear a cry in the morning, + and shouting at noontime; +020:017 because he didn't kill me from the womb; and so my mother + would have been my grave, and her womb always great. +020:018 Why came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, + that my days should be consumed with shame? +021:001 The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, when king Zedekiah + sent to him Pashhur the son of Malchijah, and Zephaniah + the son of Maaseiah, the priest, saying, +021:002 Please inquire of Yahweh for us; for Nebuchadnezzar king + of Babylon makes war against us: peradventure Yahweh + will deal with us according to all his wondrous works, + that he may go up from us. +021:003 Then said Jeremiah to them, Thus shall you tell Zedekiah: +021:004 Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, Behold, I will turn back + the weapons of war that are in your hands, with which you + fight against the king of Babylon, and against the Chaldeans + who besiege you, without the walls; and I will gather them + into the midst of this city. +021:005 I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand + and with a strong arm, even in anger, and in wrath, + and in great indignation. +021:006 I will strike the inhabitants of this city, both man and animal: + they shall die of a great pestilence. +021:007 Afterward, says Yahweh, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, + and his servants, and the people, even such as are left in this + city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, + into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand + of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life: + and he shall strike them with the edge of the sword; + he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy. +021:008 To this people you shall say, Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I set + before you the way of life and the way of death. +021:009 He who remains in this city shall die by the sword, + and by the famine, and by the pestilence; but he who goes out, + and passes over to the Chaldeans who besiege you, he shall live, + and his life shall be to him for a prey. +021:010 For I have set my face on this city for evil, and not for good, + says Yahweh: it shall be given into the hand of the king + of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire. +021:011 Touching the house of the king of Judah, hear you the word of Yahweh: +021:012 House of David, thus says Yahweh, Execute justice in the morning, + and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor, + lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn so that none can + quench it, because of the evil of your doings. +021:013 Behold, I am against you, O inhabitant of the valley, + [and] of the rock of the plain, says Yahweh; you that say, + Who shall come down against us? or who shall enter + into our habitations? +021:014 I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, + says Yahweh; and I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it + shall devour all that is round about her. +022:001 Thus said Yahweh: Go down to the house of the king of Judah, + and speak there this word, +022:002 Say, Hear the word of Yahweh, king of Judah, who sits on + the throne of David, you, and your servants, and your people + who enter in by these gates. +022:003 Thus says Yahweh: Execute you justice and righteousness, + and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: + and do no wrong, do no violence, to the foreigner, the fatherless, + nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place. +022:004 For if you do this thing indeed, then shall there enter in by + the gates of this house kings sitting on the throne of David, + riding in chariots and on horses, he, and his servants, + and his people. +022:005 But if you will not hear these words, I swear by myself, + says Yahweh, that this house shall become a desolation. +022:006 For thus says Yahweh concerning the house of the king + of Judah: You are Gilead to me, [and] the head of Lebanon; + [yet] surely I will make you a wilderness, [and] cities + which are not inhabited. +022:007 I will prepare destroyers against you, everyone with his weapons; + and they shall cut down your choice cedars, and cast them + into the fire. +022:008 Many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man + to his neighbor, Why has Yahweh done thus to this great city? +022:009 Then they shall answer, Because they forsook the covenant + of Yahweh their God, and worshiped other gods, and served them. +022:010 Don't you weep for the dead, neither bemoan him; but weep + sore for him who goes away; for he shall return no more, + nor see his native country. +022:011 For thus says Yahweh touching Shallum the son of Josiah, + king of Judah, who reigned instead of Josiah his father, + [and] who went forth out of this place: He shall not return + there any more. +022:012 But in the place where they have led him captive, there shall + he die, and he shall see this land no more. +022:013 Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers + by injustice; who uses his neighbor's service without wages, + and doesn't give him his hire; +022:014 who says, I will build me a wide house and spacious chambers, + and cuts him out windows; and it is ceiling with cedar, + and painted with vermilion. +022:015 Shall you reign, because you strive to excel in cedar? + Didn't your father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? + then it was well with him. +022:016 He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. + Wasn't this to know me? says Yahweh. +022:017 But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness, + and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, + and for violence, to do it. +022:018 Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, + king of Judah: they shall not lament for him, [saying], Ah my + brother! or, Ah sister! They shall not lament for him, + [saying] Ah lord! or, Ah his glory! +022:019 He shall be buried with the burial of a donkey, drawn and cast + forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem. +022:020 Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up your voice in Bashan, + and cry from Abarim; for all your lovers are destroyed. +022:021 I spoke to you in your prosperity; but you said, I will not hear. + This has been your manner from your youth, that you didn't + obey my voice. +022:022 The wind shall feed all your shepherds, and your lovers + shall go into captivity: surely then shall you be ashamed + and confounded for all your wickedness. +022:023 Inhabitant of Lebanon, who makes your nest in the cedars, + how greatly to be pitied shall you be when pangs come on you, + the pain as of a woman in travail! +022:024 As I live, says Yahweh, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim + king of Judah were the signet on my right hand, yet would I + pluck you there; +022:025 and I will give you into the hand of those who seek your life, + and into the hand of them of whom you are afraid, even into + the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand + of the Chaldeans. +022:026 I will cast you out, and your mother who bore you, + into another country, where you were not born; and there + shall you die. +022:027 But to the land whereunto their soul longs to return, + there shall they not return. +022:028 Is this man Coniah a despised broken vessel? is he a vessel + in which none delights? why are they cast out, he and his seed, + and are cast into the land which they don't know? +022:029 O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of Yahweh. +022:030 Thus says Yahweh, Write you this man childless, a man + who shall not prosper in his days; for no more shall a man + of his seed prosper, sitting on the throne of David, + and ruling in Judah. +023:001 Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my + pasture! says Yahweh. +023:002 Therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, against the + shepherds who feed my people: You have scattered my flock, + and driven them away, and have not visited them; behold, I will + visit on you the evil of your doings, says Yahweh. +023:003 I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries + where I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; + and they shall be fruitful and multiply. +023:004 I will set up shepherds over them, who shall feed them; + and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall + any be lacking, says Yahweh. +023:005 Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will raise to David + a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, + and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land. +023:006 In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely; + and this is his name by which he shall be called: + Yahweh our righteousness. +023:007 Therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that they shall + no more say, As Yahweh lives, who brought up the children + of Israel out of the land of Egypt; +023:008 but, As Yahweh lives, who brought up and who led the seed + of the house of Israel out of the north country, + and from all the countries where I had driven them. + They shall dwell in their own land. +023:009 Concerning the prophets. My heart within me is broken, + all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man + whom wine has overcome, because of Yahweh, and because of + his holy words. +023:010 For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing + the land mourns; the pastures of the wilderness are dried up. + Their course is evil, and their might is not right; +023:011 for both prophet and priest are profane; yes, in my house + have I found their wickedness, says Yahweh. +023:012 Therefore their way shall be to them as slippery places + in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein; + for I will bring evil on them, even the year of their + visitation, says Yahweh. +023:013 I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied + by Baal, and caused my people Israel to err. +023:014 In the prophets of Jerusalem also I have seen a horrible thing: + they commit adultery, and walk in lies; and they strengthen the hands + of evil-doers, so that none does return from his wickedness: + they are all of them become to me as Sodom, and the inhabitants + of it as Gomorrah. +023:015 Therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies concerning the prophets: + Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink + the water of gall; for from the prophets of Jerusalem is + ungodliness gone forth into all the land. +023:016 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, Don't listen to the words of + the prophets who prophesy to you: they teach you vanity; + they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of + the mouth of Yahweh. +023:017 They say continually to those who despise me, Yahweh has said, + You shall have peace; and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness + of his own heart they say, No evil shall come on you. +023:018 For who has stood in the council of Yahweh, that he should + perceive and hear his word? who has marked my word, + and heard it? +023:019 Behold, the storm of Yahweh, [even his] wrath, is gone forth, yes, + a whirling storm: it shall burst on the head of the wicked. +023:020 The anger of Yahweh shall not return, until he has executed, + and until he have performed the intents of his heart: + in the latter days you shall understand it perfectly. +023:021 I sent not these prophets, yet they ran: I didn't speak to them, + yet they prophesied. +023:022 But if they had stood in my council, then had they caused my people + to hear my words, and had turned them from their evil way, + and from the evil of their doings. +023:023 Am I a God at hand, says Yahweh, and not a God afar off? +023:024 Can any hide himself in secret places so that I shall not see + him? says Yahweh. Don't I fill heaven and earth? says Yahweh. +023:025 I have heard what the prophets have said, who prophesy lies + in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed. +023:026 How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies, + even the prophets of the deceit of their own heart? +023:027 who think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams + which they tell every man to his neighbor, as their fathers + forgot my name for Baal. +023:028 The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream; + and he who has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. + What is the straw to the wheat? says Yahweh. +023:029 Isn't my word like fire? says Yahweh; and like a hammer + that breaks the rock in pieces? +023:030 Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, says Yahweh, + who steal my words everyone from his neighbor. +023:031 Behold, I am against the prophets, says Yahweh, who use + their tongues, and say, He says. +023:032 Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams, says Yahweh, + and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, + and by their vain boasting: yet I didn't send them, + nor commanded them; neither do they profit this people + at all, says Yahweh. +023:033 When this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask you, + saying, What is the burden of Yahweh? then shall you tell them, + What burden! I will cast you off, says Yahweh. +023:034 As for the prophet, and the priest, and the people, who shall say, + The burden of Yahweh, I will even punish that man and his house. +023:035 Thus shall you say everyone to his neighbor, and everyone to + his brother, What has Yahweh answered? and, What has Yahweh spoken? +023:036 The burden of Yahweh shall you mention no more: for every + man's own word shall be his burden; for you have perverted + the words of the living God, of Yahweh of Armies our God. +023:037 Thus shall you say to the prophet, What has Yahweh answered + you? and, What has Yahweh spoken? +023:038 But if you say, The burden of Yahweh; therefore thus + says Yahweh: Because you say this word, The burden of Yahweh, + and I have sent to you, saying, You shall not say, + The burden of Yahweh; +023:039 therefore, behold, I will utterly forget you, and I will cast + you off, and the city that I gave to you and to your fathers, + away from my presence: +023:040 and I will bring an everlasting reproach on you, and a + perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten. +024:001 Yahweh shown me, and behold, two baskets of figs set before + the temple of Yahweh, after that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon + had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, + king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the craftsmen + and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon. +024:002 One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first-ripe; + and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten, + they were so bad. +024:003 Then said Yahweh to me, What see you, Jeremiah? I said, Figs; + the good figs, very good; and the bad, very bad, that can't + be eaten, they are so bad. +024:004 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, +024:005 Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: Like these good figs, + so will I regard the captives of Judah, whom I have sent + out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans, for good. +024:006 For I will set my eyes on them for good, and I will bring them again + to this land: and I will build them, and not pull them down; + and I will plant them, and not pluck them up. +024:007 I will give them a heart to know me, that I am Yahweh: + and they shall be my people, and I will be their God; + for they shall return to me with their whole heart. +024:008 As the bad figs, which can't be eaten, they are so bad, + surely thus says Yahweh, So will I give up Zedekiah the king + of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, + who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt, +024:009 I will even give them up to be tossed back and forth among + all the kingdoms of the earth for evil; to be a reproach + and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I + shall drive them. +024:010 I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, + among them, until they be consumed from off the land that I + gave to them and to their fathers. +025:001 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah, + in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah + (the same was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon), +025:002 which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to all the people of Judah, + and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying: +025:003 From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, + king of Judah, even to this day, these twenty-three years, + the word of Yahweh has come to me, and I have spoken to you, + rising up early and speaking; but you have not listened. +025:004 Yahweh has sent to you all his servants the prophets, + rising up early and sending them, (but you have not listened, + nor inclined your ear to hear), +025:005 saying, Return you now everyone from his evil way, and from the evil + of your doings, and dwell in the land that Yahweh has given + to you and to your fathers, from of old and even forevermore; +025:006 and don't go after other gods to serve them or worship them, + and don't provoke me to anger with the work of your hands; + and I will do you no harm. +025:007 Yet you have not listened to me, says Yahweh; that you may provoke + me to anger with the work of your hands to your own hurt. +025:008 Therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies: Because you have not + heard my words, +025:009 behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, + says Yahweh, and [I will send] to Nebuchadnezzar the king + of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, + and against the inhabitants of it, and against all these nations + round about; and I will utterly destroy them, and make them + an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations. +025:010 Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth and the voice + of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice + of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light + of the lamp. +025:011 This whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; + and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years. +025:012 It shall happen, when seventy years are accomplished, + that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, + says Yahweh, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans; + and I will make it desolate forever. +025:013 I will bring on that land all my words which I have pronounced + against it, even all that is written in this book, + which Jeremiah has prophesied against all the nations. +025:014 For many nations and great kings shall make bondservants of them, + even of them; and I will recompense them according to their deeds, + and according to the work of their hands. +025:015 For thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, to me: take this cup + of the wine of wrath at my hand, and cause all the nations, + to whom I send you, to drink it. +025:016 They shall drink, and reel back and forth, and be mad, + because of the sword that I will send among them. +025:017 Then took I the cup at Yahweh's hand, and made all the nations + to drink, to whom Yahweh had sent me: +025:018 [to wit], Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings + of it, and the princes of it, to make them a desolation, + an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse, as it is this day; +025:019 Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, + and all his people; +025:020 and all the mixed people, and all the kings of the land of the Uz, + and all the kings of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Gaza, + and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod; +025:021 Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon; +025:022 and all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Sidon, + and the kings of the isle which is beyond the sea; +025:023 Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all who have the corners [of + their hair] cut off; +025:024 and all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mixed + people who dwell in the wilderness; +025:025 and all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, + and all the kings of the Medes; +025:026 and all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another; + and all the kingdoms of the world, which are on the surface + of the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them. +025:027 You shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God + of Israel: Drink you, and be drunken, and spew, and fall, + and rise no more, because of the sword which I will + send among you. +025:028 It shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at your hand + to drink, then shall you tell them, Thus says Yahweh + of Armies: You shall surely drink. +025:029 For, behold, I begin to work evil at the city which is + called by my name; and should you be utterly unpunished? + You shall not be unpunished; for I will call for a sword + on all the inhabitants of the earth, says Yahweh of Armies. +025:030 Therefore prophesy you against them all these words, and tell them, + Yahweh will roar from on high, and utter his voice from his + holy habitation; he will mightily roar against his fold; + he will give a shout, as those who tread [the grapes], + against all the inhabitants of the earth. +025:031 A noise shall come even to the end of the earth; for Yahweh + has a controversy with the nations; he will enter into + judgment with all flesh: as for the wicked, he will give + them to the sword, says Yahweh. +025:032 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, Behold, evil shall go forth + from nation to nation, and a great storm shall be raised up + from the uttermost parts of the earth. +025:033 The slain of Yahweh shall be at that day from one end + of the earth even to the other end of the earth: + they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; + they shall be dung on the surface of the ground. +025:034 Wail, you shepherds, and cry; and wallow [in ashes], + you principal of the flock; for the days of your slaughter + and of your dispersions are fully come, and you shall fall + like a goodly vessel. +025:035 The shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal + of the flock to escape. +025:036 A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and the wailing of the + principal of the flock! for Yahweh lays waste their pasture. +025:037 The peaceable folds are brought to silence because of the fierce + anger of Yahweh. +025:038 He has left his covert, as the lion; for their land is become an + astonishment because of the fierceness of the oppressing [sword], + and because of his fierce anger. +026:001 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, + king of Judah, came this word from Yahweh, saying, +026:002 Thus says Yahweh: Stand in the court of Yahweh's house, + and speak to all the cities of Judah, which come to worship + in Yahweh's house, all the words that I command you to speak + to them; don't diminish a word. +026:003 It may be they will listen, and turn every man from his evil way; + that I may repent me of the evil which I purpose to do to them + because of the evil of their doings. +026:004 You shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh: If you will not listen + to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you, +026:005 to listen to the words of my servants the prophets, + whom I send to you, even rising up early and sending them, + but you have not listened; +026:006 then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this + city a curse to all the nations of the earth. +026:007 The priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah + speaking these words in the house of Yahweh. +026:008 It happened, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all + that Yahweh had commanded him to speak to all the people, + that the priests and the prophets and all the people laid + hold on him, saying, You shall surely die. +026:009 Why have you prophesied in the name of Yahweh, saying, This house + shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate, + without inhabitant? All the people were gathered to Jeremiah + in the house of Yahweh. +026:010 When the princes of Judah heard these things, they came up + from the king's house to the house of Yahweh; and they sat + in the entry of the new gate of Yahweh's [house]. +026:011 Then spoke the priests and the prophets to the princes + and to all the people, saying, This man is worthy of death; + for he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard + with your ears. +026:012 Then spoke Jeremiah to all the princes and to all the people, + saying, Yahweh sent me to prophesy against this house and + against this city all the words that you have heard. +026:013 Now therefore amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice + of Yahweh your God; and Yahweh will repent him of the evil + that he has pronounced against you. +026:014 But as for me, behold, I am in your hand: do with me as is + good and right in your eyes. +026:015 Only know for certain that, if you put me to death, + you will bring innocent blood on yourselves, and on this city, + and on the inhabitants of it; for of a truth Yahweh has sent + me to you to speak all these words in your ears. +026:016 Then said the princes and all the people to the priests + and to the prophets: This man is not worthy of death; + for he has spoken to us in the name of Yahweh our God. +026:017 Then rose up certain of the elders of the land, and spoke + to all the assembly of the people, saying, +026:018 Micah the Morashtite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king + of Judah; and he spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, + Thus says Yahweh of Armies: Zion shall be plowed as a field, + and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house + as the high places of a forest. +026:019 Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him to death? + Didn't he fear Yahweh, and entreat the favor of Yahweh, and Yahweh + repented him of the evil which he had pronounced against them? + Thus should we commit great evil against our own souls. +026:020 There was also a man who prophesied in the name + of Yahweh, Uriah the son of Shemaiah of Kiriath Jearim; + and he prophesied against this city and against this land + according to all the words of Jeremiah: +026:021 and when Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty men, + and all the princes, heard his words, the king sought to put + him to death; but when Uriah heard it, he was afraid, and fled, + and went into Egypt: +026:022 and Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt, [namely], Elnathan + the son of Achbor, and certain men with him, into Egypt; +026:023 and they fetched forth Uriah out of Egypt, and brought him + to Jehoiakim the king, who killed him with the sword, + and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people. +026:024 But the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, + that they should not give him into the hand of the people + to put him to death. +027:001 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, + king of Judah, came this word to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying, +027:002 Thus says Yahweh to me: Make you bonds and bars, and put them + on your neck; +027:003 and send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, + and to the king of the children of Ammon, and to the king of Tyre, + and to the king of Sidon, by the hand of the messengers + who come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah; +027:004 and give them a charge to their masters, saying, Thus says Yahweh + of Armies, the God of Israel, Thus shall you tell your masters: +027:005 I have made the earth, the men and the animals that are on the surface + of the earth, by my great power and by my outstretched arm; + and I give it to whom it seems right to me. +027:006 Now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar + the king of Babylon, my servant; and the animals of the field + also have I given him to serve him. +027:007 All the nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, + until the time of his own land come: and then many nations + and great kings shall make him their bondservant. +027:008 It shall happen, that the nation and the kingdom which will not + serve the same Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and that will + not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, + that nation will I punish, says Yahweh, with the sword, + and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have + consumed them by his hand. +027:009 But as for you, don't you listen to your prophets, nor to + your diviners, nor to your dreams, nor to your soothsayers, + nor to your sorcerers, who speak to you, saying, You shall + not serve the king of Babylon: +027:010 for they prophesy a lie to you, to remove you far from your land, + and that I should drive you out, and you should perish. +027:011 But the nation that shall bring their neck under the yoke + of the king of Babylon, and serve him, that [nation] will I let + remain in their own land, says Yahweh; and they shall till it, + and dwell therein. +027:012 I spoke to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these words, + saying, Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, + and serve him and his people, and live. +027:013 Why will you die, you and your people, by the sword, by the famine, + and by the pestilence, as Yahweh has spoken concerning + the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon? +027:014 Don't listen to the words of the prophets who speak + to you, saying, You shall not serve the king of Babylon; + for they prophesy a lie to you. +027:015 For I have not sent them, says Yahweh, but they prophesy + falsely in my name; that I may drive you out, and that you + may perish, you, and the prophets who prophesy to you. +027:016 Also I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying, + Thus says Yahweh: Don't listen to the words of your prophets + who prophesy to you, saying, Behold, the vessels of Yahweh's + house shall now shortly be brought again from Babylon; + for they prophesy a lie to you. +027:017 Don't listen to them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: + why should this city become a desolation? +027:018 But if they be prophets, and if the word of Yahweh be with them, + let them now make intercession to Yahweh of Armies, + that the vessels which are left in the house of Yahweh, + and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, + don't go to Babylon. +027:019 For thus says Yahweh of Armies concerning the pillars, + and concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and concerning + the residue of the vessels that are left in this city, +027:020 which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon didn't take, + when he carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, + king of Judah, from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles + of Judah and Jerusalem; +027:021 yes, thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, + concerning the vessels that are left in the house of Yahweh, + and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem: +027:022 They shall be carried to Babylon, and there shall they be, + until the day that I visit them, says Yahweh; then will I + bring them up, and restore them to this place. +028:001 It happened the same year, in the beginning of the reign of + Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, + that Hananiah the son of Azzur, the prophet, who was of Gibeon, + spoke to me in the house of Yahweh, in the presence of the priests + and of all the people, saying, +028:002 Thus speaks Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, saying, I have + broken the yoke of the king of Babylon. +028:003 Within two full years will I bring again into this place + all the vessels of Yahweh's house, that Nebuchadnezzar king + of Babylon took away from this place, and carried to Babylon: +028:004 and I will bring again to this place Jeconiah the son + of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, with all the captives of Judah, + who went to Babylon, says Yahweh; for I will break the yoke + of the king of Babylon. +028:005 Then the prophet Jeremiah said to the prophet Hananiah + in the presence of the priests, and in the presence of all + the people who stood in the house of Yahweh, +028:006 even the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen: Yahweh do so; + Yahweh perform your words which you have prophesied, + to bring again the vessels of Yahweh's house, and all them + of the captivity, from Babylon to this place. +028:007 Nevertheless hear you now this word that I speak in your ears, + and in the ears of all the people: +028:008 The prophets who have been before me and before you of old + prophesied against many countries, and against great kingdoms, + of war, and of evil, and of pestilence. +028:009 The prophet who prophesies of peace, when the word of the prophet + shall happen, then shall the prophet be known, that Yahweh + has truly sent him. +028:010 Then Hananiah the prophet took the bar from off the prophet + Jeremiah's neck, and broke it. +028:011 Hananiah spoke in the presence of all the people, saying, Thus + says Yahweh: Even so will I break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar + king of Babylon within two full years from off the neck + of all the nations. The prophet Jeremiah went his way. +028:012 Then the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, after that Hananiah + the prophet had broken the bar from off the neck of the + prophet Jeremiah, saying, +028:013 Go, and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus says Yahweh: You have + broken the bars of wood; but you have made in their place + bars of iron. +028:014 For thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: I have put + a yoke of iron on the neck of all these nations, that they may + serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they shall serve him: + and I have given him the animals of the field also. +028:015 Then said the prophet Jeremiah to Hananiah the prophet, + Hear now, Hananiah: Yahweh has not sent you; but you make + this people to trust in a lie. +028:016 Therefore thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will send you away + from off the surface of the earth: this year you shall die, + because you have spoken rebellion against Yahweh. +028:017 So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month. +029:001 Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah + the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the residue of the elders + of the captivity, and to the priests, and to the prophets, + and to all the people, whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away + captive from Jerusalem to Babylon, +029:002 (after that Jeconiah the king, and the queen mother, and the eunuchs, + [and] the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the craftsmen, + and the smiths, were departed from Jerusalem), +029:003 by the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah the son + of Hilkiah, (whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent to Babylon + to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon), saying, +029:004 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, to all + the captivity, whom I have caused to be carried away captive + from Jerusalem to Babylon: +029:005 Build you houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, + and eat the fruit of them. +029:006 Take wives, and father sons and daughters; and take wives + for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, + that they may bear sons and daughters; and multiply you there, + and don't be diminished. +029:007 Seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried + away captive, and pray to Yahweh for it; for in the peace + of it shall you have peace. +029:008 For thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Don't let + your prophets who are in the midst of you, and your diviners, + deceive you; neither listen you to your dreams which you + cause to be dreamed. +029:009 For they prophesy falsely to you in my name: I have not + sent them, says Yahweh. +029:010 For thus says Yahweh, After seventy years are accomplished + for Babylon, I will visit you, and perform my good word + toward you, in causing you to return to this place. +029:011 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, + thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope in + your latter end. +029:012 You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, + and I will listen to you. +029:013 You shall seek me, and find me, when you shall search for me + with all your heart. +029:014 I will be found by you, says Yahweh, and I will turn again + your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, + and from all the places where I have driven you, says Yahweh; + and I will bring you again to the place from where I caused + you to be carried away captive. +029:015 Because you have said, Yahweh has raised us up prophets in Babylon; +029:016 thus says Yahweh concerning the king who sits on the throne + of David, and concerning all the people who dwell in this city, + your brothers who haven't gone forth with you into captivity; +029:017 thus says Yahweh of Armies; Behold, I will send on them the sword, + the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, + that can't be eaten, they are so bad. +029:018 I will pursue after them with the sword, with the famine, + and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be tossed back + and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth, to be an object + of horror, and an astonishment, and a hissing, and a reproach, + among all the nations where I have driven them; +029:019 because they have not listened to my words, says Yahweh, + with which I sent to them my servants the prophets, rising up + early and sending them; but you would not hear, says Yahweh. +029:020 Hear you therefore the word of Yahweh, all you of the captivity, + whom I have sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon. +029:021 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, concerning Ahab + the son of Kolaiah, and concerning Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, + who prophesy a lie to you in my name: Behold, I will deliver + them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; + and he shall kill them before your eyes; +029:022 and of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captives of Judah + who are in Babylon, saying, Yahweh make you like Zedekiah + and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire; +029:023 because they have worked folly in Israel, and have committed + adultery with their neighbors' wives, and have spoken + words in my name falsely, which I didn't command them; + and I am he who knows, and am witness, says Yahweh. +029:024 Concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite you shall speak, saying, +029:025 Thus speaks Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, saying, + Because you have sent letters in your own name to all the people + who are at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, + the priest, and to all the priests, saying, +029:026 Yahweh has made you priest in the place of Jehoiada the priest, + that there may be officers in the house of Yahweh, + for every man who is mad, and makes himself a prophet, + that you should put him in the stocks and in shackles. +029:027 Now therefore, why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, + who makes himself a prophet to you, +029:028 because he has sent to us in Babylon, saying, [The captivity] + is long: build you houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, + and eat the fruit of them? +029:029 Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the ears of + Jeremiah the prophet. +029:030 Then came the word of Yahweh to Jeremiah, saying, +029:031 Send to all them of the captivity, saying, Thus says Yahweh + concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite: Because Shemaiah has + prophesied to you, and I didn't send him, and he has caused + you to trust in a lie; +029:032 therefore thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will punish Shemaiah + the Nehelamite, and his seed; he shall not have a man to dwell + among this people, neither shall he see the good that I + will do to my people, says Yahweh, because he has spoken + rebellion against Yahweh. +030:001 The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying, +030:002 Thus speaks Yahweh, the God of Israel, saying, Write you all + the words that I have spoken to you in a book. +030:003 For, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will turn again + the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, says Yahweh; + and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave + to their fathers, and they shall possess it. +030:004 These are the words that Yahweh spoke concerning Israel + and concerning Judah. +030:005 For thus says Yahweh: We have heard a voice of trembling, + of fear, and not of peace. +030:006 Ask now, and see whether a man does travail with child: + why do I see every man with his hands on his waist, as a woman + in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness? +030:007 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: + it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved + out of it. +030:008 It shall come to pass in that day, says Yahweh of Armies, that I + will break his yoke from off your neck, and will burst your bonds; + and strangers shall no more make him their bondservant; +030:009 but they shall serve Yahweh their God, and David their king, + whom I will raise up to them. +030:010 Therefore don't you be afraid, O Jacob my servant, says Yahweh; + neither be dismayed, Israel: for, behold, I will save you + from afar, and your seed from the land of their captivity; + and Jacob shall return, and shall be quiet and at ease, + and none shall make him afraid. +030:011 For I am with you, says Yahweh, to save you: for I will make + a full end of all the nations where I have scattered you, + but I will not make a full end of you; but I will correct + you in measure, and will in no way leave you unpunished. +030:012 For thus says Yahweh, Your hurt is incurable, + and your wound grievous. +030:013 There is none to plead your cause, that you may be bound up: + you have no healing medicines. +030:014 All your lovers have forgotten you; they don't seek you: + for I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, with the + chastisement of a cruel one, for the greatness of your iniquity, + because your sins were increased. +030:015 Why cry you for your hurt? your pain is incurable: + for the greatness of your iniquity, because your sins + were increased, I have done these things to you. +030:016 Therefore all those who devour you shall be devoured; and all + your adversaries, everyone of them, shall go into captivity; + and those who despoil you shall be a spoil, and all who prey + on you will I give for a prey. +030:017 For I will restore health to you, and I will heal you + of your wounds, says Yahweh; because they have called you + an outcast, [saying], It is Zion, whom no man seeks after. +030:018 Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will turn again the captivity + of Jacob's tents, and have compassion on his dwelling places; + and the city shall be built on its own hill, and the palace + shall be inhabited after its own manner. +030:019 Out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of those who + make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; + I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small. +030:020 Their children also shall be as before, and their congregation + shall be established before me; and I will punish all + who oppress them. +030:021 Their prince shall be of themselves, and their ruler shall proceed + from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near, + and he shall approach to me: for who is he who has had boldness + to approach to me? says Yahweh. +030:022 You shall be my people, and I will be your God. +030:023 Behold, the storm of Yahweh, [even his] wrath, is gone forth, + a sweeping storm: it shall burst on the head of the wicked. +030:024 The fierce anger of Yahweh shall not return, until he has executed, + and until he have performed the intents of his heart: + in the latter days you shall understand it. +031:001 At that time, says Yahweh, will I be the God of all the families + of Israel, and they shall be my people. +031:002 Thus says Yahweh, The people who were left of the sword found + favor in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause + him to rest. +031:003 Yahweh appeared of old to me, [saying], Yes, I have loved you + with an everlasting love: therefore with loving kindness + have I drawn you. +031:004 Again will I build you, and you shall be built, O virgin of Israel: + again shall you be adorned with your tambourines, and shall + go forth in the dances of those who make merry. +031:005 Again shall you plant vineyards on the mountains of Samaria; + the planters shall plant, and shall enjoy [the fruit of it]. +031:006 For there shall be a day, that the watchmen on the hills + of Ephraim shall cry, Arise you, and let us go up to Zion + to Yahweh our God. +031:007 For thus says Yahweh, Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout + for the chief of the nations: publish you, praise you, + and say, Yahweh, save your people, the remnant of Israel. +031:008 Behold, I will bring them from the north country, + and gather them from the uttermost parts of the earth, + [and] with them the blind and the lame, the woman + with child and her who travails with child together: + a great company shall they return here. +031:009 They shall come with weeping; and with petitions will I lead them: + I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way + in which they shall not stumble; for I am a father to Israel, + and Ephraim is my firstborn. +031:010 Hear the word of Yahweh, you nations, and declare it in the islands + afar off; and say, He who scattered Israel will gather him, + and keep him, as shepherd does his flock. +031:011 For Yahweh has ransomed Jacob, and redeemed him from the hand + of him who was stronger than he. +031:012 They shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow + to the goodness of Yahweh, to the grain, and to the new wine, + and to the oil, and to the young of the flock and of the herd: + and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall + not sorrow any more at all. +031:013 Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, and the young men + and the old together; for I will turn their mourning into joy, + and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow. +031:014 I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my + people shall be satisfied with my goodness, says Yahweh. +031:015 Thus says Yahweh: A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation, + and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children; + she refuses to be comforted for her children, because they + are no more. +031:016 Thus says Yahweh: Refrain your voice from weeping, and your + eyes from tears; for your work shall be rewarded, says Yahweh; + and they shall come again from the land of the enemy. +031:017 There is hope for your latter end, says Yahweh; and [your] + children shall come again to their own border. +031:018 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself [thus], + You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a calf + unaccustomed [to the yoke]: turn you me, and I shall be turned; + for you are Yahweh my God. +031:019 Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I + was instructed, I struck on my thigh: I was ashamed, yes, + even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth. +031:020 Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a darling child? for as often + as I speak against him, I do earnestly remember him still: + therefore my heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy + on him, says Yahweh. +031:021 Set up road signs, make guideposts; set your heart toward + the highway, even the way by which you went: turn again, + virgin of Israel, turn again to these your cities. +031:022 How long will you go here and there, you backsliding + daughter? for Yahweh has created a new thing in the earth: + a woman shall encompass a man. +031:023 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, Yet again shall they + use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities of it, + when I shall bring again their captivity: Yahweh bless you, + habitation of righteousness, mountain of holiness. +031:024 Judah and all the cities of it shall dwell therein together, + the farmers, and those who go about with flocks. +031:025 For I have satiated the weary soul, and every sorrowful soul + have I replenished. +031:026 On this I awakened, and saw; and my sleep was sweet to me. +031:027 Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will sow the house + of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, + and with the seed of animal. +031:028 It shall happen that, like as I have watched over them to pluck up + and to break down and to overthrow and to destroy and to afflict, + so will I watch over them to build and to plant, says Yahweh. +031:029 In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten + sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge. +031:030 But everyone shall die for his own iniquity: every man who eats + the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge. +031:031 Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will make a new + covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: +031:032 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers + in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them + out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they broke, + although I was a husband to them, says Yahweh. +031:033 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house + of Israel after those days, says Yahweh: I will put my law + in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; + and I will be their God, and they shall be my people: +031:034 and they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man + his brother, saying, Know Yahweh; for they shall all know me, + from the least of them to the greatest of them, says Yahweh: + for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin will I + remember no more. +031:035 Thus says Yahweh, who gives the sun for a light by day, + and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light + by night, who stirs up the sea, so that the waves of it roar; + Yahweh of Armies is his name: +031:036 If these ordinances depart from before me, says Yahweh, + then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation + before me forever. +031:037 Thus says Yahweh: If heaven above can be measured, + and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, + then will I also cast off all the seed of Israel for all + that they have done, says Yahweh. +031:038 Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that the city shall be built + to Yahweh from the tower of Hananel to the gate of the corner. +031:039 The measuring line shall go out further straight onward + to the hill Gareb, and shall turn about to Goah. +031:040 The whole valley of the dead bodies and of the ashes, + and all the fields to the brook Kidron, to the corner + of the horse gate toward the east, shall be holy to Yahweh; + it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more forever. +032:001 The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh in the tenth + year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth + year of Nebuchadnezzar. +032:002 Now at that time the king of Babylon's army was besieging Jerusalem; + and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the guard, + which was in the king of Judah's house. +032:003 For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Why do + you prophesy, and say, Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will + give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, + and he shall take it; +032:004 and Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand + of the Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into the hand + of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him mouth to mouth, + and his eyes shall see his eyes; +032:005 and he shall bring Zedekiah to Babylon, and there shall he be until + I visit him, says Yahweh: though you fight with the Chaldeans, + you shall not prosper? +032:006 Jeremiah said, The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, +032:007 Behold, Hanamel the son of Shallum your uncle shall come + to you, saying, Buy you my field that is in Anathoth; + for the right of redemption is yours to buy it. +032:008 So Hanamel my uncle's son came to me in the court of the guard + according to the word of Yahweh, and said to me, Please buy + my field that is in Anathoth, which is in the land of Benjamin; + for the right of inheritance is yours, and the redemption + is yours; buy it for yourself. Then I knew that this was + the word of Yahweh. +032:009 I bought the field that was in Anathoth of Hanamel my uncle's son, + and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver. +032:010 I subscribed the deed, and sealed it, and called witnesses, + and weighed him the money in the balances. +032:011 So I took the deed of the purchase, both that which was sealed, + containing the terms and conditions, and that which was open; +032:012 and I delivered the deed of the purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, + the son of Mahseiah, in the presence of Hanamel my uncle's son, + and in the presence of the witnesses who subscribed the deed + of the purchase, before all the Jews who sat in the court + of the guard. +032:013 I charged Baruch before them, saying, +032:014 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Take these deeds, + this deed of the purchase which is sealed, and this deed + which is open, and put them in an earthen vessel; that they + may continue many days. +032:015 For thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Houses and + fields and vineyards shall yet again be bought in this land. +032:016 Now after I had delivered the deed of the purchase to Baruch + the son of Neriah, I prayed to Yahweh, saying, +032:017 Ah Lord Yahweh! behold, you have made the heavens and + the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm; + there is nothing too hard for you, +032:018 who show loving kindness to thousands, and recompense the iniquity + of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them; + the great, the mighty God, Yahweh of Armies is his name; +032:019 great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose eyes are open on + all the ways of the sons of men, to give everyone according + to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings: +032:020 who performed signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, + even to this day, both in Israel and among [other] men; + and made you a name, as in this day; +032:021 and brought forth your people Israel out of the land of Egypt + with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand, + and with an outstretched arm, and with great terror; +032:022 and gave them this land, which you did swear to their fathers + to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey; +032:023 and they came in, and possessed it, but they didn't + obey your voice, neither walked in your law; they have + done nothing of all that you commanded them to do: + therefore you have caused all this evil to come on them. +032:024 Behold, the mounds, they are come to the city to take it; + and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans who + fight against it, because of the sword, and of the famine, + and of the pestilence; and what you have spoken has happened; + and behold, you see it. +032:025 You have said to me, Lord Yahweh, Buy you the field for money, + and call witnesses; whereas the city is given into the hand + of the Chaldeans. +032:026 Then came the word of Yahweh to Jeremiah, saying, +032:027 Behold, I am Yahweh, the God of all flesh: is there anything + too hard for me? +032:028 Therefore thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will give this city into + the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar + king of Babylon, and he shall take it: +032:029 and the Chaldeans, who fight against this city, shall come + and set this city on fire, and burn it, with the houses, + on whose roofs they have offered incense to Baal, and poured + out drink offerings to other gods, to provoke me to anger. +032:030 For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have + done only that which was evil in my sight from their youth; + for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger + with the work of their hands, says Yahweh. +032:031 For this city has been to me a provocation of my anger and of + my wrath from the day that they built it even to this day; + that I should remove it from before my face, +032:032 because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children + of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger, they, + their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, + and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. +032:033 They have turned to me the back, and not the face: + and though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, + yet they have not listened to receive instruction. +032:034 But they set their abominations in the house which is called + by my name, to defile it. +032:035 They built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley + of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters + to pass through [the fire] to Molech; which I didn't + command them, neither did it come into my mind, that they + should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin. +032:036 Now therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, + concerning this city, about which you say, It is given into + the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by the famine, + and by the pestilence: +032:037 Behold, I will gather them out of all the countries, + where I have driven them in my anger, and in my wrath, and in + great indignation; and I will bring them again to this place, + and I will cause them to dwell safely: +032:038 and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: +032:039 and I will give them one heart and one way, that they + may fear me forever, for the good of them, and of their + children after them: +032:040 and I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I + will not turn away from following them, to do them good; + and I will put my fear in their hearts, that they may not + depart from me. +032:041 Yes, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant + them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with + my whole soul. +032:042 For thus says Yahweh: Like as I have brought all this great evil + on this people, so will I bring on them all the good that I + have promised them. +032:043 Fields shall be bought in this land, about which you say, + It is desolate, without man or animal; it is given into the hand + of the Chaldeans. +032:044 Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe the deeds, + and seal them, and call witnesses, in the land of Benjamin, + and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, + and in the cities of the hill country, and in the cities + of the lowland, and in the cities of the South: + for I will cause their captivity to return, says Yahweh. +033:001 Moreover the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah the second time, + while he was yet shut up in the court of the guard, saying, +033:002 Thus says Yahweh who does it, Yahweh who forms it to establish it; + Yahweh is his name: +033:003 Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great things, + and difficult, which you don't know. +033:004 For thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, concerning the houses + of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, + which are broken down [to make a defense] against the mounds + and against the sword; +033:005 while [men] come to fight with the Chaldeans, and to fill them + with the dead bodies of men, whom I have killed in my anger + and in my wrath, and for all whose wickedness I have hid + my face from this city: +033:006 Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them; + and I will reveal to them abundance of peace and truth. +033:007 I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel + to return, and will build them, as at the first. +033:008 I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, by which they + have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, + by which they have sinned against me, and by which they + have transgressed against me. +033:009 [This city] shall be to me for a name of joy, for a praise + and for a glory, before all the nations of the earth, + which shall hear all the good that I do to them, and shall + fear and tremble for all the good and for all the peace that I + procure to it. +033:010 Thus says Yahweh: Yet again there shall be heard in this place, + about which you say, It is waste, without man and without animal, + even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, + that are desolate, without man and without inhabitant + and without animal, +033:011 the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of + the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those + who say, Give thanks to Yahweh of Armies, for Yahweh is good, + for his loving kindness endures forever; [and of them] who + bring [sacrifices of] thanksgiving into the house of Yahweh. + For I will cause the captivity of the land to return as at + the first, says Yahweh. +033:012 Thus says Yahweh of Armies: Yet again shall there be in + this place, which is waste, without man and without animal, + and in all the cities of it, a habitation of shepherds causing + their flocks to lie down. +033:013 In the cities of the hill country, in the cities of the lowland, + and in the cities of the South, and in the land of Benjamin, + and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, + shall the flocks again pass under the hands of him who + numbers them, says Yahweh. +033:014 Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will perform that + good word which I have spoken concerning the house of Israel + and concerning the house of Judah. +033:015 In those days, and at that time, will I cause a Branch + of righteousness to grow up to David; and he shall execute + justice and righteousness in the land. +033:016 In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely; + and this is [the name] by which she shall be called: + Yahweh our righteousness. +033:017 For thus says Yahweh: David shall never want a man to sit + on the throne of the house of Israel; +033:018 neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me + to offer burnt offerings, and to burn meal offerings, + and to do sacrifice continually. +033:019 The word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, saying, +033:020 Thus says Yahweh: If you can break my covenant of the day, + and my covenant of the night, so that there shall not be day + and night in their season; +033:021 then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, + that he shall not have a son to reign on his throne; + and with the Levites the priests, my ministers. +033:022 As the army of the sky can't be numbered, neither the sand + of the sea measured; so will I multiply the seed of David + my servant, and the Levites who minister to me. +033:023 The word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, saying, +033:024 Don't you consider what this people has spoken, saying, The two + families which Yahweh did choose, he has cast them off? + thus do they despise my people, that they should be no more + a nation before them. +033:025 Thus says Yahweh: If my covenant of day and night fails, + if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth; +033:026 then will I also cast away the seed of Jacob, and of David + my servant, so that I will not take of his seed to be + rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: + for I will cause their captivity to return, and will have + mercy on them. +034:001 The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, when Nebuchadnezzar + king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of + the earth that were under his dominion, and all the peoples, + were fighting against Jerusalem, and against all the cities + of it, saying: +034:002 Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, Go, and speak to Zedekiah + king of Judah, and tell him, Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will + give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, + and he shall burn it with fire: +034:003 and you shall not escape out of his hand, but shall surely + be taken, and delivered into his hand; and your eyes shall see + the eyes of the king of Babylon, and he shall speak with you + mouth to mouth, and you shall go to Babylon. +034:004 Yet hear the word of Yahweh, O Zedekiah king of Judah: + thus says Yahweh concerning you, You shall not die by the sword; +034:005 you shall die in peace; and with the burnings of your fathers, + the former kings who were before you, so shall they make + a burning for you; and they shall lament you, [saying], Ah Lord! + for I have spoken the word, says Yahweh. +034:006 Then Jeremiah the prophet spoke all these words to Zedekiah + king of Judah in Jerusalem, +034:007 when the king of Babylon's army was fighting against Jerusalem, + and against all the cities of Judah that were left, + against Lachish and against Azekah; for these [alone] remained + of the cities of Judah [as] fortified cities. +034:008 The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, after that the king + Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people who were + at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty to them; +034:009 that every man should let his male servant, and every man + his female servant, who is a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, go free; + that none should make bondservants of them, [to wit], + of a Jew his brother. +034:010 All the princes and all the people obeyed, who had entered + into the covenant, that everyone should let his male servant, + and everyone his female servant, go free, that none should make + bondservants of them any more; they obeyed, and let them go: +034:011 but afterwards they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, + whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into + subjection for servants and for handmaids. +034:012 Therefore the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying, +034:013 Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: I made a covenant + with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out + of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, saying, +034:014 At the end of seven years you shall let go every man his + brother who is a Hebrew, who has been sold to you, and has + served you six years, you shall let him go free from you: + but your fathers didn't listen to me, neither inclined their ear. +034:015 You were now turned, and had done that which is right in my eyes, + in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbor; and you + had made a covenant before me in the house which is called + by my name: +034:016 but you turned and profaned my name, and caused every man + his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom you had let + go free at their pleasure, to return; and you brought them + into subjection, to be to you for servants and for handmaids. +034:017 Therefore thus says Yahweh: you have not listened to me, + to proclaim liberty, every man to his brother, and every + man to his neighbor: behold, I proclaim to you a liberty, + says Yahweh, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; + and I will make you to be tossed back and forth among all + the kingdoms of the earth. +034:018 I will give the men who have transgressed my covenant, + who have not performed the words of the covenant which they + made before me, when they cut the calf in two and passed + between the parts of it; +034:019 the princes of Judah, and the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, + and the priests, and all the people of the land, who passed + between the parts of the calf; +034:020 I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, + and into the hand of those who seek their life; and their + dead bodies shall be for food to the birds of the sky, + and to the animals of the earth. +034:021 Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will I give into + the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek + their life, and into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, + who have gone away from you. +034:022 Behold, I will command, says Yahweh, and cause them to return + to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, + and burn it with fire: and I will make the cities of Judah + a desolation, without inhabitant. +035:001 The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh in the days + of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying, +035:002 Go to the house of the Rechabites, and speak to them, and bring + them into the house of Yahweh, into one of the chambers, + and give them wine to drink. +035:003 Then I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, the son of Habazziniah, + and his brothers, and all his sons, and the whole house + of the Rechabites; +035:004 and I brought them into the house of Yahweh, into the chamber + of the sons of Hanan the son of Igdaliah, the man of God, + which was by the chamber of the princes, which was above + the chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper + of the threshold. +035:005 I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites bowls + full of wine, and cups; and I said to them, Drink you wine. +035:006 But they said, We will drink no wine; for Jonadab the son of Rechab, + our father, commanded us, saying, You shall drink no wine, + neither you, nor your sons, forever: +035:007 neither shall you build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, + nor have any; but all your days you shall dwell in tents; + that you may live many days in the land in which you sojourn. +035:008 We have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab, + our father, in all that he charged us, to drink no wine all + our days, we, our wives, our sons, or our daughters; +035:009 nor to build houses for us to dwell in; neither have we vineyard, + nor field, nor seed: +035:010 but we have lived in tents, and have obeyed, and done according + to all that Jonadab our father commanded us. +035:011 But it happened, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up + into the land, that we said, Come, and let us go to Jerusalem + for fear of the army of the Chaldeans, and for fear of the army + of the Syrians; so we dwell at Jerusalem. +035:012 Then came the word of Yahweh to Jeremiah, saying, +035:013 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Go, and tell + the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will you + not receive instruction to listen to my words? says Yahweh. +035:014 The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he commanded + his sons, not to drink wine, are performed; and to this day + they drink none, for they obey their father's commandment: + but I have spoken to you, rising up early and speaking; + and you have not listened to me. +035:015 I have sent also to you all my servants the prophets, + rising up early and sending them, saying, Return you + now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, + and don't go after other gods to serve them, and you shall dwell + in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers: + but you have not inclined your ear, nor listened to me. +035:016 Because the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have performed + the commandment of their father which he commanded them, + but this people has not listened to me; +035:017 therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Armies, the God + of Israel: Behold, I will bring on Judah and on all the inhabitants + of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced against them; + because I have spoken to them, but they have not heard; + and I have called to them, but they have not answered. +035:018 Jeremiah said to the house of the Rechabites, Thus says Yahweh + of Armies, the God of Israel: Because you have obeyed the + commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, + and done according to all that he commanded you; +035:019 therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Jonadab the + son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me forever. +036:001 It happened in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, + king of Judah, that this word came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying, +036:002 Take a scroll of a book, and write therein all the words + that I have spoken to you against Israel, and against Judah, + and against all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, + from the days of Josiah, even to this day. +036:003 It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil + which I purpose to do to them; that they may return every + man from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity + and their sin. +036:004 Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah; and Baruch + wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of Yahweh, + which he had spoken to him, on a scroll of a book. +036:005 Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am shut up; I can't go + into the house of Yahweh: +036:006 therefore go you, and read in the scroll, which you have written + from my mouth, the words of Yahweh in the ears of the people + in Yahweh's house on the fast day; and also you shall read + them in the ears of all Judah who come out of their cities. +036:007 It may be they will present their supplication before Yahweh, + and will return everyone from his evil way; for great is the anger + and the wrath that Yahweh has pronounced against this people. +036:008 Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah + the prophet commanded him, reading in the book the words + of Yahweh in Yahweh's house. +036:009 Now it happened in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, + king of Judah, in the ninth month, that all the people + in Jerusalem, and all the people who came from the cities + of Judah to Jerusalem, proclaimed a fast before Yahweh. +036:010 Then read Baruch in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house + of Yahweh, in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan, + the scribe, in the upper court, at the entry of the new gate + of Yahweh's house, in the ears of all the people. +036:011 When Micaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, + had heard out of the book all the words of Yahweh, +036:012 he went down into the king's house, into the scribe's chamber: + and behold, all the princes were sitting there, [to wit], + Elishama the scribe, and Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, + and Elnathan the son of Achbor, and Gemariah the son of Shaphan, + and Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the princes. +036:013 Then Micaiah declared to them all the words that he had heard, + when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people. +036:014 Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, + the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, to Baruch, saying, + Take in your hand the scroll in which you have read in the ears + of the people, and come. So Baruch the son of Neriah took + the scroll in his hand, and came to them. +036:015 They said to him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears. + So Baruch read it in their ears. +036:016 Now it happened, when they had heard all the words, they turned + in fear one toward another, and said to Baruch, We will surely + tell the king of all these words. +036:017 They asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How did you write + all these words at his mouth? +036:018 Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all these words to me + with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book. +036:019 Then said the princes to Baruch, Go, hide you, you and Jeremiah; + and let no man know where you are. +036:020 They went in to the king into the court; but they had laid + up the scroll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe; + and they told all the words in the ears of the king. +036:021 So the king sent Jehudi to get the scroll; and he took it + out of the chamber of Elishama the scribe. Jehudi read it + in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes + who stood beside the king. +036:022 Now the king was sitting in the winter house in the ninth month: + and [there was a fire in] the brazier burning before him. +036:023 It happened, when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, + that [the king] cut it with the penknife, and cast it into + the fire that was in the brazier, until all the scroll was + consumed in the fire that was in the brazier. +036:024 They were not afraid, nor tore their garments, neither the king, + nor any of his servants who heard all these words. +036:025 Moreover Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made + intercession to the king that he would not burn the scroll; + but he would not hear them. +036:026 The king commanded Jerahmeel the king's son, and Seraiah the son + of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch + the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet; but Yahweh hid them. +036:027 Then the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, after that the king + had burned the scroll, and the words which Baruch wrote + at the mouth of Jeremiah, saying, +036:028 Take again another scroll, and write in it all the former + words that were in the first scroll, which Jehoiakim the king + of Judah has burned. +036:029 Concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall say, + Thus says Yahweh: You have burned this scroll, saying, + Why have you written therein, saying, The king of Babylon + shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause + to cease from there man and animal? +036:030 Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning Jehoiakim king + of Judah: He shall have none to sit on the throne of David; + and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, + and in the night to the frost. +036:031 I will punish him and his seed and his servants for their iniquity; + and I will bring on them, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, + and on the men of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced + against them, but they didn't listen. +036:032 Then took Jeremiah another scroll, and gave it to Baruch + the scribe, the son of Neriah, who wrote therein from the mouth + of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king + of Judah had burned in the fire; and there were added besides + to them many like words. +037:001 Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned as king, instead of Coniah + the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon + made king in the land of Judah. +037:002 But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the land, + did listen to the words of Yahweh, which he spoke by + the prophet Jeremiah. +037:003 Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah, and Zephaniah + the son of Maaseiah, the priest, to the prophet Jeremiah, + saying, Pray now to Yahweh our God for us. +037:004 Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people; for they + had not put him into prison. +037:005 Pharaoh's army was come forth out of Egypt; and when the + Chaldeans who were besieging Jerusalem heard news of them, + they broke up from Jerusalem. +037:006 Then came the word of Yahweh to the prophet Jeremiah, saying, +037:007 Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, Thus shall you tell + the king of Judah, who sent you to me to inquire of me: + Behold, Pharaoh's army, which is come forth to help you, + shall return to Egypt into their own land. +037:008 The Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city; + and they shall take it, and burn it with fire. +037:009 Thus says Yahweh, Don't deceive yourselves, saying, The Chaldeans + shall surely depart from us; for they shall not depart. +037:010 For though you had struck the whole army of the Chaldeans + who fight against you, and there remained but wounded men + among them, yes would they rise up every man in his tent, + and burn this city with fire. +037:011 It happened that, when the army of the Chaldeans was broken + up from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh's army, +037:012 then Jeremiah went forth out of Jerusalem to go into the land + of Benjamin, to receive his portion there, in the midst + of the people. +037:013 When he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the guard + was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, + the son of Hananiah; and he laid hold on Jeremiah the prophet, + saying, You are falling away to the Chaldeans. +037:014 Then said Jeremiah, It is false; I am not falling away to + the Chaldeans. But he didn't listen to him; so Irijah laid + hold on Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes. +037:015 The princes were angry with Jeremiah, and struck him, + and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe; + for they had made that the prison. +037:016 When Jeremiah was come into the dungeon house, and into the cells, + and Jeremiah had remained there many days; +037:017 Then Zedekiah the king sent, and fetched him: + and the king asked him secretly in his house, and said, + Is there any word from Yahweh? Jeremiah said, There is. + He said also, You shall be delivered into the hand of the + king of Babylon. +037:018 Moreover Jeremiah said to king Zedekiah, Wherein have I sinned + against you, or against your servants, or against this people, + that you have put me in prison? +037:019 Where now are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, The king + of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land? +037:020 Now please hear, my lord the king: please let my supplication + be presented before you, that you not cause me to return + to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there. +037:021 Then Zedekiah the king commanded, and they committed Jeremiah + into the court of the guard; and they gave him daily a loaf + of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread + in the city was spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court + of the guard. +038:001 Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of Pashhur, + and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur the son of Malchijah, + heard the words that Jeremiah spoke to all the people, saying, +038:002 Thus says Yahweh, He who remains in this city shall die + by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence; + but he who goes forth to the Chaldeans shall live, and his + life shall be to him for a prey, and he shall live. +038:003 Thus says Yahweh, This city shall surely be given into the hand + of the army of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it. +038:004 Then the princes said to the king, Let this man, we pray you, + be put to death; because he weakens the hands of the men of war + who remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, + in speaking such words to them: for this man doesn't seek + the welfare of this people, but the hurt. +038:005 Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hand; + for the king is not he who can do anything against you. +038:006 Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of + Malchijah the king's son, that was in the court of the guard: + and they let down Jeremiah with cords. In the dungeon there + was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire. +038:007 Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, a eunuch, who was in the + king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon + (the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin), +038:008 Ebedmelech went forth out of the king's house, and spoke + to the king, saying, +038:009 My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they + have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into + the dungeon; and he is likely to die in the place where he is, + because of the famine; for there is no more bread in the city. +038:010 Then the king commanded Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, + Take from hence thirty men with you, and take up Jeremiah + the prophet out of the dungeon, before he dies. +038:011 So Ebedmelech took the men with him, and went into the house + of the king under the treasury, and took there rags + and worn-out garments, and let them down by cords into + the dungeon to Jeremiah. +038:012 Ebedmelech the Ethiopian said to Jeremiah, Put now these rags + and worn-out garments under your armholes under the cords. + Jeremiah did so. +038:013 So they drew up Jeremiah with the cords, and took him up + out of the dungeon: and Jeremiah remained in the court + of the guard. +038:014 Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took Jeremiah the prophet + to him into the third entry that is in the house of Yahweh: + and the king said to Jeremiah, I will ask you a thing; + hide nothing from me. +038:015 Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, If I declare it to you, + will you not surely put me to death? and if I give you counsel, + you will not listen to me. +038:016 So Zedekiah the king swore secretly to Jeremiah, saying, + As Yahweh lives, who made us this soul, I will not put you + to death, neither will I give you into the hand of these men + who seek your life. +038:017 Then said Jeremiah to Zedekiah, Thus says Yahweh, the God + of Armies, the God of Israel: If you will go forth to the king + of Babylon's princes, then your soul shall live, and this + city shall not be burned with fire; and you shall live, + and your house. +038:018 But if you will not go forth to the king of Babylon's princes, + then shall this city be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, + and they shall burn it with fire, and you shall not escape + out of their hand. +038:019 Zedekiah the king said to Jeremiah, I am afraid of the Jews + who are fallen away to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me + into their hand, and they mock me. +038:020 But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver you. Obey, I beg you, + the voice of Yahweh, in that which I speak to you: + so it shall be well with you, and your soul shall live. +038:021 But if you refuse to go forth, this is the word that Yahweh + has shown me: +038:022 behold, all the women who are left in the king of Judah's house + shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon's princes, + and those women shall say, Your familiar friends have set you on, + and have prevailed over you: [now that] your feet are sunk + in the mire, they are turned away back. +038:023 They shall bring out all your wives and your children to + the Chaldeans; and you shall not escape out of their hand, + but shall be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon: + and you shall cause this city to be burned with fire. +038:024 Then said Zedekiah to Jeremiah, Let no man know of these words, + and you shall not die. +038:025 But if the princes hear that I have talked with you, and they + come to you, and tell you, Declare to us now what you have said + to the king; don't hide it from us, and we will not put you + to death; also what the king said to you: +038:026 then you shall tell them, I presented my supplication before the king, + that he would not cause me to return to Jonathan's house, + to die there. +038:027 Then came all the princes to Jeremiah, and asked him; + and he told them according to all these words that the king + had commanded. So they left off speaking with him; + for the matter was not perceived. +038:028 So Jeremiah abode in the court of the guard until the day + that Jerusalem was taken. +039:001 It happened when Jerusalem was taken, (in the ninth year of + Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came Nebuchadnezzar + king of Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem, + and besieged it; +039:002 in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, + the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city), +039:003 that all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, + and sat in the middle gate, [to wit], Nergal Sharezer, + Samgarnebo, Sarsechim, Rabsaris, Nergal Sharezer, Rabmag, + with all the rest of the princes of the king of Babylon. +039:004 It happened that, when Zedekiah the king of Judah and all + the men of war saw them, then they fled, and went forth + out of the city by night, by the way of the king's garden, + through the gate between the two walls; and he went out + toward the Arabah. +039:005 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after them, and overtook + Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho: and when they had taken him, + they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah + in the land of Hamath; and he gave judgment on him. +039:006 Then the king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah + before his eyes: also the king of Babylon killed all + the nobles of Judah. +039:007 Moreover he put out Zedekiah's eyes, and bound him in fetters, + to carry him to Babylon. +039:008 The Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the houses of the people, + with fire, and broke down the walls of Jerusalem. +039:009 Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive + into Babylon the residue of the people who remained in the city, + the deserters also who fell away to him, and the residue + of the people who remained. +039:010 But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poor + of the people, who had nothing, in the land of Judah, + and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time. +039:011 Now Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon gave charge concerning + Jeremiah to Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, saying, +039:012 Take him, and look well to him, and do him no harm; + but do to him even as he shall tell you. +039:013 So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard sent, + and Nebushazban, Rabsaris, and Nergal Sharezer, Rabmag, and all + the chief officers of the king of Babylon; +039:014 they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court of the guard, + and committed him to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, + the son of Shaphan, that he should carry him home: + so he lived among the people. +039:015 Now the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, while he was shut up + in the court of the guard, saying, +039:016 Go, and speak to Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Thus says + Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring + my words on this city for evil, and not for good; and they + shall be accomplished before you in that day. +039:017 But I will deliver you in that day, says Yahweh; and you shall + not be given into the hand of the men of whom you are afraid. +039:018 For I will surely save you, and you shall not fall by the sword, + but your life shall be for a prey to you; because you have put + your trust in me, says Yahweh. +040:001 The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, after that + Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, + when he had taken him being bound in chains among all + the captives of Jerusalem and Judah, who were carried away + captive to Babylon. +040:002 The captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said to him, + Yahweh your God pronounced this evil on this place; +040:003 and Yahweh has brought it, and done according as he spoke: + because you have sinned against Yahweh, and have not obeyed + his voice, therefore this thing is come on you. +040:004 Now, behold, I loose you this day from the chains which are + on your hand. If it seems good to you to come with me + into Babylon, come, and I will take care of you; but if it + seems bad to you to come with me into Babylon, don't: behold, + all the land is before you; where it seems good and right + to you to go, there go. +040:005 Now while he was not yet gone back, Go back then, [said he], + to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom the king + of Babylon has made governor over the cities of Judah, + and dwell with him among the people; or go wherever it seems + right to you to go. So the captain of the guard gave him + food and a present, and let him go. +040:006 Then went Jeremiah to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah, + and lived with him among the people who were left in the land. +040:007 Now when all the captains of the forces who were in the fields, + even they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon + had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land, + and had committed to him men, and women, and children, + and of the poorest of the land, of those who were not carried + away captive to Babylon; +040:008 then they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, [to wit], Ishmael the son + of Nethaniah, and Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, + and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai + the Netophathite, and Jezaniah the son of the Maacathite, + they and their men. +040:009 Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan swore to them and + to their men, saying, Don't be afraid to serve the Chaldeans: + dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it + shall be well with you. +040:010 As for me, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah, to stand before + the Chaldeans who shall come to us: but you, gather you wine + and summer fruits and oil, and put them in your vessels, + and dwell in your cities that you have taken. +040:011 Likewise when all the Jews who were in Moab, and among the children + of Ammon, and in Edom, and who were in all the countries, + heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant of Judah, + and that he had set over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, + the son of Shaphan; +040:012 then all the Jews returned out of all places where they + were driven, and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah, + to Mizpah, and gathered wine and summer fruits very much. +040:013 Moreover Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of + the forces who were in the fields, came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, +040:014 and said to him, Do you know that Baalis the king of the children + of Ammon has sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to take your life? + But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam didn't believe them. +040:015 Then Johanan the son of Kareah spoke to Gedaliah in + Mizpah secretly, saying, Please let me go, and I will kill + Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no man shall know it: + why should he take your life, that all the Jews who are gathered + to you should be scattered, and the remnant of Judah perish? +040:016 But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said to Johanan the son + of Kareah, You shall not do this thing; for you speak + falsely of Ishmael. +041:001 Now it happened in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son + of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the seed royal and [one + of] the chief officers of the king, and ten men with him, + came to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and there they + ate bread together in Mizpah. +041:002 Then arose Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and the ten men who + were with him, and struck Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son + of Shaphan with the sword, and killed him, whom the king + of Babylon had made governor over the land. +041:003 Ishmael also killed all the Jews who were with him, [to wit], + with Gedaliah, at Mizpah, and the Chaldeans who were found there, + the men of war. +041:004 It happened the second day after he had killed Gedaliah, + and no man knew it, +041:005 that there came men from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, + even eighty men, having their beards shaved and their clothes torn, + and having cut themselves, with meal offerings and frankincense + in their hand, to bring them to the house of Yahweh. +041:006 Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went forth from Mizpah to meet them, + weeping all along as he went: and it happened, as he met them, + he said to them, Come to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam. +041:007 It was so, when they came into the midst of the city, + that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah killed them, [and cast them] + into the midst of the pit, he, and the men who were with him. +041:008 But ten men were found among those who said to Ishmael, Don't kill us; + for we have stores hidden in the field, of wheat, and of barley, + and of oil, and of honey. So he stopped, and didn't kill + them among their brothers. +041:009 Now the pit in which Ishmael cast all the dead bodies + of the men whom he had killed, by the side of Gedaliah + (the same was who which Asa the king had made for fear of + Baasha king of Israel), Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled + it with those who were killed. +041:010 Then Ishmael carried away captive all the residue of + the people who were in Mizpah, even the king's daughters, + and all the people who remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan + the captain of the guard had committed to Gedaliah the son + of Ahikam; Ishmael the son of Nethaniah carried them away captive, + and departed to go over to the children of Ammon. +041:011 But when Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains + of the forces who were with him, heard of all the evil + that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had done, +041:012 then they took all the men, and went to fight with Ishmael + the son of Nethaniah, and found him by the great waters + that are in Gibeon. +041:013 Now it happened that, when all the people who were with Ishmael + saw Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces + who were with him, then they were glad. +041:014 So all the people who Ishmael had carried away captive + from Mizpah turned about and came back, and went to Johanan + the son of Kareah. +041:015 But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with + eight men, and went to the children of Ammon. +041:016 Then took Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains + of the forces who were with him, all the remnant of the people + whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, + from Mizpah, after that he had killed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, + [to wit], the men of war, and the women, and the children, + and the eunuchs, whom he had brought back from Gibeon: +041:017 and they departed, and lived in Geruth Chimham, which is + by Bethlehem, to go to enter into Egypt, +041:018 because of the Chaldeans; for they were afraid of them, + because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had killed Gedaliah + the son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon made governor + over the land. +042:001 Then all the captains of the forces, and Johanan the son of Kareah, + and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from + the least even to the greatest, came near, +042:002 and said to Jeremiah the prophet, Let, we pray you, our supplication + be presented before you, and pray for us to Yahweh your God, + even for all this remnant; for we are left but a few of many, + as your eyes do see us: +042:003 that Yahweh your God may show us the way in which we should walk, + and the thing that we should do. +042:004 Then Jeremiah the prophet said to them, I have heard you; + behold, I will pray to Yahweh your God according to your words; + and it shall happen that whatever thing Yahweh shall answer you, + I will declare it to you; I will keep nothing back from you. +042:005 Then they said to Jeremiah, Yahweh be a true and faithful + witness among us, if we don't do according to all the word + with which Yahweh your God shall send you to us. +042:006 Whether it be good, or whether it be evil, we will obey the voice + of Yahweh our God, to whom we send you; that it may be well + with us, when we obey the voice of Yahweh our God. +042:007 It happened after ten days, that the word of Yahweh + came to Jeremiah. +042:008 Then called he Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains + of the forces who were with him, and all the people from + the least even to the greatest, +042:009 and said to them, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, + to whom you sent me to present your supplication before him: +042:010 If you will still abide in this land, then will I build you, + and not pull you down, and I will plant you, and not pluck you up; + for I grieve over the distress that I have brought on you. +042:011 Don't be afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom you are afraid; + don't be afraid of him, says Yahweh: for I am with you + to save you, and to deliver you from his hand. +042:012 I will grant you mercy, that he may have mercy on you, + and cause you to return to your own land. +042:013 But if you say, We will not dwell in this land; so that you + don't obey the voice of Yahweh your God, +042:014 saying, No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we + shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, + nor have hunger of bread; and there will we dwell: +042:015 now therefore hear you the word of Yahweh, O remnant + of Judah: Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, If you + indeed set your faces to enter into Egypt, and go to sojourn there; +042:016 then it shall happen, that the sword, which you fear, + shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt; and the famine, + about which you are afraid, shall follow hard after you there + in Egypt; and there you shall die. +042:017 So shall it be with all the men who set their faces to go + into Egypt to sojourn there: they shall die by the sword, + by the famine, and by the pestilence; and none of them shall + remain or escape from the evil that I will bring on them. +042:018 For thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: As my + anger and my wrath has been poured forth on the inhabitants + of Jerusalem, so shall my wrath be poured forth on you, + when you shall enter into Egypt; and you shall be an object + of horror, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; + and you shall see this place no more. +042:019 Yahweh has spoken concerning you, remnant of Judah, Don't you + go into Egypt: know certainly that I have testified to + you this day. +042:020 For you have dealt deceitfully against your own souls; + for you sent me to Yahweh your God, saying, Pray for us to Yahweh + our God; and according to all that Yahweh our God shall say, + so declare to us, and we will do it: +042:021 and I have this day declared it to you; but you have not obeyed + the voice of Yahweh your God in anything for which he has + sent me to you. +042:022 Now therefore know certainly that you shall die by the sword, + by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place where you + desire to go to sojourn there. +043:001 It happened that, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking + to all the people all the words of Yahweh their God, with which + Yahweh their God had sent him to them, even all these words, +043:002 then spoke Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, + and all the proud men, saying to Jeremiah, You speak falsely: + Yahweh our God has not sent you to say, You shall not go + into Egypt to sojourn there; +043:003 but Baruch the son of Neriah sets you on against us, to deliver us + into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they may put us to death, + and carry us away captive to Babylon. +043:004 So Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, + and all the people, didn't obey the voice of Yahweh, + to dwell in the land of Judah. +043:005 But Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, + took all the remnant of Judah, who were returned from + all the nations where they had been driven, to sojourn + in the land of Judah; +043:006 the men, and the women, and the children, and the king's daughters, + and every person who Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard + had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan; + and Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch the son of Neriah; +043:007 and they came into the land of Egypt; for they didn't obey + the voice of Yahweh: and they came to Tahpanhes. +043:008 Then came the word of Yahweh to Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, saying, +043:009 Take great stones in your hand, and hide them in mortar + in the brick work, which is at the entry of Pharaoh's house + in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah; +043:010 and tell them, Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God + of Israel: Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadnezzar + the king of Babylon, my servant, and will set his throne + on these stones that I have hidden; and he shall spread his + royal pavilion over them. +043:011 He shall come, and shall strike the land of Egypt; + such as are for death [shall be given] to death, and such as + are for captivity to captivity, and such as are for the sword + to the sword. +043:012 I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt; + and he shall burn them, and carry them away captive: + and he shall array himself with the land of Egypt, + as a shepherd puts on his garment; and he shall go forth + from there in peace. +043:013 He shall also break the pillars of Beth Shemesh, that is in + the land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of Egypt shall + he burn with fire. +044:001 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews who lived + in the land of Egypt, who lived at Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, + and at Memphis, and in the country of Pathros, saying, +044:002 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: You have seen + all the evil that I have brought on Jerusalem, and on all + the cities of Judah; and behold, this day they are a desolation, + and no man dwells therein, +044:003 because of their wickedness which they have committed + to provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, + [and] to serve other gods, that they didn't know, neither they, + nor you, nor your fathers. +044:004 However I sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising up + early and sending them, saying, Oh, don't do this abominable + thing that I hate. +044:005 But they didn't listen, nor inclined their ear to turn from + their wickedness, to burn no incense to other gods. +044:006 Therefore my wrath and my anger was poured forth, and was + kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; + and they are wasted and desolate, as it is this day. +044:007 Therefore now thus says Yahweh, the God of Armies, the God + of Israel: Why commit you [this] great evil against your own souls, + to cut off from you man and woman, infant and suckling, + out of the midst of Judah, to leave you none remaining; +044:008 in that you provoke me to anger with the works of your hands, + burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt, + where you are gone to sojourn; that you may be cut off, + and that you may be a curse and a reproach among all the nations + of the earth? +044:009 Have you forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, + and the wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness + of their wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness + of your wives which they committed in the land of Judah, + and in the streets of Jerusalem? +044:010 They are not humbled even to this day, neither have they feared, + nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before + you and before your fathers. +044:011 Therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God + of Israel: Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, + even to cut off all Judah. +044:012 I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces + to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they + shall all be consumed; in the land of Egypt shall they fall; + they shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine; + they shall die, from the least even to the greatest, by the sword + and by the famine; and they shall be an object of horror, + [and] an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach. +044:013 For I will punish those who dwell in the land of Egypt, + as I have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine, + and by the pestilence; +044:014 so that none of the remnant of Judah, who have gone into + the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or be left, + to return into the land of Judah, to which they have a desire + to return to dwell there: for none shall return save such + as shall escape. +044:015 Then all the men who knew that their wives burned incense to + other gods, and all the women who stood by, a great assembly, + even all the people who lived in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, + answered Jeremiah, saying, +044:016 As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of Yahweh, + we will not listen to you. +044:017 But we will certainly perform every word that is gone forth + out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of the sky, + and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, + we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities + of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then had we + plenty of food, and were well, and saw no evil. +044:018 But since we left off burning incense to the queen of the sky, + and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have wanted all things, + and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine. +044:019 When we burned incense to the queen of the sky, and poured out + drink offerings to her, did we make her cakes to worship her, + and pour out drink offerings to her, without our husbands? +044:020 Then Jeremiah said to all the people, to the men, and to the women, + even to all the people who had given him an answer, saying, +044:021 The incense that you burned in the cities of Judah, + and in the streets of Jerusalem, you and your fathers, + your kings and your princes, and the people of the land, + didn't Yahweh remember them, and didn't it come into his mind? +044:022 so that Yahweh could no longer bear, because of the evil + of your doings, and because of the abominations which you + have committed; therefore is your land become a desolation, + and an astonishment, and a curse, without inhabitant, + as it is this day. +044:023 Because you have burned incense, and because you have sinned + against Yahweh, and have not obeyed the voice of Yahweh, + nor walked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies; + therefore this evil is happened to you, as it is this day. +044:024 Moreover Jeremiah said to all the people, and to all the women, + Hear the word of Yahweh, all Judah who are in the land of Egypt: +044:025 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, saying, You and + your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and with your + hands have fulfilled it, saying, We will surely perform + our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen + of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to her: + establish then your vows, and perform your vows. +044:026 Therefore hear the word of Yahweh, all Judah who dwell in + the land of Egypt: Behold, I have sworn by my great name, + says Yahweh, that my name shall no more be named in the mouth + of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, As the + Lord Yahweh lives. +044:027 Behold, I watch over them for evil, and not for good; + and all the men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt shall + be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until there + be an end of them. +044:028 Those who escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt + into the land of Judah, few in number; and all the remnant + of Judah, who have gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, + shall know whose word shall stand, mine, or theirs. +044:029 This shall be the sign to you, says Yahweh, that I will punish + you in this place, that you may know that my words shall + surely stand against you for evil: +044:030 Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will give Pharaoh Hophra king + of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of + those who seek his life; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into + the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, who was his enemy, + and sought his life. +045:001 The message that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch the son + of Neriah, when he wrote these words in a book at the mouth + of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, + king of Judah, saying, +045:002 Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, to you, Baruch: +045:003 You did say, Woe is me now! for Yahweh has added sorrow to my pain; + I am weary with my groaning, and I find no rest. +045:004 Thus shall you tell him, Thus says Yahweh: Behold, that which I + have built will I break down, and that which I have planted + I will pluck up; and this in the whole land. +045:005 Seek you great things for yourself? Don't seek them; + for, behold, I will bring evil on all flesh, says Yahweh; + but your life will I give to you for a prey in all places + where you go. +046:001 The word of Yahweh which came to Jeremiah the prophet + concerning the nations. +046:002 Of Egypt: concerning the army of Pharaoh Necoh king + of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, + which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon struck in the fourth + year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah. +046:003 Prepare you the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle. +046:004 Harness the horses, and get up, you horsemen, and stand forth + with your helmets; furbish the spears, put on the coats of mail. +046:005 Why have I seen it? they are dismayed and are turned backward; + and their mighty ones are beaten down, and have fled apace, + and don't look back: terror is on every side, says Yahweh. +046:006 Don't let the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; + in the north by the river Euphrates have they stumbled and fallen. +046:007 Who is this who rises up like the Nile, whose waters toss + themselves like the rivers? +046:008 Egypt rises up like the Nile, and his waters toss themselves + like the rivers: and he says, I will rise up, I will cover + the earth; I will destroy cities and the inhabitants of it. +046:009 Go up, you horses; and rage, you chariots; and let the mighty men + go forth: Cush and Put, who handle the shield; and the Ludim, + who handle and bend the bow. +046:010 For that day is [a day] of the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, a day + of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: + and the sword shall devour and be satiate, and shall drink + its fill of their blood; for the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, + has a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates. +046:011 Go up into Gilead, and take balm, virgin daughter of Egypt: + in vain do you use many medicines; there is no healing for you. +046:012 The nations have heard of your shame, and the earth is full + of your cry; for the mighty man has stumbled against the mighty, + they are fallen both of them together. +046:013 The word that Yahweh spoke to Jeremiah the prophet, + how that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon should come and strike + the land of Egypt. +046:014 Declare you in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in Memphis + and in Tahpanhes: say you, Stand forth, and prepare you; + for the sword has devoured round about you. +046:015 Why are your strong ones swept away? they didn't stand, + because Yahweh did drive them. +046:016 He made many to stumble, yes, they fell one on another: + and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, + and to the land of our birth, from the oppressing sword. +046:017 They cried there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; + he has let the appointed time pass by. +046:018 As I live, says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies, + surely like Tabor among the mountains, and like Carmel by the sea, + so shall he come. +046:019 You daughter who dwell in Egypt, furnish yourself to go + into captivity; for Memphis shall become a desolation, + and shall be burnt up, without inhabitant. +046:020 Egypt is a very beautiful heifer; [but] destruction out of + the north is come, it is come. +046:021 Also her hired men in the midst of her are like calves of the stall; + for they also are turned back, they are fled away together, + they didn't stand: for the day of their calamity is come + on them, the time of their visitation. +046:022 The sound of it shall go like the serpent; for they shall march + with an army, and come against her with axes, as wood cutters. +046:023 They shall cut down her forest, says Yahweh, though it + can't be searched; because they are more than the locusts, + and are innumerable. +046:024 The daughter of Egypt shall be disappointed; she shall be + delivered into the hand of the people of the north. +046:025 Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: Behold, I will + punish Amon of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with her gods, + and her kings; even Pharaoh, and those who trust in him: +046:026 and I will deliver them into the hand of those who seek their lives, + and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into + the hand of his servants; and afterwards it shall be inhabited, + as in the days of old, says Yahweh. +046:027 But don't be afraid you, Jacob my servant, neither be + dismayed, Israel: for, behold, I will save you from afar, + and your seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob + shall return, and shall be quiet and at ease, and none shall + make him afraid. +046:028 Don't be afraid you, O Jacob my servant, says Yahweh; for I + am with you: for I will make a full end of all the nations + where I have driven you; but I will not make a full end of you, + but I will correct you in measure, and will in no way + leave you unpunished. +047:001 The word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning + the Philistines, before that Pharaoh struck Gaza. +047:002 Thus says Yahweh: Behold, waters rise up out of the north, + and shall become an overflowing stream, and shall overflow + the land and all that is therein, the city and those who + dwell therein; and the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants + of the land shall wail. +047:003 At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong ones, + at the rushing of his chariots, at the rumbling of his wheels, + the fathers don't look back to their children for + feebleness of hands; +047:004 because of the day that comes to destroy all the Philistines, + to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every helper who remains: + for Yahweh will destroy the Philistines, the remnant of + the isle of Caphtor. +047:005 Baldness is come on Gaza; Ashkelon is brought to nothing, + the remnant of their valley: how long will you cut yourself? +047:006 You sword of Yahweh, how long will it be before you be quiet? + put up yourself into your scabbard; rest, and be still. +047:007 How can you be quiet, seeing Yahweh has given you a charge? + Against Ashkelon, and against the seashore, there has + he appointed it. +048:001 Of Moab. Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Woe to + Nebo! for it is laid waste; Kiriathaim is disappointed, + it is taken; Misgab is put to shame and broken down. +048:002 The praise of Moab is no more; in Heshbon they have devised + evil against her: Come, and let us cut her off from being + a nation. You also, Madmen, shall be brought to silence: + the sword shall pursue you. +048:003 The sound of a cry from Horonaim, desolation and great destruction! +048:004 Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard. +048:005 For by the ascent of Luhith with continual weeping shall they go up; + for at the descent of Horonaim they have heard the distress + of the cry of destruction. +048:006 Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness. +048:007 For, because you have trusted in your works and in your treasures, + you also shall be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity, + his priests and his princes together. +048:008 The destroyer shall come on every city, and no city shall escape; + the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed; + as Yahweh has spoken. +048:009 Give wings to Moab, that she may fly and get her away: + and her cities shall become a desolation, without any + to dwell therein. +048:010 Cursed be he who does the work of Yahweh negligently; + and cursed be he who keeps back his sword from blood. +048:011 Moab has been at ease from his youth, and he has settled + on his lees, and has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, + neither has he gone into captivity: therefore his taste + remains in him, and his scent is not changed. +048:012 Therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will send + to him those who pour off, and they shall pour him off; and they + shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles in pieces. +048:013 Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was + ashamed of Bethel their confidence. +048:014 How say you, We are mighty men, and valiant men for the war? +048:015 Moab is laid waste, and they are gone up into his cities, + and his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter, + says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies. +048:016 The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction + hurries fast. +048:017 All you who are round about him, bemoan him, and all you + who know his name; say, How is the strong staff broken, + the beautiful rod! +048:018 You daughter who dwells in Dibon, come down from your glory, + and sit in thirst; for the destroyer of Moab is come up + against you, he has destroyed your strongholds. +048:019 Inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way, and watch: + ask him who flees, and her who escapes; say, What has been done? +048:020 Moab is disappointed; for it is broken down: wail and cry; + tell you it by the Arnon, that Moab is laid waste. +048:021 Judgment is come on the plain country, on Holon, and on Jahzah, + and on Mephaath, +048:022 and on Dibon, and on Nebo, and on Beth Diblathaim, +048:023 and on Kiriathaim, and on Beth Gamul, and on Beth Meon, +048:024 and on Kerioth, and on Bozrah, and on all the cities of the land + of Moab, far or near. +048:025 The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, says Yahweh. +048:026 Make you him drunken; for he magnified himself against Yahweh: + and Moab shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall + be in derision. +048:027 For wasn't Israel a derision to you? was he found among thieves? + for as often as you speak of him, you wag the head. +048:028 You inhabitants of Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock; + and be like the dove that makes her nest over the mouth + of the abyss. +048:029 We have heard of the pride of Moab, [that] he is very proud; + his loftiness, and his pride, and his arrogance, and the + haughtiness of his heart. +048:030 I know his wrath, says Yahweh, that it is nothing; his boastings + have worked nothing. +048:031 Therefore will I wail for Moab; yes, I will cry out for all Moab: + for the men of Kir Heres shall they mourn. +048:032 With more than the weeping of Jazer will I weep for you, + vine of Sibmah: your branches passed over the sea, + they reached even to the sea of Jazer: on your summer fruits + and on your vintage the destroyer is fallen. +048:033 Gladness and joy is taken away from the fruitful field + and from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to cease + from the wine presses: none shall tread with shouting; + the shouting shall be no shouting. +048:034 From the cry of Heshbon even to Elealeh, even to Jahaz + have they uttered their voice, from Zoar even to Horonaim, + to Eglath Shelishiyah: for the waters of Nimrim also + shall become desolate. +048:035 Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab, says Yahweh, + him who offers in the high place, and him who burns incense + to his gods. +048:036 Therefore my heart sounds for Moab like pipes, and my + heart sounds like pipes for the men of Kir Heres: + therefore the abundance that he has gotten is perished. +048:037 For every head is bald, and every beard clipped: + on all the hands are cuttings, and on the waist sackcloth. +048:038 On all the housetops of Moab and in the streets of it there is + lamentation every where; for I have broken Moab like a vessel + in which none delights, says Yahweh. +048:039 How is it broken down! [how] do they wail! how has Moab + turned the back with shame! so shall Moab become a derision + and a terror to all who are round about him. +048:040 For thus says Yahweh: Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, + and shall spread out his wings against Moab. +048:041 Kerioth is taken, and the strongholds are seized, and the heart + of the mighty men of Moab at that day shall be as the heart + of a woman in her pangs. +048:042 Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he has + magnified himself against Yahweh. +048:043 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are on you, inhabitant + of Moab, says Yahweh. +048:044 He who flees from the fear shall fall into the pit; + and he who gets up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: + for I will bring on him, even on Moab, the year of + their visitation, says Yahweh. +048:045 Those who fled stand without strength under the shadow of Heshbon; + for a fire is gone forth out of Heshbon, and a flame from + the midst of Sihon, and has devoured the corner of Moab, + and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones. +048:046 Woe to you, O Moab! the people of Chemosh is undone; for your sons + are taken away captive, and your daughters into captivity. +048:047 Yet will I bring back the captivity of Moab in the latter days, + says Yahweh. Thus far is the judgment of Moab. +049:001 Of the children of Ammon. Thus says Yahweh: Has Israel + no sons? has he no heir? why then does Malcam possess Gad, + and his people well in the cities of it? +049:002 Therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will cause + an alarm of war to be heard against Rabbah of the children of Ammon; + and it shall become a desolate heap, and her daughters shall + be burned with fire: then shall Israel possess those who did + possess him, says Yahweh. +049:003 Wail, Heshbon, for Ai is laid waste; cry, you daughters of Rabbah, + gird you with sackcloth: lament, and run back and forth + among the fences; for Malcam shall go into captivity, + his priests and his princes together. +049:004 Why glory you in the valleys, your flowing valley, backsliding + daughter? who trusted in her treasures, [saying], Who shall + come to me? +049:005 Behold, I will bring a fear on you, says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, + from all who are round about you; and you shall be driven + out every man right forth, and there shall be none to gather + together the fugitives. +049:006 But afterward I will bring back the captivity of the children + of Ammon, says Yahweh. +049:007 Of Edom. Thus says Yahweh of Armies: Is wisdom no more in Teman? + is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished? +049:008 Flee you, turn back, dwell in the depths, inhabitants of Dedan; + for I will bring the calamity of Esau on him, the time that I + shall visit him. +049:009 If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some + gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, wouldn't they destroy + until they had enough? +049:010 But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, + and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is destroyed, + and his brothers, and his neighbors; and he is no more. +049:011 Leave your fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; + and let your widows trust in me. +049:012 For thus says Yahweh: Behold, they to whom it didn't pertain + to drink of the cup shall certainly drink; and are you he who + shall altogether go unpunished? you shall not go unpunished, + but you shall surely drink. +049:013 For I have sworn by myself, says Yahweh, that Bozrah shall + become an astonishment, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; + and all the cities of it shall be perpetual wastes. +049:014 I have heard news from Yahweh, and an ambassador is sent + among the nations, [saying], Gather yourselves together, + and come against her, and rise up to the battle. +049:015 For, behold, I have made you small among the nations, + and despised among men. +049:016 As for your terror, the pride of your heart has deceived you, + O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height + of the hill: though you should make your nest as high + as the eagle, I will bring you down from there, says Yahweh. +049:017 Edom shall become an astonishment: everyone who passes by it + shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues of it. +049:018 As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor + cities of it, says Yahweh, no man shall dwell there, + neither shall any son of man sojourn therein. +049:019 Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan + against the strong habitation: for I will suddenly make them run + away from it; and whoever is chosen, him will I appoint over it: + for who is like me? and who will appoint me a time? and who is + the shepherd who will stand before me? +049:020 Therefore hear the counsel of Yahweh, that he has taken + against Edom; and his purposes, that he has purposed against + the inhabitants of Teman: Surely they shall drag them away, + [even] the little ones of the flock; surely he shall make + their habitation desolate over them. +049:021 The earth trembles at the noise of their fall; there is a cry, + the noise which is heard in the Red Sea{or, Sea of Reeds}. +049:022 Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread + out his wings against Bozrah: and the heart of the mighty + men of Edom at that day shall be as the heart of a woman + in her pangs. +049:023 Of Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad; for they have heard + evil news, they are melted away: there is sorrow on the sea; + it can't be quiet. +049:024 Damascus has grown feeble, she turns herself to flee, + and trembling has seized on her: anguish and sorrows have + taken hold of her, as of a woman in travail. +049:025 How is the city of praise not forsaken, the city of my joy? +049:026 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all + the men of war shall be brought to silence in that day, + says Yahweh of Armies. +049:027 I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall + devour the palaces of Ben Hadad. +049:028 Of Kedar, and of the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar + king of Babylon struck. Thus says Yahweh: Arise you, + go up to Kedar, and destroy the children of the east. +049:029 Their tents and their flocks shall they take; they shall carry + away for themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, + and their camels; and they shall cry to them, Terror on every side! +049:030 Flee you, wander far off, dwell in the depths, you inhabitants + of Hazor, says Yahweh; for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has taken + counsel against you, and has conceived a purpose against you. +049:031 Arise, go up to a nation that is at ease, that dwells + without care, says Yahweh; that have neither gates nor bars, + that dwell alone. +049:032 Their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their + livestock a spoil: and I will scatter to all winds those who + have the corners [of their hair] cut off; and I will bring + their calamity from every side of them, says Yahweh. +049:033 Hazor shall be a dwelling place of jackals, a desolation forever: + no man shall dwell there, neither shall any son of + man sojourn therein. +049:034 The word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam, + in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying, +049:035 Thus says Yahweh of Armies: Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, + the chief of their might. +049:036 On Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters + of the sky, and will scatter them toward all those winds; + and there shall be no nation where the outcasts of Elam + shall not come. +049:037 I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies, + and before those who seek their life; and I will bring evil + on them, even my fierce anger, says Yahweh; and I will send + the sword after them, until I have consumed them; +049:038 and I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from there + king and princes, says Yahweh. +049:039 But it shall happen in the latter days, that I will bring back + the captivity of Elam, says Yahweh. +050:001 The word that Yahweh spoke concerning Babylon, concerning the land + of the Chaldeans, by Jeremiah the prophet. +050:002 Declare you among the nations and publish, and set up + a standard; publish, and don't conceal: say, Babylon is taken, + Bel is disappointed, Merodach is dismayed; her images + are disappointed, her idols are dismayed. +050:003 For out of the north there comes up a nation against her, + which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: + they are fled, they are gone, both man and animal. +050:004 In those days, and in that time, says Yahweh, the children + of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together; + they shall go on their way weeping, and shall seek + Yahweh their God. +050:005 They shall inquire concerning Zion with their faces turned + toward it, [saying], Come you, and join yourselves to Yahweh + in an everlasting covenant that shall not be forgotten. +050:006 My people have been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused + them to go astray; they have turned them away on the mountains; + they have gone from mountain to hill; they have forgotten + their resting place. +050:007 All who found them have devoured them; and their adversaries said, + We are not guilty, because they have sinned against Yahweh, + the habitation of righteousness, even Yahweh, the hope + of their fathers. +050:008 Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land + of the Chaldeans, and be as the male goats before the flocks. +050:009 For, behold, I will stir up and cause to come up against Babylon + a company of great nations from the north country; and they + shall set themselves in array against her; from there she shall + be taken: their arrows shall be as of an expert mighty man; + none shall return in vain. +050:010 Chaldea shall be a prey: all who prey on her shall + be satisfied, says Yahweh. +050:011 Because you are glad, because you rejoice, O you who plunder + my heritage, because you are wanton as a heifer that treads + out [the grain], and neigh as strong horses; +050:012 your mother shall be utterly disappointed; she who bore you shall + be confounded: behold, she shall be the least of the nations, + a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert. +050:013 Because of the wrath of Yahweh she shall not be inhabited, + but she shall be wholly desolate: everyone who goes by Babylon + shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues. +050:014 Set yourselves in array against Babylon round about, + all you who bend the bow; shoot at her, spare no arrows: + for she has sinned against Yahweh. +050:015 Shout against her round about: she has submitted herself; + her bulwarks are fallen, her walls are thrown down; + for it is the vengeance of Yahweh: take vengeance on her; + as she has done, do to her. +050:016 Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him who handles the sickle + in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword + they shall turn everyone to his people, and they shall flee + everyone to his own land. +050:017 Israel is a hunted sheep; the lions have driven him away: + first, the king of Assyria devoured him; and now at last + Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones. +050:018 Therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Behold, I + will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I have punished + the king of Assyria. +050:019 I will bring Israel again to his pasture, and he shall feed + on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied on + the hills of Ephraim and in Gilead. +050:020 In those days, and in that time, says Yahweh, the iniquity + of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; + and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: + for I will pardon them whom I leave as a remnant. +050:021 Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against + the inhabitants of Pekod: kill and utterly destroy after them, + says Yahweh, and do according to all that I have commanded you. +050:022 A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction. +050:023 How is the hammer of the whole earth cut apart and broken! + how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations! +050:024 I have laid a snare for you, and you are also taken, Babylon, + and you weren't aware: you are found, and also caught, + because you have striven against Yahweh. +050:025 Yahweh has opened his armory, and has brought forth the weapons + of his indignation; for the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, has a work + [to do] in the land of the Chaldeans. +050:026 Come against her from the utmost border; open her storehouses; + cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly; let nothing + of her be left. +050:027 Kill all her bulls; let them go down to the slaughter: + woe to them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation. +050:028 The voice of those who flee and escape out of the land + of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of Yahweh our God, + the vengeance of his temple. +050:029 Call together the archers against Babylon, all those who bend + the bow; encamp against her round about; let none of it escape: + recompense her according to her work; according to all that she + has done, do to her; for she has been proud against Yahweh, + against the Holy One of Israel. +050:030 Therefore shall her young men fall in her streets, and all her men + of war shall be brought to silence in that day, says Yahweh. +050:031 Behold, I am against you, you proud one, says the Lord, Yahweh + of Armies; for your day is come, the time that I will visit you. +050:032 The proud one shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up; + and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour + all who are round about him. +050:033 Thus says Yahweh of Armies: The children of Israel and the + children of Judah are oppressed together; and all who took + them captive hold them fast; they refuse to let them go. +050:034 Their Redeemer is strong; Yahweh of Armies is his name: + he will thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest + to the earth, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon. +050:035 A sword is on the Chaldeans, says Yahweh, and on the inhabitants + of Babylon, and on her princes, and on her wise men. +050:036 A sword is on the boasters, and they shall become fools; + a sword is on her mighty men, and they shall be dismayed. +050:037 A sword is on their horses, and on their chariots, + and on all the mixed people who are in the midst of her; + and they shall become as women: a sword is on her treasures, + and they shall be robbed. +050:038 A drought is on her waters, and they shall be dried up; + for it is a land of engraved images, and they are mad over idols. +050:039 Therefore the wild animals of the desert with the wolves + shall dwell there, and the ostriches shall dwell therein: + and it shall be no more inhabited forever; neither shall it + be lived in from generation to generation. +050:040 As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor + cities of it, says Yahweh, so shall no man dwell there, + neither shall any son of man sojourn therein. +050:041 Behold, a people comes from the north; and a great nation + and many kings shall be stirred up from the uttermost parts + of the earth. +050:042 They lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; + their voice roars like the sea; and they ride on horses, + everyone set in array, as a man to the battle, against you, + daughter of Babylon. +050:043 The king of Babylon has heard the news of them, and his hands + wax feeble: anguish has taken hold of him, [and] pangs + as of a woman in travail. +050:044 Behold, [the enemy] shall come up like a lion from + the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation: + for I will suddenly make them run away from it; + and whoever is chosen, him will I appoint over it: + for who is like me? and who will appoint me a time? and who is + the shepherd who can stand before me? +050:045 Therefore hear the counsel of Yahweh, that he has taken + against Babylon; and his purposes, that he has purposed against + the land of the Chaldeans: Surely they shall drag them away, + [even] the little ones of the flock; surely he shall make + their habitation desolate over them. +050:046 At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth trembles, + and the cry is heard among the nations. +051:001 Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, + and against those who dwell in Lebkamai, a destroying wind. +051:002 I will send to Babylon strangers, who shall winnow her; + and they shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble + they shall be against her round about. +051:003 Against [him who] bends let the archer bend his bow, + and against [him who] lifts himself up in his coat of mail: + and don't you spare her young men; destroy you utterly + all her army. +051:004 They shall fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, + and thrust through in her streets. +051:005 For Israel is not forsaken, nor Judah, of his God, of Yahweh + of Armies; though their land is full of guilt against + the Holy One of Israel. +051:006 Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and save every man his life; + don't be cut off in her iniquity: for it is the time + of Yahweh's vengeance; he will render to her a recompense. +051:007 Babylon has been a golden cup in Yahweh's hand, who made + all the earth drunken: the nations have drunk of her wine; + therefore the nations are mad. +051:008 Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: wail for her; + take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed. +051:009 We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: + forsake her, and let us go everyone into his own country; + for her judgment reaches to heaven, and is lifted up even + to the skies. +051:010 Yahweh has brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us + declare in Zion the work of Yahweh our God. +051:011 Make sharp the arrows; hold firm the shields: + Yahweh has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes; + because his purpose is against Babylon, to destroy it: + for it is the vengeance of Yahweh, the vengeance of his temple. +051:012 Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon, make the + watch strong, set the watchmen, prepare the ambushes; + for Yahweh has both purposed and done that which he spoke + concerning the inhabitants of Babylon. +051:013 You who dwell on many waters, abundant in treasures, your end + is come, the measure of your covetousness. +051:014 Yahweh of Armies has sworn by himself, [saying], Surely I + will fill you with men, as with the canker worm; and they + shall lift up a shout against you. +051:015 He has made the earth by his power, he has established the world + by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched + out the heavens: +051:016 when he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, + and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; + he makes lightning for the rain, and brings forth the wind + out of his treasuries. +051:017 Every man is become brutish [and is] without knowledge; + every goldsmith is disappointed by his image; for his molten + image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. +051:018 They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their + visitation they shall perish. +051:019 The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the former + of all things; and [Israel] is the tribe of his inheritance: + Yahweh of Armies is his name. +051:020 You are my battle axe and weapons of war: and with you will I + break in pieces the nations; and with you will I destroy kingdoms; +051:021 and with you will I break in pieces the horse and his rider; +051:022 and with you will I break in pieces the chariot and him who + rides therein; and with you will I break in pieces man and woman; + and with you will I break in pieces the old man and the youth; + and with you will I break in pieces the young man and the virgin; +051:023 and with you will I break in pieces the shepherd and his flock; + and with you will I break in pieces the farmer and his + yoke [of oxen]; and with you will I break in pieces + governors and deputies. +051:024 I will render to Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea + all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, + says Yahweh. +051:025 Behold, I am against you, destroying mountain, says Yahweh, + which destroys all the earth; and I will stretch out my hand + on you, and roll you down from the rocks, and will make you + a burnt mountain. +051:026 They shall not take of you a stone for a corner, nor a stone + for foundations; but you shall be desolate for ever, says Yahweh. +051:027 Set up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among + the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together + against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz: + appoint a marshal against her; cause the horses to come up + as the rough canker worm. +051:028 Prepare against her the nations, the kings of the Medes, + the governors of it, and all the deputies of it, and all + the land of their dominion. +051:029 The land trembles and is in pain; for the purposes of Yahweh + against Babylon do stand, to make the land of Babylon + a desolation, without inhabitant. +051:030 The mighty men of Babylon have forborne to fight, + they remain in their strongholds; their might has failed; + they are become as women: her dwelling places are set on fire; + her bars are broken. +051:031 One runner will run to meet another, and one messenger + to meet another, to show the king of Babylon that his city + is taken on every quarter: +051:032 and the passages are seized, and the reeds they have burned + with fire, and the men of war are frightened. +051:033 For thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: The daughter + of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time when it + is trodden; yet a little while, and the time of harvest shall + come for her. +051:034 Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me, he has + crushed me, he has made me an empty vessel, he has, like a monster, + swallowed me up, he has filled his maw with my delicacies; + he has cast me out. +051:035 The violence done to me and to my flesh be on Babylon, + shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and, My blood be on + the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say. +051:036 Therefore thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will plead your cause, + and take vengeance for you; and I will dry up her sea, + and make her fountain dry. +051:037 Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling place for jackals, + an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant. +051:038 They shall roar together like young lions; they shall growl + as lions' cubs. +051:039 When they are heated, I will make their feast, and I will make + them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, + and not wake, says Yahweh. +051:040 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams + with male goats. +051:041 How is Sheshach taken! and the praise of the whole earth seized! + how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations! +051:042 The sea is come up on Babylon; she is covered with the multitude + of the waves of it. +051:043 Her cities are become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, + a land in which no man dwells, neither does any son of + man pass thereby. +051:044 I will execute judgment on Bel in Babylon, and I will bring + forth out of his mouth that which he has swallowed up; + and the nations shall not flow any more to him: yes, the wall + of Babylon shall fall. +051:045 My people, go you out of the midst of her, and save yourselves + every man from the fierce anger of Yahweh. +051:046 Don't let your heart faint, neither fear for the news that + shall be heard in the land; for news shall come one year, + and after that in another year [shall come] news, and violence + in the land, ruler against ruler. +051:047 Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will execute judgment + on the engraved images of Babylon; and her whole land shall + be confounded; and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her. +051:048 Then the heavens and the earth, and all that is therein, + shall sing for joy over Babylon; for the destroyers shall + come to her from the north, says Yahweh. +051:049 As Babylon has caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon + shall fall the slain of all the land. +051:050 You who have escaped the sword, go you, don't stand still; + remember Yahweh from afar, and let Jerusalem come into your mind. +051:051 We are confounded, because we have heard reproach; confusion has + covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries + of Yahweh's house. +051:052 Therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will + execute judgment on her engraved images; and through all her + land the wounded shall groan. +051:053 Though Babylon should mount up to the sky, and though she + should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall + destroyers come to her, says Yahweh. +051:054 The sound of a cry from Babylon, and of great destruction + from the land of the Chaldeans! +051:055 For Yahweh lays Babylon waste, and destroys out of her + the great voice; and their waves roar like many waters; + the noise of their voice is uttered: +051:056 for the destroyer is come on her, even on Babylon, and her + mighty men are taken, their bows are broken in pieces; + for Yahweh is a God of recompenses, he will surely requite. +051:057 I will make drunk her princes and her wise men, her governors + and her deputies, and her mighty men; and they shall sleep + a perpetual sleep, and not wake up, says the King, whose name + is Yahweh of Armies. +051:058 Thus says Yahweh of Armies: The broad walls of Babylon + shall be utterly overthrown, and her high gates shall be + burned with fire; and the peoples shall labor for vanity, + and the nations for the fire; and they shall be weary. +051:059 The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son + of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah + the king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. + Now Seraiah was chief quartermaster. +051:060 Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come on Babylon, + even all these words that are written concerning Babylon. +051:061 Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When you come to Babylon, then see + that you read all these words, +051:062 and say, Yahweh, you have spoken concerning this place, to cut + it off, that none shall dwell therein, neither man nor animal, + but that it shall be desolate forever. +051:063 It shall be, when you have made an end of reading this book, + that you shall bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst + of the Euphrates: +051:064 and you shall say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not + rise again because of the evil that I will bring on her; + and they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah. +052:001 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign; + and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and his mother's + name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. +052:002 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, according to + all that Jehoiakim had done. +052:003 For through the anger of Yahweh did it happen in Jerusalem + and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence. + Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon. +052:004 It happened in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, + in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king + of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, + and encamped against it; and they built forts against + it round about. +052:005 So the city was besieged to the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. +052:006 In the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine + was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people + of the land. +052:007 Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled, + and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate + between the two walls, which was by the king's garden; + (now the Chaldeans were against the city round about;) + and they went toward the Arabah. +052:008 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, + and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his + army was scattered from him. +052:009 Then they took the king, and carried him up to the king + of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; and he gave + judgment on him. +052:010 The king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: + he killed also all the princes of Judah in Riblah. +052:011 He put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon + bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon, and put + him in prison until the day of his death. +052:012 Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, + which was the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar, + king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, + who stood before the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem: +052:013 and he burned the house of Yahweh, and the king's house; + and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, + burned he with fire. +052:014 All the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of + the guard, broke down all the walls of Jerusalem round about. +052:015 Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive + of the poorest of the people, and the residue of the people + who were left in the city, and those who fell away, who fell + to the king of Babylon, and the residue of the multitude. +052:016 But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poorest + of the land to be vineyard keepers and farmers. +052:017 The pillars of brass that were in the house of Yahweh, + and the bases and the bronze sea that were in the house of Yahweh, + did the Chaldeans break in pieces, and carried all the brass + of them to Babylon. +052:018 The pots also, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the basins, + and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass with which + they ministered, took they away. +052:019 The cups, and the fire pans, and the basins, and the pots, + and the lampstands, and the spoons, and the bowls-- + that which was of gold, in gold, and that which was of silver, + in silver,--the captain of the guard took away. +052:020 The two pillars, the one sea, and the twelve bronze bulls + that were under the bases, which king Solomon had made + for the house of Yahweh. The brass of all these vessels + was without weight. +052:021 As for the pillars, the height of the one pillar was + eighteen cubits; and a line of twelve cubits did compass it; + and the thickness of it was four fingers: it was hollow. +052:022 A capital of brass was on it; and the height of the one capital + was five cubits, with network and pomegranates on the capital + round about, all of brass: and the second pillar also had + like these, and pomegranates. +052:023 There were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides; all the + pomegranates were one hundred on the network round about. +052:024 The captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, + and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers + of the threshold: +052:025 and out of the city he took an officer who was set over the men + of war; and seven men of those who saw the king's face, + who were found in the city; and the scribe of the captain + of the army, who mustered the people of the land; and sixty + men of the people of the land, who were found in the midst + of the city. +052:026 Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought + them to the king of Babylon to Riblah. +052:027 The king of Babylon struck them, and put them to death at Riblah + in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away captive + out of his land. +052:028 This is the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away captive: + in the seventh year three thousand twenty-three Jews; +052:029 in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar he carried away + captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty-two persons; +052:030 in the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuzaradan + the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews + seven hundred forty-five persons: all the persons were four + thousand and six hundred. +052:031 It happened in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity + of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, + in the five and twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach + king of Babylon, in the [first] year of his reign, lifted up + the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him forth + out of prison; +052:032 and he spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne + of the kings who were with him in Babylon, +052:033 and changed his prison garments. [Jehoiachin] ate bread + before him continually all the days of his life: +052:034 and for his allowance, there was a continual allowance given + him by the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day + of his death, all the days of his life. +Book 25 Lamentations +001:001 How the city sits solitary, that was full of people! + She has become as a widow, who was great among the nations! + She who was a princess among the provinces is become tributary! +001:002 She weeps sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks; + among all her lovers she has none to comfort her: + All her friends have dealt treacherously with her; + they are become her enemies. +001:003 Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of + great servitude; she dwells among the nations, she finds no rest: + all her persecutors overtook her within the straits. +001:004 The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn assembly; + all her gates are desolate, her priests do sigh: + her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness. +001:005 Her adversaries are become the head, her enemies prosper; for Yahweh + has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: + her young children are gone into captivity before the adversary. +001:006 From the daughter of Zion all her majesty is departed: + her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, + they are gone without strength before the pursuer. +001:007 Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and of her + miseries all her pleasant things that were from the days of old: + when her people fell into the hand of the adversary, + and none did help her, The adversaries saw her, they did mock + at her desolations. +001:008 Jerusalem has grievously sinned; therefore she is become + as an unclean thing; all who honored her despise her, + because they have seen her nakedness: yes, she sighs, + and turns backward. +001:009 Her filthiness was in her skirts; she didn't remember her latter end; + therefore is she come down wonderfully; she has no comforter: + see, Yahweh, my affliction; for the enemy has magnified himself. +001:010 The adversary has spread out his hand on all her pleasant things: + for she has seen that the nations are entered into her sanctuary, + concerning whom you did command that they should not enter + into your assembly. +001:011 All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant + things for food to refresh the soul: look, Yahweh, and see; + for I am become abject. +001:012 Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look, and see + if there be any sorrow like my sorrow, which is brought + on me, With which Yahweh has afflicted [me] in the day + of his fierce anger. +001:013 From on high has he sent fire into my bones, and it prevails + against them; He has spread a net for my feet, he has turned + me back: He has made me desolate and faint all the day. +001:014 The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand; + They are knit together, they are come up on my neck; + he has made my strength to fail: The Lord has delivered me + into their hands, against whom I am not able to stand. +001:015 The Lord has set at nothing all my mighty men in the midst of me; + He has called a solemn assembly against me to crush my young men: + The Lord has trodden as in a winepress the virgin daughter of Judah. +001:016 For these things I weep; my eye, my eye runs down with water; + Because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me: + My children are desolate, because the enemy has prevailed. +001:017 Zion spreads forth her hands; there is none to comfort her; + Yahweh has commanded concerning Jacob, that those who are round + about him should be his adversaries: Jerusalem is among them + as an unclean thing. +001:018 Yahweh is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: + Please hear all you peoples, and see my sorrow: + My virgins and my young men are gone into captivity. +001:019 I called for my lovers, [but] they deceived me: + My priests and my elders gave up the spirit in the city, + While they sought them food to refresh their souls. +001:020 See, Yahweh; for I am in distress; my heart is troubled; + My heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: + Abroad the sword bereaves, at home there is as death. +001:021 They have heard that I sigh; there is none to comfort me; + All my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that you + have done it: You will bring the day that you have proclaimed, + and they shall be like me. +001:022 Let all their wickedness come before you; Do to them, + as you have done to me for all my transgressions: + For my sighs are many, and my heart is faint. +002:001 How has the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud + in his anger! He has cast down from heaven to the earth + the beauty of Israel, And hasn't remembered his footstool + in the day of his anger. +002:002 The Lord has swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and has + not pitied: He has thrown down in his wrath the strongholds + of the daughter of Judah; He has brought them down to the ground; + he has profaned the kingdom and the princes of it. +002:003 He has cut off in fierce anger all the horn of Israel; He has + drawn back his right hand from before the enemy: He has burned + up Jacob like a flaming fire, which devours round about. +002:004 He has bent his bow like an enemy, he has stood with his right hand + as an adversary, Has killed all that were pleasant to the eye: + In the tent of the daughter of Zion he has poured out his + wrath like fire. +002:005 The Lord is become as an enemy, he has swallowed up Israel; He has + swallowed up all her palaces, he has destroyed his strongholds; + He has multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation. +002:006 He has violently taken away his tent, as if it were of a garden; + he has destroyed his place of assembly: Yahweh has caused solemn + assembly and Sabbath to be forgotten in Zion, Has despised + in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest. +002:007 The Lord has cast off his altar, he has abhorred his sanctuary; + He has given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces: + They have made a noise in the house of Yahweh, as in the day + of a solemn assembly. +002:008 Yahweh has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter + of Zion; He has stretched out the line, he has not withdrawn his + hand from destroying; He has made the rampart and wall to lament; + they languish together. +002:009 Her gates are sunk into the ground; he has destroyed and broken + her bars: Her king and her princes are among the nations where + the law is not; Yes, her prophets find no vision from Yahweh. +002:010 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground, + they keep silence; They have cast up dust on their heads; + they have girded themselves with sackcloth: The virgins + of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground. +002:011 My eyes do fail with tears, my heart is troubled; My liver is + poured on the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter + of my people, Because the young children and the infants + swoon in the streets of the city. +002:012 They tell their mothers, Where is grain and wine? + When they swoon as the wounded in the streets of the city, + When their soul is poured out into their mothers' bosom. +002:013 What shall I testify to you? what shall I liken to you, + daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I compare to you, that I + may comfort you, virgin daughter of Zion? For your breach + is great like the sea: who can heal you? +002:014 Your prophets have seen for you false and foolish visions; + They have not uncovered your iniquity, to bring back your captivity, + But have seen for you false oracles and causes of banishment. +002:015 All that pass by clap their hands at you; They hiss and wag + their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, [saying], Is this + the city that men called The perfection of beauty, The joy + of the whole earth? +002:016 All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you; + They hiss and gnash the teeth; they say, We have swallowed her up; + Certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, + we have seen it. +002:017 Yahweh has done that which he purposed; he has fulfilled his + word that he commanded in the days of old; He has thrown down, + and has not pitied: He has caused the enemy to rejoice over you; + he has exalted the horn of your adversaries. +002:018 Their heart cried to the Lord: wall of the daughter of Zion, + let tears run down like a river day and night; Give yourself + no respite; don't let the apple of your eye cease. +002:019 Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches; + Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord: Lift up + your hands toward him for the life of your young children, + that faint for hunger at the head of every street. +002:020 Look, Yahweh, and see to whom you have done thus! Shall the women + eat their fruit, the children that are dandled in the hands? + Shall the priest and the prophet be killed in the sanctuary + of the Lord? +002:021 The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets; + My virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword: + You have killed them in the day of your anger; you have slaughtered, + [and] not pitied. +002:022 You have called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors + on every side; There was none that escaped or remained + in the day of Yahweh's anger: Those that I have dandled + and brought up has my enemy consumed. +003:001 I am the man that has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. +003:002 He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light. +003:003 Surely against me he turns his hand again and again all the day. +003:004 My flesh and my skin has he made old; he has broken my bones. +003:005 He has built against me, and compassed me with gall and travail. +003:006 He has made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have + been long dead. +003:007 He has walled me about, that I can't go forth; he has made + my chain heavy. +003:008 Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer. +003:009 He has walled up my ways with hewn stone; he has made + my paths crooked. +003:010 He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places. +003:011 He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; + he has made me desolate. +003:012 He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow. +003:013 He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my kidneys. +003:014 I am become a derision to all my people, and their song + all the day. +003:015 He has filled me with bitterness, he has sated me with wormwood. +003:016 He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he has covered + me with ashes. +003:017 You have removed my soul far off from peace; I forgot prosperity. +003:018 I said, My strength is perished, and my expectation from Yahweh. +003:019 Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. +003:020 My soul still remembers them, and is bowed down within me. +003:021 This I recall to my mind; therefore have I hope. +003:022 [It is of] Yahweh's loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, + because his compassion doesn't fail. +003:023 They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. +003:024 Yahweh is my portion, says my soul; therefore will I hope in him. +003:025 Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul + that seeks him. +003:026 It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the + salvation of Yahweh. +003:027 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. +003:028 Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he has laid + it on him. +003:029 Let him put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope. +003:030 Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him; let him be filled + full with reproach. +003:031 For the Lord will not cast off forever. +003:032 For though he cause grief, yet he will have compassion according + to the multitude of his loving kindnesses. +003:033 For he does not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men. +003:034 To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth, +003:035 To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most High, +003:036 To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord doesn't approve. +003:037 Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord + doesn't command it? +003:038 Doesn't evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High? +003:039 Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment + of his sins? +003:040 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Yahweh. +003:041 Let us lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens. +003:042 We have transgressed and have rebelled; you have not pardoned. +003:043 You have covered with anger and pursued us; you have killed, + you have not pitied. +003:044 You have covered yourself with a cloud, so that no prayer + can pass through. +003:045 You have made us an off-scouring and refuse in the midst + of the peoples. +003:046 All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us. +003:047 Fear and the pit are come on us, devastation and destruction. +003:048 My eye runs down with streams of water, for the destruction + of the daughter of my people. +003:049 My eye pours down, and doesn't cease, without any intermission, +003:050 Until Yahweh look down, and see from heaven. +003:051 My eye affects my soul, because of all the daughters of my city. +003:052 They have chased me sore like a bird, those who are my + enemies without cause. +003:053 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast + a stone on me. +003:054 Waters flowed over my head; I said, I am cut off. +003:055 I called on your name, Yahweh, out of the lowest dungeon. +003:056 You heard my voice; don't hide your ear at my breathing, + at my cry. +003:057 You drew near in the day that I called on you; you said, + Don't be afraid. +003:058 Lord, you have pleaded the causes of my soul; you have + redeemed my life. +003:059 Yahweh, you have seen my wrong; judge you my cause. +003:060 You have seen all their vengeance and all their devices against me. +003:061 You have heard their reproach, Yahweh, and all their + devices against me, +003:062 The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device + against me all the day. +003:063 See you their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song. +003:064 You will render to them a recompense, Yahweh, according to + the work of their hands. +003:065 You will give them hardness of heart, your curse to them. +003:066 You will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under + the heavens of Yahweh. +004:001 How is the gold become dim! [how] is the most pure gold changed! + The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head + of every street. +004:002 The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, How are + they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands + of the potter! +004:003 Even the jackals draw out the breast, they give suck to their + young ones: The daughter of my people is become cruel, + like the ostriches in the wilderness. +004:004 The tongue of the sucking child cleaves to the roof of his mouth + for thirst: The young children ask bread, and no man breaks + it to them. +004:005 Those who did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: + Those who were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills. +004:006 For the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater + than the sin of Sodom, That was overthrown as in a moment, + and no hands were laid on her. +004:007 Her nobles were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk; + They were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing + was as of sapphire. +004:008 Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known + in the streets: Their skin cleaves to their bones; + it is withered, it is become like a stick. +004:009 Those who are killed with the sword are better than those who + are killed with hunger; For these pine away, stricken through, + for want of the fruits of the field. +004:010 The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; + They were their food in the destruction of the daughter + of my people. +004:011 Yahweh has accomplished his wrath, he has poured out his + fierce anger; He has kindled a fire in Zion, which has devoured + the foundations of it. +004:012 The kings of the earth didn't believe, neither all the inhabitants + of the world, That the adversary and the enemy would enter + into the gates of Jerusalem. +004:013 [It is] because of the sins of her prophets, [and] the iniquities + of her priests, That have shed the blood of the just in + the midst of her. +004:014 They wander as blind men in the streets, they are polluted + with blood, So that men can't touch their garments. +004:015 Depart you, they cried to them, Unclean! depart, depart, don't touch! + When they fled away and wandered, men said among the nations, + They shall no more sojourn [here]. +004:016 The anger of Yahweh has scattered them; he will no more regard them: + They didn't respect the persons of the priests, they didn't + favor the elders. +004:017 Our eyes do yet fail [in looking] for our vain help: + In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save. +004:018 They hunt our steps, so that we can't go in our streets: + Our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come. +004:019 Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky: + They chased us on the mountains, they laid wait for us + in the wilderness. +004:020 The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of Yahweh, was taken + in their pits; Of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall + live among the nations. +004:021 Rejoice and be glad, daughter of Edom, that dwell in the land + of Uz: The cup shall pass through to you also; you shall + be drunken, and shall make yourself naked. +004:022 The punishment of your iniquity is accomplished, daughter of Zion; + he will no more carry you away into captivity: He will visit + your iniquity, daughter of Edom; he will uncover your sins. +005:001 Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us: Look, and see our reproach. +005:002 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, Our houses to aliens. +005:003 We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows. +005:004 We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold to us. +005:005 Our pursuers are on our necks: We are weary, and have no rest. +005:006 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, To the Assyrians, + to be satisfied with bread. +005:007 Our fathers sinned, and are no more; We have borne their iniquities. +005:008 Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out + of their hand. +005:009 We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword + of the wilderness. +005:010 Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning + heat of famine. +005:011 They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah. +005:012 Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders + were not honored. +005:013 The young men bare the mill; The children stumbled under the wood. +005:014 The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men + from their music. +005:015 The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning. +005:016 The crown is fallen from our head: Woe to us! for we have sinned. +005:017 For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim; +005:018 For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes + walk on it. +005:019 You, Yahweh, abide forever; Your throne is from generation + to generation. +005:020 Why do you forget us forever, [And] forsake us so long time? +005:021 Turn you us to you, Yahweh, and we shall be turned; + Renew our days as of old. +005:022 But you have utterly rejected us; You are very angry against us. +Book 26 Ezekiel +001:001 Now it happened in the thirtieth year, in the fourth [month], + in the fifth [day] of the month, as I was among the captives + by the river Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw + visions of God. +001:002 In the fifth [day] of the month, which was the fifth year + of king Jehoiachin's captivity, +001:003 the word of Yahweh came expressly to Ezekiel the priest, the son + of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; + and the hand of Yahweh was there on him. +001:004 I looked, and behold, a stormy wind came out of the north, + a great cloud, with flashing lightning, and a brightness round + about it, and out of the midst of it as it were glowing metal, + out of the midst of the fire. +001:005 Out of the midst of it came the likeness of four living creatures. + This was their appearance: they had the likeness of a man. +001:006 Everyone had four faces, and each one of them had four wings. +001:007 Their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet + was like the sole of a calf's foot; and they sparkled + like burnished brass. +001:008 They had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; + and they four had their faces and their wings [thus]: +001:009 their wings were joined one to another; they didn't turn + when they went; each one went straight forward. +001:010 As for the likeness of their faces, they had the face of a man; + and they four had the face of a lion on the right side; + and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; + they four had also the face of an eagle. +001:011 Their faces and their wings were separate above; + two [wings] of each one were joined one to another, and two + covered their bodies. +001:012 Each one went straight forward: where the spirit was to go, + they went; they didn't turn when they went. +001:013 As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance + was like burning coals of fire, like the appearance of torches: + [the fire] went up and down among the living creatures; + and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning. +001:014 The living creatures ran and returned as the appearance + of a flash of lightning. +001:015 Now as I saw the living creatures, behold, one wheel on + the earth beside the living creatures, for each of the four + faces of it. +001:016 The appearance of the wheels and their work was like a beryl: + and they four had one likeness; and their appearance and their + work was as it were a wheel within a wheel. +001:017 When they went, they went in their four directions: + they didn't turn when they went. +001:018 As for their rims, they were high and dreadful; and they four + had their rims full of eyes round about. +001:019 When the living creatures went, the wheels went beside them; + and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, + the wheels were lifted up. +001:020 Wherever the spirit was to go, they went; there was the spirit to go: + and the wheels were lifted up beside them; for the spirit + of the living creature was in the wheels. +001:021 When those went, these went; and when those stood, these stood; + and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels + were lifted up beside them: for the spirit of the living + creature was in the wheels. +001:022 Over the head of the living creature there was the likeness + of an expanse, like the awesome crystal to look on, + stretched forth over their heads above. +001:023 Under the expanse were their wings straight, the one toward + the other: each one had two which covered on this side, + and every one had two which covered on that side, their bodies. +001:024 When they went, I heard the noise of their wings like the noise + of great waters, like the voice of the Almighty, a noise + of tumult like the noise of an army: when they stood, + they let down their wings. +001:025 There was a voice above the expanse that was over their heads: + when they stood, they let down their wings. +001:026 Above the expanse that was over their heads was the likeness of + a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire{or, lapis lazuli} stone; + and on the likeness of the throne was a likeness as the appearance + of a man on it above. +001:027 I saw as it were glowing metal, as the appearance of fire within + it round about, from the appearance of his waist and upward; + and from the appearance of his waist and downward I saw + as it were the appearance of fire, and there was brightness + round about him. +001:028 As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day + of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. + This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of Yahweh. + When I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard a voice + of one that spoke. +002:001 He said to me, Son of man, stand on your feet, and I will + speak with you. +002:002 The Spirit entered into me when he spoke to me, and set me + on my feet; and I heard him who spoke to me. +002:003 He said to me, Son of man, I send you to the children of Israel, + to nations that are rebellious, which have rebelled against me: + they and their fathers have transgressed against me even + to this very day. +002:004 The children are impudent and stiff-hearted: I am sending you + to them; and you shall tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh. +002:005 They, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, + (for they are a rebellious house), yet shall know that there + has been a prophet among them. +002:006 You, son of man, don't be afraid of them, neither be afraid + of their words, though briers and thorns are with you, and you + do dwell among scorpions: don't be afraid of their words, + nor be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house. +002:007 You shall speak my words to them, whether they will hear, + or whether they will forbear; for they are most rebellious. +002:008 But you, son of man, hear what I tell you; don't be you + rebellious like that rebellious house: open your mouth, + and eat that which I give you. +002:009 When I looked, behold, a hand was put forth to me; and, behold, + a scroll of a book was therein; +002:010 He spread it before me: and it was written within and without; + and there were written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe. +003:001 He said to me, Son of man, eat that which you find; + eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel. +003:002 So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat the scroll. +003:003 He said to me, Son of man, cause your belly to eat, + and fill your bowels with this scroll that I give you. + Then did I eat it; and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness. +003:004 He said to me, Son of man, go, get you to the house of Israel, + and speak with my words to them. +003:005 For you are not sent to a people of a strange speech and of + a hard language, but to the house of Israel; +003:006 not to many peoples of a strange speech and of a hard language, + whose words you can not understand. Surely, if I sent you + to them, they would listen to you. +003:007 But the house of Israel will not listen to you; for they will + not listen to me: for all the house of Israel are of hard + forehead and of a stiff heart. +003:008 Behold, I have made your face hard against their faces, + and your forehead hard against their foreheads. +003:009 As an adamant harder than flint have I made your forehead: + don't be afraid of them, neither be dismayed at their looks, + though they are a rebellious house. +003:010 Moreover he said to me, Son of man, all my words that I shall + speak to you receive in your heart, and hear with your ears. +003:011 Go, get you to them of the captivity, to the children of your people, + and speak to them, and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh; + whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear. +003:012 Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me the voice + of a great rushing, [saying], Blessed be the glory of Yahweh + from his place. +003:013 [I heard] the noise of the wings of the living creatures as they + touched one another, and the noise of the wheels beside them, + even the noise of a great rushing. +003:014 So the Spirit lifted me up, and took me away; and I went + in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; and the hand of Yahweh + was strong on me. +003:015 Then I came to them of the captivity at Tel Aviv, that lived + by the river Chebar, and to where they lived; and I sat there + overwhelmed among them seven days. +003:016 It happened at the end of seven days, that the word of Yahweh + came to me, saying, +003:017 Son of man, I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel: + therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me. +003:018 When I tell the wicked, You shall surely die; and you give him + no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, + to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; + but his blood will I require at your hand. +003:019 Yet if you warn the wicked, and he doesn't turn from his wickedness, + nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; + but you have delivered your soul. +003:020 Again, when a righteous man does turn from his righteousness, + and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, + he shall die: because you have not given him warning, + he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has + done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require + at your hand. +003:021 Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man, that the righteous + not sin, and he does not sin, he shall surely live, + because he took warning; and you have delivered your soul. +003:022 The hand of Yahweh was there on me; and he said to me, Arise, + go forth into the plain, and I will there talk with you. +003:023 Then I arose, and went forth into the plain: and behold, + the glory of Yahweh stood there, as the glory which I saw + by the river Chebar; and I fell on my face. +003:024 Then the Spirit entered into me, and set me on my feet; + and he spoke with me, and said to me, Go, shut yourself + within your house. +003:025 But you, son of man, behold, they shall lay bands on you, + and shall bind you with them, and you shall not go out among them: +003:026 and I will make your tongue cleave to the roof of your mouth, + that you shall be mute, and shall not be to them a reprover; + for they are a rebellious house. +003:027 But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you + shall tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: He who hears, + let him hear; and he who forbears, let him forbear: + for they are a rebellious house. +004:001 You also, son of man, take a tile, and lay it before you, + and portray on it a city, even Jerusalem: +004:002 and lay siege against it, and build forts against it, + and cast up a mound against it; set camps also against it, + and plant battering rams against it round about. +004:003 Take for yourself an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron + between you and the city: and set your face toward it, + and it shall be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. + This shall be a sign to the house of Israel. +004:004 Moreover lie you on your left side, and lay the iniquity of + the house of Israel on it; [according to] the number of the days + that you shall lie on it, you shall bear their iniquity. +004:005 For I have appointed the years of their iniquity to be + to you a number of days, even three hundred ninety days: + so shall you bear the iniquity of the house of Israel. +004:006 Again, when you have accomplished these, you shall lie on your + right side, and shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah: + forty days, each day for a year, have I appointed it to you. +004:007 You shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, + with your arm uncovered; and you shall prophesy against it. +004:008 Behold, I lay bands on you, and you shall not turn you from + one side to the other, until you have accomplished the days + of your siege. +004:009 Take for yourself also wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, + and millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel, and make + you bread of it; [according to] the number of the days that + you shall lie on your side, even three hundred ninety days, + shall you eat of it. +004:010 Your food which you shall eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels + a day: from time to time shall you eat it. +004:011 You shall drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: + from time to time shall you drink. +004:012 You shall eat it as barley cakes, and you shall bake it + in their sight with dung that comes out of man. +004:013 Yahweh said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their + bread unclean, among the nations where I will drive them. +004:014 Then said I, Ah Lord Yahweh! behold, my soul has not been polluted; + for from my youth up even until now have I not eaten + of that which dies of itself, or is torn of animals; + neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth. +004:015 Then he said to me, Behold, I have given you cow's dung + for man's dung, and you shall prepare your bread thereon. +004:016 Moreover he said to me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff + of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, + and with fearfulness; and they shall drink water by measure, + and in dismay: +004:017 that they may want bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, + and pine away in their iniquity. +005:001 You, son of man, take a sharp sword; [as] a barber's razor + shall you take it to you, and shall cause it to pass on + your head and on your beard: then take balances to weigh, + and divide the hair. +005:002 A third part shall you burn in the fire in the midst of the city, + when the days of the siege are fulfilled; and you shall take + a third part, and strike with the sword round about it; + and a third part you shall scatter to the wind, and I will + draw out a sword after them. +005:003 You shall take of it a few in number, and bind them in your skirts. +005:004 Of these again shall you take, and cast them into the midst + of the fire, and burn them in the fire; from it shall a fire + come forth into all the house of Israel. +005:005 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: This is Jerusalem; I have set her + in the midst of the nations, and countries are round about her. +005:006 She has rebelled against my ordinances in doing wickedness more + than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries + that are round about her; for they have rejected my ordinances, + and as for my statutes, they have not walked in them. +005:007 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you are turbulent + more than the nations that are round about you, and have + not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my ordinances, + neither have done after the ordinances of the nations that are + round about you; +005:008 therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I, even I, + am against you; and I will execute judgments in the midst + of you in the sight of the nations. +005:009 I will do in you that which I have not done, and whereunto I + will not do any more the like, because of all your abominations. +005:010 Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of you, + and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute + judgments on you; and the whole remnant of you will I scatter + to all the winds. +005:011 Therefore, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely, because you + have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things, + and with all your abominations, therefore will I also diminish [you]; + neither shall my eye spare, and I also will have no pity. +005:012 A third part of you shall die with the pestilence, + and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of you; + and a third part shall fall by the sword round about you; + and a third part I will scatter to all the winds, and will + draw out a sword after them. +005:013 Thus shall my anger be accomplished, and I will cause + my wrath toward them to rest, and I shall be comforted; + and they shall know that I, Yahweh, have spoken in my zeal, + when I have accomplished my wrath on them. +005:014 Moreover I will make you a desolation and a reproach among + the nations that are round about you, in the sight of all + that pass by. +005:015 So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and + an astonishment, to the nations that are round about you, + when I shall execute judgments on you in anger and in wrath, + and in wrathful rebukes; (I, Yahweh, have spoken it;) +005:016 when I shall send on them the evil arrows of famine, + that are for destruction, which I will send to destroy you: + and I will increase the famine on you, and will break your + staff of bread; +005:017 and I will send on you famine and evil animals, and they shall + bereave you; and pestilence and blood shall pass through you; + and I will bring the sword on you: I, Yahweh, have spoken it. +006:001 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, +006:002 Son of man, set your face toward the mountains of Israel, + and prophesy to them, +006:003 and say, You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the + Lord Yahweh: Thus says the Lord Yahweh to the mountains + and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys: + Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword on you, and I will + destroy your high places. +006:004 Your altars shall become desolate, and your incense altars + shall be broken; and I will cast down your slain men + before your idols. +006:005 I will lay the dead bodies of the children of Israel + before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round + about your altars. +006:006 In all your dwelling places the cities shall be laid waste, + and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars + may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be + broken and cease, and your incense altars may be hewn down, + and your works may be abolished. +006:007 The slain shall fall in the midst of you, and you shall know + that I am Yahweh. +006:008 Yet will I leave a remnant, in that you shall have some that + escape the sword among the nations, when you shall be scattered + through the countries. +006:009 Those of you that escape shall remember me among the nations + where they shall be carried captive, how that I have been + broken with their lewd heart, which has departed from me, + and with their eyes, which play the prostitute after their idols: + and they shall loathe themselves in their own sight for the evils + which they have committed in all their abominations. +006:010 They shall know that I am Yahweh: I have not said in vain + that I would do this evil to them. +006:011 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Smite with your hand, and stamp with + your foot, and say, Alas! because of all the evil abominations + of the house of Israel; for they shall fall by the sword, + by the famine, and by the pestilence. +006:012 He who is far off shall die of the pestilence; and he who is + near shall fall by the sword; and he who remains and is + besieged shall die by the famine: thus will I accomplish + my wrath on them. +006:013 You shall know that I am Yahweh, when their slain men shall be + among their idols round about their altars, on every high hill, + on all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, + and under every thick oak, the places where they offered + sweet savor to all their idols. +006:014 I will stretch out my hand on them, and make the land desolate + and waste, from the wilderness toward Diblah, throughout all + their habitations: and they shall know that I am Yahweh. +007:001 Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, +007:002 You, son of man, thus says the Lord Yahweh to the land + of Israel, An end: the end is come on the four corners + of the land. +007:003 Now is the end on you, and I will send my anger on you, + and will judge you according to your ways; and I will bring + on you all your abominations. +007:004 My eye shall not spare you, neither will I have pity; + but I will bring your ways on you, and your abominations shall + be in the midst of you: and you shall know that I am Yahweh. +007:005 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: An evil, an only evil; behold, it comes. +007:006 An end is come, the end is come; it awakes against you; + behold, it comes. +007:007 Your doom is come to you, inhabitant of the land: + the time is come, the day is near, [a day of] tumult, + and not [of] joyful shouting, on the mountains. +007:008 Now will I shortly pour out my wrath on you, and accomplish my + anger against you, and will judge you according to your ways; + and I will bring on you all your abominations. +007:009 My eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: + I will bring on you according to your ways; and your + abominations shall be in the midst of you; and you shall know + that I, Yahweh, do strike. +007:010 Behold, the day, behold, it comes: your doom is gone forth; + the rod has blossomed, pride has budded. +007:011 Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness; none of them + [shall remain], nor of their multitude, nor of their wealth: + neither shall there be eminency among them. +007:012 The time is come, the day draws near: don't let the buyer rejoice, + nor the seller mourn; for wrath is on all the multitude of it. +007:013 For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, + although they be yet alive: for the vision is touching + the whole multitude of it, none shall return; neither shall + any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life. +007:014 They have blown the trumpet, and have made all ready; but none + goes to the battle; for my wrath is on all the multitude of it. +007:015 The sword is outside, and the pestilence and the famine within: + he who is in the field shall die with the sword: + and he who is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him. +007:016 But those of those who escape shall escape, and shall be on + the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, + every one in his iniquity. +007:017 All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water. +007:018 They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall + cover them; and shame shall be on all faces, and baldness + on all their heads. +007:019 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold + shall be as an unclean thing; their silver and their gold shall + not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of Yahweh: + they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels; + because it has been the stumbling block of their iniquity. +007:020 As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty; + but they made the images of their abominations [and] their + detestable things therein: therefore have I made it to them + as an unclean thing. +007:021 I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, + and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they + shall profane it. +007:022 My face will I turn also from them, and they shall profane + my secret [place]; and robbers shall enter into it, + and profane it. +007:023 Make the chain; for the land is full of bloody crimes, + and the city is full of violence. +007:024 Therefore I will bring the worst of the nations, and they shall + possess their houses: I will also make the pride of the strong + to cease; and their holy places shall be profaned. +007:025 Destruction comes; and they shall seek peace, and there + shall be none. +007:026 Mischief shall come on mischief, and rumor shall be on rumor; + and they shall seek a vision of the prophet; but the law + shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders. +007:027 The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, + and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled: + I will do to them after their way, and according to their + own judgments will I judge them; and they shall know that + I am Yahweh. +008:001 It happened in the sixth year, in the sixth [month], in the fifth + [day] of the month, as I sat in my house, and the elders + of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord Yahweh fell + there on me. +008:002 Then I saw, and behold, a likeness as the appearance of fire; + from the appearance of his waist and downward, fire; and from + his waist and upward, as the appearance of brightness, + as it were glowing metal. +008:003 He put forth the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my head; + and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and the sky, + and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, + to the door of the gate of the inner [court] that looks toward + the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, + which provokes to jealousy. +008:004 Behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to + the appearance that I saw in the plain. +008:005 Then said he to me, Son of man, lift up your eyes now the way + toward the north. So I lifted up my eyes the way toward + the north, and see, northward of the gate of the altar this + image of jealousy in the entry. +008:006 He said to me, Son of man, see you what they do? even the great + abominations that the house of Israel do commit here, + that I should go far off from my sanctuary? but you shall + again see yet other great abominations. +008:007 He brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, + behold, a hole in the wall. +008:008 Then said he to me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: + and when I had dug in the wall, behold, a door. +008:009 He said to me, Go in, and see the wicked abominations that + they do here. +008:010 So I went in and saw; and see, every form of creeping things, + and abominable animals, and all the idols of the house of Israel, + portrayed on the wall round about. +008:011 There stood before them seventy men of the elders of the house + of Israel; and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah + the son of Shaphan, every man with his censer in his hand; + and the odor of the cloud of incense went up. +008:012 Then said he to me, Son of man, have you seen what the elders + of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in his + chambers of imagery? for they say, Yahweh doesn't see us; + Yahweh has forsaken the land. +008:013 He said also to me, You shall again see yet other great + abominations which they do. +008:014 Then he brought me to the door of the gate of Yahweh's house + which was toward the north; and see, there sat the women + weeping for Tammuz. +008:015 Then said he to me, Have you seen [this], son of man? you + shall again see yet greater abominations than these. +008:016 He brought me into the inner court of Yahweh's house; and see, + at the door of the temple of Yahweh, between the porch + and the altar, were about twenty-five men, with their backs + toward the temple of Yahweh, and their faces toward the east; + and they were worshipping the sun toward the east. +008:017 Then he said to me, Have you seen [this], son of man? + Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the + abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land + with violence, and have turned again to provoke me to anger: + and behold, they put the branch to their nose. +008:018 Therefore will I also deal in wrath; my eye shall not spare, + neither will I have pity; and though they cry in my ears + with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them. +009:001 Then he cried in my ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause you + them that have charge over the city to draw near, every man + with his destroying weapon in his hand. +009:002 Behold, six men came from the way of the upper gate, + which lies toward the north, every man with his slaughter + weapon in his hand; and one man in the midst of them + clothed in linen, with a writer's inkhorn by his side. + They went in, and stood beside the bronze altar. +009:003 The glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub, + whereupon it was, to the threshold of the house: + and he called to the man clothed in linen, who had the writer's + inkhorn by his side. +009:004 Yahweh said to him, Go through the midst of the city, + through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads + of the men that sigh and that cry over all the abominations + that are done in the midst of it. +009:005 To the others he said in my hearing, Go you through + the city after him, and strike: don't let your eye spare, + neither have you pity; +009:006 kill utterly the old man, the young man and the virgin, + and little children and women; but don't come near any + man on whom is the mark: and begin at my sanctuary. + Then they began at the old men that were before the house. +009:007 He said to them, Defile the house, and fill the courts + with the slain: go you forth. They went forth, and struck + in the city. +009:008 It happened, while they were smiting, and I was left, + that I fell on my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord Yahweh! + will you destroy all the residue of Israel in your pouring + out of your wrath on Jerusalem? +009:009 Then said he to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and + Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of blood, + and the city full of perversion: for they say, Yahweh has + forsaken the land, and Yahweh doesn't see. +009:010 As for me also, my eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, + but I will bring their way on their head. +009:011 Behold, the man clothed in linen, who had the inkhorn by + his side, reported the matter, saying, I have done as you + have commanded me. +010:001 Then I looked, and see, in the expanse that was over the head + of the cherubim there appeared above them as it were a sapphire{or, + lapis lazuli} stone, as the appearance of the likeness + of a throne. +010:002 He spoke to the man clothed in linen, and said, Go in between + the whirling [wheels], even under the cherub, and fill both + your hands with coals of fire from between the cherubim, + and scatter them over the city. He went in as I watched. +010:003 Now the cherubim stood on the right side of the house, + when the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court. +010:004 The glory of Yahweh mounted up from the cherub, [and stood] + over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled + with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness + of Yahweh's glory. +010:005 The sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard even to + the outer court, as the voice of God Almighty when he speaks. +010:006 It came to pass, when he commanded the man clothed in linen, + saying, Take fire from between the whirling wheels, from between + the cherubim, that he went in, and stood beside a wheel. +010:007 The cherub stretched forth his hand from between the cherubim + to the fire that was between the cherubim, and took [of it], + and put it into the hands of him who was clothed in linen, + who took it and went out. +010:008 There appeared in the cherubim the form of a man's hand + under their wings. +010:009 I looked, and behold, four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel + beside one cherub, and another wheel beside another cherub; + and the appearance of the wheels was like a beryl stone. +010:010 As for their appearance, they four had one likeness, + as if a wheel have been within a wheel. +010:011 When they went, they went in their four directions: + they didn't turn as they went, but to the place where the head + looked they followed it; they didn't turn as they went. +010:012 Their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, + and their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes round about, + [even] the wheels that they four had. +010:013 As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing, + the whirling [wheels]. +010:014 Every one had four faces: the first face was the face + of the cherub, and the second face was the face of a man, + and the third face the face of a lion, and the fourth the face + of an eagle. +010:015 The cherubim mounted up: this is the living creature that I + saw by the river Chebar. +010:016 When the cherubim went, the wheels went beside them; and when + the cherubim lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, + the wheels also didn't turn from beside them. +010:017 When they stood, these stood; and when they mounted up, + these mounted up with them: for the spirit of the living + creature was in them. +010:018 The glory of Yahweh went forth from over the threshold of the house, + and stood over the cherubim. +010:019 The cherubim lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth + in my sight when they went forth, and the wheels beside them: + and they stood at the door of the east gate of Yahweh's house; + and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above. +010:020 This is the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel + by the river Chebar; and I knew that they were cherubim. +010:021 Every one had four faces, and every one four wings; + and the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings. +010:022 As for the likeness of their faces, they were the faces which I + saw by the river Chebar, their appearances and themselves; + they went every one straight forward. +011:001 Moreover the Spirit lifted me up, and brought me to + the east gate of Yahweh's house, which looks eastward: + and see, at the door of the gate twenty-five men; + and I saw in the midst of them Jaazaniah the son of Azzur, + and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people. +011:002 He said to me, Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity, + and who give wicked counsel in this city; +011:003 who say, [The time] is not near to build houses: + this [city] is the caldron, and we are the flesh. +011:004 Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, son of man. +011:005 The Spirit of Yahweh fell on me, and he said to me, + Speak, Thus says Yahweh: Thus have you said, house of Israel; + for I know the things that come into your mind. +011:006 You have multiplied your slain in this city, and you have filled + the streets of it with the slain. +011:007 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Your slain whom you + have laid in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and this + [city] is the caldron; but you shall be brought forth out + of the midst of it. +011:008 You have feared the sword; and I will bring the sword on you, + says the Lord Yahweh. +011:009 I will bring you forth out of the midst of it, and deliver you + into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you. +011:010 You shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in the border + of Israel; and you shall know that I am Yahweh. +011:011 This [city] shall not be your caldron, neither shall you be the flesh + in the midst of it; I will judge you in the border of Israel; +011:012 and you shall know that I am Yahweh: for you have not walked + in my statutes, neither have you executed my ordinances, + but have done after the ordinances of the nations that are + round about you. +011:013 It happened, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son + of Benaiah died. Then fell I down on my face, and cried + with a loud voice, and said, Ah Lord Yahweh! will you make + a full end of the remnant of Israel? +011:014 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, +011:015 Son of man, your brothers, even your brothers, the men + of your relatives, and all the house of Israel, all of them, + [are they] to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, + Get you far from Yahweh; to us is this land given for a possession. +011:016 Therefore say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Whereas I have removed + them far off among the nations, and whereas I have scattered + them among the countries, yet will I be to them a sanctuary + for a little while in the countries where they are come. +011:017 Therefore say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will gather you + from the peoples, and assemble you out of the countries where you + have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel. +011:018 They shall come there, and they shall take away all the detestable + things of it and all the abominations of it from there. +011:019 I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; + and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will + give them a heart of flesh; +011:020 that they may walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, + and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will + be their God. +011:021 But as for them whose heart walks after the heart of their + detestable things and their abominations, I will bring their + way on their own heads, says the Lord Yahweh. +011:022 Then did the cherubim lift up their wings, and the wheels + were beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel was + over them above. +011:023 The glory of Yahweh went up from the midst of the city, + and stood on the mountain which is on the east side of the city. +011:024 The Spirit lifted me up, and brought me in the vision by + the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to them of the captivity. + So the vision that I had seen went up from me. +011:025 Then I spoke to them of the captivity all the things that Yahweh + had shown me. +012:001 The word of Yahweh also came to me, saying, +012:002 Son of man, you dwell in the midst of the rebellious house, + who have eyes to see, and don't see, who have ears to hear, + and don't hear; for they are a rebellious house. +012:003 Therefore, you son of man, prepare you stuff for removing, + and remove by day in their sight; and you shall remove from + your place to another place in their sight: it may be they + will consider, though they are a rebellious house. +012:004 You shall bring forth your stuff by day in their sight, + as stuff for removing; and you shall go forth yourself at + even in their sight, as when men go forth into exile. +012:005 Dig you through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby. +012:006 In their sight shall you bear it on your shoulder, + and carry it forth in the dark; you shall cover your face, + that you don't see the land: for I have set you for a sign + to the house of Israel. +012:007 I did so as I was commanded: I brought forth my stuff by day, + as stuff for removing, and in the even I dug through the wall + with my hand; I brought it forth in the dark, and bore it + on my shoulder in their sight. +012:008 In the morning came the word of Yahweh to me, saying, +012:009 Son of man, has not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, + said to you, What do you? +012:010 Say you to them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: This burden + [concerns] the prince in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel + among whom they are. +012:011 Say, I am your sign: like as I have done, so shall it be done + to them; they shall go into exile, into captivity. +012:012 The prince who is among them shall bear on his shoulder + in the dark, and shall go forth: they shall dig through + the wall to carry out thereby: he shall cover his face, + because he shall not see the land with his eyes. +012:013 My net also will I spread on him, and he shall be taken in my snare; + and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; + yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there. +012:014 I will scatter toward every wind all who are round about + him to help him, and all his bands; and I will draw out + the sword after them. +012:015 They shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall disperse them + among the nations, and scatter them through the countries. +012:016 But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, + from the famine, and from the pestilence; that they may declare + all their abominations among the nations where they come; + and they shall know that I am Yahweh. +012:017 Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, +012:018 Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink your water + with trembling and with fearfulness; +012:019 and tell the people of the land, Thus says the Lord Yahweh + concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the land + of Israel: They shall eat their bread with fearfulness, + and drink their water in dismay, that her land may be desolate, + [and despoiled] of all that is therein, because of the violence + of all those who dwell therein. +012:020 The cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land + shall be a desolation; and you shall know that I am Yahweh. +012:021 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, +012:022 Son of man, what is this proverb that you have in the land + of Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision fails? +012:023 Tell them therefore, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will + make this proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it + as a proverb in Israel; but tell them, The days are at hand, + and the fulfillment of every vision. +012:024 For there shall be no more any false vision nor flattering + divination within the house of Israel. +012:025 For I am Yahweh; I will speak, and the word that I shall + speak shall be performed; it shall be no more deferred: + for in your days, rebellious house, will I speak the word, + and will perform it, says the Lord Yahweh. +012:026 Again the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, +012:027 Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, The vision + that he sees is for many day to come, and he prophesies + of times that are far off. +012:028 Therefore tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: There shall + none of my words be deferred any more, but the word which I + shall speak shall be performed, says the Lord Yahweh. +013:001 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, +013:002 Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who prophesy, + and say you to those who prophesy out of their own heart, + Hear you the word of Yahweh: +013:003 Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Woe to the foolish prophets, + who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing! +013:004 Israel, your prophets have been like foxes in the waste places. +013:005 You have not gone up into the gaps, neither built up + the wall for the house of Israel, to stand in the battle + in the day of Yahweh. +013:006 They have seen falsehood and lying divination, who say, + Yahweh says; but Yahweh has not sent them: and they have made + men to hope that the word would be confirmed. +013:007 Haven't you seen a false vision, and haven't you spoken + a lying divination, in that you say, Yahweh says; but I + have not spoken? +013:008 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have spoken + falsehood, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you, + says the Lord Yahweh. +013:009 My hand shall be against the prophets who see false visions, + and who divine lies: they shall not be in the council of my people, + neither shall they be written in the writing of the house + of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel; + and you shall know that I am the Lord Yahweh. +013:010 Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; + and there is no peace; and when one builds up a wall, behold, + they daub it with whitewash: +013:011 tell those who daub it with whitewash, that it shall fall: + there shall be an overflowing shower; and you, great hailstones, + shall fall; and a stormy wind shall tear it. +013:012 Behold, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said to you, + Where is the daubing with which you have daubed it? +013:013 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will even tear it with + a stormy wind in my wrath; and there shall be an overflowing + shower in my anger, and great hailstones in wrath to consume it. +013:014 So will I break down the wall that you have daubed with whitewash, + and bring it down to the ground, so that the foundation of it + shall be uncovered; and it shall fall, and you shall be consumed + in the midst of it: and you shall know that I am Yahweh. +013:015 Thus will I accomplish my wrath on the wall, and on those + who have daubed it with whitewash; and I will tell you, + The wall is no more, neither those who daubed it; +013:016 [to wit], the prophets of Israel who prophesy concerning Jerusalem, + and who see visions of peace for her, and there is no peace, + says the Lord Yahweh. +013:017 You, son of man, set your face against the daughters + of your people, who prophesy out of their own heart; + and prophesy you against them, +013:018 and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Woe to the women who sew + pillows on all elbows, and make kerchiefs for the head + of [persons of] every stature to hunt souls! Will you hunt + the souls of my people, and save souls alive for yourselves? +013:019 You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley + and for pieces of bread, to kill the souls who should not die, + and to save the souls alive who should not live, by your lying + to my people who listen to lies. +013:020 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am + against your pillows, with which you there hunt the souls + to make [them] fly, and I will tear them from your arms; + and I will let the souls go, even the souls who you hunt + to make [them] fly. +013:021 Your kerchiefs also will I tear, and deliver my people out of + your hand, and they shall be no more in your hand to be hunted; + and you shall know that I am Yahweh. +013:022 Because with lies you have grieved the heart of the righteous, + whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of + the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, + and be saved alive: +013:023 Therefore you shall no more see false visions, nor + practice divination. I will deliver my people out of your hand; + and you shall know that I am Yahweh. +014:001 Then came certain of the elders of Israel to me, and sat before me. +014:002 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, +014:003 Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their heart, + and put the stumbling block of their iniquity before their face: + should I be inquired of at all by them? +014:004 Therefore speak to them, and tell them, Thus says the + Lord Yahweh: Every man of the house of Israel who takes + his idols into his heart, and puts the stumbling block + of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet; + I Yahweh will answer him therein according to the multitude + of his idols; +014:005 that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, + because they are all estranged from me through their idols. +014:006 Therefore tell the house of Israel, Thus says the + Lord Yahweh: Return you, and turn yourselves from your idols; + and turn away your faces from all your abominations. +014:007 For everyone of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who + sojourn in Israel, who separates himself from me, and takes + his idols into his heart, and puts the stumbling block of his + iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet to inquire + for himself of me; I Yahweh will answer him by myself: +014:008 and I will set my face against that man, and will make him + an astonishment, for a sign and a proverb, and I will cut + him off from the midst of my people; and you shall know + that I am Yahweh. +014:009 If the prophet be deceived and speak a word, I, Yahweh, have + deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand on him, + and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel. +014:010 They shall bear their iniquity: the iniquity of the prophet + shall be even as the iniquity of him who seeks [to him]; +014:011 that the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, + neither defile themselves any more with all their transgressions; + but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, + says the Lord Yahweh. +014:012 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, +014:013 Son of man, when a land sins against me by committing a trespass, + and I stretch out my hand on it, and break the staff of + the bread of it, and send famine on it, and cut off from it + man and animal; +014:014 though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, + they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, + says the Lord Yahweh. +014:015 If I cause evil animals to pass through the land, and they + ravage it, and it be made desolate, so that no man may pass + through because of the animals; +014:016 though these three men were in it, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, + they should deliver neither sons nor daughters; they only + should be delivered, but the land should be desolate. +014:017 Or if I bring a sword on that land, and say, Sword, go through + the land; so that I cut off from it man and animal; +014:018 though these three men were in it, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, + they should deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they + only should be delivered themselves. +014:019 Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my wrath + on it in blood, to cut off from it man and animal; +014:020 though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, says the + Lord Yahweh, they should deliver neither son nor daughter; + they should but deliver their own souls by their righteousness. +014:021 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: How much more when I send my + four sore judgments on Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, + and the evil animals, and the pestilence, to cut off from it + man and animal! +014:022 Yet, behold, therein shall be left a remnant that shall be + carried forth, both sons and daughters: behold, they shall come + forth to you, and you shall see their way and their doings; + and you shall be comforted concerning the evil that I + have brought on Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have + brought on it. +014:023 They shall comfort you, when you see their way and their doings; + and you shall know that I have not done without cause all + that I have done in it, says the Lord Yahweh. +015:001 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, +015:002 Son of man, what is the vine tree more than any tree, + the vine-branch which is among the trees of the forest? +015:003 Shall wood be taken of it to make any work? or will men take + a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon? +015:004 Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire has + devoured both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned: + is it profitable for any work? +015:005 Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: + how much less, when the fire has devoured it, and it is burned, + shall it yet be meet for any work! +015:006 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: As the vine tree among + the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, + so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem. +015:007 I will set my face against them; they shall go forth from the fire, + but the fire shall devour them; and you shall know that I + am Yahweh, when I set my face against them. +015:008 I will make the land desolate, because they have committed + a trespass, says the Lord Yahweh. +016:001 Again the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, +016:002 Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations; +016:003 and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh to Jerusalem: Your birth + and your birth is of the land of the Canaanite; the Amorite + was your father, and your mother was a Hittite. +016:004 As for your birth, in the day you were born your navel was + not cut, neither were you washed in water to cleanse you; + you weren't salted at all, nor swaddled at all. +016:005 No eye pitied you, to do any of these things to you, to have + compassion on you; but you were cast out in the open field, + for that your person was abhorred, in the day that you were born. +016:006 When I passed by you, and saw you weltering in your blood, + I said to you, [Though you are] in your blood, live; yes, I said + to you, [Though you are] in your blood, live. +016:007 I caused you to multiply as that which grows in the field, and you + increased and grew great, and you attained to excellent ornament; + your breasts were fashioned, and your hair was grown; + yet you were naked and bare. +016:008 Now when I passed by you, and looked at you, behold, your time + was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over you, + and covered your nakedness: yes, I swore to you, + and entered into a covenant with you, says the Lord Yahweh, + and you became mine. +016:009 Then washed I you with water; yes, I thoroughly washed away + your blood from you, and I anointed you with oil. +016:010 I clothed you also with embroidered work, and shod you + with sealskin, and I girded you about with fine linen, + and covered you with silk. +016:011 I decked you with ornaments, and I put bracelets on your hands, + and a chain on your neck. +016:012 I put a ring on your nose, and earrings in your ears, + and a beautiful crown on your head. +016:013 Thus you were decked with gold and silver; and your clothing + was of fine linen, and silk, and embroidered work; you ate + fine flour, and honey, and oil; and you were exceeding beautiful, + and you prospered to royal estate. +016:014 Your renown went forth among the nations for your beauty; + for it was perfect, through my majesty which I had put on you, + says the Lord Yahweh. +016:015 But you did trust in your beauty, and played the prostitute + because of your renown, and poured out your prostitution + on everyone who passed by; his it was. +016:016 You took of your garments, and made for yourselves high places + decked with various colors, and played the prostitute on them: + [the like things] shall not come, neither shall it be [so]. +016:017 You also took your beautiful jewels of my gold and of my silver, + which I had given you, and made for yourself images of men, + and played the prostitute with them; +016:018 and you took your embroidered garments, and covered them, + and did set my oil and my incense before them. +016:019 My bread also which I gave you, fine flour, and oil, and honey, + with which I fed you, you did even set it before them for a + sweet savor; and [thus] it was, says the Lord Yahweh. +016:020 Moreover you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you have + borne to me, and these have you sacrificed to them to be devoured. + Were your prostitution a small matter, +016:021 that you have slain my children, and delivered them up, + in causing them to pass through [the fire] to them? +016:022 In all your abominations and your prostitution you have not + remembered the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, + and was weltering in your blood. +016:023 It is happen after all your wickedness, (woe, woe to you! says + the Lord Yahweh), +016:024 that you have built to you a vaulted place, and have made you + a lofty place in every street. +016:025 You have built your lofty place at the head of every way, + and have made your beauty an abomination, and have opened your feet + to everyone who passed by, and multiplied your prostitution. +016:026 You have also committed sexual immorality with the Egyptians, + your neighbors, great of flesh; and have multiplied + your prostitution, to provoke me to anger. +016:027 See therefore, I have stretched out my hand over you, and have + diminished your ordinary [food], and delivered you to the will + of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, + who are ashamed of your lewd way. +016:028 You have played the prostitute also with the Assyrians, + because you were insatiable; yes, you have played the prostitute + with them, and yet you weren't satisfied. +016:029 You have moreover multiplied your prostitution to the land + of merchants, to Chaldea; and yet you weren't satisfied with this. +016:030 How weak is your heart, says the Lord Yahweh, seeing you + do all these things, the work of an impudent prostitute; +016:031 in that you build your vaulted place at the head of every way, + and make your lofty place in every street, and have not been + as a prostitute, in that you scorn pay. +016:032 A wife who commits adultery! who takes strangers instead + of her husband! +016:033 They give gifts to all prostitutes; but you give your gifts + to all your lovers, and bribe them, that they may come to you + on every side for your prostitution. +016:034 You are different from [other] women in your prostitution, + in that none follows you to play the prostitute; + and whereas you give hire, and no hire is given to you, + therefore you are different. +016:035 Therefore, prostitute, hear the word of Yahweh: +016:036 Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Because your filthiness was poured out, + and your nakedness uncovered through your prostitution with + your lovers; and because of all the idols of your abominations, + and for the blood of your children, that you gave to them; +016:037 therefore see, I will gather all your lovers, with whom you + have taken pleasure, and all those who you have loved, + with all those who you have hated; I will even gather them + against you on every side, and will uncover your nakedness + to them, that they may see all your nakedness. +016:038 I will judge you, as women who break wedlock and shed blood + are judged; and I will bring on you the blood of wrath and jealousy. +016:039 I will also give you into their hand, and they shall throw + down your vaulted place, and break down your lofty places; + and they shall strip you of your clothes, and take your + beautiful jewels; and they shall leave you naked and bare. +016:040 They shall also bring up a company against you, and they shall + stone you with stones, and thrust you through with their swords. +016:041 They shall burn your houses with fire, and execute judgments + on you in the sight of many women; and I will cause you + to cease from playing the prostitute, and you shall also give + no hire any more. +016:042 So will I cause my wrath toward you to rest, and my jealousy + shall depart from you, and I will be quiet, and will be + no more angry. +016:043 Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, + but have raged against me in all these things; therefore, behold, + I also will bring your way on your head, says the Lord Yahweh: + and you shall not commit this lewdness with all your abominations. +016:044 Behold, everyone who uses proverbs shall use [this] proverb + against you, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter. +016:045 You are the daughter of your mother, who loathes her husband + and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters, + who loathed their husbands and their children: + your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite. +016:046 Your elder sister is Samaria, who dwells at your left hand, + she and her daughters; and your younger sister, who dwells + at your right hand, is Sodom and her daughters. +016:047 Yet have you not walked in their ways, nor done after + their abominations; but, as [if that were] a very little [thing], + you were more corrupt than they in all your ways. +016:048 As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, Sodom your sister has not done, + she nor her daughters, as you have done, you and your daughters. +016:049 Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: + pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her + and in her daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand + of the poor and needy. +016:050 They were haughty, and committed abomination before me: + therefore I took them away as I saw [good]. +016:051 Neither has Samaria committed half of your sins; but you have + multiplied your abominations more than they, and have justified + your sisters by all your abominations which you have done. +016:052 You also, bear you your own shame, in that you have given judgment + for your sisters; through your sins that you have committed + more abominable than they, they are more righteous that you: + yes, be also confounded, and bear your shame, in that you + have justified your sisters. +016:053 I will turn again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and + her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, + and the captivity of your captives in the midst of them; +016:054 that you may bear your own shame, and may be ashamed because + of all that you have done, in that you are a comfort to them. +016:055 Your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their + former estate; and Samaria and her daughters shall return + to their former estate; and you and your daughters shall + return to your former estate. +016:056 For your sister Sodom was not mentioned by your mouth in the day + of your pride, +016:057 before your wickedness was uncovered, as at the time of the + reproach of the daughters of Syria, and of all who are round + about her, the daughters of the Philistines, who do despite + to you round about. +016:058 You have borne your lewdness and your abominations, says Yahweh. +016:059 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will also deal with you as you + have done, who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant. +016:060 Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with you in the days + of your youth, and I will establish to you an everlasting covenant. +016:061 Then shall you remember your ways, and be ashamed, + when you shall receive your sisters, your elder [sisters] + and your younger; and I will give them to you for daughters, + but not by your covenant. +016:062 I will establish my covenant with you; and you shall know + that I am Yahweh; +016:063 that you may remember, and be confounded, and never open your + mouth any more, because of your shame, when I have forgiven + you all that you have done, says the Lord Yahweh. +017:001 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, +017:002 Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable to the + house of Israel; +017:003 and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: A great eagle with great wings + and long feathers, full of feathers, which had various colors, + came to Lebanon, and took the top of the cedar: +017:004 he cropped off the topmost of the young twigs of it, and carried + it to a land of traffic; he set it in a city of merchants. +017:005 He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it + in a fruitful soil; he placed it beside many waters; + he set it as a willow tree. +017:006 It grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches + turned toward him, and the roots of it were under him: + so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, + and shot forth sprigs. +017:007 There was also another great eagle with great wings + and many feathers: and behold, this vine did bend its + roots toward him, and shot forth its branches toward him, + from the beds of its plantation, that he might water it. +017:008 It was planted in a good soil by many waters, that it + might bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, + that it might be a goodly vine. +017:009 Say you, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Shall it prosper? shall + he not pull up the roots of it, and cut off the fruit of it, + that it may wither; that all its fresh springing leaves + may wither? and not by a strong arm or much people can it + be raised from the roots of it. +017:010 Yes, behold, being planted, shall it prosper? shall it not + utterly wither, when the east wind touches it? it shall wither + in the beds where it grew. +017:011 Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, +017:012 Say now to the rebellious house, Don't you know what these things + mean? tell them, Behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, + and took the king of it, and the princes of it, and brought + them to him to Babylon: +017:013 and he took of the seed royal, and made a covenant with him; + he also brought him under an oath, and took away the mighty + of the land; +017:014 that the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift itself up, + but that by keeping his covenant it might stand. +017:015 But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors + into Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people. + Shall he prosper? shall he escape who does such things? shall + he break the covenant, and yet escape? +017:016 As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely in the place where + the king dwells who made him king, whose oath he despised, + and whose covenant he broke, even with him in the midst + of Babylon he shall die. +017:017 Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company + help him in the war, when they cast up mounds and build forts, + to cut off many persons. +017:018 For he has despised the oath by breaking the covenant; and behold, + he had given his hand, and yet has done all these things; + he shall not escape. +017:019 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: As I live, surely my oath + that he has despised, and my covenant that he has broken, + I will even bring it on his own head. +017:020 I will spread my net on him, and he shall be taken in my snare, + and I will bring him to Babylon, and will enter into judgment + with him there for his trespass that he has trespassed against me. +017:021 All his fugitives in all his bands shall fall by the sword, + and those who remain shall be scattered toward every wind: + and you shall know that I, Yahweh, have spoken it. +017:022 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will also take of the lofty top + of the cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the topmost + of its young twigs a tender one, and I will plant it on a high + and lofty mountain: +017:023 in the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it; and it + shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar: + and under it shall dwell all birds of every wing; in the shade + of the branches of it shall they dwell. +017:024 All the trees of the field shall know that I, Yahweh, have brought + down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried + up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish; + I, Yahweh, have spoken and have done it. +018:001 The word of Yahweh came to me again, saying, +018:002 What do you mean, that you use this proverb concerning the land + of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, + and the children's teeth are set on edge? +018:003 As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, you shall not have [occasion] + any more to use this proverb in Israel. +018:004 Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, + so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul who sins, + he shall die. +018:005 But if a man is just, and does that which is lawful and right, +018:006 and has not eaten on the mountains, neither has lifted up + his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither has + defiled his neighbor's wife, neither has come near to a woman + in her impurity, +018:007 and has not wronged any, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, + has taken nothing by robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, + and has covered the naked with a garment; +018:008 he who has not given forth on interest, neither has taken + any increase, who has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, + has executed true justice between man and man, +018:009 has walked in my statutes, and has kept my ordinances, to deal truly; + he is just, he shall surely live, says the Lord Yahweh. +018:010 If he fathers a son who is a robber, a shedder of blood, + and who does any one of these things, +018:011 and who does not any of those [duties], but even has eaten + on the mountains, and defiled his neighbor's wife, +018:012 has wronged the poor and needy, has taken by robbery, has not + restored the pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols, + has committed abomination, +018:013 has given forth on interest, and has taken increase; shall he then + live? he shall not live: he has done all these abominations; + he shall surely die; his blood shall be on him. +018:014 Now, behold, if he fathers a son, who sees all his father's sins, + which he has done, and fears, and does not such like; +018:015 who has not eaten on the mountains, neither has lifted up + his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, has not defiled + his neighbor's wife, +018:016 neither has wronged any, has not taken anything to pledge, + neither has taken by robbery, but has given his bread + to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment; +018:017 who has withdrawn his hand from the poor, who has not received + interest nor increase, has executed my ordinances, has walked + in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, + he shall surely live. +018:018 As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, robbed his brother, + and did that which is not good among his people, behold, he shall + die in his iniquity. +018:019 Yet say you, Why does not the son bear the iniquity + of the father? when the son has done that which is lawful + and right, and has kept all my statutes, and has done them, + he shall surely live. +018:020 The soul who sins, he shall die: the son shall not bear + the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear + the iniquity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous + shall be on him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall + be on him. +018:021 But if the wicked turn from all his sins that he has committed, + and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, + he shall surely live, he shall not die. +018:022 None of his transgressions that he has committed shall be + remembered against him: in his righteousness that he has + done he shall live. +018:023 Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked? says the Lord Yahweh; + and not rather that he should return from his way, and live? +018:024 But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, + and commits iniquity, and does according to all the + abominations that the wicked man does, shall he live? + None of his righteous deeds that he has done shall be remembered: + in his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin + that he has sinned, in them shall he die. +018:025 Yet you say, The way of the Lord is not equal. + Hear now, house of Israel: Is my way not equal? + Aren't your ways unequal? +018:026 When the righteous man turns away from his righteousness, + and commits iniquity, and dies therein; in his iniquity + that he has done shall he die. +018:027 Again, when the wicked man turns away from his wickedness + that he has committed, and does that which is lawful and right, + he shall save his soul alive. +018:028 Because he considers, and turns away from all his transgressions + that he has committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die. +018:029 Yet says the house of Israel, The way of the Lord is not equal. + house of Israel, are not my ways equal? are not your ways unequal? +018:030 Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel, + everyone according to his ways, says the Lord Yahweh. + Return you, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; + so iniquity shall not be your ruin. +018:031 Cast away from you all your transgressions, in which you + have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: + for why will you die, house of Israel? +018:032 For I have no pleasure in the death of him who dies, + says the Lord Yahweh: therefore turn yourselves, and live. +019:001 Moreover, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel, +019:002 and say, What was your mother? A lioness: she couched among lions, + in the midst of the young lions she nourished her cubs. +019:003 She brought up one of her cubs: he became a young lion, + and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men. +019:004 The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit; + and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt. +019:005 Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, + then she took another of her cubs, and made him a young lion. +019:006 He went up and down among the lions; he became a young lion, + and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men. +019:007 He knew their palaces, and laid waste their cities; and the land + was desolate, and the fullness of it, because of the noise + of his roaring. +019:008 Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces; + and they spread their net over him; he was taken in their pit. +019:009 They put him in a cage with hooks, and brought him to the king + of Babylon; they brought him into strongholds, that his voice + should no more be heard on the mountains of Israel. +019:010 Your mother was like a vine, in your blood, planted by the waters: + it was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters. +019:011 It had strong rods for the scepters of those who bore rule, + and their stature was exalted among the thick boughs, + and they were seen in their height with the multitude + of their branches. +019:012 But it was plucked up in fury, it was cast down to the ground, + and the east wind dried up its fruit: its strong rods were + broken off and withered; the fire consumed them. +019:013 Now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land. +019:014 Fire is gone out of the rods of its branches, it has devoured + its fruit, so that there is in it no strong rod to be a scepter + to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation. +020:001 It happened in the seventh year, in the fifth [month], + the tenth [day] of the month, that certain of the elders + of Israel came to inquire of Yahweh, and sat before me. +020:002 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, +020:003 Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel, and tell them, Thus says + the Lord Yahweh: Is it to inquire of me that you have come? + As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will not be inquired + of by you. +020:004 Will you judge them, son of man, will you judge them? + Cause them to know the abominations of their fathers; +020:005 and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In the day when I + chose Israel, and swore to the seed of the house of Jacob, + and made myself known to them in the land of Egypt, when I + swore to them, saying, I am Yahweh your God; +020:006 in that day I swore to them, to bring them forth out of the land + of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, + flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands. +020:007 I said to them, Cast you away every man the abominations + of his eyes, and don't defile yourselves with the idols + of Egypt; I am Yahweh your God. +020:008 But they rebelled against me, and would not listen to me; + they did not every man cast away the abominations of + their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt. + Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them, to accomplish + my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt. +020:009 But I worked for my name's sake, that it should not be + profaned in the sight of the nations, among which they were, + in whose sight I made myself known to them, in bringing them + forth out of the land of Egypt. +020:010 So I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt, + and brought them into the wilderness. +020:011 I gave them my statutes, and shown them my ordinances, + which if a man do, he shall live in them. +020:012 Moreover also I gave them my Sabbaths, to be a sign + between me and them, that they might know that I am Yahweh + who sanctifies them. +020:013 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: + they didn't walk in my statutes, and they rejected my ordinances, + which if a man keep, he shall live in them; and my Sabbaths + they greatly profaned. Then I said I would pour out my wrath + on them in the wilderness, to consume them. +020:014 But I worked for my name's sake, that it should not be profaned + in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out. +020:015 Moreover also I swore to them in the wilderness, that I + would not bring them into the land which I had given them, + flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands; +020:016 because they rejected my ordinances, and didn't walk in + my statutes, and profaned my Sabbaths: for their heart went + after their idols. +020:017 Nevertheless my eye spared them, and I didn't destroy them, + neither did I make a full end of them in the wilderness. +020:018 I said to their children in the wilderness, Don't you walk in + the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their ordinances, + nor defile yourselves with their idols. +020:019 I am Yahweh your God: walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, + and do them; +020:020 and make my Sabbaths holy; and they shall be a sign between me + and you, that you may know that I am Yahweh your God. +020:021 But the children rebelled against me; they didn't walk in + my statutes, neither kept my ordinances to do them, which if + a man do, he shall live in them; they profaned my Sabbaths. + Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them, to accomplish + my anger against them in the wilderness. +020:022 Nevertheless I withdrew my hand, and worked for my name's sake, + that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, + in whose sight I brought them forth. +020:023 Moreover I swore to them in the wilderness, that I would scatter + them among the nations, and disperse them through the countries; +020:024 because they had not executed my ordinances, but had rejected + my statutes, and had profaned my Sabbaths, and their eyes + were after their fathers' idols. +020:025 Moreover also I gave them statutes that were not good, + and ordinances in which they should not live; +020:026 and I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused + to pass through [the fire] all that opens the womb, that I + might make them desolate, to the end that they might know + that I am Yahweh. +020:027 Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel, + and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In this moreover + have your fathers blasphemed me, in that they have committed + a trespass against me. +020:028 For when I had brought them into the land, which I swore + to give to them, then they saw every high hill, and every + thick tree, and they offered there their sacrifices, + and there they presented the provocation of their offering; + there also they made their sweet savor, and they poured out + there their drink offerings. +020:029 Then I said to them, What means the high place whereunto you go? + So the name of it is called Bamah to this day. +020:030 Therefore tell the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Do you + pollute yourselves after the manner of your fathers? and play + you the prostitute after their abominations? +020:031 and when you offer your gifts, when you make your sons + to pass through the fire, do you pollute yourselves with all + your idols to this day? and shall I be inquired of by you, + house of Israel? As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will + not be inquired of by you; +020:032 and that which comes into your mind shall not be at all, + in that you say, We will be as the nations, as the families + of the countries, to serve wood and stone. +020:033 As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely with a mighty hand, + and with an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out, + will I be king over you: +020:034 and I will bring you out from the peoples, and will gather you out + of the countries in which you are scattered, with a mighty hand, + and with an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out; +020:035 and I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, + and there will I enter into judgment with you face to face. +020:036 Like as I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness + of the land of Egypt, so will I enter into judgment with you, + says the Lord Yahweh. +020:037 I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you + into the bond of the covenant; +020:038 and I will purge out from among you the rebels, and those who + disobey against me; I will bring them forth out of the land where + they sojourn, but they shall not enter into the land of Israel: + and you shall know that I am Yahweh. +020:039 As for you, house of Israel, thus says the Lord Yahweh: Go you, + serve everyone his idols, and hereafter also, if you will + not listen to me; but my holy name shall you no more profane + with your gifts, and with your idols. +020:040 For in my holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel, + says the Lord Yahweh, there shall all the house of Israel, + all of them, serve me in the land: there will I accept them, + and there will I require your offerings, and the first fruits + of your offerings, with all your holy things. +020:041 As a sweet savor will I accept you, when I bring you out from + the peoples, and gather you out of the countries in which you + have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you in the sight + of the nations. +020:042 You shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall bring you into + the land of Israel, into the country which I swore to give + to your fathers. +020:043 There shall you remember your ways, and all your doings, + in which you have polluted yourselves; and you shall + loathe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils + that you have committed. +020:044 You shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have dealt with you + for my name's sake, not according to your evil ways, + nor according to your corrupt doings, you house of Israel, + says the Lord Yahweh. +020:045 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, +020:046 Son of man, set your face toward the south, and drop [your + word] toward the south, and prophesy against the forest + of the field in the South; +020:047 and tell the forest of the South, Hear the word of Yahweh: Thus says + the Lord Yahweh, Behold, I will kindle a fire in you, and it + shall devour every green tree in you, and every dry tree: + the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from + the south to the north shall be burnt thereby. +020:048 All flesh shall see that I, Yahweh, have kindled it; + it shall not be quenched. +020:049 Then said I, Ah Lord Yahweh! they say of me, Isn't he a + speaker of parables? +021:001 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, +021:002 Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem, and drop [your word] + toward the sanctuaries, and prophesy against the land of Israel; +021:003 and tell the land of Israel, Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I am + against you, and will draw forth my sword out of its sheath, + and will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked. +021:004 Seeing then that I will cut off from you the righteous and + the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of its sheath + against all flesh from the south to the north: +021:005 and all flesh shall know that I, Yahweh, have drawn forth + my sword out of its sheath; it shall not return any more. +021:006 Sigh therefore, you son of man; with the breaking of your thighs + and with bitterness shall you sigh before their eyes. +021:007 It shall be, when they tell you, Why do you sigh? that you shall say, + Because of the news, for it comes; and every heart shall melt, + and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, + and all knees shall be weak as water: behold, it comes, + and it shall be done, says the Lord Yahweh. +021:008 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, +021:009 Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says Yahweh: Say, A sword, + a sword, it is sharpened, and also furbished; +021:010 it is sharpened that it may make a slaughter; it is furbished + that it may be as lightning: shall we then make mirth? + the rod of my son, it condemns every tree. +021:011 It is given to be furbished, that it may be handled: + the sword, it is sharpened, yes, it is furbished, to give it + into the hand of the killer. +021:012 Cry and wail, son of man; for it is on my people, it is on all + the princes of Israel: they are delivered over to the sword + with my people; strike therefore on your thigh. +021:013 For there is a trial; and what if even the rod that condemns + shall be no more? says the Lord Yahweh. +021:014 You therefore, son of man, prophesy, and strike your hands together; + and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword + of the deadly wounded: it is the sword of the great one + who is deadly wounded, which enters into their chambers. +021:015 I have set the threatening sword against all their gates, + that their heart may melt, and their stumblings be multiplied: + ah! it is made as lightning, it is pointed for slaughter. +021:016 Gather you together, go to the right, set yourself in array, + go to the left, wherever your face is set. +021:017 I will also strike my hands together, and I will cause my wrath + to rest: I, Yahweh, have spoken it. +021:018 The word of Yahweh came to me again, saying, +021:019 Also, you son of man, appoint two ways, that the sword of the king + of Babylon may come; they both shall come forth out of one land: + and mark out a place, mark it out at the head of the way + to the city. +021:020 You shall appoint a way for the sword to come to Rabbah of + the children of Ammon, and to Judah in Jerusalem the fortified. +021:021 For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, + at the head of the two ways, to use divination: + he shook the arrows back and forth, he consulted the teraphim, + he looked in the liver. +021:022 In his right hand was the divination [for] Jerusalem, + to set battering rams, to open the mouth in the slaughter, + to lift up the voice with shouting, to set battering rams + against the gates, to cast up mounds, to build forts. +021:023 It shall be to them as a false divination in their sight, + who have sworn oaths to them; but he brings iniquity to memory, + that they may be taken. +021:024 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have made + your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions + are uncovered, so that in all your doings your sins do appear; + because you have come to memory, you shall be taken with the hand. +021:025 You, deadly wounded wicked one, the prince of Israel, + whose day is come, in the time of the iniquity of the end, +021:026 thus says the Lord Yahweh: Remove the turban, and take off the crown; + this [shall be] no more the same; exalt that which is low, + and abase that which is high. +021:027 I will overturn, overturn, overturn it: this also shall be no more, + until he come whose right it is; and I will give it [him]. +021:028 You, son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh + concerning the children of Ammon, and concerning their reproach; + and say you, A sword, a sword is drawn, for the slaughter it + is furbished, to cause it to devour, that it may be as lightning; +021:029 while they see for you false visions, while they divine lies to you, + to lay you on the necks of the wicked who are deadly wounded, + whose day is come in the time of the iniquity of the end. +021:030 Cause it to return into its sheath. In the place where you + were created, in the land of your birth, will I judge you. +021:031 I will pour out my indignation on you; I will blow on you + with the fire of my wrath; and I will deliver you into the hand + of brutish men, skillful to destroy. +021:032 You shall be for fuel to the fire; your blood shall be in + the midst of the land; you shall be no more remembered: + for I, Yahweh, have spoken it. +022:001 Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, +022:002 You, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody + city? then cause her to know all her abominations. +022:003 You shall say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: A city that + sheds blood in the midst of her, that her time may come, + and that makes idols against herself to defile her! +022:004 You have become guilty in your blood that you have shed, + and are defiled in your idols which you have made; and you have + caused your days to draw near, and are come even to your years: + therefore have I made you a reproach to the nations, + and a mocking to all the countries. +022:005 Those who are near, and those who are far from you, shall mock you, + you infamous one [and] full of tumult. +022:006 Behold, the princes of Israel, everyone according to his power, + have been in you to shed blood. +022:007 In you have they set light by father and mother; in the midst + of you have they dealt by oppression with the foreigner; + in you have they wronged the fatherless and the widow. +022:008 You have despised my holy things, and have profaned my Sabbaths. +022:009 Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood; and in you + they have eaten on the mountains: in the midst of you they + have committed lewdness. +022:010 In you have they uncovered their fathers' nakedness; in you + have they humbled her who was unclean in her impurity. +022:011 One has committed abomination with his neighbor's wife; + and another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law; and another + in you has humbled his sister, his father's daughter. +022:012 In you have they taken bribes to shed blood; you have taken + interest and increase, and you have greedily gained + of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me, + says the Lord Yahweh. +022:013 Behold, therefore, I have struck my hand at your dishonest + gain which you have made, and at your blood which has been + in the midst of you. +022:014 Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days + that I shall deal with you? I, Yahweh, have spoken it, + and will do it. +022:015 I will scatter you among the nations, and disperse you through + the countries; and I will consume your filthiness out of you. +022:016 You shall be profaned in yourself, in the sight of the nations; + and you shall know that I am Yahweh. +022:017 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, +022:018 Son of man, the house of Israel is become dross to me: + all of them are brass and tin and iron and lead, in the midst + of the furnace; they are the dross of silver. +022:019 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you are all + become dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you into + the midst of Jerusalem. +022:020 As they gather silver and brass and iron and lead and tin + into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire on it, + to melt it; so will I gather you in my anger and in my wrath, + and I will lay you there, and melt you. +022:021 Yes, I will gather you, and blow on you with the fire of my wrath, + and you shall be melted in the midst of it. +022:022 As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall + you be melted in the midst of it; and you shall know + that I, Yahweh, have poured out my wrath on you. +022:023 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, +022:024 Son of man, tell her, You are a land that is not cleansed, + nor rained on in the day of indignation. +022:025 There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst of it, + like a roaring lion ravening the prey: they have devoured souls; + they take treasure and precious things; they have made her + widows many in the midst of it. +022:026 Her priests have done violence to my law, and have profaned + my holy things: they have made no distinction between the holy + and the common, neither have they caused men to discern + between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes + from my Sabbaths, and I am profaned among them. +022:027 Her princes in the midst of it are like wolves ravening + the prey, to shed blood, [and] to destroy souls, that they + may get dishonest gain. +022:028 Her prophets have daubed for them with whitewash, seeing + false visions, and divining lies to them, saying, Thus says + the Lord Yahweh, when Yahweh has not spoken. +022:029 The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery; + yes, they have vexed the poor and needy, and have oppressed + the foreigner wrongfully. +022:030 I sought for a man among them, who should build up the wall, + and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should + not destroy it; but I found none. +022:031 Therefore have I poured out my indignation on them; + I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own + way have I brought on their heads, says the Lord Yahweh. +023:001 The word of Yahweh came again to me, saying, +023:002 Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother: +023:003 and they played the prostitute in Egypt; they played the + prostitute in their youth; there were their breasts pressed, + and there was handled the bosom of their virginity. +023:004 The names of them were Oholah the elder, and Oholibah her sister: + and they became mine, and they bore sons and daughters. + As for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem Oholibah. +023:005 Oholah played the prostitute when she was mine; and she doted + on her lovers, on the Assyrians [her] neighbors, +023:006 who were clothed with blue, governors and rulers, all of them + desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses. +023:007 She bestowed her prostitution on them, the choicest men of Assyria + all of them; and on whoever she doted, with all their idols + she defiled herself. +023:008 Neither has she left her prostitution since [the days of] Egypt; + for in her youth they lay with her, and they handled the bosom + of her virginity; and they poured out their prostitution on her. +023:009 Therefore I delivered her into the hand of her lovers, + into the hand of the Assyrians, on whom she doted. +023:010 These uncovered her nakedness; they took her sons and her daughters; + and her they killed with the sword: and she became a byword + among women; for they executed judgments on her. +023:011 Her sister Oholibah saw this, yet was she more corrupt in her + doting than she, and in her prostitution which were more than + the prostitution of her sister. +023:012 She doted on the Assyrians, governors and rulers, [her] neighbors, + clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding on horses, all of them + desirable young men. +023:013 I saw that she was defiled; they both took one way. +023:014 She increased her prostitution; for she saw men portrayed on + the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion, +023:015 girded with girdles on their waists, with flowing turbans on + their heads, all of them princes to look on, after the likeness + of the Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their birth. +023:016 As soon as she saw them she doted on them, and sent messengers + to them into Chaldea. +023:017 The Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled + her with their prostitution, and she was polluted with them, + and her soul was alienated from them. +023:018 So she uncovered her prostitution, and uncovered her nakedness: + then my soul was alienated from her, like as my soul was + alienated from her sister. +023:019 Yet she multiplied her prostitution, remembering the days + of her youth, in which she had played the prostitute in + the land of Egypt. +023:020 She doted on their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh + of donkeys, and whose issue is like the issue of horses. +023:021 Thus you called to memory the lewdness of your youth, + in the handling of your bosom by the Egyptians for the breasts + of your youth. +023:022 Therefore, Oholibah, thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will raise + up your lovers against you, from whom your soul is alienated, + and I will bring them against you on every side: +023:023 the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa, + [and] all the Assyrians with them; desirable young men, + governors and rulers all of them, princes and men of renown, + all of them riding on horses. +023:024 They shall come against you with weapons, chariots, and wagons, + and with a company of peoples; they shall set themselves + against you with buckler and shield and helmet round about; + and I will commit the judgment to them, and they shall judge + you according to their judgments. +023:025 I will set my jealousy against you, and they shall deal with + you in fury; they shall take away your nose and your ears; + and your residue shall fall by the sword: they shall take + your sons and your daughters; and your residue shall be devoured + by the fire. +023:026 They shall also strip you of your clothes, and take away + your beautiful jewels. +023:027 Thus will I make your lewdness to cease from you, + and your prostitution [brought] from the land of Egypt; + so that you shall not lift up your eyes to them, nor remember + Egypt any more. +023:028 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will deliver you + into the hand of them whom you hate, into the hand of them + from whom your soul is alienated; +023:029 and they shall deal with you in hatred, and shall take + away all your labor, and shall leave you naked and bare; + and the nakedness of your prostitution shall be uncovered, + both your lewdness and your prostitution. +023:030 These things shall be done to you, because you have played + the prostitute after the nations, and because you are polluted + with their idols. +023:031 You have walked in the way of your sister; therefore will I + give her cup into your hand. +023:032 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: You will drink of your sister's cup, + which is deep and large; you will be ridiculed and held in derision; + it contains much. +023:033 You shall be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of + astonishment and desolation, with the cup of your sister Samaria. +023:034 You shall even drink it and drain it out, and you shall + gnaw the broken pieces of it, and shall tear your breasts; + for I have spoken it, says the Lord Yahweh. +023:035 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have forgotten me, + and cast me behind your back, therefore bear you also your + lewdness and your prostitution. +023:036 Yahweh said moreover to me: Son of man, will you judge Oholah + and Oholibah? then declare to them their abominations. +023:037 For they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands; + and with their idols have they committed adultery; + and they have also caused their sons, whom they bore to me, + to pass through [the fire] to them to be devoured. +023:038 Moreover this they have done to me: they have defiled my + sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my Sabbaths. +023:039 For when they had slain their children to their idols, + then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; + and behold, thus have they done in the midst of my house. +023:040 Furthermore you have sent for men who come from far, + to whom a messenger was sent, and behold, they came; + for whom you did wash yourself, paint your eyes, and deck + yourself with ornaments, +023:041 and sit on a stately bed, with a table prepared before it, + whereupon you did set my incense and my oil. +023:042 The voice of a multitude being at ease was with her: + and with men of the common sort were brought drunkards + from the wilderness; and they put bracelets on the hands + of them [twain], and beautiful crowns on their heads. +023:043 Then said I of her who was old in adulteries, Now will they + play the prostitute with her, and she [with them]. +023:044 They went in to her, as they go in to a prostitute: + so went they in to Oholah and to Oholibah, the lewd women. +023:045 Righteous men, they shall judge them with the judgment + of adulteresses, and with the judgment of women who shed blood; + because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands. +023:046 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will bring up a company + against them, and will give them to be tossed back and + forth and robbed. +023:047 The company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with + their swords; they shall kill their sons and their daughters, + and burn up their houses with fire. +023:048 Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all + women may be taught not to do after your lewdness. +023:049 They shall recompense your lewdness on you, and you shall + bear the sins of your idols; and you shall know that I am + the Lord Yahweh. +024:001 Again, in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth + [day] of the month, the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, +024:002 Son of man, write you the name of the day, [even] of this same day: + the king of Babylon drew close to Jerusalem this same day. +024:003 Utter a parable to the rebellious house, and tell them, + Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Set on the caldron, set it on, + and also pour water into it: +024:004 gather the pieces of it into it, even every good piece, + the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones. +024:005 Take the choice of the flock, and also a pile [of wood] + for the bones under [the caldron]; make it boil well; + yes, let the bones of it be boiled in the midst of it. +024:006 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Woe to the bloody city, + to the caldron whose rust is therein, and whose rust + is not gone out of it! take out of it piece after piece; + No lot is fallen on it. +024:007 For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it on the bare rock; + she didn't pour it on the ground, to cover it with dust. +024:008 That it may cause wrath to come up to take vengeance, I have set + her blood on the bare rock, that it should not be covered. +024:009 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Woe to the bloody city! + I also will make the pile great. +024:010 Heap on the wood, make the fire hot, boil well the flesh, + and make thick the broth, and let the bones be burned. +024:011 Then set it empty on the coals of it, that it may be hot, + and the brass of it may burn, and that the filthiness of it + may be molten in it, that the rust of it may be consumed. +024:012 She has wearied [herself] with toil; yet her great rust doesn't + go forth out of her; her rust doesn't [go forth] by fire. +024:013 In your filthiness is lewdness: because I have cleansed you + and you weren't cleansed, you shall not be cleansed from your + filthiness any more, until I have caused my wrath toward + you to rest. +024:014 I, Yahweh, have spoken it: it shall happen, and I will do it: + I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent; + according to your ways, and according to your doings, + shall they judge you, says the Lord Yahweh. +024:015 Also the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, +024:016 Son of man, behold, I take away from you the desire of your + eyes with a stroke: yet you shall neither mourn nor weep, + neither shall your tears run down. +024:017 Sigh, but not aloud, make no mourning for the dead; + bind your headdress on you, and put your shoes on your feet, + and don't cover your lips, and don't eat men's bread. +024:018 So I spoke to the people in the morning; and at even my wife died; + and I did in the morning as I was commanded. +024:019 The people said to me, Won't you tell us what these things + are to us, that you do so? +024:020 Then I said to them, The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, +024:021 Speak to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I + will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, + the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pities; + and your sons and your daughters whom you have left behind + shall fall by the sword. +024:022 You shall do as I have done: you shall not cover your lips, + nor eat the bread of men. +024:023 Your tires shall be on your heads, and your shoes on your feet: + you shall not mourn nor weep; but you shall pine away + in your iniquities, and moan one toward another. +024:024 Thus shall Ezekiel be to you a sign; according to all that he has + done shall you do: when this comes, then shall you know + that I am the Lord Yahweh. +024:025 You, son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take + from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire + of their eyes, and that whereupon they set their heart, + their sons and their daughters, +024:026 that in that day he who escapes shall come to you, to cause + you to hear it with your ears? +024:027 In that day shall your mouth be opened to him who is escaped, + and you shall speak, and be no more mute: so shall you + be a sign to them; and they shall know that I am Yahweh. +025:001 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, +025:002 Son of man, set your face toward the children of Ammon, + and prophesy against them: +025:003 and tell the children of Ammon, Hear the word of the + Lord Yahweh: Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Because you + said, Aha, against my sanctuary, when it was profaned; + and against the land of Israel, when it was made desolate; + and against the house of Judah, when they went into captivity: +025:004 therefore, behold, I will deliver you to the children of the east + for a possession, and they shall set their encampments in you, + and make their dwellings in you; they shall eat your fruit, + and they shall drink your milk. +025:005 I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the children + of Ammon a resting place for flocks: and you shall know + that I am Yahweh. +025:006 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have clapped your hands, + and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced with all the despite + of your soul against the land of Israel; +025:007 therefore, behold, I have stretched out my hand on you, + and will deliver you for a spoil to the nations; + and I will cut you off from the peoples, and I will cause + you to perish out of the countries: I will destroy you; + and you shall know that I am Yahweh. +025:008 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because Moab and Seir say, Behold, + the house of Judah is like all the nations; +025:009 therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from the cities, + from his cities which are on his frontiers, the glory + of the country, Beth Jeshimoth, Baal Meon, and Kiriathaim, +025:010 to the children of the east, [to go] against the children of Ammon; + and I will give them for a possession, that the children + of Ammon may not be remembered among the nations. +025:011 and I will execute judgments on Moab; and they shall know + that I am Yahweh. +025:012 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because Edom has dealt against + the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and has greatly offended, + and revenged himself on them; +025:013 therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, I will stretch out my + hand on Edom, and will cut off man and animal from it; + and I will make it desolate from Teman; even to Dedan shall + they fall by the sword. +025:014 I will lay my vengeance on Edom by the hand of my people Israel; + and they shall do in Edom according to my anger and + according to my wrath; and they shall know my vengeance, + says the Lord Yahweh. +025:015 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because the Philistines have dealt + by revenge, and have taken vengeance with despite of soul + to destroy with perpetual enmity; +025:016 therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, Behold, I will stretch out + my hand on the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethites, + and destroy the remnant of the sea coast. +025:017 I will execute great vengeance on them with wrathful rebukes; + and they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall lay my + vengeance on them. +026:001 It happened in the eleventh year, in the first [day] of the month, + that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, +026:002 Son of man, because Tyre has said against Jerusalem, Aha, + she is broken: the gate of the peoples; she is turned to me; + I shall be replenished, now that she is laid waste: +026:003 therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, Behold, I am against you, + Tyre, and will cause many nations to come up against you, + as the sea causes its waves to come up. +026:004 They shall destroy the walls of Tyre, and break down her towers: + I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her a bare rock. +026:005 She shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst + of the sea; for I have spoken it, says the Lord Yahweh; + and she shall become a spoil to the nations. +026:006 Her daughters who are in the field shall be slain with the sword: + and they shall know that I am Yahweh. +026:007 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will bring + on Tyre Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, king of kings, + from the north, with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, + and a company, and much people. +026:008 He shall kill with the sword your daughters in the field; + and he shall make forts against you, and cast up a mound + against you, and raise up the buckler against you. +026:009 He shall set his battering engines against your walls, + and with his axes he shall break down your towers. +026:010 By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover you: + your walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, + and of the wagons, and of the chariots, when he shall enter + into your gates, as men enter into a city in which is + made a breach. +026:011 With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all your streets; + he shall kill your people with the sword; and the pillars + of your strength shall go down to the ground. +026:012 They shall make a spoil of your riches, and make a prey + of your merchandise; and they shall break down your walls, + and destroy your pleasant houses; and they shall lay your stones + and your timber and your dust in the midst of the waters. +026:013 I will cause the noise of your songs to cease; and the sound + of your harps shall be no more heard. +026:014 I will make you a bare rock; you shall be a place + for the spreading of nets; you shall be built no more: + for I Yahweh have spoken it, says the Lord Yahweh. +026:015 Thus says the Lord Yahweh to Tyre: shall not the islands + shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan, + when the slaughter is made in the midst of you? +026:016 Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, + and lay aside their robes, and strip off their embroidered garments: + they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they shall + sit on the ground, and shall tremble every moment, and be + astonished at you. +026:017 They shall take up a lamentation over you, and tell you, + How are you destroyed, who were inhabited by seafaring men, + the renowned city, who was strong in the sea, she and + her inhabitants, who caused their terror to be on all + who lived there! +026:018 Now shall the islands tremble in the day of your fall; + yes, the islands that are in the sea shall be dismayed + at your departure. +026:019 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: When I shall make you + a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; + when I shall bring up the deep on you, and the great waters + shall cover you; +026:020 then will I bring you down with those who descend into the pit, + to the people of old time, and will make you to dwell in the lower + parts of the earth, in the places that are desolate of old, + with those who go down to the pit, that you be not inhabited; + and I will set glory in the land of the living: +026:021 I will make you a terror, and you shall no more have any being; + though you are sought for, yet shall you never be found again, + says the Lord Yahweh. +027:001 The word of Yahweh came again to me, saying, +027:002 You, son of man, take up a lamentation over Tyre; +027:003 and tell Tyre, you who dwell at the entry of the sea, + who are the merchant of the peoples to many islands, + thus says the Lord Yahweh: You, Tyre, have said, I am + perfect in beauty. +027:004 Your borders are in the heart of the seas; your builders + have perfected your beauty. +027:005 They have made all your planks of fir trees from Senir; + they have taken a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you. +027:006 Of the oaks of Bashan have they made your oars; + they have made your benches of ivory inlaid in boxwood, + from the islands of Kittim. +027:007 Of fine linen with embroidered work from Egypt was your sail, + that it might be to you for a banner; blue and purple from + the islands of Elishah was your awning. +027:008 The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were your rowers: + your wise men, Tyre, were in you, they were your pilots. +027:009 The old men of Gebal and the wise men of it were in you your + repairers of ship seams: all the ships of the sea with their + mariners were in you to deal in your merchandise. +027:010 Persia and Lud and Put were in your army, your men of war: + they hanged the shield and helmet in you; they set + forth your comeliness. +027:011 The men of Arvad with your army were on your walls round about, + and valorous men were in your towers; they hanged their shields + on your walls round about; they have perfected your beauty. +027:012 Tarshish was your merchant by reason of the multitude + of all kinds of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, + they traded for your wares. +027:013 Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were your traffickers; + they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass + for your merchandise. +027:014 They of the house of Togarmah traded for your wares with horses + and war horses and mules. +027:015 The men of Dedan were your traffickers; many islands were + the market of your hand: they brought you in exchange horns + of ivory and ebony. +027:016 Syria was your merchant by reason of the multitude of + your handiworks: they traded for your wares with emeralds, purple, + and embroidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and rubies. +027:017 Judah, and the land of Israel, they were your traffickers: + they traded for your merchandise wheat of Minnith, and confections, + and honey, and oil, and balm. +027:018 Damascus was your merchant for the multitude of your handiworks, + by reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches, with the wine + of Helbon, and white wool. +027:019 Vedan and Javan traded with yarn for your wares: + bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were among your merchandise. +027:020 Dedan was your trafficker in precious cloths for riding. +027:021 Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they were the merchants + of your hand; in lambs, and rams, and goats, in these were + they your merchants. +027:022 The traffickers of Sheba and Raamah, they were your traffickers; + they traded for your wares with the chief of all spices, + and with all precious stones, and gold. +027:023 Haran and Canneh and Eden, the traffickers of Sheba, Asshur + [and] Chilmad, were your traffickers. +027:024 These were your traffickers in choice wares, in wrappings + of blue and embroidered work, and in chests of rich clothing, + bound with cords and made of cedar, among your merchandise. +027:025 The ships of Tarshish were your caravans for your merchandise: + and you were replenished, and made very glorious in the heart + of the seas. +027:026 Your rowers have brought you into great waters: + the east wind has broken you in the heart of the seas. +027:027 Your riches, and your wares, your merchandise, your mariners, + and your pilots, your repairers of ship seams, and the dealers + in your merchandise, and all your men of war, who are in you, + with all your company which is in the midst of you, shall fall + into the heart of the seas in the day of your ruin. +027:028 At the sound of the cry of your pilots the suburbs shall shake. +027:029 All who handled the oar, the mariners, [and] all the pilots + of the sea, shall come down from their ships; they shall + stand on the land, +027:030 and shall cause their voice to be heard over you, and shall + cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust on their heads, + they shall wallow themselves in the ashes: +027:031 and they shall make themselves bald for you, and gird them + with sackcloth, and they shall weep for you in bitterness + of soul with bitter mourning. +027:032 In their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for you, + and lament over you, [saying], Who is there like Tyre, + like her who is brought to silence in the midst of the sea? +027:033 When your wares went forth out of the seas, you filled many peoples; + you did enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude + of your riches and of your merchandise. +027:034 In the time that you were broken by the seas in the depths + of the waters, your merchandise and all your company did fall + in the midst of you. +027:035 All the inhabitants of the islands are astonished at you, + and their kings are horribly afraid; they are troubled + in their face. +027:036 The merchants among the peoples hiss at you; you are become + a terror, and you shall nevermore have any being. +028:001 The word of Yahweh came again to me, saying, +028:002 Son of man, tell the prince of Tyre, Thus says the + Lord Yahweh: Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, + I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; + yet you are man, and not God, though you did set your heart + as the heart of God-- +028:003 behold, you are wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that is + hidden from you; +028:004 by your wisdom and by your understanding you have gotten you riches, + and have gotten gold and silver into your treasures; +028:005 by your great wisdom [and] by your traffic have you increased + your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches-- +028:006 therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have set + your heart as the heart of God, +028:007 therefore, behold, I will bring strangers on you, the terrible + of the nations; and they shall draw their swords against the beauty + of your wisdom, and they shall defile your brightness. +028:008 They shall bring you down to the pit; and you shall die the death + of those who are slain, in the heart of the seas. +028:009 Will you yet say before him who kills you, I am God? but you + are man, and not God, in the hand of him who wounds you. +028:010 You shall die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand + of strangers: for I have spoken it, says the Lord Yahweh. +028:011 Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, +028:012 Son of man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre, + and tell him, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: You seal up the sum, + full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. +028:013 You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone + adorned you: ruby, topaz, emerald, chrysolite, onyx, + jasper, sapphire{or, lapis lazuli}, turquoise, and beryl. + Gold work of tambourines and of pipes was in you. + In the day that you were created they were prepared. +028:014 You were the anointed cherub who covers: and I set you, + [so that] you were on the holy mountain of God; you have walked + up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. +028:015 You were perfect in your ways from the day that you were created, + until unrighteousness was found in you. +028:016 By the abundance of your traffic they filled the midst of you + with violence, and you have sinned: therefore I have cast you + as profane out of the mountain of God; and I have destroyed you, + covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. +028:017 Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty; you have + corrupted your wisdom by reason of your brightness: + I have cast you to the ground; I have laid you before kings, + that they may see you. +028:018 By the multitude of your iniquities, in the unrighteousness + of your traffic, you have profaned your sanctuaries; + therefore have I brought forth a fire from the midst of you; + it has devoured you, and I have turned you to ashes on the earth + in the sight of all those who see you. +028:019 All those who know you among the peoples shall be astonished at you: + you are become a terror, and you shall nevermore have any being. +028:020 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, +028:021 Son of man, set your face toward Sidon, and prophesy against it, +028:022 and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against + you, Sidon; and I will be glorified in the midst of you; + and they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall have executed + judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her. +028:023 For I will send pestilence into her, and blood into her streets; + and the wounded shall fall in the midst of her, with the sword + on her on every side; and they shall know that I am Yahweh. +028:024 There shall be no more a pricking brier to the house of Israel, + nor a hurting thorn of any that are round about them, + that did despite to them; and they shall know that I am + the Lord Yahweh. +028:025 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: When I shall have gathered the house + of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered, + and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the nations, + then shall they dwell in their own land which I gave to + my servant Jacob. +028:026 They shall dwell securely therein; yes, they shall build houses, + and plant vineyards, and shall dwell securely, when I have executed + judgments on all those who do them despite round about them; + and they shall know that I am Yahweh their God. +029:001 In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day + of the month, the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, +029:002 "Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, + and prophesy against him and against all Egypt. +029:003 Speak and say, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Behold, I am + against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster that lies + in the midst of his rivers, that has said, 'My river is my own, + and I have made it for myself.' +029:004 I will put hooks in your jaws, and I will make the fish + of your rivers stick to your scales; and I will bring you up + out of the midst of your rivers, with all the fish of your + rivers which stick to your scales. +029:005 I'll cast you forth into the wilderness, you and all + the fish of your rivers. You'll fall on the open field. + You won't be brought together, nor gathered. I have given + you for food to the animals of the earth and to the birds + of the sky. +029:006 All the inhabitants of Egypt will know that I am Yahweh, + because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel. +029:007 When they took hold of you by your hand, you broke, and tore + all their shoulders; and when they leaned on you, you broke, + and paralyzed all of their thighs." +029:008 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Behold, I will bring + a sword on you, and will cut off from you man and animal. +029:009 The land of Egypt shall be a desolation and a waste; + and they shall know that I am Yahweh. Because he has said, + 'The river is mine, and I have made it;' +029:010 therefore, behold, I am against you, and against your rivers, + and I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, + from the tower of Seveneh even to the border of Ethiopia. +029:011 No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of animal shall + pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years. +029:012 I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst + of the countries that are desolate; and her cities among + the cities that are laid waste shall be a desolation forty years; + and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will + disperse them through the countries." +029:013 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: "At the end of forty years will I + gather the Egyptians from the peoples where they were scattered; +029:014 and I will bring back the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them + to return into the land of Pathros, into the land of their birth; + and they shall be there a base kingdom. +029:015 It shall be the base of the kingdoms; neither shall it any more + lift itself up above the nations: and I will diminish them, + that they shall no more rule over the nations. +029:016 It shall be no more the confidence of the house of Israel, + bringing iniquity to memory, when they turn to look after them: + and they shall know that I am the Lord Yahweh."'" +029:017 It came to pass in the seven and twentieth year, in the first [month], + in the first [day] of the month, the word of Yahweh came + to me, saying, +029:018 Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army to + serve a great service against Tyre: every head was made bald, + and every shoulder was worn; yet had he no wages, nor his army, + from Tyre, for the service that he had served against it. +029:019 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will give + the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; + and he shall carry off her multitude, and take her spoil, + and take her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army. +029:020 I have given him the land of Egypt as his recompense for which + he served, because they worked for me, says the Lord Yahweh. +029:021 In that day will I cause a horn to bud forth to the house of Israel, + and I will give you the opening of the mouth in the midst of them; + and they shall know that I am Yahweh. +030:001 The word of Yahweh came again to me, saying, +030:002 Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Wail, Alas + for the day! +030:003 For the day is near, even the day of Yahweh is near; + it shall be a day of clouds, a time of the nations. +030:004 A sword shall come on Egypt, and anguish shall be in Ethiopia, + when the slain shall fall in Egypt; and they shall take away + her multitude, and her foundations shall be broken down. +030:005 Ethiopia, and Put, and Lud, and all the mixed people, and Cub, + and the children of the land that is in league, shall fall + with them by the sword. +030:006 Thus says Yahweh: They also who uphold Egypt shall fall; + and the pride of her power shall come down: + from the tower of Seveneh shall they fall in it by the sword, + says the Lord Yahweh. +030:007 They shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that + are desolate; and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities + that are wasted. +030:008 They shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have set a fire in Egypt, + and all her helpers are destroyed. +030:009 In that day shall messengers go forth from before me in ships + to make the careless Ethiopians afraid; and there shall be + anguish on them, as in the day of Egypt; for, behold, it comes. +030:010 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will also make the multitude of + Egypt to cease, by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. +030:011 He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, + shall be brought in to destroy the land; and they shall draw + their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain. +030:012 I will make the rivers dry, and will sell the land into + the hand of evil men; and I will make the land desolate, + and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: + I, Yahweh, have spoken it. +030:013 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will also destroy the idols, + and I will cause the images to cease from Memphis; + and there shall be no more a prince from the land of Egypt: + and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt. +030:014 I will make Pathros desolate, and will set a fire in Zoan, + and will execute judgments on No. +030:015 I will pour my wrath on Sin, the stronghold of Egypt; + and I will cut off the multitude of No. +030:016 I will set a fire in Egypt: Sin shall be in great anguish, + and No shall be broken up; and Memphis [shall have] adversaries + in the daytime. +030:017 The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth shall fall by the sword; + and these [cities] shall go into captivity. +030:018 At Tehaphnehes also the day shall withdraw itself, when I shall + break there the yokes of Egypt, and the pride of her power + shall cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her, + and her daughters shall go into captivity. +030:019 Thus will I execute judgments on Egypt; and they shall know + that I am Yahweh. +030:020 It happened in the eleventh year, in the first [month], + in the seventh [day] of the month, that the word of Yahweh + came to me, saying, +030:021 Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; + and behold, it has not been bound up, to apply [healing] medicines, + to put a bandage to bind it, that it be strong to hold the sword. +030:022 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against Pharaoh + king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong [arm], + and that which was broken; and I will cause the sword to fall + out of his hand. +030:023 I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse + them through the countries. +030:024 I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put + my sword in his hand: but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, + and he shall groan before him with the groanings of a + deadly wounded man. +030:025 I will hold up the arms of the king of Babylon; and the arms + of Pharaoh shall fall down; and they shall know that I am Yahweh, + when I shall put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, + and he shall stretch it out on the land of Egypt. +030:026 I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them + through the countries; and they shall know that I am Yahweh. +031:001 It happened in the eleventh year, in the third [month], + in the first [day] of the month, that the word of Yahweh came + to me, saying, +031:002 Son of man, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude: + Whom are you like in your greatness? +031:003 Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with beautiful + branches, and with a forest-like shade, and of high stature; + and its top was among the thick boughs. +031:004 The waters nourished it, the deep made it to grow: + the rivers of it ran round about its plantation; and it sent + out its channels to all the trees of the field. +031:005 Therefore its stature was exalted above all the trees of the field; + and its boughs were multiplied, and its branches became long + by reason of many waters, when it shot [them] forth. +031:006 All the birds of the sky made their nests in its boughs; + and under its branches did all the animals of the field bring + forth their young; and under its shadow lived all great nations. +031:007 Thus was it beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its branches; + for its root was by many waters. +031:008 The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it; the fir + trees were not like its boughs, and the plane trees were + not as its branches; nor was any tree in the garden of God + like it in its beauty. +031:009 I made it beautiful by the multitude of its branches, + so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden + of God, envied it. +031:010 Therefore thus said the Lord Yahweh: Because you are exalted + in stature, and he has set his top among the thick boughs, + and his heart is lifted up in his height; +031:011 I will even deliver him into the hand of the mighty one of + the nations; he shall surely deal with him; I have driven + him out for his wickedness. +031:012 Strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, + and have left him: on the mountains and in all the valleys + his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all + the watercourses of the land; and all the peoples of the earth + are gone down from his shadow, and have left him. +031:013 On his ruin all the birds of the sky shall dwell, and all + the animals of the field shall be on his branches; +031:014 to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves + in their stature, neither set their top among the thick boughs, + nor that their mighty ones stand up on their height, + [even] all who drink water: for they are all delivered to death, + to the lower parts of the earth, in the midst of the children + of men, with those who go down to the pit. +031:015 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In the day when he went down to + Sheol I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I + restrained the rivers of it; and the great waters were stayed; + and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees + of the field fainted for him. +031:016 I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I + cast him down to Sheol with those who descend into the pit; + and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, + all that drink water, were comforted in the lower parts + of the earth. +031:017 They also went down into Sheol with him to those who are slain + by the sword; yes, those who were his arm, [that] lived + under his shadow in the midst of the nations. +031:018 To whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees + of Eden? yet shall you be brought down with the trees of Eden + to the lower parts of the earth: you shall lie in the midst + of the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword. + This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, says the Lord Yahweh. +032:001 It happened in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, + in the first [day] of the month, that the word of Yahweh came + to me, saying, +032:002 Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt, + and tell him, You were likened to a young lion of the nations: + yet are you as a monster in the seas; and you did break forth + with your rivers, and troubled the waters with your feet, + and fouled their rivers. +032:003 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will spread out my net on you + with a company of many peoples; and they shall bring you up + in my net. +032:004 I will leave you on the land, I will cast you forth on the open field, + and will cause all the birds of the sky to settle on you, + and I will satisfy the animals of the whole earth with you. +032:005 I will lay your flesh on the mountains, and fill the valleys + with your height. +032:006 I will also water with your blood the land in which you swim, + even to the mountains; and the watercourses shall be full of you. +032:007 When I shall extinguish you, I will cover the heavens, and make + the stars of it dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, + and the moon shall not give its light. +032:008 All the bright lights of the sky will I make dark over you, + and set darkness on your land, says the Lord Yahweh. +032:009 I will also vex the hearts of many peoples, when I shall + bring your destruction among the nations, into the countries + which you have not known. +032:010 Yes, I will make many peoples amazed at you, and their kings + shall be horribly afraid for you, when I shall brandish my + sword before them; and they shall tremble at every moment, + every man for his own life, in the day of your fall. +032:011 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: The sword of the king of Babylon + shall come on you. +032:012 By the swords of the mighty will I cause your multitude to fall; + the terrible of the nations are they all: and they shall + bring to nothing the pride of Egypt, and all the multitude + of it shall be destroyed. +032:013 I will destroy also all the animals of it from beside many waters; + neither shall the foot of man trouble them any more, + nor the hoofs of animals trouble them. +032:014 Then will I make their waters clear, and cause their rivers + to run like oil, says the Lord Yahweh. +032:015 When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate and waste, + a land destitute of that of which it was full, when I shall + strike all those who dwell therein, then shall they know + that I am Yahweh. +032:016 This is the lamentation with which they shall lament; + the daughters of the nations shall lament therewith; over Egypt, + and over all her multitude, shall they lament therewith, + says the Lord Yahweh. +032:017 It happened also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth [day] + of the month, that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, +032:018 Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, + even her, and the daughters of the famous nations, to the lower + parts of the earth, with those who go down into the pit. +032:019 Whom do you pass in beauty? Go down, and be laid + with the uncircumcised. +032:020 They shall fall in the midst of those who are slain by the sword: + she is delivered to the sword; draw her away and all her multitudes. +032:021 The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst + of Sheol with those who help him: they are gone down, + they lie still, even the uncircumcised, slain by the sword. +032:022 Asshur is there and all her company; her graves are round about her; + all of them slain, fallen by the sword; +032:023 whose graves are set in the uttermost parts of the pit, + and her company is round about her grave; all of them slain, + fallen by the sword, who caused terror in the land of the living. +032:024 There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave; + all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who are gone down + uncircumcised into the lower parts of the earth, who caused + their terror in the land of the living, and have borne their + shame with those who go down to the pit. +032:025 They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain + with all her multitude; her graves are round about her; + all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for their + terror was caused in the land of the living, and they + have borne their shame with those who go down to the pit: + he is put in the midst of those who are slain. +032:026 There is Meshech, Tubal, and all their multitude; their graves are + round about them; all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; + for they caused their terror in the land of the living. +032:027 They shall not lie with the mighty who are fallen of + the uncircumcised, who are gone down to Sheol with their + weapons of war, and have laid their swords under their heads, + and their iniquities are on their bones; for [they were] + the terror of the mighty in the land of the living. +032:028 But you shall be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, + and shall lie with those who are slain by the sword. +032:029 There is Edom, her kings and all her princes, who in their + might are laid with those who are slain by the sword: + they shall lie with the uncircumcised, and with those who go + down to the pit. +032:030 There are the princes of the north, all of them, and all + the Sidonians, who are gone down with the slain; in the terror + which they caused by their might they are put to shame; + and they lie uncircumcised with those who are slain by the sword, + and bear their shame with those who go down to the pit. +032:031 Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over all + his multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army, slain by the sword, + says the Lord Yahweh. +032:032 For I have put his terror in the land of the living; + and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised, + with those who are slain by the sword, even Pharaoh and all + his multitude, says the Lord Yahweh. +033:001 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, +033:002 Son of man, speak to the children of your people, and tell them, + When I bring the sword on a land, and the people of the land + take a man from among them, and set him for their watchman; +033:003 if, when he sees the sword come on the land, he blow the trumpet, + and warn the people; +033:004 then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet, and doesn't + take warning, if the sword come, and take him away, his blood + shall be on his own head. +033:005 He heard the sound of the trumpet, and didn't take warning; + his blood shall be on him; whereas if he had taken warning, + he would have delivered his soul. +033:006 But if the watchman sees the sword come, and doesn't blow the trumpet, + and the people aren't warned, and the sword comes, and take + any person from among them; he is taken away in his iniquity, + but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand. +033:007 So you, son of man, I have set you a watchman to the house + of Israel; therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them + warning from me. +033:008 When I tell the wicked, O wicked man, you shall surely die, + and you don't speak to warn the wicked from his way; + that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood + will I require at your hand. +033:009 Nevertheless, if you warn the wicked of his way to turn from it, + and he doesn't turn from his way; he shall die in his iniquity, + but you have delivered your soul. +033:010 You, son of man, tell the house of Israel: Thus you speak, + saying, Our transgressions and our sins are on us, and we + pine away in them; how then can we live? +033:011 Tell them, As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I have no pleasure + in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from + his way and live: turn you, turn you from your evil ways; + for why will you die, house of Israel? +033:012 You, son of man, tell the children of your people, + The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day + of his disobedience; and as for the wickedness of the wicked, + he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turns from + his wickedness; neither shall he who is righteous be able + to live thereby in the day that he sins. +033:013 When I tell the righteous, that he shall surely live; + if he trust to his righteousness, and commit iniquity, + none of his righteous deeds shall be remembered; but in his + iniquity that he has committed, therein shall he die. +033:014 Again, when I say to the wicked, You shall surely die; + if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right; +033:015 if the wicked restore the pledge, give again that which he had taken + by robbery, walk in the statutes of life, committing no iniquity; + he shall surely live, he shall not die. +033:016 None of his sins that he has committed shall be remembered + against him: he has done that which is lawful and right; + he shall surely live. +033:017 Yet the children of your people say, The way of the Lord + is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal. +033:018 When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, + he shall even die therein. +033:019 When the wicked turns from his wickedness, and does that which + is lawful and right, he shall live thereby. +033:020 Yet you say, The way of the Lord is not equal. + House of Israel, I will judge you everyone after his ways. +033:021 It happened in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the + tenth [month], in the fifth [day] of the month, that one + who had escaped out of Jerusalem came to me, saying, The city + has been struck. +033:022 Now the hand of Yahweh had been on me in the evening, + before he who was escaped came; and he had opened my mouth, + until he came to me in the morning; and my mouth was opened, + and I was no more mute. +033:023 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, +033:024 Son of man, they who inhabit those waste places in the land of + Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land: + but we are many; the land is given us for inheritance. +033:025 Therefore tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: You eat with + the blood, and lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood: + and shall you possess the land? +033:026 You stand on your sword, you work abomination, and you defile + everyone his neighbor's wife: and shall you possess the land? +033:027 Thus shall you tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: As I live, + surely those who are in the waste places shall fall by the sword; + and him who is in the open field will I give to the animals + to be devoured; and those who are in the strongholds and in + the caves shall die of the pestilence. +033:028 I will make the land a desolation and an astonishment; + and the pride of her power shall cease; and the mountains + of Israel shall be desolate, so that none shall pass through. +033:029 Then shall they know that I am Yahweh, when I have made + the land a desolation and an astonishment, because of all + their abominations which they have committed. +033:030 As for you, son of man, the children of your people talk + of you by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak + one to another, everyone to his brother, saying, Please come + and hear what is the word that comes forth from Yahweh. +033:031 They come to you as the people comes, and they sit before you + as my people, and they hear your words, but don't do them; + for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart + goes after their gain. +033:032 Behold, you are to them as a very lovely song of one who has + a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument; + for they hear your words, but they don't do them. +033:033 When this comes to pass, (behold, it comes), then shall they + know that a prophet has been among them. +034:001 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, +034:002 Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, + prophesy, and tell them, even to the shepherds, Thus says the + Lord Yahweh: Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! + Shouldn't the shepherds feed the sheep? +034:003 You eat the fat, and you clothe you with the wool, you kill + the fatlings; but you don't feed the sheep. +034:004 You haven't strengthened the diseased, neither have you healed + that which was sick, neither have you bound up that which + was broken, neither have you brought back that which was + driven away, neither have you sought that which was lost; + but with force and with rigor have you ruled over them. +034:005 They were scattered, because there was no shepherd; + and they became food to all the animals of the field, + and were scattered. +034:006 My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and on every high hill: + yes, my sheep were scattered on all the surface of the earth; + and there was none who searched or sought. +034:007 Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of Yahweh: +034:008 As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely because my sheep became + a prey, and my sheep became food to all the animals of the field, + because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds + search for my sheep, but the shepherds fed themselves, + and didn't feed my sheep; +034:009 therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of Yahweh: +034:010 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against the shepherds; + and I will require my sheep at their hand, and cause them + to cease from feeding the sheep; neither shall the shepherds + feed themselves any more; and I will deliver my sheep from + their mouth, that they may not be food for them. +034:011 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I myself, even I, + will search for my sheep, and will seek them out. +034:012 As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among + his sheep that are scattered abroad, so will I seek out my sheep; + and I will deliver them out of all places where they have been + scattered in the cloudy and dark day. +034:013 I will bring them out from the peoples, and gather them from + the countries, and will bring them into their own land; and I + will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the watercourses, + and in all the inhabited places of the country. +034:014 I will feed them with good pasture; and on the mountains + of the height of Israel shall their fold be: there shall + they lie down in a good fold; and on fat pasture shall they + feed on the mountains of Israel. +034:015 I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I will cause + them to lie down, says the Lord Yahweh. +034:016 I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back + that which was driven away, and will bind up that which + was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: + but the fat and the strong I will destroy; I will feed + them in justice. +034:017 As for you, O my flock, thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I judge + between sheep and sheep, the rams and the male goats. +034:018 Seems it a small thing to you to have fed on the good pasture, + but you must tread down with your feet the residue of your + pasture? and to have drunk of the clear waters, but you must + foul the residue with your feet? +034:019 As for my sheep, they eat that which you have trodden with your feet, + and they drink that which you have fouled with your feet. +034:020 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh to them: Behold, I, even I, + will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep. +034:021 Because you thrust with side and with shoulder, and push all + the diseased with your horns, until you have scattered them abroad; +034:022 therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey; + and I will judge between sheep and sheep. +034:023 I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, + even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall + be their shepherd. +034:024 I, Yahweh, will be their God, and my servant David prince + among them; I, Yahweh, have spoken it. +034:025 I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause + evil animals to cease out of the land; and they shall dwell + securely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods. +034:026 I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; + and I will cause the shower to come down in its season; + there shall be showers of blessing. +034:027 The tree of the field shall yield its fruit, and the earth shall + yield its increase, and they shall be secure in their land; + and they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have broken + the bars of their yoke, and have delivered them out of the hand + of those who made slaves of them. +034:028 They shall no more be a prey to the nations, neither shall + the animals of the earth devour them; but they shall dwell securely, + and none shall make them afraid. +034:029 I will raise up to them a plantation for renown, and they shall + be no more consumed with famine in the land, neither bear + the shame of the nations any more. +034:030 They shall know that I, Yahweh, their God am with them, + and that they, the house of Israel, are my people, + says the Lord Yahweh. +034:031 You my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, + says the Lord Yahweh. +035:001 Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, +035:002 Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it, +035:003 and tell it, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, + Mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against you, + and I will make you a desolation and an astonishment. +035:004 I will lay your cities waste, and you shall be desolate; + and you shall know that I am Yahweh. +035:005 Because you have had a perpetual enmity, and have given over + the children of Israel to the power of the sword in the time + of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end; +035:006 therefore, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will prepare + you to blood, and blood shall pursue you: since you have + not hated blood, therefore blood shall pursue you. +035:007 Thus will I make Mount Seir an astonishment and a desolation; + and I will cut off from it him who passes through and + him who returns. +035:008 I will fill its mountains with its slain: in your hills + and in your valleys and in all your watercourses shall they + fall who are slain with the sword. +035:009 I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities shall + not be inhabited; and you shall know that I am Yahweh. +035:010 Because you have said, These two nations and these two countries + shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas Yahweh was there: +035:011 therefore, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will do according + to your anger, and according to your envy which you have shown + out of your hatred against them; and I will make myself known + among them, when I shall judge you. +035:012 You shall know that I, Yahweh, have heard all your insults + which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, + They are laid desolate, they are given us to devour. +035:013 You have magnified yourselves against me with your mouth, + and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard it. +035:014 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: When the whole earth rejoices, + I will make you desolate. +035:015 As you did rejoice over the inheritance of the house + of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do to you: + you shall be desolate, Mount Seir, and all Edom, even all of it; + and they shall know that I am Yahweh. +036:001 You, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say, + You mountains of Israel, hear the word of Yahweh. +036:002 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because the enemy has said against you, + Aha! and, The ancient high places are ours in possession; +036:003 therefore prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because, even + because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up + on every side, that you might be a possession to the residue + of the nations, and you are taken up in the lips of talkers, + and the evil report of the people; +036:004 therefore, you mountains of Israel, hear the word of the + Lord Yahweh: Thus says the Lord Yahweh to the mountains + and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, + to the desolate wastes and to the cities that are forsaken, + which are become a prey and derision to the residue of the nations + that are round about; +036:005 therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Surely in the fire of my + jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the nations, + and against all Edom, that have appointed my land to themselves + for a possession with the joy of all their heart, with despite + of soul, to cast it out for a prey. +036:006 Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and tell + the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to + the valleys, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I have spoken + in my jealousy and in my wrath, because you have borne + the shame of the nations: +036:007 therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: I have sworn, [saying], + Surely the nations that are round about you, they shall + bear their shame. +036:008 But you, mountains of Israel, you shall shoot forth your branches, + and yield your fruit to my people Israel; for they are at + hand to come. +036:009 For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn into you, and you + shall be tilled and sown; +036:010 and I will multiply men on you, all the house of Israel, + even all of it; and the cities shall be inhabited, and the waste + places shall be built; +036:011 and I will multiply on you man and animal; and they shall increase + and be fruitful; and I will cause you to be inhabited after your + former estate, and will do better [to you] than at your beginnings: + and you shall know that I am Yahweh. +036:012 Yes, I will cause men to walk on you, even my people Israel; + and they shall possess you, and you shall be their inheritance, + and you shall no more henceforth bereave them of children. +036:013 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because they say to you, + You [land] are a devourer of men, and have been a bereaver + of your nation; +036:014 therefore you shall devour men no more, neither bereave your + nation any more, says the Lord Yahweh; +036:015 neither will I let you hear any more the shame of the nations, + neither shall you bear the reproach of the peoples any more, + neither shall you cause your nation to stumble any more, + says the Lord Yahweh. +036:016 Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, +036:017 Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land, + they defiled it by their way and by their doings: + their way before me was as the uncleanness of a woman + in her impurity. +036:018 Therefore I poured out my wrath on them for the blood which they + had poured out on the land, and because they had defiled it + with their idols; +036:019 and I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed + through the countries: according to their way and according + to their doings I judged them. +036:020 When they came to the nations, where they went, they profaned + my holy name; in that men said of them, These are the people + of Yahweh, and are gone forth out of his land. +036:021 But I had regard for my holy name, which the house of Israel + had profaned among the nations, where they went. +036:022 Therefore tell the house of Israel, Thus says the + Lord Yahweh: I don't do [this] for your sake, house of Israel, + but for my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations, + where you went. +036:023 I will sanctify my great name, which has been profaned among + the nations, which you have profaned in the midst of them; + and the nations shall know that I am Yahweh, says the Lord Yahweh, + when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes. +036:024 For I will take you from among the nations, and gather you out + of all the countries, and will bring you into your own land. +036:025 I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean: + from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, + will I cleanse you. +036:026 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put + within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, + and I will give you a heart of flesh. +036:027 I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in + my statutes, and you shall keep my ordinances, and do them. +036:028 You shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; + and you shall be my people, and I will be your God. +036:029 I will save you from all your uncleanness: and I will call + for the grain, and will multiply it, and lay no famine on you. +036:030 I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase + of the field, that you may receive no more the reproach + of famine among the nations. +036:031 Then shall you remember your evil ways, and your doings that + were not good; and you shall loathe yourselves in your own + sight for your iniquities and for your abominations. +036:032 Nor for your sake do I [this], says the Lord Yahweh, be it + known to you: be ashamed and confounded for your ways, + house of Israel. +036:033 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In the day that I cleanse you from + all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited, + and the waste places shall be built. +036:034 The land that was desolate shall be tilled, whereas it was + a desolation in the sight of all who passed by. +036:035 They shall say, This land that was desolate is become like + the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined + cities are fortified and inhabited. +036:036 Then the nations that are left round about you shall know + that I, Yahweh, have built the ruined places, and planted + that which was desolate: I, Yahweh, have spoken it, and I + will do it. +036:037 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: For this, moreover, will I + be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them: + I will increase them with men like a flock. +036:038 As the flock for sacrifice, as the flock of Jerusalem in her + appointed feasts, so shall the waste cities be filled with + flocks of men; and they shall know that I am Yahweh. +037:001 The hand of Yahweh was on me, and he brought me out in the Spirit + of Yahweh, and set me down in the midst of the valley; + and it was full of bones. +037:002 He caused me to pass by them round about: and behold, + there were very many in the open valley; and behold, + they were very dry. +037:003 He said to me, Son of man, can these bones live? I answered, + Lord Yahweh, you know. +037:004 Again he said to me, Prophesy over these bones, and tell them, + you dry bones, hear the word of Yahweh. +037:005 Thus says the Lord Yahweh to these bones: Behold, I will cause + breath to enter into you, and you shall live. +037:006 I will lay sinews on you, and will bring up flesh on you, + and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live; + and you shall know that I am Yahweh. +037:007 So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, + there was a noise, and behold, an earthquake; and the bones + came together, bone to its bone. +037:008 I saw, and, behold, there were sinews on them, and flesh came up, + and skin covered them above; but there was no breath in them. +037:009 Then said he to me, Prophesy to the wind, prophesy, son of man, + and tell the wind, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Come from + the four winds, breath, and breathe on these slain, + that they may live. +037:010 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came + into them, and they lived, and stood up on their feet, + an exceedingly great army. +037:011 Then he said to me, Son of man, these bones are the whole + house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried up, + and our hope is lost; we are clean cut off. +037:012 Therefore prophesy, and tell them, Thus says the + Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will open your graves, and cause you + to come up out of your graves, my people; and I will bring + you into the land of Israel. +037:013 You shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have opened your graves, + and caused you to come up out of your graves, my people. +037:014 I will put my Spirit in you, and you shall live, and I will place + you in your own land: and you shall know that I, Yahweh, + have spoken it and performed it, says Yahweh. +037:015 The word of Yahweh came again to me, saying, +037:016 You, son of man, take one stick, and write on it, For Judah, + and for the children of Israel his companions: then take + another stick, and write on it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, + and [for] all the house of Israel his companions: +037:017 and join them for you one to another into one stick, that they + may become one in your hand. +037:018 When the children of your people shall speak to you, saying, + Will you not show us what you mean by these? +037:019 tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will take + the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, + and the tribes of Israel his companions; and I will put them + with it, [even] with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, + and they shall be one in my hand. +037:020 The sticks whereon you write shall be in your hand before their eyes. +037:021 Say to them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will take + the children of Israel from among the nations, where they + are gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them + into their own land: +037:022 and I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains + of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all; and they + shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided + into two kingdoms any more at all; +037:023 neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, + nor with their detestable things, nor with any of + their transgressions; but I will save them out of all their + dwelling places, in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them: + so shall they be my people, and I will be their God. +037:024 My servant David shall be king over them; and they all shall + have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my ordinances, + and observe my statutes, and do them. +037:025 They shall dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob my servant, + in which your fathers lived; and they shall dwell therein, they, + and their children, and their children's children, forever: + and David my servant shall be their prince for ever. +037:026 Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall + be an everlasting covenant with them; and I will place them, + and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst + of them forevermore. +037:027 My tent also shall be with them; and I will be their God, + and they shall be my people. +037:028 The nations shall know that I am Yahweh who sanctifies Israel, + when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them forevermore. +038:001 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, +038:002 Son of man, set your face toward Gog, of the land of Magog, + the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy against him, +038:003 and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, + Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal: +038:004 and I will turn you about, and put hooks into your jaws, and I + will bring you forth, and all your army, horses and horsemen, + all of them clothed in full armor, a great company with buckler + and shield, all of them handling swords; +038:005 Persia, Cush, and Put with them, all of them with shield and helmet; +038:006 Gomer, and all his hordes; the house of Togarmah in + the uttermost parts of the north, and all his hordes; + even many peoples with you. +038:007 Be prepared, yes, prepare yourself, you, and all your companies + who are assembled to you, and be a guard to them. +038:008 After many days you shall be visited: in the latter years you + shall come into the land that is brought back from the sword, + that is gathered out of many peoples, on the mountains of Israel, + which have been a continual waste; but it is brought + forth out of the peoples, and they shall dwell securely, + all of them. +038:009 You shall ascend, you shall come like a storm, you shall + be like a cloud to cover the land, you, and all your hordes, + and many peoples with you. +038:010 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: It shall happen in that day, + that things shall come into your mind, and you shall devise + an evil device: +038:011 and you shall say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; + I will go to those who are at rest, who dwell securely, + all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither + bars nor gates; +038:012 to take the spoil and to take the prey; to turn your hand + against the waste places that are [now] inhabited, + and against the people who are gathered out of the nations, + who have gotten livestock and goods, who dwell in the middle + of the earth. +038:013 Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all + the young lions of it, shall tell you, Are you come to take + the spoil? have you assembled your company to take the prey? + to carry away silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, + to take great spoil? +038:014 Therefore, son of man, prophesy, and tell Gog, Thus says the + Lord Yahweh: In that day when my people Israel dwells securely, + shall you not know it? +038:015 You shall come from your place out of the uttermost parts + of the north, you, and many peoples with you, all of them + riding on horses, a great company and a mighty army; +038:016 and you shall come up against my people Israel, as a cloud + to cover the land: it shall happen in the latter days, that I + will bring you against my land, that the nations may know me, + when I shall be sanctified in you, Gog, before their eyes. +038:017 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Are you he of whom I spoke in old + time by my servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in + those days for [many] years that I would bring you against them? +038:018 It shall happen in that day, when Gog shall come against the land + of Israel, says the Lord Yahweh, that my wrath shall come up + into my nostrils. +038:019 For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, + Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the + land of Israel; +038:020 so that the fish of the sea, and the birds of the sky, + and the animals of the field, and all creeping things who + creep on the earth, and all the men who are on the surface + of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains + shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, + and every wall shall fall to the ground. +038:021 I will call for a sword against him to all my mountains, + says the Lord Yahweh: every man's sword shall be + against his brother. +038:022 With pestilence and with blood will I enter into judgment + with him; and I will rain on him, and on his hordes, and on + the many peoples who are with him, an overflowing shower, + and great hailstones, fire, and sulfur. +038:023 I will magnify myself, and sanctify myself, and I will make + myself known in the eyes of many nations; and they shall know + that I am Yahweh. +039:001 You, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus says + the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, Gog, prince + of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal: +039:002 and I will turn you about, and will lead you on, and will + cause you to come up from the uttermost parts of the north; + and I will bring you on the mountains of Israel; +039:003 and I will strike your bow out of your left hand, and will cause + your arrows to fall out of your right hand. +039:004 You shall fall on the mountains of Israel, you, and all + your hordes, and the peoples who are with you: + I will give you to the ravenous birds of every sort, + and to the animals of the field to be devoured. +039:005 You shall fall on the open field; for I have spoken it, + says the Lord Yahweh. +039:006 I will send a fire on Magog, and on those who dwell securely + in the islands; and they shall know that I am Yahweh. +039:007 My holy name will I make known in the midst of my people Israel; + neither will I allow my holy name to be profaned any more: + and the nations shall know that I am Yahweh, the Holy One in Israel. +039:008 Behold, it comes, and it shall be done, says the Lord Yahweh; + this is the day about which I have spoken. +039:009 Those who dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, + and shall make fires of the weapons and burn them, + both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, + and the war clubs, and the spears, and they shall make fires + of them seven years; +039:010 so that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut + down any out of the forests; for they shall make fires of + the weapons; and they shall plunder those who plundered them, + and rob those who robbed them, says the Lord Yahweh. +039:011 It shall happen in that day, that I will give to Gog a place + for burial in Israel, the valley of those who pass through on + the east of the sea; and it shall stop those who pass through: + and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude; + and they shall call it The valley of Hamon Gog. +039:012 Seven months shall the house of Israel be burying them, + that they may cleanse the land. +039:013 Yes, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall + be to them a renown in the day that I shall be glorified, + says the Lord Yahweh. +039:014 They shall set apart men of continual employment, who shall pass + through the land, and, with those who pass through, those who bury + those who remain on the surface of the land, to cleanse it: + after the end of seven months shall they search. +039:015 Those who pass through the land shall pass through; + and when any sees a man's bone, then shall he set up a sign + by it, until the undertakers have buried it in the valley + of Hamon Gog. +039:016 Hamonah shall also be the name of a city. Thus shall they + cleanse the land. +039:017 You, son of man, thus says the Lord Yahweh: Speak to + the birds of every sort, and to every animal of the field, + Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side + to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great + sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, that you may eat flesh + and drink blood. +039:018 You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood + of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, + of bulls, all of them fatlings of Bashan. +039:019 You shall eat fat until you be full, and drink blood until you + be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you. +039:020 You shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, + with mighty men, and with all men of war, says the Lord Yahweh. +039:021 I will set my glory among the nations; and all the nations + shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I + have laid on them. +039:022 So the house of Israel shall know that I am Yahweh their God, + from that day and forward. +039:023 The nations shall know that the house of Israel went into + captivity for their iniquity; because they trespassed against me, + and I hid my face from them: so I gave them into the hand + of their adversaries, and they fell all of them by the sword. +039:024 According to their uncleanness and according to their + transgressions did I to them; and I hid my face from them. +039:025 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Now will I bring back + the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy on the whole house + of Israel; and I will be jealous for my holy name. +039:026 They shall bear their shame, and all their trespasses by + which they have trespassed against me, when they shall dwell + securely in their land, and none shall make them afraid; +039:027 when I have brought them back from the peoples, and gathered + them out of their enemies' lands, and am sanctified in them + in the sight of many nations. +039:028 They shall know that I am Yahweh their God, in that I caused + them to go into captivity among the nations, and have gathered + them to their own land; and I will leave none of them + any more there; +039:029 neither will I hide my face any more from them; for I have poured + out my Spirit on the house of Israel, says the Lord Yahweh. +040:001 In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning + of the year, in the tenth [day] of the month, in the fourteenth + year after that the city was struck, in the same day, + the hand of Yahweh was on me, and he brought me there. +040:002 In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel, + and set me down on a very high mountain, whereon was as it + were the frame of a city on the south. +040:003 He brought me there; and, behold, there was a man, + whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, + with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; + and he stood in the gate. +040:004 The man said to me, Son of man, see with your eyes, and hear + with your ears, and set your heart on all that I shall + show you; for, to the intent that I may show them to you, + are you brought here: declare all that you see to the + house of Israel. +040:005 Behold, a wall on the outside of the house round about, + and in the man's hand a measuring reed six cubits long, + of a cubit and a handbreadth each: so he measured the thickness + of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed. +040:006 Then came he to the gate which looks toward the east, and went + up the steps of it: and he measured the threshold of the gate, + one reed broad; and the other threshold, one reed broad. +040:007 Every lodge was one reed long, and one reed broad; + and [the space] between the lodges was five cubits; + and the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate toward + the house was one reed. +040:008 He measured also the porch of the gate toward the house, one reed. +040:009 Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits; + and the posts of it, two cubits; and the porch of the gate + was toward the house. +040:010 The lodges of the gate eastward were three on this side, + and three on that side; they three were of one measure: + and the posts had one measure on this side and on that side. +040:011 He measured the breadth of the opening of the gate, ten cubits; + and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits; +040:012 and a border before the lodges, one cubit [on this side], + and a border, one cubit on that side; and the lodges, + six cubits on this side, and six cubits on that side. +040:013 He measured the gate from the roof of the one lodge to + the roof of the other, a breadth of twenty-five cubits; + door against door. +040:014 He made also posts, sixty cubits; and the court [reached] + to the posts, round about the gate. +040:015 [From] the forefront of the gate at the entrance to the forefront + of the inner porch of the gate were fifty cubits. +040:016 There were closed windows to the lodges, and to their posts + within the gate round about, and likewise to the arches; + and windows were round about inward; and on [each] post + were palm trees. +040:017 Then brought he me into the outer court; and behold, there were + chambers and a pavement, made for the court round about: + thirty chambers were on the pavement. +040:018 The pavement was by the side of the gates, answerable to + the length of the gates, even the lower pavement. +040:019 Then he measured the breadth from the forefront of the lower gate + to the forefront of the inner court outside, one hundred cubits, + [both] on the east and on the north. +040:020 The gate of the outer court whose prospect is toward the north, + he measured the length of it and the breadth of it. +040:021 The lodges of it were three on this side and three on that side; + and the posts of it and the arches of it were after the measure + of the first gate: the length of it was fifty cubits, + and the breadth twenty-five cubits. +040:022 The windows of it, and the arches of it, and the palm trees + of it, were after the measure of the gate whose prospect + is toward the east; and they went up to it by seven steps; + and the arches of it were before them. +040:023 There was a gate to the inner court over against the [other] gate, + [both] on the north and on the east; and he measured from gate + to gate one hundred cubits. +040:024 He led me toward the south; and behold, a gate toward the south: + and he measured the posts of it and the arches of it according + to these measures. +040:025 There were windows in it and in the arches of it round about, + like those windows: the length was fifty cubits, + and the breadth twenty-five cubits. +040:026 There were seven steps to go up to it, and the arches of it + were before them; and it had palm trees, one on this side, + and another on that side, on the posts of it. +040:027 There was a gate to the inner court toward the south: + and he measured from gate to gate toward the south + a hundred cubits. +040:028 Then he brought me to the inner court by the south gate: + and he measured the south gate according to these measures; +040:029 and the lodges of it, and the posts of it, and the arches of it, + according to these measures: and there were windows in it + and in the arches of it round about; it was fifty cubits long, + and twenty-five cubits broad. +040:030 There were arches round about, twenty-five cubits long, + and five cubits broad. +040:031 The arches of it were toward the outer court; and palm trees + were on the posts of it: and the ascent to it had eight steps. +040:032 He brought me into the inner court toward the east: + and he measured the gate according to these measures; +040:033 and the lodges of it, and the posts of it, and the arches of it, + according to these measures: and there were windows therein + and in the arches of it round about; it was fifty cubits long, + and twenty-five cubits broad. +040:034 The arches of it were toward the outer court; and palm trees + were on the posts of it, on this side, and on that side: + and the ascent to it had eight steps. +040:035 He brought me to the north gate: and he measured [it] according + to these measures; +040:036 the lodges of it, the posts of it, and the arches of it: + and there were windows therein round about; the length was + fifty cubits, and the breadth twenty-five cubits. +040:037 The posts of it were toward the outer court; and palm trees + were on the posts of it, on this side, and on that side: + and the ascent to it had eight steps. +040:038 A chamber with the door of it was by the posts at the gates; + there they washed the burnt offering. +040:039 In the porch of the gate were two tables on this side, + and two tables on that side, to kill thereon the burnt offering + and the sin offering and the trespass offering. +040:040 On the [one] side outside, as one goes up to the entry of the gate + toward the north, were two tables; and on the other side, + which belonged to the porch of the gate, were two tables. +040:041 Four tables were on this side, and four tables on that side, + by the side of the gate; eight tables, whereupon they + killed [the sacrifices]. +040:042 There were four tables for the burnt offering, of hewn stone, + a cubit and a half long, and a cubit and a half broad, + and one cubit high; whereupon they laid the instruments + with which they killed the burnt offering and the sacrifice. +040:043 The hooks, a handbreadth long, were fastened within round about: + and on the tables was the flesh of the offering. +040:044 Outside of the inner gate were chambers for the singers + in the inner court, which was at the side of the north gate; + and their prospect was toward the south; one at the side + of the east gate having the prospect toward the north. +040:045 He said to me, This chamber, whose prospect is toward the south, + is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the house; +040:046 and the chamber whose prospect is toward the north is + for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the altar: + these are the sons of Zadok, who from among the sons of Levi + come near to Yahweh to minister to him. +040:047 He measured the court, one hundred cubits long, and a hundred + cubits broad, foursquare; and the altar was before the house. +040:048 Then he brought me to the porch of the house, and measured each + post of the porch, five cubits on this side, and five cubits + on that side: and the breadth of the gate was three cubits + on this side, and three cubits on that side. +040:049 The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the breadth + eleven cubits; even by the steps by which they went up to it: + and there were pillars by the posts, one on this side, + and another on that side. +041:001 He brought me to the temple, and measured the posts, six cubits + broad on the one side, and six cubits broad on the other side, + which was the breadth of the tent. +041:002 The breadth of the entrance was ten cubits; and the sides + of the entrance were five cubits on the one side, and five + cubits on the other side: and he measured the length of it, + forty cubits, and the breadth, twenty cubits. +041:003 Then went he inward, and measured each post of the entrance, + two cubits; and the entrance, six cubits; and the breadth + of the entrance, seven cubits. +041:004 He measured the length of it, twenty cubits, and the breadth, + twenty cubits, before the temple: and he said to me, + This is the most holy place. +041:005 Then he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; + and the breadth of every side chamber, four cubits, + round about the house on every side. +041:006 The side chambers were in three stories, one over another, + and thirty in order; and they entered into the wall which + belonged to the house for the side chambers round about, + that they might have hold [therein], and not have hold + in the wall of the house. +041:007 The side chambers were broader as they encompassed [the + house] higher and higher; for the encompassing of + the house went higher and higher round about the house: + therefore the breadth of the house [continued] upward; + and so one went up [from] the lowest [chamber] to the highest + by the middle [chamber]. +041:008 I saw also that the house had a raised base round about: + the foundations of the side chambers were a full reed + of six great cubits. +041:009 The thickness of the wall, which was for the side chambers, + on the outside, was five cubits: and that which was left was + the place of the side chambers that belonged to the house. +041:010 Between the chambers was a breadth of twenty cubits round + about the house on every side. +041:011 The doors of the side chambers were toward [the place] that was left, + one door toward the north, and another door toward the south: + and the breadth of the place that was left was five + cubits round about. +041:012 The building that was before the separate place at the side + toward the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of + the building was five cubits thick round about, and the length + of it ninety cubits. +041:013 So he measured the house, one hundred cubits long; + and the separate place, and the building, with the walls of it, + one hundred cubits long; +041:014 also the breadth of the face of the house, and of the separate + place toward the east, one hundred cubits. +041:015 He measured the length of the building before the separate + place which was at the back of it, and the galleries of it + on the one side and on the other side, one hundred cubits; + and the inner temple, and the porches of the court; +041:016 the thresholds, and the closed windows, and the galleries round + about on their three stories, over against the threshold, with wood + ceilings round about, and [from] the ground up to the windows, + (now the windows were covered), +041:017 to [the space] above the door, even to the inner house, and outside, + and by all the wall round about inside and outside, by measure. +041:018 It was made with cherubim and palm trees; and a palm tree was + between cherub and cherub, and every cherub had two faces; +041:019 so that there was the face of a man toward the palm tree on + the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm + tree on the other side. [thus was it] made through all + the house round about: +041:020 from the ground to above the door were cherubim and palm trees made: + thus was the wall of the temple. +041:021 As for the temple, the door posts were squared; and as for the face + of the sanctuary, the appearance [of it] was as the appearance + [of the temple]. +041:022 The altar was of wood, three cubits high, and the length of it + two cubits; and the corners of it, and the length of it, + and the walls of it, were of wood: and he said to me, + This is the table that is before Yahweh. +041:023 The temple and the sanctuary had two doors. +041:024 The doors had two leaves [apiece], two turning leaves: + two [leaves] for the one door, and two leaves for the other. +041:025 There were made on them, on the doors of the temple, + cherubim and palm trees, like as were made on the walls; + and there was a threshold of wood on the face of the porch outside. +041:026 There were closed windows and palm trees on the one side + and on the other side, on the sides of the porch: + thus were the side chambers of the house, and the thresholds. +042:001 Then he brought me forth into the outer court, the way toward + the north: and he brought me into the chamber that was + over against the separate place, and which was over against + the building toward the north. +042:002 Before the length of one hundred cubits was the north door, + and the breadth was fifty cubits. +042:003 Over against the twenty [cubits] which belonged to the inner court, + and over against the pavement which belonged to the outer court, + was gallery against gallery in the third story. +042:004 Before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits' breadth inward, + a way of one cubit; and their doors were toward the north. +042:005 Now the upper chambers were shorter; for the galleries took + away from these, more than from the lower and the middle, + in the building. +042:006 For they were in three stories, and they didn't have pillars + as the pillars of the courts: therefore [the uppermost] was + straitened more than the lowest and the middle from the ground. +042:007 The wall that was outside by the side of the chambers, + toward the outer court before the chambers, the length of it + was fifty cubits. +042:008 For the length of the chambers that were in the outer court + was fifty cubits: and behold, before the temple were + one hundred cubits. +042:009 From under these chambers was the entry on the east side, + as one goes into them from the outer court. +042:010 In the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, + before the separate place, and before the building, + there were chambers. +042:011 The way before them was like the appearance of [the way of] + the chambers which were toward the north; according to their + length so was their breadth: and all their exits were both + according to their fashions, and according to their doors. +042:012 According to the doors of the chambers that were toward the south + was a door at the head of the way, even the way directly + before the wall toward the east, as one enters into them. +042:013 Then said he to me, The north chambers and the south chambers, + which are before the separate place, they are the holy chambers, + where the priests who are near to Yahweh shall eat the most + holy things: there shall they lay the most holy things, and the + meal offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; + for the place is holy. +042:014 When the priests enter in, then shall they not go out of + the holy place into the outer court, but there they shall lay + their garments in which they minister; for they are holy: + and they shall put on other garments, and shall approach + to that which pertains to the people. +042:015 Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, + he brought me forth by the way of the gate whose prospect + is toward the east, and measured it round about. +042:016 He measured on the east side with the measuring reed five + hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about. +042:017 He measured on the north side five hundred reeds with the measuring + reed round about. +042:018 He measured on the south side five hundred reeds with + the measuring reed. +042:019 He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred + reeds with the measuring reed. +042:020 He measured it on the four sides: it had a wall round about, + the length five hundred, and the breadth five hundred, + to make a separation between that which was holy and that + which was common. +043:001 Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looks + toward the east. +043:002 Behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way + of the east: and his voice was like the sound of many waters; + and the earth shined with his glory. +043:003 It was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, + even according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy + the city; and the visions were like the vision that I saw + by the river Chebar; and I fell on my face. +043:004 The glory of Yahweh came into the house by the way of the gate + whose prospect is toward the east. +043:005 The Spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; + and behold, the glory of Yahweh filled the house. +043:006 I heard one speaking to me out of the house; and a man + stood by me. +043:007 He said to me, Son of man, [this is] the place of my throne, + and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will + dwell in the midst of the children of Israel forever. + The house of Israel shall no more defile my holy name, + neither they, nor their kings, by their prostitution, + and by the dead bodies of their kings [in] their high places; +043:008 in their setting of their threshold by my threshold, + and their doorpost beside my doorpost, and there was [but] + the wall between me and them; and they have defiled my holy + name by their abominations which they have committed: + therefore I have consumed them in my anger. +043:009 Now let them put away their prostitution, and the dead bodies + of their kings, far from me; and I will dwell in the midst + of them forever. +043:010 You, son of man, show the house to the house of Israel, + that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; and let them + measure the pattern. +043:011 If they be ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them + the form of the house, and the fashion of it, and the exits + of it, and the entrances of it, and all the forms of it, + and all the ordinances of it, and all the forms of it, + and all the laws of it; and write it in their sight; that they + may keep the whole form of it, and all the ordinances of it, + and do them. +043:012 This is the law of the house: on the top of the mountain + the whole limit of it round about shall be most holy. + Behold, this is the law of the house. +043:013 These are the measures of the altar by cubits (the cubit + is a cubit and a handbreadth): the bottom shall be a cubit, + and the breadth a cubit, and the border of it by the edge of it + round about a span; and this shall be the base of the altar. +043:014 From the bottom on the ground to the lower ledge shall + be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from + the lesser ledge to the greater ledge shall be four cubits, + and the breadth a cubit. +043:015 The upper altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar hearth + and upward there shall be four horns. +043:016 The altar hearth shall be twelve [cubits] long by twelve broad, + square in the four sides of it. +043:017 The ledge shall be fourteen [cubits] long by fourteen broad + in the four sides of it; and the border about it shall be half + a cubit; and the bottom of it shall be a cubit round about; + and the steps of it shall look toward the east. +043:018 He said to me, Son of man, thus says the Lord Yahweh: These are + the ordinances of the altar in the day when they shall make it, + to offer burnt offerings thereon, and to sprinkle blood thereon. +043:019 You shall give to the priests the Levites who are of + the seed of Zadok, who are near to me, to minister to me, + says the Lord Yahweh, a young bull for a sin offering. +043:020 You shall take of the blood of it, and put it on the four horns of it, + and on the four corners of the ledge, and on the border round about: + thus shall you cleanse it and make atonement for it. +043:021 You shall also take the bull of the sin offering, + and it shall be burnt in the appointed place of the house, + outside of the sanctuary. +043:022 On the second day you shall offer a male goat without blemish + for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, + as they did cleanse it with the bull. +043:023 When you have made an end of cleansing it, you shall offer a young + bull without blemish, and a ram out of the flock without blemish. +043:024 You shall bring them near before Yahweh, and the priests shall + cast salt on them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt + offering to Yahweh. +043:025 Seven days shall you prepare every day a goat for a sin offering: + they shall also prepare a young bull, and a ram out of + the flock, without blemish. +043:026 Seven days shall they make atonement for the altar and purify it; + so shall they consecrate it. +043:027 When they have accomplished the days, it shall be that on + the eighth day, and forward, the priests shall make your + burnt offerings on the altar, and your peace offerings; + and I will accept you, says the Lord Yahweh. +044:001 Then he brought me back by the way of the outer gate of the sanctuary, + which looks toward the east; and it was shut. +044:002 Yahweh said to me, This gate shall be shut; it shall not be opened, + neither shall any man enter in by it; for Yahweh, the God + of Israel, has entered in by it; therefore it shall be shut. +044:003 As for the prince, he shall sit therein as prince to eat bread + before Yahweh; he shall enter by the way of the porch of the gate, + and shall go out by the way of the same. +044:004 Then he brought me by the way of the north gate before the house; + and I looked, and behold, the glory of Yahweh filled the house + of Yahweh: and I fell on my face. +044:005 Yahweh said to me, Son of man, mark well, and see with your eyes, + and hear with your ears all that I tell you concerning all + the ordinances of the house of Yahweh, and all the laws of it; + and mark well the entrance of the house, with every exit + of the sanctuary. +044:006 You shall tell the rebellious, even to the house of Israel, Thus says + the Lord Yahweh: you house of Israel, let it suffice you + of all your abominations, +044:007 in that you have brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in + heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, + to profane it, even my house, when you offer my bread, + the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant, + [to add] to all your abominations. +044:008 You have not kept the charge of my holy things; but you have + set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves. +044:009 Thus says the Lord Yahweh, No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart + and uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, + of any foreigners who are among the children of Israel. +044:010 But the Levites who went far from me, when Israel went astray, + who went astray from me after their idols, they shall + bear their iniquity. +044:011 Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having oversight + at the gates of the house, and ministering in the house: + they shall kill the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, + and they shall stand before them to minister to them. +044:012 Because they ministered to them before their idols, + and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house + of Israel; therefore have I lifted up my hand against them, + says the Lord Yahweh, and they shall bear their iniquity. +044:013 They shall not come near to me, to execute the office + of priest to me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, + to the things that are most holy; but they shall bear their shame, + and their abominations which they have committed. +044:014 Yet will I make them keepers of the charge of the house, for all + the service of it, and for all that shall be done therein. +044:015 But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, who kept + the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went + astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister to me; + and they shall stand before me to offer to me the fat and + the blood, says the Lord Yahweh: +044:016 they shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near + to my table, to minister to me, and they shall keep my charge. +044:017 It shall be that, when they enter in at the gates of the + inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments; + and no wool shall come on them, while they minister in the gates + of the inner court, and within. +044:018 They shall have linen tires on their heads, and shall have linen + breeches on their waists; they shall not gird themselves + with [anything that causes] sweat. +044:019 When they go forth into the outer court, even into the outer + court to the people, they shall put off their garments + in which they minister, and lay them in the holy chambers; + and they shall put on other garments, that they not sanctify + the people with their garments. +044:020 Neither shall they shave their heads, nor allow their locks + to grow long; they shall only cut off the hair of their heads. +044:021 Neither shall any of the priests drink wine, when they enter + into the inner court. +044:022 Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her who is + put away; but they shall take virgins of the seed of the house + of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest. +044:023 They shall teach my people the difference between the holy + and the common, and cause them to discern between the unclean + and the clean. +044:024 In a controversy they shall stand to judge; according to my + ordinances shall they judge it: and they shall keep my laws + and my statutes in all my appointed feasts; and they shall + make my Sabbaths holy. +044:025 They shall go in to no dead person to defile themselves; + but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, + for brother, or for sister who has had no husband, + they may defile themselves. +044:026 After he is cleansed, they shall reckon to him seven days. +044:027 In the day that he goes into the sanctuary, into the inner court, + to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin offering, + says the Lord Yahweh. +044:028 They shall have an inheritance: I am their inheritance; and you + shall give them no possession in Israel; I am their possession. +044:029 They shall eat the meal offering, and the sin offering, + and the trespass offering; and every devoted thing in Israel + shall be theirs. +044:030 The first of all the first fruits of every thing, and every offering + of everything, of all your offerings, shall be for the priest: + you shall also give to the priests the first of your dough, + to cause a blessing to rest on your house. +044:031 The priests shall not eat of anything that dies of itself, + or is torn, whether it be bird or animal. +045:001 Moreover, when you shall divide by lot the land for inheritance, + you shall offer an offering to Yahweh, a holy portion + of the land; the length shall be the length of twenty-five + thousand [reeds], and the breadth shall be ten thousand: + it shall be holy in all the border of it round about. +045:002 Of this there shall be for the holy place five hundred [in + length] by five hundred [in breadth], square round about; + and fifty cubits for the suburbs of it round about. +045:003 Of this measure shall you measure a length of twenty-five thousand, + and a breadth of ten thousand: and in it shall be the sanctuary, + which is most holy. +045:004 It is a holy portion of the land; it shall be for the priests, + the ministers of the sanctuary, who come near to minister to Yahweh; + and it shall be a place for their houses, and a holy place + for the sanctuary. +045:005 Twenty-five thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth, + shall be to the Levites, the ministers of the house, + for a possession to themselves, [for] twenty chambers. +045:006 You shall appoint the possession of the city five thousand broad, + and twenty-five thousand long, side by side with the offering + of the holy portion: it shall be for the whole house of Israel. +045:007 [Whatever is] for the prince [shall be] on the one side and on + the other side of the holy offering and of the possession + of the city, in front of the holy offering and in front + of the possession of the city, on the west side westward, + and on the east side eastward; and in length answerable to one + of the portions, from the west border to the east border. +045:008 In the land it shall be to him for a possession in Israel: + and my princes shall no more oppress my people; but they shall + give the land to the house of Israel according to their tribes. +045:009 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Let it suffice you, princes of Israel: + remove violence and spoil, and execute justice and righteousness; + dispossessing my people, says the Lord Yahweh. +045:010 You shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath. +045:011 The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath + may contain the tenth part of a homer, and the ephah the tenth + part of a homer: the measure of it shall be after the homer. +045:012 The shekel shall be twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels plus + twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels shall be your mina. +045:013 This is the offering that you shall offer: the sixth part + of an ephah from a homer of wheat; and you shall give the sixth + part of an ephah from a homer of barley; +045:014 and the set portion of oil, of the bath of oil, the tenth part + of a bath out of the cor, [which is] ten baths, even a homer; + (for ten baths are a homer;) +045:015 and one lamb of the flock, out of two hundred, from the well-watered + pastures of Israel--for a meal offering, and for a burnt offering, + and for peace offerings, to make atonement for them, + says the Lord Yahweh. +045:016 All the people of the land shall give to this offering for + the prince in Israel. +045:017 It shall be the prince's part to give the burnt offerings, + and the meal offerings, and the drink offerings, + in the feasts, and on the new moons, and on the Sabbaths, + in all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel: + he shall prepare the sin offering, and the meal offering, + and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings, to make + atonement for the house of Israel. +045:018 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In the first [month], in the first + [day] of the month, you shall take a young bull without blemish; + and you shall cleanse the sanctuary. +045:019 The priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering, + and put it on the door posts of the house, and on the four + corners of the ledge of the altar, and on the posts of the gate + of the inner court. +045:020 So you shall do on the seventh [day] of the month for everyone + who errs, and for him who is simple: so shall you make + atonement for the house. +045:021 In the first [month], in the fourteenth day of the month, + you shall have the Passover, a feast of seven days; + unleavened bread shall be eaten. +045:022 On that day shall the prince prepare for himself and for all + the people of the land a bull for a sin offering. +045:023 The seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering + to Yahweh, seven bulls and seven rams without blemish daily + the seven days; and a male goat daily for a sin offering. +045:024 He shall prepare a meal offering, an ephah for a bull, + and an ephah for a ram, and a hin of oil to an ephah. +045:025 In the seventh [month], in the fifteenth day of the month, + in the feast, shall he do the like the seven days; + according to the sin offering, according to the burnt offering, + and according to the meal offering, and according to the oil. +046:001 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: The gate of the inner court that + looks toward the east shall be shut the six working days; + but on the Sabbath day it shall be opened, and on the day + of the new moon it shall be opened. +046:002 The prince shall enter by the way of the porch of the gate outside, + and shall stand by the post of the gate; and the priests + shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, + and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate: + then he shall go forth; but the gate shall not be shut + until the evening. +046:003 The people of the land shall worship at the door of that gate + before Yahweh on the Sabbaths and on the new moons. +046:004 The burnt offering that the prince shall offer to Yahweh + shall be on the Sabbath day six lambs without blemish and a + ram without blemish; +046:005 and the meal offering shall be an ephah for the ram, + and the meal offering for the lambs as he is able to give, + and a hin of oil to an ephah. +046:006 On the day of the new moon it shall be a young bull without blemish, + and six lambs, and a ram; they shall be without blemish: +046:007 and he shall prepare a meal offering, an ephah for the bull, + and an ephah for the ram, and for the lambs according + as he is able, and a hin of oil to an ephah. +046:008 When the prince shall enter, he shall go in by the way of the porch + of the gate, and he shall go forth by the way of it. +046:009 But when the people of the land shall come before Yahweh + in the appointed feasts, he who enters by the way of the north + gate to worship shall go forth by the way of the south gate; + and he who enters by the way of the south gate shall go + forth by the way of the north gate: he shall not return + by the way of the gate by which he came in, but shall go + forth straight before him. +046:010 The prince, when they go in, shall go in with of them; + and when they go out, he shall go out. +046:011 In the feasts and in the solemnities the meal offering + shall be an ephah for a bull, and an ephah for a ram, + and for the lambs as he is able to give, and a hin of oil + to an ephah. +046:012 When the prince shall prepare a freewill offering, a burnt + offering or peace offerings as a freewill offering to Yahweh, + one shall open for him the gate that looks toward the east; + and he shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, + as he does on the Sabbath day: then he shall go forth; + and after his going forth one shall shut the gate. +046:013 You shall prepare a lamb a year old without blemish for a + burnt offering to Yahweh daily: morning by morning shall + you prepare it. +046:014 You shall prepare a meal offering with it morning by morning, + the sixth part of an ephah, and the third part of a hin of oil, + to moisten the fine flour; a meal offering to Yahweh continually + by a perpetual ordinance. +046:015 Thus shall they prepare the lamb, and the meal offering, + and the oil, morning by morning, for a continual burnt offering. +046:016 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: If the prince give a gift to any + of his sons, it is his inheritance, it shall belong to his sons; + it is their possession by inheritance. +046:017 But if he give of his inheritance a gift to one of his servants, + it shall be his to the year of liberty; then it shall + return to the prince; but as for his inheritance, it shall + be for his sons. +046:018 Moreover the prince shall not take of the people's inheritance, + to thrust them out of their possession; he shall give + inheritance to his sons out of his own possession, that my + people not be scattered every man from his possession. +046:019 Then he brought me through the entry, which was at the side + of the gate, into the holy chambers for the priests, + which looked toward the north: and behold, there was a place + on the hinder part westward. +046:020 He said to me, This is the place where the priests shall boil + the trespass offering and the sin offering, [and] where they + shall bake the meal offering; that they not bring them forth + into the outer court, to sanctify the people. +046:021 Then he brought me forth into the outer court, and caused + me to pass by the four corners of the court; and behold, + in every corner of the court there was a court. +046:022 In the four corners of the court there were courts enclosed, + forty [cubits] long and thirty broad: these four in the corners + were of one measure. +046:023 There was a wall round about in them, round about the four, + and boiling places were made under the walls round about. +046:024 Then said he to me, These are the boiling houses, where the + ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice of the people. +047:001 He brought me back to the door of the house; and behold, + waters issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward; + (for the forefront of the house was toward the east;) + and the waters came down from under, from the right side + of the house, on the south of the altar. +047:002 Then he brought me out by the way of the gate northward, + and led me round by the way outside to the outer gate, + by the way of [the gate] that looks toward the east; + and behold, there ran out waters on the right side. +047:003 When the man went forth eastward with the line in his hand, + he measured one thousand cubits, and he caused me to pass + through the waters, waters that were to the ankles. +047:004 Again he measured one thousand, and caused me to pass through + the waters, waters that were to the knees. Again he measured + one thousand, and caused me to pass through [the waters], + waters that were to the waist. +047:005 Afterward he measured one thousand; [and it was] a river + that I could not pass through; for the waters were risen, + waters to swim in, a river that could not be passed through. +047:006 He said to me, Son of man, have you seen [this]? + Then he brought me, and caused me to return to the bank + of the river. +047:007 Now when I had returned, behold, on the bank of the river + were very many trees on the one side and on the other. +047:008 Then said he to me, These waters issue forth toward + the eastern region, and shall go down into the Arabah; + and they shall go toward the sea; into the sea [shall + the waters go] which were made to issue forth; and the waters + shall be healed. +047:009 It shall happen, that every living creature which swarms, + in every place where the rivers come, shall live; and there + shall be a very great multitude of fish; for these waters + are come there, and [the waters of the sea] shall be healed, + and everything shall live wherever the river comes. +047:010 It shall happen, that fishermen shall stand by it: + from En Gedi even to En Eglaim shall be a place for the + spreading of nets; their fish shall be after their kinds, + as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many. +047:011 But the miry places of it, and the marshes of it, shall not + be healed; they shall be given up to salt. +047:012 By the river on the bank of it, on this side and on that side, + shall grow every tree for food, whose leaf shall not wither, + neither shall the fruit of it fail: it shall bring forth + new fruit every month, because the waters of it issue out + of the sanctuary; and the fruit of it shall be for food, + and the leaf of it for healing. +047:013 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: This shall be the border, by which you + shall divide the land for inheritance according to the twelve + tribes of Israel: Joseph [shall have two] portions. +047:014 You shall inherit it, one as well as another; for I swore + to give it to your fathers: and this land shall fall + to you for inheritance. +047:015 This shall be the border of the land: On the north side, + from the great sea, by the way of Hethlon, to the entrance of Zedad; +047:016 Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border + of Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazer Hatticon, + which is by the border of Hauran. +047:017 The border from the sea, shall be Hazar Enon at the border + of Damascus; and on the north northward is the border of Hamath. + This is the north side. +047:018 The east side, between Hauran and Damascus and Gilead, + and the land of Israel, shall be the Jordan; + from the [north] border to the east sea shall you measure. + This is the east side. +047:019 The south side southward shall be from Tamar as far as the waters + of Meriboth Kadesh, to the brook [of Egypt], to the great sea. + This is the south side southward. +047:020 The west side shall be the great sea, from the [south] + border as far as over against the entrance of Hamath. + This is the west side. +047:021 So shall you divide this land to you according to the + tribes of Israel. +047:022 It shall happen, that you shall divide it by lot for an + inheritance to you and to the strangers who sojourn among you, + who shall father children among you; and they shall be to you + as the native-born among the children of Israel; they shall + have inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel. +047:023 It shall happen, that in what tribe the stranger sojourns, + there shall you give him his inheritance, says the Lord Yahweh. +048:001 Now these are the names of the tribes: From the north end, + beside the way of Hethlon to the entrance of Hamath, Hazar Enan + at the border of Damascus, northward beside Hamath, (and they + shall have their sides east [and] west), Dan, one [portion]. +048:002 By the border of Dan, from the east side to the west side, + Asher, one [portion]. +048:003 By the border of Asher, from the east side even to the west side, + Naphtali, one [portion]. +048:004 By the border of Naphtali, from the east side to the west side, + Manasseh, one [portion]. +048:005 By the border of Manasseh, from the east side to the west side, + Ephraim, one [portion]. +048:006 By the border of Ephraim, from the east side even to the + west side, Reuben, one [portion]. +048:007 By the border of Reuben, from the east side to the west side, + Judah, one [portion]. +048:008 By the border of Judah, from the east side to the west side, + shall be the offering which you shall offer, twenty-five thousand + [reeds] in breadth, and in length as one of the portions, + from the east side to the west side: and the sanctuary shall + be in the midst of it. +048:009 The offering that you shall offer to Yahweh shall be twenty-five + thousand [reeds] in length, and ten thousand in breadth. +048:010 For these, even for the priests, shall be the holy offering: + toward the north twenty-five thousand [in length], and toward + the west ten thousand in breadth, and toward the east ten thousand + in breadth, and toward the south twenty-five thousand in length: + and the sanctuary of Yahweh shall be in the midst of it. +048:011 [It shall be] for the priests who are sanctified of the sons + of Zadok, who have kept my charge, who didn't go astray when + the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray. +048:012 It shall be to them an offering from the offering of the land, + a thing most holy, by the border of the Levites. +048:013 Answerable to the border of the priests, the Levites shall have + twenty-five thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth: + all the length shall be twenty-five thousand, and the + breadth ten thousand. +048:014 They shall sell none of it, nor exchange it, nor shall the first + fruits of the land be alienated; for it is holy to Yahweh. +048:015 The five thousand that are left in the breadth, in front + of the twenty-five thousand, shall be for common use, + for the city, for dwelling and for suburbs; and the city + shall be in the midst of it. +048:016 These shall be the measures of it: the north side four thousand + and five hundred, and the south side four thousand and five hundred, + and on the east side four thousand and five hundred, + and the west side four thousand and five hundred. +048:017 The city shall have suburbs: toward the north two hundred fifty, + and toward the south two hundred fifty, and toward the east + two hundred fifty, and toward the west two hundred fifty. +048:018 The remainder in the length, answerable to the holy offering, + shall be ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand westward; + and it shall be answerable to the holy offering; and the increase + of it shall be for food to those who labor in the city. +048:019 Those who labor in the city, out of all the tribes of Israel, + shall cultivate it. +048:020 All the offering shall be twenty-five thousand by + twenty-five thousand: you shall offer the holy offering four-square, + with the possession of the city. +048:021 The residue shall be for the prince, on the one side and on + the other of the holy offering and of the possession of the city; + in front of the twenty-five thousand of the offering toward + the east border, and westward in front of the twenty-five + thousand toward the west border, answerable to the portions, + it shall be for the prince: and the holy offering and + the sanctuary of the house shall be in the midst of it. +048:022 Moreover from the possession of the Levites, and from the possession + of the city, being in the midst of that which is the prince's, + between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin, + it shall be for the prince. +048:023 As for the rest of the tribes: from the east side to the + west side, Benjamin, one [portion]. +048:024 By the border of Benjamin, from the east side to the west side, + Simeon, one [portion]. +048:025 By the border of Simeon, from the east side to the west side, + Issachar, one [portion]. +048:026 By the border of Issachar, from the east side to the west side, + Zebulun, one [portion]. +048:027 By the border of Zebulun, from the east side to the west side, + Gad, one [portion]. +048:028 By the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border + shall be even from Tamar to the waters of Meribath Kadesh, + to the brook [of Egypt], to the great sea. +048:029 This is the land which you shall divide by lot to the tribes + of Israel for inheritance, and these are their several portions, + says the Lord Yahweh. +048:030 These are the exits of the city: On the north side four + thousand and five hundred [reeds] by measure; +048:031 and the gates of the city shall be after the names of the tribes + of Israel, three gates northward: the gate of Reuben, one; + the gate of Judah, one; the gate of Levi, one. +048:032 At the east side four thousand and five hundred [reeds], + and three gates: even the gate of Joseph, one; the gate + of Benjamin, one; the gate of Dan, one. +048:033 At the south side four thousand and five hundred [reeds] + by measure, and three gates: the gate of Simeon, one; the gate + of Issachar, one; the gate of Zebulun, one. +048:034 At the west side four thousand and five hundred [reeds], + with their three gates: the gate of Gad, one; the gate + of Asher, one; the gate of Naphtali, one. +048:035 It shall be eighteen thousand [reeds] round about: + and the name of the city from that day shall be, Yahweh is there. +Book 27 Daniel +001:001 In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came + Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Jerusalem, and besieged it. +001:002 The Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, + with part of the vessels of the house of God; and he carried + them into the land of Shinar to the house of his god: + and he brought the vessels into the treasure house of his god. +001:003 The king spoke to Ashpenaz the master of his eunuchs, + that he should bring in [certain] of the children of Israel, + even of the seed royal and of the nobles; +001:004 youths in whom was no blemish, but well-favored, and skillful in + all wisdom, and endowed with knowledge, and understanding science, + and such as had ability to stand in the king's palace; + and that he should teach them the learning and the language + of the Chaldeans. +001:005 The king appointed for them a daily portion of the king's dainties, + and of the wine which he drank, and that they should be + nourished three years; that at the end of it they should stand + before the king. +001:006 Now among these were, of the children of Judah, Daniel, + Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. +001:007 The prince of the eunuchs gave names to them: to Daniel he gave + [the name of] Belteshazzar; and to Hananiah, [of] Shadrach; + and to Mishael, [of] Meshach; and to Azariah, [of] Abednego. +001:008 But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself + with the king's dainties, nor with the wine which he drank: + therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that + he might not defile himself. +001:009 Now God made Daniel to find kindness and compassion in the sight + of the prince of the eunuchs. +001:010 The prince of the eunuchs said to Daniel, I fear my lord + the king, who has appointed your food and your drink: + for why should he see your faces worse looking than the youths + who are of your own age? so would you endanger my head + with the king. +001:011 Then said Daniel to the steward whom the prince of the eunuchs + had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah: +001:012 Prove your servants, I beg you, ten days; and let them give + us pulse to eat, and water to drink. +001:013 Then let our faces be looked on before you, and the face + of the youths who eat of the king's dainties; and as you see, + deal with your servants. +001:014 So he listened to them in this matter, and proved them ten days. +001:015 At the end of ten days their faces appeared fairer, + and they were fatter in flesh, than all the youths who ate + of the king's dainties. +001:016 So the steward took away their dainties, and the wine that they + should drink, and gave them pulse. +001:017 Now as for these four youths, God gave them knowledge and skill + in all learning and wisdom: and Daniel had understanding + in all visions and dreams. +001:018 At the end of the days which the king had appointed for + bringing them in, the prince of the eunuchs brought them + in before Nebuchadnezzar. +001:019 The king talked with them; and among them all was found + none like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah: + therefore stood they before the king. +001:020 In every matter of wisdom and understanding, concerning which + the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than + all the magicians and enchanters who were in all his realm. +001:021 Daniel continued even to the first year of king Cyrus. +002:001 In the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar + dreamed dreams; and his spirit was troubled, and his sleep + went from him. +002:002 Then the king commanded to call the magicians, and the enchanters, + and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, to tell the king his dreams. + So they came in and stood before the king. +002:003 The king said to them, I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit + is troubled to know the dream. +002:004 Then spoke the Chaldeans to the king in the Syrian language, + O king, live forever: tell your servants the dream, and we + will show the interpretation. +002:005 The king answered the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me: + if you don't make known to me the dream and the interpretation + of it, you shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall + be made a dunghill. +002:006 But if you show the dream and the interpretation of it, + you shall receive of me gifts and rewards and great honor: + therefore show me the dream and the interpretation of it. +002:007 They answered the second time and said, Let the king tell + his servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation. +002:008 The king answered, I know of a certainty that you would gain time, + because you see the thing is gone from me. +002:009 But if you don't make known to me the dream, there is but + one law for you; for you have prepared lying and corrupt + words to speak before me, until the time be changed: + therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that you can + show me the interpretation of it. +002:010 The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, There is + not a man on the earth who can show the king's matter, + because no king, lord, or ruler, has asked such a thing + of any magician, or enchanter, or Chaldean. +002:011 It is a rare thing that the king requires, and there is no + other who can show it before the king, except the gods, + whose dwelling is not with flesh. +002:012 For this cause the king was angry and very furious, and commanded + to destroy all the wise men of Babylon. +002:013 So the decree went forth, and the wise men were to be slain; + and they sought Daniel and his companions to be slain. +002:014 Then Daniel returned answer with counsel and prudence to Arioch + the captain of the king's guard, who was gone forth to kill + the wise men of Babylon; +002:015 he answered Arioch the king's captain, Why is the decree so urgent + from the king? Then Arioch made the thing known to Daniel. +002:016 Daniel went in, and desired of the king that he would appoint + him a time, and he would show the king the interpretation. +002:017 Then Daniel went to his house, and made the thing known + to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions: +002:018 that they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning + this secret; that Daniel and his companions should not perish + with the rest of the wise men of Babylon. +002:019 Then was the secret revealed to Daniel in a vision of the night. + Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven. +002:020 Daniel answered, Blessed be the name of God forever and ever; + for wisdom and might are his. +002:021 He changes the times and the seasons; he removes kings, + and sets up kings; he gives wisdom to the wise, and knowledge + to those who have understanding; +002:022 he reveals the deep and secret things; he knows what is in + the darkness, and the light dwells with him. +002:023 I thank you, and praise you, you God of my fathers, + who have given me wisdom and might, and have now made known + to me what we desired of you; for you have made known to us + the king's matter. +002:024 Therefore Daniel went in to Arioch, whom the king had appointed + to destroy the wise men of Babylon; he went and said thus to him: + Don't destroy the wise men of Babylon; bring me in before + the king, and I will show to the king the interpretation. +002:025 Then Arioch brought in Daniel before the king in haste, and said + thus to him, I have found a man of the children of the captivity + of Judah, who will make known to the king the interpretation. +002:026 The king answered Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, Are you + able to make known to me the dream which I have seen, + and the interpretation of it? +002:027 Daniel answered before the king, and said, The secret which the king + has demanded can neither wise men, enchanters, magicians, + nor soothsayers, show to the king; +002:028 but there is a God in heaven who reveals secrets, and he has made + known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. + Your dream, and the visions of your head on your bed, are these: +002:029 as for you, O king, your thoughts came [into your mind] on + your bed, what should happen hereafter; and he who reveals + secrets has made known to you what shall happen. +002:030 But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any + wisdom that I have more than any living, but to the intent + that the interpretation may be made known to the king, + and that you may know the thoughts of your heart. +002:031 You, O king, saw, and behold, a great image. This image, + which was mighty, and whose brightness was excellent, + stood before you; and the aspect of it was awesome. +002:032 As for this image, its head was of fine gold, its breast + and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of brass, +002:033 its legs of iron, its feet part of iron, and part of clay. +002:034 You saw until a stone was cut out without hands, which struck + the image on its feet that were of iron and clay, and broke + them in pieces. +002:035 Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, + and the gold, broken in pieces together, and became like + the chaff of the summer threshing floors; and the wind + carried them away, so that no place was found for them: + and the stone that struck the image became a great mountain, + and filled the whole earth. +002:036 This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation of it + before the king. +002:037 You, O king, are king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has + given the kingdom, the power, and the strength, and the glory; +002:038 and wherever the children of men dwell, the animals of the field + and the birds of the sky has he given into your hand, and has + made you to rule over them all: you are the head of gold. +002:039 After you shall arise another kingdom inferior to you; + and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule + over all the earth. +002:040 The fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron, because iron breaks + in pieces and subdues all things; and as iron that crushes + all these, shall it break in pieces and crush. +002:041 Whereas you saw the feet and toes, part of potters' + clay, and part of iron, it shall be a divided kingdom; + but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, + because you saw the iron mixed with miry clay. +002:042 As the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, + so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken. +002:043 Whereas you saw the iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle + themselves with the seed of men; but they shall not cling + to one another, even as iron does not mingle with clay. +002:044 In the days of those kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom + which shall never be destroyed, nor shall the sovereignty + of it be left to another people; but it shall break in pieces + and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever. +002:045 Because you saw that a stone was cut out of the mountain + without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, + the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God + has made known to the king what shall happen hereafter: + and the dream is certain, and the interpretation of it sure. +002:046 Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell on his face, and worshiped Daniel, + and commanded that they should offer an offering and sweet + odors to him. +002:047 The king answered to Daniel, and said, Of a truth your God + is the God of gods, and the Lord of kings, and a revealer + of secrets, seeing you have been able to reveal this secret. +002:048 Then the king made Daniel great, and gave him many great gifts, + and made him to rule over the whole province of Babylon, + and to be chief governor over all the wise men of Babylon. +002:049 Daniel requested of the king, and he appointed Shadrach, Meshach, + and Abednego, over the affairs of the province of Babylon: + but Daniel was in the gate of the king. +003:001 Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height + was sixty cubits, and the breadth of it six cubits: + he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon. +003:002 Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the satraps, + the deputies, and the governors, the judges, the treasurers, + the counselors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, + to come to the dedication of the image which Nebuchadnezzar + the king had set up. +003:003 Then the satraps, the deputies, and the governors, the judges, + the treasurers, the counselors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers + of the provinces, were gathered together to the dedication + of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up; + and they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up. +003:004 Then the herald cried aloud, To you it is commanded, + peoples, nations, and languages, +003:005 that whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, + lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music, you fall down + and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king + has set up; +003:006 and whoever doesn't fall down and worship shall the same hour + be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace. +003:007 Therefore at that time, when all the peoples heard the sound + of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds + of music, all the peoples, the nations, and the languages, + fell down and worshiped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar + the king had set up. +003:008 Therefore at that time certain Chaldeans came near, and brought + accusation against the Jews. +003:009 They answered Nebuchadnezzar the king, O king, live for ever. +003:010 You, O king, have made a decree, that every man that shall hear + the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all + kinds of music, shall fall down and worship the golden image; +003:011 and whoever doesn't fall down and worship shall be cast into + the midst of a burning fiery furnace. +003:012 There are certain Jews whom you have appointed over the affairs + of the province of Babylon: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego; + these men, O king, have not regarded you: they don't serve + your gods, nor worship the golden image which you have set up. +003:013 Then Nebuchadnezzar in [his] rage and fury commanded to + bring Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Then they brought + these men before the king. +003:014 Nebuchadnezzar answered them, Is it on purpose, Shadrach, Meshach, + and Abednego, that you don't serve my god, nor worship + the golden image which I have set up? +003:015 Now if you are ready whenever you hear the sound of the horn, + flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music + to fall down and worship the image which I have made, + [well]: but if you don't worship, you shall be cast + the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; + and who is that god that shall deliver you out of my hands? +003:016 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered the king, Nebuchadnezzar, + we have no need to answer you in this matter. +003:017 If it be [so], our God whom we serve is able to deliver us + from the burning fiery furnace; and he will deliver us out + of your hand, O king. +003:018 But if not, be it known to you, O king, that we will not serve + your gods, nor worship the golden image which you have set up. +003:019 Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his + visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego: + [therefore] he spoke, and commanded that they should heat + the furnace seven times more than it was usually heated. +003:020 He commanded certain mighty men who were in his army to + bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, [and] to cast them + into the burning fiery furnace. +003:021 Then these men were bound in their pants, their tunics, + and their mantles, and their [other] garments, and were cast + into the midst of the burning fiery furnace. +003:022 Therefore because the king's commandment was urgent, + and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the fire killed + those men who took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. +003:023 These three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down + bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace. +003:024 Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonished, and rose + up in haste: he spoke and said to his counselors, + Didn't we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? + They answered the king, True, O king. +003:025 He answered, Look, I see four men loose, walking in the midst + of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the aspect of the fourth + is like a son of the gods. +003:026 Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning + fiery furnace: he spoke and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, + you servants of the Most High God, come forth, and come here. + Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego came forth out of the midst + of the fire. +003:027 The satraps, the deputies, and the governors, and the + king's counselors, being gathered together, saw these men, + that the fire had no power on their bodies, nor was the hair + of their head singed, neither were their pants changed, + nor had the smell of fire passed on them. +003:028 Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said, Blessed be the God + of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent his angel, + and delivered his servants who trusted in him, and have changed + the king's word, and have yielded their bodies, that they + might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God. +003:029 Therefore I make a decree, that every people, nation, and language, + which speak anything evil against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, + and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall + be made a dunghill; because there is no other god who is able + to deliver after this sort. +003:030 Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego + in the province of Babylon. +004:001 Nebuchadnezzar the king, to all the peoples, nations, and languages, + who dwell in all the earth: Peace be multiplied to you. +004:002 It has seemed good to me to show the signs and wonders that + the Most High God has worked toward me. +004:003 How great are his signs! and how mighty are his wonders! his + kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion is from + generation to generation. +004:004 I, Nebuchadnezzar, was at rest in my house, and flourishing + in my palace. +004:005 I saw a dream which made me afraid; and the thoughts on my bed + and the visions of my head troubled me. +004:006 Therefore made I a decree to bring in all the wise men of Babylon + before me, that they might make known to me the interpretation + of the dream. +004:007 Then came in the magicians, the enchanters, the Chaldeans, + and the soothsayers; and I told the dream before them; + but they did not make known to me the interpretation of it. +004:008 But at the last Daniel came in before me, whose name was Belteshazzar, + according to the name of my god, and in whom is the spirit + of the holy gods: and I told the dream before him, [saying], +004:009 Belteshazzar, master of the magicians, because I know + that the spirit of the holy gods is in you, and no secret + troubles you, tell me the visions of my dream that I have seen, + and the interpretation of it. +004:010 Thus were the visions of my head on my bed: I saw, and behold, + a tree in the midst of the earth; and the height of it was great. +004:011 The tree grew, and was strong, and the height of it reached + to the sky, and the sight of it to the end of all the earth. +004:012 The leaves of it were beautiful, and the fruit of it much, + and in it was food for all: the animals of the field had shadow + under it, and the birds of the sky lived in the branches of it, + and all flesh was fed from it. +004:013 I saw in the visions of my head on my bed, and behold, + a watcher and a holy one came down from the sky. +004:014 He cried aloud, and said thus, Hew down the tree, and cut off + its branches, shake off its leaves, and scatter its fruit: + let the animals get away from under it, and the fowls + from its branches. +004:015 Nevertheless leave the stump of its roots in the earth, + even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass + of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of the sky: + and let his portion be with the animals in the grass + of the earth: +004:016 let his heart be changed from man's, and let an animal's heart + be given to him; and let seven times pass over him. +004:017 The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand + by the word of the holy ones; to the intent that the living + may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, + and gives it to whoever he will, and sets up over it + the lowest of men. +004:018 This dream I, king Nebuchadnezzar, have seen; and you, Belteshazzar, + declare the interpretation, because all the wise men of my + kingdom are not able to make known to me the interpretation; + but you are able; for the spirit of the holy gods is in you. +004:019 Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was stricken + mute for a while, and his thoughts troubled him. + The king answered, Belteshazzar, don't let the dream, + or the interpretation, trouble you. Belteshazzar answered, + My lord, the dream be to those who hate you, and the interpretation + of it to your adversaries. +004:020 The tree that you saw, which grew, and was strong, whose height + reached to the sky, and the sight of it to all the earth; +004:021 whose leaves were beautiful, and the fruit of it much, and in it + was food for all; under which the animals of the field lived, + and on whose branches the birds of the sky had their habitation: +004:022 it is you, O king, that are grown and become strong; + for your greatness is grown, and reaches to the sky, + and your dominion to the end of the earth. +004:023 Whereas the king saw a watcher and a holy one coming down + from the sky, and saying, Hew down the tree, and destroy it; + nevertheless leave the stump of the roots of it in the earth, + even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass + of the field, and let it be wet with the dew of the sky: + and let his portion be with the animals of the field, + until seven times pass over him; +004:024 this is the interpretation, O king, and it is the decree + of the Most High, which is come on my lord the king: +004:025 that you shall be driven from men, and your dwelling shall + be with the animals of the field, and you shall be made to eat + grass as oxen, and shall be wet with the dew of the sky, + and seven times shall pass over you; until you know that + the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it + to whoever he will. +004:026 Whereas they commanded to leave the stump of the roots of the tree; + your kingdom shall be sure to you, after that you shall + have known that the heavens do rule. +004:027 Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, + and break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities + by showing mercy to the poor; if there may be a lengthening + of your tranquility. +004:028 All this came on the king Nebuchadnezzar. +004:029 At the end of twelve months he was walking in the royal + palace of Babylon. +004:030 The king spoke and said, Is not this great Babylon, which I + have built for the royal dwelling place, by the might of my + power and for the glory of my majesty? +004:031 While the word was in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from + the sky, [saying], O king Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken: + The kingdom is departed from you: +004:032 and you shall be driven from men; and they dwelling shall + be with the animals of the field; you shall be made to eat + grass as oxen; and seven times shall pass over you; + until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, + and gives it to whoever he will. +004:033 The same hour was the thing fulfilled on Nebuchadnezzar: + and he was driven from men, and ate grass as oxen, and his body + was wet with the dew of the sky, until his hair was grown + like eagles' [feathers], and his nails like birds' [claws]. +004:034 At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes + to heaven, and my understanding returned to me, and I blessed + the Most High, and I praised and honored him who lives forever; + for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom + from generation to generation. +004:035 All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; + and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, + and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay + his hand, or tell him, What do you? +004:036 At the same time my understanding returned to me; + and for the glory of my kingdom, my majesty and brightness + returned to me; and my counselors and my lords sought to me; + and I was established in my kingdom, and excellent greatness + was added to me. +004:037 Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King + of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; + and those who walk in pride he is able to abase. +005:001 Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, + and drank wine before the thousand. +005:002 Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded to bring + the golden and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar his + father had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; + that the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, + might drink from them. +005:003 Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out + of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; + and the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, + drank from them. +005:004 They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, + of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone. +005:005 In the same hour came forth the fingers of a man's hand, + and wrote over against the lampstand on the plaster of + the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part + of the hand that wrote. +005:006 Then the king's face was changed in him, and his thoughts + troubled him; and the joints of his thighs were loosened, + and his knees struck one against another. +005:007 The king cried aloud to bring in the enchanters, the Chaldeans, + and the soothsayers. The king spoke and said to the wise + men of Babylon, Whoever shall read this writing, and show + me the interpretation of it, shall be clothed with purple, + and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third + ruler in the kingdom. +005:008 Then came in all the king's wise men; but they could not read + the writing, nor make known to the king the interpretation. +005:009 Then was king Belshazzar greatly troubled, and his face was + changed in him, and his lords were perplexed. +005:010 [Now] the queen by reason of the words of the king and his + lords came into the banquet house: the queen spoke and said, + O king, live forever; don't let your thoughts trouble you, + nor let your face be changed. +005:011 There is a man in your kingdom, in whom is the spirit + of the holy gods; and in the days of your father light + and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, + were found in him; and the king Nebuchadnezzar your father, + the king, [I say], your father, made him master of the magicians, + enchanters, Chaldeans, and soothsayers; +005:012 because an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, + interpreting of dreams, and showing of dark sentences, + and dissolving of doubts, were found in the same Daniel, + whom the king named Belteshazzar. Now let Daniel be called, + and he will show the interpretation. +005:013 Then was Daniel brought in before the king. The king spoke + and said to Daniel, Are you that Daniel, who are of the children + of the captivity of Judah, whom the king my father brought + out of Judah? +005:014 I have heard of you, that the spirit of the gods is in you, + and that light and understanding and excellent wisdom are + found in you. +005:015 Now the wise men, the enchanters, have been brought in before me, + that they should read this writing, and make known to me the + interpretation of it; but they could not show the interpretation + of the thing. +005:016 But I have heard of you, that you can give interpretations, + and dissolve doubts; now if you can read the writing, + and make known to me the interpretation of it, you shall be + clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold about your neck, + and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom. +005:017 Then Daniel answered before the king, Let your gifts be to yourself, + and give your rewards to another; nevertheless I will read + the writing to the king, and make known to him the interpretation. +005:018 You king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father + the kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and majesty: +005:019 and because of the greatness that he gave him, all the peoples, + nations, and languages trembled and feared before him: + whom he would he killed, and whom he would he kept alive; + and whom he would he raised up, and whom he would he put down. +005:020 But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened + so that he dealt proudly, he was deposed from his kingly throne, + and they took his glory from him: +005:021 and he was driven from the sons of men, and his heart was made + like the animals', and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys; + he was fed with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with + the dew of the sky; until he knew that the Most High God + rules in the kingdom of men, and that he sets up over it + whoever he will. +005:022 You his son, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, + though you knew all this, +005:023 but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; + and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, + and you and your lords, your wives and your concubines, + have drunk wine from them; and you have praised the gods of silver + and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which don't see, + nor hear, nor know; and the God in whose hand your breath is, + and whose are all your ways, you have not glorified. +005:024 Then was the part of the hand sent from before him, and this + writing was inscribed. +005:025 This is the writing that was inscribed: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN. +005:026 This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God has numbered + your kingdom, and brought it to an end; +005:027 TEKEL; you are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting. +005:028 PERES; your kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians. +005:029 Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with purple, + and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made proclamation + concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom. +005:030 In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean King was slain. +005:031 Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about + sixty-two years old. +006:001 It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom one hundred twenty satraps, + who should be throughout the whole kingdom; +006:002 and over them three presidents, of whom Daniel was one; + that these satraps might give account to them, and that the king + should have no damage. +006:003 Then this Daniel was distinguished above the presidents + and the satraps, because an excellent spirit was in him; + and the king thought to set him over the whole realm. +006:004 Then the presidents and the satraps sought to find occasion + against Daniel as touching the kingdom; but they could find + no occasion nor fault, because he was faithful, neither was + there any error or fault found in him. +006:005 Then said these men, We shall not find any occasion against + this Daniel, except we find it against him concerning the law + of his God. +006:006 Then these presidents and satraps assembled together to the king, + and said thus to him, King Darius, live forever. +006:007 All the presidents of the kingdom, the deputies and the satraps, + the counselors and the governors, have consulted together + to establish a royal statute, and to make a strong interdict, + that whoever shall ask a petition of any god or man for thirty days, + save of you, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions. +006:008 Now, O king, establish the interdict, and sign the writing, + that it not be changed, according to the law of the Medes + and Persians, which doesn't alter. +006:009 Therefore king Darius signed the writing and the interdict. +006:010 When Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house + (now his windows were open in his chamber toward Jerusalem) + and he kneeled on his knees three times a day, and prayed, + and gave thanks before his God, as he did before. +006:011 Then these men assembled together, and found Daniel making + petition and supplication before his God. +006:012 Then they came near, and spoke before the king concerning + the king's interdict: Haven't you signed an interdict, that every + man who shall make petition to any god or man within thirty days, + save to you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions? + The king answered, The thing is true, according to the law + of the Medes and Persians, which doesn't alter. +006:013 Then answered they and said before the king, That Daniel, who is + of the children of the captivity of Judah, doesn't regard you, + O king, nor the interdict that you have signed, but makes + his petition three times a day. +006:014 Then the king, when he heard these words, was sore displeased, + and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him; and he labored + until the going down of the sun to rescue him. +006:015 Then these men assembled together to the king, and said + to the king, Know, O king, that it is a law of the Medes + and Persians, that no interdict nor statute which the king + establishes may be changed. +006:016 Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, + and cast him into the den of lions. [Now] the king spoke + and said to Daniel, Your God whom you serve continually, + he will deliver you. +006:017 A stone was brought, and laid on the mouth of the den; + and the king sealed it with his own signet, and with the signet + of his lords; that nothing might be changed concerning Daniel. +006:018 Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting; + neither were instruments of music brought before him: + and his sleep fled from him. +006:019 Then the king arose very early in the morning, and went in haste + to the den of lions. +006:020 When he came near to the den to Daniel, he cried with a + lamentable voice; the king spoke and said to Daniel, Daniel, + servant of the living God, is your God, whom you serve continually, + able to deliver you from the lions? +006:021 Then said Daniel to the king, O king, live forever. +006:022 My God has sent his angel, and has shut the lions' mouths, and they + have not hurt me; because as before him innocence was found in me; + and also before you, O king, have I done no hurt. +006:023 Then was the king exceeding glad, and commanded that they + should take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken + up out of the den, and no manner of hurt was found on him, + because he had trusted in his God. +006:024 The king commanded, and they brought those men who had accused Daniel, + and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, + and their wives; and the lions had the mastery of them, + and broke all their bones in pieces, before they came + to the bottom of the den. +006:025 Then king Darius wrote to all the peoples, nations, and languages, + who dwell in all the earth: Peace be multiplied to you. +006:026 I make a decree, that in all the dominion of my kingdom men tremble + and fear before the God of Daniel; for he is the living God, + and steadfast forever, His kingdom that which shall not be destroyed; + and his dominion shall be even to the end. +006:027 He delivers and rescues, and he works signs and wonders in + heaven and in earth, who has delivered Daniel from the power + of the lions. +006:028 So this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius, and in the reign + of Cyrus the Persian. +007:001 In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel + had a dream and visions of his head on his bed: + then he wrote the dream and told the sum of the matters. +007:002 Daniel spoke and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, + the four winds of the sky broke forth on the great sea. +007:003 Four great animals came up from the sea, diverse one from another. +007:004 The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings: + I saw until the wings of it were plucked, and it was lifted + up from the earth, and made to stand on two feet as a man; + and a man's heart was given to it. +007:005 Behold, another animal, a second, like a bear; and it was raised up + on one side, and three ribs were in its mouth between its teeth: + and they said thus to it, Arise, devour much flesh. +007:006 After this I saw, and behold, another, like a leopard, which had + on its back four wings of a bird; the animal had also four heads; + and dominion was given to it. +007:007 After this I saw in the night visions, and, behold, a fourth + animal, awesome and powerful, and strong exceedingly; + and it had great iron teeth; it devoured and broke + in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet: + and it was diverse from all the animals that were before it; + and it had ten horns. +007:008 I considered the horns, and behold, there came up among + them another horn, a little one, before which three + of the first horns were plucked up by the roots: + and behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, + and a mouth speaking great things. +007:009 I saw until thrones were placed, and one who was ancient of days sat: + his clothing was white as snow, and the hair of his head + like pure wool; his throne was fiery flames, [and] the wheels + of it burning fire. +007:010 A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: + thousands of thousands ministered to him, and ten thousand + times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, + and the books were opened. +007:011 I saw at that time because of the voice of the great words + which the horn spoke; I saw even until the animal was slain, + and its body destroyed, and it was given to be burned with fire. +007:012 As for the rest of the animals, their dominion was taken away: + yet their lives were prolonged for a season and a time. +007:013 I saw in the night visions, and behold, there came with the clouds + of the sky one like a son of man, and he came even to the ancient + of days, and they brought him near before him. +007:014 There was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, + that all the peoples, nations, and languages should serve him: + his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, + and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed. +007:015 As for me, Daniel, my spirit was grieved in the midst of my body, + and the visions of my head troubled me. +007:016 I came near to one of those who stood by, and asked him + the truth concerning all this. So he told me, and made me + know the interpretation of the things. +007:017 These great animals, which are four, are four kings, who shall + arise out of the earth. +007:018 But the saints of the Most High shall receive the kingdom, + and possess the kingdom forever, even forever and ever. +007:019 Then I desired to know the truth concerning the fourth animal, + which was diverse from all of them, exceedingly terrible, + whose teeth were of iron, and its nails of brass; which devoured, + broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet; +007:020 and concerning the ten horns that were on its head, + and the other [horn] which came up, and before which three fell, + even that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spoke great things, + whose look was more stout than its fellows. +007:021 I saw, and the same horn made war with the saints, + and prevailed against them; +007:022 until the ancient of days came, and judgment was given to + the saints of the Most High, and the time came that the saints + possessed the kingdom. +007:023 Thus he said, The fourth animal shall be a fourth kingdom + on earth, which shall be diverse from all the kingdoms, + and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, + and break it in pieces. +007:024 As for the ten horns, out of this kingdom shall ten kings arise: + and another shall arise after them; and he shall be diverse + from the former, and he shall put down three kings. +007:025 He shall speak words against the Most High, and shall wear + out the saints of the Most High; and he shall think to change + the times and the law; and they shall be given into his hand + until a time and times and half a time. +007:026 But the judgment shall be set, and they shall take away + his dominion, to consume and to destroy it to the end. +007:027 The kingdom and the dominion, and the greatness of the kingdoms + under the whole sky, shall be given to the people of the saints + of the Most High: his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, + and all dominions shall serve and obey him. +007:028 Here is the end of the matter. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts + much troubled me, and my face was changed in me: + but I kept the matter in my heart. +008:001 In the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar a vision + appeared to me, even to me, Daniel, after that which appeared + to me at the first. +008:002 I saw in the vision; now it was so, that when I saw, I was + in the citadel of Susa, which is in the province of Elam; + and I saw in the vision, and I was by the river Ulai. +008:003 Then I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, + there stood before the river a ram which had two horns: + and the two horns were high; but one was higher than the other, + and the higher came up last. +008:004 I saw the ram pushing westward, and northward, and southward; + and no animals could stand before him, neither was there + any who could deliver out of his hand; but he did according + to his will, and magnified himself. +008:005 As I was considering, behold, a male goat came from the west over + the surface of the whole earth, and didn't touch the ground: + and the goat had a notable horn between his eyes. +008:006 He came to the ram that had the two horns, which I saw standing + before the river, and ran on him in the fury of his power. +008:007 I saw him come close to the ram, and he was moved with anger + against him, and struck the ram, and broke his two horns; + and there was no power in the ram to stand before him; + but he cast him down to the ground, and trampled on him; + and there was none who could deliver the ram out of his hand. +008:008 The male goat magnified himself exceedingly: and when he was strong, + the great horn was broken; and instead of it there came up + four notable [horns] toward the four winds of the sky. +008:009 Out of one of them came forth a little horn, which grew + exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east, + and toward the glorious [land]. +008:010 It grew great, even to the army of the sky; and some + of the army and of the stars it cast down to the ground, + and trampled on them. +008:011 Yes, it magnified itself, even to the prince of the army; + and it took away from him the continual [burnt offering], + and the place of his sanctuary was cast down. +008:012 The army was given over [to it] together with the continual + [burnt offering] through disobedience; and it cast down truth + to the ground, and it did [its pleasure] and prospered. +008:013 Then I heard a holy one speaking; and another holy one said + to that certain one who spoke, How long shall be the vision + [concerning] the continual [burnt offering], and the disobedience + that makes desolate, to give both the sanctuary and the army + to be trodden under foot? +008:014 He said to me, To two thousand and three hundred evenings + [and] mornings; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed. +008:015 It happened, when I, even I Daniel, had seen the vision, + that I sought to understand it; and behold, there stood + before me as the appearance of a man. +008:016 I heard a man's voice between [the banks of] the Ulai, which called, + and said, Gabriel, make this man to understand the vision. +008:017 So he came near where I stood; and when he came, I was frightened, + and fell on my face: but he said to me, Understand, son of man; + for the vision belongs to the time of the end. +008:018 Now as he was speaking with me, I fell into a deep sleep with my + face toward the ground; but he touched me, and set me upright. +008:019 He said, Behold, I will make you know what shall be in the latter + time of the indignation; for it belongs to the appointed time + of the end. +008:020 The ram which you saw, that had the two horns, they are the kings + of Media and Persia. +008:021 The rough male goat is the king of Greece: and the great horn + that is between his eyes is the first king. +008:022 As for that which was broken, in the place where four stood up, + four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation, but not + with his power. +008:023 In the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors + are come to the full, a king of fierce face, and understanding + dark sentences, shall stand up. +008:024 His power shall be mighty, but not by his own power; and he shall + destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper and do [his pleasure]; + and he shall destroy the mighty ones and the holy people. +008:025 Through his policy he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; + and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and in [their] + security shall he destroy many: he shall also stand up against + the prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand. +008:026 The vision of the evenings and mornings which has been told is true: + but seal up the vision; for it belongs to many days [to come]. +008:027 I, Daniel, fainted, and was sick certain days; then I rose up, + and did the king's business: and I wondered at the vision, + but none understood it. +009:001 In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed + of the Medes, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans, +009:002 in the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by the books + the number of the years about which the word of Yahweh came + to Jeremiah the prophet, for the accomplishing of the desolations + of Jerusalem, even seventy years. +009:003 I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, + with fasting and sackcloth and ashes. +009:004 I prayed to Yahweh my God, and made confession, and said, Oh, Lord, + the great and dreadful God, who keeps covenant and loving + kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments, +009:005 we have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done wickedly, + and have rebelled, even turning aside from your precepts + and from your ordinances; +009:006 neither have we listened to your servants the prophets, + who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, + and to all the people of the land. +009:007 Lord, righteousness belongs to you, but to us confusion of face, + as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants + of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, who are near, and who are + far off, through all the countries where you have driven them, + because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you. +009:008 Lord, to us belongs confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, + and to our fathers, because we have sinned against you. +009:009 To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveness; for we + have rebelled against him; +009:010 neither have we obeyed the voice of Yahweh our God, to walk + in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets. +009:011 Yes, all Israel have transgressed your law, even turning aside, + that they should not obey your voice: therefore has the curse + been poured out on us, and the oath that is written in the law + of Moses the servant of God; for we have sinned against him. +009:012 He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us, + and against our judges who judged us, by bringing on us + a great evil; for under the whole sky has not been done as has + been done on Jerusalem. +009:013 As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come on us: + yet have we not entreated the favor of Yahweh our God, + that we should turn from our iniquities, and have discernment + in your truth. +009:014 Therefore has Yahweh watched over the evil, and brought it on us; + for Yahweh our God is righteous in all his works which he does, + and we have not obeyed his voice. +009:015 Now, Lord our God, who has brought your people forth out of + the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and have gotten you renown, + as at this day; we have sinned, we have done wickedly. +009:016 Lord, according to all your righteousness, let your anger and + please let your wrath be turned away from your city Jerusalem, + your holy mountain; because for our sins, and for the iniquities + of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people are become a reproach + to all who are round about us. +009:017 Now therefore, our God, listen to the prayer of your servant, + and to his petitions, and cause your face to shine on your + sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord's sake. +009:018 My God, turn your ear, and hear; open your eyes, and see + our desolations, and the city which is called by your name: + for we do not present our petitions before you for our righteousness, + but for your great mercies' sake. +009:019 Lord, hear; Lord, forgive; Lord, listen and do; don't defer, + for your own sake, my God, because your city and your people + are called by your name. +009:020 While I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and + the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication + before Yahweh my God for the holy mountain of my God; +009:021 yes, while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had + seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, + touched me about the time of the evening offering. +009:022 He instructed me, and talked with me, and said, Daniel, I am + now come forth to give you wisdom and understanding. +009:023 At the beginning of your petitions the commandment went forth, + and I am come to tell you; for you are greatly beloved: + therefore consider the matter, and understand the vision. +009:024 Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, + to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, + and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in + everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, + and to anoint the most holy. +009:025 Know therefore and discern, that from the going forth + of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem to the + Anointed One,{"Anointed One" can also be translated "Messiah" + (same as "Christ").} the prince, shall be seven weeks, + and sixty-two weeks: it shall be built again, with street + and moat, even in troubled times. +009:026 After the sixty-two weeks the Anointed One{"Anointed One" + can also be translated "Messiah" (same as "Christ").} shall be + cut off, and shall have nothing: and the people of the prince + who shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; + and the end of it shall be with a flood, and even to the end + shall be war; desolations are determined. +009:027 He shall make a firm covenant with many for one week: + and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice + and the offering to cease; and on the wing of abominations + [shall come] one who makes desolate; and even to the full end, + and that determined, shall [wrath] be poured out on the desolate. +010:001 In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing was revealed + to Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar; and the thing + was true, even a great warfare: and he understood the thing, + and had understanding of the vision. +010:002 In those days I, Daniel, was mourning three whole weeks. +010:003 I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine into my mouth, + neither did I anoint myself at all, until three whole + weeks were fulfilled. +010:004 In the four and twentieth day of the first month, as I was + by the side of the great river, which is Hiddekel, +010:005 I lifted up my eyes, and looked, and behold, a man clothed + in linen, whose thighs were girded with pure gold of Uphaz: +010:006 his body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance + of lightning, and his eyes as flaming torches, and his arms + and his feet like burnished brass, and the voice of his words + like the voice of a multitude. +010:007 I, Daniel, alone saw the vision; for the men who were with me + didn't see the vision; but a great quaking fell on them, + and they fled to hide themselves. +010:008 So I was left alone, and saw this great vision, and there + remained no strength in me; for my comeliness was turned + in me into corruption, and I retained no strength. +010:009 Yet heard I the voice of his words; and when I heard the voice + of his words, then was I fallen into a deep sleep on my face, + with my face toward the ground. +010:010 Behold, a hand touched me, which set me on my knees and on + the palms of my hands. +010:011 He said to me, Daniel, you man greatly beloved, understand the words + that I speak to you, and stand upright; for to you am I now sent. + When he had spoken this word to me, I stood trembling. +010:012 Then said he to me, Don't be afraid, Daniel; for from + the first day that you did set your heart to understand, + and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard: + and I am come for your words' sake. +010:013 But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me twenty-one days; + but, behold, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me: + and I remained there with the kings of Persia. +010:014 Now I have come to make you understand what shall happen + to your people in the latter days; for the vision is yet + for [many] days: +010:015 and when he had spoken to me according to these words, + I set my face toward the ground, and was mute. +010:016 Behold, one in the likeness of the sons of men touched my lips: + then I opened my mouth, and spoke and said to him who stood + before me, my lord, by reason of the vision my sorrows are + turned on me, and I retain no strength. +010:017 For how can the servant of this my lord talk with this my lord? + for as for me, immediately there remained no strength in me, + neither was there breath left in me. +010:018 Then there touched me again one like the appearance of a man, + and he strengthened me. +010:019 He said, "Greatly beloved man, don't be afraid: + peace be to you, be strong, yes, be strong." When he spoke + to me, I was strengthened, and said, "Let my lord speak; + for you have strengthened me." +010:020 Then he said, "Do you know why I have come to you? + Now I will return to fight with the prince of Persia. + When I go forth, behold, the prince of Greece shall come. +010:021 But I will tell you that which is inscribed in the writing + of truth: and there is none who holds with me against these, + but Michael your prince." +011:001 "As for me, in the first year of Darius the Mede, I stood up + to confirm and strengthen him. +011:002 Now will I show you the truth. Behold, there shall stand up + yet three kings in Persia; and the fourth shall be far richer + than they all: and when he has grown strong through his riches, + he shall stir up all against the realm of Greece. +011:003 A mighty king shall stand up, who shall rule with great dominion, + and do according to his will. +011:004 When he shall stand up, his kingdom shall be broken, + and shall be divided toward the four winds of the sky, + but not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion + with which he ruled; for his kingdom shall be plucked up, + even for others besides these. +011:005 The king of the south shall be strong, and [one] of his princes; + and he shall be strong above him, and have dominion; + his dominion shall be a great dominion. +011:006 At the end of years they shall join themselves together; + and the daughter of the king of the south shall come to the king + of the north to make an agreement: but she shall not retain + the strength of her arm; neither shall he stand, nor his arm; + but she shall be given up, and those who brought her, + and he who became the father of her, and he who strengthened + her in those times. +011:007 But out of a shoot from her roots shall one stand up in his place, + who shall come to the army, and shall enter into the fortress + of the king of the north, and shall deal against them, + and shall prevail. +011:008 Also their gods, with their molten images, [and] with their goodly + vessels of silver and of gold, shall he carry captive into Egypt; + and he shall refrain some years from the king of the north. +011:009 He shall come into the realm of the king of the south, + but he shall return into his own land. +011:010 His sons shall war, and shall assemble a multitude of great forces, + which shall come on, and overflow, and pass through; + and they shall return and war, even to his fortress. +011:011 The king of the south shall be moved with anger, and shall come + forth and fight with him, even with the king of the north; + and he shall set forth a great multitude, and the multitude + shall be given into his hand. +011:012 The multitude shall be lifted up, and his heart shall be exalted; + and he shall cast down tens of thousands, but he shall not prevail. +011:013 The king of the north shall return, and shall set forth + a multitude greater than the former; and he shall come on + at the end of the times, [even of] years, with a great army + and with much substance. +011:014 In those times there shall many stand up against the king + of the south: also the children of the violent among your + people shall lift themselves up to establish the vision; + but they shall fall. +011:015 So the king of the north shall come, and cast up a mound, + and take a well-fortified city: and the forces of the south + shall not stand, neither his chosen people, neither shall + there be any strength to stand. +011:016 But he who comes against him shall do according to his own will, + and none shall stand before him; and he shall stand in + the glorious land, and in his hand shall be destruction. +011:017 He shall set his face to come with the strength of his whole kingdom, + and with him equitable conditions; and he shall perform them: + and he shall give him the daughter of women, to corrupt her; + but she shall not stand, neither be for him. +011:018 After this shall he turn his face to the islands, and shall + take many: but a prince shall cause the reproach offered + by him to cease; yes, moreover, he shall cause his reproach + to turn on him. +011:019 Then he shall turn his face toward the fortresses of his own land; + but he shall stumble and fall, and shall not be found. +011:020 Then shall stand up in his place one who shall cause a tax + collector to pass through the kingdom to maintain its glory; + but within few days he shall be destroyed, neither in anger, + nor in battle. +011:021 In his place shall stand up a contemptible person, + to whom they had not given the honor of the kingdom: + but he shall come in time of security, and shall obtain + the kingdom by flatteries. +011:022 The overwhelming forces shall be overwhelmed from before him, + and shall be broken; yes, also the prince of the covenant. +011:023 After the league made with him he shall work deceitfully; + for he shall come up, and shall become strong, with a small people. +011:024 In time of security shall he come even on the fattest places of + the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, + nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them prey, + and spoil, and substance: yes, he shall devise his devices + against the strongholds, even for a time. +011:025 He shall stir up his power and his courage against the king + of the south with a great army; and the king of the south + shall war in battle with an exceeding great and mighty army; + but he shall not stand; for they shall devise devices against him. +011:026 Yes, they who eat of his dainties shall destroy him, and his + army shall overflow; and many shall fall down slain. +011:027 As for both these kings, their hearts shall be to do mischief, + and they shall speak lies at one table: but it shall not prosper; + for yet the end shall be at the time appointed. +011:028 Then shall he return into his land with great substance; + and his heart [shall be] against the holy covenant; + and he shall do [his pleasure], and return to his own land. +011:029 At the time appointed he shall return, and come into the south; + but it shall not be in the latter time as it was in the former. +011:030 For ships of Kittim shall come against him; therefore he shall + be grieved, and shall return, and have indignation against the + holy covenant, and shall do [his pleasure]: he shall even return, + and have regard to those who forsake the holy covenant. +011:031 Forces shall stand on his part, and they shall profane the sanctuary, + even the fortress, and shall take away the continual + [burnt offering], and they shall set up the abomination + that makes desolate. +011:032 Such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he pervert + by flatteries; but the people who know their God shall be strong, + and do [exploits]. +011:033 Those who are wise among the people shall instruct many; + yet they shall fall by the sword and by flame, by captivity + and by spoil, [many] days. +011:034 Now when they shall fall, they shall be helped with a little help; + but many shall join themselves to them with flatteries. +011:035 Some of those who are wise shall fall, to refine them, + and to purify, and to make them white, even to the time of the end; + because it is yet for the time appointed. +011:036 The king shall do according to his will; and he shall + exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, + and shall speak marvelous things against the God of gods; + and he shall prosper until the indignation be accomplished; + for that which is determined shall be done. +011:037 Neither shall he regard the gods of his fathers, nor the + desire of women, nor regard any god; for he shall magnify + himself above all. +011:038 But in his place shall he honor the god of fortresses; + and a god whom his fathers didn't know shall he honor with gold, + and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things. +011:039 He shall deal with the strongest fortresses by the help of a + foreign god: whoever acknowledges [him] he will increase + with glory; and he shall cause them to rule over many, + and shall divide the land for a price. +011:040 At the time of the end shall the king of the south contend with him; + and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, + with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; + and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow + and pass through. +011:041 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many [countries] + shall be overthrown; but these shall be delivered out of his hand: + Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon. +011:042 He shall stretch forth his hand also on the countries; + and the land of Egypt shall not escape. +011:043 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, + and over all the precious things of Egypt; and the Libyans + and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps. +011:044 But news out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him; + and he shall go forth with great fury to destroy and utterly + to sweep away many. +011:045 He shall plant the tents of his palace between the sea and + the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, + and none shall help him. +012:001 "At that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince who stands + for the children of your people; and there shall be a time + of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to + that same time: and at that time your people shall be delivered, + everyone who shall be found written in the book. +012:002 Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to + everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. +012:003 Those who are wise shall shine as the brightness of the expanse; + and those who turn many to righteousness as the stars + forever and ever. +012:004 But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, + even to the time of the end: many shall run back and forth, + and knowledge shall be increased." +012:005 Then I, Daniel, looked, and behold, there stood other two, + the one on the brink of the river on this side, and the other + on the brink of the river on that side. +012:006 One said to the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters + of the river, How long shall it be to the end of these wonders? +012:007 I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters + of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand + to heaven, and swore by him who lives forever that it shall + be for a time, times, and a half; and when they have made + an end of breaking in pieces the power of the holy people, + all these things shall be finished. +012:008 I heard, but I didn't understand: then said I, my lord, + what shall be the issue of these things? +012:009 He said, Go your way, Daniel; for the words are shut up + and sealed until the time of the end. +012:010 Many shall purify themselves, and make themselves white, + and be refined; but the wicked shall do wickedly; + and none of the wicked shall understand; but those who are + wise shall understand. +012:011 From the time that the continual [burnt offering] shall be + taken away, and the abomination that makes desolate set up, + there shall be one thousand two hundred ninety days. +012:012 Blessed is he who waits, and comes to the one thousand three + hundred thirty-five days. +012:013 But go you your way until the end be; for you shall rest, + and shall stand in your lot, at the end of the days. +Book 28 Hosea +001:001 The word of Yahweh that came to Hosea the son of Beeri, + in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, + kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, + king of Israel. +001:002 When Yahweh spoke at the first by Hosea, Yahweh said + to Hosea, "Go, take for yourself a wife of prostitution + and children of unfaithfulness; for the land commits + great adultery, forsaking Yahweh." +001:003 So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; + and she conceived, and bore him a son. +001:004 Yahweh said to him, "Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, + and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel on the house of Jehu, + and will cause the kingdom of the house of Israel to cease. +001:005 It will happen in that day that I will break the bow of Israel + in the valley of Jezreel." +001:006 She conceived again, and bore a daughter. Then he said to him, + "Call her name Lo-Ruhamah{Lo-Ruhamah means "not loved."}; + for I will no longer have mercy on the house of Israel, + that I should in any way pardon them. +001:007 But I will have mercy on the house of Judah, and will save + them by Yahweh their God, and will not save them by bow, + sword, battle, horses, or horsemen." +001:008 Now when she had weaned Lo-Ruhamah, she conceived, and bore a son. +001:009 He said, "Call his name Lo-Ammi{Lo-Ammi means "not my people"}; + for you are not my people, and I will not be yours. +001:010 Yet the number of the children of Israel will be as the sand + of the sea, which can't be measured nor numbered; + and it will come to pass that, in the place where it was said + to them, 'You are not my people,' they will be called 'sons + of the living God.' +001:011 The children of Judah and the children of Israel will be + gathered together, and they will appoint themselves one head, + and will go up from the land; for great will be the day of Jezreel. +002:001 "Say to your brothers, 'My people!'{'Ammi' in Hebrew} and to + your sisters, 'My loved one!'{'Ruhamah' in Hebrew} +002:002 Contend with your mother! Contend, for she is not my wife, + neither am I her husband; and let her put away her prostitution + from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts; +002:003 Lest I strip her naked, and make her bare as in the day + that she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and set + her like a dry land, and kill her with thirst. +002:004 Indeed, on her children I will have no mercy; for they are + children of unfaithfulness; +002:005 For their mother has played the prostitute. She who conceived them + has done shamefully; for she said, 'I will go after my lovers, + who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, + my oil and my drink.' +002:006 Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and I + will build a wall against her, that she can't find her way. +002:007 She will follow after her lovers, but she won't overtake them; + and she will seek them, but won't find them. + Then she will say, 'I will go and return to my first husband; + for then was it better with me than now.' +002:008 For she did not know that I gave her the grain, the new wine, + and the oil, and multiplied to her silver and gold, which they + used for Baal. +002:009 Therefore I will take back my grain in its time, and my new + wine in its season, and will pluck away my wool and my flax + which should have covered her nakedness. +002:010 Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, + and no one will deliver her out of my hand. +002:011 I will also cause all her celebrations to cease: her feasts, + her new moons, her Sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies. +002:012 I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, about which she + has said, 'These are my wages that my lovers have given me; + and I will make them a forest,' and the animals of the field + shall eat them. +002:013 I will visit on her the days of the Baals, to which she burned + incense, when she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, + and went after her lovers, and forgot me," says Yahweh. +002:014 "Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into + the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her. +002:015 I will give her vineyards from there, and the valley + of Achor for a door of hope; and she will respond there, + as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came + up out of the land of Egypt. +002:016 It will be in that day," says Yahweh, "that you will call me + 'my husband,' and no longer call me 'my master.' +002:017 For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth, + and they will no longer be mentioned by name. +002:018 In that day I will make a covenant for them with the animals + of the field, and with the birds of the sky, and with + the creeping things of the ground. I will break the bow, + the sword, and the battle out of the land, and will make them + lie down safely. +002:019 I will betroth you to me forever. Yes, I will betroth you + to me in righteousness, in justice, in loving kindness, + and in compassion. +002:020 I will even betroth you to me in faithfulness; and you + shall know Yahweh. +002:021 It will happen in that day, I will respond," says Yahweh, "I will + respond to the heavens, and they will respond to the earth; +002:022 and the earth will respond to the grain, and the new wine, + and the oil; and they will respond to Jezreel. +002:023 I will sow her to me in the earth; and I will have mercy on her + who had not obtained mercy; and I will tell those who were not + my people, 'You are my people;' and they will say, 'My God!'" +003:001 Yahweh said to me, "Go again, love a woman loved by another, + and an adulteress, even as Yahweh loves the children of Israel, + though they turn to other gods, and love cakes of raisins." +003:002 So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver + and a homer and a half of barley. +003:003 I said to her, "You shall stay with me many days. You shall not + play the prostitute, and you shall not be with any other man. + I will also be so toward you." +003:004 For the children of Israel shall abide many days without king, + and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without + sacred stone, and without ephod or idols. +003:005 Afterward the children of Israel shall return, and seek Yahweh + their God, and David their king, and shall come with trembling + to Yahweh and to his blessings in the last days. +004:001 Hear the word of Yahweh, you children of Israel; + for Yahweh has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: + "Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God + in the land. +004:002 There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; + they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed. +004:003 Therefore the land will mourn, and everyone who dwells therein + will waste away. all living things in her, even the animals + of the field and the birds of the sky; yes, the fish of + the sea also die. +004:004 "Yet let no man bring a charge, neither let any man accuse; + For your people are like those who bring charges against a priest. +004:005 You will stumble in the day, and the prophet will also stumble + with you in the night; and I will destroy your mother. +004:006 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. + Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, + that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten + your God's law, I will also forget your children. +004:007 As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me. + I will change their glory into shame. +004:008 They feed on the sin of my people, and set their heart + on their iniquity. +004:009 It will be, like people, like priest; and I will punish them + for their ways, and will repay them for their deeds. +004:010 They will eat, and not have enough. They will play the prostitute, + and will not increase; because they have abandoned + giving to Yahweh. +004:011 Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away understanding. +004:012 My people consult with their wooden idol, and answer to a stick + of wood. Indeed the spirit of prostitution has led them astray, + and they have been unfaithful to their God. +004:013 They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains, and burn incense + on the hills, under oaks and poplars and terebinths, because its + shade is good. Therefore your daughters play the prostitute, + and your brides commit adultery. +004:014 I will not punish your daughters when they play the prostitute, + nor your brides when they commit adultery; because the men consort + with prostitutes, and they sacrifice with the shrine prostitutes; + so the people without understanding will come to ruin. +004:015 "Though you, Israel, play the prostitute, yet don't let Judah offend; + and don't come to Gilgal, neither go up to Beth Aven, nor swear, + 'As Yahweh lives.' +004:016 For Israel has behaved extremely stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer. + Then how will Yahweh feed them like a lamb in a meadow. +004:017 Ephraim is joined to idols. Leave him alone! +004:018 Their drink has become sour. They play the prostitute continually. + Her rulers dearly love their shameful way. +004:019 The wind has wrapped her up in its wings; and they shall + be disappointed because of their sacrifices. +005:001 "Listen to this, you priests! Listen, house of Israel, + and give ear, house of the king! For the judgment is against you; + for you have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread on Tabor. +005:002 The rebels are deep in slaughter; but I discipline all of them. +005:003 I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me; + for now, Ephraim, you have played the prostitute. + Israel is defiled. +005:004 Their deeds won't allow them to turn to their God; for the spirit + of prostitution is within them, and they don't know Yahweh. +005:005 The pride of Israel testifies to his face. + Therefore Israel and Ephraim will stumble in their iniquity. + Judah also will stumble with them. +005:006 They will go with their flocks and with their herds to seek Yahweh; + but they won't find him. He has withdrawn himself from them. +005:007 They are unfaithful to Yahweh; for they have borne + illegitimate children. Now the new moon will devour them + with their fields. +005:008 "Blow the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah! Sound a + battle cry at Beth Aven, behind you, Benjamin! +005:009 Ephraim will become a desolation in the day of rebuke. + Among the tribes of Israel, I have made known that which + will surely be. +005:010 The princes of Judah are like those who remove a landmark. + I will pour out my wrath on them like water. +005:011 Ephraim is oppressed, he is crushed in judgment; Because he is + intent in his pursuit of idols. +005:012 Therefore I am to Ephraim like a moth, and to the house + of Judah like rottenness. +005:013 "When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his wound, + Then Ephraim went to Assyria, and sent to king Jareb: + but he is not able to heal you, neither will he cure you + of your wound. +005:014 For I will be to Ephraim like a lion, and like a young lion to + the house of Judah. I myself will tear in pieces and go away. + I will carry off, and there will be no one to deliver. +005:015 I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge + their offense, and seek my face. In their affliction they + will seek me earnestly." +006:001 "Come, and let us return to Yahweh; for he has torn us to pieces, + and he will heal us; he has injured us, and he will bind + up our wounds. +006:002 After two days he will revive us. On the third day he will + raise us up, and we will live before him. +006:003 Let us acknowledge Yahweh. Let us press on to know Yahweh. + As surely as the sun rises, Yahweh will appear. + He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain + that waters the earth." +006:004 "Ephraim, what shall I do to you? Judah, what shall I do to you? + For your love is like a morning cloud, and like the dew + that disappears early. +006:005 Therefore I have cut them to pieces with the prophets; + I killed them with the words of my mouth. Your judgments + are like a flash of lightning. +006:006 For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God + more than burnt offerings. +006:007 But they, like Adam, have broken the covenant. + They were unfaithful to me, there. +006:008 Gilead is a city of those who work iniquity; it is + stained with blood. +006:009 As gangs of robbers wait to ambush a man, so the company of priests + murder in the way toward Shechem, committing shameful crimes. +006:010 In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing. + There is prostitution in Ephraim. Israel is defiled. +006:011 "Also, Judah, there is a harvest appointed for you, when I + restore the fortunes of my people. +007:001 When I would heal Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim is uncovered, + also the wickedness of Samaria; for they commit falsehood, + and the thief enters in, and the gang of robbers ravages outside. +007:002 They don't consider in their hearts that I remember all + their wickedness. Now their own deeds have engulfed them. + They are before my face. +007:003 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes + with their lies. +007:004 They are all adulterers. They are burning like an oven that + the baker stops stirring, from the kneading of the dough, + until it is leavened. +007:005 On the day of our king, the princes made themselves sick + with the heat of wine. He joined his hand with mockers. +007:006 For they have made ready their heart like an oven, + while they lie in wait. Their baker sleeps all the night. + In the morning it burns as a flaming fire. +007:007 They are all hot as an oven, and devour their judges. + All their kings have fallen. There is no one among them + who calls to me. +007:008 Ephraim, he mixes himself among the nations. Ephraim is + a pancake not turned over. +007:009 Strangers have devoured his strength, and he doesn't + realize it. Indeed, gray hairs are here and there on him, + and he doesn't realize it. +007:010 The pride of Israel testifies to his face; yet they haven't + returned to Yahweh their God, nor sought him, for all this. +007:011 "Ephraim is like an easily deceived dove, without understanding. + They call to Egypt. They go to Assyria. +007:012 When they go, I will spread my net on them. I will bring + them down like the birds of the sky. I will chastise them, + as their congregation has heard. +007:013 Woe to them! For they have wandered from me. Destruction to them! + For they have trespassed against me. Though I would redeem them, + yet they have spoken lies against me. +007:014 They haven't cried to me with their heart, but they howl on + their beds. They assemble themselves for grain and new wine. + They turn away from me. +007:015 Though I have taught and strengthened their arms, yet they + plot evil against me. +007:016 They return, but not to the Most High. They are like a faulty bow. + Their princes will fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue. + This will be their derision in the land of Egypt. +008:001 "Put the trumpet to your lips! Something like an eagle is + over Yahweh's house, because they have broken my covenant, + and rebelled against my law. +008:002 They cry to me, 'My God, we Israel acknowledge you!' +008:003 Israel has cast off that which is good. The enemy will pursue him. +008:004 They have set up kings, but not by me. They have made princes, + and I didn't approve. Of their silver and their gold they + have made themselves idols, that they may be cut off. +008:005 Let Samaria throw out his calf idol! My anger burns against them! + How long will it be until they are capable of purity? +008:006 For this is even from Israel! The workman made it, and it is + no God; indeed, the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces. +008:007 For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. + He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. + If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up. +008:008 Israel is swallowed up. Now they are among the nations + like a worthless thing. +008:009 For they have gone up to Assyria, like a wild donkey wandering alone. + Ephraim has hired lovers for himself. +008:010 But although they sold themselves among the nations, + I will now gather them; and they begin to waste away because + of the oppression of the king of mighty ones. +008:011 Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning, they became + for him altars for sinning. +008:012 I wrote for him the many things of my law; but they were regarded + as a strange thing. +008:013 As for the sacrifices of my offerings, they sacrifice + flesh and eat it; But Yahweh doesn't accept them. + Now he will remember their iniquity, and punish their sins. + They will return to Egypt. +008:014 For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; + and Judah has multiplied fortified cities; but I will send + a fire on his cities, and it will devour its fortresses." +009:001 Don't rejoice, Israel, to jubilation like the nations; + for you were unfaithful to your God. You love the wages + of a prostitute at every grain threshing floor. +009:002 The threshing floor and the winepress won't feed them, + and the new wine will fail her. +009:003 They won't dwell in Yahweh's land; but Ephraim will return + to Egypt, and they will eat unclean food in Assyria. +009:004 They won't pour out wine offerings to Yahweh, neither will + they be pleasing to him. Their sacrifices will be to them + like the bread of mourners; all who eat of it will be polluted; + for their bread will be for their appetite. It will not come + into the house of Yahweh. +009:005 What will you do in the day of solemn assembly, and in the day + of the feast of Yahweh? +009:006 For, behold, they have gone away from destruction. + Egypt will gather them up. Memphis will bury them. + Nettles will possess their pleasant things of silver. + Thorns will be in their tents. +009:007 The days of visitation have come. The days of reckoning have come. + Israel will consider the prophet to be a fool, and the man who is + inspired to be insane, because of the abundance of your sins, + and because your hostility is great. +009:008 A prophet watches over Ephraim with my God. A fowler's snare + is on all of his paths, and hostility in the house of his God. +009:009 They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah. + He will remember their iniquity. He will punish them + for their sins. +009:010 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your + fathers as the first ripe in the fig tree at its first season; + but they came to Baal Peor, and consecrated themselves + to the shameful thing, and became abominable like that + which they loved. +009:011 As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird. + There will be no birth, none with child, and no conception. +009:012 Though they bring up their children, yet I will bereave them, + so that not a man shall be left. Indeed, woe also to them + when I depart from them! +009:013 I have seen Ephraim, like Tyre, planted in a pleasant place; + but Ephraim will bring out his children to the murderer. +009:014 Give them--Yahweh what will you give? Give them a miscarrying + womb and dry breasts. +009:015 "All their wickedness is in Gilgal; for there I hated them. + Because of the wickedness of their deeds I will drive + them out of my house! I will love them no more. + All their princes are rebels. +009:016 Ephraim is struck. Their root has dried up. They will bear + no fruit. Even though they bring forth, yet I will kill + the beloved ones of their womb." +009:017 My God will cast them away, because they did not listen to him; + and they will be wanderers among the nations. +010:001 Israel is a luxuriant vine that puts forth his fruit. + According to the abundance of his fruit he has multiplied + his altars. As their land has prospered, they have adorned + their sacred stones. +010:002 Their heart is divided. Now they will be found guilty. + He will demolish their altars. He will destroy their sacred stones. +010:003 Surely now they will say, "We have no king; for we don't fear Yahweh; + and the king, what can he do for us?" +010:004 They make promises, swearing falsely in making covenants. + Therefore judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows + of the field. +010:005 The inhabitants of Samaria will be in terror for the calves + of Beth Aven; for its people will mourn over it, Along with + its priests who rejoiced over it, for its glory, because it + has departed from it. +010:006 It also will be carried to Assyria for a present to a great king. + Ephraim will receive shame, and Israel will be ashamed + of his own counsel. +010:007 Samaria and her king float away, like a twig on the water. +010:008 The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, will be destroyed. + The thorn and the thistle will come up on their altars. + They will tell the mountains, "Cover us!" and the hills, + "Fall on us!" +010:009 "Israel, you have sinned from the days of Gibeah. + There they remained. The battle against the children + of iniquity doesn't overtake them in Gibeah. +010:010 When it is my desire, I will chastise them; and the nations + will be gathered against them, when they are bound to + their two transgressions. +010:011 Ephraim is a trained heifer that loves to thresh; so I will put + a yoke on her beautiful neck. I will set a rider on Ephraim. + Judah will plow. Jacob will break his clods. +010:012 Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness. + Break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek Yahweh, + until he comes and rains righteousness on you. +010:013 You have plowed wickedness. You have reaped iniquity. + You have eaten the fruit of lies, for you trusted in your way, + in the multitude of your mighty men. +010:014 Therefore a battle roar will arise among your people, + and all your fortresses will be destroyed, as Shalman destroyed + Beth Arbel in the day of battle. The mother was dashed + in pieces with her children. +010:015 So Bethel will do to you because of your great wickedness. + At daybreak the king of Israel will be destroyed. +011:001 "When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son + out of Egypt. +011:002 They called to them, so they went from them. They sacrificed + to the Baals, and burned incense to engraved images. +011:003 Yet I taught Ephraim to walk. I took them by his arms; + but they didn't know that I healed them. +011:004 I drew them with cords of a man, with ties of love; and I + was to them like those who lift up the yoke on their necks; + and I bent down to him and I fed him. +011:005 "They won't return into the land of Egypt; but the Assyrian + will be their king, because they refused to repent. +011:006 The sword will fall on their cities, and will destroy the bars + of their gates, and will put an end to their plans. +011:007 My people are determined to turn from me. Though they call + to the Most High, he certainly won't exalt them. +011:008 "How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand + you over, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can + I make you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within me, + my compassion is aroused. +011:009 I will not execute the fierceness of my anger. I will not + return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; + the Holy One in the midst of you; and I will not come in wrath. +011:010 They will walk after Yahweh, who will roar like a lion; + for he will roar, and the children will come trembling + from the west. +011:011 They will come trembling like a bird out of Egypt, and like + a dove out of the land of Assyria; and I will settle them + in their houses," says Yahweh. +011:012 Ephraim surrounds me with falsehood, and the house of Israel + with deceit. Judah still strays from God, and is unfaithful + to the Holy One. +012:001 Ephraim feeds on wind, and chases the east wind. + He continually multiplies lies and desolation. They make + a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt. +012:002 Yahweh also has a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob + according to his ways; according to his deeds he will repay him. +012:003 In the womb he took his brother by the heel; and in his manhood + he contended with God. +012:004 Indeed, he struggled with the angel, and prevailed; he wept, + and made supplication to him. He found him at Bethel, + and there he spoke with us, +012:005 even Yahweh, the God of Armies; Yahweh is his name of renown! +012:006 Therefore turn to your God. Keep kindness and justice, + and wait continually for your God. +012:007 A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. He loves to defraud. +012:008 Ephraim said, "Surely I have become rich, I have found myself wealth. + In all my wealth they won't find in me any iniquity that is sin." +012:009 "But I am Yahweh your God from the land of Egypt. + I will yet again make you dwell in tents, as in the days + of the solemn feast. +012:010 I have also spoken to the prophets, and I have multiplied visions; + and by the ministry of the prophets I have used parables. +012:011 If Gilead is wicked, surely they are worthless. In Gilgal + they sacrifice bulls. Indeed, their altars are like heaps + in the furrows of the field. +012:012 Jacob fled into the country of Aram, and Israel served to get + a wife, and for a wife he tended flocks and herds. +012:013 By a prophet Yahweh brought Israel up out of Egypt, and by a + prophet he was preserved. +012:014 Ephraim has bitterly provoked anger. Therefore his blood + will be left on him, and his Lord will repay his contempt. +013:001 When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling. He exalted himself + in Israel, but when he became guilty in Baal, he died. +013:002 Now they sin more and more, and have made themselves molten + images of their silver, even idols according to their + own understanding, all of them the work of the craftsmen. + They say of them, 'They offer human sacrifice and kiss the calves.' +013:003 Therefore they will be like the morning mist, and like the dew + that passes away early, like the chaff that is driven with + the whirlwind out of the threshing floor, and like the smoke + out of the chimney. +013:004 "Yet I am Yahweh your God from the land of Egypt; and you shall + acknowledge no god but me, and besides me there is no savior. +013:005 I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of great drought. +013:006 According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, + and their heart was exalted. Therefore they have forgotten me. +013:007 Therefore I am like a lion to them. Like a leopard, I will + lurk by the path. +013:008 I will meet them like a bear that is bereaved of her cubs, + and will tear the covering of their heart. There I will devour + them like a lioness. The wild animal will tear them. +013:009 You are destroyed, Israel, because you are against me, + against your help. +013:010 Where is your king now, that he may save you in all your cities? + And your judges, of whom you said, 'Give me a king and princes?' +013:011 I have given you a king in my anger, and have taken him away + in my wrath. +013:012 The guilt of Ephraim is stored up. His sin is stored up. +013:013 The sorrows of a travailing woman will come on him. + He is an unwise son; for when it is time, he doesn't come + to the opening of the womb. +013:014 I will ransom them from the power of Sheol. I will redeem them + from death! Death, where are your plagues? Sheol, where is + your destruction? "Compassion will be hidden from my eyes. +013:015 Though he is fruitful among his brothers, an east wind will come, + the breath of Yahweh coming up from the wilderness; and his + spring will become dry, and his fountain will be dried up. + He will plunder the storehouse of treasure. +013:016 Samaria will bear her guilt; for she has rebelled against her God. + They will fall by the sword. Their infants will be dashed + in pieces, and their pregnant women will be ripped open." +014:001 Israel, return to Yahweh your God; for you have fallen because + of your sin. +014:002 Take words with you, and return to Yahweh. Tell him, + "Forgive all our sins, and accept that which is good: + so we offer our lips like bulls. +014:003 Assyria can't save us. We won't ride on horses; neither will + we say any more to the work of our hands, 'Our gods!' + for in you the fatherless finds mercy." +014:004 "I will heal their waywardness. I will love them freely; + for my anger is turned away from him. +014:005 I will be like the dew to Israel. He will blossom like the lily, + and send down his roots like Lebanon. +014:006 His branches will spread, and his beauty will be like the olive tree, + and his fragrance like Lebanon. +014:007 Men will dwell in his shade. They will revive like the grain, + and blossom like the vine. Their fragrance will be like + the wine of Lebanon. +014:008 Ephraim, what have I to do any more with idols? I answer, + and will take care of him. I am like a green fir tree; + from me your fruit is found." +014:009 Who is wise, that he may understand these things? + Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Yahweh + are right, and the righteous walk in them; But the rebellious + stumble in them. +Book 29 Joel +001:001 The Word of Yahweh that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel. +001:002 Hear this, you elders, And listen, all you inhabitants of the land. + Has this ever happened in your days, or in the days + of your fathers? +001:003 Tell your children about it, and have your children tell + their children, and their children, another generation. +001:004 What the swarming locust has left, the great locust has eaten. + What the great locust has left, the grasshopper has eaten. + What the grasshopper has left, the caterpillar has eaten. +001:005 Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you drinkers of wine, + because of the sweet wine; for it is cut off from your mouth. +001:006 For a nation has come up on my land, strong, and without number. + His teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the fangs + of a lioness. +001:007 He has laid my vine waste, and stripped my fig tree. + He has stripped its bark, and thrown it away. Its branches + are made white. +001:008 Mourn like a virgin dressed in sackcloth for the husband + of her youth! +001:009 The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from + Yahweh's house. The priests, Yahweh's ministers, mourn. +001:010 The field is laid waste. The land mourns, for the grain + is destroyed, The new wine has dried up, and the oil languishes. +001:011 Be confounded, you farmers! Wail, you vineyard keepers; + for the wheat and for the barley; for the harvest of the + field has perished. +001:012 The vine has dried up, and the fig tree withered; + the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, + even all of the trees of the field are withered; for joy has + withered away from the sons of men. +001:013 Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests! Wail, you ministers + of the altar. Come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers + of my God, for the meal offering and the drink offering are + withheld from your God's house. +001:014 Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly. Gather the elders, + and all the inhabitants of the land, to the house of Yahweh, + your God, and cry to Yahweh. +001:015 Alas for the day! For the day of Yahweh is at hand, and it + will come as destruction from the Almighty. +001:016 Isn't the food cut off before our eyes; joy and gladness + from the house of our God? +001:017 The seeds rot under their clods. The granaries are laid desolate. + The barns are broken down, for the grain has withered. +001:018 How the animals groan! The herds of livestock are perplexed, + because they have no pasture. Yes, the flocks of sheep + are made desolate. +001:019 Yahweh, I cry to you, For the fire has devoured the pastures + of the wilderness, and the flame has burned all the trees + of the field. +001:020 Yes, the animals of the field pant to you, for the water + brooks have dried up, And the fire has devoured the pastures + of the wilderness. +002:001 Blow the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain! + Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day + of Yahweh comes, for it is close at hand: +002:002 A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness. + As the dawn spreading on the mountains, a great and strong people; + there has never been the like, neither will there be any more + after them, even to the years of many generations. +002:003 A fire devours before them, and behind them, a flame burns. + The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them, + a desolate wilderness. Yes, and no one has escaped them. +002:004 The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses, + and as horsemen, so do they run. +002:005 Like the noise of chariots on the tops of the mountains do they leap, + like the noise of a flame of fire that devours the stubble, + as a strong people set in battle array. +002:006 At their presence the peoples are in anguish. All faces + have grown pale. +002:007 They run like mighty men. They climb the wall like warriors. + They each march in his line, and they don't swerve off course. +002:008 Neither does one jostle another; they march everyone in his path, + and they burst through the defenses, and don't break ranks. +002:009 They rush on the city. They run on the wall. They climb up + into the houses. They enter in at the windows like thieves. +002:010 The earth quakes before them. The heavens tremble. + The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars + withdraw their shining. +002:011 Yahweh thunders his voice before his army; for his forces + are very great; for he is strong who obeys his command; + for the day of Yahweh is great and very awesome, and who + can endure it? +002:012 "Yet even now," says Yahweh, "turn to me with all your heart, + and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning." +002:013 Tear your heart, and not your garments, and turn to Yahweh, + your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, + and abundant in loving kindness, and relents from sending calamity. +002:014 Who knows? He may turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind him, + even a meal offering and a drink offering to Yahweh, your God. +002:015 Blow the trumpet in Zion! Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly. +002:016 Gather the people. Sanctify the assembly. Assemble the elders. + Gather the children, and those who suck the breasts. + Let the bridegroom go forth from his room, and the bride + out of her chamber. +002:017 Let the priests, the ministers of Yahweh, weep between the porch + and the altar, and let them say, "Spare your people, Yahweh, + and don't give your heritage to reproach, that the nations + should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, + 'Where is their God?'" +002:018 Then Yahweh was jealous for his land, And had pity on his people. +002:019 Yahweh answered his people, "Behold, I will send you grain, + new wine, and oil, and you will be satisfied with them; + and I will no more make you a reproach among the nations. +002:020 But I will remove the northern army far away from you, + and will drive it into a barren and desolate land, its front + into the eastern sea, and its back into the western sea; + and its stench will come up, and its bad smell will rise." + Surely he has done great things. +002:021 Land, don't be afraid. Be glad and rejoice, for Yahweh has + done great things. +002:022 Don't be afraid, you animals of the field; for the pastures + of the wilderness spring up, for the tree bears its fruit. + The fig tree and the vine yield their strength. +002:023 "Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in Yahweh, + your God; for he gives you the former rain in just measure, + and he causes the rain to come down for you, the former rain + and the latter rain, as before. +002:024 The threshing floors will be full of wheat, and the vats + will overflow with new wine and oil. +002:025 I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, + the great locust, the grasshopper, and the caterpillar, + my great army, which I sent among you. +002:026 You will have plenty to eat, and be satisfied, and will praise + the name of Yahweh, your God, who has dealt wondrously with you; + and my people will never again be disappointed. +002:027 You will know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I + am Yahweh, your God, and there is no one else; and my people + will never again be disappointed. +002:028 "It will happen afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on + all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will prophesy. + Your old men will dream dreams. Your young men will see visions. +002:029 And also on the servants and on the handmaids in those days, + I will pour out my Spirit. +002:030 I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth: + blood, fire, and pillars of smoke. +002:031 The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, + before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes. +002:032 It will happen that whoever will call on the name of Yahweh + shall be saved; for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will + be those who escape, as Yahweh has said, and among the remnant, + those whom Yahweh calls. +003:001 "For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I restore + the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem, +003:002 I will gather all nations, and will bring them down into + the valley of Jehoshaphat; and I will execute judgment on them + there for my people, and for my heritage, Israel, whom they + have scattered among the nations. They have divided my land, +003:003 and have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for + a prostitute, and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink. +003:004 "Yes, and what are you to me, Tyre, and Sidon, + and all the regions of Philistia? Will you repay me? + And if you repay me, I will swiftly and speedily return + your repayment on your own head. +003:005 Because you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried + my finest treasures into your temples, +003:006 and have sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem + to the sons of the Greeks, that you may remove them far + from their border. +003:007 Behold, I will stir them up out of the place where you have + sold them, and will return your repayment on your own head; +003:008 and I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hands + of the children of Judah, and they will sell them to the men + of Sheba, to a faraway nation, for Yahweh has spoken it." +003:009 Proclaim this among the nations: "Prepare for war! + Stir up the mighty men. Let all the warriors draw near. + Let them come up. +003:010 Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears. + Let the weak say, 'I am strong.' +003:011 Hurry and come, all you surrounding nations, and gather + yourselves together." Cause your mighty ones to come + down there, Yahweh. +003:012 "Let the nations arouse themselves, and come up to the valley + of Jehoshaphat; for there will I sit to judge all + the surrounding nations. +003:013 Put in the sickle; for the harvest is ripe. Come, tread, + for the winepress is full, the vats overflow, for their + wickedness is great." +003:014 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! + For the day of Yahweh is near, in the valley of decision. +003:015 The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars + withdraw their shining. +003:016 Yahweh will roar from Zion, and thunder from Jerusalem; + and the heavens and the earth will shake; but Yahweh will be a + refuge to his people, and a stronghold to the children of Israel. +003:017 "So you will know that I am Yahweh, your God, dwelling in Zion, + my holy mountain. Then Jerusalem will be holy, and no strangers + will pass through her any more. +003:018 It will happen in that day, that the mountains will drop down + sweet wine, the hills will flow with milk, all the brooks + of Judah will flow with waters, and a fountain will come forth + from the house of Yahweh, and will water the valley of Shittim. +003:019 Egypt will be a desolation, and Edom will be a desolate wilderness, + for the violence done to the children of Judah, because they + have shed innocent blood in their land. +003:020 But Judah will be inhabited forever, and Jerusalem from + generation to generation. +003:021 I will cleanse their blood, that I have not cleansed: + for Yahweh dwells in Zion." +Book 30 Amos +001:001 The words of Amos, who was among the herdsmen of Tekoa, + which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, + and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, + two years before the earthquake. +001:002 He said: "Yahweh will roar from Zion, and utter his voice + from Jerusalem; and the pastures of the shepherds will mourn, + and the top of Carmel will wither." +001:003 Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Damascus, yes, + for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they + have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron; +001:004 but I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, and it will + devour the palaces of Ben Hadad. +001:005 I will break the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant + from the valley of Aven, and him who holds the scepter + from the house of Eden; and the people of Syria shall go + into captivity to Kir," says Yahweh. +001:006 Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Gaza, yes, for four, + I will not turn away its punishment; because they carried + away captive the whole community, to deliver them up to Edom; +001:007 but I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, and it will + devour its palaces. +001:008 I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him who holds + the scepter from Ashkelon; and I will turn my hand against Ekron; + and the remnant of the Philistines will perish," + says the Lord Yahweh. +001:009 Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Tyre, yes, + for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they + delivered up the whole community to Edom, and didn't remember + the brotherly covenant; +001:010 but I will send a fire on the wall of Tyre, and it will + devour its palaces." +001:011 Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Edom, yes, for four, + I will not turn away its punishment; because he pursued his + brother with the sword, and cast off all pity, and his anger + raged continually, and he kept his wrath forever; +001:012 but I will send a fire on Teman, and it will devour + the palaces of Bozrah." +001:013 Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of the children + of Ammon, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; + because they have ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead, + that they may enlarge their border. +001:014 But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it will + devour its palaces, with shouting in the day of battle, + with a storm in the day of the whirlwind; +001:015 and their king will go into captivity, he and his + princes together," says Yahweh. +002:001 Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Moab, yes, for four, + I will not turn away its punishment; because he burned + the bones of the king of Edom into lime; +002:002 but I will send a fire on Moab, and it will devour the palaces + of Kerioth; and Moab will die with tumult, with shouting, + and with the sound of the trumpet; +002:003 and I will cut off the judge from their midst, and will kill + all its princes with him," says Yahweh. +002:004 Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Judah, yes, for four, + I will not turn away its punishment; because they have rejected + Yahweh's law, and have not kept his statutes, and their lies + have led them astray, after which their fathers walked; +002:005 But I will send a fire on Judah, and it will devour + the palaces of Jerusalem." +002:006 Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Israel, yes, for four, + I will not turn away its punishment; because they have sold + the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; +002:007 They trample on the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, + and deny justice to the oppressed; and a man and his father + use the same maiden, to profane my holy name; +002:008 and they lay themselves down beside every altar on clothes + taken in pledge; and in the house of their God they drink + the wine of those who have been fined. +002:009 Yet I destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was + like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; + yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath. +002:010 Also I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and led you forty + years in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite. +002:011 I raised up some of your sons for prophets, and some of your + young men for Nazirites. Isn't this true, you children + of Israel?" says Yahweh. +002:012 "But you gave the Nazirites wine to drink, and commanded + the prophets, saying, 'Don't prophesy!' +002:013 Behold, I will crush you in your place, as a cart crushes + that is full of grain. +002:014 Flight will perish from the swift; and the strong won't strengthen + his force; neither shall the mighty deliver himself; +002:015 neither shall he stand who handles the bow; and he who is + swift of foot won't escape; neither shall he who rides + the horse deliver himself; +002:016 and he who is courageous among the mighty will flee away naked + on that day," says Yahweh. +003:001 Hear this word that Yahweh has spoken against you, children of Israel, + against the whole family which I brought up out of the land + of Egypt, saying: +003:002 "You only have I chosen of all the families of the earth. + Therefore I will punish you for all of your sins." +003:003 Do two walk together, unless they have agreed? +003:004 Will a lion roar in the thicket, when he has no prey? + Does a young lion cry out of his den, if he has caught nothing? +003:005 Can a bird fall in a trap on the earth, where no snare + is set for him? Does a snare spring up from the ground, + when there is nothing to catch? +003:006 Does the trumpet alarm sound in a city, without the people + being afraid? Does evil happen to a city, and Yahweh + hasn't done it? +003:007 Surely the Lord Yahweh will do nothing, unless he reveals + his secret to his servants the prophets. +003:008 The lion has roared. Who will not fear? The Lord Yahweh has spoken. + Who can but prophesy? +003:009 Proclaim in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land + of Egypt, and say, "Assemble yourselves on the mountains + of Samaria, and see what unrest is in her, and what oppression + is among them." +003:010 "Indeed they don't know to do right," says Yahweh, "Who hoard + plunder and loot in their palaces." +003:011 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: "An adversary will + overrun the land; and he will pull down your strongholds, + and your fortresses will be plundered." +003:012 Thus says Yahweh: "As the shepherd rescues out of the mouth + of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear, so shall the children + of Israel be rescued who sit in Samaria on the corner of a couch, + and on the silken cushions of a bed." +003:013 "Listen, and testify against the house of Jacob," + says the Lord Yahweh, the God of Armies. +003:014 "For in the day that I visit the transgressions of Israel + on him, I will also visit the altars of Bethel; and the horns + of the altar will be cut off, and fall to the ground. +003:015 I will strike the winter house with the summer house; + and the houses of ivory will perish, and the great houses + will have an end," says Yahweh. +004:001 Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain + of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, + who tell their husbands, "Bring us drinks!" +004:002 The Lord Yahweh has sworn by his holiness that behold, "The days + shall come on you that they will take you away with hooks, + and the last of you with fish hooks. +004:003 You will go out at the breaks in the wall, everyone straight + before her; and you will cast yourselves into Harmon," says Yahweh. +004:004 "Go to Bethel, and sin; to Gilgal, and sin more. Bring your + sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days, +004:005 offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, + and proclaim free will offerings and brag about them: + for this pleases you, you children of Israel," + says the Lord Yahweh. +004:006 "I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, + and lack of bread in every town; yet you haven't returned + to me," says Yahweh. +004:007 "I also have withheld the rain from you, when there were yet + three months to the harvest; and I caused it to rain on one city, + and caused it not to rain on another city. One place was + rained on, and the piece where it didn't rain withered. +004:008 So two or three cities staggered to one city to drink water, + and were not satisfied: yet you haven't returned to me," + says Yahweh. +004:009 "I struck you with blight and mildew many times in your gardens + and your vineyards; and your fig trees and your olive trees + have the swarming locust devoured: yet you haven't returned + to me," says Yahweh. +004:010 "I sent plagues among you like I did Egypt. I have slain your + young men with the sword, and have carried away your horses; + and I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camp, + yet you haven't returned to me," says Yahweh. +004:011 "I have overthrown some of you, as when God overthrew Sodom + and Gomorrah, and you were like a burning stick plucked out + of the fire; yet you haven't returned to me," says Yahweh. +004:012 "Therefore thus will I do to you, Israel; because I will do + this to you, prepare to meet your God, Israel. +004:013 For, behold, he who forms the mountains, and creates + the wind, and declares to man what is his thought; + who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the high places + of the Earth: Yahweh, the God of Armies, is his name." +005:001 Listen to this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, + O house of Israel. +005:002 "The virgin of Israel has fallen; She shall rise no more. + She is cast down on her land; there is no one to raise her up." +005:003 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: "The city that went forth + a thousand shall have a hundred left, and that which went forth + one hundred shall have ten left to the house of Israel." +005:004 For thus says Yahweh to the house of Israel: "Seek me, + and you will live; +005:005 but don't seek Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and don't pass + to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, + and Bethel shall come to nothing. +005:006 Seek Yahweh, and you will live; lest he break out like fire + in the house of Joseph, and it devour, and there be no one + to quench it in Bethel. +005:007 You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness + to the earth: +005:008 seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns the shadow + of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night; + who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on + the surface of the earth, Yahweh is his name, +005:009 who brings sudden destruction on the strong, so that destruction + comes on the fortress. +005:010 They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him + who speaks blamelessly. +005:011 Forasmuch therefore as you trample on the poor, and take taxes + from him of wheat: You have built houses of hewn stone, but you + will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, + but you shall not drink their wine. +005:012 For I know how many your offenses, and how great are your sins-- + you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn + aside the needy in the courts. +005:013 Therefore a prudent person keeps silent in such a time, + for it is an evil time. +005:014 Seek good, and not evil, that you may live; and so Yahweh, + the God of Armies, will be with you, as you say. +005:015 Hate evil, love good, and establish justice in the courts. + It may be that Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be gracious + to the remnant of Joseph." +005:016 Therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Armies, + the Lord: "Wailing will be in all the broad ways; + and they will say in all the streets, 'Alas! Alas!' and they + will call the farmer to mourning, and those who are skillful + in lamentation to wailing. +005:017 In all vineyards there will be wailing; for I will pass through + the midst of you," says Yahweh. +005:018 "Woe to you who desire the day of Yahweh! Why do you long + for the day of Yahweh? It is darkness, and not light. +005:019 As if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him; + Or he went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, + and a snake bit him. +005:020 Won't the day of Yahweh be darkness, and not light? + Even very dark, and no brightness in it? +005:021 I hate, I despise your feasts, and I can't stand + your solemn assemblies. +005:022 Yes, though you offer me your burnt offerings and meal offerings, + I will not accept them; neither will I regard the peace + offerings of your fat animals. +005:023 Take away from me the noise of your songs! I will not listen + to the music of your harps. +005:024 But let justice roll on like rivers, and righteousness like + a mighty stream. +005:025 "Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness + forty years, house of Israel? +005:026 You also carried the tent of your king and the shrine of your images, + the star of your god, which you made for yourselves. +005:027 Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus," + says Yahweh, whose name is the God of Armies. +006:001 Woe to those who are at ease in Zion, and to those who are secure + on the mountain of Samaria, the notable men of the chief + of the nations, to whom the house of Israel come! +006:002 Go to Calneh, and see; and from there go to Hamath the great; + then go down to Gath of the Philistines. are they better than + these kingdoms? or is their border greater than your border? +006:003 Those who put far away the evil day, and cause the seat + of violence to come near; +006:004 Who lie on beds of ivory, and stretch themselves on their couches, + and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of + the midst of the stall; +006:005 who strum on the strings of a harp; who invent for themselves + instruments of music, like David; +006:006 who drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the best oils; + but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph. +006:007 Therefore they will now go captive with the first who go captive; + and the feasting and lounging will end. +006:008 "The Lord Yahweh has sworn by himself," says Yahweh, the God + of Armies: "I abhor the pride of Jacob, and detest his fortresses. + Therefore I will deliver up the city with all that is in it. +006:009 It will happen, if there remain ten men in one house, + that they shall die. +006:010 "When a man's relative carries him, even he who burns him, + to bring bodies out of the house, and asks him who is in + the innermost parts of the house, 'Is there yet any with you?' + And he says, 'No;' then he will say, 'Hush! Indeed we must + not mention the name of Yahweh.' +006:011 "For, behold, Yahweh commands, and the great house will be + smashed to pieces, and the little house into bits. +006:012 Do horses run on the rocky crags? Does one plow there with oxen? + But you have turned justice into poison, and the fruit + of righteousness into bitterness; +006:013 you who rejoice in a thing of nothing, who say, 'Haven't we + taken for ourselves horns by our own strength?' +006:014 For, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, house of Israel," + says Yahweh, the God of Armies; "and they will afflict you + from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of the Arabah." +007:001 Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: and behold, he formed locusts + in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; + and behold, it was the latter growth after the king's harvest. +007:002 It happened that, when they made an end of eating the grass + of the land, then I said, "Lord Yahweh, forgive, I beg you! + How could Jacob stand? For he is small." +007:003 Yahweh relented concerning this. "It shall not be," says Yahweh. +007:004 Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me and behold, the Lord Yahweh + called for judgment by fire; and it dried up the great deep, + and would have devoured the land. +007:005 Then I said, "Lord Yahweh, stop, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? + For he is small." +007:006 Yahweh relented concerning this. "This also shall not be," + says the Lord Yahweh. +007:007 Thus he showed me and behold, the Lord stood beside a wall + made by a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand. +007:008 Yahweh said to me, "Amos, what do you see?" I said, "A plumb line." + Then the Lord said, "Behold, I will set a plumb line in the midst + of my people Israel. I will not again pass by them any more. +007:009 The high places of Isaac will be desolate, the sanctuaries + of Israel will be laid waste; and I will rise against the house + of Jeroboam with the sword." +007:010 Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king + of Israel, saying, "Amos has conspired against you in the midst + of the house of Israel. The land is not able to bear + all his words. +007:011 For Amos says, 'Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel + shall surely be led away captive out of his land.'" +007:012 Amaziah also said to Amos, "You seer, go, flee away into the land + of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there: +007:013 but don't prophesy again any more at Bethel; for it is + the king's sanctuary, and it is a royal house!" +007:014 Then Amos answered Amaziah, "I was no prophet, neither was + I a prophet's son; but I was a herdsman, and a farmer + of sycamore figs; +007:015 and Yahweh took me from following the flock, and Yahweh said + to me, 'Go, prophesy to my people Israel.' +007:016 Now therefore listen to the word of Yahweh: 'You say, + Don't prophesy against Israel, and don't preach against + the house of Isaac.' +007:017 Therefore thus says Yahweh: 'Your wife shall be a prostitute + in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall + by the sword, and your land shall be divided by line; + and you yourself shall die in a land that is unclean, + and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land.'" +008:001 Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit. +008:002 He said, "Amos, what do you see?" I said, "A basket of + summer fruit." Then Yahweh said to me, "The end has come + on my people Israel. I will not again pass by them any more. +008:003 The songs of the temple will be wailings in that day," + says the Lord Yahweh. "The dead bodies will be many. + In every place they will throw them out with silence. +008:004 Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause + the poor of the land to fail, +008:005 Saying, 'When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? + And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat, making the ephah small, + and the shekel large, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit; +008:006 that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair + of shoes, and sell the sweepings with the wheat?'" +008:007 Yahweh has sworn by the pride of Jacob, "Surely I will never + forget any of their works. +008:008 Won't the land tremble for this, and everyone mourn who dwells + in it? Yes, it will rise up wholly like the River; and it + will be stirred up and sink again, like the River of Egypt. +008:009 It will happen in that day," says the Lord Yahweh, "that I + will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken + the earth in the clear day. +008:010 I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs + into lamentation; and I will make you wear sackcloth + on all your bodies, and baldness on every head. + I will make it like the mourning for an only son, and the end + of it like a bitter day. +008:011 Behold, the days come," says the Lord Yahweh, "that I will send + a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst + for water, but of hearing the words of Yahweh. +008:012 They will wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east; + they will run back and forth to seek the word of Yahweh, + and will not find it. +008:013 In that day the beautiful virgins and the young men will + faint for thirst. +008:014 Those who swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, 'As your god, + Dan, lives;' and, 'As the way of Beersheba lives;' they will fall, + and never rise up again." +009:001 I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and he said, + "Strike the tops of the pillars, that the thresholds may shake; + and break them in pieces on the head of all of them; + and I will kill the last of them with the sword: + there shall not one of them flee away, and there shall not + one of them escape. +009:002 Though they dig into Sheol, there my hand will take them; + and though they climb up to heaven, there I will bring them down. +009:003 Though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search + and take them out there; and though they be hid from my sight + in the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent, + and it will bite them. +009:004 Though they go into captivity before their enemies, + there I will command the sword, and it will kill them. + I will set my eyes on them for evil, and not for good. +009:005 For the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, is he who touches the land + and it melts, and all who dwell in it will mourn; and it + will rise up wholly like the River, and will sink again, + like the River of Egypt. +009:006 It is he who builds his chambers in the heavens, and has + founded his vault on the earth; he who calls for the waters + of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth; + Yahweh is his name. +009:007 Are you not like the children of the Ethiopians to me, + children of Israel?" says Yahweh. "Haven't I brought up Israel + out of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor, + and the Syrians from Kir? +009:008 Behold, the eyes of the Lord Yahweh are on the sinful kingdom, + and I will destroy it from off the surface of the earth; + except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob," + says Yahweh. +009:009 "For, behold, I will command, and I will sift the house of + Israel among all the nations, as grain is sifted in a sieve, + yet not the least kernel will fall on the earth. +009:010 All the sinners of my people will die by the sword, who say, + 'Evil won't overtake nor meet us.' +009:011 In that day I will raise up the tent of David who is fallen, + and close up its breaches, and I will raise up its ruins, + and I will build it as in the days of old; +009:012 that they may possess the remnant of Edom, and all the nations + who are called by my name," says Yahweh who does this. +009:013 "Behold, the days come," says Yahweh, "that the plowman + shall overtake the reaper, and the one treading grapes him + who sows seed; and sweet wine will drip from the mountains, + and flow from the hills. +009:014 I will bring my people Israel back from captivity, + and they will rebuild the ruined cities, and inhabit them; + and they will plant vineyards, and drink wine from them. + They shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them. +009:015 I will plant them on their land, and they will no more be + plucked up out of their land which I have given them," + says Yahweh your God. +Book 31 Obadiah +001:001 The vision of Obadiah. This is what the Lord Yahweh says about Edom. + We have heard news from Yahweh, and an ambassador is sent + among the nations, saying, "Arise, and let's rise up against + her in battle. +001:002 Behold, I have made you small among the nations. + You are greatly despised. +001:003 The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell + in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says + in his heart, 'Who will bring me down to the ground?' +001:004 Though you mount on high as the eagle, and though your nest is set + among the stars, I will bring you down from there," says Yahweh. +001:005 "If thieves came to you, if robbers by night--oh, what disaster + awaits you--wouldn't they only steal until they had enough? + If grape pickers came to you, wouldn't they leave + some gleaning grapes? +001:006 How Esau will be ransacked! How his hidden treasures + are sought out! +001:007 All the men of your alliance have brought you on your way, + even to the border. The men who were at peace with + you have deceived you, and prevailed against you. + Friends who eat your bread lay a snare under you. + There is no understanding in him." +001:008 "Won't I in that day," says Yahweh, "destroy the wise men + out of Edom, and understanding out of the mountain of Esau? +001:009 Your mighty men, Teman, will be dismayed, to the end that everyone + may be cut off from the mountain of Esau by slaughter. +001:010 For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame will cover you, + and you will be cut off forever. +001:011 In the day that you stood on the other side, in the day + that strangers carried away his substance, and foreigners + entered into his gates, and cast lots for Jerusalem, + even you were like one of them. +001:012 But don't look down on your brother in the day of his disaster, + and don't rejoice over the children of Judah in the day of + their destruction. Don't speak proudly in the day of distress. +001:013 Don't enter into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity. + Don't look down on their affliction in the day of their calamity, + neither seize their wealth on the day of their calamity. +001:014 Don't stand in the crossroads to cut off those of his who escape. + Don't deliver up those of his who remain in the day of distress. +001:015 For the day of Yahweh is near all the nations! As you have done, + it will be done to you. Your deeds will return upon + your own head. +001:016 For as you have drunk on my holy mountain, so will all the nations + drink continually. Yes, they will drink, swallow down, + and will be as though they had not been. +001:017 But in Mount Zion, there will be those who escape, and it will + be holy. The house of Jacob will possess their possessions. +001:018 The house of Jacob will be a fire, the house of Joseph a flame, + and the house of Esau for stubble. They will burn among them, + and devour them. There will not be any remaining to the house + of Esau." Indeed, Yahweh has spoken. +001:019 Those of the South will possess the mountain of Esau, + and those of the lowland, the Philistines. They will + possess the field of Ephraim, and the field of Samaria. + Benjamin will possess Gilead. +001:020 The captives of this army of the children of Israel, + who are among the Canaanites, will possess even to Zarephath; + and the captives of Jerusalem, who are in Sepharad, + will possess the cities of the Negev. +001:021 Saviors will go up on Mount Zion to judge the mountains of Esau, + and the kingdom will be Yahweh's. +Book 32 Jonah +001:001 Now the word of Yahweh came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, +001:002 "Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach against it, + for their wickedness has come up before me." +001:003 But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh. + He went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish; + so he paid its fare, and went down into it, to go with them + to Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh. +001:004 But Yahweh sent out a great wind on the sea, and there + was a mighty storm on the sea, so that the ship was likely + to break up. +001:005 Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man to his god. + They threw the cargo that was in the ship into the sea, + to lighten it. But Jonah had gone down into the innermost parts + of the ship, and he was laying down, and was fast asleep. +001:006 So the shipmaster came to him, and said to him, "What do + you mean, sleeper? Arise, call on your God{or, gods}! + Maybe your God{or, gods} will notice us, so that we won't perish." +001:007 They all said to each other, "Come, let us cast lots, + that we may know for whose cause this evil is on us." + So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah. +001:008 Then they asked him, "Tell us, please, for whose cause this evil + is on us. What is your occupation? Where do you come from? + What is your country? Of what people are you?" +001:009 He said to them, "I am a Hebrew, and I fear Yahweh, the God + of heaven, who has made the sea and the dry land." +001:010 Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and said to him, "What is + this that you have done?" For the men knew that he was fleeing + from the presence of Yahweh, because he had told them. +001:011 Then said they to him, "What shall we do to you, that the sea + may be calm to us?" For the sea grew more and more stormy. +001:012 He said to them, "Take me up, and throw me into the sea. + Then the sea will be calm for you; for I know that because of me + this great storm is on you." +001:013 Nevertheless the men rowed hard to get them back to the land; + but they could not, for the sea grew more and more + stormy against them. +001:014 Therefore they cried to Yahweh, and said, "We beg you, + Yahweh, we beg you, let us not perish for this man's life, + and don't lay on us innocent blood; for you, Yahweh, have done + as it pleased you." +001:015 So they took up Jonah, and threw him into the sea; and the sea + ceased its raging. +001:016 Then the men feared Yahweh exceedingly; and they offered + a sacrifice to Yahweh, and made vows. +001:017 Yahweh prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah, and Jonah + was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights. +002:001 Then Jonah prayed to Yahweh, his God, out of the fish's belly. +002:002 He said, "I called because of my affliction to Yahweh. + He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried. + You heard my voice. +002:003 For you threw me into the depths, in the heart of the seas. + The flood was all around me. All your waves and your billows + passed over me. +002:004 I said, 'I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look + again toward your holy temple.' +002:005 The waters surrounded me, even to the soul. The deep was around me. + The weeds were wrapped around my head. +002:006 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred + me in forever: yet have you brought up my life from the pit, + Yahweh my God. +002:007 "When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Yahweh. + My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple. +002:008 Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy. +002:009 But I will sacrifice to you with the voice of thanksgiving. + I will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation belongs to Yahweh." +002:010 Yahweh spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah on the dry land. +003:001 The word of Yahweh came to Jonah the second time, saying, +003:002 "Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it + the message that I give you." +003:003 So Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh, according to the word + of Yahweh. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, + three days' journey across. +003:004 Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried out, + and said, "Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!" +003:005 The people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast, + and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to + the least of them. +003:006 The news reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, + and took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, + and sat in ashes. +003:007 He made a proclamation and published through Nineveh by the + decree of the king and his nobles, saying, "Let neither man + nor animal, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not feed, + nor drink water; +003:008 but let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and animal, + and let them cry mightily to God. Yes, let them turn everyone + from his evil way, and from the violence that is in his hands. +003:009 Who knows whether God will not turn and relent, and turn away + from his fierce anger, so that we might not perish?" +003:010 God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. + God relented of the disaster which he said he would do to them, + and he didn't do it. +004:001 But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry. +004:002 He prayed to Yahweh, and said, "Please, Yahweh, wasn't this what I + said when I was still in my own country? Therefore I hurried + to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God, + and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, + and you relent of doing harm. +004:003 Therefore now, Yahweh, take, I beg you, my life from me; + for it is better for me to die than to live." +004:004 Yahweh said, "Is it right for you to be angry?" +004:005 Then Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, + and there made himself a booth, and sat under it in the shade, + until he might see what would become of the city. +004:006 Yahweh God prepared a vine, and made it to come up over Jonah, + that it might be a shade over his head, to deliver him + from his discomfort. So Jonah was exceedingly glad because + of the vine. +004:007 But God prepared a worm at dawn the next day, and it chewed + on the vine, so that it withered. +004:008 It happened, when the sun arose, that God prepared a sultry + east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah's head, so that he fainted, + and requested for himself that he might die, and said, + "It is better for me to die than to live." +004:009 God said to Jonah, "Is it right for you to be angry about the vine?" + He said, "I am right to be angry, even to death." +004:010 Yahweh said, "You have been concerned for the vine, + for which you have not labored, neither made it grow; + which came up in a night, and perished in a night. +004:011 Shouldn't I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, + in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons + who can't discern between their right hand and their left hand; + and also much livestock?" +Book 33 Micah +001:001 The word of Yahweh that came to Micah the Morashtite in the days + of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw + concerning Samaria and Jerusalem. +001:002 Hear, you peoples, all of you. Listen, O earth, and all that + is therein: and let the Lord Yahweh be witness against you, + the Lord from his holy temple. +001:003 For, behold, Yahweh comes forth out of his place, and will come + down and tread on the high places of the earth. +001:004 The mountains melt under him, and the valleys split apart, + like wax before the fire, like waters that are poured down + a steep place. +001:005 "All this is for the disobedience of Jacob, and for the sins + of the house of Israel. What is the disobedience + of Jacob? Isn't it Samaria? And what are the high places + of Judah? Aren't they Jerusalem? +001:006 Therefore I will make Samaria like a rubble heap of the field, + like places for planting vineyards; and I will pour down its + stones into the valley, and I will uncover its foundations. +001:007 All her idols will be beaten to pieces, and all her temple gifts + will be burned with fire, and all her images I will destroy; + for of the hire of a prostitute has she gathered them, + and to the hire of a prostitute shall they return." +001:008 For this I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; + I will howl like the jackals, and moan like the daughters of owls. +001:009 For her wounds are incurable; for it has come even to Judah. + It reaches to the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem. +001:010 Don't tell it in Gath. Don't weep at all. At Beth Ophrah{Beth Ophrah + means literally "House of Dust."} I have rolled myself + in the dust. +001:011 Pass on, inhabitant of Shaphir, in nakedness and shame. + The inhabitant of Zaanan won't come out. The wailing + of Beth Ezel will take from you his protection. +001:012 For the inhabitant of Maroth waits anxiously for good, + because evil has come down from Yahweh to the gate of Jerusalem. +001:013 Harness the chariot to the swift steed, inhabitant of Lachish. + She was the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion; For the + transgressions of Israel were found in you. +001:014 Therefore you will give a parting gift to Moresheth Gath. + The houses of Achzib will be a deceitful thing to the + kings of Israel. +001:015 I will yet bring to you, inhabitant of Mareshah. + He who is the glory of Israel will come to Adullam. +001:016 Shave your heads, and cut off your hair for the children + of your delight. Enlarge your baldness like the vulture; + for they have gone into captivity from you! +002:001 Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! + When the morning is light, they practice it, because it + is in the power of their hand. +002:002 They covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: + and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage. +002:003 Therefore thus says Yahweh: "Behold, I am planning against these + people a disaster, from which you will not remove your necks, + neither will you walk haughtily; for it is an evil time. +002:004 In that day they will take up a parable against you, and lament + with a doleful lamentation, saying, 'We are utterly ruined! + My people's possession is divided up. Indeed he takes it + from me and assigns our fields to traitors!'" +002:005 Therefore you will have no one who divides the land by lot + in the assembly of Yahweh. +002:006 "Don't prophesy!" They prophesy. "Don't prophesy about + these things. Disgrace won't overtake us." +002:007 Shall it be said, O house of Jacob: "Is the Spirit of Yahweh angry? + Are these his doings? Don't my words do good to him + who walks blamelessly?" +002:008 But lately my people have risen up as an enemy. You strip + the robe and clothing from those who pass by without a care, + returning from battle. +002:009 You drive the women of my people out from their pleasant houses; + from their young children you take away my blessing forever. +002:010 Arise, and depart! For this is not your resting place, because of + uncleanness that destroys, even with a grievous destruction. +002:011 If a man walking in a spirit of falsehood lies: + "I will prophesy to you of wine and of strong drink;" + he would be the prophet of this people. +002:012 I will surely assemble, Jacob, all of you; I will surely gather + the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep + of Bozrah, as a flock in the midst of their pasture; + they will swarm with people. +002:013 He who breaks open the way goes up before them. + They break through the gate, and go out. And their king + passes on before them, with Yahweh at their head. +003:001 I said, "Please listen, you heads of Jacob, and rulers + of the house of Israel: Isn't it for you to know justice? +003:002 You who hate the good, and love the evil; who tear off their skin, + and their flesh from off their bones; +003:003 who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from + off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, + as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron. +003:004 Then they will cry to Yahweh, but he will not answer them. + Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time, because they + made their deeds evil." +003:005 Thus says Yahweh concerning the prophets who lead my people astray; + for those who feed their teeth, they proclaim, "Peace!" + and whoever doesn't provide for their mouths, they prepare + war against him: +003:006 "Therefore night is over you, with no vision, and it is dark + to you, that you may not divine; and the sun will go down on + the prophets, and the day will be black over them. +003:007 The seers shall be disappointed, and the diviners confounded. + Yes, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no + answer from God." +003:008 But as for me, I am full of power by the Spirit of Yahweh, + and of judgment, and of might, to declare to Jacob his disobedience, + and to Israel his sin. +003:009 Please listen to this, you heads of the house of Jacob, + and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice, + and pervert all equity. +003:010 They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity. +003:011 Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, + and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: yet they + lean on Yahweh, and say, "Isn't Yahweh in the midst of us? + No disaster will come on us." +003:012 Therefore Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field, + and Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble, and the mountain + of the temple like the high places of a forest. +004:001 But in the latter days, it will happen that the mountain of + Yahweh's temple will be established on the top of the mountains, + and it will be exalted above the hills; and peoples will + stream to it. +004:002 Many nations will go and say, "Come, and let us go up to + the mountain of Yahweh, and to the house of the God of Jacob; + and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths." + For out of Zion will go forth the law, and the word of + Yahweh from Jerusalem; +004:003 and he will judge between many peoples, and will decide + concerning strong nations afar off. They will beat their + swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. + Nation will not lift up sword against nation, neither will + they learn war any more. +004:004 But they will sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; + and no one will make them afraid: For the mouth of Yahweh + of Armies has spoken. +004:005 Indeed all the nations may walk in the name of their gods; + but we will walk in the name of Yahweh our God forever and ever. +004:006 "In that day," says Yahweh, "I will assemble that which is lame, + and I will gather that which is driven away, and that which + I have afflicted; +004:007 and I will make that which was lame a remnant, and that which + was cast far off a strong nation: and Yahweh will reign + over them on Mount Zion from then on, even forever." +004:008 You, tower of the flock, the hill of the daughter of Zion, + to you it will come, yes, the former dominion will come, + the kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem. +004:009 Now why do you cry out aloud? Is there no king in you? + Has your counselor perished, that pains have taken hold of you + as of a woman in travail? +004:010 Be in pain, and labor to bring forth, daughter of Zion, like a + woman in travail; for now you will go forth out of the city, + and will dwell in the field, and will come even to Babylon. + There you will be rescued. There Yahweh will redeem you + from the hand of your enemies. +004:011 Now many nations have assembled against you, that say, + "Let her be defiled, and let our eye gloat over Zion." +004:012 But they don't know the thoughts of Yahweh, neither do they + understand his counsel; for he has gathered them like the sheaves + to the threshing floor. +004:013 Arise and thresh, daughter of Zion; for I will make your horn iron, + and I will make your hoofs brass; and you will beat in pieces + many peoples: and I will devote their gain to Yahweh, + and their substance to the Lord of the whole earth. +005:001 Now you shall gather yourself in troops, daughter of troops. + He has laid siege against us. They will strike the judge + of Israel with a rod on the cheek. +005:002 But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, being small among the clans of Judah, + out of you one will come forth to me that is to be ruler in Israel; + whose goings forth are from of old, from everlasting. +005:003 Therefore he will abandon them until the time that she who is + in labor gives birth. Then the rest of his brothers will + return to the children of Israel. +005:004 He shall stand, and shall shepherd in the strength + of Yahweh, in the majesty of the name of Yahweh his God: + and they will live, for then he will be great to the ends + of the earth. +005:005 He will be our peace when Assyria invades our land, + and when he marches through our fortresses, then we will raise + against him seven shepherds, and eight leaders of men. +005:006 They will rule the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land + of Nimrod in its gates. He will deliver us from the Assyrian, + when he invades our land, and when he marches within our border. +005:007 The remnant of Jacob will be in the midst of many peoples, + like dew from Yahweh, like showers on the grass, that don't + wait for man, nor wait for the sons of men. +005:008 The remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, in the midst + of many peoples, like a lion among the animals of the forest, + like a young lion among the flocks of sheep; who, if he + goes through, treads down and tears in pieces, and there + is no one to deliver. +005:009 Let your hand be lifted up above your adversaries, and let + all of your enemies be cut off. +005:010 "It will happen in that day," says Yahweh, "That I will + cut off your horses out of the midst of you, and will + destroy your chariots. +005:011 I will cut off the cities of your land, and will tear down + all your strongholds. +005:012 I will destroy witchcraft from your hand; and you shall + have no soothsayers. +005:013 I will cut off your engraved images and your pillars out + of your midst; and you shall no more worship the work + of your hands. +005:014 I will uproot your Asherim out of your midst; and I will + destroy your cities. +005:015 I will execute vengeance in anger, and wrath on the nations + that didn't listen." +006:001 Listen now to what Yahweh says: "Arise, plead your case before + the mountains, and let the hills hear what you have to say. +006:002 Hear, you mountains, Yahweh's controversy, and you enduring + foundations of the earth; for Yahweh has a controversy + with his people, and he will contend with Israel. +006:003 My people, what have I done to you? How have I burdened you? + Answer me! +006:004 For I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed + you out of the house of bondage. I sent before you + Moses, Aaron, and Miriam. +006:005 My people, remember now what Balak king of Moab devised, + and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim + to Gilgal, that you may know the righteous acts of Yahweh." +006:006 How shall I come before Yahweh, and bow myself before the + exalted God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, + with calves a year old? +006:007 Will Yahweh be pleased with thousands of rams? With tens of thousands + of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my disobedience? + The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? +006:008 He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require + of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly + with your God? +006:009 Yahweh's voice calls to the city, and wisdom sees your name: + "Listen to the rod, and he who appointed it. +006:010 Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, + and a short ephah{An ephah is a measure of volume, and a short + ephah is made smaller than a full ephah for the purpose + of cheating customers.} that is accursed? +006:011 Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, and with a bag + of deceitful weights? +006:012 Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, + and their tongue is deceitful in their speech. +006:013 Therefore I also have struck you with a grievous wound. + I have made you desolate because of your sins. +006:014 You shall eat, but not be satisfied. Your humiliation + will be in your midst. You will store up, but not save; + and that which you save I will give up to the sword. +006:015 You will sow, but won't reap. You will tread the olives, + but won't anoint yourself with oil; and crush grapes, + but won't drink the wine. +006:016 For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house + of Ahab. You walk in their counsels, that I may make you a ruin, + and her inhabitants a hissing; And you will bear the reproach + of my people." +007:001 Misery is mine! Indeed, I am like one who gathers the summer fruits, + as gleanings of the vineyard: There is no cluster of grapes to eat. + My soul desires to eat the early fig. +007:002 The godly man has perished out of the earth, and there is + no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; + every man hunts his brother with a net. +007:003 Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. + The ruler and judge ask for a bribe; and the powerful man dictates + the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together. +007:004 The best of them is like a brier. The most upright is worse than + a thorn hedge. The day of your watchmen, even your visitation, + has come; now is the time of their confusion. +007:005 Don't trust in a neighbor. Don't put confidence in a friend. + With the woman lying in your embrace, be careful of the words + of your mouth! +007:006 For the son dishonors the father, the daughter rises up against + her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; + a man's enemies are the men of his own house. +007:007 But as for me, I will look to Yahweh. I will wait for the God + of my salvation. My God will hear me. +007:008 Don't rejoice against me, my enemy. When I fall, I will arise. + When I sit in darkness, Yahweh will be a light to me. +007:009 I will bear the indignation of Yahweh, because I have + sinned against him, until he pleads my case, and executes + judgment for me. He will bring me forth to the light. + I will see his righteousness. +007:010 Then my enemy will see it, and shame will cover her who said to me, + where is Yahweh your God? Then my enemy will see me and will + cover her shame. Now she will be trodden down like the mire + of the streets. +007:011 A day to build your walls--In that day, he will extend your boundary. +007:012 In that day they will come to you from Assyria and the cities + of Egypt, and from Egypt even to the River, and from sea to sea, + and mountain to mountain. +007:013 Yet the land will be desolate because of those who dwell therein, + for the fruit of their doings. +007:014 Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your heritage, + who dwell by themselves in a forest, in the midst of + fertile pasture land, let them feed; in Bashan and Gilead, + as in the days of old. +007:015 "As in the days of your coming forth out of the land + of Egypt, I will show them marvelous things." +007:016 The nations will see and be ashamed of all their might. + They will lay their hand on their mouth. Their ears + will be deaf. +007:017 They will lick the dust like a serpent. Like crawling things + of the earth they shall come trembling out of their dens. + They will come with fear to Yahweh our God, and will be afraid + because of you. +007:018 Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes + over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? + He doesn't retain his anger forever, because he delights + in loving kindness. +007:019 He will again have compassion on us. He will tread our iniquities + under foot; and you will cast all their sins into the depths + of the sea. +007:020 You will give truth to Jacob, and mercy to Abraham, as you + have sworn to our fathers from the days of old. +Book 34 Nahum +001:001 An oracle about Nineveh. The book of the vision of + Nahum the Elkoshite. +001:002 Yahweh is a jealous God and avenges. Yahweh avenges and is + full of wrath. Yahweh takes vengeance on his adversaries, + and he maintains wrath against his enemies. +001:003 Yahweh is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no + means leave the guilty unpunished. Yahweh has his way in + the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust + of his feet. +001:004 He rebukes the sea, and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers. + Bashan languishes, and Carmel; and the flower of Lebanon languishes. +001:005 The mountains quake before him, and the hills melt away. + The earth trembles at his presence, yes, the world, and all + who dwell in it. +001:006 Who can stand before his indignation? Who can endure the + fierceness of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, + and the rocks are broken apart by him. +001:007 Yahweh is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; + and he knows those who take refuge in him. +001:008 But with an overflowing flood, he will make a full end of her place, + and will pursue his enemies into darkness. +001:009 What do you plot against Yahweh? He will make a full end. + Affliction won't rise up the second time. +001:010 For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, + they are consumed utterly like dry stubble. +001:011 There is one gone forth out of you, who devises evil against Yahweh, + who counsels wickedness. +001:012 Thus says Yahweh: "Though they be in full strength, and likewise + many, even so they will be cut down, and he shall pass away. + Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more. +001:013 Now will I break his yoke from off you, and will burst + your bonds apart." +001:014 Yahweh has commanded concerning you: "No more descendants + will bear your name. Out of the house of your gods, + will I cut off the engraved image and the molten image. + I will make your grave, for you are vile." +001:015 Behold, on the mountains the feet of him who brings good news, + who publishes peace! Keep your feasts, Judah! Perform your vows, + for the wicked one will no more pass through you. + He is utterly cut off. +002:001 He who dashes in pieces has come up against you. + Keep the fortress! Watch the way! Strengthen your waist! + Fortify your power mightily! +002:002 For Yahweh restores the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency + of Israel; for the destroyers have destroyed them, and ruined + their vine branches. +002:003 The shield of his mighty men is made red. The valiant men + are in scarlet. The chariots flash with steel in the day + of his preparation, and the pine spears are brandished. +002:004 The chariots rage in the streets. They rush back and forth + in the broad ways. Their appearance is like torches. + They run like the lightnings. +002:005 He summons his picked troops. They stumble on their way. + They dash to its wall, and the protective shield is put in place. +002:006 The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace is dissolved. +002:007 It is decreed: she is uncovered, she is carried away; + and her handmaids moan as with the voice of doves, + beating on their breasts. +002:008 But Nineveh has been from of old like a pool of water, yet they + flee away. "Stop! Stop!" they cry, but no one looks back. +002:009 Take the spoil of silver. Take the spoil of gold, for there + is no end of the store, the glory of all goodly furniture. +002:010 She is empty, void, and waste. The heart melts, the knees + knock together, their bodies and faces have grown pale. +002:011 Where is the den of the lions, and the feeding place + of the young lions, where the lion and the lioness walked, + the lion's cubs, and no one made them afraid? +002:012 The lion tore in pieces enough for his cubs, and strangled + for his lionesses, and filled his caves with the kill, + and his dens with prey. +002:013 "Behold, I am against you," says Yahweh of Armies, "and I + will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword will devour + your young lions; and I will cut off your prey from the earth, + and the voice of your messengers will no longer be heard." +003:001 Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and robbery. + The prey doesn't depart. +003:002 The noise of the whip, the noise of the rattling of wheels, + prancing horses, and bounding chariots, +003:003 the horseman mounting, and the flashing sword, the glittering spear, + and a multitude of slain, and a great heap of corpses, + and there is no end of the bodies. They stumble on their bodies, +003:004 because of the multitude of the prostitution of the alluring + prostitute, the mistress of witchcraft, who sells nations + through her prostitution, and families through her witchcraft. +003:005 "Behold, I am against you," says Yahweh of Armies, "and I + will lift your skirts over your face. I will show the nations + your nakedness, and the kingdoms your shame. +003:006 I will throw abominable filth on you, and make you vile, + and will set you a spectacle. +003:007 It will happen that all those who look at you will flee from you, + and say, 'Nineveh is laid waste! Who will mourn for her?' + Where will I seek comforters for you?" +003:008 Are you better than No-Amon,{or, Thebes} who was situated among + the rivers, who had the waters around her; whose rampart + was the sea, and her wall was of the sea? +003:009 Cush and Egypt were her boundless strength. Put and Libya + were her helpers. +003:010 Yet was she carried away. She went into captivity. + Her young children also were dashed in pieces at the head + of all the streets, and they cast lots for her honorable men, + and all her great men were bound in chains. +003:011 You also will be drunken. You will be hidden. You also will + seek a stronghold because of the enemy. +003:012 All your fortresses will be like fig trees with the first-ripe figs: + if they are shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater. +003:013 Behold, your troops in your midst are women. + The gates of your land are set wide open to your enemies. + The fire has devoured your bars. +003:014 Draw water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. + Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. Make the brick kiln strong. +003:015 There the fire will devour you. The sword will cut you off. It will + devour you like the grasshopper. Multiply like grasshoppers. + Multiply like the locust. +003:016 You have increased your merchants more than the stars of the skies. + The grasshopper strips, and flees away. +003:017 Your guards are like the locusts, and your officials like + the swarms of locusts, which settle on the walls on a cold day, + but when the sun appears, they flee away, and their place + is not known where they are. +003:018 Your shepherds slumber, king of Assyria. Your nobles lie down. + Your people are scattered on the mountains, and there is no + one to gather them. +003:019 There is no healing your wound, for your injury is fatal. + All who hear the report of you clap their hands over you; + for who hasn't felt your endless cruelty? +Book 35 Habakkuk +001:001 The oracle which Habakkuk the prophet saw. +001:002 Yahweh, how long will I cry, and you will not hear? + I cry out to you "Violence!" and will you not save? +001:003 Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? + For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, + and contention rises up. +001:004 Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth; + for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice + goes forth perverted. +001:005 "Look among the nations, watch, and wonder marvelously; + for I am working a work in your days, which you will not + believe though it is told you. +001:006 For, behold, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and + hasty nation, that march through the breadth of the earth, + to possess dwelling places that are not theirs. +001:007 They are feared and dreaded. Their judgment and their dignity + proceed from themselves. +001:008 Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and are more fierce + than the evening wolves. Their horsemen press proudly on. + Yes, their horsemen come from afar. They fly as an eagle + that hurries to devour. +001:009 All of them come for violence. Their hordes face the desert. + He gathers prisoners like sand. +001:010 Yes, he scoffs at kings, and princes are a derision to him. + He laughs at every stronghold, for he builds up an earthen ramp, + and takes it. +001:011 Then he sweeps by like the wind, and goes on. He is indeed guilty, + whose strength is his god." +001:012 Aren't you from everlasting, Yahweh my God, my Holy One? We will + not die. Yahweh, you have appointed him for judgment. + You, Rock, have established him to punish. +001:013 You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look + on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously, + and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is + more righteous than he, +001:014 and make men like the fish of the sea, like the creeping things, + that have no ruler over them? +001:015 He takes up all of them with the hook. He catches them in his net, + and gathers them in his dragnet. Therefore he rejoices + and is glad. +001:016 Therefore he sacrifices to his net, and burns incense + to his dragnet, because by them his life is luxurious, + and his food is good. +001:017 Will he therefore continually empty his net, and kill + the nations without mercy? +002:001 I will stand at my watch, and set myself on the ramparts, + and will look out to see what he will say to me, and what I + will answer concerning my complaint. +002:002 Yahweh answered me, "Write the vision, and make it plain + on tablets, that he may run who reads it. +002:003 For the vision is yet for the appointed time, + and it hurries toward the end, and won't prove false. + Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. + It won't delay. +002:004 Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, + but the righteous will live by his faith. +002:005 Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous. A haughty man who doesn't stay + at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol, and he is like death, + and can't be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations, + and heaps to himself all peoples. +002:006 Won't all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting + proverb against him, and say, 'Woe to him who increases + that which is not his, and who enriches himself by extortion! + How long?' +002:007 Won't your debtors rise up suddenly, and wake up those who make + you tremble, and you will be their victim? +002:008 Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant + of the peoples will plunder you, because of men's blood, + and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all + who dwell in it. +002:009 Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set + his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil! +002:010 You have devised shame to your house, by cutting off many peoples, + and have sinned against your soul. +002:011 For the stone will cry out of the wall, and the beam out + of the woodwork will answer it. +002:012 Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and establishes + a city by iniquity! +002:013 Behold, isn't it of Yahweh of Armies that the peoples labor + for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity? +002:014 For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory + of Yahweh, as the waters cover the sea. +002:015 "Woe to him who gives his neighbor drink, pouring your + inflaming wine until they are drunk, so that you may gaze + at their naked bodies! +002:016 You are filled with shame, and not glory. You will also drink, + and be exposed! The cup of Yahweh's right hand will come + around to you, and disgrace will cover your glory. +002:017 For the violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, + and the destruction of the animals, which made them afraid; + because of men's blood, and for the violence done to the land, + to every city and to those who dwell in them. +002:018 "What value does the engraved image have, that its maker has + engraved it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies, + that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make mute idols? +002:019 Woe to him who says to the wood, 'Awake!' or to the mute + stone, 'Arise!' Shall this teach? Behold, it is overlaid + with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in + the midst of it. +002:020 But Yahweh is in his holy temple. Let all the earth be + silent before him!" +003:001 A prayer of Habakkuk, the prophet, set to victorious music. +003:002 Yahweh, I have heard of your fame. I stand in awe of + your deeds, Yahweh. Renew your work in the midst of the years. + In the midst of the years make it known. In wrath, + you remember mercy. +003:003 God came from Teman, the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah. His glory + covered the heavens, and his praise filled the earth. +003:004 His splendor is like the sunrise. Rays shine from his hand, + where his power is hidden. +003:005 Plague went before him, and pestilence followed his feet. +003:006 He stood, and shook the earth. He looked, and made + the nations tremble. The ancient mountains were crumbled. + The age-old hills collapsed. His ways are eternal. +003:007 I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction. The dwellings + of the land of Midian trembled. +003:008 Was Yahweh displeased with the rivers? Was your anger against + the rivers, or your wrath against the sea, that you rode + on your horses, on your chariots of salvation? +003:009 You uncovered your bow. You called for your sworn arrows. + Selah. You split the earth with rivers. +003:010 The mountains saw you, and were afraid. The storm of waters + passed by. The deep roared and lifted up its hands on high. +003:011 The sun and moon stood still in the sky, at the light of your + arrows as they went, at the shining of your glittering spear. +003:012 You marched through the land in wrath. You threshed + the nations in anger. +003:013 You went forth for the salvation of your people, for the salvation + of your anointed. You crushed the head of the land of wickedness. + You stripped them head to foot. Selah. +003:014 You pierced the heads of his warriors with their own spears. + They came as a whirlwind to scatter me, gloating as if to devour + the wretched in secret. +003:015 You trampled the sea with your horses, churning mighty waters. +003:016 I heard, and my body trembled. My lips quivered at the voice. + Rottenness enters into my bones, and I tremble in my place, + because I must wait quietly for the day of trouble, + for the coming up of the people who invade us. +003:017 For though the fig tree doesn't flourish, nor fruit be in the vines; + the labor of the olive fails, the fields yield no food; + the flocks are cut off from the fold, and there is no herd + in the stalls: +003:018 yet I will rejoice in Yahweh. I will be joyful in the God + of my salvation! +003:019 Yahweh, the Lord, is my strength. He makes my feet + like deer's feet, and enables me to go in high places. + For the music director, on my stringed instruments. +Book 36 Zephaniah +001:001 The word of Yahweh which came to Zephaniah, the son of Cushi, + the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hezekiah, + in the days of Josiah, the son of Amon, king of Judah. +001:002 I will utterly sweep away everything off of the surface + of the earth, says Yahweh. +001:003 I will sweep away man and animal. I will sweep away the birds + of the sky, the fish of the sea, and the heaps of rubble + with the wicked. I will cut off man from the surface + of the earth, says Yahweh. +001:004 I will stretch out my hand against Judah, and against all + the inhabitants of Jerusalem. I will cut off the remnant of Baal + from this place: the name of the idolatrous and pagan priests, +001:005 those who worship the army of the sky on the housetops, + those who worship and swear by Yahweh and also swear by Malcam, +001:006 those who have turned back from following Yahweh, and those + who haven't sought Yahweh nor inquired after him. +001:007 Be silent at the presence of the Lord Yahweh, for the day + of Yahweh is at hand. For Yahweh has prepared a sacrifice. + He has consecrated his guests. +001:008 It will happen in the day of Yahweh's sacrifice, that I will + punish the princes, the king's sons, and all those who are + clothed with foreign clothing. +001:009 In that day, I will punish all those who leap over the threshold, + who fill their master's house with violence and deceit. +001:010 In that day, says Yahweh, there will be the noise of a cry + from the fish gate, a wailing from the second quarter, + and a great crashing from the hills. +001:011 Wail, you inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the people of Canaan + are undone! All those who were loaded with silver are cut off. +001:012 It will happen at that time, that I will search Jerusalem + with lamps, and I will punish the men who are settled on + their dregs, who say in their heart, "Yahweh will not do good, + neither will he do evil." +001:013 Their wealth will become a spoil, and their houses a desolation. + Yes, they will build houses, but won't inhabit them. + They will plant vineyards, but won't drink their wine. +001:014 The great day of Yahweh is near. It is near, + and hurries greatly, the voice of the day of Yahweh. + The mighty man cries there bitterly. +001:015 That day is a day of wrath, a day of distress and anguish, + a day of trouble and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, + a day of clouds and blackness, +001:016 a day of the trumpet and alarm, against the fortified cities, + and against the high battlements. +001:017 I will bring distress on men, that they will walk like blind men, + because they have sinned against Yahweh, and their blood + will be poured out like dust, and their flesh like dung. +001:018 Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver + them in the day of Yahweh's wrath, but the whole land will + be devoured by the fire of his jealousy; for he will make + an end, yes, a terrible end, of all those who dwell in the land. +002:001 Gather yourselves together, yes, gather together, you nation + that has no shame, +002:002 before the appointed time when the day passes as the chaff, + before the fierce anger of Yahweh comes on you, before the day + of Yahweh's anger comes on you. +002:003 Seek Yahweh, all you humble of the land, who have kept + his ordinances. Seek righteousness. Seek humility. + It may be that you will be hidden in the day of Yahweh's anger. +002:004 For Gaza will be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation. + They will drive out Ashdod at noonday, and Ekron will + be rooted up. +002:005 Woe to the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation + of the Cherethites! The word of Yahweh is against you, + Canaan, the land of the Philistines. I will destroy you, + that there will be no inhabitant. +002:006 The sea coast will be pastures, with cottages for shepherds + and folds for flocks. +002:007 The coast will be for the remnant of the house of Judah. + They will find pasture. In the houses of Ashkelon, + they will lie down in the evening, for Yahweh, their God, + will visit them, and restore them. +002:008 I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the insults of the + children of Ammon, with which they have reproached my people, + and magnified themselves against their border. +002:009 Therefore as I live, says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, + surely Moab will be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, + a possession of nettles, and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation. + The remnant of my people will plunder them, and the survivors + of my nation will inherit them. +002:010 This they will have for their pride, because they have reproached + and magnified themselves against the people of Yahweh of Armies. +002:011 Yahweh will be awesome to them, for he will famish all the gods + of the land. Men will worship him, everyone from his place, + even all the shores of the nations. +002:012 You Cushites also, you will be killed by my sword. +002:013 He will stretch out his hand against the north, destroy Assyria, + and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like the wilderness. +002:014 Herds will lie down in the midst of her, all the animals + of the nations. Both the pelican and the porcupine will lodge + in its capitals. Their calls will echo through the windows. + Desolation will be in the thresholds, for he has laid bare + the cedar beams. +002:015 This is the joyous city that lived carelessly, that said + in her heart, "I am, and there is none besides me." + How she has become a desolation, a place for animals to lie down in! + Everyone who passes by her will hiss, and shake their fists. +003:001 Woe to her who is rebellious and polluted, the oppressing city! +003:002 She didn't obey the voice. She didn't receive correction. + She didn't trust in Yahweh. She didn't draw near to her God. +003:003 Her princes in the midst of her are roaring lions. + Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing until + the next day. +003:004 Her prophets are arrogant and treacherous people. + Her priests have profaned the sanctuary. They have done + violence to the law. +003:005 Yahweh, in the midst of her, is righteous. He will do no wrong. + Every morning he brings his justice to light. He doesn't fail, + but the unjust know no shame. +003:006 I have cut off nations. Their battlements are desolate. + I have made their streets waste, so that no one passes by. + Their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, + so that there is no inhabitant. +003:007 I said, "Just fear me. Receive correction, so that her dwelling won't + be cut off, according to all that I have appointed concerning her." + But they rose early and corrupted all their doings. +003:008 "Therefore wait for me," says Yahweh, "until the day that I rise + up to the prey, for my determination is to gather the nations, + that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour on them my indignation, + even all my fierce anger, for all the earth will be devoured + with the fire of my jealousy. +003:009 For then I will purify the lips of the peoples, that they may all + call on the name of Yahweh, to serve him shoulder to shoulder. +003:010 From beyond the rivers of Cush, my worshipers, even the daughter + of my dispersed people, will bring my offering. +003:011 In that day you will not be disappointed for all your doings, + in which you have transgressed against me; for then I will + take away out of the midst of you your proudly exulting ones, + and you will no more be haughty in my holy mountain. +003:012 But I will leave in the midst of you an afflicted and poor people, + and they will take refuge in the name of Yahweh. +003:013 The remnant of Israel will not do iniquity, nor speak lies, + neither will a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth, for they + will feed and lie down, and no one will make them afraid." +003:014 Sing, daughter of Zion! Shout, Israel! Be glad and rejoice + with all your heart, daughter of Jerusalem. +003:015 Yahweh has taken away your judgments. He has thrown out your enemy. + The King of Israel, Yahweh, is in the midst of you. + You will not be afraid of evil any more. +003:016 In that day, it will be said to Jerusalem, "Don't be afraid, Zion. + Don't let your hands be slack." +003:017 Yahweh, your God, is in the midst of you, a mighty one who will save. + He will rejoice over you with joy. He will rest in his love. + He will rejoice over you with singing. +003:018 Those who are sad for the appointed feasts, I will remove from you. + They are a burden and a reproach to you. +003:019 Behold, at that time I will deal with all those who afflict you, + and I will save those who are lame, and gather those who were + driven away. I will give them praise and honor, whose shame + has been in all the earth. +003:020 At that time will I bring you in, and at that time will I + gather you; for I will give you honor and praise among all + the peoples of the earth, when I bring back your captivity + before your eyes, says Yahweh. +Book 37 Haggai +001:001 In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, + in the first day of the month, the Word of Yahweh came + by Haggai, the prophet, to Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, + governor of Judah, and to Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, + the high priest, saying, +001:002 "This is what Yahweh of Armies says: These people say, + 'The time hasn't yet come, the time for Yahweh's house + to be built.'" +001:003 Then the Word of Yahweh came by Haggai, the prophet, saying, +001:004 "Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, + while this house lies waste? +001:005 Now therefore this is what Yahweh of Armies says: + Consider your ways. +001:006 You have sown much, and bring in little. You eat, but you don't + have enough. You drink, but you aren't filled with drink. + You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm, and he who earns + wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes in it." +001:007 This is what Yahweh of Armies says: "Consider your ways. +001:008 Go up to the mountain, bring wood, and build the house. + I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified," says Yahweh. +001:009 "You looked for much, and, behold, it came to little; + and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?" says Yahweh + of Armies, "Because of my house that lies waste, while each + of you is busy with his own house. +001:010 Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, + and the earth withholds its fruit. +001:011 I called for a drought on the land, on the mountains, on the grain, + on the new wine, on the oil, on that which the ground brings forth, + on men, on livestock, and on all the labor of the hands." +001:012 Then Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua, the son + of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, + obeyed the voice of Yahweh, their God, and the words + of Haggai, the prophet, as Yahweh, their God, had sent him; + and the people feared Yahweh. +001:013 Then Haggai, Yahweh's messenger, spoke in Yahweh's message + to the people, saying, "I am with you," says Yahweh. +001:014 Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, + governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, + the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; + and they came and worked on the house of Yahweh of Armies, their God, +001:015 in the twenty-fourth day of the month, in the sixth month, + in the second year of Darius the king. +002:001 In the seventh month, in the twenty-first day of the month, + the Word of Yahweh came by Haggai the prophet, saying, +002:002 "Speak now to Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, + and to Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, + and to the remnant of the people, saying, +002:003 'Who is left among you who saw this house in its former glory? + How do you see it now? Isn't it in your eyes as nothing? +002:004 Yet now be strong, Zerubbabel,' says Yahweh. + 'Be strong, Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest. + Be strong, all you people of the land,' says Yahweh, 'and work, + for I am with you,' says Yahweh of Armies. +002:005 This is the word that I covenanted with you when you + came out of Egypt, and my Spirit lived among you. + 'Don't be afraid.' +002:006 For this is what Yahweh of Armies says: 'Yet once, it is + a little while, and I will shake the heavens, the earth, + the sea, and the dry land; +002:007 and I will shake all nations. The precious things of all + nations will come, and I will fill this house with glory, + says Yahweh of Armies. +002:008 The silver is mine, and the gold is mine,' says Yahweh of Armies. +002:009 'The latter glory of this house will be greater than the former,' + says Yahweh of Armies; 'and in this place will I give peace,' + says Yahweh of Armies." +002:010 In the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in the second year + of Darius, the Word of Yahweh came by Haggai the prophet, saying, +002:011 "Thus says Yahweh of Armies: Ask now the priests concerning + the law, saying, +002:012 'If someone carries holy meat in the fold of his garment, + and with his fold touches bread, stew, wine, oil, or any food, + will it become holy?'" The priests answered, "No." +002:013 Then Haggai said, "If one who is unclean by reason + of a dead body touch any of these, will it be unclean?" + The priests answered, "It will be unclean." +002:014 Then Haggai answered, "'So is this people, and so is this nation + before me,' says Yahweh; 'and so is every work of their hands. + That which they offer there is unclean. +002:015 Now, please consider from this day and backward, before a stone + was laid on a stone in the temple of Yahweh. +002:016 Through all that time, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, + there were only ten. When one came to the wine vat to draw + out fifty, there were only twenty. +002:017 I struck you with blight, mildew, and hail in all the work + of your hands; yet you didn't turn to me,' says Yahweh. +002:018 'Consider, please, from this day and backward, from the twenty-fourth + day of the ninth month, since the day that the foundation + of Yahweh's temple was laid, consider it. +002:019 Is the seed yet in the barn? Yes, the vine, the fig tree, + the pomegranate, and the olive tree haven't brought forth. + From this day will I bless you.'" +002:020 The Word of Yahweh came the second time to Haggai in the + twenty-fourth day of the month, saying, +002:021 "Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, 'I will shake + the heavens and the earth. +002:022 I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms. I will + destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the nations. + I will overthrow the chariots, and those who ride in them. + The horses and their riders will come down, everyone by the sword + of his brother. +002:023 In that day, says Yahweh of Armies, will I take you, + Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of Shealtiel,' says Yahweh, + 'and will make you as a signet, for I have chosen you,' + says Yahweh of Armies." +Book 38 Zechariah +001:001 In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, the word + of Yahweh came to Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son + of Iddo, the prophet, saying, +001:002 "Yahweh was very displeased with your fathers. +001:003 Therefore tell them: Thus says Yahweh of Armies: 'Return to me,' + says Yahweh of Armies, 'and I will return to you,' + says Yahweh of Armies. +001:004 Don't you be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets + proclaimed, saying: Thus says Yahweh of Armies, 'Return now + from your evil ways, and from your evil doings;' but they + did not hear, nor listen to me, says Yahweh. +001:005 Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, + do they live forever? +001:006 But my words and my decrees, which I commanded my servants + the prophets, didn't they overtake your fathers? + "Then they repented and said, 'Just as Yahweh of Armies + determined to do to us, according to our ways, and according + to our practices, so he has dealt with us.'" +001:007 On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, which is + the month Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of + Yahweh came to Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, + the prophet, saying, +001:008 "I had a vision in the night, and behold, a man riding on a red horse, + and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in a ravine; + and behind him there were red, brown, and white horses. +001:009 Then I asked, 'My lord, what are these?'" The angel who talked + with me said to me, "I will show you what these are." +001:010 The man who stood among the myrtle trees answered, "They are + the ones Yahweh has sent to go back and forth through the earth." +001:011 They reported to the angel of Yahweh who stood among the myrtle trees, + and said, "We have walked back and forth through the earth, + and behold, all the earth is at rest and in peace." +001:012 Then the angel of Yahweh replied, "O Yahweh of Armies, how long + will you not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, + against which you have had indignation these seventy years?" +001:013 Yahweh answered the angel who talked with me with kind + and comforting words. +001:014 So the angel who talked with me said to me, "Proclaim, saying, + 'Thus says Yahweh of Armies: "I am jealous for Jerusalem + and for Zion with a great jealousy. +001:015 I am very angry with the nations that are at ease; for I was + but a little displeased, but they added to the calamity." +001:016 Therefore thus says Yahweh: "I have returned to Jerusalem + with mercy. My house shall be built in it," says Yahweh of Armies, + "and a line shall be stretched forth over Jerusalem."' +001:017 "Proclaim further, saying, 'Thus says Yahweh of Armies: "My cities + will again overflow with prosperity, and Yahweh will again + comfort Zion, and will again choose Jerusalem."'" +001:018 I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, four horns. +001:019 I asked the angel who talked with me, "What are these?" + He answered me, "These are the horns which have scattered + Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem." +001:020 Yahweh showed me four craftsmen. +001:021 Then I asked, "What are these coming to do?" He said, + "These are the horns which scattered Judah, so that no man + lifted up his head; but these have come to terrify them, + to cast down the horns of the nations, which lifted up their + horn against the land of Judah to scatter it." +002:001 I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, a man with a measuring + line in his hand. +002:002 Then I asked, "Where are you going?" He said to me, + "To measure Jerusalem, to see what is its breadth and what + is its length." +002:003 Behold, the angel who talked with me went forth, and another + angel went out to meet him, +002:004 and said to him, "Run, speak to this young man, saying, + 'Jerusalem will be inhabited as villages without walls, + because of the multitude of men and livestock in it. +002:005 For I,' says Yahweh, 'will be to her a wall of fire around it, + and I will be the glory in the midst of her. +002:006 Come! Come! Flee from the land of the north,' says Yahweh; + 'for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the sky,' + says Yahweh. +002:007 'Come, Zion! Escape, you who dwell with the daughter of Babylon.' +002:008 For thus says Yahweh of Armies: 'For honor he has sent me + to the nations which plundered you; for he who touches you + touches the apple of his eye. +002:009 For, behold, I will shake my hand over them, and they will be + a spoil to those who served them; and you will know that Yahweh + of Armies has sent me. +002:010 Sing and rejoice, daughter of Zion; for, behold, I come, + and I will dwell in the midst of you,' says Yahweh. +002:011 Many nations shall join themselves to Yahweh in that day, + and shall be my people; and I will dwell in the midst of you, + and you shall know that Yahweh of Armies has sent me to you. +002:012 Yahweh will inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land, + and will again choose Jerusalem. +002:013 Be silent, all flesh, before Yahweh; for he has roused himself + from his holy habitation!" +003:001 He showed me Joshua the high priest standing before + the angel of Yahweh, and Satan standing at his right hand + to be his adversary. +003:002 Yahweh said to Satan, "Yahweh rebuke you, Satan! Yes, Yahweh who + has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Isn't this a burning stick + plucked out of the fire?" +003:003 Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and was standing + before the angel. +003:004 He answered and spoke to those who stood before him, saying, + "Take the filthy garments off of him." To him he said, + "Behold, I have caused your iniquity to pass from you, + and I will clothe you with rich clothing." +003:005 I said, "Let them set a clean turban on his head." + So they set a clean turban on his head, and clothed him; + and the angel of Yahweh was standing by. +003:006 The angel of Yahweh protested to Joshua, saying, +003:007 "Thus says Yahweh of Armies: 'If you will walk in my ways, + and if you will keep my charge, then you also shall judge + my house, and shall also keep my courts, and I will give you + a place of access among these who stand by. +003:008 Hear now, Joshua the high priest, you and your fellows + who sit before you; for they are men who are a sign: + for, behold, I will bring forth my servant, the Branch. +003:009 For, behold, the stone that I have set before Joshua; on one stone + are seven eyes: behold, I will engrave the engraving of it,' + says Yahweh of Armies, 'and I will remove the iniquity + of that land in one day. +003:010 In that day,' says Yahweh of Armies, 'you will invite every + man his neighbor under the vine and under the fig tree.'" +004:001 The angel who talked with me came again, and wakened me, + as a man who is wakened out of his sleep. +004:002 He said to me, "What do you see?" I said, "I have seen, + and behold, a lampstand all of gold, with its bowl on the top + of it, and its seven lamps thereon; there are seven pipes + to each of the lamps, which are on the top of it; +004:003 and two olive trees by it, one on the right side of the bowl, + and the other on the left side of it." +004:004 I answered and spoke to the angel who talked with me, saying, + "What are these, my lord?" +004:005 Then the angel who talked with me answered me, "Don't you know + what these are?" I said, "No, my lord." +004:006 Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, "This is the word + of Yahweh to Zerubbabel, saying, 'Not by might, nor by power, + but by my Spirit,' says Yahweh of Armies. +004:007 Who are you, great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you are a plain; + and he will bring out the capstone with shouts of 'Grace, + grace, to it!'" +004:008 Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, +004:009 "The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house. + His hands shall also finish it; and you will know that Yahweh + of Armies has sent me to you. +004:010 Indeed, who despises the day of small things? + For these seven shall rejoice, and shall see the plumb line + in the hand of Zerubbabel. These are the eyes of Yahweh, + which run back and forth through the whole earth." +004:011 Then I asked him, "What are these two olive trees on the right + side of the lampstand and on the left side of it?" +004:012 I asked him the second time, "What are these two olive branches, + which are beside the two golden spouts, that pour the golden + oil out of themselves?" +004:013 He answered me, "Don't you know what these are?" + I said, "No, my lord." +004:014 Then he said, "These are the two anointed ones who stand + by the Lord of the whole earth." +005:001 Then again I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, + a flying scroll. +005:002 He said to me, "What do you see?" I answered, "I see a flying scroll; + its length is twenty cubits, and its breadth ten cubits." +005:003 Then he said to me, "This is the curse that goes out over + the surface of the whole land; for everyone who steals shall + be cut off according to it on the one side; and everyone + who swears falsely shall be cut off according to it on + the other side. +005:004 I will cause it to go out," says Yahweh of Armies, "and it + will enter into the house of the thief, and into the house + of him who swears falsely by my name; and it will remain + in the midst of his house, and will destroy it with its timber + and its stones." +005:005 Then the angel who talked with me came forward, and said to me, + "Lift up now your eyes, and see what is this that is appearing." +005:006 I said, "What is it?" He said, "This is the ephah{ An ephah + is a measure of volume of about 22 litres, 5.8 U. S. gallons, + 4.8 imperial gallons, or a bit more than half a bushel. + } basket that is appearing." He said moreover, "This is + their appearance in all the land +005:007 (and behold, a talent{A talent is a weight of about 34 kilograms + or 75 pounds.} of lead was lifted up); and this is a woman + sitting in the midst of the ephah basket." +005:008 He said, "This is Wickedness;" and he threw her down into + the midst of the ephah basket; and he threw the weight of lead + on its mouth. +005:009 Then lifted I up my eyes, and saw, and behold, + there were two women, and the wind was in their wings. + Now they had wings like the wings of a stork, and they lifted + up the ephah basket between earth and the sky. +005:010 Then said I to the angel who talked with me, "Where are these + carrying the ephah basket?" +005:011 He said to me, "To build her a house in the land of Shinar. + When it is prepared, she will be set there in her own place." +006:001 Again I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, four chariots + came out from between two mountains; and the mountains were + mountains of brass. +006:002 In the first chariot were red horses; in the second + chariot black horses; +006:003 in the third chariot white horses; and in the fourth chariot + dappled horses, all of them powerful. +006:004 Then I asked the angel who talked with me, "What are these, my lord?" +006:005 The angel answered me, "These are the four winds of the sky, + which go forth from standing before the Lord of all the earth. +006:006 The one with the black horses goes out toward the north country; + and the white went out after them; and the dappled went forth + toward the south country." +006:007 The strong went out, and sought to go that they might walk + back and forth through the earth: and he said, "Go around + and through the earth!" So they walked back and forth + through the earth. +006:008 Then he called to me, and spoke to me, saying, "Behold, + those who go toward the north country have quieted my spirit + in the north country." +006:009 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, +006:010 "Take of them of the captivity, even of Heldai, of Tobijah, + and of Jedaiah; and come the same day, and go into the house + of Josiah the son of Zephaniah, where they have come from Babylon. +006:011 Yes, take silver and gold, and make crowns, and set them on + the head of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest; +006:012 and speak to him, saying, 'Thus says Yahweh of Armies, "Behold, + the man whose name is the Branch: and he shall grow up out + of his place; and he shall build the temple of Yahweh; +006:013 even he shall build the temple of Yahweh; and he shall bear + the glory, and shall sit and rule on his throne; and he shall + be a priest on his throne; and the counsel of peace shall + be between them both. +006:014 The crowns shall be to Helem, and to Tobijah, and to Jedaiah, + and to Hen the son of Zephaniah, for a memorial in the + temple of Yahweh. +006:015 Those who are far off shall come and build in the temple of Yahweh; + and you shall know that Yahweh of Armies has sent me to you. + This will happen, if you will diligently obey the voice + of Yahweh your God."'" +007:001 It happened in the fourth year of king Darius that the word + of Yahweh came to Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, + the month of Chislev. +007:002 The people of Bethel sent Sharezer and Regem Melech, and their men, + to entreat Yahweh's favor, +007:003 and to speak to the priests of the house of Yahweh of Armies, + and to the prophets, saying, "Should I weep in the fifth month, + separating myself, as I have done these so many years?" +007:004 Then the word of Yahweh of Armies came to me, saying, +007:005 "Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, + 'When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh + month for these seventy years, did you at all fast to me, + really to me? +007:006 When you eat, and when you drink, don't you eat for yourselves, + and drink for yourselves? +007:007 Aren't these the words which Yahweh proclaimed by the former prophets, + when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and its cities + around her, and the South and the lowland were inhabited?'" +007:008 The word of Yahweh came to Zechariah, saying, +007:009 "Thus has Yahweh of Armies spoken, saying, 'Execute true judgment, + and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother. +007:010 Don't oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, + nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his + brother in your heart.' +007:011 But they refused to listen, and turned their backs, and stopped + their ears, that they might not hear. +007:012 Yes, they made their hearts as hard as flint, lest they might + hear the law, and the words which Yahweh of Armies had sent + by his Spirit by the former prophets. Therefore great wrath + came from Yahweh of Armies. +007:013 It has come to pass that, as he called, and they refused + to listen, so they will call, and I will not listen," + said Yahweh of Armies; +007:014 "but I will scatter them with a whirlwind among all the nations + which they have not known. Thus the land was desolate + after them, so that no man passed through nor returned: + for they made the pleasant land desolate." +008:001 The word of Yahweh of Armies came to me. +008:002 Thus says Yahweh of Armies: "I am jealous for Zion with + great jealousy, and I am jealous for her with great wrath." +008:003 Thus says Yahweh: "I have returned to Zion, and will dwell in the + midst of Jerusalem. Jerusalem shall be called 'The City of Truth;' + and the mountain of Yahweh of Armies, 'The Holy Mountain.'" +008:004 Thus says Yahweh of Armies: "Old men and old women will again + dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, every man with his staff + in his hand for very age. +008:005 The streets of the city will be full of boys and girls playing + in its streets." +008:006 Thus says Yahweh of Armies: "If it is marvelous in the eyes + of the remnant of this people in those days, should it also be + marvelous in my eyes?" says Yahweh of Armies. +008:007 Thus says Yahweh of Armies: "Behold, I will save my people + from the east country, and from the west country; +008:008 and I will bring them, and they will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem; + and they will be my people, and I will be their God, + in truth and in righteousness." +008:009 Thus says Yahweh of Armies: "Let your hands be strong, + you who hear in these days these words from the mouth + of the prophets who were in the day that the foundation + of the house of Yahweh of Armies was laid, even the temple, + that it might be built. +008:010 For before those days there was no wages for man, + nor any wages for an animal; neither was there any peace + to him who went out or came in, because of the adversary. + For I set all men everyone against his neighbor. +008:011 But now I will not be to the remnant of this people as in + the former days," says Yahweh of Armies. +008:012 "For the seed of peace and the vine will yield its fruit, + and the ground will give its increase, and the heavens will + give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people + to inherit all these things. +008:013 It shall come to pass that, as you were a curse among + the nations, house of Judah and house of Israel, so will I + save you, and you shall be a blessing. Don't be afraid. + Let your hands be strong." +008:014 For thus says Yahweh of Armies: "As I thought to do evil to you, + when your fathers provoked me to wrath," says Yahweh of Armies, + "and I didn't repent; +008:015 so again have I thought in these days to do good to Jerusalem + and to the house of Judah. Don't be afraid. +008:016 These are the things that you shall do: speak every man + the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth + and peace in your gates, +008:017 and let none of you devise evil in your hearts against + his neighbor, and love no false oath: for all these are things + that I hate," says Yahweh. +008:018 The word of Yahweh of Armies came to me. +008:019 Thus says Yahweh of Armies: "The fasts of the fourth fifth, + seventh, and tenth months shall be for the house of Judah + joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts. Therefore love + truth and peace." +008:020 Thus says Yahweh of Armies: "Many peoples, and the inhabitants + of many cities will yet come; +008:021 and the inhabitants of one shall go to another, saying, 'Let us + go speedily to entreat the favor of Yahweh, and to seek Yahweh + of Armies. I will go also.' +008:022 Yes, many peoples and strong nations will come to seek Yahweh + of Armies in Jerusalem, and to entreat the favor of Yahweh." +008:023 Thus says Yahweh of Armies: "In those days, ten men will take hold, + out of all the languages of the nations, they will take hold + of the skirt of him who is a Jew, saying, 'We will go with you, + for we have heard that God is with you.'" +009:001 An oracle. The word of Yahweh is against the land of Hadrach, + and will rest upon Damascus; for the eye of man and of all + the tribes of Israel is toward Yahweh; +009:002 and Hamath, also, which borders on it; Tyre and Sidon, + because they are very wise. +009:003 Tyre built herself a stronghold, and heaped up silver like the dust, + and fine gold like the mire of the streets. +009:004 Behold, the Lord will dispossess her, and he will strike her + power in the sea; and she will be devoured with fire. +009:005 Ashkelon will see it, and fear; Gaza also, and will writhe in agony; + as will Ekron, for her expectation will be disappointed; + and the king will perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon will + not be inhabited. +009:006 Foreigners will dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride + of the Philistines. +009:007 I will take away his blood out of his mouth, and his abominations + from between his teeth; and he also will be a remnant for our God; + and he will be as a chieftain in Judah, and Ekron as a Jebusite. +009:008 I will encamp around my house against the army, that none pass + through or return; and no oppressor will pass through them any more: + for now I have seen with my eyes. +009:009 Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter + of Jerusalem! Behold, your king comes to you! He is righteous, + and having salvation; lowly, and riding on a donkey, + even on a colt, the foal of a donkey. +009:010 I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem; + and the battle bow will be cut off; and he will speak peace + to the nations: and his dominion will be from sea to sea, + and from the River to the ends of the earth. +009:011 As for you also, because of the blood of your covenant, I have + set free your prisoners from the pit in which is no water. +009:012 Turn to the stronghold, you prisoners of hope! Even today I + declare that I will restore double to you. +009:013 For indeed I bend Judah as a bow for me. I have filled + the bow with Ephraim; and I will stir up your sons, Zion, + against your sons, Greece, and will make you like the sword + of a mighty man. +009:014 Yahweh will be seen over them; and his arrow will go flash + like lightning; and the Lord Yahweh will blow the trumpet, + and will go with whirlwinds of the south. +009:015 Yahweh of Armies will defend them; and they will destroy + and overcome with sling stones; and they will drink, + and roar as through wine; and they will be filled like bowls, + like the corners of the altar. +009:016 Yahweh their God will save them in that day as the flock + of his people; for they are like the jewels of a crown, + lifted on high over his land. +009:017 For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! + Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine the virgins. +010:001 Ask of Yahweh rain in the spring time, Yahweh who makes + storm clouds, and he gives rain showers to everyone for + the plants in the field. +010:002 For the teraphim have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen + a lie; and they have told false dreams. They comfort in vain. + Therefore they go their way like sheep. They are oppressed, + because there is no shepherd. +010:003 My anger is kindled against the shepherds, and I will punish + the male goats; For Yahweh of Armies has visited his flock, + the house of Judah, and will make them as his majestic horse + in the battle. +010:004 From him will come forth the cornerstone, from him the nail, + from him the battle bow, from him every ruler together. +010:005 They shall be as mighty men, treading down muddy streets in + the battle; and they shall fight, because Yahweh is with them; + and the riders on horses will be confounded. +010:006 "I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house + of Joseph, and I will bring them back; for I have mercy on them; + and they will be as though I had not cast them off: + for I am Yahweh their God, and I will hear them. +010:007 Ephraim will be like a mighty man, and their heart will rejoice + as through wine; yes, their children will see it, and rejoice. + Their heart will be glad in Yahweh. +010:008 I will signal for them, and gather them; for I have redeemed them; + and they will increase as they have increased. +010:009 I will sow them among the peoples; and they will remember me + in far countries; and they will live with their children, + and will return. +010:010 I will bring them again also out of the land of Egypt, + and gather them out of Assyria; and I will bring them into + the land of Gilead and Lebanon; and there won't be room + enough for them. +010:011 He will pass through the sea of affliction, and will strike + the waves in the sea, and all the depths of the Nile will dry up; + and the pride of Assyria will be brought down, and the scepter + of Egypt will depart. +010:012 I will strengthen them in Yahweh; and they will walk up + and down in his name," says Yahweh. +011:001 Open your doors, Lebanon, that the fire may devour your cedars. +011:002 Wail, fir tree, for the cedar has fallen, because the stately + ones are destroyed. Wail, you oaks of Bashan, for the strong + forest has come down. +011:003 A voice of the wailing of the shepherds! For their glory + is destroyed: a voice of the roaring of young lions! + For the pride of the Jordan is ruined. +011:004 Thus says Yahweh my God: "Feed the flock of slaughter. +011:005 Their buyers slaughter them, and go unpunished. + Those who sell them say, 'Blessed be Yahweh, for I am rich;' + and their own shepherds don't pity them. +011:006 For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land," + says Yahweh; "but, behold, I will deliver the men everyone + into his neighbor's hand, and into the hand of his king. + They will strike the land, and out of their hand I will + not deliver them." +011:007 So I fed the flock of slaughter, especially the oppressed + of the flock. I took for myself two staffs. + The one I called "Favor," and the other I called "Union," + and I fed the flock. +011:008 I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was + weary of them, and their soul also loathed me. +011:009 Then I said, "I will not feed you. That which dies, let it die; + and that which is to be cut off, let it be cut off; + and let those who are left eat each other's flesh." +011:010 I took my staff Favor, and cut it apart, that I might break + my covenant that I had made with all the peoples. +011:011 It was broken in that day; and thus the poor of the flock + that listened to me knew that it was the word of Yahweh. +011:012 I said to them, "If you think it best, give me my wages; + and if not, keep them." So they weighed for my wages thirty + pieces of silver. +011:013 Yahweh said to me, "Throw it to the potter, the handsome price + that I was valued at by them!" I took the thirty pieces of silver, + and threw them to the potter, in the house of Yahweh. +011:014 Then I cut apart my other staff, even Union, that I might break + the brotherhood between Judah and Israel. +011:015 Yahweh said to me, "Take for yourself yet again the equipment + of a foolish shepherd. +011:016 For, behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, + who will not visit those who are cut off, neither will seek + those who are scattered, nor heal that which is broken, + nor feed that which is sound; but he will eat the flesh + of the fat sheep, and will tear their hoofs in pieces. +011:017 Woe to the worthless shepherd who leaves the flock! + The sword will be on his arm, and on his right eye. + His arm will be completely withered, and his right eye will + be totally blinded!" +012:001 An oracle. The word of Yahweh concerning Israel. + Yahweh, who stretches out the heavens, and lays the foundation + of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him says: +012:002 "Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of reeling to all + the surrounding peoples, and on Judah also will it be in + the siege against Jerusalem. +012:003 It will happen in that day, that I will make Jerusalem a burdensome + stone for all the peoples. All who burden themselves with it + will be severely wounded, and all the nations of the earth + will be gathered together against it. +012:004 In that day," says Yahweh, "I will strike every horse + with terror, and his rider with madness; and I will open + my eyes on the house of Judah, and will strike every horse + of the peoples with blindness. +012:005 The chieftains of Judah will say in their heart, 'The inhabitants + of Jerusalem are my strength in Yahweh of Armies their God.' +012:006 In that day I will make the chieftains of Judah like a pan + of fire among wood, and like a flaming torch among sheaves; + and they will devour all the surrounding peoples, on the right + hand and on the left; and Jerusalem will yet again dwell + in their own place, even in Jerusalem. +012:007 Yahweh also will save the tents of Judah first, that the glory + of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants + of Jerusalem not be magnified above Judah. +012:008 In that day Yahweh will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem. + He who is feeble among them at that day will be like David, + and the house of David will be like God, like the angel + of Yahweh before them. +012:009 It will happen in that day, that I will seek to destroy all + the nations that come against Jerusalem. +012:010 I will pour on the house of David, and on the inhabitants + of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will + look to me{After "me," the Hebrew has the two letters "Aleph Tav" + (the first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet), not as + a word, but as a grammatical marker.} whom they have pierced; + and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, + and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn. +012:011 In that day there will be a great mourning in Jerusalem, + like the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon. +012:012 The land will mourn, every family apart; the family of the house + of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house + of Nathan apart, and their wives apart; +012:013 the family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; + the family of the Shimeites apart, and their wives apart; +012:014 all the families who remain, every family apart, + and their wives apart. +013:001 "In that day there will be a spring opened to the house + of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin + and for uncleanness. +013:002 It will come to pass in that day, says Yahweh of Armies, + that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, + and they will be remembered no more. I will also cause + the prophets and the spirit of impurity to pass out of the land. +013:003 It will happen that, when anyone still prophesies, + then his father and his mother who bore him will tell him, + 'You must die, because you speak lies in the name of Yahweh;' + and his father and his mother who bore him will stab him + when he prophesies. +013:004 It will happen in that day, that the prophets will each be + ashamed of his vision, when he prophesies; neither will they + wear a hairy mantle to deceive: +013:005 but he will say, 'I am no prophet, I am a tiller of the ground; + for I have been made a bondservant from my youth.' +013:006 One will say to him, 'What are these wounds between your arms?' + Then he will answer, 'Those with which I was wounded in the house + of my friends.' +013:007 "Awake, sword, against my shepherd, and against the man who is + close to me," says Yahweh of Armies. "Strike the shepherd, + and the sheep will be scattered; and I will turn my hand + against the little ones. +013:008 It shall happen that in all the land," says Yahweh, "two parts + in it will be cut off and die; but the third will be left in it. +013:009 I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them + as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. + They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, + 'It is my people;' and they will say, 'Yahweh is my God.'" +014:001 Behold, a day of Yahweh comes, when your spoil will be divided + in your midst. +014:002 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the + city will be taken, the houses rifled, and the women ravished. + Half of the city will go out into captivity, and the rest + of the people will not be cut off from the city. +014:003 Then Yahweh will go out and fight against those nations, + as when he fought in the day of battle. +014:004 His feet will stand in that day on the Mount of Olives, which is + before Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives will be + split in two, from east to west, making a very great valley. + Half of the mountain will move toward the north, and half + of it toward the south. +014:005 You shall flee by the valley of my mountains; for the valley + of the mountains shall reach to Azel; yes, you shall flee, + just like you fled from before the earthquake in the days + of Uzziah king of Judah. Yahweh my God will come, and all + the holy ones with you. +014:006 It will happen in that day, that there will not be light, + cold, or frost. +014:007 It will be a unique day which is known to Yahweh; not day, + and not night; but it will come to pass, that at evening time + there will be light. +014:008 It will happen in that day, that living waters will go + out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the eastern sea, + and half of them toward the western sea; in summer and in winter + will it be. +014:009 Yahweh will be King over all the earth. In that day Yahweh + will be one, and his name one. +014:010 All the land will be made like the Arabah, from Geba + to Rimmon south of Jerusalem; and she will be lifted up, + and will dwell in her place, from Benjamin's gate to the place + of the first gate, to the corner gate, and from the tower + of Hananel to the king's winepresses. +014:011 Men will dwell therein, and there will be no more curse; + but Jerusalem will dwell safely. +014:012 This will be the plague with which Yahweh will strike + all the peoples who have warred against Jerusalem: + their flesh will consume away while they stand on their feet, + and their eyes will consume away in their sockets, and their + tongue will consume away in their mouth. +014:013 It will happen in that day, that a great panic from Yahweh + will be among them; and they will lay hold everyone on the hand + of his neighbor, and his hand will rise up against the hand + of his neighbor. +014:014 Judah also will fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all + the surrounding nations will be gathered together: + gold, and silver, and clothing, in great abundance. +014:015 So will be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel, + and of the donkey, and of all the animals that will be in + those camps, as that plague. +014:016 It will happen that everyone who is left of all the nations that + came against Jerusalem will go up from year to year to worship + the King, Yahweh of Armies, and to keep the feast of tents. +014:017 It will be, that whoever of all the families of the earth doesn't + go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, Yahweh of Armies, + on them there will be no rain. +014:018 If the family of Egypt doesn't go up, and doesn't come, + neither will it rain on them. This will be the plague + with which Yahweh will strike the nations that don't go up + to keep the feast of tents. +014:019 This will be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all + the nations that don't go up to keep the feast of tents. +014:020 In that day there will be on the bells of the horses, + "HOLY TO YAHWEH;" and the pots in Yahweh's house will be + like the bowls before the altar. +014:021 Yes, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to Yahweh + of Armies; and all those who sacrifice will come and take + of them, and cook in them. In that day there will no longer + be a Canaanite in the house of Yahweh of Armies. +Book 39 Malachi +001:001 An oracle: the word of Yahweh to Israel by Malachi. +001:002 "I have loved you," says Yahweh. Yet you say, + "How have you loved us?" "Wasn't Esau Jacob's brother?" + says Yahweh, "Yet I loved Jacob; +001:003 but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, + and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness." +001:004 Whereas Edom says, "We are beaten down, but we will return and build + the waste places;" thus says Yahweh of Armies, "They shall build, + but I will throw down; and men will call them 'The Wicked Land,' + even the people against whom Yahweh shows wrath forever." +001:005 Your eyes will see, and you will say, "Yahweh is great-- + even beyond the border of Israel!" +001:006 "A son honors his father, and a servant his master. + If I am a father, then where is my honor? + And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? + Says Yahweh of Armies to you, priests, who despise my name. + You say, 'How have we despised your name?' +001:007 You offer polluted bread on my altar. You say, 'How have we + polluted you?' In that you say, 'Yahweh's table contemptible.' +001:008 When you offer the blind for sacrifice, isn't that evil? + And when you offer the lame and sick, isn't that evil? + Present it now to your governor! Will he be pleased with you? + Or will he accept your person?" says Yahweh of Armies. +001:009 "Now, please entreat the favor of God, that he may be gracious to us. + With this, will he accept any of you?" says Yahweh of Armies. +001:010 "Oh that there were one among you who would shut the doors, + that you might not kindle fire on my altar in vain! + I have no pleasure in you," says Yahweh of Armies, + "neither will I accept an offering at your hand. +001:011 For from the rising of the sun even to the going down of the same, + my name is great among the nations, and in every place + incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering: + for my name is great among the nations," says Yahweh of Armies. +001:012 "But you profane it, in that you say, 'Yahweh's table is polluted, + and its fruit, even its food, is contemptible.' +001:013 You say also, 'Behold, what a weariness it is!' + and you have sniffed at it," says Yahweh of Armies; + "and you have brought that which was taken by violence, + the lame, and the sick; thus you bring the offering. + Should I accept this at your hand?" says Yahweh. +001:014 "But the deceiver is cursed, who has in his flock a male, + and vows, and sacrifices to the Lord a blemished thing; + for I am a great King," says Yahweh of Armies, "and my name + is awesome among the nations." +002:001 "Now, you priests, this commandment is for you. +002:002 If you will not listen, and if you will not lay it to heart, + to give glory to my name," says Yahweh of Armies, "then will + I send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. + Indeed, I have cursed them already, because you do not lay + it to heart. +002:003 Behold, I will rebuke your seed, and will spread dung on + your faces, even the dung of your feasts; and you will be taken + away with it. +002:004 You will know that I have sent this commandment to you, + that my covenant may be with Levi," says Yahweh of Armies. +002:005 "My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them + to him who he might be reverent toward me; and he was reverent + toward me, and stood in awe of my name. +002:006 The law of truth was in his mouth, and unrighteousness was not + found in his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, + and turned many away from iniquity. +002:007 For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they + should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger + of Yahweh of Armies. +002:008 But you have turned aside out of the way. You have caused many + to stumble in the law. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi," + says Yahweh of Armies. +002:009 "Therefore I have also made you contemptible and base before all + the people, according to the way you have not kept my ways, + but have had respect for persons in the law. +002:010 Don't we all have one father? Hasn't one God created us? + Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, + profaning the covenant of our fathers? +002:011 Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed + in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness + of Yahweh which he loves, and has married the daughter + of a foreign god. +002:012 Yahweh will cut off, to the man who does this, him who wakes + and him who answers, out of the tents of Jacob, and him + who offers an offering to Yahweh of Armies. +002:013 This again you do: you cover the altar of Yahweh with tears, + with weeping, and with sighing, because he doesn't regard + the offering any more, neither receives it with good will + at your hand. +002:014 Yet you say, 'Why?' Because Yahweh has been witness + between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you + have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, + and the wife of your covenant. +002:015 Did he not make one, although he had the residue + of the Spirit? Why one? He sought a godly seed. + Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal + treacherously against the wife of his youth. +002:016 For I hate divorce," says Yahweh, the God of Israel, + "and him who covers his garment with violence!" says Yahweh + of Armies. "Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you + don't deal treacherously. +002:017 You have wearied Yahweh with your words. Yet you say, + 'How have we wearied him?' In that you say, 'Everyone who does + evil is good in the sight of Yahweh, and he delights in them;' + or 'Where is the God of justice?' +003:001 "Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me; + and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple; + and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, behold, + he comes!" says Yahweh of Armies. +003:002 "But who can endure the day of his coming? And who will + stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner's fire, + and like launderer's soap; +003:003 and he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will + purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and silver; + and they shall offer to Yahweh offerings in righteousness. +003:004 Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasant + to Yahweh, as in the days of old, and as in ancient years. +003:005 I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift + witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, + and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress + the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, + and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don't fear me," + says Yahweh of Armies. +003:006 "For I, Yahweh, don't change; therefore you, sons of Jacob, + are not consumed. +003:007 From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from + my ordinances, and have not kept them. Return to me, + and I will return to you," says Yahweh of Armies. + "But you say, 'How shall we return?' +003:008 Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me! But you say, 'How have we + robbed you?' In tithes and offerings. +003:009 You are cursed with the curse; for you rob me, + even this whole nation. +003:010 Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food + in my house, and test me now in this," says Yahweh of Armies, + "if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you + out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough for. +003:011 I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall + not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall + your vine cast its fruit before its time in the field," + says Yahweh of Armies. +003:012 "All nations shall call you blessed, for you will be a + delightful land," says Yahweh of Armies. +003:013 "Your words have been stout against me," says Yahweh. + "Yet you say, 'What have we spoken against you?' +003:014 You have said, 'It is vain to serve God;' and 'What profit + is it that we have kept his charge, and that we have walked + mournfully before Yahweh of Armies? +003:015 Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness + are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.' +003:016 Then those who feared Yahweh spoke one with another; + and Yahweh listened, and heard, and a book of memory + was written before him, for those who feared Yahweh, + and who honored his name. +003:017 They shall be mine," says Yahweh of Armies, "my own possession + in the day that I make, and I will spare them, as a man spares + his own son who serves him. +003:018 Then you shall return and discern between the righteous + and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who + doesn't serve him. +004:001 "For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all + the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; + and the day that comes will burn them up," says Yahweh of Armies, + "that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. +004:002 But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness + arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap + like calves of the stall. +004:003 You shall tread down the wicked; for they will be ashes + under the soles of your feet in the day that I make," + says Yahweh of Armies. +004:004 "Remember the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded to him + in Horeb for all Israel, even statutes and ordinances. +004:005 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great + and terrible day of Yahweh comes. +004:006 He will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, + and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come + and strike the earth with a curse." +Book 40 Matthew +001:001 The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ{Christ (Greek) + and Messiah (Hebrew) both mean "Anointed One"}, the son of David, + the son of Abraham. +001:002 Abraham became the father of Isaac. Isaac became the father + of Jacob. Jacob became the father of Judah and his brothers. +001:003 Judah became the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar. + Perez became the father of Hezron. Hezron became the + father of Ram. +001:004 Ram became the father of Amminadab. Amminadab became the father + of Nahshon. Nahshon became the father of Salmon. +001:005 Salmon became the father of Boaz by Rahab. Boaz became + the father of Obed by Ruth. Obed became the father of Jesse. +001:006 Jesse became the father of David the king. David became + the father of Solomon by her who had been the wife of Uriah. +001:007 Solomon became the father of Rehoboam. Rehoboam became + the father of Abijah. Abijah became the father of Asa. +001:008 Asa became the father of Jehoshaphat. Jehoshaphat became + the father of Joram. Joram became the father of Uzziah. +001:009 Uzziah became the father of Jotham. Jotham became the father + of Ahaz. Ahaz became the father of Hezekiah. +001:010 Hezekiah became the father of Manasseh. Manasseh became + the father of Amon. Amon became the father of Josiah. +001:011 Josiah became the father of Jechoniah and his brothers, + at the time of the exile to Babylon. +001:012 After the exile to Babylon, Jechoniah became the father of Shealtiel. + Shealtiel became the father of Zerubbabel. +001:013 Zerubbabel became the father of Abiud. Abiud became the father + of Eliakim. Eliakim became the father of Azor. +001:014 Azor became the father of Sadoc. Sadoc became the father of Achim. + Achim became the father of Eliud. +001:015 Eliud became the father of Eleazar. Eleazar became the father + of Matthan. Matthan became the father of Jacob. +001:016 Jacob became the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, + from whom was born Jesus{"Jesus" means "Salvation."}, + who is called Christ. +001:017 So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; + from David to the exile to Babylon fourteen generations; + and from the carrying away to Babylon to the Christ, + fourteen generations. +001:018 Now the birth of Jesus Christ was like this; for after his mother, + Mary, was engaged to Joseph, before they came together, + she was found pregnant by the Holy Spirit. +001:019 Joseph, her husband, being a righteous man, and not willing + to make her a public example, intended to put her away secretly. +001:020 But when he thought about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord + appeared to him in a dream, saying, "Joseph, son of David, + don't be afraid to take to yourself Mary, your wife, + for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit. +001:021 She shall bring forth a son. You shall call his name Jesus, + for it is he who shall save his people from their sins." +001:022 Now all this has happened, that it might be fulfilled which was + spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, +001:023 "Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son. + They shall call his name Immanuel;" which is, being interpreted, + "God with us."{Isaiah 7:14} +001:024 Joseph arose from his sleep, and did as the angel of the Lord + commanded him, and took his wife to himself; +001:025 and didn't know her sexually until she had brought forth her + firstborn son. He named him Jesus. +002:001 Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days + of Herod the king, behold, wise men{The word for "wise men" + (magoi) can also mean teachers, scientists, physicians, + astrologers, seers, interpreters of dreams, or sorcerers.} + from the east came to Jerusalem, saying, +002:002 "Where is he who is born King of the Jews? For we saw his star + in the east, and have come to worship him." +002:003 When Herod the king heard it, he was troubled, and all + Jerusalem with him. +002:004 Gathering together all the chief priests and scribes of the people, + he asked them where the Christ would be born. +002:005 They said to him, "In Bethlehem of Judea, for thus it is written + through the prophet, +002:006 'You Bethlehem, land of Judah, are in no way least among + the princes of Judah: for out of you shall come forth a governor, + who shall shepherd my people, Israel.'"{Micah 5:2} +002:007 Then Herod secretly called the wise men, and learned from them + exactly what time the star appeared. +002:008 He sent them to Bethlehem, and said, "Go and search diligently + for the young child. When you have found him, bring me word, + so that I also may come and worship him." +002:009 They, having heard the king, went their way; and behold, + the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, + until it came and stood over where the young child was. +002:010 When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceedingly great joy. +002:011 They came into the house and saw the young child with Mary, + his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him. + Opening their treasures, they offered to him gifts: + gold, frankincense, and myrrh. +002:012 Being warned in a dream that they shouldn't return to Herod, + they went back to their own country another way. +002:013 Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared + to Joseph in a dream, saying, "Arise and take the young child + and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and stay there until I + tell you, for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him." +002:014 He arose and took the young child and his mother by night, + and departed into Egypt, +002:015 and was there until the death of Herod; that it might be + fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, + saying, "Out of Egypt I called my son."{Hosea 11:1} +002:016 Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, + was exceedingly angry, and sent out, and killed all the male children + who were in Bethlehem and in all the surrounding countryside, + from two years old and under, according to the exact time + which he had learned from the wise men. +002:017 Then that which was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet + was fulfilled, saying, +002:018 "A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, weeping and great mourning, + Rachel weeping for her children; she wouldn't be comforted, + because they are no more."{Jeremiah 31:15} +002:019 But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared + in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying, +002:020 "Arise and take the young child and his mother, and go into + the land of Israel, for those who sought the young child's + life are dead." +002:021 He arose and took the young child and his mother, and came + into the land of Israel. +002:022 But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over Judea + in the place of his father, Herod, he was afraid to go there. + Being warned in a dream, he withdrew into the region of Galilee, +002:023 and came and lived in a city called Nazareth; that it + might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophets: + "He will be called a Nazarene." +003:001 In those days, John the Baptizer came, preaching in the wilderness + of Judea, saying, +003:002 "Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!" +003:003 For this is he who was spoken of by Isaiah the prophet, saying, + "The voice of one crying in the wilderness, make ready the way + of the Lord. Make his paths straight."{Isaiah 40:3} +003:004 Now John himself wore clothing made of camel's hair, + with a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts + and wild honey. +003:005 Then people from Jerusalem, all of Judea, and all the region + around the Jordan went out to him. +003:006 They were baptized{or, immersed} by him in the Jordan, + confessing their sins. +003:007 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming + for his baptism,{or, immersion} he said to them, "You offspring + of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? +003:008 Therefore bring forth fruit worthy of repentance! +003:009 Don't think to yourselves, 'We have Abraham for our father,' + for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham + from these stones. +003:010 "Even now the axe lies at the root of the trees. + Therefore, every tree that doesn't bring forth good fruit + is cut down, and cast into the fire. +003:011 I indeed baptize{or, immerse} you in water for repentance, + but he who comes after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am + not worthy to carry. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit.{TR + and NU add "and with fire"} +003:012 His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse + his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, + but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire." +003:013 Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John, to be + baptized by him. +003:014 But John would have hindered him, saying, "I need to be baptized + by you, and you come to me?" +003:015 But Jesus, answering, said to him, "Allow it now, for this + is the fitting way for us to fulfill all righteousness." + Then he allowed him. +003:016 Jesus, when he was baptized, went up directly from the water: + and behold, the heavens were opened to him. He saw the Spirit + of God descending as a dove, and coming on him. +003:017 Behold, a voice out of the heavens said, "This is my beloved Son, + with whom I am well pleased." +004:001 Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be + tempted by the devil. +004:002 When he had fasted forty days and forty nights, + he was hungry afterward. +004:003 The tempter came and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, + command that these stones become bread." +004:004 But he answered, "It is written, 'Man shall not live by + bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth + of God.'"{Deuteronomy 8:3} +004:005 Then the devil took him into the holy city. He set him on + the pinnacle of the temple, +004:006 and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, + for it is written, 'He will give his angels charge concerning you.' + and, 'On their hands they will bear you up, so that you don't + dash your foot against a stone.'"{Psalm 91:11-12} +004:007 Jesus said to him, "Again, it is written, 'You shall not test + the Lord, your God.'"{Deuteronomy 6:16} +004:008 Again, the devil took him to an exceedingly high mountain, + and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory. +004:009 He said to him, "I will give you all of these things, if you + will fall down and worship me." +004:010 Then Jesus said to him, "Get behind me,{TR and NU read "Go away" + instead of "Get behind me"} Satan! For it is written, + 'You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall + you serve.'"{Deuteronomy 6:13} +004:011 Then the devil left him, and behold, angels came and served him. +004:012 Now when Jesus heard that John was delivered up, + he withdrew into Galilee. +004:013 Leaving Nazareth, he came and lived in Capernaum, which is + by the sea, in the region of Zebulun and Naphtali, +004:014 that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah + the prophet, saying, +004:015 "The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, toward the sea, + beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles, +004:016 the people who sat in darkness saw a great light, to those + who sat in the region and shadow of death, to them light + has dawned."{Isaiah 9:1-2} +004:017 From that time, Jesus began to preach, and to say, "Repent! For the + Kingdom of Heaven is at hand." +004:018 Walking by the sea of Galilee, he{TR reads "Jesus" + instead of "he"} saw two brothers: Simon, who is called Peter, + and Andrew, his brother, casting a net into the sea; + for they were fishermen. +004:019 He said to them, "Come after me, and I will make you + fishers for men." +004:020 They immediately left their nets and followed him. +004:021 Going on from there, he saw two other brothers, James the son + of Zebedee, and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee + their father, mending their nets. He called them. +004:022 They immediately left the boat and their father, and followed him. +004:023 Jesus went about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, + preaching the Good News of the Kingdom, and healing every + disease and every sickness among the people. +004:024 The report about him went out into all Syria. They brought + to him all who were sick, afflicted with various diseases + and torments, possessed with demons, epileptics, and paralytics; + and he healed them. +004:025 Great multitudes from Galilee, Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea and + from beyond the Jordan followed him. +005:001 Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. + When he had sat down, his disciples came to him. +005:002 He opened his mouth and taught them, saying, +005:003 "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom + of Heaven.{Isaiah 57:15; 66:2} +005:004 Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.{Isaiah 61:2; + 66:10,13} +005:005 Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth.{or, land. + Psalm 37:11} +005:006 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, + for they shall be filled. +005:007 Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. +005:008 Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. +005:009 Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called + children of God. +005:010 Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness' + sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven. +005:011 "Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, + and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake. +005:012 Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. + For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you. +005:013 "You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has lost its flavor, + with what will it be salted? It is then good for nothing, + but to be cast out and trodden under the feet of men. +005:014 You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill + can't be hidden. +005:015 Neither do you light a lamp, and put it under a measuring basket, + but on a stand; and it shines to all who are in the house. +005:016 Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see + your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven. +005:017 "Don't think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. + I didn't come to destroy, but to fulfill. +005:018 For most certainly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, + not even one smallest letter{literally, iota} or one tiny + pen stroke{or, serif} shall in any way pass away from the law, + until all things are accomplished. +005:019 Whoever, therefore, shall break one of these least commandments, + and teach others to do so, shall be called least in the Kingdom + of Heaven; but whoever shall do and teach them shall be called + great in the Kingdom of Heaven. +005:020 For I tell you that unless your righteousness exceeds that of + the scribes and Pharisees, there is no way you will enter + into the Kingdom of Heaven. +005:021 "You have heard that it was said to the ancient ones, + 'You shall not murder;'{Exodus 20:13} and 'Whoever shall + murder shall be in danger of the judgment.' +005:022 But I tell you, that everyone who is angry with his brother + without a cause{NU omits "without a cause".} shall be in danger + of the judgment; and whoever shall say to his brother, 'Raca{"Raca" + is an Aramaic insult, related to the word for "empty" + and conveying the idea of empty-headedness.}!' shall be + in danger of the council; and whoever shall say, 'You fool!' + shall be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.{or, Hell} +005:023 "If therefore you are offering your gift at the altar, + and there remember that your brother has anything against you, +005:024 leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. + First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and + offer your gift. +005:025 Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are with him + in the way; lest perhaps the prosecutor deliver you + to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, + and you be cast into prison. +005:026 Most certainly I tell you, you shall by no means get out of there, + until you have paid the last penny.{literally, kodrantes. + A kodrantes was a small copper coin worth about 2 lepta + (widow's mites)--not enough to buy very much of anything.} +005:027 "You have heard that it was said, {TR adds "to the ancients,"} + 'You shall not commit adultery;'{Exodus 20:14} +005:028 but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after + her has committed adultery with her already in his heart. +005:029 If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and + throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you + that one of your members should perish, than for your whole + body to be cast into Gehenna.{or, Hell} +005:030 If your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off, + and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you + that one of your members should perish, than for your whole + body to be cast into Gehenna.{or, Hell} +005:031 "It was also said, 'Whoever shall put away his wife, let him + give her a writing of divorce,'{Deuteronomy 24:1} +005:032 but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for + the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; + and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery. +005:033 "Again you have heard that it was said to them of old time, + 'You shall not make false vows, but shall perform to the + Lord your vows,' +005:034 but I tell you, don't swear at all: neither by heaven, + for it is the throne of God; +005:035 nor by the earth, for it is the footstool of his feet; + nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King. +005:036 Neither shall you swear by your head, for you can't make one + hair white or black. +005:037 But let your 'Yes' be 'Yes' and your 'No' be 'No.' Whatever is + more than these is of the evil one. +005:038 "You have heard that it was said, 'An eye for an eye, and a tooth + for a tooth.'{Exodus 21:24; Leviticus 24:20; Deuteronomy 19:21} +005:039 But I tell you, don't resist him who is evil; but whoever + strikes you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also. +005:040 If anyone sues you to take away your coat, let him have + your cloak also. +005:041 Whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two. +005:042 Give to him who asks you, and don't turn away him who desires + to borrow from you. +005:043 "You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor, + and hate your enemy.'{Leviticus 19:18} +005:044 But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, + do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat + you and persecute you, +005:045 that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. + For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, + and sends rain on the just and the unjust. +005:046 For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? + Don't even the tax collectors do the same? +005:047 If you only greet your friends, what more do you do than others? + Don't even the tax collectors do the same? +005:048 Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in + heaven is perfect. +006:001 "Be careful that you don't do your charitable giving before men, + to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father + who is in heaven. +006:002 Therefore when you do merciful deeds, don't sound a trumpet + before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues + and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. + Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward. +006:003 But when you do merciful deeds, don't let your left hand know + what your right hand does, +006:004 so that your merciful deeds may be in secret, then your Father + who sees in secret will reward you openly. +006:005 "When you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, + for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and in + the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. + Most certainly, I tell you, they have received their reward. +006:006 But you, when you pray, enter into your inner chamber, + and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret, + and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly. +006:007 In praying, don't use vain repetitions, as the Gentiles do; + for they think that they will be heard for their much speaking. +006:008 Therefore don't be like them, for your Father knows what things + you need, before you ask him. +006:009 Pray like this: 'Our Father in heaven, may your name + be kept holy. +006:010 Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done, as in heaven, + so on earth. +006:011 Give us today our daily bread. +006:012 Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors. +006:013 Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. + For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. + Amen.{NU omits "For yours is the Kingdom, the power, + and the glory forever. Amen."}' +006:014 "For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father + will also forgive you. +006:015 But if you don't forgive men their trespasses, neither will + your Father forgive your trespasses. +006:016 "Moreover when you fast, don't be like the hypocrites, + with sad faces. For they disfigure their faces, that they + may be seen by men to be fasting. Most certainly I tell you, + they have received their reward. +006:017 But you, when you fast, anoint your head, and wash your face; +006:018 so that you are not seen by men to be fasting, but by your + Father who is in secret, and your Father, who sees in secret, + will reward you. +006:019 "Don't lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth + and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal; +006:020 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither + moth nor rust consume, and where thieves don't break + through and steal; +006:021 for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. +006:022 "The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is sound, + your whole body will be full of light. +006:023 But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. + If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great + is the darkness! +006:024 "No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one + and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and + despise the other. You can't serve both God and Mammon. +006:025 Therefore, I tell you, don't be anxious for your life: + what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, + what you will wear. Isn't life more than food, and the body + more than clothing? +006:026 See the birds of the sky, that they don't sow, neither do they reap, + nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. + Aren't you of much more value than they? +006:027 "Which of you, by being anxious, can add one moment{literally, + cubit} to his lifespan? +006:028 Why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, + how they grow. They don't toil, neither do they spin, +006:029 yet I tell you that even Solomon in all his glory was not + dressed like one of these. +006:030 But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today exists, + and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, won't he much more + clothe you, you of little faith? +006:031 "Therefore don't be anxious, saying, 'What will we eat?', + 'What will we drink?' or, 'With what will we be clothed?' +006:032 For the Gentiles seek after all these things, for your heavenly + Father knows that you need all these things. +006:033 But seek first God's Kingdom, and his righteousness; + and all these things will be given to you as well. +006:034 Therefore don't be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be + anxious for itself. Each day's own evil is sufficient. +007:001 "Don't judge, so that you won't be judged. +007:002 For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; + and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you. +007:003 Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, + but don't consider the beam that is in your own eye? +007:004 Or how will you tell your brother, 'Let me remove the speck + from your eye;' and behold, the beam is in your own eye? +007:005 You hypocrite! First remove the beam out of your own eye, + and then you can see clearly to remove the speck out of + your brother's eye. +007:006 "Don't give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw + your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them + under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces. +007:007 "Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. + Knock, and it will be opened for you. +007:008 For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. + To him who knocks it will be opened. +007:009 Or who is there among you, who, if his son asks him for bread, + will give him a stone? +007:010 Or if he asks for a fish, who will give him a serpent? +007:011 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to + your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven + give good things to those who ask him! +007:012 Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall + also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets. +007:013 "Enter in by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad + is the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who + enter in by it. +007:014 How{TR reads "Because" instead of "How"} narrow is the gate, + and restricted is the way that leads to life! + Few are those who find it. +007:015 "Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, + but inwardly are ravening wolves. +007:016 By their fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes + from thorns, or figs from thistles? +007:017 Even so, every good tree produces good fruit; but the corrupt + tree produces evil fruit. +007:018 A good tree can't produce evil fruit, neither can a corrupt + tree produce good fruit. +007:019 Every tree that doesn't grow good fruit is cut down, and thrown + into the fire. +007:020 Therefore, by their fruits you will know them. +007:021 Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter into + the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father + who is in heaven. +007:022 Many will tell me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, didn't we prophesy + in your name, in your name cast out demons, and in your name + do many mighty works?' +007:023 Then I will tell them, 'I never knew you. Depart from me, + you who work iniquity.' +007:024 "Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, + I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock. +007:025 The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, + and beat on that house; and it didn't fall, for it was founded + on the rock. +007:026 Everyone who hears these words of mine, and doesn't do them + will be like a foolish man, who built his house on the sand. +007:027 The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, + and beat on that house; and it fell--and great was its fall." +007:028 It happened, when Jesus had finished saying these things, + that the multitudes were astonished at his teaching, +007:029 for he taught them with authority, and not like the scribes. +008:001 When he came down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him. +008:002 Behold, a leper came to him and worshiped him, saying, "Lord, + if you want to, you can make me clean." +008:003 Jesus stretched out his hand, and touched him, saying, "I want to. + Be made clean." Immediately his leprosy was cleansed. +008:004 Jesus said to him, "See that you tell nobody, but go, show yourself + to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, + as a testimony to them." +008:005 When he came into Capernaum, a centurion came to him, asking him, +008:006 and saying, "Lord, my servant lies in the house paralyzed, + grievously tormented." +008:007 Jesus said to him, "I will come and heal him." +008:008 The centurion answered, "Lord, I'm not worthy for you to come + under my roof. Just say the word, and my servant will be healed. +008:009 For I am also a man under authority, having under myself soldiers. + I tell this one, 'Go,' and he goes; and tell another, 'Come,' + and he comes; and tell my servant, 'Do this,' and he does it." +008:010 When Jesus heard it, he marveled, and said to those who followed, + "Most certainly I tell you, I haven't found so great a faith, + not even in Israel. +008:011 I tell you that many will come from the east and the west, + and will sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the + Kingdom of Heaven, +008:012 but the children of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the + outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth." +008:013 Jesus said to the centurion, "Go your way. Let it be done + for you as you have believed." His servant was healed + in that hour. +008:014 When Jesus came into Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother + lying sick with a fever. +008:015 He touched her hand, and the fever left her. She got up + and served him.{TR reads "them" instead of "him"} +008:016 When evening came, they brought to him many possessed with demons. + He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick; +008:017 that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah + the prophet, saying: "He took our infirmities, and bore + our diseases."{Isaiah 53:4} +008:018 Now when Jesus saw great multitudes around him, he gave + the order to depart to the other side. +008:019 A scribe came, and said to him, "Teacher, I will follow you + wherever you go." +008:020 Jesus said to him, "The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky + have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head." +008:021 Another of his disciples said to him, "Lord, allow me first + to go and bury my father." +008:022 But Jesus said to him, "Follow me, and leave the dead to bury + their own dead." +008:023 When he got into a boat, his disciples followed him. +008:024 Behold, a violent storm came up on the sea, so much that the boat + was covered with the waves, but he was asleep. +008:025 They came to him, and woke him up, saying, "Save us, Lord! + We are dying!" +008:026 He said to them, "Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?" + Then he got up, rebuked the wind and the sea, and there was + a great calm. +008:027 The men marveled, saying, "What kind of man is this, + that even the wind and the sea obey him?" +008:028 When he came to the other side, into the country of the + Gergesenes,{NU reads "Gadarenes"} two people possessed by demons + met him there, coming out of the tombs, exceedingly fierce, + so that nobody could pass that way. +008:029 Behold, they cried out, saying, "What do we have to do + with you, Jesus, Son of God? Have you come here to torment + us before the time?" +008:030 Now there was a herd of many pigs feeding far away from them. +008:031 The demons begged him, saying, "If you cast us out, permit us + to go away into the herd of pigs." +008:032 He said to them, "Go!" They came out, and went into the herd + of pigs: and behold, the whole herd of pigs rushed down + the cliff into the sea, and died in the water. +008:033 Those who fed them fled, and went away into the city, + and told everything, including what happened to those who were + possessed with demons. +008:034 Behold, all the city came out to meet Jesus. When they saw him, + they begged that he would depart from their borders. +009:001 He entered into a boat, and crossed over, and came into + his own city. +009:002 Behold, they brought to him a man who was paralyzed, lying on a bed. + Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, "Son, cheer up! + Your sins are forgiven you." +009:003 Behold, some of the scribes said to themselves, + "This man blasphemes." +009:004 Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, "Why do you think evil + in your hearts? +009:005 For which is easier, to say, 'Your sins are forgiven;' + or to say, 'Get up, and walk?' +009:006 But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on + earth to forgive sins..." (then he said to the paralytic), + "Get up, and take up your mat, and go up to your house." +009:007 He arose and departed to his house. +009:008 But when the multitudes saw it, they marveled and glorified God, + who had given such authority to men. +009:009 As Jesus passed by from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting + at the tax collection office. He said to him, "Follow me." + He got up and followed him. +009:010 It happened as he sat in the house, behold, many tax collectors + and sinners came and sat down with Jesus and his disciples. +009:011 When the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, + "Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?" +009:012 When Jesus heard it, he said to them, "Those who are healthy + have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do. +009:013 But you go and learn what this means: 'I desire mercy, and not + sacrifice,'{Hosea 6:6} for I came not to call the righteous, + but sinners to repentance.{NU omits "to repentance".}" +009:014 Then John's disciples came to him, saying, "Why do we and + the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples don't fast?" +009:015 Jesus said to them, "Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn, + as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days + will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, + and then they will fast. +009:016 No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; + for the patch would tear away from the garment, and a worse + hole is made. +009:017 Neither do people put new wine into old wineskins, + or else the skins would burst, and the wine be spilled, + and the skins ruined. No, they put new wine into fresh wineskins, + and both are preserved." +009:018 While he told these things to them, behold, a ruler came + and worshiped him, saying, "My daughter has just died, + but come and lay your hand on her, and she will live." +009:019 Jesus got up and followed him, as did his disciples. +009:020 Behold, a woman who had an issue of blood for twelve years came + behind him, and touched the fringe{or, tassel} of his garment; +009:021 for she said within herself, "If I just touch his garment, + I will be made well." +009:022 But Jesus, turning around and seeing her, said, "Daughter, cheer up! + Your faith has made you well." And the woman was made well + from that hour. +009:023 When Jesus came into the ruler's house, and saw the flute players, + and the crowd in noisy disorder, +009:024 he said to them, "Make room, because the girl isn't dead, + but sleeping." They were ridiculing him. +009:025 But when the crowd was put out, he entered in, took her by the hand, + and the girl arose. +009:026 The report of this went out into all that land. +009:027 As Jesus passed by from there, two blind men followed him, + calling out and saying, "Have mercy on us, son of David!" +009:028 When he had come into the house, the blind men came to him. + Jesus said to them, "Do you believe that I am able to do this?" + They told him, "Yes, Lord." +009:029 Then he touched their eyes, saying, "According to your faith + be it done to you." +009:030 Their eyes were opened. Jesus strictly charged them, saying, + "See that no one knows about this." +009:031 But they went out and spread abroad his fame in all that land. +009:032 As they went out, behold, a mute man who was demon possessed + was brought to him. +009:033 When the demon was cast out, the mute man spoke. + The multitudes marveled, saying, "Nothing like this has ever + been seen in Israel!" +009:034 But the Pharisees said, "By the prince of the demons, + he casts out demons." +009:035 Jesus went about all the cities and the villages, teaching in + their synagogues, and preaching the Good News of the Kingdom, + and healing every disease and every sickness among the people. +009:036 But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion + for them, because they were harassed{TR reads "weary" instead of + "harassed"} and scattered, like sheep without a shepherd. +009:037 Then he said to his disciples, "The harvest indeed is plentiful, + but the laborers are few. +009:038 Pray therefore that the Lord of the harvest will send out + laborers into his harvest." +010:001 He called to himself his twelve disciples, and gave them + authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal + every disease and every sickness. +010:002 Now the names of the twelve apostles are these. + The first, Simon, who is called Peter; Andrew, his brother; + James the son of Zebedee; John, his brother; +010:003 Philip; Bartholomew; Thomas; Matthew the tax collector; + James the son of Alphaeus; Lebbaeus, whose surname was{NU + omits "Lebbaeus, whose surname was"} Thaddaeus; +010:004 Simon the Canaanite; and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him. +010:005 Jesus sent these twelve out, and charged them, saying, + "Don't go among the Gentiles, and don't enter into any city + of the Samaritans. +010:006 Rather, go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. +010:007 As you go, preach, saying, 'The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!' +010:008 Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers{TR adds ", raise the dead"}, + and cast out demons. Freely you received, so freely give. +010:009 Don't take any gold, nor silver, nor brass in your money belts. +010:010 Take no bag for your journey, neither two coats, nor shoes, + nor staff: for the laborer is worthy of his food. +010:011 Into whatever city or village you enter, find out who in it + is worthy; and stay there until you go on. +010:012 As you enter into the household, greet it. +010:013 If the household is worthy, let your peace come on it, + but if it isn't worthy, let your peace return to you. +010:014 Whoever doesn't receive you, nor hear your words, as you go out + of that house or that city, shake off the dust from your feet. +010:015 Most certainly I tell you, it will be more tolerable for the land + of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city. +010:016 "Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. + Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves. +010:017 But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to councils, + and in their synagogues they will scourge you. +010:018 Yes, and you will be brought before governors and kings for my sake, + for a testimony to them and to the nations. +010:019 But when they deliver you up, don't be anxious how or what you + will say, for it will be given you in that hour what you will say. +010:020 For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father + who speaks in you. +010:021 "Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. + Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be + put to death. +010:022 You will be hated by all men for my name's sake, but he who + endures to the end will be saved. +010:023 But when they persecute you in this city, flee into the next, + for most certainly I tell you, you will not have gone through + the cities of Israel, until the Son of Man has come. +010:024 "A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his lord. +010:025 It is enough for the disciple that he be like his teacher, + and the servant like his lord. If they have called the master + of the house Beelzebul, how much more those of his household! +010:026 Therefore don't be afraid of them, for there is nothing covered + that will not be revealed; and hidden that will not be known. +010:027 What I tell you in the darkness, speak in the light; and what you + hear whispered in the ear, proclaim on the housetops. +010:028 Don't be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able + to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy + both soul and body in Gehenna.{or, Hell.} +010:029 "Aren't two sparrows sold for an assarion coin{An assarion is a small + coin worth one tenth of a drachma or a sixteenth of a denarius + (approximately the wages of one half hour of agricultural labor).}? + Not one of them falls on the ground apart from your Father's will, +010:030 but the very hairs of your head are all numbered. +010:031 Therefore don't be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows. +010:032 Everyone therefore who confesses me before men, him I will + also confess before my Father who is in heaven. +010:033 But whoever denies me before men, him I will also deny before + my Father who is in heaven. +010:034 "Don't think that I came to send peace on the earth. + I didn't come to send peace, but a sword. +010:035 For I came to set a man at odds against his father, + and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law + against her mother-in-law. +010:036 A man's foes will be those of his own household.{Micah 7:6} +010:037 He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; + and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn't worthy of me. +010:038 He who doesn't take his cross and follow after me, + isn't worthy of me. +010:039 He who seeks his life will lose it; and he who loses his life + for my sake will find it. +010:040 He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives + him who sent me. +010:041 He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive + a prophet's reward: and he who receives a righteous man in the name + of a righteous man will receive a righteous man's reward. +010:042 Whoever gives one of these little ones just a cup of cold + water to drink in the name of a disciple, most certainly I + tell you he will in no way lose his reward." +011:001 It happened that when Jesus had finished directing his + twelve disciples, he departed from there to teach and preach + in their cities. +011:002 Now when John heard in the prison the works of Christ, + he sent two of his disciples +011:003 and said to him, "Are you he who comes, or should we + look for another?" +011:004 Jesus answered them, "Go and tell John the things which you + hear and see: +011:005 the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers + are cleansed, the deaf hear,{Isaiah 35:5} the dead are raised up, + and the poor have good news preached to them.{Isaiah 61:1-4} +011:006 Blessed is he who finds no occasion for stumbling in me." +011:007 As these went their way, Jesus began to say to the multitudes + concerning John, "What did you go out into the wilderness to see? + A reed shaken by the wind? +011:008 But what did you go out to see? A man in soft clothing? + Behold, those who wear soft clothing are in king's houses. +011:009 But why did you go out? To see a prophet? Yes, I tell you, + and much more than a prophet. +011:010 For this is he, of whom it is written, 'Behold, I send + my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way + before you.'{Malachi 3:1} +011:011 Most certainly I tell you, among those who are born of women + there has not arisen anyone greater than John the Baptizer; + yet he who is least in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than he. +011:012 From the days of John the Baptizer until now, the Kingdom + of Heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it + by force.{or, plunder it.} +011:013 For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John. +011:014 If you are willing to receive it, this is Elijah, who is to come. +011:015 He who has ears to hear, let him hear. +011:016 "But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children + sitting in the marketplaces, who call to their companions +011:017 and say, 'We played the flute for you, and you didn't dance. + We mourned for you, and you didn't lament.' +011:018 For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, + 'He has a demon.' +011:019 The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, 'Behold, + a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors + and sinners!' But wisdom is justified by her children.{NU + reads "actions" instead of "children"}" +011:020 Then he began to denounce the cities in which most of his mighty + works had been done, because they didn't repent. +011:021 "Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty + works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you, + they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. +011:022 But I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon + on the day of judgment than for you. +011:023 You, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, you will go down + to Hades.{or, Hell} For if the mighty works had been done + in Sodom which were done in you, it would have remained + until this day. +011:024 But I tell you that it will be more tolerable for the land + of Sodom, on the day of judgment, than for you." +011:025 At that time, Jesus answered, "I thank you, Father, Lord of + heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise + and understanding, and revealed them to infants. +011:026 Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight. +011:027 All things have been delivered to me by my Father. + No one knows the Son, except the Father; neither does anyone + know the Father, except the Son, and he to whom the Son + desires to reveal him. +011:028 "Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, + and I will give you rest. +011:029 Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle + and lowly in heart; and you will find rest for your souls. +011:030 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light." +012:001 At that time, Jesus went on the Sabbath day through the grain fields. + His disciples were hungry and began to pluck heads of grain + and to eat. +012:002 But the Pharisees, when they saw it, said to him, "Behold, + your disciples do what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath." +012:003 But he said to them, "Haven't you read what David did, + when he was hungry, and those who were with him; +012:004 how he entered into the house of God, and ate the show bread, + which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for those who + were with him, but only for the priests?{1 Samuel 21:3-6} +012:005 Or have you not read in the law, that on the Sabbath day, + the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, and are guiltless? +012:006 But I tell you that one greater than the temple is here. +012:007 But if you had known what this means, 'I desire mercy, and not + sacrifice,'{Hosea 6:6} you would not have condemned the guiltless. +012:008 For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath." +012:009 He departed there, and went into their synagogue. +012:010 And behold there was a man with a withered hand. + They asked him, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath day?" + that they might accuse him. +012:011 He said to them, "What man is there among you, who has one sheep, + and if this one falls into a pit on the Sabbath day, + won't he grab on to it, and lift it out? +012:012 Of how much more value then is a man than a sheep! + Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath day." +012:013 Then he told the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out; + and it was restored whole, just like the other. +012:014 But the Pharisees went out, and conspired against him, + how they might destroy him. +012:015 Jesus, perceiving that, withdrew from there. Great multitudes + followed him; and he healed them all, +012:016 and charged them that they should not make him known: +012:017 that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah + the prophet, saying, +012:018 "Behold, my servant whom I have chosen; my beloved in whom + my soul is well pleased: I will put my Spirit on him. + He will proclaim justice to the nations. +012:019 He will not strive, nor shout; neither will anyone hear his + voice in the streets. +012:020 He won't break a bruised reed. He won't quench a smoking flax, + until he leads justice to victory. +012:021 In his name, the nations will hope."{Isaiah 42:1-4} +012:022 Then one possessed by a demon, blind and mute, was brought + to him and he healed him, so that the blind and mute man + both spoke and saw. +012:023 All the multitudes were amazed, and said, "Can this be + the son of David?" +012:024 But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, "This man does not cast + out demons, except by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons." +012:025 Knowing their thoughts, Jesus said to them, "Every kingdom + divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every + city or house divided against itself will not stand. +012:026 If Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself. + How then will his kingdom stand? +012:027 If I by Beelzebul cast out demons, by whom do your children + cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges. +012:028 But if I by the Spirit of God cast out demons, then the Kingdom + of God has come upon you. +012:029 Or how can one enter into the house of the strong man, + and plunder his goods, unless he first bind the strong man? + Then he will plunder his house. +012:030 "He who is not with me is against me, and he who doesn't gather + with me, scatters. +012:031 Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, + but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven men. +012:032 Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be + forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, + it will not be forgiven him, neither in this age, nor in that + which is to come. +012:033 "Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make + the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt; for the tree is known + by its fruit. +012:034 You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? + For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. +012:035 The good man out of his good treasure brings out good things, + and the evil man out of his evil treasure{TR adds "of + the heart"} brings out evil things. +012:036 I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give + account of it in the day of judgment. +012:037 For by your words you will be justified, and by your words + you will be condemned." +012:038 Then certain of the scribes and Pharisees answered, "Teacher, + we want to see a sign from you." +012:039 But he answered them, "An evil and adulterous generation seeks + after a sign, but no sign will be given it but the sign + of Jonah the prophet. +012:040 For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly + of the whale, so will the Son of Man be three days and three + nights in the heart of the earth. +012:041 The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation, + and will condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; + and behold, someone greater than Jonah is here. +012:042 The queen of the south will rise up in the judgment + with this generation, and will condemn it, for she came + from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; + and behold, someone greater than Solomon is here. +012:043 But the unclean spirit, when he is gone out of the man, + passes through waterless places, seeking rest, and doesn't find it. +012:044 Then he says, 'I will return into my house from which I came out,' + and when he has come back, he finds it empty, swept, + and put in order. +012:045 Then he goes, and takes with himself seven other spirits + more evil than he is, and they enter in and dwell there. + The last state of that man becomes worse than the first. + Even so will it be also to this evil generation." +012:046 While he was yet speaking to the multitudes, behold, his mother + and his brothers stood outside, seeking to speak to him. +012:047 One said to him, "Behold, your mother and your brothers + stand outside, seeking to speak to you." +012:048 But he answered him who spoke to him, "Who is my mother? + Who are my brothers?" +012:049 He stretched out his hand towards his disciples, and said, + "Behold, my mother and my brothers! +012:050 For whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, + he is my brother, and sister, and mother." +013:001 On that day Jesus went out of the house, and sat by the seaside. +013:002 Great multitudes gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat, + and sat, and all the multitude stood on the beach. +013:003 He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, "Behold, + a farmer went out to sow. +013:004 As he sowed, some seeds fell by the roadside, and the birds + came and devoured them. +013:005 Others fell on rocky ground, where they didn't have much soil, + and immediately they sprang up, because they had no + depth of earth. +013:006 When the sun had risen, they were scorched. Because they + had no root, they withered away. +013:007 Others fell among thorns. The thorns grew up and choked them: +013:008 and others fell on good soil, and yielded fruit: + some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty. +013:009 He who has ears to hear, let him hear." +013:010 The disciples came, and said to him, "Why do you speak + to them in parables?" +013:011 He answered them, "To you it is given to know the mysteries + of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them. +013:012 For whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have abundance, + but whoever doesn't have, from him will be taken away even + that which he has. +013:013 Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don't see, + and hearing, they don't hear, neither do they understand. +013:014 In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says, + 'By hearing you will hear, and will in no way understand; + Seeing you will see, and will in no way perceive: +013:015 for this people's heart has grown callous, their ears are dull + of hearing, they have closed their eyes; or else perhaps + they might perceive with their eyes, hear with their ears, + understand with their heart, and should turn again; + and I would heal them.'{Isaiah 6:9-10} +013:016 "But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, + for they hear. +013:017 For most certainly I tell you that many prophets and righteous men + desired to see the things which you see, and didn't see them; + and to hear the things which you hear, and didn't hear them. +013:018 "Hear, then, the parable of the farmer. +013:019 When anyone hears the word of the Kingdom, and doesn't understand it, + the evil one comes, and snatches away that which has been + sown in his heart. This is what was sown by the roadside. +013:020 What was sown on the rocky places, this is he who hears the word, + and immediately with joy receives it; +013:021 yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. + When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, + immediately he stumbles. +013:022 What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, + but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches + choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful. +013:023 What was sown on the good ground, this is he who hears the word, + and understands it, who most certainly bears fruit, + and brings forth, some one hundred times as much, some sixty, + and some thirty." +013:024 He set another parable before them, saying, "The Kingdom + of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field, +013:025 but while people slept, his enemy came and sowed darnel weeds{darnel + is a weed grass (probably bearded darnel or lolium temulentum) + that looks very much like wheat until it is mature, + when the difference becomes very apparent.} also among the wheat, + and went away. +013:026 But when the blade sprang up and brought forth fruit, + then the darnel weeds appeared also. +013:027 The servants of the householder came and said to him, 'Sir, + didn't you sow good seed in your field? Where did this + darnel come from?' +013:028 "He said to them, 'An enemy has done this.' "The servants + asked him, 'Do you want us to go and gather them up?' +013:029 "But he said, 'No, lest perhaps while you gather up the darnel weeds, + you root up the wheat with them. +013:030 Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the harvest time + I will tell the reapers, "First, gather up the darnel weeds, + and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat + into my barn."'" +013:031 He set another parable before them, saying, "The Kingdom + of Heaven is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, + and sowed in his field; +013:032 which indeed is smaller than all seeds. But when it is grown, + it is greater than the herbs, and becomes a tree, so that + the birds of the air come and lodge in its branches." +013:033 He spoke another parable to them. "The Kingdom of Heaven is + like yeast, which a woman took, and hid in three measures{literally, + three sata. 3 sata is about 39 litres or a bit more than + a bushel} of meal, until it was all leavened." +013:034 Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the multitudes; + and without a parable, he didn't speak to them, +013:035 that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, + saying, "I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things + hidden from the foundation of the world."{Psalm 78:2} +013:036 Then Jesus sent the multitudes away, and went into the house. + His disciples came to him, saying, "Explain to us the parable + of the darnel weeds of the field." +013:037 He answered them, "He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man, +013:038 the field is the world; and the good seed, these are the children + of the Kingdom; and the darnel weeds are the children + of the evil one. +013:039 The enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the end + of the age, and the reapers are angels. +013:040 As therefore the darnel weeds are gathered up and burned with fire; + so will it be at the end of this age. +013:041 The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will + gather out of his Kingdom all things that cause stumbling, + and those who do iniquity, +013:042 and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be + weeping and the gnashing of teeth. +013:043 Then the righteous will shine forth like the sun in the Kingdom + of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear. +013:044 "Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure hidden + in the field, which a man found, and hid. In his joy, + he goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field. +013:045 "Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a merchant + seeking fine pearls, +013:046 who having found one pearl of great price, he went and sold + all that he had, and bought it. +013:047 "Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a dragnet, that was cast + into the sea, and gathered some fish of every kind, +013:048 which, when it was filled, they drew up on the beach. + They sat down, and gathered the good into containers, + but the bad they threw away. +013:049 So will it be in the end of the world. The angels will come forth, + and separate the wicked from among the righteous, +013:050 and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be + the weeping and the gnashing of teeth." +013:051 Jesus said to them, "Have you understood all these things?" + They answered him, "Yes, Lord." +013:052 He said to them, "Therefore, every scribe who has been made a disciple + in the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a householder, + who brings out of his treasure new and old things." +013:053 It happened that when Jesus had finished these parables, + he departed from there. +013:054 Coming into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, + so that they were astonished, and said, "Where did this man + get this wisdom, and these mighty works? +013:055 Isn't this the carpenter's son? Isn't his mother called Mary, + and his brothers, James, Joses, Simon, and Judas{or, Judah}? +013:056 Aren't all of his sisters with us? Where then did this man + get all of these things?" +013:057 They were offended by him. But Jesus said to them, + "A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, + and in his own house." +013:058 He didn't do many mighty works there because of their unbelief. +014:001 At that time, Herod the tetrarch heard the report concerning Jesus, +014:002 and said to his servants, "This is John the Baptizer. + He is risen from the dead. That is why these powers + work in him." +014:003 For Herod had laid hold of John, and bound him, and put him + in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife. +014:004 For John said to him, "It is not lawful for you to have her." +014:005 When he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, + because they counted him as a prophet. +014:006 But when Herod's birthday came, the daughter of Herodias danced + among them and pleased Herod. +014:007 Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatever + she should ask. +014:008 She, being prompted by her mother, said, "Give me here on + a platter the head of John the Baptizer." +014:009 The king was grieved, but for the sake of his oaths, + and of those who sat at the table with him, he commanded it + to be given, +014:010 and he sent and beheaded John in the prison. +014:011 His head was brought on a platter, and given to the young lady: + and she brought it to her mother. +014:012 His disciples came, and took the body, and buried it; + and they went and told Jesus. +014:013 Now when Jesus heard this, he withdrew from there in a boat, + to a deserted place apart. When the multitudes heard it, + they followed him on foot from the cities. +014:014 Jesus went out, and he saw a great multitude. He had compassion + on them, and healed their sick. +014:015 When evening had come, his disciples came to him, saying, + "This place is deserted, and the hour is already late. + Send the multitudes away, that they may go into the villages, + and buy themselves food." +014:016 But Jesus said to them, "They don't need to go away. + You give them something to eat." +014:017 They told him, "We only have here five loaves and two fish." +014:018 He said, "Bring them here to me." +014:019 He commanded the multitudes to sit down on the grass; and he took + the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, + he blessed, broke and gave the loaves to the disciples, + and the disciples gave to the multitudes. +014:020 They all ate, and were filled. They took up twelve baskets + full of that which remained left over from the broken pieces. +014:021 Those who ate were about five thousand men, besides women + and children. +014:022 Immediately Jesus made the disciples get into the boat, + and to go ahead of him to the other side, while he sent + the multitudes away. +014:023 After he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into + the mountain by himself to pray. When evening had come, + he was there alone. +014:024 But the boat was now in the middle of the sea, distressed by + the waves, for the wind was contrary. +014:025 In the fourth watch of the night,{The night was equally divided + into four watches, so the fourth watch is approximately 3:00 + A. M. to sunrise.} Jesus came to them, walking on the sea. +014:026 When the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, + saying, "It's a ghost!" and they cried out for fear. +014:027 But immediately Jesus spoke to them, saying "Cheer up! + It is I!{or, I AM!} Don't be afraid." +014:028 Peter answered him and said, "Lord, if it is you, command me + to come to you on the waters." +014:029 He said, "Come!" Peter stepped down from the boat, and walked + on the waters to come to Jesus. +014:030 But when he saw that the wind was strong, he was afraid, + and beginning to sink, he cried out, saying, "Lord, save me!" +014:031 Immediately Jesus stretched out his hand, took hold of him, + and said to him, "You of little faith, why did you doubt?" +014:032 When they got up into the boat, the wind ceased. +014:033 Those who were in the boat came and worshiped him, saying, + "You are truly the Son of God!" +014:034 When they had crossed over, they came to the land of Gennesaret. +014:035 When the people of that place recognized him, they sent into all + that surrounding region, and brought to him all who were sick, +014:036 and they begged him that they might just touch the fringe{or, + tassel} of his garment. As many as touched it were made whole. +015:001 Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem, saying, +015:002 "Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? + For they don't wash their hands when they eat bread." +015:003 He answered them, "Why do you also disobey the commandment + of God because of your tradition? +015:004 For God commanded, 'Honor your father and your mother,'{Exodus 20:12; + Deuteronomy 5:16} and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, + let him be put to death.'{Exodus 21:17; Leviticus 20:9} +015:005 But you say, 'Whoever may tell his father or his mother, + "Whatever help you might otherwise have gotten from me is + a gift devoted to God," +015:006 he shall not honor his father or mother.' You have made + the commandment of God void because of your tradition. +015:007 You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying, +015:008 'These people draw near to me with their mouth, and honor me + with their lips; but their heart is far from me. +015:009 And in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrine rules + made by men.'"{Isaiah 29:13} +015:010 He summoned the multitude, and said to them, "Hear, and understand. +015:011 That which enters into the mouth doesn't defile the man; + but that which proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man." +015:012 Then the disciples came, and said to him, "Do you know that + the Pharisees were offended, when they heard this saying?" +015:013 But he answered, "Every plant which my heavenly Father didn't + plant will be uprooted. +015:014 Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. + If the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit." +015:015 Peter answered him, "Explain the parable to us." +015:016 So Jesus said, "Do you also still not understand? +015:017 Don't you understand that whatever goes into the mouth passes + into the belly, and then out of the body? +015:018 But the things which proceed out of the mouth come out of the heart, + and they defile the man. +015:019 For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, + sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies. +015:020 These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with + unwashed hands doesn't defile the man." +015:021 Jesus went out from there, and withdrew into the region + of Tyre and Sidon. +015:022 Behold, a Canaanite woman came out from those borders, + and cried, saying, "Have mercy on me, Lord, you son + of David! My daughter is severely demonized!" +015:023 But he answered her not a word. His disciples came and + begged him, saying, "Send her away; for she cries after us." +015:024 But he answered, "I wasn't sent to anyone but the lost sheep + of the house of Israel." +015:025 But she came and worshiped him, saying, "Lord, help me." +015:026 But he answered, "It is not appropriate to take the children's + bread and throw it to the dogs." +015:027 But she said, "Yes, Lord, but even the dogs eat the crumbs + which fall from their masters' table." +015:028 Then Jesus answered her, "Woman, great is your faith! + Be it done to you even as you desire." And her daughter + was healed from that hour. +015:029 Jesus departed there, and came near to the sea of Galilee; + and he went up into the mountain, and sat there. +015:030 Great multitudes came to him, having with them the lame, blind, + mute, maimed, and many others, and they put them down at his feet. + He healed them, +015:031 so that the multitude wondered when they saw the mute speaking, + injured whole, lame walking, and blind seeing--and they + glorified the God of Israel. +015:032 Jesus summoned his disciples and said, "I have compassion on + the multitude, because they continue with me now three days + and have nothing to eat. I don't want to send them away fasting, + or they might faint on the way." +015:033 The disciples said to him, "Where should we get so many loaves + in a deserted place as to satisfy so great a multitude?" +015:034 Jesus said to them, "How many loaves do you have?" + They said, "Seven, and a few small fish." +015:035 He commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground; +015:036 and he took the seven loaves and the fish. He gave thanks + and broke them, and gave to the disciples, and the disciples + to the multitudes. +015:037 They all ate, and were filled. They took up seven baskets + full of the broken pieces that were left over. +015:038 Those who ate were four thousand men, besides women and children. +015:039 Then he sent away the multitudes, got into the boat, and came + into the borders of Magdala. +016:001 The Pharisees and Sadducees came, and testing him, asked him + to show them a sign from heaven. +016:002 But he answered them, "When it is evening, you say, 'It will + be fair weather, for the sky is red.' +016:003 In the morning, 'It will be foul weather today, for the sky + is red and threatening.' Hypocrites! You know how to discern + the appearance of the sky, but you can't discern the signs + of the times! +016:004 An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and there + will be no sign given to it, except the sign of the prophet Jonah." + He left them, and departed. +016:005 The disciples came to the other side and had forgotten + to take bread. +016:006 Jesus said to them, "Take heed and beware of the yeast + of the Pharisees and Sadducees." +016:007 They reasoned among themselves, saying, "We brought no bread." +016:008 Jesus, perceiving it, said, "Why do you reason among yourselves, + you of little faith, 'because you have brought no bread?' +016:009 Don't you yet perceive, neither remember the five loaves + for the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up? +016:010 Nor the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many baskets + you took up? +016:011 How is it that you don't perceive that I didn't speak + to you concerning bread? But beware of the yeast of the + Pharisees and Sadducees." +016:012 Then they understood that he didn't tell them to beware of the yeast + of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees. +016:013 Now when Jesus came into the parts of Caesarea Philippi, + he asked his disciples, saying, "Who do men say that I, + the Son of Man, am?" +016:014 They said, "Some say John the Baptizer, some, Elijah, and others, + Jeremiah, or one of the prophets." +016:015 He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" +016:016 Simon Peter answered, "You are the Christ, the Son of + the living God." +016:017 Jesus answered him, "Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jonah, + for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father + who is in heaven. +016:018 I also tell you that you are Peter,{Peter's name, Petros in Greek, + is the word for a specific rock or stone.} and on this rock{Greek, + petra, a rock mass or bedrock.} I will build my assembly, + and the gates of Hades{or, Hell} will not prevail against it. +016:019 I will give to you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven, and whatever + you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven; and whatever + you release on earth will have been released in heaven." +016:020 Then he charged the disciples that they should tell no one + that he is Jesus the Christ. +016:021 From that time, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must + go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders, + chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day + be raised up. +016:022 Peter took him aside, and began to rebuke him, saying, "Far be + it from you, Lord! This will never be done to you." +016:023 But he turned, and said to Peter, "Get behind me, Satan! You are + a stumbling block to me, for you are not setting your mind + on the things of God, but on the things of men." +016:024 Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone desires to come + after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, + and follow me. +016:025 For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever + will lose his life for my sake will find it. +016:026 For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, + and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange + for his life? +016:027 For the Son of Man will come in the glory of his Father with + his angels, and then he will render to everyone according + to his deeds. +016:028 Most certainly I tell you, there are some standing here who + will in no way taste of death, until they see the Son of Man + coming in his Kingdom." +017:001 After six days, Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John + his brother, and brought them up into a high mountain by themselves. +017:002 He was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, + and his garments became as white as the light. +017:003 Behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to them talking with him. +017:004 Peter answered, and said to Jesus, "Lord, it is good for us + to be here. If you want, let's make three tents here: + one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah." +017:005 While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud + overshadowed them. Behold, a voice came out of the cloud, + saying, "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. + Listen to him." +017:006 When the disciples heard it, they fell on their faces, + and were very afraid. +017:007 Jesus came and touched them and said, "Get up, and don't be afraid." +017:008 Lifting up their eyes, they saw no one, except Jesus alone. +017:009 As they were coming down from the mountain, Jesus commanded them, + saying, "Don't tell anyone what you saw, until the Son of Man + has risen from the dead." +017:010 His disciples asked him, saying, "Then why do the scribes say + that Elijah must come first?" +017:011 Jesus answered them, "Elijah indeed comes first, and will + restore all things, +017:012 but I tell you that Elijah has come already, and they didn't + recognize him, but did to him whatever they wanted to. + Even so the Son of Man will also suffer by them." +017:013 Then the disciples understood that he spoke to them of + John the Baptizer. +017:014 When they came to the multitude, a man came to him, + kneeling down to him, saying, +017:015 "Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is epileptic, + and suffers grievously; for he often falls into the fire, + and often into the water. +017:016 So I brought him to your disciples, and they could not cure him." +017:017 Jesus answered, "Faithless and perverse generation! + How long will I be with you? How long will I bear with you? + Bring him here to me." +017:018 Jesus rebuked him, the demon went out of him, and the boy + was cured from that hour. +017:019 Then the disciples came to Jesus privately, and said, + "Why weren't we able to cast it out?" +017:020 He said to them, "Because of your unbelief. For most certainly + I tell you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, + you will tell this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' + and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you. +017:021 But this kind doesn't go out except by prayer and fasting." +017:022 While they were staying in Galilee, Jesus said to them, "The Son + of Man is about to be delivered up into the hands of men, +017:023 and they will kill him, and the third day he will be raised up." + They were exceedingly sorry. +017:024 When they had come to Capernaum, those who collected the didrachma + coins{A didrachma is a Greek silver coin worth 2 drachmas, + about as much as 2 Roman denarii, or about 2 days' wages. + It was commonly used to pay the half-shekel temple tax, + because 2 drachmas were worth one half shekel of silver.} came + to Peter, and said, "Doesn't your teacher pay the didrachma?" +017:025 He said, "Yes." When he came into the house, Jesus anticipated him, + saying, "What do you think, Simon? From whom do the kings + of the earth receive toll or tribute? From their children, + or from strangers?" +017:026 Peter said to him, "From strangers." Jesus said to him, + "Therefore the children are exempt. +017:027 But, lest we cause them to stumble, go to the sea, + cast a hook, and take up the first fish that comes up. + When you have opened its mouth, you will find a stater + coin.{A stater is a silver coin equivalent to four + Attic or two Alexandrian drachmas, or a Jewish shekel: + just exactly enough to cover the half-shekel temple tax for two + people.} Take that, and give it to them for me and you." +018:001 In that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying, "Who then + is greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?" +018:002 Jesus called a little child to himself, and set him in the + midst of them, +018:003 and said, "Most certainly I tell you, unless you turn, + and become as little children, you will in no way enter + into the Kingdom of Heaven. +018:004 Whoever therefore humbles himself as this little child, + the same is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven. +018:005 Whoever receives one such little child in my name receives me, +018:006 but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me + to stumble, it would be better for him that a huge millstone + should be hung around his neck, and that he should be sunk + in the depths of the sea. +018:007 "Woe to the world because of occasions of stumbling! + For it must be that the occasions come, but woe to that person + through whom the occasion comes! +018:008 If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off, + and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life + maimed or crippled, rather than having two hands or two feet + to be cast into the eternal fire. +018:009 If your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out, and cast + it from you. It is better for you to enter into life + with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into + the Gehenna{or, Hell} of fire. +018:010 See that you don't despise one of these little ones, for I + tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face + of my Father who is in heaven. +018:011 For the Son of Man came to save that which was lost. +018:012 "What do you think? If a man has one hundred sheep, + and one of them goes astray, doesn't he leave the ninety-nine, + go to the mountains, and seek that which has gone astray? +018:013 If he finds it, most certainly I tell you, he rejoices over it + more than over the ninety-nine which have not gone astray. +018:014 Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven + that one of these little ones should perish. +018:015 "If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault + between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have + gained back your brother. +018:016 But if he doesn't listen, take one or two more with you, + that at the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may + be established.{Deuteronomy 19:15} +018:017 If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the assembly. + If he refuses to hear the assembly also, let him be to you + as a Gentile or a tax collector. +018:018 Most certainly I tell you, whatever things you bind on earth + will have been bound in heaven, and whatever things you + release on earth will have been released in heaven. +018:019 Again, assuredly I tell you, that if two of you will agree + on earth concerning anything that they will ask, it will be + done for them by my Father who is in heaven. +018:020 For where two or three are gathered together in my name, + there I am in the midst of them." +018:021 Then Peter came and said to him, "Lord, how often + shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? + Until seven times?" +018:022 Jesus said to him, "I don't tell you until seven times, but, + until seventy times seven. +018:023 Therefore the Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, + who wanted to reconcile accounts with his servants. +018:024 When he had begun to reconcile, one was brought to him who owed + him ten thousand talents.{Ten thousand talents represents + an extremely large sum of money, equivalent to about + 60,000,000 denarii, where one denarius was typical of one day's + wages for agricultural labor.} +018:025 But because he couldn't pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, + with his wife, his children, and all that he had, and payment + to be made. +018:026 The servant therefore fell down and kneeled before him, + saying, 'Lord, have patience with me, and I will repay you all!' +018:027 The lord of that servant, being moved with compassion, + released him, and forgave him the debt. +018:028 "But that servant went out, and found one of his fellow servants, + who owed him one hundred denarii,{100 denarii was about one + sixtieth of a talent.} and he grabbed him, and took him + by the throat, saying, 'Pay me what you owe!' +018:029 "So his fellow servant fell down at his feet and begged him, + saying, 'Have patience with me, and I will repay you!' +018:030 He would not, but went and cast him into prison, until he should + pay back that which was due. +018:031 So when his fellow servants saw what was done, they were + exceedingly sorry, and came and told to their lord all + that was done. +018:032 Then his lord called him in, and said to him, 'You wicked servant! + I forgave you all that debt, because you begged me. +018:033 Shouldn't you also have had mercy on your fellow servant, + even as I had mercy on you?' +018:034 His lord was angry, and delivered him to the tormentors, + until he should pay all that was due to him. +018:035 So my heavenly Father will also do to you, if you don't each + forgive your brother from your hearts for his misdeeds." +019:001 It happened when Jesus had finished these words, he departed + from Galilee, and came into the borders of Judea beyond the Jordan. +019:002 Great multitudes followed him, and he healed them there. +019:003 Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, "Is it lawful + for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?" +019:004 He answered, "Haven't you read that he who made them from + the beginning made them male and female,{Genesis 1:27} +019:005 and said, 'For this cause a man shall leave his father + and mother, and shall join to his wife; and the two shall + become one flesh?'{Genesis 2:24} +019:006 So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore + God has joined together, don't let man tear apart." +019:007 They asked him, "Why then did Moses command us to give her + a bill of divorce, and divorce her?" +019:008 He said to them, "Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, + allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it + has not been so. +019:009 I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for + sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; + and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery." +019:010 His disciples said to him, "If this is the case of the man + with his wife, it is not expedient to marry." +019:011 But he said to them, "Not all men can receive this saying, + but those to whom it is given. +019:012 For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their + mother's womb, and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs + by men; and there are eunuchs who made themselves eunuchs + for the Kingdom of Heaven's sake. He who is able to receive it, + let him receive it." +019:013 Then little children were brought to him, that he should lay + his hands on them and pray; and the disciples rebuked them. +019:014 But Jesus said, "Allow the little children, and don't forbid + them to come to me; for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs + to ones like these." +019:015 He laid his hands on them, and departed from there. +019:016 Behold, one came to him and said, "Good teacher, what good thing + shall I do, that I may have eternal life?" +019:017 He said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good + but one, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, + keep the commandments." +019:018 He said to him, "Which ones?" Jesus said, "'You shall not murder.' + 'You shall not commit adultery.' 'You shall not steal.' + 'You shall not offer false testimony.' +019:019 'Honor your father and mother.'{Exodus 20:12-16; + Deuteronomy 5:16-20} And, 'You shall love your neighbor + as yourself.'"{Leviticus 19:18} +019:020 The young man said to him, "All these things I have observed + from my youth. What do I still lack?" +019:021 Jesus said to him, "If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have, + and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; + and come, follow me." +019:022 But when the young man heard the saying, he went away sad, + for he was one who had great possessions. +019:023 Jesus said to his disciples, "Most certainly I say to you, + a rich man will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven with difficulty. +019:024 Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through + a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the + Kingdom of God." +019:025 When the disciples heard it, they were exceedingly astonished, + saying, "Who then can be saved?" +019:026 Looking at them, Jesus said, "With men this is impossible, + but with God all things are possible." +019:027 Then Peter answered, "Behold, we have left everything, + and followed you. What then will we have?" +019:028 Jesus said to them, "Most certainly I tell you that you who have + followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of Man will sit + on the throne of his glory, you also will sit on twelve thrones, + judging the twelve tribes of Israel. +019:029 Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, + or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, + will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life. +019:030 But many will be last who are first; and first who are last. +020:001 "For the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who was the master + of a household, who went out early in the morning to hire + laborers for his vineyard. +020:002 When he had agreed with the laborers for a denarius{A denarius + is a silver Roman coin worth 1/25th of a Roman aureus. + This was a common wage for a day of farm labor.} a day, + he sent them into his vineyard. +020:003 He went out about the third hour,{Time was measured from sunrise + to sunset, so the third hour would be about 9:00 AM.} and saw + others standing idle in the marketplace. +020:004 To them he said, 'You also go into the vineyard, and whatever + is right I will give you.' So they went their way. +020:005 Again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour,{noon + and 3:00 P. M.} and did likewise. +020:006 About the eleventh hour{5:00 PM} he went out, and found + others standing idle. He said to them, 'Why do you stand + here all day idle?' +020:007 "They said to him, 'Because no one has hired us.' + "He said to them, 'You also go into the vineyard, and you + will receive whatever is right.' +020:008 When evening had come, the lord of the vineyard said to + his manager, 'Call the laborers and pay them their wages, + beginning from the last to the first.' +020:009 "When those who were hired at about the eleventh hour came, + they each received a denarius. +020:010 When the first came, they supposed that they would receive more; + and they likewise each received a denarius. +020:011 When they received it, they murmured against the master + of the household, +020:012 saying, 'These last have spent one hour, and you have made + them equal to us, who have borne the burden of the day + and the scorching heat!' +020:013 "But he answered one of them, 'Friend, I am doing you no wrong. + Didn't you agree with me for a denarius? +020:014 Take that which is yours, and go your way. It is my desire + to give to this last just as much as to you. +020:015 Isn't it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? + Or is your eye evil, because I am good?' +020:016 So the last will be first, and the first last. + For many are called, but few are chosen." +020:017 As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve + disciples aside, and on the way he said to them, +020:018 "Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man + will be delivered to the chief priests and scribes, and they + will condemn him to death, +020:019 and will hand him over to the Gentiles to mock, to scourge, + and to crucify; and the third day he will be raised up." +020:020 Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, + kneeling and asking a certain thing of him. +020:021 He said to her, "What do you want?" She said to him, + "Command that these, my two sons, may sit, one on your right hand, + and one on your left hand, in your Kingdom." +020:022 But Jesus answered, "You don't know what you are asking. + Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink, + and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?" + They said to him, "We are able." +020:023 He said to them, "You will indeed drink my cup, and be + baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with, but to sit + on my right hand and on my left hand is not mine to give; + but it is for whom it has been prepared by my Father." +020:024 When the ten heard it, they were indignant with the two brothers. +020:025 But Jesus summoned them, and said, "You know that the rulers + of the nations lord it over them, and their great ones exercise + authority over them. +020:026 It shall not be so among you, but whoever desires to become + great among you shall be{TR reads "let him be" instead of "shall + be"} your servant. +020:027 Whoever desires to be first among you shall be your bondservant, +020:028 even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, + and to give his life as a ransom for many." +020:029 As they went out from Jericho, a great multitude followed him. +020:030 Behold, two blind men sitting by the road, when they heard + that Jesus was passing by, cried out, "Lord, have mercy on us, + you son of David!" +020:031 The multitude rebuked them, telling them that they should be quiet, + but they cried out even more, "Lord, have mercy on us, + you son of David!" +020:032 Jesus stood still, and called them, and asked, "What do you + want me to do for you?" +020:033 They told him, "Lord, that our eyes may be opened." +020:034 Jesus, being moved with compassion, touched their eyes; + and immediately their eyes received their sight, + and they followed him. +021:001 When they drew near to Jerusalem, and came to Bethsphage,{TR + & NU read "Bethphage" instead of "Bethsphage"} to the Mount + of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples, +021:002 saying to them, "Go into the village that is opposite you, + and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her. + Untie them, and bring them to me. +021:003 If anyone says anything to you, you shall say, 'The Lord needs them,' + and immediately he will send them." +021:004 All this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken + through the prophet, saying, +021:005 "Tell the daughter of Zion, behold, your King comes + to you, humble, and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal + of a donkey."{Zechariah 9:9} +021:006 The disciples went, and did just as Jesus commanded them, +021:007 and brought the donkey and the colt, and laid their clothes on them; + and he sat on them. +021:008 A very great multitude spread their clothes on the road. + Others cut branches from the trees, and spread them on the road. +021:009 The multitudes who went before him, and who followed + kept shouting, "Hosanna{"Hosanna" means "save us" or "help us, + we pray."} to the son of David! Blessed is he who comes + in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!"{Psalm 118:26} +021:010 When he had come into Jerusalem, all the city was stirred up, + saying, "Who is this?" +021:011 The multitudes said, "This is the prophet, Jesus, from + Nazareth of Galilee." +021:012 Jesus entered into the temple of God, and drove out all of those who + sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the money changers' + tables and the seats of those who sold the doves. +021:013 He said to them, "It is written, 'My house shall be called + a house of prayer,'{Isaiah 56:7} but you have made it a den + of robbers!"{Jeremiah 7:11} +021:014 The blind and the lame came to him in the temple, + and he healed them. +021:015 But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful + things that he did, and the children who were crying + in the temple and saying, "Hosanna to the son of David!" + they were indignant, +021:016 and said to him, "Do you hear what these are saying?" + Jesus said to them, "Yes. Did you never read, 'Out of the mouth + of babes and nursing babies you have perfected praise?'"{Psalm 8:2} +021:017 He left them, and went out of the city to Bethany, + and lodged there. +021:018 Now in the morning, as he returned to the city, he was hungry. +021:019 Seeing a fig tree by the road, he came to it, and found nothing + on it but leaves. He said to it, "Let there be no fruit + from you forever!" Immediately the fig tree withered away. +021:020 When the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, "How did + the fig tree immediately wither away?" +021:021 Jesus answered them, "Most certainly I tell you, if you + have faith, and don't doubt, you will not only do what was + done to the fig tree, but even if you told this mountain, + 'Be taken up and cast into the sea,' it would be done. +021:022 All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive." +021:023 When he had come into the temple, the chief priests and + the elders of the people came to him as he was teaching, + and said, "By what authority do you do these things? + Who gave you this authority?" +021:024 Jesus answered them, "I also will ask you one question, + which if you tell me, I likewise will tell you by what authority + I do these things. +021:025 The baptism of John, where was it from? From heaven or from men?" + They reasoned with themselves, saying, "If we say, 'From heaven,' + he will ask us, 'Why then did you not believe him?' +021:026 But if we say, 'From men,' we fear the multitude, for all hold + John as a prophet." +021:027 They answered Jesus, and said, "We don't know." + He also said to them, "Neither will I tell you by what authority + I do these things. +021:028 But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came + to the first, and said, 'Son, go work today in my vineyard.' +021:029 He answered, 'I will not,' but afterward he changed + his mind, and went. +021:030 He came to the second, and said the same thing. He answered, + 'I go, sir,' but he didn't go. +021:031 Which of the two did the will of his father?" They said to him, + "The first." Jesus said to them, "Most certainly I tell you + that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering + into the Kingdom of God before you. +021:032 For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you + didn't believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes + believed him. When you saw it, you didn't even repent afterward, + that you might believe him. +021:033 "Hear another parable. There was a man who was a master + of a household, who planted a vineyard, set a hedge about it, + dug a winepress in it, built a tower, leased it out to farmers, + and went into another country. +021:034 When the season for the fruit drew near, he sent his servants + to the farmers, to receive his fruit. +021:035 The farmers took his servants, beat one, killed another, + and stoned another. +021:036 Again, he sent other servants more than the first: + and they treated them the same way. +021:037 But afterward he sent to them his son, saying, 'They will + respect my son.' +021:038 But the farmers, when they saw the son, said among themselves, + 'This is the heir. Come, let's kill him, and seize + his inheritance.' +021:039 So they took him, and threw him out of the vineyard, + and killed him. +021:040 When therefore the lord of the vineyard comes, what will he do + to those farmers?" +021:041 They told him, "He will miserably destroy those miserable men, + and will lease out the vineyard to other farmers, who will + give him the fruit in its season." +021:042 Jesus said to them, "Did you never read in the Scriptures, 'The + stone which the builders rejected, the same was made + the head of the corner. This was from the Lord. + It is marvelous in our eyes?'{Psalm 118:22-23} +021:043 "Therefore I tell you, the Kingdom of God will be taken away + from you, and will be given to a nation bringing forth its fruit. +021:044 He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but on + whoever it will fall, it will scatter him as dust." +021:045 When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, + they perceived that he spoke about them. +021:046 When they sought to seize him, they feared the multitudes, + because they considered him to be a prophet. +022:001 Jesus answered and spoke again in parables to them, saying, +022:002 "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who made + a marriage feast for his son, +022:003 and sent out his servants to call those who were invited + to the marriage feast, but they would not come. +022:004 Again he sent out other servants, saying, 'Tell those + who are invited, "Behold, I have made ready my dinner. + My oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready. + Come to the marriage feast!"' +022:005 But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his + own farm, another to his merchandise, +022:006 and the rest grabbed his servants, and treated them shamefully, + and killed them. +022:007 When the king heard that, he was angry, and sent his armies, + destroyed those murderers, and burned their city. +022:008 "Then he said to his servants, 'The wedding is ready, + but those who were invited weren't worthy. +022:009 Go therefore to the intersections of the highways, and as many + as you may find, invite to the marriage feast.' +022:010 Those servants went out into the highways, and gathered + together as many as they found, both bad and good. + The wedding was filled with guests. +022:011 But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there + a man who didn't have on wedding clothing, +022:012 and he said to him, 'Friend, how did you come in here not + wearing wedding clothing?' He was speechless. +022:013 Then the king said to the servants, 'Bind him hand and foot, + take him away, and throw him into the outer darkness; + there is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.' +022:014 For many are called, but few chosen." +022:015 Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might entrap + him in his talk. +022:016 They sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, + saying, "Teacher, we know that you are honest, and teach + the way of God in truth, no matter who you teach, for you + aren't partial to anyone. +022:017 Tell us therefore, what do you think? Is it lawful to pay + taxes to Caesar, or not?" +022:018 But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, "Why do you + test me, you hypocrites? +022:019 Show me the tax money." They brought to him a denarius. +022:020 He asked them, "Whose is this image and inscription?" +022:021 They said to him, "Caesar's." Then he said to them, + "Give therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, + and to God the things that are God's." +022:022 When they heard it, they marveled, and left him, and went away. +022:023 On that day Sadducees (those who say that there is no resurrection) + came to him. They asked him, +022:024 saying, "Teacher, Moses said, 'If a man dies, having no children, + his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed + for his brother.' +022:025 Now there were with us seven brothers. The first married and died, + and having no seed left his wife to his brother. +022:026 In like manner the second also, and the third, to the seventh. +022:027 After them all, the woman died. +022:028 In the resurrection therefore, whose wife will she be of the seven? + For they all had her." +022:029 But Jesus answered them, "You are mistaken, not knowing + the Scriptures, nor the power of God. +022:030 For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given + in marriage, but are like God's angels in heaven. +022:031 But concerning the resurrection of the dead, haven't you read + that which was spoken to you by God, saying, +022:032 'I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God + of Jacob?'{Exodus 3:6} God is not the God of the dead, + but of the living." +022:033 When the multitudes heard it, they were astonished at his teaching. +022:034 But the Pharisees, when they heard that he had silenced + the Sadducees, gathered themselves together. +022:035 One of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, testing him. +022:036 "Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the law?" +022:037 Jesus said to him, "'You shall love the Lord your God + with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all + your mind.'{Deuteronomy 6:5} +022:038 This is the first and great commandment. +022:039 A second likewise is this, 'You shall love your neighbor + as yourself.'{Leviticus 19:18} +022:040 The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments." +022:041 Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked + them a question, +022:042 saying, "What do you think of the Christ? Whose son is he?" + They said to him, "Of David." +022:043 He said to them, "How then does David in the Spirit call + him Lord, saying, +022:044 'The Lord said to my Lord, sit on my right hand, until I make + your enemies a footstool for your feet?'{Psalm 110:1} +022:045 "If then David calls him Lord, how is he his son?" +022:046 No one was able to answer him a word, neither did any man dare + ask him any more questions from that day forth. +023:001 Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples, +023:002 saying, "The scribes and the Pharisees sat on Moses' seat. +023:003 All things therefore whatever they tell you to observe, + observe and do, but don't do their works; for they say, + and don't do. +023:004 For they bind heavy burdens that are grievous to be borne, + and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will + not lift a finger to help them. +023:005 But all their works they do to be seen by men. + They make their phylacteries{phylacteries (tefillin in Hebrew) + are small leather pouches that some Jewish men wear on their + forehead and arm in prayer. They are used to carry a small + scroll with some Scripture in it. See Deuteronomy 6:8.} broad, + enlarge the fringes{or, tassels} of their garments, +023:006 and love the place of honor at feasts, the best seats + in the synagogues, +023:007 the salutations in the marketplaces, and to be called + 'Rabbi, Rabbi' by men. +023:008 But don't you be called 'Rabbi,' for one is your teacher, + the Christ, and all of you are brothers. +023:009 Call no man on the earth your father, for one is your Father, + he who is in heaven. +023:010 Neither be called masters, for one is your master, the Christ. +023:011 But he who is greatest among you will be your servant. +023:012 Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles + himself will be exalted. +023:013 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you + devour widows' houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. + Therefore you will receive greater condemnation. +023:014 "But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! + Because you shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men; + for you don't enter in yourselves, neither do you allow + those who are entering in to enter.{Some Greek manuscripts + reverse the order of verses 13 and 14, and some omit verse 13, + numbering verse 14 as 13.} +023:015 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you + travel around by sea and land to make one proselyte; + and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much of a son + of Gehenna{or, Hell} as yourselves. +023:016 "Woe to you, you blind guides, who say, 'Whoever swears by the temple, + it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, + he is obligated.' +023:017 You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold, or the temple + that sanctifies the gold? +023:018 'Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears + by the gift that is on it, he is obligated?' +023:019 You blind fools! For which is greater, the gift, or the altar + that sanctifies the gift? +023:020 He therefore who swears by the altar, swears by it, and by + everything on it. +023:021 He who swears by the temple, swears by it, and by him who was + living in it. +023:022 He who swears by heaven, swears by the throne of God, + and by him who sits on it. +023:023 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you + tithe mint, dill, and cumin,{ cumin is an aromatic seed from + Cuminum cyminum, resembling caraway in flavor and appearance. + It is used as a spice.} and have left undone the weightier + matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. + But you ought to have done these, and not to have left + the other undone. +023:024 You blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel! +023:025 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean + the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are + full of extortion and unrighteousness.{TR reads "self-indulgence" + instead of "unrighteousness"} +023:026 You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of + the platter, that the outside of it may become clean also. +023:027 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you + are like whitened tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, + but inwardly are full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. +023:028 Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly + you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. +023:029 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you + build the tombs of the prophets, and decorate the tombs + of the righteous, +023:030 and say, 'If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we wouldn't + have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.' +023:031 Therefore you testify to yourselves that you are children + of those who killed the prophets. +023:032 Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers. +023:033 You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape + the judgment of Gehenna{or, Hell}? +023:034 Therefore, behold, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes. + Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you + will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city; +023:035 that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, + from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah + son of Barachiah, whom you killed between the sanctuary + and the altar. +023:036 Most certainly I tell you, all these things will come + upon this generation. +023:037 "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones + those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered + your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks + under her wings, and you would not! +023:038 Behold, your house is left to you desolate. +023:039 For I tell you, you will not see me from now on, until you say, + 'Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!'"{Psalm 118:26} +024:001 Jesus went out from the temple, and was going on his way. + His disciples came to him to show him the buildings of the temple. +024:002 But he answered them, "Don't you see all of these things? + Most certainly I tell you, there will not be left here one + stone on another, that will not be thrown down." +024:003 As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to + him privately, saying, "Tell us, when will these things be? + What is the sign of your coming, and of the end of the age?" +024:004 Jesus answered them, "Be careful that no one leads you astray. +024:005 For many will come in my name, saying, 'I am the Christ,' + and will lead many astray. +024:006 You will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you + aren't troubled, for all this must happen, but the end + is not yet. +024:007 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; + and there will be famines, plagues, and earthquakes + in various places. +024:008 But all these things are the beginning of birth pains. +024:009 Then they will deliver you up to oppression, and will kill you. + You will be hated by all of the nations for my name's sake. +024:010 Then many will stumble, and will deliver up one another, + and will hate one another. +024:011 Many false prophets will arise, and will lead many astray. +024:012 Because iniquity will be multiplied, the love of many + will grow cold. +024:013 But he who endures to the end, the same will be saved. +024:014 This Good News of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world + for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come. +024:015 "When, therefore, you see the abomination of desolation,{Daniel 9:27; + 11:31; 12:11} which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, + standing in the holy place (let the reader understand), +024:016 then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. +024:017 Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take out things + that are in his house. +024:018 Let him who is in the field not return back to get his clothes. +024:019 But woe to those who are with child and to nursing mothers + in those days! +024:020 Pray that your flight will not be in the winter, nor on a Sabbath, +024:021 for then there will be great oppression, such as has not been + from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever will be. +024:022 Unless those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved. + But for the sake of the chosen ones, those days will be shortened. +024:023 "Then if any man tells you, 'Behold, here is the Christ,' + or, 'There,' don't believe it. +024:024 For there will arise false christs, and false prophets, + and they will show great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, + if possible, even the chosen ones. +024:025 "Behold, I have told you beforehand. +024:026 If therefore they tell you, 'Behold, he is in the wilderness,' + don't go out; 'Behold, he is in the inner chambers,' + don't believe it. +024:027 For as the lightning flashes from the east, and is seen even + to the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. +024:028 For wherever the carcass is, there is where the vultures{or, + eagles} gather together. +024:029 But immediately after the oppression of those days, + the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, + the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens + will be shaken;{Isaiah 13:10; 34:4} +024:030 and then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky. + Then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see + the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky with power + and great glory. +024:031 He will send out his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, + and they will gather together his chosen ones from the four winds, + from one end of the sky to the other. +024:032 "Now from the fig tree learn this parable. When its branch + has now become tender, and puts forth its leaves, you know + that the summer is near. +024:033 Even so you also, when you see all these things, know that it + is near, even at the doors. +024:034 Most certainly I tell you, this generation{The word for "generation" + (genea) can also be translated as "race."} will not pass away, + until all these things are accomplished. +024:035 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away. +024:036 But no one knows of that day and hour, not even the angels + of heaven, but my Father only. +024:037 "As the days of Noah were, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. +024:038 For as in those days which were before the flood they + were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, + until the day that Noah entered into the ark, +024:039 and they didn't know until the flood came, and took them all away, + so will be the coming of the Son of Man. +024:040 Then two men will be in the field: one will be taken and one + will be left; +024:041 two women grinding at the mill, one will be taken and one + will be left. +024:042 Watch therefore, for you don't know in what hour your Lord comes. +024:043 But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what + watch of the night the thief was coming, he would have watched, + and would not have allowed his house to be broken into. +024:044 Therefore also be ready, for in an hour that you don't expect, + the Son of Man will come. +024:045 "Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord has + set over his household, to give them their food in due season? +024:046 Blessed is that servant whom his lord finds doing so when he comes. +024:047 Most certainly I tell you that he will set him over all + that he has. +024:048 But if that evil servant should say in his heart, 'My lord + is delaying his coming,' +024:049 and begins to beat his fellow servants, and eat and drink + with the drunkards, +024:050 the lord of that servant will come in a day when he doesn't + expect it, and in an hour when he doesn't know it, +024:051 and will cut him in pieces, and appoint his portion with + the hypocrites. There is where the weeping and grinding + of teeth will be. +025:001 "Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins, + who took their lamps, and went out to meet the bridegroom. +025:002 Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. +025:003 Those who were foolish, when they took their lamps, took no + oil with them, +025:004 but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. +025:005 Now while the bridegroom delayed, they all slumbered and slept. +025:006 But at midnight there was a cry, 'Behold! The bridegroom is coming! + Come out to meet him!' +025:007 Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.{The end + of the wick of an oil lamp needs to be cut off periodically + to avoid having it become clogged with carbon deposits. + The wick height is also adjusted so that the flame burns evenly + and gives good light without producing a lot of smoke.} +025:008 The foolish said to the wise, 'Give us some of your oil, + for our lamps are going out.' +025:009 But the wise answered, saying, 'What if there isn't + enough for us and you? You go rather to those who sell, + and buy for yourselves.' +025:010 While they went away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those + who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast, + and the door was shut. +025:011 Afterward the other virgins also came, saying, 'Lord, Lord, + open to us.' +025:012 But he answered, 'Most certainly I tell you, I don't know you.' +025:013 Watch therefore, for you don't know the day nor the hour + in which the Son of Man is coming. +025:014 "For it is like a man, going into another country, who called + his own servants, and entrusted his goods to them. +025:015 To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one; + to each according to his own ability. Then he went + on his journey. +025:016 Immediately he who received the five talents went and traded + with them, and made another five talents. +025:017 In like manner he also who got the two gained another two. +025:018 But he who received the one went away and dug in the earth, + and hid his lord's money. +025:019 "Now after a long time the lord of those servants came, + and reconciled accounts with them. +025:020 He who received the five talents came and brought another + five talents, saying, 'Lord, you delivered to me five talents. + Behold, I have gained another five talents besides them.' +025:021 "His lord said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant. + You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you + over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.' +025:022 "He also who got the two talents came and said, 'Lord, + you delivered to me two talents. Behold, I have gained + another two talents besides them.' +025:023 "His lord said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant. + You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you + over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.' +025:024 "He also who had received the one talent came and said, 'Lord, I knew + you that you are a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, + and gathering where you did not scatter. +025:025 I was afraid, and went away and hid your talent in the earth. + Behold, you have what is yours.' +025:026 "But his lord answered him, 'You wicked and slothful servant. + You knew that I reap where I didn't sow, and gather where + I didn't scatter. +025:027 You ought therefore to have deposited my money with the bankers, + and at my coming I should have received back my own with interest. +025:028 Take away therefore the talent from him, and give it to him + who has the ten talents. +025:029 For to everyone who has will be given, and he will have abundance, + but from him who doesn't have, even that which he has will + be taken away. +025:030 Throw out the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness, + where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.' +025:031 "But when the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the holy + angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory. +025:032 Before him all the nations will be gathered, and he will separate + them one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep + from the goats. +025:033 He will set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats + on the left. +025:034 Then the King will tell those on his right hand, 'Come, + blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you + from the foundation of the world; +025:035 for I was hungry, and you gave me food to eat; I was thirsty, + and you gave me drink; I was a stranger, and you took me in; +025:036 naked, and you clothed me; I was sick, and you visited me; + I was in prison, and you came to me.' +025:037 "Then the righteous will answer him, saying, 'Lord, when did we + see you hungry, and feed you; or thirsty, and give you a drink? +025:038 When did we see you as a stranger, and take you in; or naked, + and clothe you? +025:039 When did we see you sick, or in prison, and come to you?' +025:040 "The King will answer them, 'Most certainly I tell you, + inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these my + brothers{The word for "brothers" here may be also correctly + translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."}, you did + it to me.' +025:041 Then he will say also to those on the left hand, 'Depart from me, + you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil + and his angels; +025:042 for I was hungry, and you didn't give me food to eat; + I was thirsty, and you gave me no drink; +025:043 I was a stranger, and you didn't take me in; naked, and you didn't + clothe me; sick, and in prison, and you didn't visit me.' +025:044 "Then they will also answer, saying, 'Lord, when did we see + you hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, + or in prison, and didn't help you?' +025:045 "Then he will answer them, saying, 'Most certainly I tell you, + inasmuch as you didn't do it to one of the least of these, + you didn't do it to me.' +025:046 These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous + into eternal life." +026:001 It happened, when Jesus had finished all these words, + that he said to his disciples, +026:002 "You know that after two days the Passover is coming, + and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified." +026:003 Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people + were gathered together in the court of the high priest, + who was called Caiaphas. +026:004 They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit, + and kill him. +026:005 But they said, "Not during the feast, lest a riot occur + among the people." +026:006 Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, +026:007 a woman came to him having an alabaster jar of very + expensive ointment, and she poured it on his head as he sat + at the table. +026:008 But when his disciples saw this, they were indignant, saying, + "Why this waste? +026:009 For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given + to the poor." +026:010 However, knowing this, Jesus said to them, "Why do you trouble + the woman? Because she has done a good work for me. +026:011 For you always have the poor with you; but you don't + always have me. +026:012 For in pouring this ointment on my body, she did it to prepare + me for burial. +026:013 Most certainly I tell you, wherever this Good News is preached + in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be + spoken of as a memorial of her." +026:014 Then one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, + went to the chief priests, +026:015 and said, "What are you willing to give me, that I should deliver + him to you?" They weighed out for him thirty pieces of silver. +026:016 From that time he sought opportunity to betray him. +026:017 Now on the first day of unleavened bread, the disciples came + to Jesus, saying to him, "Where do you want us to prepare + for you to eat the Passover?" +026:018 He said, "Go into the city to a certain person, and tell him, + 'The Teacher says, "My time is at hand. I will keep the Passover + at your house with my disciples."'" +026:019 The disciples did as Jesus commanded them, and they + prepared the Passover. +026:020 Now when evening had come, he was reclining at the table + with the twelve disciples. +026:021 As they were eating, he said, "Most certainly I tell you + that one of you will betray me." +026:022 They were exceedingly sorrowful, and each began to ask him, + "It isn't me, is it, Lord?" +026:023 He answered, "He who dipped his hand with me in the dish, + the same will betray me. +026:024 The Son of Man goes, even as it is written of him, but woe + to that man through whom the Son of Man is betrayed! + It would be better for that man if he had not been born." +026:025 Judas, who betrayed him, answered, "It isn't me, + is it, Rabbi?" He said to him, "You said it." +026:026 As they were eating, Jesus took bread, gave thanks for{TR + reads "blessed" instead of "gave thanks for"} it, and broke it. + He gave to the disciples, and said, "Take, eat; this is my body." +026:027 He took the cup, gave thanks, and gave to them, saying, "All of + you drink it, +026:028 for this is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured + out for many for the remission of sins. +026:029 But I tell you that I will not drink of this fruit of the vine + from now on, until that day when I drink it anew with you + in my Father's Kingdom." +026:030 When they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives. +026:031 Then Jesus said to them, "All of you will be made to stumble because + of me tonight, for it is written, 'I will strike the shepherd, + and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.'{Zechariah 13:7} +026:032 But after I am raised up, I will go before you into Galilee." +026:033 But Peter answered him, "Even if all will be made to stumble + because of you, I will never be made to stumble." +026:034 Jesus said to him, "Most certainly I tell you that tonight, + before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times." +026:035 Peter said to him, "Even if I must die with you, I will not + deny you." All of the disciples also said likewise. +026:036 Then Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and said + to his disciples, "Sit here, while I go there and pray." +026:037 He took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began + to be sorrowful and severely troubled. +026:038 Then he said to them, "My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, + even to death. Stay here, and watch with me." +026:039 He went forward a little, fell on his face, and prayed, saying, + "My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me; + nevertheless, not what I desire, but what you desire." +026:040 He came to the disciples, and found them sleeping, and said + to Peter, "What, couldn't you watch with me for one hour? +026:041 Watch and pray, that you don't enter into temptation. + The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak." +026:042 Again, a second time he went away, and prayed, saying, "My Father, + if this cup can't pass away from me unless I drink it, + your desire be done." +026:043 He came again and found them sleeping, for their eyes were heavy. +026:044 He left them again, went away, and prayed a third time, + saying the same words. +026:045 Then he came to his disciples, and said to them, "Sleep on now, + and take your rest. Behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son + of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. +026:046 Arise, let's be going. Behold, he who betrays me is at hand." +026:047 While he was still speaking, behold, Judas, one of the twelve, + came, and with him a great multitude with swords and clubs, + from the chief priest and elders of the people. +026:048 Now he who betrayed him gave them a sign, saying, "Whoever I kiss, + he is the one. Seize him." +026:049 Immediately he came to Jesus, and said, "Hail, Rabbi!" + and kissed him. +026:050 Jesus said to him, "Friend, why are you here?" Then they came + and laid hands on Jesus, and took him. +026:051 Behold, one of those who were with Jesus stretched out his hand, + and drew his sword, and struck the servant of the high priest, + and struck off his ear. +026:052 Then Jesus said to him, "Put your sword back into its place, + for all those who take the sword will die by the sword. +026:053 Or do you think that I couldn't ask my Father, and he would + even now send me more than twelve legions of angels? +026:054 How then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that it must be so?" +026:055 In that hour Jesus said to the multitudes, "Have you come + out as against a robber with swords and clubs to seize me? + I sat daily in the temple teaching, and you didn't arrest me. +026:056 But all this has happened, that the Scriptures of the prophets + might be fulfilled." Then all the disciples left him, and fled. +026:057 Those who had taken Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, + where the scribes and the elders were gathered together. +026:058 But Peter followed him from a distance, to the court of + the high priest, and entered in and sat with the officers, + to see the end. +026:059 Now the chief priests, the elders, and the whole council + sought false testimony against Jesus, that they might put + him to death; +026:060 and they found none. Even though many false witnesses came forward, + they found none. But at last two false witnesses came forward, +026:061 and said, "This man said, 'I am able to destroy the temple of God, + and to build it in three days.'" +026:062 The high priest stood up, and said to him, "Have you no answer? + What is this that these testify against you?" +026:063 But Jesus held his peace. The high priest answered him, + "I adjure you by the living God, that you tell us whether + you are the Christ, the Son of God." +026:064 Jesus said to him, "You have said it. Nevertheless, I tell you, + after this you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right + hand of Power, and coming on the clouds of the sky." +026:065 Then the high priest tore his clothing, saying, "He has + spoken blasphemy! Why do we need any more witnesses? + Behold, now you have heard his blasphemy. +026:066 What do you think?" They answered, "He is worthy of death!" +026:067 Then they spit in his face and beat him with their fists, + and some slapped him, +026:068 saying, "Prophesy to us, you Christ! Who hit you?" +026:069 Now Peter was sitting outside in the court, and a maid came + to him, saying, "You were also with Jesus, the Galilean!" +026:070 But he denied it before them all, saying, "I don't know what you + are talking about." +026:071 When he had gone out onto the porch, someone else saw him, + and said to those who were there, "This man also was with + Jesus of Nazareth." +026:072 Again he denied it with an oath, "I don't know the man." +026:073 After a little while those who stood by came and said + to Peter, "Surely you are also one of them, for your speech + makes you known." +026:074 Then he began to curse and to swear, "I don't know the man!" + Immediately the rooster crowed. +026:075 Peter remembered the word which Jesus had said to him, + "Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times." + He went out and wept bitterly. +027:001 Now when morning had come, all the chief priests and the elders + of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death: +027:002 and they bound him, and led him away, and delivered him up + to Pontius Pilate, the governor. +027:003 Then Judas, who betrayed him, when he saw that Jesus was condemned, + felt remorse, and brought back the thirty pieces of silver + to the chief priests and elders, +027:004 saying, "I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood." + But they said, "What is that to us? You see to it." +027:005 He threw down the pieces of silver in the sanctuary, and departed. + He went away and hanged himself. +027:006 The chief priests took the pieces of silver, and said, + "It's not lawful to put them into the treasury, since it + is the price of blood." +027:007 They took counsel, and bought the potter's field with them, + to bury strangers in. +027:008 Therefore that field was called "The Field of Blood" + to this day. +027:009 Then that which was spoken through Jeremiah{some manuscripts + omit "Jeremaiah"} the prophet was fulfilled, saying, "They took + the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him upon whom a price + had been set, whom some of the children of Israel priced, +027:010 and they gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord commanded + me."{Zechariah 11:12-13; Jeremiah 19:1-13; 32:6-9} +027:011 Now Jesus stood before the governor: and the governor asked him, + saying, "Are you the King of the Jews?" Jesus said to him, + "So you say." +027:012 When he was accused by the chief priests and elders, + he answered nothing. +027:013 Then Pilate said to him, "Don't you hear how many things they + testify against you?" +027:014 He gave him no answer, not even one word, so that the + governor marveled greatly. +027:015 Now at the feast the governor was accustomed to release + to the multitude one prisoner, whom they desired. +027:016 They had then a notable prisoner, called Barabbas. +027:017 When therefore they were gathered together, Pilate said to them, + "Whom do you want me to release to you? Barabbas, or Jesus, + who is called Christ?" +027:018 For he knew that because of envy they had delivered him up. +027:019 While he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent + to him, saying, "Have nothing to do with that righteous man, + for I have suffered many things this day in a dream + because of him." +027:020 Now the chief priests and the elders persuaded the multitudes + to ask for Barabbas, and destroy Jesus. +027:021 But the governor answered them, "Which of the two do you want + me to release to you?" They said, "Barabbas!" +027:022 Pilate said to them, "What then shall I do to Jesus, who is + called Christ?" They all said to him, "Let him be crucified!" +027:023 But the governor said, "Why? What evil has he done?" + But they cried out exceedingly, saying, "Let him be crucified!" +027:024 So when Pilate saw that nothing was being gained, + but rather that a disturbance was starting, he took water, + and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, "I am + innocent of the blood of this righteous person. + You see to it." +027:025 All the people answered, "May his blood be on us, + and on our children!" +027:026 Then he released to them Barabbas, but Jesus he flogged + and delivered to be crucified. +027:027 Then the governor's soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium, + and gathered the whole garrison together against him. +027:028 They stripped him, and put a scarlet robe on him. +027:029 They braided a crown of thorns and put it on his head, + and a reed in his right hand; and they kneeled down before him, + and mocked him, saying, "Hail, King of the Jews!" +027:030 They spat on him, and took the reed and struck him on the head. +027:031 When they had mocked him, they took the robe off of him, + and put his clothes on him, and led him away to crucify him. +027:032 As they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name, + and they compelled him to go with them, that he might + carry his cross. +027:033 They came to a place called "Golgotha," that is to say, + "The place of a skull." +027:034 They gave him sour wine to drink mixed with gall. + When he had tasted it, he would not drink. +027:035 When they had crucified him, they divided his clothing among them, + casting lots,{TR adds "that it might be fulfilled which was + spoken by the prophet: 'They divided my garments among them, + and for my clothing they cast lots;'" [see Psalm 22:18 + and John 19:24]} +027:036 and they sat and watched him there. +027:037 They set up over his head the accusation against him written, + "THIS IS JESUS, THE KING OF THE JEWS." +027:038 Then there were two robbers crucified with him, one on his + right hand and one on the left. +027:039 Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads, +027:040 and saying, "You who destroy the temple, and build it + in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, + come down from the cross!" +027:041 Likewise the chief priests also mocking, with the scribes, + the Pharisees,{TR omits "the Pharisees"} and the elders, said, +027:042 "He saved others, but he can't save himself. If he is + the King of Israel, let him come down from the cross now, + and we will believe in him. +027:043 He trusts in God. Let God deliver him now, if he wants him; + for he said, 'I am the Son of God.'" +027:044 The robbers also who were crucified with him cast on him + the same reproach. +027:045 Now from the sixth hour{noon} there was darkness over all + the land until the ninth hour.{3:00 P. M.} +027:046 About the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, + "Eli, Eli, lima{TR reads "lama" instead of "lima"} sabachthani?" + That is, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"{Psalm 22:1} +027:047 Some of them who stood there, when they heard it, said, "This man + is calling Elijah." +027:048 Immediately one of them ran, and took a sponge, and filled it + with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him a drink. +027:049 The rest said, "Let him be. Let's see whether Elijah comes + to save him." +027:050 Jesus cried again with a loud voice, and yielded up his spirit. +027:051 Behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from the top + to the bottom. The earth quaked and the rocks were split. +027:052 The tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had + fallen asleep were raised; +027:053 and coming out of the tombs after his resurrection, they entered + into the holy city and appeared to many. +027:054 Now the centurion, and those who were with him watching Jesus, + when they saw the earthquake, and the things that were done, + feared exceedingly, saying, "Truly this was the Son of God." +027:055 Many women were there watching from afar, who had followed + Jesus from Galilee, serving him. +027:056 Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joses, + and the mother of the sons of Zebedee. +027:057 When evening had come, a rich man from Arimathaea, named Joseph, + who himself was also Jesus' disciple came. +027:058 This man went to Pilate, and asked for Jesus' body. Then Pilate + commanded the body to be given up. +027:059 Joseph took the body, and wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, +027:060 and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock, + and he rolled a great stone to the door of the tomb, and departed. +027:061 Mary Magdalene was there, and the other Mary, sitting + opposite the tomb. +027:062 Now on the next day, which was the day after the Preparation Day, + the chief priests and the Pharisees were gathered together to Pilate, +027:063 saying, "Sir, we remember what that deceiver said while he was + still alive: 'After three days I will rise again.' +027:064 Command therefore that the tomb be made secure until the third day, + lest perhaps his disciples come at night and steal him away, + and tell the people, 'He is risen from the dead;' and the last + deception will be worse than the first." +027:065 Pilate said to them, "You have a guard. Go, make it as secure + as you can." +027:066 So they went with the guard and made the tomb secure, + sealing the stone. +028:001 Now after the Sabbath, as it began to dawn on the first + day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came + to see the tomb. +028:002 Behold, there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord + descended from the sky, and came and rolled away the stone + from the door, and sat on it. +028:003 His appearance was like lightning, and his clothing white as snow. +028:004 For fear of him, the guards shook, and became like dead men. +028:005 The angel answered the women, "Don't be afraid, for I know + that you seek Jesus, who has been crucified. +028:006 He is not here, for he has risen, just like he said. + Come, see the place where the Lord was lying. +028:007 Go quickly and tell his disciples, 'He has risen from the dead, + and behold, he goes before you into Galilee; there you will + see him.' Behold, I have told you." +028:008 They departed quickly from the tomb with fear and great joy, + and ran to bring his disciples word. +028:009 As they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, + saying, "Rejoice!" They came and took hold of his feet, + and worshiped him. +028:010 Then Jesus said to them, "Don't be afraid. Go tell my + brothers{The word for "brothers" here may be also correctly + translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."} that they + should go into Galilee, and there they will see me." +028:011 Now while they were going, behold, some of the guards came + into the city, and told the chief priests all the things + that had happened. +028:012 When they were assembled with the elders, and had taken counsel, + they gave a large amount of silver to the soldiers, +028:013 saying, "Say that his disciples came by night, and stole him + away while we slept. +028:014 If this comes to the governor's ears, we will persuade him + and make you free of worry." +028:015 So they took the money and did as they were told. + This saying was spread abroad among the Jews, and continues + until this day. +028:016 But the eleven disciples went into Galilee, to the mountain + where Jesus had sent them. +028:017 When they saw him, they bowed down to him, but some doubted. +028:018 Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, "All authority + has been given to me in heaven and on earth. +028:019 Therefore go, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them + in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, +028:020 teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. + Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Amen. +Book 41 Mark +001:001 The beginning of the Good News of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. +001:002 As it is written in the prophets, "Behold, I send my messenger + before your face, who will prepare your way before you.{Malachi 3:1} +001:003 The voice of one crying in the wilderness, 'Make ready the way + of the Lord! Make his paths straight!'"{Isaiah 40:3} +001:004 John came baptizing{or, immersing} in the wilderness and preaching + the baptism of repentance for forgiveness of sins. +001:005 All the country of Judea and all those of Jerusalem went + out to him. They were baptized by him in the Jordan river, + confessing their sins. +001:006 John was clothed with camel's hair and a leather belt around + his waist. He ate locusts and wild honey. +001:007 He preached, saying, "After me comes he who is mightier + than I, the thong of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop + down and loosen. +001:008 I baptized you in{The Greek word (en) translated here as "in" + could also be translated as "with" in some contexts.} water, + but he will baptize you in the Holy Spirit." +001:009 It happened in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth + of Galilee, and was baptized by John in the Jordan. +001:010 Immediately coming up from the water, he saw the heavens parting, + and the Spirit descending on him like a dove. +001:011 A voice came out of the sky, "You are my beloved Son, in whom + I am well pleased." +001:012 Immediately the Spirit drove him out into the wilderness. +001:013 He was there in the wilderness forty days tempted by Satan. + He was with the wild animals; and the angels were serving him. +001:014 Now after John was taken into custody, Jesus came into Galilee, + preaching the Good News of the Kingdom of God, +001:015 and saying, "The time is fulfilled, and the Kingdom of God + is at hand! Repent, and believe in the Good News." +001:016 Passing along by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and + Andrew the brother of Simon casting a net into the sea, + for they were fishermen. +001:017 Jesus said to them, "Come after me, and I will make you into + fishers for men." +001:018 Immediately they left their nets, and followed him. +001:019 Going on a little further from there, he saw James the son + of Zebedee, and John, his brother, who were also in the boat + mending the nets. +001:020 Immediately he called them, and they left their father, Zebedee, + in the boat with the hired servants, and went after him. +001:021 They went into Capernaum, and immediately on the Sabbath day + he entered into the synagogue and taught. +001:022 They were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them + as having authority, and not as the scribes. +001:023 Immediately there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit, + and he cried out, +001:024 saying, "Ha! What do we have to do with you, Jesus, + you Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us? I know you who you are: + the Holy One of God!" +001:025 Jesus rebuked him, saying, "Be quiet, and come out of him!" +001:026 The unclean spirit, convulsing him and crying with a loud voice, + came out of him. +001:027 They were all amazed, so that they questioned among + themselves, saying, "What is this? A new teaching? + For with authority he commands even the unclean spirits, + and they obey him!" +001:028 The report of him went out immediately everywhere into all + the region of Galilee and its surrounding area. +001:029 Immediately, when they had come out of the synagogue, they came + into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John. +001:030 Now Simon's wife's mother lay sick with a fever, and immediately + they told him about her. +001:031 He came and took her by the hand, and raised her up. + The fever left her, and she served them. +001:032 At evening, when the sun had set, they brought to him all + who were sick, and those who were possessed by demons. +001:033 All the city was gathered together at the door. +001:034 He healed many who were sick with various diseases, and cast + out many demons. He didn't allow the demons to speak, + because they knew him. +001:035 Early in the morning, while it was still dark, he rose + up and went out, and departed into a deserted place, + and prayed there. +001:036 Simon and those who were with him followed after him; +001:037 and they found him, and told him, "Everyone is looking for you." +001:038 He said to them, "Let's go elsewhere into the next towns, that I + may preach there also, because I came out for this reason." +001:039 He went into their synagogues throughout all Galilee, + preaching and casting out demons. +001:040 A leper came to him, begging him, kneeling down to him, + and saying to him, "If you want to, you can make me clean." +001:041 Being moved with compassion, he stretched out his hand, + and touched him, and said to him, "I want to. Be made clean." +001:042 When he had said this, immediately the leprosy departed from him, + and he was made clean. +001:043 He strictly warned him, and immediately sent him out, +001:044 and said to him, "See you say nothing to anybody, but go show + yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing the things + which Moses commanded, for a testimony to them." +001:045 But he went out, and began to proclaim it much, and to spread + about the matter, so that Jesus could no more openly + enter into a city, but was outside in desert places: + and they came to him from everywhere. +002:001 When he entered again into Capernaum after some days, + it was heard that he was in the house. +002:002 Immediately many were gathered together, so that there + was no more room, not even around the door; and he spoke + the word to them. +002:003 Four people came, carrying a paralytic to him. +002:004 When they could not come near to him for the crowd, + they removed the roof where he was. When they had broken it up, + they let down the mat that the paralytic was lying on. +002:005 Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, "Son, your sins + are forgiven you." +002:006 But there were some of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning + in their hearts, +002:007 "Why does this man speak blasphemies like that? + Who can forgive sins but God alone?" +002:008 Immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they so + reasoned within themselves, said to them, "Why do you reason + these things in your hearts? +002:009 Which is easier, to tell the paralytic, 'Your sins are forgiven;' + or to say, 'Arise, and take up your bed, and walk?' +002:010 But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth + to forgive sins"--he said to the paralytic-- +002:011 "I tell you, arise, take up your mat, and go to your house." +002:012 He arose, and immediately took up the mat, and went + out in front of them all; so that they were all amazed, + and glorified God, saying, "We never saw anything like this!" +002:013 He went out again by the seaside. All the multitude came to him, + and he taught them. +002:014 As he passed by, he saw Levi, the son of Alphaeus, + sitting at the tax office, and he said to him, "Follow me." + And he arose and followed him. +002:015 It happened, that he was reclining at the table in his house, + and many tax collectors and sinners sat down with Jesus and + his disciples, for there were many, and they followed him. +002:016 The scribes and the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating + with the sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, + "Why is it that he eats and drinks with tax collectors and sinners?" +002:017 When Jesus heard it, he said to them, "Those who are healthy + have no need for a physician, but those who are sick. + I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." +002:018 John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting, and they came + and asked him, "Why do John's disciples and the disciples + of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples don't fast?" +002:019 Jesus said to them, "Can the groomsmen fast while the bridegroom + is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, + they can't fast. +002:020 But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away + from them, and then will they fast in that day. +002:021 No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, + or else the patch shrinks and the new tears away from the old, + and a worse hole is made. +002:022 No one puts new wine into old wineskins, or else the new wine + will burst the skins, and the wine pours out, and the skins + will be destroyed; but they put new wine into fresh wineskins." +002:023 It happened that he was going on the Sabbath day through + the grain fields, and his disciples began, as they went, + to pluck the ears of grain. +002:024 The Pharisees said to him, "Behold, why do they do that which + is not lawful on the Sabbath day?" +002:025 He said to them, "Did you never read what David did, when he had need, + and was hungry--he, and those who were with him? +002:026 How he entered into the house of God when Abiathar was high priest, + and ate the show bread, which is not lawful to eat except + for the priests, and gave also to those who were with him?" +002:027 He said to them, "The Sabbath was made for man, not man + for the Sabbath. +002:028 Therefore the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath." +003:001 He entered again into the synagogue, and there was a man there + who had his hand withered. +003:002 They watched him, whether he would heal him on the Sabbath day, + that they might accuse him. +003:003 He said to the man who had his hand withered, "Stand up." +003:004 He said to them, "Is it lawful on the Sabbath day to + do good, or to do harm? To save a life, or to kill?" + But they were silent. +003:005 When he had looked around at them with anger, being grieved + at the hardening of their hearts, he said to the man, + "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out, and his hand + was restored as healthy as the other. +003:006 The Pharisees went out, and immediately conspired with the + Herodians against him, how they might destroy him. +003:007 Jesus withdrew to the sea with his disciples, and a great + multitude followed him from Galilee, from Judea, +003:008 from Jerusalem, from Idumaea, beyond the Jordan, and those from + around Tyre and Sidon. A great multitude, hearing what great + things he did, came to him. +003:009 He spoke to his disciples that a little boat should stay near + him because of the crowd, so that they wouldn't press on him. +003:010 For he had healed many, so that as many as had diseases pressed + on him that they might touch him. +003:011 The unclean spirits, whenever they saw him, fell down before him, + and cried, "You are the Son of God!" +003:012 He sternly warned them that they should not make him known. +003:013 He went up into the mountain, and called to himself those whom + he wanted, and they went to him. +003:014 He appointed twelve, that they might be with him, and that + he might send them out to preach, +003:015 and to have authority to heal sicknesses and to cast out demons: +003:016 Simon, to whom he gave the name Peter; +003:017 James the son of Zebedee; John, the brother of James, + and he surnamed them Boanerges, which means, Sons of Thunder; +003:018 Andrew; Philip; Bartholomew; Matthew; Thomas; James, the son + of Alphaeus; Thaddaeus; Simon the Zealot; +003:019 and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him. He came into a house. +003:020 The multitude came together again, so that they could not + so much as eat bread. +003:021 When his friends heard it, they went out to seize him: + for they said, "He is insane." +003:022 The scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, "He has Beelzebul," + and, "By the prince of the demons he casts out the demons." +003:023 He summoned them, and said to them in parables, "How can Satan + cast out Satan? +003:024 If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. +003:025 If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand. +003:026 If Satan has risen up against himself, and is divided, + he can't stand, but has an end. +003:027 But no one can enter into the house of the strong man to plunder, + unless he first binds the strong man; and then he will + plunder his house. +003:028 Most certainly I tell you, all sins of the descendants of man + will be forgiven, including their blasphemies with which + they may blaspheme; +003:029 but whoever may blaspheme against the Holy Spirit never + has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin" +003:030 --because they said, "He has an unclean spirit." +003:031 His mother and his brothers came, and standing outside, + they sent to him, calling him. +003:032 A multitude was sitting around him, and they told him, "Behold, + your mother, your brothers, and your sisters{TR omits "your + sisters"} are outside looking for you." +003:033 He answered them, "Who are my mother and my brothers?" +003:034 Looking around at those who sat around him, he said, "Behold, + my mother and my brothers! +003:035 For whoever does the will of God, the same is my brother, + and my sister, and mother." +004:001 Again he began to teach by the seaside. A great multitude was + gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat in the sea, + and sat down. All the multitude were on the land by the sea. +004:002 He taught them many things in parables, and told them + in his teaching, +004:003 "Listen! Behold, the farmer went out to sow, +004:004 and it happened, as he sowed, some seed fell by the road, + and the birds{TR adds "of the air"} came and devoured it. +004:005 Others fell on the rocky ground, where it had little soil, + and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of soil. +004:006 When the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had + no root, it withered away. +004:007 Others fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up, + and choked it, and it yielded no fruit. +004:008 Others fell into the good ground, and yielded fruit, + growing up and increasing. Some brought forth thirty times, + some sixty times, and some one hundred times as much." +004:009 He said, "Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear." +004:010 When he was alone, those who were around him with the twelve + asked him about the parables. +004:011 He said to them, "To you is given the mystery of the Kingdom of God, + but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables, +004:012 that 'seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they + may hear, and not understand; lest perhaps they should turn again, + and their sins should be forgiven them.'"{Isaiah 6:9-10} +004:013 He said to them, "Don't you understand this parable? + How will you understand all of the parables? +004:014 The farmer sows the word. +004:015 The ones by the road are the ones where the word is sown; + and when they have heard, immediately Satan comes, and takes + away the word which has been sown in them. +004:016 These in like manner are those who are sown on the rocky places, + who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive + it with joy. +004:017 They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When + oppression or persecution arises because of the word, + immediately they stumble. +004:018 Others are those who are sown among the thorns. + These are those who have heard the word, +004:019 and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, + and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word, + and it becomes unfruitful. +004:020 Those which were sown on the good ground are those who hear + the word, and accept it, and bear fruit, some thirty times, + some sixty times, and some one hundred times." +004:021 He said to them, "Is the lamp brought to be put under + a basket{literally, a modion, a dry measuring basket + containing about a peck (about 9 litres)} or under a bed? + Isn't it put on a stand? +004:022 For there is nothing hidden, except that it should be made known; + neither was anything made secret, but that it should + come to light. +004:023 If any man has ears to hear, let him hear." +004:024 He said to them, "Take heed what you hear. With whatever + measure you measure, it will be measured to you, and more + will be given to you who hear. +004:025 For whoever has, to him will more be given, and he who doesn't have, + even that which he has will be taken away from him." +004:026 He said, "The Kingdom of God is as if a man should cast seed + on the earth, +004:027 and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should + spring up and grow, he doesn't know how. +004:028 For the earth bears fruit: first the blade, then the ear, + then the full grain in the ear. +004:029 But when the fruit is ripe, immediately he puts forth the sickle, + because the harvest has come." +004:030 He said, "How will we liken the Kingdom of God? Or with what + parable will we illustrate it? +004:031 It's like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown + in the earth, though it is less than all the seeds that are + on the earth, +004:032 yet when it is sown, grows up, and becomes greater than all + the herbs, and puts out great branches, so that the birds + of the sky can lodge under its shadow." +004:033 With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they + were able to hear it. +004:034 Without a parable he didn't speak to them; but privately + to his own disciples he explained everything. +004:035 On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, "Let's go + over to the other side." +004:036 Leaving the multitude, they took him with them, even as he was, + in the boat. Other small boats were also with him. +004:037 A big wind storm arose, and the waves beat into the boat, + so much that the boat was already filled. +004:038 He himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion, + and they woke him up, and told him, "Teacher, don't you care + that we are dying?" +004:039 He awoke, and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, "Peace! + Be still!" The wind ceased, and there was a great calm. +004:040 He said to them, "Why are you so afraid? How is it that you + have no faith?" +004:041 They were greatly afraid, and said to one another, "Who then + is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?" +005:001 They came to the other side of the sea, into the country + of the Gadarenes. +005:002 When he had come out of the boat, immediately there met him + out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit, +005:003 who had his dwelling in the tombs. Nobody could bind him any more, + not even with chains, +005:004 because he had been often bound with fetters and chains, + and the chains had been torn apart by him, and the fetters + broken in pieces. Nobody had the strength to tame him. +005:005 Always, night and day, in the tombs and in the mountains, + he was crying out, and cutting himself with stones. +005:006 When he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and bowed down to him, +005:007 and crying out with a loud voice, he said, "What have I to do + with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most High God? I adjure you + by God, don't torment me." +005:008 For he said to him, "Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!" +005:009 He asked him, "What is your name?" He said to him, "My name + is Legion, for we are many." +005:010 He begged him much that he would not send them away out + of the country. +005:011 Now there was on the mountainside a great herd of pigs feeding. +005:012 All the demons begged him, saying, "Send us into the pigs, + that we may enter into them." +005:013 At once Jesus gave them permission. The unclean spirits came + out and entered into the pigs. The herd of about two thousand + rushed down the steep bank into the sea, and they were drowned + in the sea. +005:014 Those who fed them fled, and told it in the city and in the country. + The people came to see what it was that had happened. +005:015 They came to Jesus, and saw him who had been possessed + by demons sitting, clothed, and in his right mind, even him + who had the legion; and they were afraid. +005:016 Those who saw it declared to them how it happened to him + who was possessed by demons, and about the pigs. +005:017 They began to beg him to depart from their region. +005:018 As he was entering into the boat, he who had been possessed + by demons begged him that he might be with him. +005:019 He didn't allow him, but said to him, "Go to your house, + to your friends, and tell them what great things the Lord + has done for you, and how he had mercy on you." +005:020 He went his way, and began to proclaim in Decapolis how Jesus + had done great things for him, and everyone marveled. +005:021 When Jesus had crossed back over in the boat to the other side, + a great multitude was gathered to him; and he was by the sea. +005:022 Behold, one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name, came; + and seeing him, he fell at his feet, +005:023 and begged him much, saying, "My little daughter is at + the point of death. Please come and lay your hands on her, + that she may be made healthy, and live." +005:024 He went with him, and a great multitude followed him, + and they pressed upon him on all sides. +005:025 A certain woman, who had an issue of blood for twelve years, +005:026 and had suffered many things by many physicians, and had spent + all that she had, and was no better, but rather grew worse, +005:027 having heard the things concerning Jesus, came up behind him + in the crowd, and touched his clothes. +005:028 For she said, "If I just touch his clothes, I will be made well." +005:029 Immediately the flow of her blood was dried up, and she felt + in her body that she was healed of her affliction. +005:030 Immediately Jesus, perceiving in himself that the power had + gone out from him, turned around in the crowd, and asked, + "Who touched my clothes?" +005:031 His disciples said to him, "You see the multitude pressing + against you, and you say, 'Who touched me?'" +005:032 He looked around to see her who had done this thing. +005:033 But the woman, fearing and trembling, knowing what had been + done to her, came and fell down before him, and told him + all the truth. +005:034 He said to her, "Daughter, your faith has made you well. + Go in peace, and be cured of your disease." +005:035 While he was still speaking, they came from the synagogue + ruler's house saying, "Your daughter is dead. Why bother + the Teacher any more?" +005:036 But Jesus, when he heard the message spoken, immediately said + to the ruler of the synagogue, "Don't be afraid, only believe." +005:037 He allowed no one to follow him, except Peter, James, and John + the brother of James. +005:038 He came to the synagogue ruler's house, and he saw an uproar, + weeping, and great wailing. +005:039 When he had entered in, he said to them, "Why do you make + an uproar and weep? The child is not dead, but is asleep." +005:040 They ridiculed him. But he, having put them all out, + took the father of the child and her mother and those who were + with him, and went in where the child was lying. +005:041 Taking the child by the hand, he said to her, "Talitha cumi;" + which means, being interpreted, "Girl, I tell you, get up." +005:042 Immediately the girl rose up, and walked, for she was twelve + years old. They were amazed with great amazement. +005:043 He strictly ordered them that no one should know this, + and commanded that something should be given to her to eat. +006:001 He went out from there. He came into his own country, + and his disciples followed him. +006:002 When the Sabbath had come, he began to teach in the synagogue, + and many hearing him were astonished, saying, "Where did this + man get these things?" and, "What is the wisdom that is given + to this man, that such mighty works come about by his hands? +006:003 Isn't this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of + James, Joses, Judah, and Simon? Aren't his sisters here with us?" + They were offended at him. +006:004 Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor, + except in his own country, and among his own relatives, + and in his own house." +006:005 He could do no mighty work there, except that he laid his hands + on a few sick people, and healed them. +006:006 He marveled because of their unbelief. He went around + the villages teaching. +006:007 He called to himself the twelve, and began to send them out two + by two; and he gave them authority over the unclean spirits. +006:008 He charged them that they should take nothing for their journey, + except a staff only: no bread, no wallet, no money in their purse, +006:009 but to wear sandals, and not put on two tunics. +006:010 He said to them, "Wherever you enter into a house, stay there + until you depart from there. +006:011 Whoever will not receive you nor hear you, as you depart + from there, shake off the dust that is under your feet + for a testimony against them. Assuredly, I tell you, + it will be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day + of judgment than for that city!" +006:012 They went out and preached that people should repent. +006:013 They cast out many demons, and anointed many with oil who were sick, + and healed them. +006:014 King Herod heard this, for his name had become known, + and he said, "John the Baptizer has risen from the dead, + and therefore these powers are at work in him." +006:015 But others said, "It is Elijah." Others said, "It is the Prophet, + or like one of the prophets." +006:016 But Herod, when he heard this, said, "This is John, whom I beheaded. + He has risen from the dead." +006:017 For Herod himself had sent out and arrested John, and bound him + in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, + for he had married her. +006:018 For John said to Herod, "It is not lawful for you to have + your brother's wife." +006:019 Herodias set herself against him, and desired to kill him, + but she couldn't, +006:020 for Herod feared John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, + and kept him safe. When he heard him, he did many things, + and he heard him gladly. +006:021 Then a convenient day came, that Herod on his birthday made + a supper for his nobles, the high officers, and the chief + men of Galilee. +006:022 When the daughter of Herodias herself came in and danced, + she pleased Herod and those sitting with him. + The king said to the young lady, "Ask me whatever you want, + and I will give it to you." +006:023 He swore to her, "Whatever you shall ask of me, I will give you, + up to half of my kingdom." +006:024 She went out, and said to her mother, "What shall I ask?" + She said, "The head of John the Baptizer." +006:025 She came in immediately with haste to the king, and asked, + "I want you to give me right now the head of John the Baptizer + on a platter." +006:026 The king was exceedingly sorry, but for the sake of his oaths, + and of his dinner guests, he didn't wish to refuse her. +006:027 Immediately the king sent out a soldier of his guard, + and commanded to bring John's head, and he went and beheaded + him in the prison, +006:028 and brought his head on a platter, and gave it to the young lady; + and the young lady gave it to her mother. +006:029 When his disciples heard this, they came and took up his corpse, + and laid it in a tomb. +006:030 The apostles gathered themselves together to Jesus, and they + told him all things, whatever they had done, and whatever + they had taught. +006:031 He said to them, "You come apart into a deserted place, + and rest awhile." For there were many coming and going, + and they had no leisure so much as to eat. +006:032 They went away in the boat to a deserted place by themselves. +006:033 They{TR reads "The multitudes" instead of "They"} saw them going, + and many recognized him and ran there on foot from all the cities. + They arrived before them and came together to him. +006:034 Jesus came out, saw a great multitude, and he had compassion + on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd, + and he began to teach them many things. +006:035 When it was late in the day, his disciples came to him, and said, + "This place is deserted, and it is late in the day. +006:036 Send them away, that they may go into the surrounding country + and villages, and buy themselves bread, for they have + nothing to eat." +006:037 But he answered them, "You give them something to eat." + They asked him, "Shall we go and buy two hundred denarii{200 + denarii was about 7 or 8 months wages for an agricultural + laborer.} worth of bread, and give them something to eat?" +006:038 He said to them, "How many loaves do you have? Go see." + When they knew, they said, "Five, and two fish." +006:039 He commanded them that everyone should sit down in groups + on the green grass. +006:040 They sat down in ranks, by hundreds and by fifties. +006:041 He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, + he blessed and broke the loaves, and he gave to his disciples + to set before them, and he divided the two fish among them all. +006:042 They all ate, and were filled. +006:043 They took up twelve baskets full of broken pieces and also + of the fish. +006:044 Those who ate the loaves were{TR adds "about"} five thousand men. +006:045 Immediately he made his disciples get into the boat, and to go + ahead to the other side, to Bethsaida, while he himself sent + the multitude away. +006:046 After he had taken leave of them, he went up the mountain to pray. +006:047 When evening had come, the boat was in the midst of the sea, + and he was alone on the land. +006:048 Seeing them distressed in rowing, for the wind was contrary + to them, about the fourth watch of the night he came to them, + walking on the sea, and he would have passed by them, +006:049 but they, when they saw him walking on the sea, supposed that it + was a ghost, and cried out; +006:050 for they all saw him, and were troubled. But he immediately + spoke with them, and said to them, "Cheer up! + It is I!{or, "I AM!"} Don't be afraid." +006:051 He got into the boat with them; and the wind ceased, and they + were very amazed among themselves, and marveled; +006:052 for they hadn't understood about the loaves, but their + hearts were hardened. +006:053 When they had crossed over, they came to land at Gennesaret, + and moored to the shore. +006:054 When they had come out of the boat, immediately the + people recognized him, +006:055 and ran around that whole region, and began to bring those + who were sick, on their mats, to where they heard he was. +006:056 Wherever he entered, into villages, or into cities, + or into the country, they laid the sick in the marketplaces, + and begged him that they might touch just the fringe{or, + tassel} of his garment; and as many as touched him were made well. +007:001 Then the Pharisees, and some of the scribes gathered together + to him, having come from Jerusalem. +007:002 Now when they saw some of his disciples eating bread with defiled, + that is, unwashed, hands, they found fault. +007:003 (For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, don't eat unless they + wash their hands and forearms, holding to the tradition + of the elders. +007:004 They don't eat when they come from the marketplace, + unless they bathe themselves, and there are many other things, + which they have received to hold to: washings of cups, + pitchers, bronze vessels, and couches.) +007:005 The Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why don't your + disciples walk according to the tradition of the elders, + but eat their bread with unwashed hands?" +007:006 He answered them, "Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, + as it is written, 'This people honors me with their lips, + but their heart is far from me. +007:007 But in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines + the commandments of men.'{Isaiah 29:13} +007:008 "For you set aside the commandment of God, and hold tightly + to the tradition of men--the washing of pitchers and cups, + and you do many other such things." +007:009 He said to them, "Full well do you reject the commandment of God, + that you may keep your tradition. +007:010 For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother;'{Exodus 20:12; + Deuteronomy 5:16} and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, + let him be put to death.'{Exodus 21:17; Leviticus 20:9} +007:011 But you say, 'If a man tells his father or his mother, + "Whatever profit you might have received from me is Corban{Corban + is a Hebrew word for an offering devoted to God.}, that is to say, + given to God;"' +007:012 then you no longer allow him to do anything for his father + or his mother, +007:013 making void the word of God by your tradition, which you + have handed down. You do many things like this." +007:014 He called all the multitude to himself, and said to them, + "Hear me, all of you, and understand. +007:015 There is nothing from outside of the man, that going into him + can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man + are those that defile the man. +007:016 If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear!" +007:017 When he had entered into a house away from the multitude, + his disciples asked him about the parable. +007:018 He said to them, "Are you thus without understanding also? + Don't you perceive that whatever goes into the man from outside + can't defile him, +007:019 because it doesn't go into his heart, but into his stomach, + then into the latrine, thus making all foods clean?" +007:020 He said, "That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man. +007:021 For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, + adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts, +007:022 covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, + blasphemy, pride, and foolishness. +007:023 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man." +007:024 From there he arose, and went away into the borders of Tyre + and Sidon. He entered into a house, and didn't want anyone + to know it, but he couldn't escape notice. +007:025 For a woman, whose little daughter had an unclean spirit, + having heard of him, came and fell down at his feet. +007:026 Now the woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by race. + She begged him that he would cast the demon out of her daughter. +007:027 But Jesus said to her, "Let the children be filled first, + for it is not appropriate to take the children's bread + and throw it to the dogs." +007:028 But she answered him, "Yes, Lord. Yet even the dogs under + the table eat the children's crumbs." +007:029 He said to her, "For this saying, go your way. The demon has + gone out of your daughter." +007:030 She went away to her house, and found the child having been + laid on the bed, with the demon gone out. +007:031 Again he departed from the borders of Tyre and Sidon, + and came to the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the + region of Decapolis. +007:032 They brought to him one who was deaf and had an impediment + in his speech. They begged him to lay his hand on him. +007:033 He took him aside from the multitude, privately, and put his + fingers into his ears, and he spat, and touched his tongue. +007:034 Looking up to heaven, he sighed, and said to him, "Ephphatha!" + that is, "Be opened!" +007:035 Immediately his ears were opened, and the impediment of his + tongue was released, and he spoke clearly. +007:036 He commanded them that they should tell no one, but the more + he commanded them, so much the more widely they proclaimed it. +007:037 They were astonished beyond measure, saying, "He has done all + things well. He makes even the deaf hear, and the mute speak!" +008:001 In those days, when there was a very great multitude, and they + had nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples to himself, + and said to them, +008:002 "I have compassion on the multitude, because they have stayed + with me now three days, and have nothing to eat. +008:003 If I send them away fasting to their home, they will faint + on the way, for some of them have come a long way." +008:004 His disciples answered him, "From where could one satisfy + these people with bread here in a deserted place?" +008:005 He asked them, "How many loaves do you have?" They said, "Seven." +008:006 He commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground, + and he took the seven loaves. Having given thanks, + he broke them, and gave them to his disciples to serve, + and they served the multitude. +008:007 They had a few small fish. Having blessed them, he said + to serve these also. +008:008 They ate, and were filled. They took up seven baskets of broken + pieces that were left over. +008:009 Those who had eaten were about four thousand. + Then he sent them away. +008:010 Immediately he entered into the boat with his disciples, + and came into the region of Dalmanutha. +008:011 The Pharisees came out and began to question him, seeking from + him a sign from heaven, and testing him. +008:012 He sighed deeply in his spirit, and said, "Why does this + generation{The word translated "generation" here (genea) could also + be translated "people," "race," or "family."} seek a sign? + Most certainly I tell you, no sign will be given + to this generation." +008:013 He left them, and again entering into the boat, departed to + the other side. +008:014 They forgot to take bread; and they didn't have more than one + loaf in the boat with them. +008:015 He charged them, saying, "Take heed: beware of the yeast + of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod." +008:016 They reasoned with one another, saying, "It's because we + have no bread." +008:017 Jesus, perceiving it, said to them, "Why do you reason that + it's because you have no bread? Don't you perceive yet, + neither understand? Is your heart still hardened? +008:018 Having eyes, don't you see? Having ears, don't you hear? + Don't you remember? +008:019 When I broke the five loaves among the five thousand, + how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?" + They told him, "Twelve." +008:020 "When the seven loaves fed the four thousand, how many + baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?" + They told him, "Seven." +008:021 He asked them, "Don't you understand, yet?" +008:022 He came to Bethsaida. They brought a blind man to him, + and begged him to touch him. +008:023 He took hold of the blind man by the hand, and brought him + out of the village. When he had spit on his eyes, and laid + his hands on him, he asked him if he saw anything. +008:024 He looked up, and said, "I see men; for I see them + like trees walking." +008:025 Then again he laid his hands on his eyes. He looked intently, + and was restored, and saw everyone clearly. +008:026 He sent him away to his house, saying, "Don't enter into + the village, nor tell anyone in the village." +008:027 Jesus went out, with his disciples, into the villages + of Caesarea Philippi. On the way he asked his disciples, + "Who do men say that I am?" +008:028 They told him, "John the Baptizer, and others say Elijah, but others: + one of the prophets." +008:029 He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" + Peter answered, "You are the Christ." +008:030 He charged them that they should tell no one about him. +008:031 He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things, + and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, + and be killed, and after three days rise again. +008:032 He spoke to them openly. Peter took him, and began to rebuke him. +008:033 But he, turning around, and seeing his disciples, rebuked Peter, + and said, "Get behind me, Satan! For you have in mind not + the things of God, but the things of men." +008:034 He called the multitude to himself with his disciples, and said + to them, "Whoever wants to come after me, let him deny himself, + and take up his cross, and follow me. +008:035 For whoever wants to save his life will lose it; and whoever + will lose his life for my sake and the sake of the Good News + will save it. +008:036 For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world, + and forfeit his life? +008:037 For what will a man give in exchange for his life? +008:038 For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words in this + adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man also will + be ashamed of him, when he comes in the glory of his Father + with the holy angels." +009:001 He said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, there are some + standing here who will in no way taste death until they see + the Kingdom of God come with power." +009:002 After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John, + and brought them up onto a high mountain privately by themselves, + and he was changed into another form in front of them. +009:003 His clothing became glistening, exceedingly white, like snow, + such as no launderer on earth can whiten them. +009:004 Elijah and Moses appeared to them, and they were talking with Jesus. +009:005 Peter answered Jesus, "Rabbi, it is good for us to be here. + Let's make three tents: one for you, one for Moses, + and one for Elijah." +009:006 For he didn't know what to say, for they were very afraid. +009:007 A cloud came, overshadowing them, and a voice came out of the cloud, + "This is my beloved Son. Listen to him." +009:008 Suddenly looking around, they saw no one with them any more, + except Jesus only. +009:009 As they were coming down from the mountain, he charged them + that they should tell no one what things they had seen, + until after the Son of Man had risen from the dead. +009:010 They kept this saying to themselves, questioning what the "rising + from the dead" meant. +009:011 They asked him, saying, "Why do the scribes say that Elijah + must come first?" +009:012 He said to them, "Elijah indeed comes first, and restores all things. + How is it written about the Son of Man, that he should suffer + many things and be despised? +009:013 But I tell you that Elijah has come, and they have also done + to him whatever they wanted to, even as it is written about him." +009:014 Coming to the disciples, he saw a great multitude around them, + and scribes questioning them. +009:015 Immediately all the multitude, when they saw him, were greatly amazed, + and running to him greeted him. +009:016 He asked the scribes, "What are you asking them?" +009:017 One of the multitude answered, "Teacher, I brought to you my son, + who has a mute spirit; +009:018 and wherever it seizes him, it throws him down, and he foams + at the mouth, and grinds his teeth, and wastes away. + I asked your disciples to cast it out, and they weren't able." +009:019 He answered him, "Unbelieving generation, how long + shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? + Bring him to me." +009:020 They brought him to him, and when he saw him, immediately the spirit + convulsed him, and he fell on the ground, wallowing and foaming + at the mouth. +009:021 He asked his father, "How long has it been since this has come + to him?" He said, "From childhood. +009:022 Often it has cast him both into the fire and into the water, + to destroy him. But if you can do anything, have compassion + on us, and help us." +009:023 Jesus said to him, "If you can believe, all things are possible + to him who believes." +009:024 Immediately the father of the child cried out with tears, "I believe. + Help my unbelief!" +009:025 When Jesus saw that a multitude came running together, he rebuked + the unclean spirit, saying to him, "You mute and deaf spirit, + I command you, come out of him, and never enter him again!" +009:026 Having cried out, and convulsed greatly, it came out of him. + The boy became like one dead; so much that most of them said, + "He is dead." +009:027 But Jesus took him by the hand, and raised him up; and he arose. +009:028 When he had come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, + "Why couldn't we cast it out?" +009:029 He said to them, "This kind can come out by nothing, + except by prayer and fasting." +009:030 They went out from there, and passed through Galilee. + He didn't want anyone to know it. +009:031 For he was teaching his disciples, and said to them, + "The Son of Man is being handed over to the hands of men, + and they will kill him; and when he is killed, on the third + day he will rise again." +009:032 But they didn't understand the saying, and were afraid + to ask him. +009:033 He came to Capernaum, and when he was in the house he asked them, + "What were you arguing among yourselves on the way?" +009:034 But they were silent, for they had disputed one with another + on the way about who was the greatest. +009:035 He sat down, and called the twelve; and he said to them, + "If any man wants to be first, he shall be last of all, + and servant of all." +009:036 He took a little child, and set him in the midst of them. + Taking him in his arms, he said to them, +009:037 "Whoever receives one such little child in my name, + receives me, and whoever receives me, doesn't receive me, + but him who sent me." +009:038 John said to him, "Teacher, we saw someone who doesn't follow + us casting out demons in your name; and we forbade him, + because he doesn't follow us." +009:039 But Jesus said, "Don't forbid him, for there is no one who will + do a mighty work in my name, and be able quickly to speak + evil of me. +009:040 For whoever is not against us is on our side. +009:041 For whoever will give you a cup of water to drink in my name, + because you are Christ's, most certainly I tell you, + he will in no way lose his reward. +009:042 Whoever will cause one of these little ones who believe in me + to stumble, it would be better for him if he was thrown + into the sea with a millstone hung around his neck. +009:043 If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. + It is better for you to enter into life maimed, rather than + having your two hands to go into Gehenna,{or, Hell} into + the unquenchable fire, +009:044 'where their worm doesn't die, and the fire is not quenched.' +009:045 If your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off. + It is better for you to enter into life lame, rather than having + your two feet to be cast into Gehenna,{or, Hell} into the fire + that will never be quenched-- +009:046 'where their worm doesn't die, and the fire is not quenched.' +009:047 If your eye causes you to stumble, cast it out. + It is better for you to enter into the Kingdom of God + with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into + the Gehenna{or, Hell} of fire, +009:048 'where their worm doesn't die, and the fire is + not quenched.'{Isaiah 66:24} +009:049 For everyone will be salted with fire, and every sacrifice + will be seasoned with salt. +009:050 Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, + with what will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, + and be at peace with one another." +010:001 He arose from there and came into the borders of Judea and + beyond the Jordan. Multitudes came together to him again. + As he usually did, he was again teaching them. +010:002 Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, "Is it lawful + for a man to divorce his wife?" +010:003 He answered, "What did Moses command you?" +010:004 They said, "Moses allowed a certificate of divorce to be written, + and to divorce her." +010:005 But Jesus said to them, "For your hardness of heart, he wrote + you this commandment. +010:006 But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male + and female.{Genesis 1:27} +010:007 For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, + and will join to his wife, +010:008 and the two will become one flesh,{Genesis 2:24} so that they + are no longer two, but one flesh. +010:009 What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate." +010:010 In the house, his disciples asked him again about the same matter. +010:011 He said to them, "Whoever divorces his wife, and marries another, + commits adultery against her. +010:012 If a woman herself divorces her husband, and marries another, + she commits adultery." +010:013 They were bringing to him little children, that he should touch them, + but the disciples rebuked those who were bringing them. +010:014 But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation, + and said to them, "Allow the little children to come to me! + Don't forbid them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to + such as these. +010:015 Most certainly I tell you, whoever will not receive the Kingdom + of God like a little child, he will in no way enter into it." +010:016 He took them in his arms, and blessed them, laying his + hands on them. +010:017 As he was going out into the way, one ran to him, knelt before him, + and asked him, "Good Teacher, what shall I do that I may + inherit eternal life?" +010:018 Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good + except one--God. +010:019 You know the commandments: 'Do not murder,' 'Do not commit adultery,' + 'Do not steal,' 'Do not give false testimony,' 'Do not defraud,' + 'Honor your father and mother.'"{Exodus 20:12-16; + Deuteronomy 5:16-20} +010:020 He said to him, "Teacher, I have observed all these things + from my youth." +010:021 Jesus looking at him loved him, and said to him, "One thing + you lack. Go, sell whatever you have, and give to the poor, + and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me, + taking up the cross." +010:022 But his face fell at that saying, and he went away sorrowful, + for he was one who had great possessions. +010:023 Jesus looked around, and said to his disciples, "How difficult it + is for those who have riches to enter into the Kingdom of God!" +010:024 The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus answered again, + "Children, how hard is it for those who trust in riches + to enter into the Kingdom of God! +010:025 It is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye than + for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God." +010:026 They were exceedingly astonished, saying to him, "Then who + can be saved?" +010:027 Jesus, looking at them, said, "With men it is impossible, + but not with God, for all things are possible with God." +010:028 Peter began to tell him, "Behold, we have left all, + and have followed you." +010:029 Jesus said, "Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has + left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, + or wife, or children, or land, for my sake, and for the sake + of the Good News, +010:030 but he will receive one hundred times more now in this time, + houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and land, + with persecutions; and in the age to come eternal life. +010:031 But many who are first will be last; and the last first." +010:032 They were on the way, going up to Jerusalem; and Jesus was going + in front of them, and they were amazed; and those who followed + were afraid. He again took the twelve, and began to tell + them the things that were going to happen to him. +010:033 "Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem. The Son of Man + will be delivered to the chief priests and the scribes. + They will condemn him to death, and will deliver him + to the Gentiles. +010:034 They will mock him, spit on him, scourge him, and kill him. + On the third day he will rise again." +010:035 James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came near to him, + saying, "Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we will ask." +010:036 He said to them, "What do you want me to do for you?" +010:037 They said to him, "Grant to us that we may sit, one at your + right hand, and one at your left hand, in your glory." +010:038 But Jesus said to them, "You don't know what you are asking. + Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, and to be baptized + with the baptism that I am baptized with?" +010:039 They said to him, "We are able." Jesus said to them, + "You shall indeed drink the cup that I drink, and you shall + be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with; +010:040 but to sit at my right hand and at my left hand is not mine + to give, but for whom it has been prepared." +010:041 When the ten heard it, they began to be indignant towards + James and John. +010:042 Jesus summoned them, and said to them, "You know that they + who are recognized as rulers over the nations lord it over them, + and their great ones exercise authority over them. +010:043 But it shall not be so among you, but whoever wants to become + great among you shall be your servant. +010:044 Whoever of you wants to become first among you, shall be + bondservant of all. +010:045 For the Son of Man also came not to be served, but to serve, + and to give his life as a ransom for many." +010:046 They came to Jericho. As he went out from Jericho, with his + disciples and a great multitude, the son of Timaeus, Bartimaeus, + a blind beggar, was sitting by the road. +010:047 When he heard that it was Jesus the Nazarene, he began to cry out, + and say, "Jesus, you son of David, have mercy on me!" +010:048 Many rebuked him, that he should be quiet, but he cried out + much more, "You son of David, have mercy on me!" +010:049 Jesus stood still, and said, "Call him." They called + the blind man, saying to him, "Cheer up! Get up. + He is calling you!" +010:050 He, casting away his cloak, sprang up, and came to Jesus. +010:051 Jesus asked him, "What do you want me to do for you?" + The blind man said to him, "Rhabboni,{Rhabboni is a transliteration + of the Hebrew word for "great teacher."} that I may see again." +010:052 Jesus said to him, "Go your way. Your faith has made you well." + Immediately he received his sight, and followed Jesus + in the way. +011:001 When they drew near to Jerusalem, to Bethsphage{TR & NU + read "Bethphage" instead of "Bethsphage"} and Bethany, + at the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples, +011:002 and said to them, "Go your way into the village that + is opposite you. Immediately as you enter into it, + you will find a young donkey tied, on which no one has sat. + Untie him, and bring him. +011:003 If anyone asks you, 'Why are you doing this?' say, 'The Lord + needs him;' and immediately he will send him back here." +011:004 They went away, and found a young donkey tied at the door + outside in the open street, and they untied him. +011:005 Some of those who stood there asked them, "What are you doing, + untying the young donkey?" +011:006 They said to them just as Jesus had said, and they let them go. +011:007 They brought the young donkey to Jesus, and threw their garments + on it, and Jesus sat on it. +011:008 Many spread their garments on the way, and others were cutting + down branches from the trees, and spreading them on the road. +011:009 Those who went in front, and those who followed, cried out, + "Hosanna{"Hosanna" means "save us" or "help us, we pray."}! + Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!{Psalm 118:25-26} +011:010 Blessed is the kingdom of our father David that is coming + in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!" +011:011 Jesus entered into the temple in Jerusalem. When he had + looked around at everything, it being now evening, he went + out to Bethany with the twelve. +011:012 The next day, when they had come out from Bethany, he was hungry. +011:013 Seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came to see + if perhaps he might find anything on it. When he came to it, + he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs. +011:014 Jesus told it, "May no one ever eat fruit from you again!" + and his disciples heard it. +011:015 They came to Jerusalem, and Jesus entered into the temple, + and began to throw out those who sold and those who bought + in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money changers, + and the seats of those who sold the doves. +011:016 He would not allow anyone to carry a container through the temple. +011:017 He taught, saying to them, "Isn't it written, 'My house will be + called a house of prayer for all the nations?'{Isaiah 56:7} + But you have made it a den of robbers!"{Jeremiah 7:11} +011:018 The chief priests and the scribes heard it, and sought how + they might destroy him. For they feared him, because all + the multitude was astonished at his teaching. +011:019 When evening came, he went out of the city. +011:020 As they passed by in the morning, they saw the fig tree withered + away from the roots. +011:021 Peter, remembering, said to him, "Rabbi, look! The fig tree + which you cursed has withered away." +011:022 Jesus answered them, "Have faith in God. +011:023 For most certainly I tell you, whoever may tell this mountain, + 'Be taken up and cast into the sea,' and doesn't doubt + in his heart, but believes that what he says is happening; + he shall have whatever he says. +011:024 Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for, + believe that you have received them, and you shall have them. +011:025 Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything + against anyone; so that your Father, who is in heaven, + may also forgive you your transgressions. +011:026 But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father in heaven + forgive your transgressions." +011:027 They came again to Jerusalem, and as he was walking in the temple, + the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders came to him, +011:028 and they began saying to him, "By what authority do you do + these things? Or who gave you this authority to do these things?" +011:029 Jesus said to them, "I will ask you one question. Answer me, + and I will tell you by what authority I do these things. +011:030 The baptism of John--was it from heaven, or from men? + Answer me." +011:031 They reasoned with themselves, saying, "If we should say, + 'From heaven;' he will say, 'Why then did you not believe him?' +011:032 If we should say, 'From men'"--they feared the people, + for all held John to really be a prophet. +011:033 They answered Jesus, "We don't know." Jesus said to them, + "Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things." +012:001 He began to speak to them in parables. "A man planted a vineyard, + put a hedge around it, dug a pit for the winepress, built a tower, + rented it out to a farmer, and went into another country. +012:002 When it was time, he sent a servant to the farmer to get + from the farmer his share of the fruit of the vineyard. +012:003 They took him, beat him, and sent him away empty. +012:004 Again, he sent another servant to them; and they threw stones at him, + wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully treated. +012:005 Again he sent another; and they killed him; and many others, + beating some, and killing some. +012:006 Therefore still having one, his beloved son, he sent him + last to them, saying, 'They will respect my son.' +012:007 But those farmers said among themselves, 'This is the heir. + Come, let's kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.' +012:008 They took him, killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard. +012:009 What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do? He will come + and destroy the farmers, and will give the vineyard to others. +012:010 Haven't you even read this Scripture: 'The stone which the + builders rejected, the same was made the head of the corner. +012:011 This was from the Lord, it is marvelous in our eyes'?"{Psalm + 118:22-23} +012:012 They tried to seize him, but they feared the multitude; + for they perceived that he spoke the parable against them. + They left him, and went away. +012:013 They sent some of the Pharisees and of the Herodians to him, + that they might trap him with words. +012:014 When they had come, they asked him, "Teacher, we know + that you are honest, and don't defer to anyone; for you + aren't partial to anyone, but truly teach the way of God. + Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not? +012:015 Shall we give, or shall we not give?" But he, + knowing their hypocrisy, said to them, "Why do you test me? + Bring me a denarius, that I may see it." +012:016 They brought it. He said to them, "Whose is this image + and inscription?" They said to him, "Caesar's." +012:017 Jesus answered them, "Render to Caesar the things that + are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's." + They marveled greatly at him. +012:018 There came to him Sadducees, who say that there is no resurrection. + They asked him, saying, +012:019 "Teacher, Moses wrote to us, 'If a man's brother dies, + and leaves a wife behind him, and leaves no children, + that his brother should take his wife, and raise up offspring + for his brother.' +012:020 There were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and dying + left no offspring. +012:021 The second took her, and died, leaving no children behind him. + The third likewise; +012:022 and the seven took her and left no children. Last of all + the woman also died. +012:023 In the resurrection, when they rise, whose wife will she be of them? + For the seven had her as a wife." +012:024 Jesus answered them, "Isn't this because you are mistaken, + not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God? +012:025 For when they will rise from the dead, they neither marry, + nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven. +012:026 But about the dead, that they are raised; haven't you + read in the book of Moses, about the Bush, how God spoke + to him, saying, 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, + and the God of Jacob'{Exodus 3:6}? +012:027 He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. + You are therefore badly mistaken." +012:028 One of the scribes came, and heard them questioning together. + Knowing that he had answered them well, asked him, + "Which commandment is the greatest of all?" +012:029 Jesus answered, "The greatest is, 'Hear, Israel, the Lord our God, + the Lord is one: +012:030 you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, + and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your + strength.'{Deuteronomy 6:4-5} This is the first commandment. +012:031 The second is like this, 'You shall love your neighbor + as yourself.'{Leviticus 19:18} There is no other commandment + greater than these." +012:032 The scribe said to him, "Truly, teacher, you have said well + that he is one, and there is none other but he, +012:033 and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, + with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love + his neighbor as himself, is more important than all whole + burnt offerings and sacrifices." +012:034 When Jesus saw that he answered wisely, he said to him, + "You are not far from the Kingdom of God." No one dared ask + him any question after that. +012:035 Jesus responded, as he taught in the temple, "How is it + that the scribes say that the Christ is the son of David? +012:036 For David himself said in the Holy Spirit, 'The Lord said + to my Lord, "Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies + the footstool of your feet."'{Psalm 110:1} +012:037 Therefore David himself calls him Lord, so how can he be his son?" + The common people heard him gladly. +012:038 In his teaching he said to them, "Beware of the scribes, + who like to walk in long robes, and to get greetings + in the marketplaces, +012:039 and the best seats in the synagogues, and the best places at feasts: +012:040 those who devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make + long prayers. These will receive greater condemnation." +012:041 Jesus sat down opposite the treasury, and saw how the multitude + cast money into the treasury. Many who were rich cast in much. +012:042 A poor widow came, and she cast in two small brass coins,{literally, + lepta (or widow's mites). Lepta are very small brass coins worth + half a quadrans each, which is a quarter of the copper assarion. + Lepta are worth less than 1% of an agricultural worker's daily + wages.} which equal a quadrans coin.{A quadrans is a coin + worth about 1/64 of a denarius. A denarius is about one day's + wages for an agricultural laborer.} +012:043 He called his disciples to himself, and said to them, + "Most certainly I tell you, this poor widow gave more than + all those who are giving into the treasury, +012:044 for they all gave out of their abundance, but she, out of + her poverty, gave all that she had to live on." +013:001 As he went out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, + "Teacher, see what kind of stones and what kind of buildings!" +013:002 Jesus said to him, "Do you see these great buildings? + There will not be left here one stone on another, which will + not be thrown down." +013:003 As he sat on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, + Peter, James, John, and Andrew asked him privately, +013:004 "Tell us, when will these things be? What is the sign that + these things are all about to be fulfilled?" +013:005 Jesus, answering, began to tell them, "Be careful that no one + leads you astray. +013:006 For many will come in my name, saying, 'I am he!{or, "I AM!"}' + and will lead many astray. +013:007 "When you hear of wars and rumors of wars, don't be troubled. + For those must happen, but the end is not yet. +013:008 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. + There will be earthquakes in various places. There will + be famines and troubles. These things are the beginning + of birth pains. +013:009 But watch yourselves, for they will deliver you up to councils. + You will be beaten in synagogues. You will stand before rulers + and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them. +013:010 The Good News must first be preached to all the nations. +013:011 When they lead you away and deliver you up, don't be + anxious beforehand, or premeditate what you will say, + but say whatever will be given you in that hour. + For it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit. +013:012 "Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. + Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be + put to death. +013:013 You will be hated by all men for my name's sake, but he who + endures to the end, the same will be saved. +013:014 But when you see the abomination of desolation,{Daniel 9:17; + 11:31; 12:11} spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it + ought not (let the reader understand), then let those who are + in Judea flee to the mountains, +013:015 and let him who is on the housetop not go down, nor enter in, + to take anything out of his house. +013:016 Let him who is in the field not return back to take his cloak. +013:017 But woe to those who are with child and to those who nurse + babies in those days! +013:018 Pray that your flight won't be in the winter. +013:019 For in those days there will be oppression, such as there has + not been the like from the beginning of the creation which God + created until now, and never will be. +013:020 Unless the Lord had shortened the days, no flesh would + have been saved; but for the sake of the chosen ones, + whom he picked out, he shortened the days. +013:021 Then if anyone tells you, 'Look, here is the Christ!' + or, 'Look, there!' don't believe it. +013:022 For there will arise false christs and false prophets, + and will show signs and wonders, that they may lead astray, + if possible, even the chosen ones. +013:023 But you watch. "Behold, I have told you all things beforehand. +013:024 But in those days, after that oppression, the sun will be darkened, + the moon will not give its light, +013:025 the stars will be falling from the sky, and the powers that are + in the heavens will be shaken.{Isaiah 13:10; 34:4} +013:026 Then they will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great + power and glory. +013:027 Then he will send out his angels, and will gather together his + chosen ones from the four winds, from the ends of the earth + to the ends of the sky. +013:028 "Now from the fig tree, learn this parable. When the branch + has now become tender, and puts forth its leaves, you know + that the summer is near; +013:029 even so you also, when you see these things coming to pass, + know that it is near, at the doors. +013:030 Most certainly I say to you, this generation{The word + translated "generation" (genea) could also be translated "race," + "family," or "people."} will not pass away until all + these things happen. +013:031 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away. +013:032 But of that day or that hour no one knows, not even the angels + in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. +013:033 Watch, keep alert, and pray; for you don't know when the time is. +013:034 "It is like a man, traveling to another country, having left + his house, and given authority to his servants, and to each + one his work, and also commanded the doorkeeper to keep watch. +013:035 Watch therefore, for you don't know when the lord of + the house is coming, whether at evening, or at midnight, + or when the rooster crows, or in the morning; +013:036 lest coming suddenly he might find you sleeping. +013:037 What I tell you, I tell all: Watch." +014:001 It was now two days before the feast of the Passover and + the unleavened bread, and the chief priests and the scribes + sought how they might seize him by deception, and kill him. +014:002 For they said, "Not during the feast, because there might be + a riot of the people." +014:003 While he was at Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, + as he sat at the table, a woman came having an alabaster jar + of ointment of pure nard--very costly. She broke the jar, + and poured it over his head. +014:004 But there were some who were indignant among themselves, + saying, "Why has this ointment been wasted? +014:005 For this might have been sold for more than three hundred + denarii,{300 denarii was about a years wages for an agricultural + laborer.} and given to the poor." They grumbled against her. +014:006 But Jesus said, "Leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? + She has done a good work for me. +014:007 For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you want to, + you can do them good; but you will not always have me. +014:008 She has done what she could. She has anointed my body beforehand + for the burying. +014:009 Most certainly I tell you, wherever this Good News may be + preached throughout the whole world, that which this woman + has done will also be spoken of for a memorial of her." +014:010 Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve, went away to + the chief priests, that he might deliver him to them. +014:011 They, when they heard it, were glad, and promised to give him money. + He sought how he might conveniently deliver him. +014:012 On the first day of unleavened bread, when they sacrificed + the Passover, his disciples asked him, "Where do you want us + to go and make ready that you may eat the Passover?" +014:013 He sent two of his disciples, and said to them, "Go into the city, + and there you will meet a man carrying a pitcher of water. + Follow him, +014:014 and wherever he enters in, tell the master of the house, + 'The Teacher says, "Where is the guest room, where I may eat + the Passover with my disciples?"' +014:015 He will himself show you a large upper room furnished and ready. + Make ready for us there." +014:016 His disciples went out, and came into the city, and found things + as he had said to them, and they prepared the Passover. +014:017 When it was evening he came with the twelve. +014:018 As they sat and were eating, Jesus said, "Most certainly I + tell you, one of you will betray me--he who eats with me." +014:019 They began to be sorrowful, and to ask him one by one, + "Surely not I?" And another said, "Surely not I?" +014:020 He answered them, "It is one of the twelve, he who dips with me + in the dish. +014:021 For the Son of Man goes, even as it is written about him, + but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! + It would be better for that man if he had not been born." +014:022 As they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had blessed, + he broke it, and gave to them, and said, "Take, eat. + This is my body." +014:023 He took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave to them. + They all drank of it. +014:024 He said to them, "This is my blood of the new covenant, + which is poured out for many. +014:025 Most certainly I tell you, I will no more drink of the fruit + of the vine, until that day when I drink it anew in the + Kingdom of God." +014:026 When they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives. +014:027 Jesus said to them, "All of you will be made to stumble because + of me tonight, for it is written, 'I will strike the shepherd, + and the sheep will be scattered.'{Zechariah 13:7} +014:028 However, after I am raised up, I will go before you into Galilee." +014:029 But Peter said to him, "Although all will be offended, + yet I will not." +014:030 Jesus said to him, "Most certainly I tell you, that you today, + even this night, before the rooster crows twice, you will deny + me three times." +014:031 But he spoke all the more, "If I must die with you, I will + not deny you." They all said the same thing. +014:032 They came to a place which was named Gethsemane. + He said to his disciples, "Sit here, while I pray." +014:033 He took with him Peter, James, and John, and began to be greatly + troubled and distressed. +014:034 He said to them, "My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. + Stay here, and watch." +014:035 He went forward a little, and fell on the ground, and prayed that, + if it were possible, the hour might pass away from him. +014:036 He said, "Abba, Father, all things are possible to you. + Please remove this cup from me. However, not what I desire, + but what you desire." +014:037 He came and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, "Simon, + are you sleeping? Couldn't you watch one hour? +014:038 Watch and pray, that you may not enter into temptation. + The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak." +014:039 Again he went away, and prayed, saying the same words. +014:040 Again he returned, and found them sleeping, for their eyes + were very heavy, and they didn't know what to answer him. +014:041 He came the third time, and said to them, "Sleep on now, + and take your rest. It is enough. The hour has come. + Behold, the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. +014:042 Arise, let us be going. Behold, he who betrays me is at hand." +014:043 Immediately, while he was still speaking, Judas, one of + the twelve, came--and with him a multitude with swords and clubs, + from the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders. +014:044 Now he who betrayed him had given them a sign, saying, "Whoever I + will kiss, that is he. Seize him, and lead him away safely." +014:045 When he had come, immediately he came to him, + and said, "Rabbi! Rabbi!" and kissed him. +014:046 They laid their hands on him, and seized him. +014:047 But a certain one of those who stood by drew his sword, + and struck the servant of the high priest, and cut off his ear. +014:048 Jesus answered them, "Have you come out, as against a robber, + with swords and clubs to seize me? +014:049 I was daily with you in the temple teaching, and you didn't + arrest me. But this is so that the Scriptures might be fulfilled." +014:050 They all left him, and fled. +014:051 A certain young man followed him, having a linen cloth thrown + around himself, over his naked body. The young men grabbed him, +014:052 but he left the linen cloth, and fled from them naked. +014:053 They led Jesus away to the high priest. All the chief priests, + the elders, and the scribes came together with him. +014:054 Peter had followed him from a distance, until he came into + the court of the high priest. He was sitting with the officers, + and warming himself in the light of the fire. +014:055 Now the chief priests and the whole council sought witnesses + against Jesus to put him to death, and found none. +014:056 For many gave false testimony against him, and their testimony + didn't agree with each other. +014:057 Some stood up, and gave false testimony against him, saying, +014:058 "We heard him say, 'I will destroy this temple that is + made with hands, and in three days I will build another + made without hands.'" +014:059 Even so, their testimony did not agree. +014:060 The high priest stood up in the midst, and asked Jesus, "Have you + no answer? What is it which these testify against you?" +014:061 But he stayed quiet, and answered nothing. Again the high priest + asked him, "Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?" +014:062 Jesus said, "I am. You will see the Son of Man sitting + at the right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds + of the sky." +014:063 The high priest tore his clothes, and said, "What further need + have we of witnesses? +014:064 You have heard the blasphemy! What do you think?" + They all condemned him to be worthy of death. +014:065 Some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to beat + him with fists, and to tell him, "Prophesy!" The officers + struck him with the palms of their hands. +014:066 As Peter was in the courtyard below, one of the maids of + the high priest came, +014:067 and seeing Peter warming himself, she looked at him, and said, + "You were also with the Nazarene, Jesus!" +014:068 But he denied it, saying, "I neither know, nor understand what you + are saying." He went out on the porch, and the rooster crowed. +014:069 The maid saw him, and began again to tell those who stood by, + "This is one of them." +014:070 But he again denied it. After a little while again those + who stood by said to Peter, "You truly are one of them, + for you are a Galilean, and your speech shows it." +014:071 But he began to curse, and to swear, "I don't know this man + of whom you speak!" +014:072 The rooster crowed the second time. Peter remembered the word, + how that Jesus said to him, "Before the rooster crows twice, + you will deny me three times." When he thought about that, he wept. +015:001 Immediately in the morning the chief priests, with the elders + and scribes, and the whole council, held a consultation, + and bound Jesus, and carried him away, and delivered him + up to Pilate. +015:002 Pilate asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" He answered, + "So you say." +015:003 The chief priests accused him of many things. +015:004 Pilate again asked him, "Have you no answer? See how many + things they testify against you!" +015:005 But Jesus made no further answer, so that Pilate marveled. +015:006 Now at the feast he used to release to them one prisoner, + whom they asked of him. +015:007 There was one called Barabbas, bound with those who had made + insurrection, men who in the insurrection had committed murder. +015:008 The multitude, crying aloud, began to ask him to do as he always + did for them. +015:009 Pilate answered them, saying, "Do you want me to release to you + the King of the Jews?" +015:010 For he perceived that for envy the chief priests had + delivered him up. +015:011 But the chief priests stirred up the multitude, that he should + release Barabbas to them instead. +015:012 Pilate again asked them, "What then should I do to him whom + you call the King of the Jews?" +015:013 They cried out again, "Crucify him!" +015:014 Pilate said to them, "Why, what evil has he done?" + But they cried out exceedingly, "Crucify him!" +015:015 Pilate, wishing to please the multitude, released Barabbas + to them, and handed over Jesus, when he had flogged him, + to be crucified. +015:016 The soldiers led him away within the court, which is the Praetorium; + and they called together the whole cohort. +015:017 They clothed him with purple, and weaving a crown of thorns, + they put it on him. +015:018 They began to salute him, "Hail, King of the Jews!" +015:019 They struck his head with a reed, and spat on him, and bowing + their knees, did homage to him. +015:020 When they had mocked him, they took the purple off of him, + and put his own garments on him. They led him out to crucify him. +015:021 They compelled one passing by, coming from the country, + Simon of Cyrene, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to go + with them, that he might bear his cross. +015:022 They brought him to the place called Golgotha, which is, + being interpreted, "The place of a skull." +015:023 They offered him wine mixed with myrrh to drink, but he + didn't take it. +015:024 Crucifying him, they parted his garments among them, + casting lots on them, what each should take. +015:025 It was the third hour,{9:00 A. M.} and they crucified him. +015:026 The superscription of his accusation was written over him, + "THE KING OF THE JEWS." +015:027 With him they crucified two robbers; one on his right hand, + and one on his left. +015:028 The Scripture was fulfilled, which says, "He was + numbered with transgressors." +015:029 Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads, + and saying, "Ha! You who destroy the temple, and build it + in three days, +015:030 save yourself, and come down from the cross!" +015:031 Likewise, also the chief priests mocking among themselves with + the scribes said, "He saved others. He can't save himself. +015:032 Let the Christ, the King of Israel, now come down from + the cross, that we may see and believe him.{TR omits "him"}" + Those who were crucified with him insulted him. +015:033 When the sixth hour{or, noon} had come, there was darkness + over the whole land until the ninth hour.{3:00 PM} +015:034 At the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, "Eloi, Eloi, + lama sabachthani?" which is, being interpreted, "My God, + my God, why have you forsaken me?"{Psalm 22:1} +015:035 Some of those who stood by, when they heard it, said, "Behold, + he is calling Elijah." +015:036 One ran, and filling a sponge full of vinegar, put it on + a reed, and gave it to him to drink, saying, "Let him be. + Let's see whether Elijah comes to take him down." +015:037 Jesus cried out with a loud voice, and gave up the spirit. +015:038 The veil of the temple was torn in two from the top to the bottom. +015:039 When the centurion, who stood by opposite him, saw that he cried + out like this and breathed his last, he said, "Truly this + man was the Son of God!" +015:040 There were also women watching from afar, among whom were + both Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less + and of Joses, and Salome; +015:041 who, when he was in Galilee, followed him, and served him; + and many other women who came up with him to Jerusalem. +015:042 When evening had now come, because it was the Preparation Day, + that is, the day before the Sabbath, +015:043 Joseph of Arimathaea, a prominent council member who also himself + was looking for the Kingdom of God, came. He boldly went + in to Pilate, and asked for Jesus' body. +015:044 Pilate marveled if he were already dead; and summoning + the centurion, he asked him whether he had been dead long. +015:045 When he found out from the centurion, he granted the body to Joseph. +015:046 He bought a linen cloth, and taking him down, wound him in the linen + cloth, and laid him in a tomb which had been cut out of a rock. + He rolled a stone against the door of the tomb. +015:047 Mary Magdalene and Mary, the mother of Joses, saw where + he was laid. +016:001 When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother + of James, and Salome, bought spices, that they might come + and anoint him. +016:002 Very early on the first day of the week, they came to the tomb + when the sun had risen. +016:003 They were saying among themselves, "Who will roll away the stone + from the door of the tomb for us?" +016:004 for it was very big. Looking up, they saw that the stone + was rolled back. +016:005 Entering into the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on + the right side, dressed in a white robe, and they were amazed. +016:006 He said to them, "Don't be amazed. You seek Jesus, + the Nazarene, who has been crucified. He has risen. + He is not here. Behold, the place where they laid him! +016:007 But go, tell his disciples and Peter, 'He goes before you + into Galilee. There you will see him, as he said to you.'" +016:008 They went out,{TR adds "quickly"} and fled from the tomb, + for trembling and astonishment had come on them. + They said nothing to anyone; for they were afraid. +016:009 Now when he had risen early on the first day of the week, + he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast + out seven demons. +016:010 She went and told those who had been with him, as they + mourned and wept. +016:011 When they heard that he was alive, and had been seen + by her, they disbelieved. +016:012 After these things he was revealed in another form to two of them, + as they walked, on their way into the country. +016:013 They went away and told it to the rest. They didn't + believe them, either. +016:014 Afterward he was revealed to the eleven themselves as they sat + at the table, and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness + of heart, because they didn't believe those who had seen him + after he had risen. +016:015 He said to them, "Go into all the world, and preach the Good News + to the whole creation. +016:016 He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who + disbelieves will be condemned. +016:017 These signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they + will cast out demons; they will speak with new languages; +016:018 they will take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, + it will in no way hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, + and they will recover." +016:019 So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was received + up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God. +016:020 They went out, and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, + and confirming the word by the signs that followed. Amen. +Book 42 Luke +001:001 Since many have undertaken to set in order a narrative concerning + those matters which have been fulfilled among us, +001:002 even as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and + servants of the word delivered them to us, +001:003 it seemed good to me also, having traced the course of all + things accurately from the first, to write to you in order, + most excellent Theophilus; +001:004 that you might know the certainty concerning the things + in which you were instructed. +001:005 There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain + priest named Zacharias, of the priestly division of Abijah. + He had a wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth. +001:006 They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly + in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord. +001:007 But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they + both were well advanced in years. +001:008 Now it happened, while he executed the priest's office before + God in the order of his division, +001:009 according to the custom of the priest's office, his lot was + to enter into the temple of the Lord and burn incense. +001:010 The whole multitude of the people were praying outside at + the hour of incense. +001:011 An angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing on the right + side of the altar of incense. +001:012 Zacharias was troubled when he saw him, and fear fell upon him. +001:013 But the angel said to him, "Don't be afraid, Zacharias, because your + request has been heard, and your wife, Elizabeth, will bear + you a son, and you shall call his name John. +001:014 You will have joy and gladness; and many will rejoice + at his birth. +001:015 For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he will drink + no wine nor strong drink. He will be filled with the Holy Spirit, + even from his mother's womb. +001:016 He will turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord, their God. +001:017 He will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, + 'to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,' + and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready + a people prepared for the Lord." +001:018 Zacharias said to the angel, "How can I be sure of this? + For I am an old man, and my wife is well advanced in years." +001:019 The angel answered him, "I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence + of God. I was sent to speak to you, and to bring you + this good news. +001:020 Behold, you will be silent and not able to speak, until the day + that these things will happen, because you didn't believe + my words, which will be fulfilled in their proper time." +001:021 The people were waiting for Zacharias, and they marveled + that he delayed in the temple. +001:022 When he came out, he could not speak to them, and they + perceived that he had seen a vision in the temple. + He continued making signs to them, and remained mute. +001:023 It happened, when the days of his service were fulfilled, + he departed to his house. +001:024 After these days Elizabeth, his wife, conceived, and she hid + herself five months, saying, +001:025 "Thus has the Lord done to me in the days in which he looked + at me, to take away my reproach among men." +001:026 Now in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God + to a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, +001:027 to a virgin pledged to be married to a man whose name was Joseph, + of the house of David. The virgin's name was Mary. +001:028 Having come in, the angel said to her, "Rejoice, you highly + favored one! The Lord is with you. Blessed are you among women!" +001:029 But when she saw him, she was greatly troubled at the saying, + and considered what kind of salutation this might be. +001:030 The angel said to her, "Don't be afraid, Mary, for you have + found favor with God. +001:031 Behold, you will conceive in your womb, and bring forth a son, + and will call his name 'Jesus.' +001:032 He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High. + The Lord God will give him the throne of his father, David, +001:033 and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever. + There will be no end to his Kingdom." +001:034 Mary said to the angel, "How can this be, seeing I am a virgin?" +001:035 The angel answered her, "The Holy Spirit will come on you, + and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. + Therefore also the holy one who is born from you will be called + the Son of God. +001:036 Behold, Elizabeth, your relative, also has conceived a son + in her old age; and this is the sixth month with her who + was called barren. +001:037 For everything spoken by God is possible." +001:038 Mary said, "Behold, the handmaid of the Lord; be it to me + according to your word." The angel departed from her. +001:039 Mary arose in those days and went into the hill country with haste, + into a city of Judah, +001:040 and entered into the house of Zacharias and greeted Elizabeth. +001:041 It happened, when Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, + that the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled + with the Holy Spirit. +001:042 She called out with a loud voice, and said, "Blessed are you + among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb! +001:043 Why am I so favored, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? +001:044 For behold, when the voice of your greeting came into my ears, + the baby leaped in my womb for joy! +001:045 Blessed is she who believed, for there will be a fulfillment + of the things which have been spoken to her from the Lord!" +001:046 Mary said, "My soul magnifies the Lord. +001:047 My spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior, +001:048 for he has looked at the humble state of his handmaid. + For behold, from now on, all generations will call me blessed. +001:049 For he who is mighty has done great things for me. + Holy is his name. +001:050 His mercy is for generations of generations on those who fear him. +001:051 He has shown strength with his arm. He has scattered the proud + in the imagination of their heart. +001:052 He has put down princes from their thrones. And has + exalted the lowly. +001:053 He has filled the hungry with good things. He has sent + the rich away empty. +001:054 He has given help to Israel, his servant, that he + might remember mercy, +001:055 As he spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and his seed forever." +001:056 Mary stayed with her about three months, and then returned + to her house. +001:057 Now the time that Elizabeth should give birth was fulfilled, + and she brought forth a son. +001:058 Her neighbors and her relatives heard that the Lord had magnified + his mercy towards her, and they rejoiced with her. +001:059 It happened on the eighth day, that they came to circumcise + the child; and they would have called him Zacharias, + after the name of the father. +001:060 His mother answered, "Not so; but he will be called John." +001:061 They said to her, "There is no one among your relatives who is + called by this name." +001:062 They made signs to his father, what he would have him called. +001:063 He asked for a writing tablet, and wrote, "His name is John." + They all marveled. +001:064 His mouth was opened immediately, and his tongue freed, + and he spoke, blessing God. +001:065 Fear came on all who lived around them, and all these sayings + were talked about throughout all the hill country of Judea. +001:066 All who heard them laid them up in their heart, saying, "What then + will this child be?" The hand of the Lord was with him. +001:067 His father, Zacharias, was filled with the Holy Spirit, + and prophesied, saying, +001:068 "Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, for he has visited + and worked redemption for his people; +001:069 and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house + of his servant David +001:070 (as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets who have been + from of old), +001:071 salvation from our enemies, and from the hand of all who hate us; +001:072 to show mercy towards our fathers, to remember his holy covenant, +001:073 the oath which he spoke to Abraham, our father, +001:074 to grant to us that we, being delivered out of the hand + of our enemies, should serve him without fear, +001:075 In holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our life. +001:076 And you, child, will be called a prophet of the Most High, + for you will go before the face of the Lord to make ready his ways, +001:077 to give knowledge of salvation to his people by the remission + of their sins, +001:078 because of the tender mercy of our God, whereby the dawn + from on high will visit us, +001:079 to shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death; + to guide our feet into the way of peace." +001:080 The child was growing, and becoming strong in spirit, and was + in the desert until the day of his public appearance to Israel. +002:001 Now it happened in those days, that a decree went out from + Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled. +002:002 This was the first enrollment made when Quirinius was + governor of Syria. +002:003 All went to enroll themselves, everyone to his own city. +002:004 Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, + into Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, + because he was of the house and family of David; +002:005 to enroll himself with Mary, who was pledged to be married + to him as wife, being pregnant. +002:006 It happened, while they were there, that the day had come + that she should give birth. +002:007 She brought forth her firstborn son, and she wrapped him + in bands of cloth, and laid him in a feeding trough, + because there was no room for them in the inn. +002:008 There were shepherds in the same country staying in the field, + and keeping watch by night over their flock. +002:009 Behold, an angel of the Lord stood by them, and the glory + of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. +002:010 The angel said to them, "Don't be afraid, for behold, I bring + you good news of great joy which will be to all the people. +002:011 For there is born to you, this day, in the city of David, + a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. +002:012 This is the sign to you: you will find a baby wrapped in strips + of cloth, lying in a feeding trough." +002:013 Suddenly, there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly + army praising God, and saying, +002:014 "Glory to God in the highest, on earth peace, good will toward men." +002:015 It happened, when the angels went away from them into the sky, + that the shepherds said one to another, "Let's go + to Bethlehem, now, and see this thing that has happened, + which the Lord has made known to us." +002:016 They came with haste, and found both Mary and Joseph, + and the baby was lying in the feeding trough. +002:017 When they saw it, they publicized widely the saying which was + spoken to them about this child. +002:018 All who heard it wondered at the things which were spoken + to them by the shepherds. +002:019 But Mary kept all these sayings, pondering them in her heart. +002:020 The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for + all the things that they had heard and seen, just as it + was told them. +002:021 When eight days were fulfilled for the circumcision of the child, + his name was called Jesus, which was given by the angel + before he was conceived in the womb. +002:022 When the days of their purification according to the law + of Moses were fulfilled, they brought him up to Jerusalem, + to present him to the Lord +002:023 (as it is written in the law of the Lord, "Every male who opens + the womb shall be called holy to the Lord"),{Exodus 13:2,12} +002:024 and to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said + in the law of the Lord, "A pair of turtledoves, or two + young pigeons."{Leviticus 12:8} +002:025 Behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. + This man was righteous and devout, looking for the consolation + of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him. +002:026 It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he should + not see death before he had seen the Lord's Christ.{"Christ" + (Greek) and "Messiah" (Hebrew) both mean "Anointed One"} +002:027 He came in the Spirit into the temple. When the parents + brought in the child, Jesus, that they might do concerning + him according to the custom of the law, +002:028 then he received him into his arms, and blessed God, and said, +002:029 "Now you are releasing your servant, Master, according to + your word, in peace; +002:030 for my eyes have seen your salvation, +002:031 which you have prepared before the face of all peoples; +002:032 a light for revelation to the nations, and the glory of + your people Israel." +002:033 Joseph and his mother were marveling at the things which were + spoken concerning him, +002:034 and Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary, his mother, "Behold, + this child is set for the falling and the rising of many in Israel, + and for a sign which is spoken against. +002:035 Yes, a sword will pierce through your own soul, that the thoughts + of many hearts may be revealed." +002:036 There was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, + of the tribe of Asher (she was of a great age, having lived + with a husband seven years from her virginity, +002:037 and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), + who didn't depart from the temple, worshipping with fastings + and petitions night and day. +002:038 Coming up at that very hour, she gave thanks to the Lord, + and spoke of him to all those who were looking for + redemption in Jerusalem. +002:039 When they had accomplished all things that were according + to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their + own city, Nazareth. +002:040 The child was growing, and was becoming strong in spirit, + being filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was upon him. +002:041 His parents went every year to Jerusalem at the feast + of the Passover. +002:042 When he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem + according to the custom of the feast, +002:043 and when they had fulfilled the days, as they were returning, + the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. Joseph and his + mother didn't know it, +002:044 but supposing him to be in the company, they went a day's journey, + and they looked for him among their relatives and acquaintances. +002:045 When they didn't find him, they returned to Jerusalem, + looking for him. +002:046 It happened after three days they found him in the temple, + sitting in the midst of the teachers, both listening to them, + and asking them questions. +002:047 All who heard him were amazed at his understanding and his answers. +002:048 When they saw him, they were astonished, and his mother + said to him, "Son, why have you treated us this way? + Behold, your father and I were anxiously looking for you." +002:049 He said to them, "Why were you looking for me? Didn't you + know that I must be in my Father's house?" +002:050 They didn't understand the saying which he spoke to them. +002:051 And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth. + He was subject to them, and his mother kept all these sayings + in her heart. +002:052 And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor + with God and men. +003:001 Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, + Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch + of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region + of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene, +003:002 in the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God + came to John, the son of Zacharias, in the wilderness. +003:003 He came into all the region around the Jordan, preaching the + baptism of repentance for remission of sins. +003:004 As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, + "The voice of one crying in the wilderness, 'Make ready + the way of the Lord. Make his paths straight. +003:005 Every valley will be filled. Every mountain and hill + will be brought low. The crooked will become straight, + and the rough ways smooth. +003:006 All flesh will see God's salvation.'"{Isaiah 40:3-5} +003:007 He said therefore to the multitudes who went out to be baptized + by him, "You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee + from the wrath to come? +003:008 Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and don't + begin to say among yourselves, 'We have Abraham for our father;' + for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham + from these stones! +003:009 Even now the axe also lies at the root of the trees. + Every tree therefore that doesn't bring forth good fruit + is cut down, and thrown into the fire." +003:010 The multitudes asked him, "What then must we do?" +003:011 He answered them, "He who has two coats, let him give to him + who has none. He who has food, let him do likewise." +003:012 Tax collectors also came to be baptized, and they said + to him, "Teacher, what must we do?" +003:013 He said to them, "Collect no more than that which is + appointed to you." +003:014 Soldiers also asked him, saying, "What about us? What must we do?" + He said to them, "Extort from no one by violence, neither accuse + anyone wrongfully. Be content with your wages." +003:015 As the people were in expectation, and all men reasoned in their + hearts concerning John, whether perhaps he was the Christ, +003:016 John answered them all, "I indeed baptize you with water, + but he comes who is mightier than I, the latchet of whose + sandals I am not worthy to loosen. He will baptize you + in the Holy Spirit and fire, +003:017 whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his + threshing floor, and will gather the wheat into his barn; + but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire." +003:018 Then with many other exhortations he preached good news + to the people, +003:019 but Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias, + his brother's{TR reads "brother Philip's" instead of "brother's"} + wife, and for all the evil things which Herod had done, +003:020 added this also to them all, that he shut up John in prison. +003:021 Now it happened, when all the people were baptized, + Jesus also had been baptized, and was praying. + The sky was opened, +003:022 and the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form as a dove on him; + and a voice came out of the sky, saying "You are my beloved Son. + In you I am well pleased." +003:023 Jesus himself, when he began to teach, was about thirty years old, + being the son (as was supposed) of Joseph, the son of Heli, +003:024 the son of Matthat, the son of Levi, the son of Melchi, + the son of Jannai, the son of Joseph, +003:025 the son of Mattathias, the son of Amos, the son of Nahum, + the son of Esli, the son of Naggai, +003:026 the son of Maath, the son of Mattathias, the son of Semein, + the son of Joseph, the son of Judah, +003:027 the son of Joanan, the son of Rhesa, the son of Zerubbabel, + the son of Shealtiel, the son of Neri, +003:028 the son of Melchi, the son of Addi, the son of Cosam, the son + of Elmodam, the son of Er, +003:029 the son of Jose, the son of Eliezer, the son of Jorim, + the son of Matthat, the son of Levi, +003:030 the son of Simeon, the son of Judah, the son of Joseph, + the son of Jonan, the son of Eliakim, +003:031 the son of Melea, the son of Menan, the son of Mattatha, + the son of Nathan, the son of David, +003:032 the son of Jesse, the son of Obed, the son of Boaz, the son + of Salmon, the son of Nahshon, +003:033 the son of Amminadab, the son of Aram,{NU reads "Admin, + the son of Arni" instead of "Aram"} the son of Hezron, + the son of Perez, the son of Judah, +003:034 the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, + the son of Terah, the son of Nahor, +003:035 the son of Serug, the son of Reu, the son of Peleg, the son + of Eber, the son of Shelah, +003:036 the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, + the son of Noah, the son of Lamech, +003:037 the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, + the son of Mahalaleel, the son of Cainan, +003:038 the son of Enos, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God. +004:001 Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, + and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness +004:002 for forty days, being tempted by the devil. He ate nothing + in those days. Afterward, when they were completed, + he was hungry. +004:003 The devil said to him, "If you are the Son of God, command this + stone to become bread." +004:004 Jesus answered him, saying, "It is written, 'Man shall not live + by bread alone, but by every word of God.'"{Deuteronomy 8:3} +004:005 The devil, leading him up on a high mountain, showed him all + the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. +004:006 The devil said to him, "I will give you all this authority, + and their glory, for it has been delivered to me; and I give + it to whomever I want. +004:007 If you therefore will worship before me, it will all be yours." +004:008 Jesus answered him, "Get behind me Satan! For it is written, + 'You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall + you serve.'"{Deuteronomy 6:13} +004:009 He led him to Jerusalem, and set him on the pinnacle of the temple, + and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, cast yourself + down from here, +004:010 for it is written, 'He will give his angels charge concerning you, + to guard you;' +004:011 and, 'On their hands they will bear you up, lest perhaps you + dash your foot against a stone.'"{Psalm 91:11-12} +004:012 Jesus answering, said to him, "It has been said, 'You shall + not tempt the Lord your God.'"{Deuteronomy 6:16} +004:013 When the devil had completed every temptation, he departed + from him until another time. +004:014 Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee, + and news about him spread through all the surrounding area. +004:015 He taught in their synagogues, being glorified by all. +004:016 He came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. He entered, + as was his custom, into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, + and stood up to read. +004:017 The book of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. + He opened the book, and found the place where it was written, +004:018 "The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me + to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal + the brokenhearted, to proclaim release to the captives, + recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed, +004:019 and to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord."{Isaiah 61:1-2} +004:020 He closed the book, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. + The eyes of all in the synagogue were fastened on him. +004:021 He began to tell them, "Today, this Scripture has been fulfilled + in your hearing." +004:022 All testified about him, and wondered at the gracious + words which proceeded out of his mouth, and they said, + "Isn't this Joseph's son?" +004:023 He said to them, "Doubtless you will tell me this parable, + 'Physician, heal yourself! Whatever we have heard done + at Capernaum, do also here in your hometown.'" +004:024 He said, "Most certainly I tell you, no prophet is acceptable + in his hometown. +004:025 But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days + of Elijah, when the sky was shut up three years and six months, + when a great famine came over all the land. +004:026 Elijah was sent to none of them, except to Zarephath, + in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow. +004:027 There were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, + yet not one of them was cleansed, except Naaman, the Syrian." +004:028 They were all filled with wrath in the synagogue, as they + heard these things. +004:029 They rose up, threw him out of the city, and led him to the brow + of the hill that their city was built on, that they might throw + him off the cliff. +004:030 But he, passing through the midst of them, went his way. +004:031 He came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee. He was teaching + them on the Sabbath day, +004:032 and they were astonished at his teaching, for his word + was with authority. +004:033 In the synagogue there was a man who had a spirit of an + unclean demon, and he cried out with a loud voice, +004:034 saying, "Ah! what have we to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth? + Have you come to destroy us? I know you who you are: + the Holy One of God!" +004:035 Jesus rebuked him, saying, "Be silent, and come out of him!" + When the demon had thrown him down in their midst, he came + out of him, having done him no harm. +004:036 Amazement came on all, and they spoke together, one with another, + saying, "What is this word? For with authority and power + he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out!" +004:037 News about him went out into every place of the surrounding region. +004:038 He rose up from the synagogue, and entered into Simon's house. + Simon's mother-in-law was afflicted with a great fever, + and they begged him for her. +004:039 He stood over her, and rebuked the fever; and it left her. + Immediately she rose up and served them. +004:040 When the sun was setting, all those who had any sick with various + diseases brought them to him; and he laid his hands on every + one of them, and healed them. +004:041 Demons also came out from many, crying out, and saying, + "You are the Christ, the Son of God!" Rebuking them, he didn't + allow them to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ. +004:042 When it was day, he departed and went into an uninhabited place, + and the multitudes looked for him, and came to him, and held + on to him, so that he wouldn't go away from them. +004:043 But he said to them, "I must preach the good news of the + Kingdom of God to the other cities also. For this reason I + have been sent." +004:044 He was preaching in the synagogues of Galilee. +005:001 Now it happened, while the multitude pressed on him and heard + the word of God, that he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret. +005:002 He saw two boats standing by the lake, but the fishermen had + gone out of them, and were washing their nets. +005:003 He entered into one of the boats, which was Simon's, + and asked him to put out a little from the land. + He sat down and taught the multitudes from the boat. +005:004 When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, "Put out into + the deep, and let down your nets for a catch." +005:005 Simon answered him, "Master, we worked all night, and took nothing; + but at your word I will let down the net." +005:006 When they had done this, they caught a great multitude of fish, + and their net was breaking. +005:007 They beckoned to their partners in the other boat, that they + should come and help them. They came, and filled both boats, + so that they began to sink. +005:008 But Simon Peter, when he saw it, fell down at Jesus' + knees, saying, "Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, Lord." +005:009 For he was amazed, and all who were with him, at the catch + of fish which they had caught; +005:010 and so also were James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were + partners with Simon. Jesus said to Simon, "Don't be afraid. + From now on you will be catching people alive." +005:011 When they had brought their boats to land, they left everything, + and followed him. +005:012 It happened, while he was in one of the cities, behold, + there was a man full of leprosy. When he saw Jesus, he fell + on his face, and begged him, saying, "Lord, if you want to, + you can make me clean." +005:013 He stretched out his hand, and touched him, saying, "I want to. + Be made clean." Immediately the leprosy left him. +005:014 He charged him to tell no one, "But go your way, and show + yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing according + to what Moses commanded, for a testimony to them." +005:015 But the report concerning him spread much more, and great + multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by him + of their infirmities. +005:016 But he withdrew himself into the desert, and prayed. +005:017 It happened on one of those days, that he was teaching; + and there were Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting by, + who had come out of every village of Galilee, Judea, and Jerusalem. + The power of the Lord was with him to heal them. +005:018 Behold, men brought a paralyzed man on a cot, and they sought + to bring him in to lay before Jesus. +005:019 Not finding a way to bring him in because of the multitude, + they went up to the housetop, and let him down through the tiles + with his cot into the midst before Jesus. +005:020 Seeing their faith, he said to him, "Man, your sins + are forgiven you." +005:021 The scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, "Who is + this that speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, + but God alone?" +005:022 But Jesus, perceiving their thoughts, answered them, "Why are + you reasoning so in your hearts? +005:023 Which is easier to say, 'Your sins are forgiven you;' or to say, + 'Arise and walk?' +005:024 But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority + on earth to forgive sins" (he said to the paralyzed man), + "I tell you, arise, and take up your cot, and go to your house." +005:025 Immediately he rose up before them, and took up that which + he was laying on, and departed to his house, glorifying God. +005:026 Amazement took hold on all, and they glorified God. + They were filled with fear, saying, "We have seen + strange things today." +005:027 After these things he went out, and saw a tax collector named + Levi sitting at the tax office, and said to him, "Follow me!" +005:028 He left everything, and rose up and followed him. +005:029 Levi made a great feast for him in his house. + There was a great crowd of tax collectors and others who were + reclining with them. +005:030 Their scribes and the Pharisees murmured against + his disciples, saying, "Why do you eat and drink with the tax + collectors and sinners?" +005:031 Jesus answered them, "Those who are healthy have no need + for a physician, but those who are sick do. +005:032 I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." +005:033 They said to him, "Why do John's disciples often fast and pray, + likewise also the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours + eat and drink?" +005:034 He said to them, "Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast, + while the bridegroom is with them? +005:035 But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away + from them. Then they will fast in those days." +005:036 He also told a parable to them. "No one puts a piece from + a new garment on an old garment, or else he will tear the new, + and also the piece from the new will not match the old. +005:037 No one puts new wine into old wineskins, or else the new wine + will burst the skins, and it will be spilled, and the skins + will be destroyed. +005:038 But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins, + and both are preserved. +005:039 No man having drunk old wine immediately desires new, for he says, + 'The old is better.'" +006:001 Now it happened on the second Sabbath after the first, + that he was going through the grain fields. His disciples plucked + the heads of grain, and ate, rubbing them in their hands. +006:002 But some of the Pharisees said to them, "Why do you do that + which is not lawful to do on the Sabbath day?" +006:003 Jesus, answering them, said, "Haven't you read what David did + when he was hungry, he, and those who were with him; +006:004 how he entered into the house of God, and took and ate + the show bread, and gave also to those who were with him, + which is not lawful to eat except for the priests alone?" +006:005 He said to them, "The Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath." +006:006 It also happened on another Sabbath that he entered into + the synagogue and taught. There was a man there, and his + right hand was withered. +006:007 The scribes and the Pharisees watched him, to see whether + he would heal on the Sabbath, that they might find an + accusation against him. +006:008 But he knew their thoughts; and he said to the man who had + the withered hand, "Rise up, and stand in the middle." + He arose and stood. +006:009 Then Jesus said to them, "I will ask you something: + Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good, or to do harm? + To save a life, or to kill?" +006:010 He looked around at them all, and said to the man, "Stretch out + your hand." He did, and his hand was restored as sound + as the other. +006:011 But they were filled with rage, and talked with one another + about what they might do to Jesus. +006:012 It happened in these days, that he went out to the mountain + to pray, and he continued all night in prayer to God. +006:013 When it was day, he called his disciples, and from them + he chose twelve, whom he also named apostles: +006:014 Simon, whom he also named Peter; Andrew, his brother; + James; John; Philip; Bartholomew; +006:015 Matthew; Thomas; James, the son of Alphaeus; Simon, who was + called the Zealot; +006:016 Judas the son of James; and Judas Iscariot, who also + became a traitor. +006:017 He came down with them, and stood on a level place, with a crowd + of his disciples, and a great number of the people from all + Judea and Jerusalem, and the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, + who came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases; +006:018 as well as those who were troubled by unclean spirits, + and they were being healed. +006:019 All the multitude sought to touch him, for power came out from + him and healed them all. +006:020 He lifted up his eyes to his disciples, and said, "Blessed are + you who are poor, for yours is the Kingdom of God. +006:021 Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be filled. + Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh. +006:022 Blessed are you when men shall hate you, and when they shall + exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, + for the Son of Man's sake. +006:023 Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward + is great in heaven, for their fathers did the same thing + to the prophets. +006:024 "But woe to you who are rich! For you have received + your consolation. +006:025 Woe to you, you who are full now, for you will be hungry. + Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep. +006:026 Woe,{TR adds "to you"} when{TR adds "all"} men speak well of you, + for their fathers did the same thing to the false prophets. +006:027 "But I tell you who hear: love your enemies, do good to those + who hate you, +006:028 bless those who curse you, and pray for those who mistreat you. +006:029 To him who strikes you on the cheek, offer also the other; + and from him who takes away your cloak, don't withhold + your coat also. +006:030 Give to everyone who asks you, and don't ask him who takes + away your goods to give them back again. +006:031 "As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them. +006:032 If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? + For even sinners love those who love them. +006:033 If you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is + that to you? For even sinners do the same. +006:034 If you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, + what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, + to receive back as much. +006:035 But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; + and your reward will be great, and you will be children of + the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil. +006:036 Therefore be merciful, even as your Father is also merciful. +006:037 Don't judge, and you won't be judged. Don't condemn, and you + won't be condemned. Set free, and you will be set free. +006:038 "Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, + shaken together, and running over, will be given to you.{literally, + into your bosom.} For with the same measure you measure it + will be measured back to you." +006:039 He spoke a parable to them. "Can the blind guide the blind? + Won't they both fall into a pit? +006:040 A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone when he is + fully trained will be like his teacher. +006:041 Why do you see the speck of chaff that is in your brother's eye, + but don't consider the beam that is in your own eye? +006:042 Or how can you tell your brother, 'Brother, let me remove + the speck of chaff that is in your eye,' when you yourself + don't see the beam that is in your own eye? You hypocrite! + First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you + can see clearly to remove the speck of chaff that is in + your brother's eye. +006:043 For there is no good tree that brings forth rotten fruit; + nor again a rotten tree that brings forth good fruit. +006:044 For each tree is known by its own fruit. For people don't + gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from + a bramble bush. +006:045 The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings + out that which is good, and the evil man out of the evil + treasure of his heart brings out that which is evil, + for out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks. +006:046 "Why do you call me, 'Lord, Lord,' and don't do the things + which I say? +006:047 Everyone who comes to me, and hears my words, and does them, + I will show you who he is like. +006:048 He is like a man building a house, who dug and went deep, + and laid a foundation on the rock. When a flood arose, + the stream broke against that house, and could not shake it, + because it was founded on the rock. +006:049 But he who hears, and doesn't do, is like a man who built a house + on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream broke, + and immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great." +007:001 After he had finished speaking in the hearing of the people, + he entered into Capernaum. +007:002 A certain centurion's servant, who was dear to him, was sick + and at the point of death. +007:003 When he heard about Jesus, he sent to him elders of the Jews, + asking him to come and save his servant. +007:004 When they came to Jesus, they begged him earnestly, saying, + "He is worthy for you to do this for him, +007:005 for he loves our nation, and he built our synagogue for us." +007:006 Jesus went with them. When he was now not far from the house, + the centurion sent friends to him, saying to him, "Lord, + don't trouble yourself, for I am not worthy for you to come + under my roof. +007:007 Therefore I didn't even think myself worthy to come to you; + but say the word, and my servant will be healed. +007:008 For I also am a man placed under authority, having under + myself soldiers. I tell this one, 'Go!' and he goes; + and to another, 'Come!' and he comes; and to my servant, + 'Do this,' and he does it." +007:009 When Jesus heard these things, he marveled at him, and turned + and said to the multitude who followed him, "I tell you, + I have not found such great faith, no, not in Israel." +007:010 Those who were sent, returning to the house, found that the servant + who had been sick was well. +007:011 It happened soon afterwards, that he went to a city called Nain. + Many of his disciples, along with a great multitude, + went with him. +007:012 Now when he drew near to the gate of the city, behold, one who + was dead was carried out, the only son of his mother, + and she was a widow. Many people of the city were with her. +007:013 When the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said + to her, "Don't cry." +007:014 He came near and touched the coffin, and the bearers stood still. + He said, "Young man, I tell you, arise!" +007:015 He who was dead sat up, and began to speak. And he gave him + to his mother. +007:016 Fear took hold of all, and they glorified God, saying, "A great + prophet has arisen among us!" and, "God has visited his people!" +007:017 This report went out concerning him in the whole of Judea, + and in all the surrounding region. +007:018 The disciples of John told him about all these things. +007:019 John, calling to himself two of his disciples, sent them + to Jesus, saying, "Are you the one who is coming, or should we + look for another?" +007:020 When the men had come to him, they said, "John the Baptizer has + sent us to you, saying, 'Are you he who comes, or should we + look for another?'" +007:021 In that hour he cured many of diseases and plagues and evil spirits; + and to many who were blind he gave sight. +007:022 Jesus answered them, "Go and tell John the things which you + have seen and heard: that the blind receive their sight, + the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead + are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them. +007:023 Blessed is he who is not offended by me." +007:024 When John's messengers had departed, he began to tell the multitudes + about John, "What did you go out into the wilderness to see? + A reed shaken by the wind? +007:025 But what did you go out to see? A man clothed in soft clothing? + Behold, those who are gorgeously dressed, and live delicately, + are in kings' courts. +007:026 But what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, + and much more than a prophet. +007:027 This is he of whom it is written, 'Behold, I send my messenger + before your face, who will prepare your way before you.'{Malachi 3:1} +007:028 "For I tell you, among those who are born of women there is not + a greater prophet than John the Baptizer, yet he who is least + in the Kingdom of God is greater than he." +007:029 When all the people and the tax collectors heard this, they declared + God to be just, having been baptized with John's baptism. +007:030 But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the counsel of God, + not being baptized by him themselves. +007:031 But the Lord said,{So reads TR. MT omits "But the Lord said,"} + "To what then will I liken the people of this generation? + What are they like? +007:032 They are like children who sit in the marketplace, and call one + to another, saying, 'We piped to you, and you didn't dance. + We mourned, and you didn't weep.' +007:033 For John the Baptizer came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, + and you say, 'He has a demon.' +007:034 The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, + 'Behold, a gluttonous man, and a drunkard; a friend of tax + collectors and sinners!' +007:035 Wisdom is justified by all her children." +007:036 One of the Pharisees invited him to eat with him. + He entered into the Pharisee's house, and sat at the table. +007:037 Behold, a woman in the city who was a sinner, when she knew + that he was reclining in the Pharisee's house, she brought + an alabaster jar of ointment. +007:038 Standing behind at his feet weeping, she began to wet his feet + with her tears, and she wiped them with the hair of her head, + kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment. +007:039 Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw it, he said + to himself, "This man, if he were a prophet, would have + perceived who and what kind of woman this is who touches him, + that she is a sinner." +007:040 Jesus answered him, "Simon, I have something to tell you." + He said, "Teacher, say on." +007:041 "A certain lender had two debtors. The one owed five + hundred denarii, and the other fifty. +007:042 When they couldn't pay, he forgave them both. Which of them + therefore will love him most?" +007:043 Simon answered, "He, I suppose, to whom he forgave the most." + He said to him, "You have judged correctly." +007:044 Turning to the woman, he said to Simon, "Do you see this woman? + I entered into your house, and you gave me no water for my feet, + but she has wet my feet with her tears, and wiped them + with the hair of her head. +007:045 You gave me no kiss, but she, since the time I came in, + has not ceased to kiss my feet. +007:046 You didn't anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed + my feet with ointment. +007:047 Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, + for she loved much. But to whom little is forgiven, + the same loves little." +007:048 He said to her, "Your sins are forgiven." +007:049 Those who sat at the table with him began to say to themselves, + "Who is this who even forgives sins?" +007:050 He said to the woman, "Your faith has saved you. + Go in peace." +008:001 It happened soon afterwards, that he went about through cities + and villages, preaching and bringing the good news of the Kingdom + of God. With him were the twelve, +008:002 and certain women who had been healed of evil spirits + and infirmities: Mary who was called Magdalene, from whom + seven demons had gone out; +008:003 and Joanna, the wife of Chuzas, Herod's steward; Susanna; + and many others; who served them{TR reads "him" instead of + "them"} from their possessions. +008:004 When a great multitude came together, and people from every + city were coming to him, he spoke by a parable. +008:005 "The farmer went out to sow his seed. As he sowed, + some fell along the road, and it was trampled under foot, + and the birds of the sky devoured it. +008:006 Other seed fell on the rock, and as soon as it grew, + it withered away, because it had no moisture. +008:007 Other fell amid the thorns, and the thorns grew with it, + and choked it. +008:008 Other fell into the good ground, and grew, and brought forth fruit + one hundred times." As he said these things, he called out, + "He who has ears to hear, let him hear!" +008:009 Then his disciples asked him, "What does this parable mean?" +008:010 He said, "To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom + of God, but to the rest in parables; that 'seeing they may + not see, and hearing they may not understand.'{Isaiah 6:9} +008:011 Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God. +008:012 Those along the road are those who hear, then the devil comes, + and takes away the word from their heart, that they may not + believe and be saved. +008:013 Those on the rock are they who, when they hear, receive the word + with joy; but these have no root, who believe for a while, + then fall away in time of temptation. +008:014 That which fell among the thorns, these are those who have heard, + and as they go on their way they are choked with cares, riches, + and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity. +008:015 That in the good ground, these are such as in an honest + and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, + and bring forth fruit with patience. +008:016 "No one, when he has lit a lamp, covers it with a container, + or puts it under a bed; but puts it on a stand, that those + who enter in may see the light. +008:017 For nothing is hidden, that will not be revealed; nor anything secret, + that will not be known and come to light. +008:018 Be careful therefore how you hear. For whoever has, to him + will be given; and whoever doesn't have, from him will be taken + away even that which he thinks he has." +008:019 His mother and brothers came to him, and they could not come + near him for the crowd. +008:020 It was told him by some saying, "Your mother and your brothers + stand outside, desiring to see you." +008:021 But he answered them, "My mother and my brothers are these + who hear the word of God, and do it." +008:022 Now it happened on one of those days, that he entered + into a boat, himself and his disciples, and he said + to them, "Let's go over to the other side of the lake." + So they launched out. +008:023 But as they sailed, he fell asleep. A wind storm came down on + the lake, and they were taking on dangerous amounts of water. +008:024 They came to him, and awoke him, saying, "Master, master, + we are dying!" He awoke, and rebuked the wind and the raging + of the water, and they ceased, and it was calm. +008:025 He said to them, "Where is your faith?" Being afraid they marveled, + saying one to another, "Who is this, then, that he commands + even the winds and the water, and they obey him?" +008:026 They arrived at the country of the Gadarenes, + which is opposite Galilee. +008:027 When Jesus stepped ashore, a certain man out of the city + who had demons for a long time met him. He wore no clothes, + and didn't live in a house, but in the tombs. +008:028 When he saw Jesus, he cried out, and fell down before him, + and with a loud voice said, "What do I have to do + with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most High God? I beg you, + don't torment me!" +008:029 For Jesus was commanding the unclean spirit to come out of the man. + For the unclean spirit had often seized the man. + He was kept under guard, and bound with chains and fetters. + Breaking the bands apart, he was driven by the demon + into the desert. +008:030 Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" He said, "Legion," + for many demons had entered into him. +008:031 They begged him that he would not command them to go + into the abyss. +008:032 Now there was there a herd of many pigs feeding on the mountain, + and they begged him that he would allow them to enter into those. + He allowed them. +008:033 The demons came out from the man, and entered into the pigs, + and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake, + and were drowned. +008:034 When those who fed them saw what had happened, they fled, + and told it in the city and in the country. +008:035 People went out to see what had happened. They came to Jesus, + and found the man from whom the demons had gone out, + sitting at Jesus' feet, clothed and in his right mind; + and they were afraid. +008:036 Those who saw it told them how he who had been possessed + by demons was healed. +008:037 All the people of the surrounding country of the Gadarenes asked + him to depart from them, for they were very much afraid. + He entered into the boat, and returned. +008:038 But the man from whom the demons had gone out begged him + that he might go with him, but Jesus sent him away, saying, +008:039 "Return to your house, and declare what great things God has + done for you." He went his way, proclaiming throughout + the whole city what great things Jesus had done for him. +008:040 It happened, when Jesus returned, that the multitude welcomed him, + for they were all waiting for him. +008:041 Behold, there came a man named Jairus, and he was a ruler + of the synagogue. He fell down at Jesus' feet, and begged + him to come into his house, +008:042 for he had an only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she + was dying. But as he went, the multitudes pressed against him. +008:043 A woman who had a flow of blood for twelve years, who had spent + all her living on physicians, and could not be healed by any, +008:044 came behind him, and touched the fringe{or, tassel} of his cloak, + and immediately the flow of her blood stopped. +008:045 Jesus said, "Who touched me?" When all denied it, Peter and those + with him said, "Master, the multitudes press and jostle you, + and you say, 'Who touched me?'" +008:046 But Jesus said, "Someone did touch me, for I perceived that power + has gone out of me." +008:047 When the woman saw that she was not hidden, she came trembling, + and falling down before him declared to him in the presence + of all the people the reason why she had touched him, + and how she was healed immediately. +008:048 He said to her, "Daughter, cheer up. Your faith has made you well. + Go in peace." +008:049 While he still spoke, one from the ruler of the synagogue's + house came, saying to him, "Your daughter is dead. + Don't trouble the Teacher." +008:050 But Jesus hearing it, answered him, "Don't be afraid. + Only believe, and she will be healed." +008:051 When he came to the house, he didn't allow anyone to enter in, + except Peter, John, James, the father of the child, + and her mother. +008:052 All were weeping and mourning her, but he said, "Don't weep. + She isn't dead, but sleeping." +008:053 They were ridiculing him, knowing that she was dead. +008:054 But he put them all outside, and taking her by the hand, + he called, saying, "Child, arise!" +008:055 Her spirit returned, and she rose up immediately. + He commanded that something be given to her to eat. +008:056 Her parents were amazed, but he charged them to tell no one + what had been done. +009:001 He called the twelve{TR reads "his twelve disciples" + instead of "the twelve"} together, and gave them power + and authority over all demons, and to cure diseases. +009:002 He sent them forth to preach the Kingdom of God, and to + heal the sick. +009:003 He said to them, "Take nothing for your journey--neither staffs, + nor wallet, nor bread, nor money; neither have two coats apiece. +009:004 Into whatever house you enter, stay there, and depart from there. +009:005 As many as don't receive you, when you depart from that city, + shake off even the dust from your feet for a testimony + against them." +009:006 They departed, and went throughout the villages, preaching the + Good News, and healing everywhere. +009:007 Now Herod the tetrarch heard of all that was done by him; + and he was very perplexed, because it was said by some that John + had risen from the dead, +009:008 and by some that Elijah had appeared, and by others that one + of the old prophets had risen again. +009:009 Herod said, "John I beheaded, but who is this, about whom I + hear such things?" He sought to see him. +009:010 The apostles, when they had returned, told him what things they + had done. He took them, and withdrew apart to a deserted + place of a city called Bethsaida. +009:011 But the multitudes, perceiving it, followed him. + He welcomed them, and spoke to them of the Kingdom of God, + and he cured those who needed healing. +009:012 The day began to wear away; and the twelve came, and said + to him, "Send the multitude away, that they may go into + the surrounding villages and farms, and lodge, and get food, + for we are here in a deserted place." +009:013 But he said to them, "You give them something to eat." + They said, "We have no more than five loaves and two fish, + unless we should go and buy food for all these people." +009:014 For they were about five thousand men. He said to his disciples, + "Make them sit down in groups of about fifty each." +009:015 They did so, and made them all sit down. +009:016 He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up + to the sky, he blessed them, and broke them, and gave them + to the disciples to set before the multitude. +009:017 They ate, and were all filled. They gathered up twelve baskets + of broken pieces that were left over. +009:018 It happened, as he was praying alone, that the disciples + were with him, and he asked them, "Who do the multitudes say + that I am?" +009:019 They answered, "'John the Baptizer,' but others say, 'Elijah,' + and others, that one of the old prophets is risen again." +009:020 He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" + Peter answered, "The Christ of God." +009:021 But he warned them, and commanded them to tell this to no one, +009:022 saying, "The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected + by the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, + and the third day be raised up." +009:023 He said to all, "If anyone desires to come after me, + let him deny himself, take up his cross,{TR, NU add "daily"} + and follow me. +009:024 For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever + will lose his life for my sake, the same will save it. +009:025 For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, + and loses or forfeits his own self? +009:026 For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words, of him + will the Son of Man be ashamed, when he comes in his glory, + and the glory of the Father, and of the holy angels. +009:027 But I tell you the truth: There are some of those who + stand here, who will in no way taste of death, until they + see the Kingdom of God." +009:028 It happened about eight days after these sayings, + that he took with him Peter, John, and James, and went up + onto the mountain to pray. +009:029 As he was praying, the appearance of his face was altered, + and his clothing became white and dazzling. +009:030 Behold, two men were talking with him, who were Moses and Elijah, +009:031 who appeared in glory, and spoke of his departure,{literally, + "exodus"} which he was about to accomplish at Jerusalem. +009:032 Now Peter and those who were with him were heavy with sleep, + but when they were fully awake, they saw his glory, + and the two men who stood with him. +009:033 It happened, as they were parting from him, that Peter + said to Jesus, "Master, it is good for us to be here. + Let's make three tents: one for you, and one for Moses, + and one for Elijah," not knowing what he said. +009:034 While he said these things, a cloud came and overshadowed them, + and they were afraid as they entered into the cloud. +009:035 A voice came out of the cloud, saying, "This is my beloved Son. + Listen to him!" +009:036 When the voice came, Jesus was found alone. They were silent, + and told no one in those days any of the things which + they had seen. +009:037 It happened on the next day, when they had come down from + the mountain, that a great multitude met him. +009:038 Behold, a man from the crowd called out, saying, "Teacher, I beg + you to look at my son, for he is my only child. +009:039 Behold, a spirit takes him, he suddenly cries out, and it + convulses him so that he foams, and it hardly departs from him, + bruising him severely. +009:040 I begged your disciples to cast it out, and they couldn't." +009:041 Jesus answered, "Faithless and perverse generation, + how long shall I be with you and bear with you? + Bring your son here." +009:042 While he was still coming, the demon threw him down and convulsed + him violently. But Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, + and healed the boy, and gave him back to his father. +009:043 They were all astonished at the majesty of God. + But while all were marveling at all the things which Jesus did, + he said to his disciples, +009:044 "Let these words sink into your ears, for the Son of Man + will be delivered up into the hands of men." +009:045 But they didn't understand this saying. It was concealed from them, + that they should not perceive it, and they were afraid to ask + him about this saying. +009:046 There arose an argument among them about which of them + was the greatest. +009:047 Jesus, perceiving the reasoning of their hearts, took a little child, + and set him by his side, +009:048 and said to them, "Whoever receives this little child in my name + receives me. Whoever receives me receives him who sent me. + For whoever is least among you all, this one will be great." +009:049 John answered, "Master, we saw someone casting out demons + in your name, and we forbade him, because he doesn't + follow with us." +009:050 Jesus said to him, "Don't forbid him, for he who is not against + us is for us." +009:051 It came to pass, when the days were near that he should be + taken up, he intently set his face to go to Jerusalem, +009:052 and sent messengers before his face. They went, and entered + into a village of the Samaritans, so as to prepare for him. +009:053 They didn't receive him, because he was traveling with his face + set towards Jerusalem. +009:054 When his disciples, James and John, saw this, they said, "Lord, + do you want us to command fire to come down from the sky, + and destroy them, just as Elijah did?" +009:055 But he turned and rebuked them, "You don't know of what kind + of spirit you are. +009:056 For the Son of Man didn't come to destroy men's lives, + but to save them." They went to another village. +009:057 As they went on the way, a certain man said to him, "I want + to follow you wherever you go, Lord." +009:058 Jesus said to him, "The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky + have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head." +009:059 He said to another, "Follow me!" But he said, "Lord, allow me + first to go and bury my father." +009:060 But Jesus said to him, "Leave the dead to bury their own dead, + but you go and announce the Kingdom of God." +009:061 Another also said, "I want to follow you, Lord, but first allow + me to bid farewell to those who are at my house." +009:062 But Jesus said to him, "No one, having put his hand to the plow, + and looking back, is fit for the Kingdom of God." +010:001 Now after these things, the Lord also appointed seventy others, + and sent them two by two ahead of him{literally, "before his + face"} into every city and place, where he was about to come. +010:002 Then he said to them, "The harvest is indeed plentiful, + but the laborers are few. Pray therefore to the Lord of + the harvest, that he may send out laborers into his harvest. +010:003 Go your ways. Behold, I send you out as lambs among wolves. +010:004 Carry no purse, nor wallet, nor sandals. Greet no one on the way. +010:005 Into whatever house you enter, first say, 'Peace be to this house.' +010:006 If a son of peace is there, your peace will rest on him; + but if not, it will return to you. +010:007 Remain in that same house, eating and drinking the things + they give, for the laborer is worthy of his wages. + Don't go from house to house. +010:008 Into whatever city you enter, and they receive you, + eat the things that are set before you. +010:009 Heal the sick who are therein, and tell them, 'The Kingdom + of God has come near to you.' +010:010 But into whatever city you enter, and they don't receive you, + go out into the streets of it and say, +010:011 'Even the dust from your city that clings to us, we wipe off + against you. Nevertheless know this, that the Kingdom of God + has come near to you.' +010:012 I tell you, it will be more tolerable in that day for Sodom + than for that city. +010:013 "Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty + works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you, + they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. +010:014 But it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the judgment + than for you. +010:015 You, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, will be brought + down to Hades.{Hades is the lower realm of the dead, or Hell.} +010:016 Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you + rejects me. Whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me." +010:017 The seventy returned with joy, saying, "Lord, even the demons + are subject to us in your name!" +010:018 He said to them, "I saw Satan having fallen like lightning + from heaven. +010:019 Behold, I give you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, + and over all the power of the enemy. Nothing will in any + way hurt you. +010:020 Nevertheless, don't rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject + to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven." +010:021 In that same hour Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit, and said, + "I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you + have hidden these things from the wise and understanding, + and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for so it + was well-pleasing in your sight." +010:022 Turning to the disciples, he said, "All things have been + delivered to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is, + except the Father, and who the Father is, except the Son, + and he to whomever the Son desires to reveal him." +010:023 Turning to the disciples, he said privately, "Blessed are + the eyes which see the things that you see, +010:024 for I tell you that many prophets and kings desired to see + the things which you see, and didn't see them, and to hear + the things which you hear, and didn't hear them." +010:025 Behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested him, saying, "Teacher, + what shall I do to inherit eternal life?" +010:026 He said to him, "What is written in the law? How do you read it?" +010:027 He answered, "You shall love the Lord your God with all + your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, + and with all your mind;{Deuteronomy 6:5} and your neighbor + as yourself."{Leviticus 19:18} +010:028 He said to him, "You have answered correctly. Do this, + and you will live." +010:029 But he, desiring to justify himself, asked Jesus, "Who + is my neighbor?" +010:030 Jesus answered, "A certain man was going down from Jerusalem + to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who both stripped him + and beat him, and departed, leaving him half dead. +010:031 By chance a certain priest was going down that way. + When he saw him, he passed by on the other side. +010:032 In the same way a Levite also, when he came to the place, + and saw him, passed by on the other side. +010:033 But a certain Samaritan, as he traveled, came where he was. + When he saw him, he was moved with compassion, +010:034 came to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. + He set him on his own animal, and brought him to an inn, + and took care of him. +010:035 On the next day, when he departed, he took out two denarii, + and gave them to the host, and said to him, 'Take care of him. + Whatever you spend beyond that, I will repay you when I return.' +010:036 Now which of these three do you think seemed to be a neighbor + to him who fell among the robbers?" +010:037 He said, "He who showed mercy on him." Then Jesus said to him, + "Go and do likewise." +010:038 It happened as they went on their way, he entered into a + certain village, and a certain woman named Martha received + him into her house. +010:039 She had a sister called Mary, who also sat at Jesus' + feet, and heard his word. +010:040 But Martha was distracted with much serving, and she came up + to him, and said, "Lord, don't you care that my sister left + me to serve alone? Ask her therefore to help me." +010:041 Jesus answered her, "Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled + about many things, +010:042 but one thing is needed. Mary has chosen the good part, + which will not be taken away from her." +011:001 It happened, that when he finished praying in a certain place, + one of his disciples said to him, "Lord, teach us to pray, + just as John also taught his disciples." +011:002 He said to them, "When you pray, say, 'Our Father in heaven, + may your name be kept holy. May your Kingdom come. + May your will be done on Earth, as it is in heaven. +011:003 Give us day by day our daily bread. +011:004 Forgive us our sins, for we ourselves also forgive everyone + who is indebted to us. Bring us not into temptation, + but deliver us from the evil one.'" +011:005 He said to them, "Which of you, if you go to a friend at midnight, + and tell him, 'Friend, lend me three loaves of bread, +011:006 for a friend of mine has come to me from a journey, and I + have nothing to set before him,' +011:007 and he from within will answer and say, 'Don't bother me. + The door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. + I can't get up and give it to you'? +011:008 I tell you, although he will not rise and give it to him + because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence, + he will get up and give him as many as he needs. +011:009 "I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. + Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it + will be opened to you. +011:010 For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. + To him who knocks it will be opened. +011:011 "Which of you fathers, if your son asks for bread, will give + him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, he won't give him + a snake instead of a fish, will he? +011:012 Or if he asks for an egg, he won't give him a scorpion, will he? +011:013 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to + your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give + the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?" +011:014 He was casting out a demon, and it was mute. + It happened, when the demon had gone out, the mute man spoke; + and the multitudes marveled. +011:015 But some of them said, "He casts out demons by Beelzebul, + the prince of the demons." +011:016 Others, testing him, sought from him a sign from heaven. +011:017 But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, "Every kingdom + divided against itself is brought to desolation. + A house divided against itself falls. +011:018 If Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? + For you say that I cast out demons by Beelzebul. +011:019 But if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your children + cast them out? Therefore will they be your judges. +011:020 But if I by the finger of God cast out demons, then the Kingdom + of God has come to you. +011:021 "When the strong man, fully armed, guards his own dwelling, + his goods are safe. +011:022 But when someone stronger attacks him and overcomes him, + he takes from him his whole armor in which he trusted, + and divides his spoils. +011:023 "He that is not with me is against me. He who doesn't gather + with me scatters. +011:024 The unclean spirit, when he has gone out of the man, + passes through dry places, seeking rest, and finding none, + he says, 'I will turn back to my house from which I came out.' +011:025 When he returns, he finds it swept and put in order. +011:026 Then he goes, and takes seven other spirits more evil + than himself, and they enter in and dwell there. + The last state of that man becomes worse than the first." +011:027 It came to pass, as he said these things, a certain woman + out of the multitude lifted up her voice, and said to him, + "Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts + which nursed you!" +011:028 But he said, "On the contrary, blessed are those who hear + the word of God, and keep it." +011:029 When the multitudes were gathering together to him, he began + to say, "This is an evil generation. It seeks after a sign. + No sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah, the prophet. +011:030 For even as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so will + also the Son of Man be to this generation. +011:031 The Queen of the South will rise up in the judgment + with the men of this generation, and will condemn them: + for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom + of Solomon; and behold, one greater than Solomon is here. +011:032 The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation, + and will condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, + and behold, one greater than Jonah is here. +011:033 "No one, when he has lit a lamp, puts it in a cellar or + under a basket, but on a stand, that those who come in may + see the light. +011:034 The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore when your eye is good, + your whole body is also full of light; but when it is evil, + your body also is full of darkness. +011:035 Therefore see whether the light that is in you isn't darkness. +011:036 If therefore your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, + it will be wholly full of light, as when the lamp with its + bright shining gives you light." +011:037 Now as he spoke, a certain Pharisee asked him to dine with him. + He went in, and sat at the table. +011:038 When the Pharisee saw it, he marveled that he had not first + washed himself before dinner. +011:039 The Lord said to him, "Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside + of the cup and of the platter, but your inward part is full + of extortion and wickedness. +011:040 You foolish ones, didn't he who made the outside make + the inside also? +011:041 But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, + and behold, all things will be clean to you. +011:042 But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and + every herb, but you bypass justice and the love of God. + You ought to have done these, and not to have left + the other undone. +011:043 Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the best seats in the synagogues, + and the greetings in the marketplaces. +011:044 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you + are like hidden graves, and the men who walk over them + don't know it." +011:045 One of the lawyers answered him, "Teacher, in saying this you + insult us also." +011:046 He said, "Woe to you lawyers also! For you load men with burdens + that are difficult to carry, and you yourselves won't even + lift one finger to help carry those burdens. +011:047 Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, + and your fathers killed them. +011:048 So you testify and consent to the works of your fathers. + For they killed them, and you build their tombs. +011:049 Therefore also the wisdom of God said, 'I will send to them prophets + and apostles; and some of them they will kill and persecute, +011:050 that the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the + foundation of the world, may be required of this generation; +011:051 from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah, who perished + between the altar and the sanctuary.' Yes, I tell you, + it will be required of this generation. +011:052 Woe to you lawyers! For you took away the key of knowledge. + You didn't enter in yourselves, and those who were entering + in, you hindered." +011:053 As he said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees + began to be terribly angry, and to draw many things out of him; +011:054 lying in wait for him, and seeking to catch him in something + he might say, that they might accuse him. +012:001 Meanwhile, when a multitude of many thousands had gathered together, + so much so that they trampled on each other, he began to tell + his disciples first of all, "Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, + which is hypocrisy. +012:002 But there is nothing covered up, that will not be revealed, + nor hidden, that will not be known. +012:003 Therefore whatever you have said in the darkness will be heard + in the light. What you have spoken in the ear in the inner + chambers will be proclaimed on the housetops. +012:004 "I tell you, my friends, don't be afraid of those who kill + the body, and after that have no more that they can do. +012:005 But I will warn you whom you should fear. Fear him, + who after he has killed, has power to cast into Gehenna.{or, + Hell} Yes, I tell you, fear him. +012:006 "Aren't five sparrows sold for two assaria coins{An assarion + was a small copper coin worth about an hour's wages for an + agricultural laborer.}? Not one of them is forgotten by God. +012:007 But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Therefore don't + be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows. +012:008 "I tell you, everyone who confesses me before men, him will + the Son of Man also confess before the angels of God; +012:009 but he who denies me in the presence of men will be denied + in the presence of the angels of God. +012:010 Everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will + be forgiven, but those who blaspheme against the Holy Spirit + will not be forgiven. +012:011 When they bring you before the synagogues, the rulers, + and the authorities, don't be anxious how or what you will answer, + or what you will say; +012:012 for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that same hour what + you must say." +012:013 One of the multitude said to him, "Teacher, tell my brother + to divide the inheritance with me." +012:014 But he said to him, "Man, who made me a judge or an + arbitrator over you?" +012:015 He said to them, "Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, + for a man's life doesn't consist of the abundance of the things + which he possesses." +012:016 He spoke a parable to them, saying, "The ground of a certain + rich man brought forth abundantly. +012:017 He reasoned within himself, saying, 'What will I do, because I + don't have room to store my crops?' +012:018 He said, 'This is what I will do. I will pull down my barns, + and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain + and my goods. +012:019 I will tell my soul, "Soul, you have many goods laid up + for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, be merry."' +012:020 "But God said to him, 'You foolish one, tonight your soul + is required of you. The things which you have prepared-- + whose will they be?' +012:021 So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not + rich toward God." +012:022 He said to his disciples, "Therefore I tell you, don't be anxious + for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, + what you will wear. +012:023 Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing. +012:024 Consider the ravens: they don't sow, they don't reap, + they have no warehouse or barn, and God feeds them. + How much more valuable are you than birds! +012:025 Which of you by being anxious can add a cubit to his height? +012:026 If then you aren't able to do even the least things, why are + you anxious about the rest? +012:027 Consider the lilies, how they grow. They don't toil, + neither do they spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all + his glory was not arrayed like one of these. +012:028 But if this is how God clothes the grass in the field, + which today exists, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, + how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith? +012:029 Don't seek what you will eat or what you will drink; + neither be anxious. +012:030 For the nations of the world seek after all of these things, + but your Father knows that you need these things. +012:031 But seek God's Kingdom, and all these things will be added to you. +012:032 Don't be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father's good + pleasure to give you the Kingdom. +012:033 Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. + Make for yourselves purses which don't grow old, a treasure + in the heavens that doesn't fail, where no thief approaches, + neither moth destroys. +012:034 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. +012:035 "Let your waist be girded and your lamps burning. +012:036 Be like men watching for their lord, when he returns + from the marriage feast; that, when he comes and knocks, + they may immediately open to him. +012:037 Blessed are those servants, whom the lord will find watching when + he comes. Most certainly I tell you, that he will dress himself, + and make them recline, and will come and serve them. +012:038 They will be blessed if he comes in the second or third watch, + and finds them so. +012:039 But know this, that if the master of the house had known + in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched, + and not allowed his house to be broken into. +012:040 Therefore be ready also, for the Son of Man is coming in an hour + that you don't expect him." +012:041 Peter said to him, "Lord, are you telling this parable to us, + or to everybody?" +012:042 The Lord said, "Who then is the faithful and wise steward, + whom his lord will set over his household, to give them + their portion of food at the right times? +012:043 Blessed is that servant whom his lord will find doing so + when he comes. +012:044 Truly I tell you, that he will set him over all that he has. +012:045 But if that servant says in his heart, 'My lord delays his coming,' + and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, + and to eat and drink, and to be drunken, +012:046 then the lord of that servant will come in a day when he isn't + expecting him, and in an hour that he doesn't know, and will + cut him in two, and place his portion with the unfaithful. +012:047 That servant, who knew his lord's will, and didn't prepare, + nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes, +012:048 but he who didn't know, and did things worthy of stripes, + will be beaten with few stripes. To whoever much is given, + of him will much be required; and to whom much was entrusted, + of him more will be asked. +012:049 "I came to throw fire on the earth. I wish it were already kindled. +012:050 But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how distressed + I am until it is accomplished! +012:051 Do you think that I have come to give peace in the earth? + I tell you, no, but rather division. +012:052 For from now on, there will be five in one house divided, + three against two, and two against three. +012:053 They will be divided, father against son, and son against father; + mother against daughter, and daughter against her mother; + mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law + against her mother-in-law." +012:054 He said to the multitudes also, "When you see a cloud rising + from the west, immediately you say, 'A shower is coming,' + and so it happens. +012:055 When a south wind blows, you say, 'There will be a scorching heat,' + and it happens. +012:056 You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance + of the earth and the sky, but how is it that you don't + interpret this time? +012:057 Why don't you judge for yourselves what is right? +012:058 For when you are going with your adversary before the magistrate, + try diligently on the way to be released from him, lest perhaps + he drag you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, + and the officer throw you into prison. +012:059 I tell you, you will by no means get out of there, + until you have paid the very last penny.{literally, lepton. + A lepton is a very small brass Jewish coin worth half a Roman + quadrans each, which is worth a quarter of the copper assarion. + Lepta are worth less than 1% of an agricultural + worker's daily wages.}" +013:001 Now there were some present at the same time who told + him about the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mixed + with their sacrifices. +013:002 Jesus answered them, "Do you think that these Galileans were + worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they + suffered such things? +013:003 I tell you, no, but, unless you repent, you will all perish + in the same way. +013:004 Or those eighteen, on whom the tower in Siloam fell, and killed them; + do you think that they were worse offenders than all the men + who dwell in Jerusalem? +013:005 I tell you, no, but, unless you repent, you will all perish + in the same way." +013:006 He spoke this parable. "A certain man had a fig tree + planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it, + and found none. +013:007 He said to the vine dresser, 'Behold, these three years I + have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and found none. + Cut it down. Why does it waste the soil?' +013:008 He answered, 'Lord, leave it alone this year also, until I + dig around it, and fertilize it. +013:009 If it bears fruit, fine; but if not, after that, you can + cut it down.'" +013:010 He was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath day. +013:011 Behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity + eighteen years, and she was bent over, and could in no way + straighten herself up. +013:012 When Jesus saw her, he called her, and said to her, "Woman, + you are freed from your infirmity." +013:013 He laid his hands on her, and immediately she stood up straight, + and glorified God. +013:014 The ruler of the synagogue, being indignant because Jesus had + healed on the Sabbath, said to the multitude, "There are six + days in which men ought to work. Therefore come on those days + and be healed, and not on the Sabbath day!" +013:015 Therefore the Lord answered him, "You hypocrites! + Doesn't each one of you free his ox or his donkey from the stall + on the Sabbath, and lead him away to water? +013:016 Ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan + had bound eighteen long years, be freed from this bondage + on the Sabbath day?" +013:017 As he said these things, all his adversaries were disappointed, + and all the multitude rejoiced for all the glorious things + that were done by him. +013:018 He said, "What is the Kingdom of God like? To what shall + I compare it? +013:019 It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, + and put in his own garden. It grew, and became a large tree, + and the birds of the sky lodged in its branches." +013:020 Again he said, "To what shall I compare the Kingdom of God? +013:021 It is like yeast, which a woman took and hid in three + measures{literally, three sata. 3 sata is about 39 litres or a + bit more than a bushel} of flour, until it was all leavened." +013:022 He went on his way through cities and villages, teaching, + and traveling on to Jerusalem. +013:023 One said to him, "Lord, are they few who are saved?" + He said to them, +013:024 "Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, + will seek to enter in, and will not be able. +013:025 When once the master of the house has risen up, and has shut + the door, and you begin to stand outside, and to knock at + the door, saying, 'Lord, Lord, open to us!' then he will answer + and tell you, 'I don't know you or where you come from.' +013:026 Then you will begin to say, 'We ate and drank in your presence, + and you taught in our streets.' +013:027 He will say, 'I tell you, I don't know where you come from. + Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity.' +013:028 There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you + see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets, in the Kingdom + of God, and yourselves being thrown outside. +013:029 They will come from the east, west, north, and south, + and will sit down in the Kingdom of God. +013:030 Behold, there are some who are last who will be first, + and there are some who are first who will be last." +013:031 On that same day, some Pharisees came, saying to him, + "Get out of here, and go away, for Herod wants to kill you." +013:032 He said to them, "Go and tell that fox, 'Behold, I cast out + demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and the third + day I complete my mission. +013:033 Nevertheless I must go on my way today and tomorrow and the next day, + for it can't be that a prophet perish outside of Jerusalem.' +013:034 "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that kills the prophets, and stones + those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather + your children together, like a hen gathers her own brood + under her wings, and you refused! +013:035 Behold, your house is left to you desolate. I tell you, + you will not see me, until you say, 'Blessed is he who comes + in the name of the Lord!'"{Psalm 118:26} +014:001 It happened, when he went into the house of one of the rulers + of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, that they + were watching him. +014:002 Behold, a certain man who had dropsy was in front of him. +014:003 Jesus, answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, + "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?" +014:004 But they were silent. He took him, and healed him, + and let him go. +014:005 He answered them, "Which of you, if your son{TR reads "donkey" + instead of "son"} or an ox fell into a well, wouldn't immediately + pull him out on a Sabbath day?" +014:006 They couldn't answer him regarding these things. +014:007 He spoke a parable to those who were invited, when he noticed + how they chose the best seats, and said to them, +014:008 "When you are invited by anyone to a marriage feast, don't sit + in the best seat, since perhaps someone more honorable than + you might be invited by him, +014:009 and he who invited both of you would come and tell you, + 'Make room for this person.' Then you would begin, with shame, + to take the lowest place. +014:010 But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, + so that when he who invited you comes, he may tell you, 'Friend, + move up higher.' Then you will be honored in the presence + of all who sit at the table with you. +014:011 For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever + humbles himself will be exalted." +014:012 He also said to the one who had invited him, "When you make + a dinner or a supper, don't call your friends, nor your brothers, + nor your kinsmen, nor rich neighbors, or perhaps they might + also return the favor, and pay you back. +014:013 But when you make a feast, ask the poor, the maimed, the lame, + or the blind; +014:014 and you will be blessed, because they don't have the resources + to repay you. For you will be repaid in the resurrection + of the righteous." +014:015 When one of those who sat at the table with him heard + these things, he said to him, "Blessed is he who will feast + in the Kingdom of God!" +014:016 But he said to him, "A certain man made a great supper, + and he invited many people. +014:017 He sent out his servant at supper time to tell those who + were invited, 'Come, for everything is ready now.' +014:018 They all as one began to make excuses. "The first said + to him, 'I have bought a field, and I must go and see it. + Please have me excused.' +014:019 "Another said, 'I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I must + go try them out. Please have me excused.' +014:020 "Another said, 'I have married a wife, and therefore I can't come.' +014:021 "That servant came, and told his lord these things. + Then the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant, + 'Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, + and bring in the poor, maimed, blind, and lame.' +014:022 "The servant said, 'Lord, it is done as you commanded, + and there is still room.' +014:023 "The lord said to the servant, 'Go out into the highways and hedges, + and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled. +014:024 For I tell you that none of those men who were invited will + taste of my supper.'" +014:025 Now great multitudes were going with him. He turned and + said to them, +014:026 "If anyone comes to me, and doesn't hate his own father, + mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his + own life also, he can't be my disciple. +014:027 Whoever doesn't bear his own cross, and come after me, + can't be my disciple. +014:028 For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn't first sit + down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it? +014:029 Or perhaps, when he has laid a foundation, and is not able + to finish, everyone who sees begins to mock him, +014:030 saying, 'This man began to build, and wasn't able to finish.' +014:031 Or what king, as he goes to encounter another king in war, + will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten + thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? +014:032 Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an envoy, + and asks for conditions of peace. +014:033 So therefore whoever of you who doesn't renounce all that he has, + he can't be my disciple. +014:034 Salt is good, but if the salt becomes flat and tasteless, + with what do you season it? +014:035 It is fit neither for the soil nor for the manure pile. + It is thrown out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear." +015:001 Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him + to hear him. +015:002 The Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, "This man + welcomes sinners, and eats with them." +015:003 He told them this parable. +015:004 "Which of you men, if you had one hundred sheep, and lost one + of them, wouldn't leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, + and go after the one that was lost, until he found it? +015:005 When he has found it, he carries it on his shoulders, rejoicing. +015:006 When he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, + saying to them, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep + which was lost!' +015:007 I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven + over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous + people who need no repentance. +015:008 Or what woman, if she had ten drachma{A drachma coin was worth + about 2 days wages for an agricultural laborer.} coins, if she + lost one drachma coin, wouldn't light a lamp, sweep the house, + and seek diligently until she found it? +015:009 When she has found it, she calls together her friends + and neighbors, saying, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found + the drachma which I had lost.' +015:010 Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels + of God over one sinner repenting." +015:011 He said, "A certain man had two sons. +015:012 The younger of them said to his father, 'Father, give me my share + of your property.' He divided his livelihood between them. +015:013 Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this + together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted + his property with riotous living. +015:014 When he had spent all of it, there arose a severe famine + in that country, and he began to be in need. +015:015 He went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, + and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs. +015:016 He wanted to fill his belly with the husks that the pigs ate, + but no one gave him any. +015:017 But when he came to himself he said, 'How many hired + servants of my father's have bread enough to spare, and I'm + dying with hunger! +015:018 I will get up and go to my father, and will tell him, + "Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight. +015:019 I am no more worthy to be called your son. Make me as one + of your hired servants."' +015:020 "He arose, and came to his father. But while he was still + far off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, + and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him. +015:021 The son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven, + and in your sight. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.' +015:022 "But the father said to his servants, 'Bring out the best robe, + and put it on him. Put a ring on his hand, and shoes + on his feet. +015:023 Bring the fattened calf, kill it, and let us eat, and celebrate; +015:024 for this, my son, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, + and is found.' They began to celebrate. +015:025 "Now his elder son was in the field. As he came near to the house, + he heard music and dancing. +015:026 He called one of the servants to him, and asked what was going on. +015:027 He said to him, 'Your brother has come, and your father has + killed the fattened calf, because he has received him back + safe and healthy.' +015:028 But he was angry, and would not go in. Therefore his father + came out, and begged him. +015:029 But he answered his father, 'Behold, these many years I have + served you, and I never disobeyed a commandment of yours, + but you never gave me a goat, that I might celebrate + with my friends. +015:030 But when this, your son, came, who has devoured your living + with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.' +015:031 "He said to him, 'Son, you are always with me, and all that is + mine is yours. +015:032 But it was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for this, + your brother, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, + and is found.'" +016:001 He also said to his disciples, "There was a certain rich man + who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this + man was wasting his possessions. +016:002 He called him, and said to him, 'What is this that I hear about you? + Give an accounting of your management, for you can no + longer be manager.' +016:003 "The manager said within himself, 'What will I do, seeing that + my lord is taking away the management position from me? + I don't have strength to dig. I am ashamed to beg. +016:004 I know what I will do, so that when I am removed from management, + they may receive me into their houses.' +016:005 Calling each one of his lord's debtors to him, he said to the first, + 'How much do you owe to my lord?' +016:006 He said, 'A hundred batos{100 batos is about 395 litres, + 104 U. S. gallons, or 87 imperial gallons.} of oil.' + He said to him, 'Take your bill, and sit down quickly + and write fifty.' +016:007 Then said he to another, 'How much do you owe?' He said, + 'A hundred cors{ 100 cors = about 3,910 litres or 600 bushels. + } of wheat.' He said to him, 'Take your bill, and write eighty.' +016:008 "His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, + for the children of this world are, in their own generation, + wiser than the children of the light. +016:009 I tell you, make for yourselves friends by means of + unrighteous mammon, so that when you fail, they may receive + you into the eternal tents. +016:010 He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much. + He who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much. +016:011 If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, + who will commit to your trust the true riches? +016:012 If you have not been faithful in that which is another's, + who will give you that which is your own? +016:013 No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one, + and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise + the other. You aren't able to serve God and mammon{"Mammon" + refers to riches or a false god of wealth.}." +016:014 The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, + and they scoffed at him. +016:015 He said to them, "You are those who justify yourselves + in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. + For that which is exalted among men is an abomination + in the sight of God. +016:016 The law and the prophets were until John. From that time + the Good News of the Kingdom of God is preached, and everyone + is forcing his way into it. +016:017 But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for + one tiny stroke of a pen in the law to fall. +016:018 Everyone who divorces his wife, and marries another, + commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from + a husband commits adultery. +016:019 "Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple + and fine linen, living in luxury every day. +016:020 A certain beggar, named Lazarus, was laid at his gate, + full of sores, +016:021 and desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich + man's table. Yes, even the dogs came and licked his sores. +016:022 It happened that the beggar died, and that he was carried away + by the angels to Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died, + and was buried. +016:023 In Hades{or, Hell}, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, + and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom. +016:024 He cried and said, 'Father Abraham, have mercy on me, + and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, + and cool my tongue! For I am in anguish in this flame.' +016:025 "But Abraham said, 'Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, + received your good things, and Lazarus, in like manner, bad things. + But now here he is comforted and you are in anguish. +016:026 Besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, + that those who want to pass from here to you are not able, + and that none may cross over from there to us.' +016:027 "He said, 'I ask you therefore, father, that you would send + him to my father's house; +016:028 for I have five brothers, that he may testify to them, + so they won't also come into this place of torment.' +016:029 "But Abraham said to him, 'They have Moses and the prophets. + Let them listen to them.' +016:030 "He said, 'No, father Abraham, but if one goes to them from + the dead, they will repent.' +016:031 "He said to him, 'If they don't listen to Moses and the prophets, + neither will they be persuaded if one rises from the dead.'" +017:001 He said to the disciples, "It is impossible that no occasions + of stumbling should come, but woe to him through whom they come! +017:002 It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around + his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, rather than that + he should cause one of these little ones to stumble. +017:003 Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. + If he repents, forgive him. +017:004 If he sins against you seven times in the day, and seven + times returns, saying, 'I repent,' you shall forgive him." +017:005 The apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith." +017:006 The Lord said, "If you had faith like a grain of mustard seed, + you would tell this sycamore tree, 'Be uprooted, and be planted + in the sea,' and it would obey you. +017:007 But who is there among you, having a servant plowing or + keeping sheep, that will say, when he comes in from the field, + 'Come immediately and sit down at the table,' +017:008 and will not rather tell him, 'Prepare my supper, + clothe yourself properly, and serve me, while I eat and drink. + Afterward you shall eat and drink'? +017:009 Does he thank that servant because he did the things that + were commanded? I think not. +017:010 Even so you also, when you have done all the things + that are commanded you, say, 'We are unworthy servants. + We have done our duty.'" +017:011 It happened as he was on his way to Jerusalem, that he was + passing along the borders of Samaria and Galilee. +017:012 As he entered into a certain village, ten men who were lepers + met him, who stood at a distance. +017:013 They lifted up their voices, saying, "Jesus, Master, + have mercy on us!" +017:014 When he saw them, he said to them, "Go and show yourselves to + the priests." It happened that as they went, they were cleansed. +017:015 One of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, + glorifying God with a loud voice. +017:016 He fell on his face at Jesus' feet, giving him thanks; + and he was a Samaritan. +017:017 Jesus answered, "Weren't the ten cleansed? But where are the nine? +017:018 Were there none found who returned to give glory to God, + except this stranger?" +017:019 Then he said to him, "Get up, and go your way. Your faith + has healed you." +017:020 Being asked by the Pharisees when the Kingdom of God would come, + he answered them, "The Kingdom of God doesn't come with observation; +017:021 neither will they say, 'Look, here!' or, 'Look, there!' for behold, + the Kingdom of God is within you." +017:022 He said to the disciples, "The days will come, when you + will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, + and you will not see it. +017:023 They will tell you, 'Look, here!' or 'Look, there!' + Don't go away, nor follow after them, +017:024 for as the lightning, when it flashes out of the one part + under the sky, shines to the other part under the sky; + so will the Son of Man be in his day. +017:025 But first, he must suffer many things and be rejected + by this generation. +017:026 As it happened in the days of Noah, even so will it be also + in the days of the Son of Man. +017:027 They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, + until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came, + and destroyed them all. +017:028 Likewise, even as it happened in the days of Lot: they ate, + they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; +017:029 but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire + and sulfur from the sky, and destroyed them all. +017:030 It will be the same way in the day that the Son of Man is revealed. +017:031 In that day, he who will be on the housetop, and his goods + in the house, let him not go down to take them away. + Let him who is in the field likewise not turn back. +017:032 Remember Lot's wife! +017:033 Whoever seeks to save his life loses it, but whoever loses + his life preserves it. +017:034 I tell you, in that night there will be two people in one bed. + The one will be taken, and the other will be left. +017:035 There will be two grinding grain together. One will be taken, + and the other will be left." +017:036 {Some Greek manuscripts add: "Two will be in the field: + the one taken, and the other left."} +017:037 They answering, asked him, "Where, Lord?" He said to them, + "Where the body is, there will the vultures also + be gathered together." +018:001 He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, + and not give up, +018:002 saying, "There was a judge in a certain city who didn't fear God, + and didn't respect man. +018:003 A widow was in that city, and she often came to him, saying, + 'Defend me from my adversary!' +018:004 He wouldn't for a while, but afterward he said to himself, + 'Though I neither fear God, nor respect man, +018:005 yet because this widow bothers me, I will defend her, or else + she will wear me out by her continual coming.'" +018:006 The Lord said, "Listen to what the unrighteous judge says. +018:007 Won't God avenge his chosen ones, who are crying out to him + day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them? +018:008 I tell you that he will avenge them quickly. Nevertheless, when the + Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?" +018:009 He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced + of their own righteousness, and who despised all others. +018:010 "Two men went up into the temple to pray; one was a Pharisee, + and the other was a tax collector. +018:011 The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: + 'God, I thank you, that I am not like the rest of men, + extortioners, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like + this tax collector. +018:012 I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.' +018:013 But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn't even lift + up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, 'God, + be merciful to me, a sinner!' +018:014 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather + than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, + but he who humbles himself will be exalted." +018:015 They were also bringing their babies to him, that he might + touch them. But when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them. +018:016 Jesus summoned them, saying, "Allow the little children to come + to me, and don't hinder them, for the Kingdom of God belongs + to such as these. +018:017 Most certainly, I tell you, whoever doesn't receive the Kingdom + of God like a little child, he will in no way enter into it." +018:018 A certain ruler asked him, saying, "Good Teacher, what shall + I do to inherit eternal life?" +018:019 Jesus asked him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good, + except one--God. +018:020 You know the commandments: 'Don't commit adultery,' 'Don't murder,' + 'Don't steal,' 'Don't give false testimony,' 'Honor your father + and your mother.'"{Exodus 20:12-16; Deuteronomy 5:16-20} +018:021 He said, "I have observed all these things from my youth up." +018:022 When Jesus heard these things, he said to him, "You still lack + one thing. Sell all that you have, and distribute it to the poor. + You will have treasure in heaven. Come, follow me." +018:023 But when he heard these things, he became very sad, + for he was very rich. +018:024 Jesus, seeing that he became very sad, said, "How hard it is + for those who have riches to enter into the Kingdom of God! +018:025 For it is easier for a camel to enter in through a needle's eye, + than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God." +018:026 Those who heard it said, "Then who can be saved?" +018:027 But he said, "The things which are impossible with men are + possible with God." +018:028 Peter said, "Look, we have left everything, and followed you." +018:029 He said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, there is no + one who has left house, or wife, or brothers, or parents, + or children, for the Kingdom of God's sake, +018:030 who will not receive many times more in this time, and in + the world to come, eternal life." +018:031 He took the twelve aside, and said to them, "Behold, we are going + up to Jerusalem, and all the things that are written through + the prophets concerning the Son of Man will be completed. +018:032 For he will be delivered up to the Gentiles, will be mocked, + treated shamefully, and spit on. +018:033 They will scourge and kill him. On the third day, + he will rise again." +018:034 They understood none of these things. This saying was hidden + from them, and they didn't understand the things that were said. +018:035 It happened, as he came near Jericho, a certain blind man sat + by the road, begging. +018:036 Hearing a multitude going by, he asked what this meant. +018:037 They told him that Jesus of Nazareth was passing by. +018:038 He cried out, "Jesus, you son of David, have mercy on me!" +018:039 Those who led the way rebuked him, that he should be quiet; + but he cried out all the more, "You son of David, + have mercy on me!" +018:040 Standing still, Jesus commanded him to be brought to him. + When he had come near, he asked him, +018:041 "What do you want me to do?" He said, "Lord, that I + may see again." +018:042 Jesus said to him, "Receive your sight. Your faith has healed you." +018:043 Immediately he received his sight, and followed him, glorifying God. + All the people, when they saw it, praised God. +019:001 He entered and was passing through Jericho. +019:002 There was a man named Zacchaeus. He was a chief tax collector, + and he was rich. +019:003 He was trying to see who Jesus was, and couldn't because of + the crowd, because he was short. +019:004 He ran on ahead, and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, + for he was to pass that way. +019:005 When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and saw him, + and said to him, "Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for today + I must stay at your house." +019:006 He hurried, came down, and received him joyfully. +019:007 When they saw it, they all murmured, saying, "He has gone + in to lodge with a man who is a sinner." +019:008 Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, "Behold, Lord, half of + my goods I give to the poor. If I have wrongfully exacted + anything of anyone, I restore four times as much." +019:009 Jesus said to him, "Today, salvation has come to this house, + because he also is a son of Abraham. +019:010 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost." +019:011 As they heard these things, he went on and told a parable, + because he was near Jerusalem, and they supposed that the Kingdom + of God would be revealed immediately. +019:012 He said therefore, "A certain nobleman went into a far country + to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return. +019:013 He called ten servants of his, and gave them ten mina coins,{10 + minas was more than 3 years' wages for an agricultural + laborer.} and told them, 'Conduct business until I come.' +019:014 But his citizens hated him, and sent an envoy after him, + saying, 'We don't want this man to reign over us.' +019:015 "It happened when he had come back again, having received + the kingdom, that he commanded these servants, to whom he had + given the money, to be called to him, that he might know + what they had gained by conducting business. +019:016 The first came before him, saying, 'Lord, your mina has made + ten more minas.' +019:017 "He said to him, 'Well done, you good servant! Because you + were found faithful with very little, you shall have authority + over ten cities.' +019:018 "The second came, saying, 'Your mina, Lord, has made five minas.' +019:019 "So he said to him, 'And you are to be over five cities.' +019:020 Another came, saying, 'Lord, behold, your mina, which I kept + laid away in a handkerchief, +019:021 for I feared you, because you are an exacting man. + You take up that which you didn't lay down, and reap that + which you didn't sow.' +019:022 "He said to him, 'Out of your own mouth will I judge you, + you wicked servant! You knew that I am an exacting man, + taking up that which I didn't lay down, and reaping that + which I didn't sow. +019:023 Then why didn't you deposit my money in the bank, and at my coming, + I might have earned interest on it?' +019:024 He said to those who stood by, 'Take the mina away from him, + and give it to him who has the ten minas.' +019:025 "They said to him, 'Lord, he has ten minas!' +019:026 'For I tell you that to everyone who has, will more be given; + but from him who doesn't have, even that which he has will + be taken away from him. +019:027 But bring those enemies of mine who didn't want me to reign + over them here, and kill them before me.'" +019:028 Having said these things, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem. +019:029 It happened, when he drew near to Bethsphage{TR, NU read "Bethpage" + instead of "Bethsphage"} and Bethany, at the mountain that is + called Olivet, he sent two of his disciples, +019:030 saying, "Go your way into the village on the other side, + in which, as you enter, you will find a colt tied, whereon no + man ever yet sat. Untie it, and bring it. +019:031 If anyone asks you, 'Why are you untying it?' say to him: + 'The Lord needs it.'" +019:032 Those who were sent went away, and found things just as + he had told them. +019:033 As they were untying the colt, the owners of it said to them, + "Why are you untying the colt?" +019:034 They said, "The Lord needs it." +019:035 They brought it to Jesus. They threw their cloaks on the colt, + and set Jesus on them. +019:036 As he went, they spread their cloaks in the way. +019:037 As he was now getting near, at the descent of the Mount of Olives, + the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice + and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works + which they had seen, +019:038 saying, "Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord!{Psalm + 118:26} Peace in heaven, and glory in the highest!" +019:039 Some of the Pharisees from the multitude said to him, "Teacher, + rebuke your disciples!" +019:040 He answered them, "I tell you that if these were silent, + the stones would cry out." +019:041 When he drew near, he saw the city and wept over it, +019:042 saying, "If you, even you, had known today the things which belong + to your peace! But now, they are hidden from your eyes. +019:043 For the days will come on you, when your enemies will throw up + a barricade against you, surround you, hem you in on every side, +019:044 and will dash you and your children within you to the ground. + They will not leave in you one stone on another, because you + didn't know the time of your visitation." +019:045 He entered into the temple, and began to drive out those who + bought and sold in it, +019:046 saying to them, "It is written, 'My house is a house + of prayer,'{Isaiah 56:7} but you have made it a 'den + of robbers'!"{Jeremiah 7:11} +019:047 He was teaching daily in the temple, but the chief priests + and the scribes and the leading men among the people sought + to destroy him. +019:048 They couldn't find what they might do, for all the people hung + on to every word that he said. +020:001 It happened on one of those days, as he was teaching the people + in the temple and preaching the Good News, that the {TR adds + "chief"}priests and scribes came to him with the elders. +020:002 They asked him, "Tell us: by what authority do you do these things? + Or who is giving you this authority?" +020:003 He answered them, "I also will ask you one question. Tell me: +020:004 the baptism of John, was it from heaven, or from men?" +020:005 They reasoned with themselves, saying, "If we say, 'From heaven,' + he will say, 'Why didn't you believe him?' +020:006 But if we say, 'From men,' all the people will stone us, + for they are persuaded that John was a prophet." +020:007 They answered that they didn't know where it was from. +020:008 Jesus said to them, "Neither will I tell you by what authority + I do these things." +020:009 He began to tell the people this parable. "A {NU (in brackets) + and TR add "certain"}man planted a vineyard, and rented it out + to some farmers, and went into another country for a long time. +020:010 At the proper season, he sent a servant to the farmers + to collect his share of the fruit of the vineyard. + But the farmers beat him, and sent him away empty. +020:011 He sent yet another servant, and they also beat him, and treated + him shamefully, and sent him away empty. +020:012 He sent yet a third, and they also wounded him, and threw him out. +020:013 The lord of the vineyard said, 'What shall I do? + I will send my beloved son. It may be that seeing him, + they will respect him.' +020:014 "But when the farmers saw him, they reasoned among themselves, + saying, 'This is the heir. Come, let's kill him, + that the inheritance may be ours.' +020:015 They threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him. + What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do to them? +020:016 He will come and destroy these farmers, and will give + the vineyard to others." When they heard it, they said, + "May it never be!" +020:017 But he looked at them, and said, "Then what is this that is written, + 'The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made + the chief cornerstone?'{Psalm 118:22} +020:018 Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, + but it will crush whomever it falls on to dust." +020:019 The chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him + that very hour, but they feared the people--for they knew + he had spoken this parable against them. +020:020 They watched him, and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, + that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver + him up to the power and authority of the governor. +020:021 They asked him, "Teacher, we know that you say and teach + what is right, and aren't partial to anyone, but truly teach + the way of God. +020:022 Is it lawful for us to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?" +020:023 But he perceived their craftiness, and said to them, "Why do + you test me? +020:024 Show me a denarius. Whose image and inscription are on it?" + They answered, "Caesar's." +020:025 He said to them, "Then give to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, + and to God the things that are God's." +020:026 They weren't able to trap him in his words before the people. + They marveled at his answer, and were silent. +020:027 Some of the Sadducees came to him, those who deny that there + is a resurrection. +020:028 They asked him, "Teacher, Moses wrote to us that if a man's + brother dies having a wife, and he is childless, his brother + should take the wife, and raise up children for his brother. +020:029 There were therefore seven brothers. The first took a wife, + and died childless. +020:030 The second took her as wife, and he died childless. +020:031 The third took her, and likewise the seven all left + no children, and died. +020:032 Afterward the woman also died. +020:033 Therefore in the resurrection whose wife of them will she be? + For the seven had her as a wife." +020:034 Jesus said to them, "The children of this age marry, and are + given in marriage. +020:035 But those who are considered worthy to attain to that age + and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are + given in marriage. +020:036 For they can't die any more, for they are like the angels, + and are children of God, being children of the resurrection. +020:037 But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed at the bush, + when he called the Lord 'The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, + and the God of Jacob.'{Exodus 3:6} +020:038 Now he is not the God of the dead, but of the living, + for all are alive to him." +020:039 Some of the scribes answered, "Teacher, you speak well." +020:040 They didn't dare to ask him any more questions. +020:041 He said to them, "Why do they say that the Christ is David's son? +020:042 David himself says in the book of Psalms, 'The Lord said + to my Lord, "Sit at my right hand, +020:043 until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet."'{Psalm 110:1} +020:044 "David therefore calls him Lord, so how is he his son?" +020:045 In the hearing of all the people, he said to his disciples, +020:046 "Beware of the scribes, who like to walk in long robes, and love + greetings in the marketplaces, the best seats in the synagogues, + and the best places at feasts; +020:047 who devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers: + these will receive greater condemnation." +021:001 He looked up, and saw the rich people who were putting their + gifts into the treasury. +021:002 He saw a certain poor widow casting in two small brass + coins.{literally, "two lepta." 2 lepta was about 1% of a day's + wages for an agricultural laborer.} +021:003 He said, "Truly I tell you, this poor widow put in more than + all of them, +021:004 for all these put in gifts for God from their abundance, but she, + out of her poverty, put in all that she had to live on." +021:005 As some were talking about the temple and how it was decorated + with beautiful stones and gifts, he said, +021:006 "As for these things which you see, the days will come, + in which there will not be left here one stone on another + that will not be thrown down." +021:007 They asked him, "Teacher, so when will these things be? + What is the sign that these things are about to happen?" +021:008 He said, "Watch out that you don't get led astray, for many will come + in my name, saying, 'I am he{or, I AM},' and, 'The time is at hand.' + Therefore don't follow them. +021:009 When you hear of wars and disturbances, don't be terrified, + for these things must happen first, but the end + won't come immediately." +021:010 Then he said to them, "Nation will rise against nation, + and kingdom against kingdom. +021:011 There will be great earthquakes, famines, and plagues in + various places. There will be terrors and great signs from heaven. +021:012 But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and + will persecute you, delivering you up to synagogues and prisons, + bringing you before kings and governors for my name's sake. +021:013 It will turn out as a testimony for you. +021:014 Settle it therefore in your hearts not to meditate beforehand + how to answer, +021:015 for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries + will not be able to withstand or to contradict. +021:016 You will be handed over even by parents, brothers, relatives, + and friends. They will cause some of you to be put to death. +021:017 You will be hated by all men for my name's sake. +021:018 And not a hair of your head will perish. +021:019 "By your endurance you will win your lives. +021:020 "But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know + that its desolation is at hand. +021:021 Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. + Let those who are in the midst of her depart. + Let those who are in the country not enter therein. +021:022 For these are days of vengeance, that all things which are + written may be fulfilled. +021:023 Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who nurse infants + in those days! For there will be great distress in the land, + and wrath to this people. +021:024 They will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be led captive + into all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled down by + the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. +021:025 There will be signs in the sun, moon, and stars; and on the earth + anxiety of nations, in perplexity for the roaring of the sea + and the waves; +021:026 men fainting for fear, and for expectation of the things + which are coming on the world: for the powers of the heavens + will be shaken. +021:027 Then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power + and great glory. +021:028 But when these things begin to happen, look up, and lift up + your heads, because your redemption is near." +021:029 He told them a parable. "See the fig tree, and all the trees. +021:030 When they are already budding, you see it and know by your own + selves that the summer is already near. +021:031 Even so you also, when you see these things happening, + know that the Kingdom of God is near. +021:032 Most certainly I tell you, this generation will not pass away + until all things are accomplished. +021:033 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will by no + means pass away. +021:034 "So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, + drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come + on you suddenly. +021:035 For it will come like a snare on all those who dwell on + the surface of all the earth. +021:036 Therefore be watchful all the time, praying that you may be + counted worthy to escape all these things that will happen, + and to stand before the Son of Man." +021:037 Every day Jesus was teaching in the temple, and every night + he would go out and spend the night on the mountain that + is called Olivet. +021:038 All the people came early in the morning to him in the temple + to hear him. +022:001 Now the feast of unleavened bread, which is called + the Passover, drew near. +022:002 The chief priests and the scribes sought how they might put + him to death, for they feared the people. +022:003 Satan entered into Judas, who was surnamed Iscariot, who was + numbered with the twelve. +022:004 He went away, and talked with the chief priests and captains + about how he might deliver him to them. +022:005 They were glad, and agreed to give him money. +022:006 He consented, and sought an opportunity to deliver him to them + in the absence of the multitude. +022:007 The day of unleavened bread came, on which the Passover + must be sacrificed. +022:008 He sent Peter and John, saying, "Go and prepare the Passover + for us, that we may eat." +022:009 They said to him, "Where do you want us to prepare?" +022:010 He said to them, "Behold, when you have entered into the city, + a man carrying a pitcher of water will meet you. + Follow him into the house which he enters. +022:011 Tell the master of the house, 'The Teacher says to you, + "Where is the guest room, where I may eat the Passover + with my disciples?"' +022:012 He will show you a large, furnished upper room. + Make preparations there." +022:013 They went, found things as he had told them, and they + prepared the Passover. +022:014 When the hour had come, he sat down with the twelve apostles. +022:015 He said to them, "I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover + with you before I suffer, +022:016 for I tell you, I will no longer by any means eat of it until + it is fulfilled in the Kingdom of God." +022:017 He received a cup, and when he had given thanks, he said, + "Take this, and share it among yourselves, +022:018 for I tell you, I will not drink at all again from the fruit + of the vine, until the Kingdom of God comes." +022:019 He took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, + and gave to them, saying, "This is my body which is given for you. + Do this in memory of me." +022:020 Likewise, he took the cup after supper, saying, "This cup is + the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you. +022:021 But behold, the hand of him who betrays me is with me + on the table. +022:022 The Son of Man indeed goes, as it has been determined, + but woe to that man through whom he is betrayed!" +022:023 They began to question among themselves, which of them it + was who would do this thing. +022:024 There arose also a contention among them, which of them was + considered to be greatest. +022:025 He said to them, "The kings of the nations lord it over them, + and those who have authority over them are called 'benefactors.' +022:026 But not so with you. But one who is the greater among you, + let him become as the younger, and one who is governing, + as one who serves. +022:027 For who is greater, one who sits at the table, or one who serves? + Isn't it he who sits at the table? But I am in the midst + of you as one who serves. +022:028 But you are those who have continued with me in my trials. +022:029 I confer on you a kingdom, even as my Father conferred on me, +022:030 that you may eat and drink at my table in my Kingdom. + You will sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel." +022:031 The Lord said, "Simon, Simon, behold, Satan asked to have you, + that he might sift you as wheat, +022:032 but I prayed for you, that your faith wouldn't fail. + You, when once you have turned again, establish your brothers{The + word for "brothers" here may be also correctly translated + "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."}." +022:033 He said to him, "Lord, I am ready to go with you both to prison + and to death!" +022:034 He said, "I tell you, Peter, the rooster will by no means crow + today until you deny that you know me three times." +022:035 He said to them, "When I sent you out without purse, and wallet, + and shoes, did you lack anything?" They said, "Nothing." +022:036 Then he said to them, "But now, whoever has a purse, + let him take it, and likewise a wallet. Whoever has none, + let him sell his cloak, and buy a sword. +022:037 For I tell you that this which is written must still be fulfilled + in me: 'He was counted with the lawless.'{Isaiah 53:12} For + that which concerns me has an end." +022:038 They said, "Lord, behold, here are two swords." He said to them, + "That is enough." +022:039 He came out, and went, as his custom was, to the Mount of Olives. + His disciples also followed him. +022:040 When he was at the place, he said to them, "Pray that you + don't enter into temptation." +022:041 He was withdrawn from them about a stone's throw, and he knelt + down and prayed, +022:042 saying, "Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. + Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done." +022:043 An angel from heaven appeared to him, strengthening him. +022:044 Being in agony he prayed more earnestly. His sweat became + like great drops of blood falling down on the ground. +022:045 When he rose up from his prayer, he came to the disciples, + and found them sleeping because of grief, +022:046 and said to them, "Why do you sleep? Rise and pray that you + may not enter into temptation." +022:047 While he was still speaking, behold, a multitude, and he who + was called Judas, one of the twelve, was leading them. + He came near to Jesus to kiss him. +022:048 But Jesus said to him, "Judas, do you betray the Son of Man + with a kiss?" +022:049 When those who were around him saw what was about to happen, + they said to him, "Lord, shall we strike with the sword?" +022:050 A certain one of them struck the servant of the high priest, + and cut off his right ear. +022:051 But Jesus answered, "Let me at least do this"--and he touched + his ear, and healed him. +022:052 Jesus said to the chief priests, captains of the temple, + and elders, who had come against him, "Have you come out + as against a robber, with swords and clubs? +022:053 When I was with you in the temple daily, you didn't stretch + out your hands against me. But this is your hour, + and the power of darkness." +022:054 They seized him, and led him away, and brought him into the high + priest's house. But Peter followed from a distance. +022:055 When they had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard, + and had sat down together, Peter sat among them. +022:056 A certain servant girl saw him as he sat in the light, + and looking intently at him, said, "This man also was with him." +022:057 He denied Jesus, saying, "Woman, I don't know him." +022:058 After a little while someone else saw him, and said, "You also + are one of them!" But Peter answered, "Man, I am not!" +022:059 After about one hour passed, another confidently affirmed, saying, + "Truly this man also was with him, for he is a Galilean!" +022:060 But Peter said, "Man, I don't know what you are talking about!" + Immediately, while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed. +022:061 The Lord turned, and looked at Peter. Then Peter remembered + the Lord's word, how he said to him, "Before the rooster + crows you will deny me three times." +022:062 He went out, and wept bitterly. +022:063 The men who held Jesus mocked him and beat him. +022:064 Having blindfolded him, they struck him on the face and + asked him, "Prophesy! Who is the one who struck you?" +022:065 They spoke many other things against him, insulting him. +022:066 As soon as it was day, the assembly of the elders of the people + was gathered together, both chief priests and scribes, + and they led him away into their council, saying, +022:067 "If you are the Christ, tell us." But he said to them, + "If I tell you, you won't believe, +022:068 and if I ask, you will in no way answer me or let me go. +022:069 From now on, the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand + of the power of God." +022:070 They all said, "Are you then the Son of God?" He said to them, + "You say it, because I am." +022:071 They said, "Why do we need any more witness? For we ourselves + have heard from his own mouth!" +023:001 The whole company of them rose up and brought him before Pilate. +023:002 They began to accuse him, saying, "We found this man perverting + the nation, forbidding paying taxes to Caesar, and saying + that he himself is Christ, a king." +023:003 Pilate asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" He answered him, + "So you say." +023:004 Pilate said to the chief priests and the multitudes, "I find + no basis for a charge against this man." +023:005 But they insisted, saying, "He stirs up the people, + teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee even + to this place." +023:006 But when Pilate heard Galilee mentioned, he asked if the man + was a Galilean. +023:007 When he found out that he was in Herod's jurisdiction, he sent + him to Herod, who was also in Jerusalem during those days. +023:008 Now when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceedingly glad, for he had + wanted to see him for a long time, because he had heard many + things about him. He hoped to see some miracle done by him. +023:009 He questioned him with many words, but he gave no answers. +023:010 The chief priests and the scribes stood, vehemently accusing him. +023:011 Herod with his soldiers humiliated him and mocked him. + Dressing him in luxurious clothing, they sent him back to Pilate. +023:012 Herod and Pilate became friends with each other that very day, + for before that they were enemies with each other. +023:013 Pilate called together the chief priests and the rulers + and the people, +023:014 and said to them, "You brought this man to me as one that + perverts the people, and see, I have examined him before you, + and found no basis for a charge against this man concerning + those things of which you accuse him. +023:015 Neither has Herod, for I sent you to him, and see, nothing worthy + of death has been done by him. +023:016 I will therefore chastise him and release him." +023:017 Now he had to release one prisoner to them at the feast. +023:018 But they all cried out together, saying, "Away with this man! + Release to us Barabbas!"-- +023:019 one who was thrown into prison for a certain revolt in the city, + and for murder. +023:020 Then Pilate spoke to them again, wanting to release Jesus, +023:021 but they shouted, saying, "Crucify! Crucify him!" +023:022 He said to them the third time, "Why? What evil has this man done? + I have found no capital crime in him. I will therefore + chastise him and release him." +023:023 But they were urgent with loud voices, asking that he might + be crucified. Their voices and the voices of the + chief priests prevailed. +023:024 Pilate decreed that what they asked for should be done. +023:025 He released him who had been thrown into prison for insurrection + and murder, for whom they asked, but he delivered Jesus up + to their will. +023:026 When they led him away, they grabbed one Simon of Cyrene, + coming from the country, and laid on him the cross, to carry + it after Jesus. +023:027 A great multitude of the people followed him, including women + who also mourned and lamented him. +023:028 But Jesus, turning to them, said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, + don't weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. +023:029 For behold, the days are coming in which they will say, + 'Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore, + and the breasts that never nursed.' +023:030 Then they will begin to tell the mountains, 'Fall on us!' + and tell the hills, 'Cover us.'{Hosea 10:8} +023:031 For if they do these things in the green tree, what will be + done in the dry?" +023:032 There were also others, two criminals, led with him to be + put to death. +023:033 When they came to the place that is called The Skull, + they crucified him there with the criminals, one on the right + and the other on the left. +023:034 Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they don't know + what they are doing." Dividing his garments among them, + they cast lots. +023:035 The people stood watching. The rulers with them also scoffed + at him, saying, "He saved others. Let him save himself, + if this is the Christ of God, his chosen one!" +023:036 The soldiers also mocked him, coming to him and offering him vinegar, +023:037 and saying, "If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself!" +023:038 An inscription was also written over him in letters + of Greek, Latin, and Hebrew: "THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS." +023:039 One of the criminals who was hanged insulted him, saying, "If you + are the Christ, save yourself and us!" +023:040 But the other answered, and rebuking him said, "Don't you + even fear God, seeing you are under the same condemnation? +023:041 And we indeed justly, for we receive the due reward for our deeds, + but this man has done nothing wrong." +023:042 He said to Jesus, "Lord, remember me when you come + into your Kingdom." +023:043 Jesus said to him, "Assuredly I tell you, today you will be + with me in Paradise." +023:044 It was now about the sixth hour{Time was counted from sunrise, + so the sixth hour was about noon.}, and darkness came over + the whole land until the ninth hour.{3:00 PM} +023:045 The sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was torn in two. +023:046 Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, "Father, into your hands + I commit my spirit!" Having said this, he breathed his last. +023:047 When the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, + "Certainly this was a righteous man." +023:048 All the multitudes that came together to see this, when they saw + the things that were done, returned home beating their breasts. +023:049 All his acquaintances, and the women who followed with him + from Galilee, stood at a distance, watching these things. +023:050 Behold, a man named Joseph, who was a member of the council, + a good and righteous man +023:051 (he had not consented to their counsel and deed), from Arimathaea, + a city of the Jews, who was also waiting for the Kingdom of God: +023:052 this man went to Pilate, and asked for Jesus' body. +023:053 He took it down, and wrapped it in a linen cloth, and laid him + in a tomb that was cut in stone, where no one had ever been laid. +023:054 It was the day of the Preparation, and the Sabbath was drawing near. +023:055 The women, who had come with him out of Galilee, followed after, + and saw the tomb, and how his body was laid. +023:056 They returned, and prepared spices and ointments. + On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment. +024:001 But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they and + some others came to the tomb, bringing the spices which + they had prepared. +024:002 They found the stone rolled away from the tomb. +024:003 They entered in, and didn't find the Lord Jesus' body. +024:004 It happened, while they were greatly perplexed about this, + behold, two men stood by them in dazzling clothing. +024:005 Becoming terrified, they bowed their faces down to the earth. + They said to them, "Why do you seek the living among the dead? +024:006 He isn't here, but is risen. Remember what he told you + when he was still in Galilee, +024:007 saying that the Son of Man must be delivered up into the hands + of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again?" +024:008 They remembered his words, +024:009 returned from the tomb, and told all these things to the eleven, + and to all the rest. +024:010 Now they were Mary Magdalene, Joanna, and Mary the mother of James. + The other women with them told these things to the apostles. +024:011 These words seemed to them to be nonsense, and they + didn't believe them. +024:012 But Peter got up and ran to the tomb. Stooping and looking in, + he saw the strips of linen lying by themselves, and he departed + to his home, wondering what had happened. +024:013 Behold, two of them were going that very day to a village + named Emmaus, which was sixty stadia{60 stadia = about 11 + kilometers or about 7 miles.} from Jerusalem. +024:014 They talked with each other about all of these things + which had happened. +024:015 It happened, while they talked and questioned together, + that Jesus himself came near, and went with them. +024:016 But their eyes were kept from recognizing him. +024:017 He said to them, "What are you talking about as you walk, + and are sad?" +024:018 One of them, named Cleopas, answered him, "Are you the only + stranger in Jerusalem who doesn't know the things which have + happened there in these days?" +024:019 He said to them, "What things?" They said to him, "The things + concerning Jesus, the Nazarene, who was a prophet mighty + in deed and word before God and all the people; +024:020 and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him up + to be condemned to death, and crucified him. +024:021 But we were hoping that it was he who would redeem Israel. + Yes, and besides all this, it is now the third day since + these things happened. +024:022 Also, certain women of our company amazed us, having arrived + early at the tomb; +024:023 and when they didn't find his body, they came saying that they + had also seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive. +024:024 Some of us went to the tomb, and found it just like the women + had said, but they didn't see him." +024:025 He said to them, "Foolish men, and slow of heart to believe + in all that the prophets have spoken! +024:026 Didn't the Christ have to suffer these things and to enter + into his glory?" +024:027 Beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he explained + to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself. +024:028 They drew near to the village, where they were going, + and he acted like he would go further. +024:029 They urged him, saying, "Stay with us, for it is almost evening, + and the day is almost over." He went in to stay with them. +024:030 It happened, that when he had sat down at the table with them, + he took the bread and gave thanks. Breaking it, he gave to them. +024:031 Their eyes were opened, and they recognized him, and he vanished + out of their sight. +024:032 They said one to another, "Weren't our hearts burning within us, + while he spoke to us along the way, and while he opened + the Scriptures to us?" +024:033 They rose up that very hour, returned to Jerusalem, and found + the eleven gathered together, and those who were with them, +024:034 saying, "The Lord is risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon!" +024:035 They related the things that happened along the way, and how + he was recognized by them in the breaking of the bread. +024:036 As they said these things, Jesus himself stood among them, + and said to them, "Peace be to you." +024:037 But they were terrified and filled with fear, and supposed + that they had seen a spirit. +024:038 He said to them, "Why are you troubled? Why do doubts arise + in your hearts? +024:039 See my hands and my feet, that it is truly me. + Touch me and see, for a spirit doesn't have flesh and bones, + as you see that I have." +024:040 When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet. +024:041 While they still didn't believe for joy, and wondered, + he said to them, "Do you have anything here to eat?" +024:042 They gave him a piece of a broiled fish and some honeycomb. +024:043 He took them, and ate in front of them. +024:044 He said to them, "This is what I told you, while I was still + with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, + the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me must be fulfilled." +024:045 Then he opened their minds, that they might understand + the Scriptures. +024:046 He said to them, "Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary + for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day, +024:047 and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached + in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem. +024:048 You are witnesses of these things. +024:049 Behold, I send forth the promise of my Father on you. + But wait in the city of Jerusalem until you are clothed + with power from on high." +024:050 He led them out as far as Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, + and blessed them. +024:051 It happened, while he blessed them, that he withdrew from them, + and was carried up into heaven. +024:052 They worshiped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy, +024:053 and were continually in the temple, praising and blessing God. Amen. +Book 43 John +001:001 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, + and the Word was God. +001:002 The same was in the beginning with God. +001:003 All things were made through him. Without him was not anything + made that has been made. +001:004 In him was life, and the life was the light of men. +001:005 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn't + overcome{The word translated "overcome" (katelaben) can also + be translated "comprehended." It refers to getting a grip + on an enemy to defeat him.} it. +001:006 There came a man, sent from God, whose name was John. +001:007 The same came as a witness, that he might testify about the light, + that all might believe through him. +001:008 He was not the light, but was sent that he might testify + about the light. +001:009 The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world. +001:010 He was in the world, and the world was made through him, + and the world didn't recognize him. +001:011 He came to his own, and those who were his own didn't receive him. +001:012 But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become + God's children, to those who believe in his name: +001:013 who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, + nor of the will of man, but of God. +001:014 The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, + such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, + full of grace and truth. +001:015 John testified about him. He cried out, saying, "This was + he of whom I said, 'He who comes after me has surpassed me, + for he was before me.'" +001:016 From his fullness we all received grace upon grace. +001:017 For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth came + through Jesus Christ. +001:018 No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son,{NU reads + "God"} who is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him. +001:019 This is John's testimony, when the Jews sent priests and Levites + from Jerusalem to ask him, "Who are you?" +001:020 He confessed, and didn't deny, but he confessed, "I am + not the Christ." +001:021 They asked him, "What then? Are you Elijah?" He said, "I am not." + "Are you the Prophet?" He answered, "No." +001:022 They said therefore to him, "Who are you? + Give us an answer to take back to those who sent us. + What do you say about yourself?" +001:023 He said, "I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, + 'Make straight the way of the Lord,'{Isaiah 40:3} as Isaiah + the prophet said." +001:024 The ones who had been sent were from the Pharisees. +001:025 They asked him, "Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, + nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?" +001:026 John answered them, "I baptize in water, but among you stands + one whom you don't know. +001:027 He is the one who comes after me, who is preferred before me, + whose sandal strap I'm not worthy to loosen." +001:028 These things were done in Bethany beyond the Jordan, + where John was baptizing. +001:029 The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, "Behold, + the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! +001:030 This is he of whom I said, 'After me comes a man who is preferred + before me, for he was before me.' +001:031 I didn't know him, but for this reason I came baptizing in water: + that he would be revealed to Israel." +001:032 John testified, saying, "I have seen the Spirit descending + like a dove out of heaven, and it remained on him. +001:033 I didn't recognize him, but he who sent me to baptize in water, + he said to me, 'On whomever you will see the Spirit descending, + and remaining on him, the same is he who baptizes in + the Holy Spirit.' +001:034 I have seen, and have testified that this is the Son of God." +001:035 Again, the next day, John was standing with two of his disciples, +001:036 and he looked at Jesus as he walked, and said, "Behold, + the Lamb of God!" +001:037 The two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus. +001:038 Jesus turned, and saw them following, and said to them, "What are + you looking for?" They said to him, "Rabbi" (which is to say, + being interpreted, Teacher), "where are you staying?" +001:039 He said to them, "Come, and see." They came and saw + where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day. + It was about the tenth hour.{4:00 PM.} +001:040 One of the two who heard John, and followed him, + was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother. +001:041 He first found his own brother, Simon, and said to him, + "We have found the Messiah!" (which is, being interpreted, + Christ{"Messiah" (Hebrew) and "Christ" (Greek) both mean + "Anointed One".}). +001:042 He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him, and said, + "You are Simon the son of Jonah. You shall be called Cephas" + (which is by interpretation, Peter). +001:043 On the next day, he was determined to go out into Galilee, + and he found Philip. Jesus said to him, "Follow me." +001:044 Now Philip was from Bethsaida, of the city of Andrew and Peter. +001:045 Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, "We have found him, + of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, wrote: + Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph." +001:046 Nathanael said to him, "Can any good thing come out + of Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see." +001:047 Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, "Behold, + an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!" +001:048 Nathanael said to him, "How do you know me?" Jesus answered him, + "Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, + I saw you." +001:049 Nathanael answered him, "Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are + King of Israel!" +001:050 Jesus answered him, "Because I told you, 'I saw you underneath + the fig tree,' do you believe? You will see greater + things than these!" +001:051 He said to him, "Most certainly, I tell you, hereafter you + will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending + and descending on the Son of Man." +002:001 The third day, there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee. + Jesus' mother was there. +002:002 Jesus also was invited, with his disciples, to the marriage. +002:003 When the wine ran out, Jesus' mother said to him, + "They have no wine." +002:004 Jesus said to her, "Woman, what does that have to do with you and me? + My hour has not yet come." +002:005 His mother said to the servants, "Whatever he says to you, do it." +002:006 Now there were six water pots of stone set there after the Jews' + manner of purifying, containing two or three metretes{2 + to 3 metretes is about 20 to 30 U. S. Gallons, 16 to 25 + imperial gallons, or 75 to 115 litres.} apiece. +002:007 Jesus said to them, "Fill the water pots with water." + They filled them up to the brim. +002:008 He said to them, "Now draw some out, and take it to the ruler + of the feast." So they took it. +002:009 When the ruler of the feast tasted the water now become wine, + and didn't know where it came from (but the servants who had drawn + the water knew), the ruler of the feast called the bridegroom, +002:010 and said to him, "Everyone serves the good wine first, + and when the guests have drunk freely, then that which is worse. + You have kept the good wine until now!" +002:011 This beginning of his signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, + and revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him. +002:012 After this, he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, + his brothers, and his disciples; and they stayed there + a few days. +002:013 The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went + up to Jerusalem. +002:014 He found in the temple those who sold oxen, sheep, and doves, + and the changers of money sitting. +002:015 He made a whip of cords, and threw all out of the temple, + both the sheep and the oxen; and he poured out the changers' + money, and overthrew their tables. +002:016 To those who sold the doves, he said, "Take these things out of here! + Don't make my Father's house a marketplace!" +002:017 His disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for your + house will eat me up."{Psalm 69:9} +002:018 The Jews therefore answered him, "What sign do you show us, + seeing that you do these things?" +002:019 Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days + I will raise it up." +002:020 The Jews therefore said, "Forty-six years was this temple + in building, and will you raise it up in three days?" +002:021 But he spoke of the temple of his body. +002:022 When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples + remembered that he said this, and they believed the Scripture, + and the word which Jesus had said. +002:023 Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, + many believed in his name, observing his signs which he did. +002:024 But Jesus didn't trust himself to them, because he knew everyone, +002:025 and because he didn't need for anyone to testify concerning man; + for he himself knew what was in man. +003:001 Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler + of the Jews. +003:002 The same came to him by night, and said to him, "Rabbi, we know + that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do + these signs that you do, unless God is with him." +003:003 Jesus answered him, "Most certainly, I tell you, + unless one is born anew,{The word translated "anew" + here and in John 3:7 (anothen) also means "again" and "from + above".} he can't see the Kingdom of God." +003:004 Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old? + Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb, and be born?" +003:005 Jesus answered, "Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born + of water and spirit, he can't enter into the Kingdom of God! +003:006 That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born + of the Spirit is spirit. +003:007 Don't marvel that I said to you, 'You must be born anew.' +003:008 The wind{The same Greek word (pneuma) means wind, breath, + and spirit.} blows where it wants to, and you hear its sound, + but don't know where it comes from and where it is going. + So is everyone who is born of the Spirit." +003:009 Nicodemus answered him, "How can these things be?" +003:010 Jesus answered him, "Are you the teacher of Israel, and don't + understand these things? +003:011 Most certainly I tell you, we speak that which we know, + and testify of that which we have seen, and you don't + receive our witness. +003:012 If I told you earthly things and you don't believe, how will + you believe if I tell you heavenly things? +003:013 No one has ascended into heaven, but he who descended out of heaven, + the Son of Man, who is in heaven. +003:014 As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must + the Son of Man be lifted up, +003:015 that whoever believes in him should not perish, + but have eternal life. +003:016 For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and + only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, + but have eternal life. +003:017 For God didn't send his Son into the world to judge the world, + but that the world should be saved through him. +003:018 He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn't believe has + been judged already, because he has not believed in the name + of the one and only Son of God. +003:019 This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, + and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their + works were evil. +003:020 For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn't come + to the light, lest his works would be exposed. +003:021 But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works + may be revealed, that they have been done in God." +003:022 After these things, Jesus came with his disciples into the land + of Judea. He stayed there with them, and baptized. +003:023 John also was baptizing in Enon near Salim, because there + was much water there. They came, and were baptized. +003:024 For John was not yet thrown into prison. +003:025 There arose therefore a questioning on the part of John's + disciples with some Jews about purification. +003:026 They came to John, and said to him, "Rabbi, he who was with + you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have testified, behold, + the same baptizes, and everyone is coming to him." +003:027 John answered, "A man can receive nothing, unless it has been + given him from heaven. +003:028 You yourselves testify that I said, 'I am not the Christ,' + but, 'I have been sent before him.' +003:029 He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of + the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly + because of the bridegroom's voice. This, my joy, + therefore is made full. +003:030 He must increase, but I must decrease. +003:031 He who comes from above is above all. He who is from + the Earth belongs to the Earth, and speaks of the Earth. + He who comes from heaven is above all. +003:032 What he has seen and heard, of that he testifies; and no one + receives his witness. +003:033 He who has received his witness has set his seal to this, + that God is true. +003:034 For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God + gives the Spirit without measure. +003:035 The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand. +003:036 One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one + who disobeys{The same word can be translated "disobeys" + or "disbelieves" in this context.} the Son won't see life, + but the wrath of God remains on him." +004:001 Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard + that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John +004:002 (although Jesus himself didn't baptize, but his disciples), +004:003 he left Judea, and departed into Galilee. +004:004 He needed to pass through Samaria. +004:005 So he came to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the parcel + of ground that Jacob gave to his son, Joseph. +004:006 Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being tired + from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about + the sixth hour{noon}. +004:007 A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, + "Give me a drink." +004:008 For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food. +004:009 The Samaritan woman therefore said to him, "How is it that you, + being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?" + (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.) +004:010 Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it + is who says to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, + and he would have given you living water." +004:011 The woman said to him, "Sir, you have nothing to draw with, + and the well is deep. From where then have you that living water? +004:012 Are you greater than our father, Jacob, who gave us the well, + and drank of it himself, as did his children, and his livestock?" +004:013 Jesus answered her, "Everyone who drinks of this water + will thirst again, +004:014 but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never + thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become + in him a well of water springing up to eternal life." +004:015 The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I + don't get thirsty, neither come all the way here to draw." +004:016 Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come here." +004:017 The woman answered, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, + "You said well, 'I have no husband,' +004:018 for you have had five husbands; and he whom you now have is + not your husband. This you have said truly." +004:019 The woman said to him, "Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. +004:020 Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you Jews say that + in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship." +004:021 Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe me, the hour comes, + when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, will you + worship the Father. +004:022 You worship that which you don't know. We worship that which we know; + for salvation is from the Jews. +004:023 But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshippers + will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father + seeks such to be his worshippers. +004:024 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in + spirit and truth." +004:025 The woman said to him, "I know that Messiah comes," + (he who is called Christ). "When he has come, he will declare + to us all things." +004:026 Jesus said to her, "I am he, the one who speaks to you." +004:027 At this, his disciples came. They marveled that he was speaking + with a woman; yet no one said, "What are you looking for?" + or, "Why do you speak with her?" +004:028 So the woman left her water pot, and went away into the city, + and said to the people, +004:029 "Come, see a man who told me everything that I did. + Can this be the Christ?" +004:030 They went out of the city, and were coming to him. +004:031 In the meanwhile, the disciples urged him, saying, "Rabbi, eat." +004:032 But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you don't know about." +004:033 The disciples therefore said one to another, "Has anyone + brought him something to eat?" +004:034 Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me, + and to accomplish his work. +004:035 Don't you say, 'There are yet four months until the harvest?' + Behold, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and look at the fields, + that they are white for harvest already. +004:036 He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit to eternal life; + that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. +004:037 For in this the saying is true, 'One sows, and another reaps.' +004:038 I sent you to reap that for which you haven't labored. + Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor." +004:039 From that city many of the Samaritans believed in him because of + the word of the woman, who testified, "He told me everything + that I did." +004:040 So when the Samaritans came to him, they begged him to stay + with them. He stayed there two days. +004:041 Many more believed because of his word. +004:042 They said to the woman, "Now we believe, not because of your speaking; + for we have heard for ourselves, and know that this is indeed + the Christ, the Savior of the world." +004:043 After the two days he went out from there and went into Galilee. +004:044 For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor + in his own country. +004:045 So when he came into Galilee, the Galileans received him, + having seen all the things that he did in Jerusalem at the feast, + for they also went to the feast. +004:046 Jesus came therefore again to Cana of Galilee, where he made + the water into wine. There was a certain nobleman whose son + was sick at Capernaum. +004:047 When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, + he went to him, and begged him that he would come down and heal + his son, for he was at the point of death. +004:048 Jesus therefore said to him, "Unless you see signs and wonders, + you will in no way believe." +004:049 The nobleman said to him, "Sir, come down before my child dies." +004:050 Jesus said to him, "Go your way. Your son lives." + The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, + and he went his way. +004:051 As he was now going down, his servants met him and reported, + saying "Your child lives!" +004:052 So he inquired of them the hour when he began to get better. + They said therefore to him, "Yesterday at the seventh hour,{1:00 + P. M.} the fever left him." +004:053 So the father knew that it was at that hour in which Jesus said + to him, "Your son lives." He believed, as did his whole house. +004:054 This is again the second sign that Jesus did, having come + out of Judea into Galilee. +005:001 After these things, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus + went up to Jerusalem. +005:002 Now in Jerusalem by the sheep gate, there is a pool, which is + called in Hebrew, "Bethesda," having five porches. +005:003 In these lay a great multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, + or paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water; +005:004 for an angel of the Lord went down at certain times into + the pool, and stirred up the water. Whoever stepped in first + after the stirring of the water was made whole of whatever + disease he had. +005:005 A certain man was there, who had been sick for thirty-eight years. +005:006 When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had been sick + for a long time, he asked him, "Do you want to be made well?" +005:007 The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no one to put me into + the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I'm coming, + another steps down before me." +005:008 Jesus said to him, "Arise, take up your mat, and walk." +005:009 Immediately, the man was made well, and took up his mat and walked. + Now it was the Sabbath on that day. +005:010 So the Jews said to him who was cured, "It is the Sabbath. + It is not lawful for you to carry the mat." +005:011 He answered them, "He who made me well, the same said to me, + 'Take up your mat, and walk.'" +005:012 Then they asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, + 'Take up your mat, and walk'?" +005:013 But he who was healed didn't know who it was, for Jesus + had withdrawn, a crowd being in the place. +005:014 Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, + "Behold, you are made well. Sin no more, so that nothing + worse happens to you." +005:015 The man went away, and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had + made him well. +005:016 For this cause the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill him, + because he did these things on the Sabbath. +005:017 But Jesus answered them, "My Father is still working, + so I am working, too." +005:018 For this cause therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill him, + because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God + his own Father, making himself equal with God. +005:019 Jesus therefore answered them, "Most certainly, I tell you, the Son + can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father doing. + For whatever things he does, these the Son also does likewise. +005:020 For the Father has affection for the Son, and shows him all + things that he himself does. He will show him greater works + than these, that you may marvel. +005:021 For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, + even so the Son also gives life to whom he desires. +005:022 For the Father judges no one, but he has given all judgment + to the Son, +005:023 that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. + He who doesn't honor the Son doesn't honor the Father + who sent him. +005:024 "Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him + who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn't come into judgment, + but has passed out of death into life. +005:025 Most certainly, I tell you, the hour comes, and now is, + when the dead will hear the Son of God's voice; and those + who hear will live. +005:026 For as the Father has life in himself, even so he gave to the Son + also to have life in himself. +005:027 He also gave him authority to execute judgment, because he is + a son of man. +005:028 Don't marvel at this, for the hour comes, in which all that are + in the tombs will hear his voice, +005:029 and will come out; those who have done good, to the + resurrection of life; and those who have done evil, + to the resurrection of judgment. +005:030 I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my + judgment is righteous; because I don't seek my own will, + but the will of my Father who sent me. +005:031 "If I testify about myself, my witness is not valid. +005:032 It is another who testifies about me. I know that the testimony + which he testifies about me is true. +005:033 You have sent to John, and he has testified to the truth. +005:034 But the testimony which I receive is not from man. + However, I say these things that you may be saved. +005:035 He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing + to rejoice for a while in his light. +005:036 But the testimony which I have is greater than that of John, + for the works which the Father gave me to accomplish, + the very works that I do, testify about me, that the Father + has sent me. +005:037 The Father himself, who sent me, has testified about me. + You have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his form. +005:038 You don't have his word living in you; because you don't + believe him whom he sent. +005:039 "You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you + have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me. +005:040 Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life. +005:041 I don't receive glory from men. +005:042 But I know you, that you don't have God's love in yourselves. +005:043 I have come in my Father's name, and you don't receive me. + If another comes in his own name, you will receive him. +005:044 How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, + and you don't seek the glory that comes from the only God? +005:045 "Don't think that I will accuse you to the Father. + There is one who accuses you, even Moses, on whom you have + set your hope. +005:046 For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; + for he wrote about me. +005:047 But if you don't believe his writings, how will you + believe my words?" +006:001 After these things, Jesus went away to the other side of the sea + of Galilee, which is also called the Sea of Tiberias. +006:002 A great multitude followed him, because they saw his signs + which he did on those who were sick. +006:003 Jesus went up into the mountain, and he sat there with his disciples. +006:004 Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand. +006:005 Jesus therefore lifting up his eyes, and seeing that a great + multitude was coming to him, said to Philip, "Where are we + to buy bread, that these may eat?" +006:006 This he said to test him, for he himself knew what he would do. +006:007 Philip answered him, "Two hundred denarii worth of bread + is not sufficient for them, that everyone of them may + receive a little." +006:008 One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, + said to him, +006:009 "There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, + but what are these among so many?" +006:010 Jesus said, "Have the people sit down." Now there was much + grass in that place. So the men sat down, in number + about five thousand. +006:011 Jesus took the loaves; and having given thanks, he distributed + to the disciples, and the disciples to those who were sitting down; + likewise also of the fish as much as they desired. +006:012 When they were filled, he said to his disciples, "Gather up + the broken pieces which are left over, that nothing be lost." +006:013 So they gathered them up, and filled twelve baskets with broken + pieces from the five barley loaves, which were left over + by those who had eaten. +006:014 When therefore the people saw the sign which Jesus did, they said, + "This is truly the prophet who comes into the world." +006:015 Jesus therefore, perceiving that they were about to come + and take him by force, to make him king, withdrew again + to the mountain by himself. +006:016 When evening came, his disciples went down to the sea, +006:017 and they entered into the boat, and were going over the sea + to Capernaum. It was now dark, and Jesus had not come to them. +006:018 The sea was tossed by a great wind blowing. +006:019 When therefore they had rowed about twenty-five or thirty + stadia,{25 to 30 stadia is about 5 to 6 kilometers or about 3 + to 4 miles} they saw Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing + near to the boat; and they were afraid. +006:020 But he said to them, "It is I{or, I AM}. Don't be afraid." +006:021 They were willing therefore to receive him into the boat. + Immediately the boat was at the land where they were going. +006:022 On the next day, the multitude that stood on the other + side of the sea saw that there was no other boat there, + except the one in which his disciples had embarked, + and that Jesus hadn't entered with his disciples into the boat, + but his disciples had gone away alone. +006:023 However boats from Tiberias came near to the place where they + ate the bread after the Lord had given thanks. +006:024 When the multitude therefore saw that Jesus wasn't there, + nor his disciples, they themselves got into the boats, + and came to Capernaum, seeking Jesus. +006:025 When they found him on the other side of the sea, they asked him, + "Rabbi, when did you come here?" +006:026 Jesus answered them, "Most certainly I tell you, you seek me, + not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves, + and were filled. +006:027 Don't work for the food which perishes, but for the food which + remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. + For God the Father has sealed him." +006:028 They said therefore to him, "What must we do, that we may work + the works of God?" +006:029 Jesus answered them, "This is the work of God, that you believe + in him whom he has sent." +006:030 They said therefore to him, "What then do you do for a sign, + that we may see, and believe you? What work do you do? +006:031 Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness. As it is written, + 'He gave them bread out of heaven{Greek and Hebrew use the same + word for "heaven", "the heavens", "the sky", and "the air".} + to eat.'"{Exodus 16:4; Nehemiah 9:15; Psalm 78:24-25} +006:032 Jesus therefore said to them, "Most certainly, I tell you, + it wasn't Moses who gave you the bread out of heaven, + but my Father gives you the true bread out of heaven. +006:033 For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven, + and gives life to the world." +006:034 They said therefore to him, "Lord, always give us this bread." +006:035 Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life. He who comes + to me will not be hungry, and he who believes in me will + never be thirsty. +006:036 But I told you that you have seen me, and yet you don't believe. +006:037 All those who the Father gives me will come to me. + Him who comes to me I will in no way throw out. +006:038 For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, + but the will of him who sent me. +006:039 This is the will of my Father who sent me, that of all he has + given to me I should lose nothing, but should raise him up + at the last day. +006:040 This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees + the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; + and I will raise him up at the last day." +006:041 The Jews therefore murmured concerning him, because he said, + "I am the bread which came down out of heaven." +006:042 They said, "Isn't this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father + and mother we know? How then does he say, 'I have come + down out of heaven?'" +006:043 Therefore Jesus answered them, "Don't murmur among yourselves. +006:044 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, + and I will raise him up in the last day. +006:045 It is written in the prophets, 'They will all be taught by + God.'{Isaiah 54:13} Therefore everyone who hears from the Father, + and has learned, comes to me. +006:046 Not that anyone has seen the Father, except he who is from God. + He has seen the Father. +006:047 Most certainly, I tell you, he who believes in me has eternal life. +006:048 I am the bread of life. +006:049 Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. +006:050 This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that anyone + may eat of it and not die. +006:051 I am the living bread which came down out of heaven. + If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. + Yes, the bread which I will give for the life of the world + is my flesh." +006:052 The Jews therefore contended with one another, saying, "How can + this man give us his flesh to eat?" +006:053 Jesus therefore said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, + unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, + you don't have life in yourselves. +006:054 He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, + and I will raise him up at the last day. +006:055 For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. +006:056 He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, + and I in him. +006:057 As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; + so he who feeds on me, he will also live because of me. +006:058 This is the bread which came down out of heaven--not as our + fathers ate the manna, and died. He who eats this bread + will live forever." +006:059 These things he said in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum. +006:060 Therefore many of his disciples, when they heard this, said, + "This is a hard saying! Who can listen to it?" +006:061 But Jesus knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at this, + said to them, "Does this cause you to stumble? +006:062 Then what if you would see the Son of Man ascending to where + he was before? +006:063 It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. + The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life. +006:064 But there are some of you who don't believe." For Jesus + knew from the beginning who they were who didn't believe, + and who it was who would betray him. +006:065 He said, "For this cause have I said to you that no one can + come to me, unless it is given to him by my Father." +006:066 At this, many of his disciples went back, and walked no + more with him. +006:067 Jesus said therefore to the twelve, "You don't also want + to go away, do you?" +006:068 Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom would we go? + You have the words of eternal life. +006:069 We have come to believe and know that you are the Christ, + the Son of the living God." +006:070 Jesus answered them, "Didn't I choose you, the twelve, + and one of you is a devil?" +006:071 Now he spoke of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, for it was + he who would betray him, being one of the twelve. +007:001 After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn't + walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him. +007:002 Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was at hand. +007:003 His brothers therefore said to him, "Depart from here, + and go into Judea, that your disciples also may see your works + which you do. +007:004 For no one does anything in secret, and himself seeks to be + known openly. If you do these things, reveal yourself + to the world." +007:005 For even his brothers didn't believe in him. +007:006 Jesus therefore said to them, "My time has not yet come, + but your time is always ready. +007:007 The world can't hate you, but it hates me, because I testify + about it, that its works are evil. +007:008 You go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, + because my time is not yet fulfilled." +007:009 Having said these things to them, he stayed in Galilee. +007:010 But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also + went up, not publicly, but as it were in secret. +007:011 The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, + "Where is he?" +007:012 There was much murmuring among the multitudes concerning him. + Some said, "He is a good man." Others said, "Not so, + but he leads the multitude astray." +007:013 Yet no one spoke openly of him for fear of the Jews. +007:014 But when it was now the midst of the feast, Jesus went up + into the temple and taught. +007:015 The Jews therefore marveled, saying, "How does this man + know letters, having never been educated?" +007:016 Jesus therefore answered them, "My teaching is not mine, + but his who sent me. +007:017 If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, + whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself. +007:018 He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks + the glory of him who sent him is true, and no unrighteousness + is in him. +007:019 Didn't Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? + Why do you seek to kill me?" +007:020 The multitude answered, "You have a demon! Who seeks + to kill you?" +007:021 Jesus answered them, "I did one work, and you all marvel + because of it. +007:022 Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, + but of the fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a boy. +007:023 If a boy receives circumcision on the Sabbath, that the law + of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me, because I + made a man every bit whole on the Sabbath? +007:024 Don't judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment." +007:025 Therefore some of them of Jerusalem said, "Isn't this he whom + they seek to kill? +007:026 Behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. + Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is + truly the Christ? +007:027 However we know where this man comes from, but when the Christ comes, + no one will know where he comes from." +007:028 Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, + "You both know me, and know where I am from. I have not come + of myself, but he who sent me is true, whom you don't know. +007:029 I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me." +007:030 They sought therefore to take him; but no one laid a hand on him, + because his hour had not yet come. +007:031 But of the multitude, many believed in him. They said, + "When the Christ comes, he won't do more signs than those + which this man has done, will he?" +007:032 The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things + concerning him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent + officers to arrest him. +007:033 Then Jesus said, "I will be with you a little while longer, + then I go to him who sent me. +007:034 You will seek me, and won't find me; and where I am, + you can't come." +007:035 The Jews therefore said among themselves, "Where will this + man go that we won't find him? Will he go to the Dispersion + among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks? +007:036 What is this word that he said, 'You will seek me, and won't + find me; and where I am, you can't come'?" +007:037 Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and + cried out, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink! +007:038 He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within + him will flow rivers of living water." +007:039 But he said this about the Spirit, which those believing in him + were to receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given, + because Jesus wasn't yet glorified. +007:040 Many of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, + said, "This is truly the prophet." +007:041 Others said, "This is the Christ." But some said, "What, + does the Christ come out of Galilee? +007:042 Hasn't the Scripture said that the Christ comes of the seed + of David,{2 Samuel 7:12} and from Bethlehem,{Micah 5:2} + the village where David was?" +007:043 So there arose a division in the multitude because of him. +007:044 Some of them would have arrested him, but no one laid + hands on him. +007:045 The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees, + and they said to them, "Why didn't you bring him?" +007:046 The officers answered, "No man ever spoke like this man!" +007:047 The Pharisees therefore answered them, "You aren't also + led astray, are you? +007:048 Have any of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees? +007:049 But this multitude that doesn't know the law is accursed." +007:050 Nicodemus (he who came to him by night, being one of them) + said to them, +007:051 "Does our law judge a man, unless it first hears from him + personally and knows what he does?" +007:052 They answered him, "Are you also from Galilee? Search, and see + that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee.{See Isaiah 9:1 + and Matthew 4:13-16.}" +007:053 Everyone went to his own house, +008:001 but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. +008:002 Now very early in the morning, he came again into the temple, + and all the people came to him. He sat down, and taught them. +008:003 The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman taken in adultery. + Having set her in the midst, +008:004 they told him, "Teacher, we found this woman in adultery, + in the very act. +008:005 Now in our law, Moses commanded us to stone such.{Leviticus 20:10; + Deuteronomy 22:22} What then do you say about her?" +008:006 They said this testing him, that they might have something + to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped down, and wrote on + the ground with his finger. +008:007 But when they continued asking him, he looked up and said to them, + "He who is without sin among you, let him throw the first + stone at her." +008:008 Again he stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground. +008:009 They, when they heard it, being convicted by their conscience, + went out one by one, beginning from the oldest, even to the last. + Jesus was left alone with the woman where she was, + in the middle. +008:010 Jesus, standing up, saw her and said, "Woman, where are + your accusers? Did no one condemn you?" +008:011 She said, "No one, Lord." Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you. + Go your way. From now on, sin no more." +008:012 Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, "I am the light + of the world.{Isaiah 60:1} He who follows me will not walk + in the darkness, but will have the light of life." +008:013 The Pharisees therefore said to him, "You testify about yourself. + Your testimony is not valid." +008:014 Jesus answered them, "Even if I testify about myself, my testimony + is true, for I know where I came from, and where I am going; + but you don't know where I came from, or where I am going. +008:015 You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one. +008:016 Even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for I am not alone, + but I am with the Father who sent me. +008:017 It's also written in your law that the testimony of two people + is valid.{Deuteronomy 17:6; 19:15} +008:018 I am one who testifies about myself, and the Father who sent + me testifies about me." +008:019 They said therefore to him, "Where is your Father?" Jesus answered, + "You know neither me, nor my Father. If you knew me, + you would know my Father also." +008:020 Jesus spoke these words in the treasury, as he taught in the temple. + Yet no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come. +008:021 Jesus said therefore again to them, "I am going away, + and you will seek me, and you will die in your sins. + Where I go, you can't come." +008:022 The Jews therefore said, "Will he kill himself, that he says, + 'Where I am going, you can't come?'" +008:023 He said to them, "You are from beneath. I am from above. + You are of this world. I am not of this world. +008:024 I said therefore to you that you will die in your sins; + for unless you believe that I AM he, you will die in your sins." +008:025 They said therefore to him, "Who are you?" Jesus said to them, + "Just what I have been saying to you from the beginning. +008:026 I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you. + However he who sent me is true; and the things which I heard + from him, these I say to the world." +008:027 They didn't understand that he spoke to them about the Father. +008:028 Jesus therefore said to them, "When you have lifted up the Son + of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing + of myself, but as my Father taught me, I say these things. +008:029 He who sent me is with me. The Father hasn't left me alone, + for I always do the things that are pleasing to him." +008:030 As he spoke these things, many believed in him. +008:031 Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, + "If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples. +008:032 You will know the truth, and the truth will make + you free."{Psalm 119:45} +008:033 They answered him, "We are Abraham's seed, and have never been + in bondage to anyone. How do you say, 'You will be made free?'" +008:034 Jesus answered them, "Most certainly I tell you, everyone who + commits sin is the bondservant of sin. +008:035 A bondservant doesn't live in the house forever. + A son remains forever. +008:036 If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed. +008:037 I know that you are Abraham's seed, yet you seek to kill me, + because my word finds no place in you. +008:038 I say the things which I have seen with my Father; and you + also do the things which you have seen with your father." +008:039 They answered him, "Our father is Abraham." Jesus said to them, + "If you were Abraham's children, you would do the works of Abraham. +008:040 But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth, + which I heard from God. Abraham didn't do this. +008:041 You do the works of your father." They said to him, "We were + not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God." +008:042 Therefore Jesus said to them, "If God were your father, + you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. + For I haven't come of myself, but he sent me. +008:043 Why don't you understand my speech? Because you can't + hear my word. +008:044 You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires + of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, + and doesn't stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. + When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, + and the father of it. +008:045 But because I tell the truth, you don't believe me. +008:046 Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, + why do you not believe me? +008:047 He who is of God hears the words of God. For this cause you + don't hear, because you are not of God." +008:048 Then the Jews answered him, "Don't we say well that you are + a Samaritan, and have a demon?" +008:049 Jesus answered, "I don't have a demon, but I honor my Father, + and you dishonor me. +008:050 But I don't seek my own glory. There is one who seeks and judges. +008:051 Most certainly, I tell you, if a person keeps my word, + he will never see death." +008:052 Then the Jews said to him, "Now we know that you have a demon. + Abraham died, and the prophets; and you say, 'If a man keeps + my word, he will never taste of death.' +008:053 Are you greater than our father, Abraham, who died? + The prophets died. Who do you make yourself out to be?" +008:054 Jesus answered, "If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. + It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say that + he is our God. +008:055 You have not known him, but I know him. If I said, 'I don't + know him,' I would be like you, a liar. But I know him, + and keep his word. +008:056 Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day. He saw it, + and was glad." +008:057 The Jews therefore said to him, "You are not yet fifty years old, + and have you seen Abraham?" +008:058 Jesus said to them, "Most certainly, I tell you, before Abraham + came into existence, I AM." +008:059 Therefore they took up stones to throw at him, but Jesus was hidden, + and went out of the temple, having gone through the midst + of them, and so passed by. +009:001 As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. +009:002 His disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, + that he was born blind?" +009:003 Jesus answered, "Neither did this man sin, nor his parents; + but, that the works of God might be revealed in him. +009:004 I must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day. + The night is coming, when no one can work. +009:005 While I am in the world, I am the light of the world." +009:006 When he had said this, he spat on the ground, made mud with + the saliva, anointed the blind man's eyes with the mud, +009:007 and said to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (which means + "Sent"). So he went away, washed, and came back seeing. +009:008 The neighbors therefore, and those who saw that he was + blind before, said, "Isn't this he who sat and begged?" +009:009 Others were saying, "It is he." Still others were saying, + "He looks like him." He said, "I am he." +009:010 They therefore were asking him, "How were your eyes opened?" +009:011 He answered, "A man called Jesus made mud, anointed my eyes, + and said to me, 'Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash.' + So I went away and washed, and I received sight." +009:012 Then they asked him, "Where is he?" He said, "I don't know." +009:013 They brought him who had been blind to the Pharisees. +009:014 It was a Sabbath when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes. +009:015 Again therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he received + his sight. He said to them, "He put mud on my eyes, I washed, + and I see." +009:016 Some therefore of the Pharisees said, "This man is + not from God, because he doesn't keep the Sabbath." + Others said, "How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?" + There was division among them. +009:017 Therefore they asked the blind man again, "What do you + say about him, because he opened your eyes?" He said, + "He is a prophet." +009:018 The Jews therefore did not believe concerning him, that he had + been blind, and had received his sight, until they called + the parents of him who had received his sight, +009:019 and asked them, "Is this your son, who you say was born blind? + How then does he now see?" +009:020 His parents answered them, "We know that this is our son, + and that he was born blind; +009:021 but how he now sees, we don't know; or who opened + his eyes, we don't know. He is of age. Ask him. + He will speak for himself." +009:022 His parents said these things because they feared the Jews; + for the Jews had already agreed that if any man would confess + him as Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue. +009:023 Therefore his parents said, "He is of age. Ask him." +009:024 So they called the man who was blind a second time, and said to him, + "Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner." +009:025 He therefore answered, "I don't know if he is a sinner. + One thing I do know: that though I was blind, now I see." +009:026 They said to him again, "What did he do to you? + How did he open your eyes?" +009:027 He answered them, "I told you already, and you didn't listen. + Why do you want to hear it again? You don't also want + to become his disciples, do you?" +009:028 They insulted him and said, "You are his disciple, but we + are disciples of Moses. +009:029 We know that God has spoken to Moses. But as for this man, + we don't know where he comes from." +009:030 The man answered them, "How amazing! You don't know where + he comes from, yet he opened my eyes. +009:031 We know that God doesn't listen to sinners, but if anyone + is a worshipper of God, and does his will, he listens + to him.{Psalm 66:18, Proverbs 15:29; 28:9} +009:032 Since the world began it has never been heard of that anyone + opened the eyes of someone born blind. +009:033 If this man were not from God, he could do nothing." +009:034 They answered him, "You were altogether born in sins, + and do you teach us?" They threw him out. +009:035 Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and finding him, + he said, "Do you believe in the Son of God?" +009:036 He answered, "Who is he, Lord, that I may believe in him?" +009:037 Jesus said to him, "You have both seen him, and it is he who + speaks with you." +009:038 He said, "Lord, I believe!" and he worshiped him. +009:039 Jesus said, "I came into this world for judgment, that those who + don't see may see; and that those who see may become blind." +009:040 Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, + and said to him, "Are we also blind?" +009:041 Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would have no sin; + but now you say, 'We see.' Therefore your sin remains. +010:001 "Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn't enter by the door + into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, the same + is a thief and a robber. +010:002 But one who enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. +010:003 The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep + listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name, + and leads them out. +010:004 Whenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them, + and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. +010:005 They will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him; + for they don't know the voice of strangers." +010:006 Jesus spoke this parable to them, but they didn't understand + what he was telling them. +010:007 Jesus therefore said to them again, "Most certainly, I tell you, + I am the sheep's door. +010:008 All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep + didn't listen to them. +010:009 I am the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, + and will go in and go out, and will find pasture. +010:010 The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. + I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly. +010:011 I am the good shepherd.{Isaiah 40:11; Ezekiel 34:11-12,15,22} + The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. +010:012 He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who doesn't own + the sheep, sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees. + The wolf snatches the sheep, and scatters them. +010:013 The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand, and doesn't + care for the sheep. +010:014 I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I'm known by my own; +010:015 even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. + I lay down my life for the sheep. +010:016 I have other sheep, which are not of this fold.{Isaiah 56:8} + I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. + They will become one flock with one shepherd. +010:017 Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life,{Isaiah + 53:7-8} that I may take it again. +010:018 No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down by myself. + I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. + I received this commandment from my Father." +010:019 Therefore a division arose again among the Jews because + of these words. +010:020 Many of them said, "He has a demon, and is insane! + Why do you listen to him?" +010:021 Others said, "These are not the sayings of one possessed by a demon. + It isn't possible for a demon to open the eyes of the blind, + is it?"{Exodus 4:11} +010:022 It was the Feast of the Dedication{The "Feast of the Dedication" + is the Greek name for "Chanukkah," a celebration of the + rededication of the Temple.} at Jerusalem. +010:023 It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple, + in Solomon's porch. +010:024 The Jews therefore came around him and said to him, "How long + will you hold us in suspense? If you are the Christ, + tell us plainly." +010:025 Jesus answered them, "I told you, and you don't believe. + The works that I do in my Father's name, these testify about me. +010:026 But you don't believe, because you are not of my sheep, + as I told you. +010:027 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. +010:028 I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, + and no one will snatch them out of my hand. +010:029 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all. + No one is able to snatch them out of my Father's hand. +010:030 I and the Father are one." +010:031 Therefore Jews took up stones again to stone him. +010:032 Jesus answered them, "I have shown you many good works from + my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?" +010:033 The Jews answered him, "We don't stone you for a good work, + but for blasphemy: because you, being a man, make yourself God." +010:034 Jesus answered them, "Isn't it written in your law, 'I said, + you are gods?'{Psalm 82:6} +010:035 If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came + (and the Scripture can't be broken), +010:036 do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, + 'You blaspheme,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God?' +010:037 If I don't do the works of my Father, don't believe me. +010:038 But if I do them, though you don't believe me, believe the works; + that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, + and I in the Father." +010:039 They sought again to seize him, and he went out of their hand. +010:040 He went away again beyond the Jordan into the place where John + was baptizing at first, and there he stayed. +010:041 Many came to him. They said, "John indeed did no sign, + but everything that John said about this man is true." +010:042 Many believed in him there. +011:001 Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, of the village + of Mary and her sister, Martha. +011:002 It was that Mary who had anointed the Lord with ointment, + and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother, Lazarus, was sick. +011:003 The sisters therefore sent to him, saying, "Lord, behold, he for + whom you have great affection is sick." +011:004 But when Jesus heard it, he said, "This sickness is not to death, + but for the glory of God, that God's Son may be glorified by it." +011:005 Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus. +011:006 When therefore he heard that he was sick, he stayed two days + in the place where he was. +011:007 Then after this he said to the disciples, "Let's go + into Judea again." +011:008 The disciples told him, "Rabbi, the Jews were just trying + to stone you, and are you going there again?" +011:009 Jesus answered, "Aren't there twelve hours of daylight? + If a man walks in the day, he doesn't stumble, because he sees + the light of this world. +011:010 But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light + isn't in him." +011:011 He said these things, and after that, he said to them, + "Our friend, Lazarus, has fallen asleep, but I am going + so that I may awake him out of sleep." +011:012 The disciples therefore said, "Lord, if he has fallen asleep, + he will recover." +011:013 Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he spoke + of taking rest in sleep. +011:014 So Jesus said to them plainly then, "Lazarus is dead. +011:015 I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you + may believe. Nevertheless, let's go to him." +011:016 Thomas therefore, who is called Didymus,{"Didymus" + means "Twin"} said to his fellow disciples, "Let's go also, + that we may die with him." +011:017 So when Jesus came, he found that he had been in the tomb + four days already. +011:018 Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia{15 stadia + is about 2.8 kilometers or 1.7 miles} away. +011:019 Many of the Jews had joined the women around Martha and Mary, + to console them concerning their brother. +011:020 Then when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, + but Mary stayed in the house. +011:021 Therefore Martha said to Jesus, "Lord, if you would have been here, + my brother wouldn't have died. +011:022 Even now I know that, whatever you ask of God, God will give you." +011:023 Jesus said to her, "Your brother will rise again." +011:024 Martha said to him, "I know that he will rise again in the + resurrection at the last day." +011:025 Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. + He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies. +011:026 Whoever lives and believes in me will never die. + Do you believe this?" +011:027 She said to him, "Yes, Lord. I have come to believe that you + are the Christ, God's Son, he who comes into the world." +011:028 When she had said this, she went away, and called Mary, + her sister, secretly, saying, "The Teacher is here, + and is calling you." +011:029 When she heard this, she arose quickly, and went to him. +011:030 Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was in the place + where Martha met him. +011:031 Then the Jews who were with her in the house, and were consoling her, + when they saw Mary, that she rose up quickly and went out, + followed her, saying, "She is going to the tomb to weep there." +011:032 Therefore when Mary came to where Jesus was, and saw him, + she fell down at his feet, saying to him, "Lord, if you would + have been here, my brother wouldn't have died." +011:033 When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews weeping + who came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled, +011:034 and said, "Where have you laid him?" They told him, "Lord, + come and see." +011:035 Jesus wept. +011:036 The Jews therefore said, "See how much affection he had for him!" +011:037 Some of them said, "Couldn't this man, who opened the eyes + of him who was blind, have also kept this man from dying?" +011:038 Jesus therefore, again groaning in himself, came to the tomb. + Now it was a cave, and a stone lay against it. +011:039 Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the sister of him + who was dead, said to him, "Lord, by this time there is a stench, + for he has been dead four days." +011:040 Jesus said to her, "Didn't I tell you that if you believed, + you would see God's glory?" +011:041 So they took away the stone from the place where the dead man + was lying.{NU omits "from the place where the dead man was + lying."} Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, "Father, I thank + you that you listened to me. +011:042 I know that you always listen to me, but because of the multitude + that stands around I said this, that they may believe that + you sent me." +011:043 When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, + "Lazarus, come out!" +011:044 He who was dead came out, bound hand and foot with wrappings, + and his face was wrapped around with a cloth. Jesus said + to them, "Free him, and let him go." +011:045 Therefore many of the Jews, who came to Mary and saw what Jesus did, + believed in him. +011:046 But some of them went away to the Pharisees, and told them + the things which Jesus had done. +011:047 The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, + and said, "What are we doing? For this man does many signs. +011:048 If we leave him alone like this, everyone will believe in him, + and the Romans will come and take away both our place + and our nation." +011:049 But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, + said to them, "You know nothing at all, +011:050 nor do you consider that it is advantageous for us that one man + should die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish." +011:051 Now he didn't say this of himself, but being high priest that year, + he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation, +011:052 and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather + together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad. +011:053 So from that day forward they took counsel that they might put + him to death. +011:054 Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews, + but departed from there into the country near the wilderness, + to a city called Ephraim. He stayed there with his disciples. +011:055 Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand. Many went + up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover, + to purify themselves. +011:056 Then they sought for Jesus and spoke one with another, + as they stood in the temple, "What do you think--that he isn't + coming to the feast at all?" +011:057 Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had commanded + that if anyone knew where he was, he should report it, + that they might seize him. +012:001 Then six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, + where Lazarus was, who had been dead, whom he raised + from the dead. +012:002 So they made him a supper there. Martha served, but Lazarus + was one of those who sat at the table with him. +012:003 Mary, therefore, took a pound{a Roman pound of 12 ounces, + or about 340 grams} of ointment of pure nard, very precious, + and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair. + The house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment. +012:004 Then Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, one of his disciples, + who would betray him, said, +012:005 "Why wasn't this ointment sold for three hundred denarii,{300 + denarii was about a year's wages for an agricultural laborer.} + and given to the poor?" +012:006 Now he said this, not because he cared for the poor, + but because he was a thief, and having the money box, + used to steal what was put into it. +012:007 But Jesus said, "Leave her alone. She has kept this for the day + of my burial. +012:008 For you always have the poor with you, but you don't + always have me." +012:009 A large crowd therefore of the Jews learned that he was there, + and they came, not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might + see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead. +012:010 But the chief priests conspired to put Lazarus to death also, +012:011 because on account of him many of the Jews went away and + believed in Jesus. +012:012 On the next day a great multitude had come to the feast. + When they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, +012:013 they took the branches of the palm trees, and went out to + meet him, and cried out, "Hosanna{"Hosanna" means "save us" + or "help us, we pray."}! Blessed is he who comes in the name + of the Lord,{Psalm 118:25-26} the King of Israel!" +012:014 Jesus, having found a young donkey, sat on it. + As it is written, +012:015 "Don't be afraid, daughter of Zion. Behold, your King comes, + sitting on a donkey's colt."{Zechariah 9:9} +012:016 His disciples didn't understand these things at first, + but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that + these things were written about him, and that they had done + these things to him. +012:017 The multitude therefore that was with him when he called + Lazarus out of the tomb, and raised him from the dead, + was testifying about it. +012:018 For this cause also the multitude went and met him, because they + heard that he had done this sign. +012:019 The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, "See how you + accomplish nothing. Behold, the world has gone after him." +012:020 Now there were certain Greeks among those that went up to worship + at the feast. +012:021 These, therefore, came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of Galilee, + and asked him, saying, "Sir, we want to see Jesus." +012:022 Philip came and told Andrew, and in turn, Andrew came with Philip, + and they told Jesus. +012:023 Jesus answered them, "The time has come for the Son of Man + to be glorified. +012:024 Most certainly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls + into the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone. + But if it dies, it bears much fruit. +012:025 He who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life + in this world will keep it to eternal life. +012:026 If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, + there will my servant also be. If anyone serves me, + the Father will honor him. +012:027 "Now my soul is troubled. What shall I say? 'Father, save me + from this time?' But for this cause I came to this time. +012:028 Father, glorify your name!" Then there came a voice out + of the sky, saying, "I have both glorified it, and will + glorify it again." +012:029 The multitude therefore, who stood by and heard it, said that it + had thundered. Others said, "An angel has spoken to him." +012:030 Jesus answered, "This voice hasn't come for my sake, + but for your sakes. +012:031 Now is the judgment of this world. Now the prince of this + world will be cast out. +012:032 And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all + people to myself." +012:033 But he said this, signifying by what kind of death he should die. +012:034 The multitude answered him, "We have heard out of the law + that the Christ remains forever.{Isaiah 9:7; Daniel 2:44 + (but see also Isaiah 53:8)} How do you say, 'The Son of Man + must be lifted up?' Who is this Son of Man?" +012:035 Jesus therefore said to them, "Yet a little while the light + is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness + doesn't overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn't + know where he is going. +012:036 While you have the light, believe in the light, that you + may become children of light." Jesus said these things, + and he departed and hid himself from them. +012:037 But though he had done so many signs before them, yet they + didn't believe in him, +012:038 that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, + which he spoke, "Lord, who has believed our report? + To whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?"{Isaiah 53:1} +012:039 For this cause they couldn't believe, for Isaiah said again, +012:040 "He has blinded their eyes and he hardened their heart, lest they + should see with their eyes, and perceive with their heart, + and would turn, and I would heal them."{Isaiah 6:10} +012:041 Isaiah said these things when he saw his glory, and spoke + of him.{Isaiah 6:1} +012:042 Nevertheless even of the rulers many believed in him, + but because of the Pharisees they didn't confess it, + so that they wouldn't be put out of the synagogue, +012:043 for they loved men's praise more than God's praise. +012:044 Jesus cried out and said, "Whoever believes in me, believes not + in me, but in him who sent me. +012:045 He who sees me sees him who sent me. +012:046 I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes + in me may not remain in the darkness. +012:047 If anyone listens to my sayings, and doesn't believe, + I don't judge him. For I came not to judge the world, + but to save the world. +012:048 He who rejects me, and doesn't receive my sayings, has one + who judges him. The word that I spoke, the same will judge + him in the last day. +012:049 For I spoke not from myself, but the Father who sent me, he gave + me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. +012:050 I know that his commandment is eternal life. The things + therefore which I speak, even as the Father has said to me, + so I speak." +013:001 Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his time + had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, + having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them + to the end. +013:002 After supper, the devil having already put into the heart + of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him, +013:003 Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, + and that he came forth from God, and was going to God, +013:004 arose from supper, and laid aside his outer garments. + He took a towel, and wrapped a towel around his waist. +013:005 Then he poured water into the basin, and began to wash + the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel that was + wrapped around him. +013:006 Then he came to Simon Peter. He said to him, "Lord, do you + wash my feet?" +013:007 Jesus answered him, "You don't know what I am doing now, + but you will understand later." +013:008 Peter said to him, "You will never wash my feet!" + Jesus answered him, "If I don't wash you, you have no + part with me." +013:009 Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, not my feet only, but also my + hands and my head!" +013:010 Jesus said to him, "Someone who has bathed only needs to have + his feet washed, but is completely clean. You are clean, + but not all of you." +013:011 For he knew him who would betray him, therefore he said, + "You are not all clean." +013:012 So when he had washed their feet, put his outer garment back on, + and sat down again, he said to them, "Do you know what I + have done to you? +013:013 You call me, 'Teacher' and 'Lord.' You say so correctly, + for so I am. +013:014 If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, + you also ought to wash one another's feet. +013:015 For I have given you an example, that you also should do as I + have done to you. +013:016 Most certainly I tell you, a servant is not greater than his lord, + neither one who is sent greater than he who sent him. +013:017 If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them. +013:018 I don't speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen. + But that the Scripture may be fulfilled, 'He who eats bread + with me has lifted up his heel against me.'{Psalm 41:9} +013:019 From now on, I tell you before it happens, that when it happens, + you may believe that I am he. +013:020 Most certainly I tell you, he who receives whomever I send, + receives me; and he who receives me, receives him who sent me." +013:021 When Jesus had said this, he was troubled in spirit, and testified, + "Most certainly I tell you that one of you will betray me." +013:022 The disciples looked at one another, perplexed about whom he spoke. +013:023 One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, was at the table, + leaning against Jesus' breast. +013:024 Simon Peter therefore beckoned to him, and said to him, + "Tell us who it is of whom he speaks." +013:025 He, leaning back, as he was, on Jesus' breast, asked him, + "Lord, who is it?" +013:026 Jesus therefore answered, "It is he to whom I will + give this piece of bread when I have dipped it." + So when he had dipped the piece of bread, he gave it to Judas, + the son of Simon Iscariot. +013:027 After the piece of bread, then Satan entered into him. + Then Jesus said to him, "What you do, do quickly." +013:028 Now no man at the table knew why he said this to him. +013:029 For some thought, because Judas had the money box, that Jesus + said to him, "Buy what things we need for the feast," + or that he should give something to the poor. +013:030 Therefore, having received that morsel, he went out immediately. + It was night. +013:031 When he had gone out, Jesus said, "Now the Son of Man has + been glorified, and God has been glorified in him. +013:032 If God has been glorified in him, God will also glorify him + in himself, and he will glorify him immediately. +013:033 Little children, I will be with you a little while longer. + You will seek me, and as I said to the Jews, 'Where I am going, + you can't come,' so now I tell you. +013:034 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, + just like I have loved you; that you also love one another. +013:035 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you + have love for one another." +013:036 Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, where are you going?" + Jesus answered, "Where I am going, you can't follow now, + but you will follow afterwards." +013:037 Peter said to him, "Lord, why can't I follow you now? + I will lay down my life for you." +013:038 Jesus answered him, "Will you lay down your life for me? + Most certainly I tell you, the rooster won't crow until you + have denied me three times. +014:001 "Don't let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. + Believe also in me. +014:002 In my Father's house are many homes. If it weren't so, + I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you. +014:003 If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, + and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may + be there also. +014:004 Where I go, you know, and you know the way." +014:005 Thomas said to him, "Lord, we don't know where you are going. + How can we know the way?" +014:006 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. + No one comes to the Father, except through me. +014:007 If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. + From now on, you know him, and have seen him." +014:008 Philip said to him, "Lord, show us the Father, and that will + be enough for us." +014:009 Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you such a long time, and do + you not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. + How do you say, 'Show us the Father?' +014:010 Don't you believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? + The words that I tell you, I speak not from myself; + but the Father who lives in me does his works. +014:011 Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me; + or else believe me for the very works' sake. +014:012 Most certainly I tell you, he who believes in me, the works + that I do, he will do also; and he will do greater works + than these, because I am going to my Father. +014:013 Whatever you will ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father + may be glorified in the Son. +014:014 If you will ask anything in my name, I will do it. +014:015 If you love me, keep my commandments. +014:016 I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another + Counselor,{Greek Parakleton: Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, + Advocate, and Comfortor.} that he may be with you forever,-- +014:017 the Spirit of truth, whom the world can't receive; + for it doesn't see him, neither knows him. You know him, + for he lives with you, and will be in you. +014:018 I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you. +014:019 Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more; + but you will see me. Because I live, you will live also. +014:020 In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, + and I in you. +014:021 One who has my commandments, and keeps them, that person is one + who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, + and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him." +014:022 Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, "Lord, what has happened that you + are about to reveal yourself to us, and not to the world?" +014:023 Jesus answered him, "If a man loves me, he will keep my word. + My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make + our home with him. +014:024 He who doesn't love me doesn't keep my words. The word + which you hear isn't mine, but the Father's who sent me. +014:025 I have said these things to you, while still living with you. +014:026 But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send + in my name, he will teach you all things, and will remind + you of all that I said to you. +014:027 Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the + world gives, give I to you. Don't let your heart be troubled, + neither let it be fearful. +014:028 You heard how I told you, 'I go away, and I come to you.' + If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I said 'I + am going to my Father;' for the Father is greater than I. +014:029 Now I have told you before it happens so that, when it happens, + you may believe. +014:030 I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world comes, + and he has nothing in me. +014:031 But that the world may know that I love the Father, + and as the Father commanded me, even so I do. Arise, let us + go from here. +015:001 "I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer. +015:002 Every branch in me that doesn't bear fruit, he takes away. + Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may + bear more fruit. +015:003 You are already pruned clean because of the word which I + have spoken to you. +015:004 Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can't bear fruit + by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, + unless you remain in me. +015:005 I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, + and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me + you can do nothing. +015:006 If a man doesn't remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch, + and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, + and they are burned. +015:007 If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask + whatever you desire, and it will be done for you. +015:008 "In this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit; + and so you will be my disciples. +015:009 Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. + Remain in my love. +015:010 If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; + even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and remain + in his love. +015:011 I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, + and that your joy may be made full. +015:012 "This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I + have loved you. +015:013 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his + life for his friends. +015:014 You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you. +015:015 No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn't + know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, + for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made + known to you. +015:016 You didn't choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you + should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; + that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, + he may give it to you. +015:017 "I command these things to you, that you may love one another. +015:018 If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before + it hated you. +015:019 If you were of the world, the world would love its own. + But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out + of the world, therefore the world hates you. +015:020 Remember the word that I said to you: 'A servant is not + greater than his lord.'{John 13:16} If they persecuted me, + they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, + they will keep yours also. +015:021 But all these things will they do to you for my name's sake, + because they don't know him who sent me. +015:022 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; + but now they have no excuse for their sin. +015:023 He who hates me, hates my Father also. +015:024 If I hadn't done among them the works which no one else did, + they wouldn't have had sin. But now have they seen and also + hated both me and my Father. +015:025 But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled + which was written in their law, 'They hated me without + a cause.'{Psalms 35:19; 69:4} +015:026 "When the Counselor{Greek Parakletos: Counselor, Helper, + Advocate, Intercessor, and Comfortor.} has come, whom I + will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, + who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me. +015:027 You will also testify, because you have been with me + from the beginning. +016:001 "These things have I spoken to you, so that you wouldn't + be caused to stumble. +016:002 They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes + that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God. +016:003 They will do these things{TR adds "to you"} because they + have not known the Father, nor me. +016:004 But I have told you these things, so that when the time comes, + you may remember that I told you about them. I didn't tell + you these things from the beginning, because I was with you. +016:005 But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, + 'Where are you going?' +016:006 But because I have told you these things, sorrow has + filled your heart. +016:007 Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is to your advantage that I + go away, for if I don't go away, the Counselor won't come to you. + But if I go, I will send him to you. +016:008 When he has come, he will convict the world about sin, + about righteousness, and about judgment; +016:009 about sin, because they don't believe in me; +016:010 about righteousness, because I am going to my Father, and you + won't see me any more; +016:011 about judgment, because the prince of this world has been judged. +016:012 "I have yet many things to tell you, but you can't bear them now. +016:013 However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide + you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; + but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you + things that are coming. +016:014 He will glorify me, for he will take from what is mine, + and will declare it to you. +016:015 All things whatever the Father has are mine; therefore I said + that he takes{TR reads "will take" instead of "takes"} of mine, + and will declare it to you. +016:016 A little while, and you will not see me. Again a little while, + and you will see me." +016:017 Some of his disciples therefore said to one another, "What is + this that he says to us, 'A little while, and you won't see me, + and again a little while, and you will see me;' and, 'Because I + go to the Father?'" +016:018 They said therefore, "What is this that he says, 'A little while?' + We don't know what he is saying." +016:019 Therefore Jesus perceived that they wanted to ask him, and he said + to them, "Do you inquire among yourselves concerning this, + that I said, 'A little while, and you won't see me, and again + a little while, and you will see me?' +016:020 Most certainly I tell you, that you will weep and lament, + but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your + sorrow will be turned into joy. +016:021 A woman, when she gives birth, has sorrow, because her time has come. + But when she has delivered the child, she doesn't remember + the anguish any more, for the joy that a human being is born + into the world. +016:022 Therefore you now have sorrow, but I will see you again, + and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy + away from you. +016:023 "In that day you will ask me no questions. Most certainly + I tell you, whatever you may ask of the Father in my name, + he will give it to you. +016:024 Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you + will receive, that your joy may be made full. +016:025 I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. + But the time is coming when I will no more speak to you in + figures of speech, but will tell you plainly about the Father. +016:026 In that day you will ask in my name; and I don't say to you, + that I will pray to the Father for you, +016:027 for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, + and have believed that I came forth from God. +016:028 I came out from the Father, and have come into the world. + Again, I leave the world, and go to the Father." +016:029 His disciples said to him, "Behold, now you speak plainly, + and speak no figures of speech. +016:030 Now we know that you know all things, and don't need for + anyone to question you. By this we believe that you came + forth from God." +016:031 Jesus answered them, "Do you now believe? +016:032 Behold, the time is coming, yes, and has now come, that you + will be scattered, everyone to his own place, and you will + leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father + is with me. +016:033 I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. + In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! + I have overcome the world." +017:001 Jesus said these things, and lifting up his eyes to heaven, + he said, "Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, + that your Son may also glorify you; +017:002 even as you gave him authority over all flesh, he will give + eternal life to all whom you have given him. +017:003 This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, + and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ. +017:004 I glorified you on the earth. I have accomplished the work + which you have given me to do. +017:005 Now, Father, glorify me with your own self with the glory + which I had with you before the world existed. +017:006 I revealed your name to the people whom you have given me out + of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me. + They have kept your word. +017:007 Now they have known that all things whatever you have given + me are from you, +017:008 for the words which you have given me I have given to them, + and they received them, and knew for sure that I came forth + from you, and they have believed that you sent me. +017:009 I pray for them. I don't pray for the world, but for those whom + you have given me, for they are yours. +017:010 All things that are mine are yours, and yours are mine, + and I am glorified in them. +017:011 I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, + and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them through + your name which you have given me, that they may be one, + even as we are. +017:012 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name. + Those whom you have given me I have kept. None of them + is lost, except the son of destruction, that the Scripture + might be fulfilled. +017:013 But now I come to you, and I say these things in the world, + that they may have my joy made full in themselves. +017:014 I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they + are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. +017:015 I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you + would keep them from the evil one. +017:016 They are not of the world even as I am not of the world. +017:017 Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.{Psalm 119:142} +017:018 As you sent me into the world, even so I have sent them + into the world. +017:019 For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves + also may be sanctified in truth. +017:020 Not for these only do I pray, but for those also who believe + in me through their word, +017:021 that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, + and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world + may believe that you sent me. +017:022 The glory which you have given me, I have given to them; + that they may be one, even as we are one; +017:023 I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; + that the world may know that you sent me, and loved them, + even as you loved me. +017:024 Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me + where I am, that they may see my glory, which you have given me, + for you loved me before the foundation of the world. +017:025 Righteous Father, the world hasn't known you, but I knew you; + and these knew that you sent me. +017:026 I made known to them your name, and will make it known; + that the love with which you loved me may be in them, + and I in them." +018:001 When Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his + disciples over the brook Kidron, where was a garden, + into which he and his disciples entered. +018:002 Now Judas, who betrayed him, also knew the place, for Jesus + often met there with his disciples. +018:003 Judas then, having taken a detachment of soldiers and officers + from the chief priests and the Pharisees, came there + with lanterns, torches, and weapons. +018:004 Jesus therefore, knowing all the things that were happening to him, + went forth, and said to them, "Who are you looking for?" +018:005 They answered him, "Jesus of Nazareth." Jesus said to them, + "I am he." Judas also, who betrayed him, was standing with them. +018:006 When therefore he said to them, "I am he," they went backward, + and fell to the ground. +018:007 Again therefore he asked them, "Who are you looking for?" + They said, "Jesus of Nazareth." +018:008 Jesus answered, "I told you that I am he. If therefore you + seek me, let these go their way," +018:009 that the word might be fulfilled which he spoke, "Of those whom + you have given me, I have lost none."{John 6:39} +018:010 Simon Peter therefore, having a sword, drew it, and struck + the high priest's servant, and cut off his right ear. + The servant's name was Malchus. +018:011 Jesus therefore said to Peter, "Put the sword into its sheath. + The cup which the Father has given me, shall I not + surely drink it?" +018:012 So the detachment, the commanding officer, and the officers + of the Jews, seized Jesus and bound him, +018:013 and led him to Annas first, for he was father-in-law to Caiaphas, + who was high priest that year. +018:014 Now it was Caiaphas who advised the Jews that it was expedient + that one man should perish for the people. +018:015 Simon Peter followed Jesus, as did another disciple. + Now that disciple was known to the high priest, and entered + in with Jesus into the court of the high priest; +018:016 but Peter was standing at the door outside. So the other disciple, + who was known to the high priest, went out and spoke to her + who kept the door, and brought in Peter. +018:017 Then the maid who kept the door said to Peter, "Are you + also one of this man's disciples?" He said, "I am not." +018:018 Now the servants and the officers were standing there, having made + a fire of coals, for it was cold. They were warming themselves. + Peter was with them, standing and warming himself. +018:019 The high priest therefore asked Jesus about his disciples, + and about his teaching. +018:020 Jesus answered him, "I spoke openly to the world. I always taught + in synagogues, and in the temple, where the Jews always meet. + I said nothing in secret. +018:021 Why do you ask me? Ask those who have heard me what I said + to them. Behold, these know the things which I said." +018:022 When he had said this, one of the officers standing by slapped + Jesus with his hand, saying, "Do you answer the high + priest like that?" +018:023 Jesus answered him, "If I have spoken evil, testify of the evil; + but if well, why do you beat me?" +018:024 Annas sent him bound to Caiaphas, the high priest. +018:025 Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They said + therefore to him, "You aren't also one of his disciples, are you?" + He denied it, and said, "I am not." +018:026 One of the servants of the high priest, being a relative + of him whose ear Peter had cut off, said, "Didn't I see you + in the garden with him?" +018:027 Peter therefore denied it again, and immediately the rooster crowed. +018:028 They led Jesus therefore from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. + It was early, and they themselves didn't enter into the Praetorium, + that they might not be defiled, but might eat the Passover. +018:029 Pilate therefore went out to them, and said, "What accusation + do you bring against this man?" +018:030 They answered him, "If this man weren't an evildoer, we wouldn't + have delivered him up to you." +018:031 Pilate therefore said to them, "Take him yourselves, and judge + him according to your law." Therefore the Jews said to him, + "It is not lawful for us to put anyone to death," +018:032 that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spoke, + signifying by what kind of death he should die. +018:033 Pilate therefore entered again into the Praetorium, called Jesus, + and said to him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" +018:034 Jesus answered him, "Do you say this by yourself, or did others + tell you about me?" +018:035 Pilate answered, "I'm not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and + the chief priests delivered you to me. What have you done?" +018:036 Jesus answered, "My Kingdom is not of this world. + If my Kingdom were of this world, then my servants + would fight, that I wouldn't be delivered to the Jews. + But now my Kingdom is not from here." +018:037 Pilate therefore said to him, "Are you a king then?" + Jesus answered, "You say that I am a king. For this + reason I have been born, and for this reason I have come + into the world, that I should testify to the truth. + Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice." +018:038 Pilate said to him, "What is truth?" When he had said this, + he went out again to the Jews, and said to them, "I find + no basis for a charge against him. +018:039 But you have a custom, that I should release someone to you + at the Passover. Therefore do you want me to release to you + the King of the Jews?" +018:040 Then they all shouted again, saying, "Not this man, + but Barabbas!" Now Barabbas was a robber. +019:001 So Pilate then took Jesus, and flogged him. +019:002 The soldiers twisted thorns into a crown, and put it on his head, + and dressed him in a purple garment. +019:003 They kept saying, "Hail, King of the Jews!" and they + kept slapping him. +019:004 Then Pilate went out again, and said to them, "Behold, I bring + him out to you, that you may know that I find no basis + for a charge against him." +019:005 Jesus therefore came out, wearing the crown of thorns and + the purple garment. Pilate said to them, "Behold, the man!" +019:006 When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him, + they shouted, saying, "Crucify! Crucify!" Pilate said to them, + "Take him yourselves, and crucify him, for I find no basis + for a charge against him." +019:007 The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and by our law he ought + to die, because he made himself the Son of God." +019:008 When therefore Pilate heard this saying, he was more afraid. +019:009 He entered into the Praetorium again, and said to Jesus, "Where are + you from?" But Jesus gave him no answer. +019:010 Pilate therefore said to him, "Aren't you speaking to me? + Don't you know that I have power to release you, and have power + to crucify you?" +019:011 Jesus answered, "You would have no power at all against me, + unless it were given to you from above. Therefore he who + delivered me to you has greater sin." +019:012 At this, Pilate was seeking to release him, but the Jews cried out, + saying, "If you release this man, you aren't Caesar's friend! + Everyone who makes himself a king speaks against Caesar!" +019:013 When Pilate therefore heard these words, he brought Jesus out, + and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called "The Pavement," + but in Hebrew, "Gabbatha." +019:014 Now it was the Preparation Day of the Passover, at about the sixth + hour.{noon} He said to the Jews, "Behold, your King!" +019:015 They cried out, "Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!" + Pilate said to them, "Shall I crucify your King?" The chief + priests answered, "We have no king but Caesar!" +019:016 So then he delivered him to them to be crucified. + So they took Jesus and led him away. +019:017 He went out, bearing his cross, to the place called "The Place + of a Skull," which is called in Hebrew, "Golgotha," +019:018 where they crucified him, and with him two others, on either + side one, and Jesus in the middle. +019:019 Pilate wrote a title also, and put it on the cross. + There was written, "JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS." +019:020 Therefore many of the Jews read this title, for the place + where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written + in Hebrew, in Latin, and in Greek. +019:021 The chief priests of the Jews therefore said to Pilate, "Don't write, + 'The King of the Jews,' but, 'he said, I am King of the Jews.'" +019:022 Pilate answered, "What I have written, I have written." +019:023 Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments + and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also the coat. + Now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout. +019:024 Then they said to one another, "Let's not tear it, but cast lots + for it to decide whose it will be," that the Scripture might + be fulfilled, which says, "They parted my garments among them. + For my cloak they cast lots."{Psalm 22:18} Therefore the soldiers + did these things. +019:025 But there were standing by the cross of Jesus his mother, + and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, + and Mary Magdalene. +019:026 Therefore when Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom + he loved standing there, he said to his mother, "Woman, + behold your son!" +019:027 Then he said to the disciple, "Behold, your mother!" + From that hour, the disciple took her to his own home. +019:028 After this, Jesus, seeing{NU, TR read "knowing" instead of + "seeing"} that all things were now finished, that the Scripture + might be fulfilled, said, "I am thirsty." +019:029 Now a vessel full of vinegar was set there; so they put a sponge + full of the vinegar on hyssop, and held it at his mouth. +019:030 When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, + "It is finished." He bowed his head, and gave up his spirit. +019:031 Therefore the Jews, because it was the Preparation Day, + so that the bodies wouldn't remain on the cross on the Sabbath + (for that Sabbath was a special one), asked of Pilate that their + legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away. +019:032 Therefore the soldiers came, and broke the legs of the first, + and of the other who was crucified with him; +019:033 but when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was already dead, + they didn't break his legs. +019:034 However one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, + and immediately blood and water came out. +019:035 He who has seen has testified, and his testimony is true. + He knows that he tells the truth, that you may believe. +019:036 For these things happened, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, + "A bone of him will not be broken."{Exodus 12:46; + Numbers 9:12; Psalm 34:20} +019:037 Again another Scripture says, "They will look on him whom + they pierced."{Zechariah 12:10} +019:038 After these things, Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple + of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked of Pilate + that he might take away Jesus' body. Pilate gave him permission. + He came therefore and took away his body. +019:039 Nicodemus, who at first came to Jesus by night, also came + bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred + pounds.{100 Roman pounds of 12 ounces each, or about 72 pounds, + or 33 Kilograms.} +019:040 So they took Jesus' body, and bound it in linen cloths with + the spices, as the custom of the Jews is to bury. +019:041 Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden. + In the garden was a new tomb in which no man had ever + yet been laid. +019:042 Then because of the Jews' Preparation Day (for the tomb was + near at hand) they laid Jesus there. +020:001 Now on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene went early, + while it was still dark, to the tomb, and saw the stone taken + away from the tomb. +020:002 Therefore she ran and came to Simon Peter, and to the other + disciple whom Jesus loved, and said to them, "They have taken + away the Lord out of the tomb, and we don't know where they + have laid him!" +020:003 Therefore Peter and the other disciple went out, and they went + toward the tomb. +020:004 They both ran together. The other disciple outran Peter, + and came to the tomb first. +020:005 Stooping and looking in, he saw the linen cloths lying, + yet he didn't enter in. +020:006 Then Simon Peter came, following him, and entered into the tomb. + He saw the linen cloths lying, +020:007 and the cloth that had been on his head, not lying with + the linen cloths, but rolled up in a place by itself. +020:008 So then the other disciple who came first to the tomb also + entered in, and he saw and believed. +020:009 For as yet they didn't know the Scripture, that he must rise + from the dead. +020:010 So the disciples went away again to their own homes. +020:011 But Mary was standing outside at the tomb weeping. So, as she wept, + she stooped and looked into the tomb, +020:012 and she saw two angels in white sitting, one at the head, + and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain. +020:013 They told her, "Woman, why are you weeping?" She said to them, + "Because they have taken away my Lord, and I don't know + where they have laid him." +020:014 When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing, + and didn't know that it was Jesus. +020:015 Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping? + Who are you looking for?" She, supposing him to be the gardener, + said to him, "Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me + where you have laid him, and I will take him away." +020:016 Jesus said to her, "Mary." She turned and said to him, "Rhabbouni!" + which is to say, "Teacher!" +020:017 Jesus said to her, "Don't touch me, for I haven't yet + ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers, and tell them, + 'I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God + and your God.'" +020:018 Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen + the Lord, and that he had said these things to her. +020:019 When therefore it was evening, on that day, the first day of the week, + and when the doors were locked where the disciples were assembled, + for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, + and said to them, "Peace be to you." +020:020 When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. + The disciples therefore were glad when they saw the Lord. +020:021 Jesus therefore said to them again, "Peace be to you. + As the Father has sent me, even so I send you." +020:022 When he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, + "Receive the Holy Spirit! +020:023 Whoever's sins you forgive, they are forgiven them. + Whoever's sins you retain, they have been retained." +020:024 But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, wasn't with them + when Jesus came. +020:025 The other disciples therefore said to him, "We have seen + the Lord!" But he said to them, "Unless I see in his hands + the print of the nails, and put my hand into his side, + I will not believe." +020:026 After eight days again his disciples were inside, and Thomas + was with them. Jesus came, the doors being locked, and stood + in the midst, and said, "Peace be to you." +020:027 Then he said to Thomas, "Reach here your finger, and see + my hands. Reach here your hand, and put it into my side. + Don't be unbelieving, but believing." +020:028 Thomas answered him, "My Lord and my God!" +020:029 Jesus said to him, "Because you have seen me,{TR adds " + Thomas,"} you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen, + and have believed." +020:030 Therefore Jesus did many other signs in the presence of + his disciples, which are not written in this book; +020:031 but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is + the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have + life in his name. +021:001 After these things, Jesus revealed himself again to the disciples + at the sea of Tiberias. He revealed himself this way. +021:002 Simon Peter, Thomas called Didymus, Nathanael of Cana + in Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, and two others of his + disciples were together. +021:003 Simon Peter said to them, "I'm going fishing." + They told him, "We are also coming with you." + They immediately went out, and entered into the boat. + That night, they caught nothing. +021:004 But when day had already come, Jesus stood on the beach, + yet the disciples didn't know that it was Jesus. +021:005 Jesus therefore said to them, "Children, have you anything to eat?" + They answered him, "No." +021:006 He said to them, "Cast the net on the right side of the boat, + and you will find some." They cast it therefore, and now they + weren't able to draw it in for the multitude of fish. +021:007 That disciple therefore whom Jesus loved said to Peter, "It's + the Lord!" So when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, + he wrapped his coat around him (for he was naked), and threw + himself into the sea. +021:008 But the other disciples came in the little boat (for they + were not far from the land, but about two hundred cubits{200 + cubits is about 100 yards or about 91 meters} away), + dragging the net full of fish. +021:009 So when they got out on the land, they saw a fire of coals there, + and fish laid on it, and bread. +021:010 Jesus said to them, "Bring some of the fish which you + have just caught." +021:011 Simon Peter went up, and drew the net to land, full of great fish, + one hundred fifty-three; and even though there were so many, + the net wasn't torn. +021:012 Jesus said to them, "Come and eat breakfast." + None of the disciples dared inquire of him, "Who are you?" + knowing that it was the Lord. +021:013 Then Jesus came and took the bread, gave it to them, + and the fish likewise. +021:014 This is now the third time that Jesus was revealed to his disciples, + after he had risen from the dead. +021:015 So when they had eaten their breakfast, Jesus said to + Simon Peter, "Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me more than these?" + He said to him, "Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you." + He said to him, "Feed my lambs." +021:016 He said to him again a second time, "Simon, son of Jonah, + do you love me?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord; you know that I + have affection for you." He said to him, "Tend my sheep." +021:017 He said to him the third time, "Simon, son of Jonah, do you + have affection for me?" Peter was grieved because he asked + him the third time, "Do you have affection for me?" + He said to him, "Lord, you know everything. You know that I + have affection for you." Jesus said to him, "Feed my sheep. +021:018 Most certainly I tell you, when you were young, you dressed yourself, + and walked where you wanted to. But when you are old, + you will stretch out your hands, and another will dress you, + and carry you where you don't want to go." +021:019 Now he said this, signifying by what kind of death he would + glorify God. When he had said this, he said to him, "Follow me." +021:020 Then Peter, turning around, saw a disciple following. + This was the disciple whom Jesus sincerely loved, + the one who had also leaned on Jesus' breast at the supper + and asked, "Lord, who is going to betray You?" +021:021 Peter seeing him, said to Jesus, "Lord, what about this man?" +021:022 Jesus said to him, "If I desire that he stay until I come, + what is that to you? You follow me." +021:023 This saying therefore went out among the brothers{The word + for "brothers" here may be also correctly translated "brothers + and sisters" or "siblings."}, that this disciple wouldn't die. + Yet Jesus didn't say to him that he wouldn't die, but, "If I + desire that he stay until I come, what is that to you?" +021:024 This is the disciple who testifies about these things, + and wrote these things. We know that his witness is true. +021:025 There are also many other things which Jesus did, which if they + would all be written, I suppose that even the world itself + wouldn't have room for the books that would be written. +Book 44 Acts +001:001 The first book I wrote, Theophilus, concerned all that Jesus + began both to do and to teach, +001:002 until the day in which he was received up, after he had given + commandment through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom + he had chosen. +001:003 To these he also showed himself alive after he suffered, + by many proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days, + and speaking about God's Kingdom. +001:004 Being assembled together with them, he charged them, "Don't depart + from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, + which you heard from me. +001:005 For John indeed baptized in water, but you will be baptized + in the Holy Spirit not many days from now." +001:006 Therefore, when they had come together, they asked him, "Lord, + are you now restoring the kingdom to Israel?" +001:007 He said to them, "It isn't for you to know times or seasons + which the Father has set within his own authority. +001:008 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. + You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, + and to the uttermost parts of the earth." +001:009 When he had said these things, as they were looking, he was + taken up, and a cloud received him out of their sight. +001:010 While they were looking steadfastly into the sky as he went, + behold, two men stood by them in white clothing, +001:011 who also said, "You men of Galilee, why do you stand looking + into the sky? This Jesus, who was received up from you into + the sky will come back in the same way as you saw him going + into the sky." +001:012 Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mountain called Olivet, + which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day's journey away. +001:013 When they had come in, they went up into the upper room, + where they were staying; that is Peter, John, James, + Andrew, Philip, Thomas, Bartholomew, Matthew, James the son + of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James. +001:014 All these with one accord continued steadfastly in prayer + and supplication, along with the women, and Mary the mother + of Jesus, and with his brothers. +001:015 In these days, Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples + (and the number of names was about one hundred twenty), and said, +001:016 "Brothers, it was necessary that this Scripture should be fulfilled, + which the Holy Spirit spoke before by the mouth of David + concerning Judas, who was guide to those who took Jesus. +001:017 For he was numbered with us, and received his portion + in this ministry. +001:018 Now this man obtained a field with the reward for his wickedness, + and falling headlong, his body burst open, and all his + intestines gushed out. +001:019 It became known to everyone who lived in Jerusalem that in + their language that field was called 'Akeldama,' that is, + 'The field of blood.' +001:020 For it is written in the book of Psalms, 'Let his habitation + be made desolate. Let no one dwell therein;'{Psalm 69:25} and, + 'Let another take his office.'{Psalm 109:8} +001:021 "Of the men therefore who have accompanied us all the time + that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us, +001:022 beginning from the baptism of John, to the day that he was + received up from us, of these one must become a witness + with us of his resurrection." +001:023 They put forward two, Joseph called Barsabbas, who was + surnamed Justus, and Matthias. +001:024 They prayed, and said, "You, Lord, who know the hearts of all men, + show which one of these two you have chosen +001:025 to take part in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas + fell away, that he might go to his own place." +001:026 They drew lots for them, and the lot fell on Matthias, + and he was numbered with the eleven apostles. +002:001 Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one + accord in one place. +002:002 Suddenly there came from the sky a sound like the rushing of a + mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. +002:003 Tongues like fire appeared and were distributed to them, + and one sat on each of them. +002:004 They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak + with other languages, as the Spirit gave them the ability to speak. +002:005 Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men, + from every nation under the sky. +002:006 When this sound was heard, the multitude came together, + and were bewildered, because everyone heard them speaking + in his own language. +002:007 They were all amazed and marveled, saying to one another, + "Behold, aren't all these who speak Galileans? +002:008 How do we hear, everyone in our own native language? +002:009 Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and people from Mesopotamia, + Judea, Cappadocia, Pontus, Asia, +002:010 Phrygia, Pamphylia, Egypt, the parts of Libya around Cyrene, + visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, +002:011 Cretans and Arabians: we hear them speaking in our languages + the mighty works of God!" +002:012 They were all amazed, and were perplexed, saying one to another, + "What does this mean?" +002:013 Others, mocking, said, "They are filled with new wine." +002:014 But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, + and spoke out to them, "You men of Judea, and all you + who dwell at Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and listen + to my words. +002:015 For these aren't drunken, as you suppose, seeing it is only + the third hour of the day{about 9:00 AM}. +002:016 But this is what has been spoken through the prophet Joel: +002:017 'It will be in the last days, says God, that I will pour + out my Spirit on all flesh. Your sons and your daughters + will prophesy. Your young men will see visions. + Your old men will dream dreams. +002:018 Yes, and on my servants and on my handmaidens in those days, + I will pour out my Spirit, and they will prophesy. +002:019 I will show wonders in the sky above, and signs on the + earth beneath; blood, and fire, and billows of smoke. +002:020 The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, + before the great and glorious day of the Lord comes. +002:021 It will be, that whoever will call on the name of the Lord + will be saved.'{Joel 2:28-32} +002:022 "Men of Israel, hear these words! Jesus of Nazareth, + a man approved by God to you by mighty works and wonders + and signs which God did by him in the midst of you, + even as you yourselves know, +002:023 him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and + foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, + crucified and killed; +002:024 whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, + because it was not possible that he should be held by it. +002:025 For David says concerning him, 'I saw the Lord always before my face, + For he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved. +002:026 Therefore my heart was glad, and my tongue rejoiced. + Moreover my flesh also will dwell in hope; +002:027 because you will not leave my soul in Hades{or, Hell}, neither will + you allow your Holy One to see decay. +002:028 You made known to me the ways of life. You will make me full + of gladness with your presence.'{Psalm 16:8-11} +002:029 "Brothers, I may tell you freely of the patriarch David, + that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us + to this day. +002:030 Therefore, being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn + with an oath to him that of the fruit of his body, + according to the flesh, he would raise up the Christ to sit + on his throne, +002:031 he foreseeing this spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, + that neither was his soul left in Hades{or, Hell}, nor did + his flesh see decay. +002:032 This Jesus God raised up, to which we all are witnesses. +002:033 Being therefore exalted by the right hand of God, and having + received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, + he has poured out this, which you now see and hear. +002:034 For David didn't ascend into the heavens, but he says himself, + 'The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit by my right hand, +002:035 until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet."'{Psalm 110:1} +002:036 "Let all the house of Israel therefore know certainly that God has + made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified." +002:037 Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, + and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "Brothers, + what shall we do?" +002:038 Peter said to them, "Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, + in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, + and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. +002:039 For to you is the promise, and to your children, and to all + who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will + call to himself." +002:040 With many other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying, + "Save yourselves from this crooked generation!" +002:041 Then those who gladly received his word were baptized. + There were added that day about three thousand souls. +002:042 They continued steadfastly in the apostles' teaching and fellowship, + in the breaking of bread, and prayer. +002:043 Fear came on every soul, and many wonders and signs were done + through the apostles. +002:044 All who believed were together, and had all things in common. +002:045 They sold their possessions and goods, and distributed them + to all, according as anyone had need. +002:046 Day by day, continuing steadfastly with one accord in the temple, + and breaking bread at home, they took their food with gladness + and singleness of heart, +002:047 praising God, and having favor with all the people. The Lord + added to the assembly day by day those who were being saved. +003:001 Peter and John were going up into the temple at the hour of prayer, + the ninth hour{3:00 PM}. +003:002 A certain man who was lame from his mother's womb was being carried, + whom they laid daily at the door of the temple which is + called Beautiful, to ask gifts for the needy of those who + entered into the temple. +003:003 Seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, he asked + to receive gifts for the needy. +003:004 Peter, fastening his eyes on him, with John, said, "Look at us." +003:005 He listened to them, expecting to receive something from them. +003:006 But Peter said, "Silver and gold have I none, but what I have, + that I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, + get up and walk!" +003:007 He took him by the right hand, and raised him up. + Immediately his feet and his ankle bones received strength. +003:008 Leaping up, he stood, and began to walk. He entered with them + into the temple, walking, leaping, and praising God. +003:009 All the people saw him walking and praising God. +003:010 They recognized him, that it was he who used to sit begging + for gifts for the needy at the Beautiful Gate of the temple. + They were filled with wonder and amazement at what had + happened to him. +003:011 As the lame man who was healed held on to Peter and John, + all the people ran together to them in the porch that is + called Solomon's, greatly wondering. +003:012 When Peter saw it, he responded to the people, "You men of Israel, + why do you marvel at this man? Why do you fasten your eyes on us, + as though by our own power or godliness we had made him walk? +003:013 The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, + has glorified his Servant Jesus, whom you delivered up, + and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had determined + to release him. +003:014 But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a + murderer to be granted to you, +003:015 and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, + to which we are witnesses. +003:016 By faith in his name has his name made this man strong, + whom you see and know. Yes, the faith which is through him has + given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all. +003:017 "Now, brothers{The word for "brothers" here may be also correctly + translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."}, I know + that you did this in ignorance, as did also your rulers. +003:018 But the things which God announced by the mouth of all his prophets, + that Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled. +003:019 "Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, + so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence + of the Lord, +003:020 and that he may send Christ Jesus, who was ordained for you before, +003:021 whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, + which God spoke long ago by the mouth of his holy prophets. +003:022 For Moses indeed said to the fathers, 'The Lord God will raise + up a prophet for you from among your brothers, like me. + You shall listen to him in all things whatever he says to you. +003:023 It will be, that every soul that will not listen to that prophet + will be utterly destroyed from among the people.'{Deuteronomy + 18:15,18-19} +003:024 Yes, and all the prophets from Samuel and those who followed after, + as many as have spoken, they also told of these days. +003:025 You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God + made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, 'In your seed will + all the families of the earth be blessed.'{Genesis 22:18; 26:4} +003:026 God, having raised up his servant, Jesus, sent him to you first, + to bless you, in turning away everyone of you from your wickedness." +004:001 As they spoke to the people, the priests and the captain + of the temple and the Sadducees came to them, +004:002 being upset because they taught the people and proclaimed + in Jesus the resurrection from the dead. +004:003 They laid hands on them, and put them in custody until the next day, + for it was now evening. +004:004 But many of those who heard the word believed, and the number + of the men came to be about five thousand. +004:005 It happened in the morning, that their rulers, elders, and scribes + were gathered together in Jerusalem. +004:006 Annas the high priest was there, with Caiaphas, John, Alexander, + and as many as were relatives of the high priest. +004:007 When they had stood them in the middle of them, they inquired, + "By what power, or in what name, have you done this?" +004:008 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, + "You rulers of the people, and elders of Israel, +004:009 if we are examined today concerning a good deed done to a + crippled man, by what means this man has been healed, +004:010 be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, + that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, + whom God raised from the dead, in him does this man stand + here before you whole. +004:011 He is 'the stone which was regarded as worthless by you, the builders, + which has become the head of the corner.'{Psalm 118:22} +004:012 There is salvation in none other, for neither is there any + other name under heaven, that is given among men, by which we + must be saved!" +004:013 Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and had perceived + that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marveled. + They recognized that they had been with Jesus. +004:014 Seeing the man who was healed standing with them, they could + say nothing against it. +004:015 But when they had commanded them to go aside out of the council, + they conferred among themselves, +004:016 saying, "What shall we do to these men? Because indeed a notable + miracle has been done through them, as can be plainly seen + by all who dwell in Jerusalem, and we can't deny it. +004:017 But so that this spreads no further among the people, + let's threaten them, that from now on they don't speak + to anyone in this name." +004:018 They called them, and charged them not to speak at all nor + teach in the name of Jesus. +004:019 But Peter and John answered them, "Whether it is right + in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, + judge for yourselves, +004:020 for we can't help telling the things which we saw and heard." +004:021 When they had further threatened them, they let them go, + finding no way to punish them, because of the people; + for everyone glorified God for that which was done. +004:022 For the man on whom this miracle of healing was performed + was more than forty years old. +004:023 Being let go, they came to their own company, and reported + all that the chief priests and the elders had said to them. +004:024 When they heard it, they lifted up their voice to God with + one accord, and said, "O Lord, you are God, who made the heaven, + the earth, the sea, and all that is in them; +004:025 who by the mouth of your servant, David, said, 'Why do + the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing? +004:026 The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers + take council together, against the Lord, and against + his Christ{Christ (Greek) and Messiah (Hebrew) both mean + Anointed One.}.'{Psalm 2:1-2} +004:027 "For truly, in this city against your holy servant, Jesus, whom + you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles + and the people of Israel, were gathered together +004:028 to do whatever your hand and your council foreordained to happen. +004:029 Now, Lord, look at their threats, and grant to your servants + to speak your word with all boldness, +004:030 while you stretch out your hand to heal; and that signs and wonders + may be done through the name of your holy Servant Jesus." +004:031 When they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were + gathered together. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, + and they spoke the word of God with boldness. +004:032 The multitude of those who believed were of one heart and soul. + Not one of them claimed that anything of the things which + he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common. +004:033 With great power, the apostles gave their testimony of the + resurrection of the Lord Jesus. Great grace was on them all. +004:034 For neither was there among them any who lacked, for as many + as were owners of lands or houses sold them, and brought + the proceeds of the things that were sold, +004:035 and laid them at the apostles' feet, and distribution was made + to each, according as anyone had need. +004:036 Joses, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas (which is, + being interpreted, Son of Encouragement), a Levite, a man + of Cyprus by race, +004:037 having a field, sold it, and brought the money and laid it + at the apostles' feet. +005:001 But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira, his wife, + sold a possession, +005:002 and kept back part of the price, his wife also being aware of it, + and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles' feet. +005:003 But Peter said, "Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart + to lie to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back part of the price + of the land? +005:004 While you kept it, didn't it remain your own? + After it was sold, wasn't it in your power? + How is it that you have conceived this thing in your heart? + You haven't lied to men, but to God." +005:005 Ananias, hearing these words, fell down and died. + Great fear came on all who heard these things. +005:006 The young men arose and wrapped him up, and they carried him + out and buried him. +005:007 About three hours later, his wife, not knowing what + had happened, came in. +005:008 Peter answered her, "Tell me whether you sold the land for so much." + She said, "Yes, for so much." +005:009 But Peter asked her, "How is it that you have agreed + together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet + of those who have buried your husband are at the door, + and they will carry you out." +005:010 She fell down immediately at his feet, and died. + The young men came in and found her dead, and they carried + her out and buried her by her husband. +005:011 Great fear came on the whole assembly, and on all who + heard these things. +005:012 By the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders were done among + the people. They were all with one accord in Solomon's porch. +005:013 None of the rest dared to join them, however the people honored them. +005:014 More believers were added to the Lord, multitudes of both + men and women. +005:015 They even carried out the sick into the streets, and laid + them on cots and mattresses, so that as Peter came by, + at the least his shadow might overshadow some of them. +005:016 Multitudes also came together from the cities around Jerusalem, + bringing sick people, and those who were tormented by + unclean spirits: and they were all healed. +005:017 But the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him + (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were + filled with jealousy, +005:018 and laid hands on the apostles, and put them in public custody. +005:019 But an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors by night, + and brought them out, and said, +005:020 "Go stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words + of this life." +005:021 When they heard this, they entered into the temple + about daybreak, and taught. But the high priest came, + and those who were with him, and called the council together, + and all the senate of the children of Israel, and sent + to the prison to have them brought. +005:022 But the officers who came didn't find them in the prison. + They returned and reported, +005:023 "We found the prison shut and locked, and the guards standing + before the doors, but when we opened them, we found + no one inside!" +005:024 Now when the high priest, the captain of the temple, and the chief + priests heard these words, they were very perplexed about them + and what might become of this. +005:025 One came and told them, "Behold, the men whom you put in prison + are in the temple, standing and teaching the people." +005:026 Then the captain went with the officers, and brought them + without violence, for they were afraid that the people + might stone them. +005:027 When they had brought them, they set them before the council. + The high priest questioned them, +005:028 saying, "Didn't we strictly charge you not to teach in this name? + Behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, + and intend to bring this man's blood on us." +005:029 But Peter and the apostles answered, "We must obey God + rather than men. +005:030 The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you killed, + hanging him on a tree. +005:031 God exalted him with his right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, + to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins. +005:032 We are His witnesses of these things; and so also is the Holy Spirit, + whom God has given to those who obey him." +005:033 But they, when they heard this, were cut to the heart, + and determined to kill them. +005:034 But one stood up in the council, a Pharisee named Gamaliel, + a teacher of the law, honored by all the people, and commanded + to put the apostles out for a little while. +005:035 He said to them, "You men of Israel, be careful concerning + these men, what you are about to do. +005:036 For before these days Theudas rose up, making himself out + to be somebody; to whom a number of men, about four hundred, + joined themselves: who was slain; and all, as many as obeyed him, + were dispersed, and came to nothing. +005:037 After this man, Judas of Galilee rose up in the days + of the enrollment, and drew away some people after him. + He also perished, and all, as many as obeyed him, + were scattered abroad. +005:038 Now I tell you, withdraw from these men, and leave them alone. + For if this counsel or this work is of men, it will be overthrown. +005:039 But if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow it, + and you would be found even to be fighting against God!" +005:040 They agreed with him. Summoning the apostles, they beat + them and charged them not to speak in the name of Jesus, + and let them go. +005:041 They therefore departed from the presence of the council, + rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor + for Jesus' name. +005:042 Every day, in the temple and at home, they never stopped + teaching and preaching Jesus, the Christ. +006:001 Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, + a complaint arose from the Hellenists{The Hellenists used + Greek language and culture, even though they were also of + Hebrew descent.} against the Hebrews, because their widows + were neglected in the daily service. +006:002 The twelve summoned the multitude of the disciples and said, + "It is not appropriate for us to forsake the word of God + and serve tables. +006:003 Therefore select from among you, brothers, seven men of good report, + full of the Holy Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may appoint + over this business. +006:004 But we will continue steadfastly in prayer and in the ministry + of the word." +006:005 These words pleased the whole multitude. + They chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the + Holy Spirit, Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, + and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch; +006:006 whom they set before the apostles. When they had prayed, + they laid their hands on them. +006:007 The word of God increased and the number of the disciples + multiplied in Jerusalem exceedingly. A great company + of the priests were obedient to the faith. +006:008 Stephen, full of faith and power, performed great wonders + and signs among the people. +006:009 But some of those who were of the synagogue called "The Libertines," + and of the Cyrenians, of the Alexandrians, and of those of + Cilicia and Asia arose, disputing with Stephen. +006:010 They weren't able to withstand the wisdom and the Spirit + by which he spoke. +006:011 Then they secretly induced men to say, "We have heard him + speak blasphemous words against Moses and God." +006:012 They stirred up the people, the elders, and the scribes, + and came against him and seized him, and brought him in + to the council, +006:013 and set up false witnesses who said, "This man never stops + speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law. +006:014 For we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will + destroy this place, and will change the customs which Moses + delivered to us." +006:015 All who sat in the council, fastening their eyes on him, + saw his face like it was the face of an angel. +007:001 The high priest said, "Are these things so?" +007:002 He said, "Brothers and fathers, listen. The God of glory + appeared to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, + before he lived in Haran, +007:003 and said to him, 'Get out of your land, and from your relatives, + and come into a land which I will show you.'{Genesis 12:1} +007:004 Then he came out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and lived in Haran. + From there, when his father was dead, God moved him into this land, + where you are now living. +007:005 He gave him no inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set + his foot on. He promised that he would give it to him + for a possession, and to his seed after him, when he still + had no child. +007:006 God spoke in this way: that his seed would live as aliens in a + strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated + for four hundred years. +007:007 'I will judge the nation to which they will be in bondage,' + said God, 'and after that will they come out, and serve me + in this place.'{Genesis 15:13-14} +007:008 He gave him the covenant of circumcision. So Abraham became + the father of Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day. + Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob became the father + of the twelve patriarchs. +007:009 "The patriarchs, moved with jealousy against Joseph, sold him + into Egypt. God was with him, +007:010 and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave + him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. + He made him governor over Egypt and all his house. +007:011 Now a famine came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, + and great affliction. Our fathers found no food. +007:012 But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent + out our fathers the first time. +007:013 On the second time Joseph was made known to his brothers, + and Joseph's race was revealed to Pharaoh. +007:014 Joseph sent, and summoned Jacob, his father, and all + his relatives, seventy-five souls. +007:015 Jacob went down into Egypt, and he died, himself and our fathers, +007:016 and they were brought back to Shechem, and laid in the tomb + that Abraham bought for a price in silver from the children + of Hamor of Shechem. +007:017 "But as the time of the promise came close which God had sworn + to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt, +007:018 until there arose a different king, who didn't know Joseph. +007:019 The same took advantage of our race, and mistreated our fathers, + and forced them to throw out their babies, so that they + wouldn't stay alive. +007:020 At that time Moses was born, and was exceedingly handsome. + He was nourished three months in his father's house. +007:021 When he was thrown out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, + and reared him as her own son. +007:022 Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians. + He was mighty in his words and works. +007:023 But when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit + his brothers{The word for "brothers" here and where the context + allows may be also correctly translated "brothers and sisters" + or "siblings."}, the children of Israel. +007:024 Seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged + him who was oppressed, striking the Egyptian. +007:025 He supposed that his brothers understood that God, by his hand, + was giving them deliverance; but they didn't understand. +007:026 "The day following, he appeared to them as they fought, and urged + them to be at peace again, saying, 'Sirs, you are brothers. + Why do you wrong one another?' +007:027 But he who did his neighbor wrong pushed him away, saying, + 'Who made you a ruler and a judge over us? +007:028 Do you want to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?'{Exodus + 2:14} +007:029 Moses fled at this saying, and became a stranger in the land + of Midian, where he became the father of two sons. +007:030 "When forty years were fulfilled, an angel of the Lord appeared + to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire + in a bush. +007:031 When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight. As he came close + to see, a voice of the Lord came to him, +007:032 'I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God + of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.'{Exodus 3:6} Moses trembled, + and dared not look. +007:033 The Lord said to him, 'Take your sandals off of your feet, + for the place where you stand is holy ground. +007:034 I have surely seen the affliction of my people that is in Egypt, + and have heard their groaning. I have come down to deliver them. + Now come, I will send you into Egypt.'{Exodus 3:5,7-8,10} +007:035 "This Moses, whom they refused, saying, 'Who made you a ruler + and a judge?'--God has sent him as both a ruler and a deliverer + by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush. +007:036 This man led them out, having worked wonders and signs in Egypt, + in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years. +007:037 This is that Moses, who said to the children of Israel, 'The Lord + our God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brothers, + like me.{TR adds "You shall listen to him."}'{Deuteronomy 18:15} +007:038 This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel + that spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, + who received living oracles to give to us, +007:039 to whom our fathers wouldn't be obedient, but rejected him, + and turned back in their hearts to Egypt, +007:040 saying to Aaron, 'Make us gods that will go before us, + for as for this Moses, who led us out of the land of Egypt, + we don't know what has become of him.'{Exodus 32:1} +007:041 They made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice to the idol, + and rejoiced in the works of their hands. +007:042 But God turned, and gave them up to serve the army of the sky, + as it is written in the book of the prophets, 'Did you offer + to me slain animals and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, + O house of Israel? +007:043 You took up the tent of Moloch, the star of your god Rephan, + the figures which you made to worship. I will carry you + away{Amos 5:25-27} beyond Babylon.' +007:044 "Our fathers had the tent of the testimony in the wilderness, + even as he who spoke to Moses commanded him to make it + according to the pattern that he had seen; +007:045 which also our fathers, in their turn, brought in with Joshua + when they entered into the possession of the nations, whom God + drove out before the face of our fathers, to the days of David, +007:046 who found favor in the sight of God, and asked to find + a habitation for the God of Jacob. +007:047 But Solomon built him a house. +007:048 However, the Most High doesn't dwell in temples made with hands, + as the prophet says, +007:049 'heaven is my throne, and the earth a footstool for my feet. + What kind of house will you build me?' says the Lord; + 'or what is the place of my rest? +007:050 Didn't my hand make all these things?'{Isaiah 66:1-2} +007:051 "You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, + you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, + so you do. +007:052 Which of the prophets didn't your fathers persecute? + They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, + of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers. +007:053 You received the law as it was ordained by angels, + and didn't keep it!" +007:054 Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, + and they gnashed at him with their teeth. +007:055 But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, looked up steadfastly + into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing + on the right hand of God, +007:056 and said, "Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man + standing at the right hand of God!" +007:057 But they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, + and rushed at him with one accord. +007:058 They threw him out of the city, and stoned him. + The witnesses placed their garments at the feet of a young + man named Saul. +007:059 They stoned Stephen as he called out, saying, "Lord Jesus, + receive my spirit!" +007:060 He kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, "Lord, don't hold + this sin against them!" When he had said this, he fell asleep. +008:001 Saul was consenting to his death. A great persecution arose + against the assembly which was in Jerusalem in that day. + They were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea + and Samaria, except for the apostles. +008:002 Devout men buried Stephen, and lamented greatly over him. +008:003 But Saul ravaged the assembly, entering into every house, + and dragged both men and women off to prison. +008:004 Therefore those who were scattered abroad went around + preaching the word. +008:005 Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and proclaimed + to them the Christ. +008:006 The multitudes listened with one accord to the things that + were spoken by Philip, when they heard and saw the signs + which he did. +008:007 For unclean spirits came out of many of those who had them. + They came out, crying with a loud voice. Many who had been + paralyzed and lame were healed. +008:008 There was great joy in that city. +008:009 But there was a certain man, Simon by name, who used to practice + sorcery in the city, and amazed the people of Samaria, + making himself out to be some great one, +008:010 to whom they all listened, from the least to the greatest, + saying, "This man is that great power of God." +008:011 They listened to him, because for a long time he had amazed + them with his sorceries. +008:012 But when they believed Philip preaching good news concerning + the Kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, + both men and women. +008:013 Simon himself also believed. Being baptized, he continued + with Philip. Seeing signs and great miracles occurring, + he was amazed. +008:014 Now when the apostles who were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria + had received the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them, +008:015 who, when they had come down, prayed for them, that they + might receive the Holy Spirit; +008:016 for as yet he had fallen on none of them. They had only been + baptized in the name of Christ Jesus. +008:017 Then they laid their hands on them, and they received + the Holy Spirit. +008:018 Now when Simon saw that the Holy Spirit was given through + the laying on of the apostles' hands, he offered them money, +008:019 saying, "Give me also this power, that whoever I lay my hands + on may receive the Holy Spirit." +008:020 But Peter said to him, "May your silver perish with you, + because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money! +008:021 You have neither part nor lot in this matter, for your heart + isn't right before God. +008:022 Repent therefore of this, your wickedness, and ask God if perhaps + the thought of your heart may be forgiven you. +008:023 For I see that you are in the gall of bitterness and in + the bondage of iniquity." +008:024 Simon answered, "Pray for me to the Lord, that none of the things + which you have spoken happen to me." +008:025 They therefore, when they had testified and spoken the word + of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and preached the Good News + to many villages of the Samaritans. +008:026 But an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, "Arise, and go + toward the south to the way that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza. + This is a desert." +008:027 He arose and went; and behold, there was a man of Ethiopia, + a eunuch of great authority under Candace, queen of + the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasure, who had come + to Jerusalem to worship. +008:028 He was returning and sitting in his chariot, and was reading + the prophet Isaiah. +008:029 The Spirit said to Philip, "Go near, and join yourself + to this chariot." +008:030 Philip ran to him, and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, + and said, "Do you understand what you are reading?" +008:031 He said, "How can I, unless someone explains it to me?" + He begged Philip to come up and sit with him. +008:032 Now the passage of the Scripture which he was reading was this, + "He was led as a sheep to the slaughter. As a lamb before + his shearer is silent, so he doesn't open his mouth. +008:033 In his humiliation, his judgment was taken away. + Who will declare His generation? For his life is taken + from the earth."{Isaiah 53:7,8} +008:034 The eunuch answered Philip, "Who is the prophet talking about? + About himself, or about someone else?" +008:035 Philip opened his mouth, and beginning from this Scripture, + preached to him Jesus. +008:036 As they went on the way, they came to some water, and the + eunuch said, "Behold, here is water. What is keeping me + from being baptized?" +008:037 {TR adds "Philip said, 'If you believe with all your heart, you may.' + He answered, 'I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.'"} +008:038 He commanded the chariot to stand still, and they both + went down into the water, both Philip and the eunuch, + and he baptized him. +008:039 When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord + caught Philip away, and the eunuch didn't see him any more, + for he went on his way rejoicing. +008:040 But Philip was found at Azotus. Passing through, he preached + the Good News to all the cities, until he came to Caesarea. +009:001 But Saul, still breathing threats and slaughter against + the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest, +009:002 and asked for letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, + that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, + he might bring them bound to Jerusalem. +009:003 As he traveled, it happened that he got close to Damascus, + and suddenly a light from the sky shone around him. +009:004 He fell on the earth, and heard a voice saying to him, + "Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?" +009:005 He said, "Who are you, Lord?" The Lord said, "I am Jesus, + whom you are persecuting.{TR adds "It's hard for you to kick + against the goads."} +009:006 But{TR omits "But" } rise up, and enter into the city, + and you will be told what you must do." +009:007 The men who traveled with him stood speechless, hearing the sound, + but seeing no one. +009:008 Saul arose from the ground, and when his eyes were opened, + he saw no one. They led him by the hand, and brought + him into Damascus. +009:009 He was without sight for three days, and neither ate nor drank. +009:010 Now there was a certain disciple at Damascus named Ananias. + The Lord said to him in a vision, "Ananias!" He said, "Behold, + it's me, Lord." +009:011 The Lord said to him, "Arise, and go to the street + which is called Straight, and inquire in the house + of Judah{or, Judas} for one named Saul, a man of Tarsus. + For behold, he is praying, +009:012 and in a vision he has seen a man named Ananias coming in, + and laying his hands on him, that he might receive his sight." +009:013 But Ananias answered, "Lord, I have heard from many about this man, + how much evil he did to your saints at Jerusalem. +009:014 Here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call + on your name." +009:015 But the Lord said to him, "Go your way, for he is my chosen + vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, + and the children of Israel. +009:016 For I will show him how many things he must suffer for + my name's sake." +009:017 Ananias departed, and entered into the house. Laying his + hands on him, he said, "Brother Saul, the Lord, who appeared + to you on the road by which you came, has sent me, that you + may receive your sight, and be filled with the Holy Spirit." +009:018 Immediately something like scales fell from his eyes, + and he received his sight. He arose and was baptized. +009:019 He took food and was strengthened. Saul stayed several days + with the disciples who were at Damascus. +009:020 Immediately in the synagogues he proclaimed the Christ, + that he is the Son of God. +009:021 All who heard him were amazed, and said, "Isn't this he who + in Jerusalem made havoc of those who called on this name? + And he had come here intending to bring them bound before + the chief priests!" +009:022 But Saul increased more in strength, and confounded the Jews + who lived at Damascus, proving that this is the Christ. +009:023 When many days were fulfilled, the Jews conspired together + to kill him, +009:024 but their plot became known to Saul. They watched the gates + both day and night that they might kill him, +009:025 but his disciples took him by night, and let him down through + the wall, lowering him in a basket. +009:026 When Saul had come to Jerusalem, he tried to join himself to + the disciples; but they were all afraid of him, not believing + that he was a disciple. +009:027 But Barnabas took him, and brought him to the apostles, + and declared to them how he had seen the Lord in the way, + and that he had spoken to him, and how at Damascus he had + preached boldly in the name of Jesus. +009:028 He was with them entering into{TR and NU add "and + going out"} Jerusalem, +009:029 preaching boldly in the name of the Lord. He spoke and disputed + against the Hellenists,{The Hellenists were Hebrews who used + Greek language and culture.} but they were seeking to kill him. +009:030 When the brothers{The word for "brothers" here and where the context + allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" + or "siblings."} knew it, they brought him down to Caesarea, + and sent him off to Tarsus. +009:031 So the assemblies throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria + had peace, and were built up. They were multiplied, walking in + the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit. +009:032 It happened, as Peter went throughout all those parts, + he came down also to the saints who lived at Lydda. +009:033 There he found a certain man named Aeneas, who had been + bedridden for eight years, because he was paralyzed. +009:034 Peter said to him, "Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you. + Get up and make your bed!" Immediately he arose. +009:035 All who lived at Lydda and in Sharon saw him, and they turned + to the Lord. +009:036 Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, + which when translated, means Dorcas.{"Dorcas" is Greek + for "Gazelle."} This woman was full of good works and acts + of mercy which she did. +009:037 It happened in those days that she fell sick, and died. + When they had washed her, they laid her in an upper chamber. +009:038 As Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples, hearing that Peter was there, + sent two men{Reading from NU, TR; MT omits "two men"} to him, + imploring him not to delay in coming to them. +009:039 Peter got up and went with them. When he had come, they brought + him into the upper chamber. All the widows stood by him weeping, + and showing the coats and garments which Dorcas had made + while she was with them. +009:040 Peter put them all out, and kneeled down and prayed. + Turning to the body, he said, "Tabitha, get up!" + She opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter, she sat up. +009:041 He gave her his hand, and raised her up. Calling the saints + and widows, he presented her alive. +009:042 And it became known throughout all Joppa, and many believed + in the Lord. +009:043 It happened, that he stayed many days in Joppa with one Simon, + a tanner. +010:001 Now there was a certain man in Caesarea, Cornelius by name, + a centurion of what was called the Italian Regiment, +010:002 a devout man, and one who feared God with all his house, + who gave gifts for the needy generously to the people, + and always prayed to God. +010:003 At about the ninth hour of the day{3:00 PM}, he clearly + saw in a vision an angel of God coming to him, and saying + to him, "Cornelius!" +010:004 He, fastening his eyes on him, and being frightened, said, + "What is it, Lord?" He said to him, "Your prayers and your + gifts to the needy have gone up for a memorial before God. +010:005 Now send men to Joppa, and get Simon, who is surnamed Peter. +010:006 He lodges with one Simon, a tanner, whose house is by the + seaside.{TR adds "This one will tell you what it is necessary + for you to do."}" +010:007 When the angel who spoke to him had departed, Cornelius called + two of his household servants and a devout soldier of those + who waited on him continually. +010:008 Having explained everything to them, he sent them to Joppa. +010:009 Now on the next day as they were on their journey, and got + close to the city, Peter went up on the housetop to pray + at about noon. +010:010 He became hungry and desired to eat, but while they were preparing, + he fell into a trance. +010:011 He saw heaven opened and a certain container descending to him, + like a great sheet let down by four corners on the earth, +010:012 in which were all kinds of four-footed animals of the earth, + wild animals, reptiles, and birds of the sky. +010:013 A voice came to him, "Rise, Peter, kill and eat!" +010:014 But Peter said, "Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten anything + that is common or unclean." +010:015 A voice came to him again the second time, "What God has cleansed, + you must not call unclean." +010:016 This was done three times, and immediately the vessel was + received up into heaven. +010:017 Now while Peter was very perplexed in himself what the vision + which he had seen might mean, behold, the men who were + sent by Cornelius, having made inquiry for Simon's house, + stood before the gate, +010:018 and called and asked whether Simon, who was surnamed Peter, + was lodging there. +010:019 While Peter was pondering the vision, the Spirit said + to him, "Behold, three{Reading from TR and NU. + MT omits "three"} men seek you. +010:020 But arise, get down, and go with them, doubting nothing; + for I have sent them." +010:021 Peter went down to the men, and said, "Behold, I am he whom you seek. + Why have you come?" +010:022 They said, "Cornelius, a centurion, a righteous man and one who + fears God, and well spoken of by all the nation of the Jews, + was directed by a holy angel to invite you to his house, + and to listen to what you say." +010:023 So he called them in and lodged them. On the next day Peter + arose and went out with them, and some of the brothers from + Joppa accompanied him. +010:024 On the next day they entered into Caesarea. Cornelius was + waiting for them, having called together his relatives + and his near friends. +010:025 When it happened that Peter entered, Cornelius met him, + fell down at his feet, and worshiped him. +010:026 But Peter raised him up, saying, "Stand up! I myself am + also a man." +010:027 As he talked with him, he went in and found many gathered together. +010:028 He said to them, "You yourselves know how it is an unlawful + thing for a man who is a Jew to join himself or come to one + of another nation, but God has shown me that I shouldn't call + any man unholy or unclean. +010:029 Therefore also I came without complaint when I was sent for. + I ask therefore, why did you send for me?" +010:030 Cornelius said, "Four days ago, I was fasting until this hour, + and at the ninth hour,{3:00 P. M.} I prayed in my house, + and behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing, +010:031 and said, 'Cornelius, your prayer is heard, and your gifts + to the needy are remembered in the sight of God. +010:032 Send therefore to Joppa, and summon Simon, who is surnamed Peter. + He lodges in the house of Simon a tanner, by the seaside. + When he comes, he will speak to you.' +010:033 Therefore I sent to you at once, and it was good of you to come. + Now therefore we are all here present in the sight of God + to hear all things that have been commanded you by God." +010:034 Peter opened his mouth and said, "Truly I perceive that God + doesn't show favoritism; +010:035 but in every nation he who fears him and works righteousness + is acceptable to him. +010:036 The word which he sent to the children of Israel, preaching good + news of peace by Jesus Christ--he is Lord of all-- +010:037 that spoken word you yourselves know, which was proclaimed + throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee, after the baptism + which John preached; +010:038 even Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit + and with power, who went about doing good and healing all + who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him. +010:039 We are witnesses of everything he did both in the country of the Jews, + and in Jerusalem; whom they also{TR omits "also"} killed, + hanging him on a tree. +010:040 God raised him up the third day, and gave him to be revealed, +010:041 not to all the people, but to witnesses who were chosen + before by God, to us, who ate and drank with him after he rose + from the dead. +010:042 He charged us to preach to the people and to testify that this + is he who is appointed by God as the Judge of the living + and the dead. +010:043 All the prophets testify about him, that through his name + everyone who believes in him will receive remission of sins." +010:044 While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit + fell on all those who heard the word. +010:045 They of the circumcision who believed were amazed, as many + as came with Peter, because the gift of the Holy Spirit was + also poured out on the nations. +010:046 For they heard them speaking in other languages and magnifying God. + Then Peter answered, +010:047 "Can any man forbid the water, that these who have received + the Holy Spirit as well as we should not be baptized?" +010:048 He commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. + Then they asked him to stay some days. +011:001 Now the apostles and the brothers{The word for "brothers" + here and where context allows may also be correctly translated + "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."} who were in Judea + heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God. +011:002 When Peter had come up to Jerusalem, those who were of the + circumcision contended with him, +011:003 saying, "You went in to uncircumcised men, and ate with them!" +011:004 But Peter began, and explained to them in order, saying, +011:005 "I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I + saw a vision: a certain container descending, like it + was a great sheet let down from heaven by four corners. + It came as far as me. +011:006 When I had looked intently at it, I considered, and saw the + four-footed animals of the earth, wild animals, creeping things, + and birds of the sky. +011:007 I also heard a voice saying to me, 'Rise, Peter, kill and eat!' +011:008 But I said, 'Not so, Lord, for nothing unholy or unclean has + ever entered into my mouth.' +011:009 But a voice answered me the second time out of heaven, + 'What God has cleansed, don't you call unclean.' +011:010 This was done three times, and all were drawn up again into heaven. +011:011 Behold, immediately three men stood before the house where I was, + having been sent from Caesarea to me. +011:012 The Spirit told me to go with them, without discriminating. + These six brothers also accompanied me, and we entered into + the man's house. +011:013 He told us how he had seen the angel standing in his house, + and saying to him, 'Send to Joppa, and get Simon, + whose surname is Peter, +011:014 who will speak to you words by which you will be saved, + you and all your house.' +011:015 As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them, even as on + us at the beginning. +011:016 I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, 'John indeed + baptized in water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit.' +011:017 If then God gave to them the same gift as us, when we believed + in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I, that I could withstand God?" +011:018 When they heard these things, they held their peace, + and glorified God, saying, "Then God has also granted + to the Gentiles repentance to life!" +011:019 They therefore who were scattered abroad by the oppression that arose + about Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, + speaking the word to no one except to Jews only. +011:020 But there were some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who, when they + had come to Antioch, spoke to the Hellenists,{A Hellenist + is someone who keeps Greek customs and culture.} preaching + the Lord Jesus. +011:021 The hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number believed + and turned to the Lord. +011:022 The report concerning them came to the ears of the assembly + which was in Jerusalem. They sent out Barnabas to go + as far as Antioch, +011:023 who, when he had come, and had seen the grace of God, was glad. + He exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they should + remain near to the Lord. +011:024 For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith, + and many people were added to the Lord. +011:025 Barnabas went out to Tarsus to look for Saul. +011:026 When he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. + It happened, that for a whole year they were gathered + together with the assembly, and taught many people. + The disciples were first called Christians in Antioch. +011:027 Now in these days, prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch. +011:028 One of them named Agabus stood up, and indicated by the Spirit + that there should be a great famine all over the world, + which also happened in the days of Claudius. +011:029 As any of the disciples had plenty, each determined to send + relief to the brothers who lived in Judea; +011:030 which they also did, sending it to the elders by the hands + of Barnabas and Saul. +012:001 Now about that time, Herod the king stretched out his hands + to oppress some of the assembly. +012:002 He killed James, the brother of John, with the sword. +012:003 When he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to seize + Peter also. This was during the days of unleavened bread. +012:004 When he had arrested him, he put him in prison, and delivered + him to four squads of four soldiers each to guard him, + intending to bring him out to the people after the Passover. +012:005 Peter therefore was kept in the prison, but constant prayer + was made by the assembly to God for him. +012:006 The same night when Herod was about to bring him out, + Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains. + Guards in front of the door kept the prison. +012:007 And behold, an angel of the Lord stood by him, and a light + shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side, and woke + him up, saying, "Stand up quickly!" His chains fell off + from his hands. +012:008 The angel said to him, "Get dressed and put on your sandals." + He did so. He said to him, "Put on your cloak, and follow me." +012:009 And he went out and followed him. He didn't know that what was + being done by the angel was real, but thought he saw a vision. +012:010 When they were past the first and the second guard, they came + to the iron gate that leads into the city, which opened + to them by itself. They went out, and went down one street, + and immediately the angel departed from him. +012:011 When Peter had come to himself, he said, "Now I truly know + that the Lord has sent out his angel and delivered me + out of the hand of Herod, and from everything the Jewish + people were expecting." +012:012 Thinking about that, he came to the house of Mary, the mother + of John whose surname was Mark, where many were gathered + together and were praying. +012:013 When Peter knocked at the door of the gate, a maid named Rhoda + came to answer. +012:014 When she recognized Peter's voice, she didn't open the gate + for joy, but ran in, and reported that Peter was standing + in front of the gate. +012:015 They said to her, "You are crazy!" But she insisted that it was so. + They said, "It is his angel." +012:016 But Peter continued knocking. When they had opened, they saw him, + and were amazed. +012:017 But he, beckoning to them with his hand to be silent, + declared to them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. + He said, "Tell these things to James, and to the brothers." + Then he departed, and went to another place. +012:018 Now as soon as it was day, there was no small stir among + the soldiers about what had become of Peter. +012:019 When Herod had sought for him, and didn't find him, he examined + the guards, and commanded that they should be put to death. + He went down from Judea to Caesarea, and stayed there. +012:020 Now Herod was very angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon. + They came with one accord to him, and, having made Blastus, + the king's personal aide, their friend, they asked for peace, + because their country depended on the king's country for food. +012:021 On an appointed day, Herod dressed himself in royal clothing, + sat on the throne, and gave a speech to them. +012:022 The people shouted, "The voice of a god, and not of a man!" +012:023 Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he didn't + give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and died. +012:024 But the word of God grew and multiplied. +012:025 Barnabas and Saul returned to{TR reads "from" instead of + "to"} Jerusalem, when they had fulfilled their service, + also taking with them John whose surname was Mark. +013:001 Now in the assembly that was at Antioch there were some + prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon who was called + Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen the foster brother of Herod + the tetrarch, and Saul. +013:002 As they served the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, + "Separate Barnabas and Saul for me, for the work to which I + have called them." +013:003 Then, when they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands + on them, they sent them away. +013:004 So, being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia. + From there they sailed to Cyprus. +013:005 When they were at Salamis, they proclaimed the word of God in + the Jewish synagogues. They had also John as their attendant. +013:006 When they had gone through the island to Paphos, they found + a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name + was Bar Jesus, +013:007 who was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, a man of understanding. + This man summoned Barnabas and Saul, and sought to hear + the word of God. +013:008 But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) + withstood them, seeking to turn aside the proconsul + from the faith. +013:009 But Saul, who is also called Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, + fastened his eyes on him, +013:010 and said, "Full of all deceit and all cunning, you son of the devil, + you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert + the right ways of the Lord? +013:011 Now, behold, the hand of the Lord is on you, and you + will be blind, not seeing the sun for a season!" + Immediately a mist and darkness fell on him. He went around + seeking someone to lead him by the hand. +013:012 Then the proconsul, when he saw what was done, believed, + being astonished at the teaching of the Lord. +013:013 Now Paul and his company set sail from Paphos, and came to Perga + in Pamphylia. John departed from them and returned to Jerusalem. +013:014 But they, passing on from Perga, came to Antioch of Pisidia. + They went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and sat down. +013:015 After the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers + of the synagogue sent to them, saying, "Brothers, if you + have any word of exhortation for the people, speak." +013:016 Paul stood up, and beckoning with his hand said, "Men of Israel, + and you who fear God, listen. +013:017 The God of this people{TR, NU add "Israel"} chose our fathers, + and exalted the people when they stayed as aliens in the land + of Egypt, and with an uplifted arm, he led them out of it. +013:018 For a period of about forty years he put up with them + in the wilderness. +013:019 When he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, + he gave them their land for an inheritance, for about four + hundred fifty years. +013:020 After these things he gave them judges until Samuel the prophet. +013:021 Afterward they asked for a king, and God gave to them Saul the son + of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years. +013:022 When he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king, + to whom he also testified, 'I have found David the son of Jesse, + a man after my heart, who will do all my will.' +013:023 From this man's seed, God has brought salvation{TR, NU read + "a Savior, Jesus" instead of "salvation"} to Israel according + to his promise, +013:024 before his coming, when John had first preached the baptism of + repentance to Israel.{TR, NU read "to all the people of Israel" + instead of "to Israel"} +013:025 As John was fulfilling his course, he said, 'What do you suppose + that I am? I am not he. But behold, one comes after me + the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.' +013:026 Brothers, children of the stock of Abraham, and those among you + who fear God, the word of this salvation is sent out to you. +013:027 For those who dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they + didn't know him, nor the voices of the prophets which are read + every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him. +013:028 Though they found no cause for death, they still asked Pilate + to have him killed. +013:029 When they had fulfilled all things that were written about him, + they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a tomb. +013:030 But God raised him from the dead, +013:031 and he was seen for many days by those who came up with him + from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses to the people. +013:032 We bring you good news of the promise made to the fathers, +013:033 that God has fulfilled the same to us, their children, in that + he raised up Jesus. As it is also written in the second psalm, + 'You are my Son. Today I have become your father.'{Psalm 2:7} +013:034 "Concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more + to return to corruption, he has spoken thus: 'I will give + you the holy and sure blessings of David.'{Isaiah 55:3} +013:035 Therefore he says also in another psalm, 'You will not allow + your Holy One to see decay.'{Psalm 16:10} +013:036 For David, after he had in his own generation served the + counsel of God, fell asleep, and was laid with his fathers, + and saw decay. +013:037 But he whom God raised up saw no decay. +013:038 Be it known to you therefore, brothers{The word for "brothers" + here and where the context allows may also be correctly + translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."}, that through + this man is proclaimed to you remission of sins, +013:039 and by him everyone who believes is justified from all things, + from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses. +013:040 Beware therefore, lest that come on you which is spoken + in the prophets: +013:041 'Behold, you scoffers, and wonder, and perish; for I work + a work in your days, a work which you will in no way believe, + if one declares it to you.'"{Habakkuk 1:5} +013:042 So when the Jews went out of the synagogue, the Gentiles begged + that these words might be preached to them the next Sabbath. +013:043 Now when the synagogue broke up, many of the Jews and of the devout + proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas; who, speaking to them, + urged them to continue in the grace of God. +013:044 The next Sabbath almost the whole city was gathered together + to hear the word of God. +013:045 But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled + with jealousy, and contradicted the things which were spoken + by Paul, and blasphemed. +013:046 Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, and said, "It was + necessary that God's word should be spoken to you first. + Since indeed you thrust it from you, and judge yourselves + unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles. +013:047 For so has the Lord commanded us, saying, 'I have set you + as a light for the Gentiles, that you should bring salvation + to the uttermost parts of the earth.'"{Isaiah 49:6} +013:048 As the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word + of God. As many as were appointed to eternal life believed. +013:049 The Lord's word was spread abroad throughout all the region. +013:050 But the Jews stirred up the devout and prominent women + and the chief men of the city, and stirred up a persecution + against Paul and Barnabas, and threw them out of their borders. +013:051 But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, + and came to Iconium. +013:052 The disciples were filled with joy with the Holy Spirit. +014:001 It happened in Iconium that they entered together into + the synagogue of the Jews, and so spoke that a great multitude + both of Jews and of Greeks believed. +014:002 But the disbelieving{or, disobedient} Jews stirred up and + embittered the souls of the Gentiles against the brothers. +014:003 Therefore they stayed there a long time, speaking boldly + in the Lord, who testified to the word of his grace, + granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands. +014:004 But the multitude of the city was divided. Part sided with + the Jews, and part with the apostles. +014:005 When some of both the Gentiles and the Jews, with their rulers, + made a violent attempt to mistreat and stone them, +014:006 they became aware of it, and fled to the cities + of Lycaonia, Lystra, Derbe, and the surrounding region. +014:007 There they preached the Good News. +014:008 At Lystra a certain man sat, impotent in his feet, a cripple + from his mother's womb, who never had walked. +014:009 He was listening to Paul speaking, who, fastening eyes on him, + and seeing that he had faith to be made whole, +014:010 said with a loud voice, "Stand upright on your feet!" + He leaped up and walked. +014:011 When the multitude saw what Paul had done, they lifted up + their voice, saying in the language of Lycaonia, "The gods + have come down to us in the likeness of men!" +014:012 They called Barnabas "Jupiter," and Paul "Mercury," + because he was the chief speaker. +014:013 The priest of Jupiter, whose temple was in front of their city, + brought oxen and garlands to the gates, and would have made + a sacrifice along with the multitudes. +014:014 But when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of it, they tore + their clothes, and sprang into the multitude, crying out, +014:015 "Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men + of like passions with you, and bring you good news, that you + should turn from these vain things to the living God, who made + the sky and the earth and the sea, and all that is in them; +014:016 who in the generations gone by allowed all the nations to walk + in their own ways. +014:017 Yet he didn't leave himself without witness, in that he did + good and gave you{TR reads "us" instead of "you"} rains + from the sky and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with + food and gladness." +014:018 Even saying these things, they hardly stopped the multitudes + from making a sacrifice to them. +014:019 But some Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there, and having + persuaded the multitudes, they stoned Paul, and dragged him + out of the city, supposing that he was dead. +014:020 But as the disciples stood around him, he rose up, and entered into + the city. On the next day he went out with Barnabas to Derbe. +014:021 When they had preached the Good News to that city, and had made + many disciples, they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch, +014:022 confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue + in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter + into the Kingdom of God. +014:023 When they had appointed elders for them in every assembly, + and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, + on whom they had believed. +014:024 They passed through Pisidia, and came to Pamphylia. +014:025 When they had spoken the word in Perga, they went down to Attalia. +014:026 From there they sailed to Antioch, from where they had been committed + to the grace of God for the work which they had fulfilled. +014:027 When they had arrived, and had gathered the assembly together, + they reported all the things that God had done with them, + and that he had opened a door of faith to the nations. +014:028 They stayed there with the disciples for a long time. +015:001 Some men came down from Judea and taught the brothers, + "Unless you are circumcised after the custom of Moses, + you can't be saved." +015:002 Therefore when Paul and Barnabas had no small discord + and discussion with them, they appointed Paul and Barnabas, + and some others of them, to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles + and elders about this question. +015:003 They, being sent on their way by the assembly, passed through both + Phoenicia and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles. + They caused great joy to all the brothers.{The word for "brothers" + here and where the context allows may also be correctly + translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."} +015:004 When they had come to Jerusalem, they were received by the assembly + and the apostles and the elders, and they reported all things + that God had done with them. +015:005 But some of the sect of the Pharisees who believed rose up, + saying, "It is necessary to circumcise them, and to charge + them to keep the law of Moses." +015:006 The apostles and the elders were gathered together to see + about this matter. +015:007 When there had been much discussion, Peter rose up and said + to them, "Brothers, you know that a good while ago God made + a choice among you, that by my mouth the nations should hear + the word of the Good News, and believe. +015:008 God, who knows the heart, testified about them, giving them + the Holy Spirit, just like he did to us. +015:009 He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their + hearts by faith. +015:010 Now therefore why do you tempt God, that you should put a yoke + on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor + we were able to bear? +015:011 But we believe that we are saved through the grace of the + Lord Jesus,{TR adds "Christ"} just as they are." +015:012 All the multitude kept silence, and they listened to Barnabas + and Paul reporting what signs and wonders God had done among + the nations through them. +015:013 After they were silent, James answered, "Brothers, listen to me. +015:014 Simeon has reported how God first visited the nations, + to take out of them a people for his name. +015:015 This agrees with the words of the prophets. As it is written, +015:016 'After these things I will return. I will again build the tent + of David, which has fallen. I will again build its ruins. + I will set it up, +015:017 That the rest of men may seek after the Lord; All the Gentiles + who are called by my name, Says the Lord, who does all + these things.{Amos 9:11-12} +015:018 All his works are known to God from eternity.' +015:019 "Therefore my judgment is that we don't trouble those from among + the Gentiles who turn to God, +015:020 but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution + of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, + and from blood. +015:021 For Moses from generations of old has in every city those who + preach him, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath." +015:022 Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the + whole assembly, to choose men out of their company, and send + them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas: Judas called Barsabbas, + and Silas, chief men among the brothers.{The word for "brothers" + here and where the context allows may also be correctly + translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."} +015:023 They wrote these things by their hand: "The apostles, the elders, + and the brothers, to the brothers who are of the Gentiles + in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia: greetings. +015:024 Because we have heard that some who went out from us have troubled + you with words, unsettling your souls, saying, 'You must be + circumcised and keep the law,' to whom we gave no commandment; +015:025 it seemed good to us, having come to one accord, to choose out + men and send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul, +015:026 men who have risked their lives for the name of our + Lord Jesus Christ. +015:027 We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who themselves will + also tell you the same things by word of mouth. +015:028 For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay + no greater burden on you than these necessary things: +015:029 that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, + from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which + if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell." +015:030 So, when they were sent off, they came to Antioch. + Having gathered the multitude together, they delivered the letter. +015:031 When they had read it, they rejoiced over the encouragement. +015:032 Judas and Silas, also being prophets themselves, encouraged the + brothers with many words, and strengthened them. +015:033 After they had spent some time there, they were sent back + with greetings from the brothers to the apostles. +015:034 {Some manuscripts add: But it seemed good to Silas to stay there.} +015:035 But Paul and Barnabas stayed in Antioch, teaching and preaching + the word of the Lord, with many others also. +015:036 After some days Paul said to Barnabas, "Let's return now + and visit our brothers in every city in which we proclaimed + the word of the Lord, to see how they are doing." +015:037 Barnabas planned to take John, who was called Mark, + with them also. +015:038 But Paul didn't think that it was a good idea to take + with them someone who had withdrawn from them in Pamphylia, + and didn't go with them to do the work. +015:039 Then the contention grew so sharp that they separated + from each other. Barnabas took Mark with him, and sailed + away to Cyprus, +015:040 but Paul chose Silas, and went out, being commended by the brothers + to the grace of God. +015:041 He went through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the assemblies. +016:001 He came to Derbe and Lystra: and behold, a certain disciple + was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewess who believed; + but his father was a Greek. +016:002 The brothers who were at Lystra and Iconium gave a good + testimony about him. +016:003 Paul wanted to have him go out with him, and he took and + circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those parts; + for they all knew that his father was a Greek. +016:004 As they went on their way through the cities, they delivered + the decrees to them to keep which had been ordained by + the apostles and elders who were at Jerusalem. +016:005 So the assemblies were strengthened in the faith, and increased + in number daily. +016:006 When they had gone through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, + they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia. +016:007 When they had come opposite Mysia, they tried to go into Bithynia, + but the Spirit didn't allow them. +016:008 Passing by Mysia, they came down to Troas. +016:009 A vision appeared to Paul in the night. There was a man + of Macedonia standing, begging him, and saying, "Come over + into Macedonia and help us." +016:010 When he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go out + to Macedonia, concluding that the Lord had called us to preach + the Good News to them. +016:011 Setting sail therefore from Troas, we made a straight course + to Samothrace, and the day following to Neapolis; +016:012 and from there to Philippi, which is a city of Macedonia, + the foremost of the district, a Roman colony. We were staying + some days in this city. +016:013 On the Sabbath day we went forth outside of the city by a riverside, + where we supposed there was a place of prayer, and we sat down, + and spoke to the women who had come together. +016:014 A certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city + of Thyatira, one who worshiped God, heard us; whose heart the Lord + opened to listen to the things which were spoken by Paul. +016:015 When she and her household were baptized, she begged us, + saying, "If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, + come into my house, and stay." So she persuaded us. +016:016 It happened, as we were going to prayer, that a certain girl + having a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters + much gain by fortune telling. +016:017 Following Paul and us, she cried out, "These men are servants + of the Most High God, who proclaim to us the way of salvation!" +016:018 She was doing this for many days. But Paul, becoming + greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, "I charge + you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her!" + It came out that very hour. +016:019 But when her masters saw that the hope of their gain was gone, + they seized Paul and Silas, and dragged them into the marketplace + before the rulers. +016:020 When they had brought them to the magistrates, they said, + "These men, being Jews, are agitating our city, +016:021 and set forth customs which it is not lawful for us to accept + or to observe, being Romans." +016:022 The multitude rose up together against them, and the magistrates + tore their clothes off of them, and commanded them to be + beaten with rods. +016:023 When they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them + into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely, +016:024 who, having received such a charge, threw them into the inner prison, + and secured their feet in the stocks. +016:025 But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing + hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them. +016:026 Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations + of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors + were opened, and everyone's bonds were loosened. +016:027 The jailer, being roused out of sleep and seeing the prison + doors open, drew his sword and was about to kill himself, + supposing that the prisoners had escaped. +016:028 But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, "Don't harm yourself, + for we are all here!" +016:029 He called for lights and sprang in, and, fell down trembling + before Paul and Silas, +016:030 and brought them out and said, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?" +016:031 They said, "Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will + be saved, you and your household." +016:032 They spoke the word of the Lord to him, and to all who were + in his house. +016:033 He took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes, + and was immediately baptized, he and all his household. +016:034 He brought them up into his house, and set food before them, + and rejoiced greatly, with all his household, having + believed in God. +016:035 But when it was day, the magistrates sent the sergeants, + saying, "Let those men go." +016:036 The jailer reported these words to Paul, saying, "The magistrates + have sent to let you go; now therefore come out, and go in peace." +016:037 But Paul said to them, "They have beaten us publicly, + without a trial, men who are Romans, and have cast us into prison! + Do they now release us secretly? No, most certainly, + but let them come themselves and bring us out!" +016:038 The sergeants reported these words to the magistrates, + and they were afraid when they heard that they were Romans, +016:039 and they came and begged them. When they had brought them out, + they asked them to depart from the city. +016:040 They went out of the prison, and entered into Lydia's house. + When they had seen the brothers, they encouraged them, and departed. +017:001 Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, + they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue. +017:002 Paul, as was his custom, went in to them, and for three Sabbath + days reasoned with them from the Scriptures, +017:003 explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer + and rise again from the dead, and saying, "This Jesus, + whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ." +017:004 Some of them were persuaded, and joined Paul and Silas, + of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and not a few + of the chief women. +017:005 But the unpersuaded Jews took along{TR reads "And the Jews + who were unpersuaded, becoming envious and taking along" + instead of "But the unpersuaded Jews took along"} some + wicked men from the marketplace, and gathering a crowd, + set the city in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, + they sought to bring them out to the people. +017:006 When they didn't find them, they dragged Jason and certain + brothers{The word for "brothers" here and where the context + allows may be also correctly translated "brothers and sisters" + or "siblings."} before the rulers of the city, crying, "These who + have turned the world upside down have come here also, +017:007 whom Jason has received. These all act contrary to the decrees + of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus!" +017:008 The multitude and the rulers of the city were troubled when they + heard these things. +017:009 When they had taken security from Jason and the rest, + they let them go. +017:010 The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. + When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue. +017:011 Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, + in that they received the word with all readiness of the mind, + examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so. +017:012 Many of them therefore believed; also of the prominent Greek women, + and not a few men. +017:013 But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word + of God was proclaimed by Paul at Beroea also, they came + there likewise, agitating the multitudes. +017:014 Then the brothers immediately sent out Paul to go as far + as to the sea, and Silas and Timothy still stayed there. +017:015 But those who escorted Paul brought him as far as Athens. + Receiving a commandment to Silas and Timothy that they should + come to him very quickly, they departed. +017:016 Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked + within him as he saw the city full of idols. +017:017 So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, + and in the marketplace every day with those who met him. +017:018 Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also{TR omits + "also"} were conversing with him. Some said, "What does + this babbler want to say?" Others said, "He seems to be + advocating foreign deities," because he preached Jesus + and the resurrection. +017:019 They took hold of him, and brought him to the Areopagus, + saying, "May we know what this new teaching is, which is + spoken by you? +017:020 For you bring certain strange things to our ears. + We want to know therefore what these things mean." +017:021 Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent + their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear + some new thing. +017:022 Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus, and said, + "You men of Athens, I perceive that you are very religious + in all things. +017:023 For as I passed along, and observed the objects of your worship, + I found also an altar with this inscription: 'TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.' + What therefore you worship in ignorance, this I announce to you. +017:024 The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord + of heaven and earth, doesn't dwell in temples made with hands, +017:025 neither is he served by men's hands, as though he needed anything, + seeing he himself gives to all life and breath, and all things. +017:026 He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all + the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, + and the boundaries of their dwellings, +017:027 that they should seek the Lord, if perhaps they might reach + out for him and find him, though he is not far from each + one of us. +017:028 'For in him we live, and move, and have our being.' As some + of your own poets have said, 'For we are also his offspring.' +017:029 Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think + that the Divine Nature is like gold, or silver, or stone, + engraved by art and design of man. +017:030 The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. + But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent, +017:031 because he has appointed a day in which he will judge + the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; + of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has + raised him from the dead." +017:032 Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; + but others said, "We want to hear you again concerning this." +017:033 Thus Paul went out from among them. +017:034 But certain men joined with him, and believed, among whom + also was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, + and others with them. +018:001 After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth. +018:002 He found a certain Jew named Aquila, a man of Pontus by race, + who had recently come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla, + because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome. + He came to them, +018:003 and because he practiced the same trade, he lived with them + and worked, for by trade they were tent makers. +018:004 He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and persuaded + Jews and Greeks. +018:005 But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was + compelled by the Spirit, testifying to the Jews that Jesus + was the Christ. +018:006 When they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook out his clothing + and said to them, "Your blood be on your own heads! I am clean. + From now on, I will go to the Gentiles!" +018:007 He departed there, and went into the house of a certain man + named Justus, one who worshiped God, whose house was next door + to the synagogue. +018:008 Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord + with all his house. Many of the Corinthians, when they heard, + believed and were baptized. +018:009 The Lord said to Paul in the night by a vision, "Don't be afraid, + but speak and don't be silent; +018:010 for I am with you, and no one will attack you to harm you, + for I have many people in this city." +018:011 He lived there a year and six months, teaching the word + of God among them. +018:012 But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord + rose up against Paul and brought him before the judgment seat, +018:013 saying, "This man persuades men to worship God contrary + to the law." +018:014 But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to + the Jews, "If indeed it were a matter of wrong or of wicked crime, + you Jews, it would be reasonable that I should bear with you; +018:015 but if they are questions about words and names and your own law, + look to it yourselves. For I don't want to be a judge + of these matters." +018:016 He drove them from the judgment seat. +018:017 Then all the Greeks laid hold on Sosthenes, the ruler + of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. + Gallio didn't care about any of these things. +018:018 Paul, having stayed after this many more days, + took his leave of the brothers,{The word for "brothers" + here and where the context allows may also be correctly + translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."} and sailed + from there for Syria, together with Priscilla and Aquila. + He shaved his head in Cenchreae, for he had a vow. +018:019 He came to Ephesus, and he left them there; but he himself + entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews. +018:020 When they asked him to stay with them a longer time, he declined; +018:021 but taking his leave of them, and saying, "I must by all means + keep this coming feast in Jerusalem, but I will return again + to you if God wills," he set sail from Ephesus. +018:022 When he had landed at Caesarea, he went up and greeted the assembly, + and went down to Antioch. +018:023 Having spent some time there, he departed, and went + through the region of Galatia, and Phrygia, in order, + establishing all the disciples. +018:024 Now a certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by race, + an eloquent man, came to Ephesus. He was mighty in the Scriptures. +018:025 This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being + fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things + concerning Jesus, although he knew only the baptism of John. +018:026 He began to speak boldly in the synagogue. But when Priscilla + and Aquila heard him, they took him aside, and explained + to him the way of God more accurately. +018:027 When he had determined to pass over into Achaia, the brothers + encouraged him, and wrote to the disciples to receive him. + When he had come, he greatly helped those who had + believed through grace; +018:028 for he powerfully refuted the Jews, publicly showing by + the Scriptures that Jesus was the Christ. +019:001 It happened that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul, + having passed through the upper country, came to Ephesus, + and found certain disciples. +019:002 He said to them, "Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?" + They said to him, "No, we haven't even heard that there + is a Holy Spirit." +019:003 He said, "Into what then were you baptized?" They said, + "Into John's baptism." +019:004 Paul said, "John indeed baptized with the baptism of repentance, + saying to the people that they should believe in the one + who would come after him, that is, in Jesus." +019:005 When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of + the Lord Jesus. +019:006 When Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, + and they spoke with other languages and prophesied. +019:007 They were about twelve men in all. +019:008 He entered into the synagogue, and spoke boldly for a period + of three months, reasoning and persuading about the things + concerning the Kingdom of God. +019:009 But when some were hardened and disobedient, speaking evil of + the Way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated + the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus. +019:010 This continued for two years, so that all those who lived in Asia + heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks. +019:011 God worked special miracles by the hands of Paul, +019:012 so that even handkerchiefs or aprons were carried away from + his body to the sick, and the evil spirits went out. +019:013 But some of the itinerant Jews, exorcists, took on themselves + to invoke over those who had the evil spirits the name of the + Lord Jesus, saying, "We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preaches." +019:014 There were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, + who did this. +019:015 The evil spirit answered, "Jesus I know, and Paul I know, + but who are you?" +019:016 The man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, + and overpowered them, and prevailed against them, so that they + fled out of that house naked and wounded. +019:017 This became known to all, both Jews and Greeks, who lived at Ephesus. + Fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified. +019:018 Many also of those who had believed came, confessing, + and declaring their deeds. +019:019 Many of those who practiced magical arts brought their + books together and burned them in the sight of all. + They counted the price of them, and found it to be fifty + thousand pieces of silver.{The 50,000 pieces of silver + here probably referred to 50,000 drachmas. If so, the value + of the burned books was equivalent to about 160 man-years + of wages for agricultural laborers} +019:020 So the word of the Lord was growing and becoming mighty. +019:021 Now after these things had ended, Paul determined in the spirit, + when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go + to Jerusalem, saying, "After I have been there, I must + also see Rome." +019:022 Having sent into Macedonia two of those who served him, + Timothy and Erastus, he himself stayed in Asia for a while. +019:023 About that time there arose no small stir concerning the Way. +019:024 For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made + silver shrines of Artemis, brought no little business + to the craftsmen, +019:025 whom he gathered together, with the workmen of like occupation, + and said, "Sirs, you know that by this business we have our wealth. +019:026 You see and hear, that not at Ephesus alone, but almost throughout + all Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away many people, + saying that they are no gods, that are made with hands. +019:027 Not only is there danger that this our trade come into disrepute, + but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis + will be counted as nothing, and her majesty destroyed, + whom all Asia and the world worships." +019:028 When they heard this they were filled with anger, and cried out, + saying, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!" +019:029 The whole city was filled with confusion, and they rushed with one + accord into the theater, having seized Gaius and Aristarchus, + men of Macedonia, Paul's companions in travel. +019:030 When Paul wanted to enter in to the people, the disciples + didn't allow him. +019:031 Certain also of the Asiarchs, being his friends, sent to him + and begged him not to venture into the theater. +019:032 Some therefore cried one thing, and some another, for the + assembly was in confusion. Most of them didn't know why they + had come together. +019:033 They brought Alexander out of the multitude, the Jews putting + him forward. Alexander beckoned with his hand, and would + have made a defense to the people. +019:034 But when they perceived that he was a Jew, all with one voice + for a time of about two hours cried out, "Great is Artemis + of the Ephesians!" +019:035 When the town clerk had quieted the multitude, he said, "You men + of Ephesus, what man is there who doesn't know that the city + of the Ephesians is temple keeper of the great goddess Artemis, + and of the image which fell down from Zeus? +019:036 Seeing then that these things can't be denied, you ought + to be quiet, and to do nothing rash. +019:037 For you have brought these men here, who are neither robbers + of temples nor blasphemers of your goddess. +019:038 If therefore Demetrius and the craftsmen who are with him + have a matter against anyone, the courts are open, and there + are proconsuls. Let them press charges against one another. +019:039 But if you seek anything about other matters, it will be settled + in the regular assembly. +019:040 For indeed we are in danger of being accused concerning this + day's riot, there being no cause. Concerning it, we wouldn't + be able to give an account of this commotion." +019:041 When he had thus spoken, he dismissed the assembly. +020:001 After the uproar had ceased, Paul sent for the disciples, + took leave of them, and departed to go into Macedonia. +020:002 When he had gone through those parts, and had encouraged them + with many words, he came into Greece. +020:003 When he had spent three months there, and a plot was made + against him by Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria, + he determined to return through Macedonia. +020:004 These accompanied him as far as Asia: Sopater of Beroea; Aristarchus + and Secundus of the Thessalonians; Gaius of Derbe; Timothy; + and Tychicus and Trophimus of Asia. +020:005 But these had gone ahead, and were waiting for us at Troas. +020:006 We sailed away from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread, + and came to them at Troas in five days, where we stayed seven days. +020:007 On the first day of the week, when the disciples were gathered + together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart + on the next day, and continued his speech until midnight. +020:008 There were many lights in the upper chamber where we{TR reads "they" + instead of "we"} were gathered together. +020:009 A certain young man named Eutychus sat in the window, + weighed down with deep sleep. As Paul spoke still longer, + being weighed down by his sleep, he fell down from the third story, + and was taken up dead. +020:010 Paul went down, and fell upon him, and embracing him said, + "Don't be troubled, for his life is in him." +020:011 When he had gone up, and had broken bread, and eaten, + and had talked with them a long while, even until break + of day, he departed. +020:012 They brought the boy in alive, and were greatly comforted. +020:013 But we who went ahead to the ship set sail for Assos, + intending to take Paul aboard there, for he had so arranged, + intending himself to go by land. +020:014 When he met us at Assos, we took him aboard, and came to Mitylene. +020:015 Sailing from there, we came the following day opposite Chios. + The next day we touched at Samos and stayed at Trogyllium, + and the day after we came to Miletus. +020:016 For Paul had determined to sail past Ephesus, that he might not + have to spend time in Asia; for he was hastening, if it were + possible for him, to be in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost. +020:017 From Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called to himself the elders + of the assembly. +020:018 When they had come to him, he said to them, "You yourselves know, + from the first day that I set foot in Asia, how I was with you + all the time, +020:019 serving the Lord with all humility, with many tears, + and with trials which happened to me by the plots of the Jews; +020:020 how I didn't shrink from declaring to you anything that + was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house, +020:021 testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God, + and faith toward our Lord Jesus.{TR adds "Christ"} +020:022 Now, behold, I go bound by the Spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing + what will happen to me there; +020:023 except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, + saying that bonds and afflictions wait for me. +020:024 But these things don't count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, + so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I + received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News + of the grace of God. +020:025 "Now, behold, I know that you all, among whom I went about + preaching the Kingdom of God, will see my face no more. +020:026 Therefore I testify to you this day that I am clean from + the blood of all men, +020:027 for I didn't shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God. +020:028 Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, + in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd + the assembly of the Lord and{TR, NU omit "the Lord and"} God + which he purchased with his own blood. +020:029 For I know that after my departure, vicious wolves will enter + in among you, not sparing the flock. +020:030 Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things, + to draw away the disciples after them. +020:031 Therefore watch, remembering that for a period of three years + I didn't cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears. +020:032 Now, brothers,{The word for "brothers" here and where the context + allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" + or "siblings."} I entrust you to God, and to the word of his grace, + which is able to build up, and to give you the inheritance + among all those who are sanctified. +020:033 I coveted no one's silver, or gold, or clothing. +020:034 You yourselves know that these hands served my necessities, + and those who were with me. +020:035 In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought + to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, + that he himself said, 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'" +020:036 When he had spoken these things, he knelt down and prayed + with them all. +020:037 They all wept a lot, and fell on Paul's neck and kissed him, +020:038 sorrowing most of all because of the word which he had spoken, + that they should see his face no more. And they accompanied + him to the ship. +021:001 When it happened that we had parted from them and had set sail, + we came with a straight course to Cos, and the next day to Rhodes, + and from there to Patara. +021:002 Having found a ship crossing over to Phoenicia, we went aboard, + and set sail. +021:003 When we had come in sight of Cyprus, leaving it on the left hand, + we sailed to Syria, and landed at Tyre, for there the ship + was to unload her cargo. +021:004 Having found disciples, we stayed there seven days. + These said to Paul through the Spirit, that he should not go + up to Jerusalem. +021:005 When it happened that we had accomplished the days, we departed + and went on our journey. They all, with wives and children, + brought us on our way until we were out of the city. + Kneeling down on the beach, we prayed. +021:006 After saying goodbye to each other, we went on board the ship, + and they returned home again. +021:007 When we had finished the voyage from Tyre, we arrived at Ptolemais. + We greeted the brothers, and stayed with them one day. +021:008 On the next day, we, who were Paul's companions, departed, and came + to Caesarea. We entered into the house of Philip the evangelist, + who was one of the seven, and stayed with him. +021:009 Now this man had four virgin daughters who prophesied. +021:010 As we stayed there some days, a certain prophet named Agabus + came down from Judea. +021:011 Coming to us, and taking Paul's belt, he bound his own feet + and hands, and said, "Thus says the Holy Spirit: 'So will + the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man who owns this belt, + and will deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.'" +021:012 When we heard these things, both we and they of that place + begged him not to go up to Jerusalem. +021:013 Then Paul answered, "What are you doing, weeping and breaking + my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die + at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus." +021:014 When he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, "The Lord's + will be done." +021:015 After these days we took up our baggage and went up to Jerusalem. +021:016 Some of the disciples from Caesarea also went with us, + bringing one Mnason of Cyprus, an early disciple, with whom + we would stay. +021:017 When we had come to Jerusalem, the brothers received us gladly. +021:018 The day following, Paul went in with us to James; and all + the elders were present. +021:019 When he had greeted them, he reported one by one the things + which God had worked among the Gentiles through his ministry. +021:020 They, when they heard it, glorified God. They said to him, + "You see, brother, how many thousands there are among + the Jews of those who have believed, and they are all zealous + for the law. +021:021 They have been informed about you, that you teach all the Jews + who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not + to circumcise their children neither to walk after the customs. +021:022 What then? The assembly must certainly meet, for they will + hear that you have come. +021:023 Therefore do what we tell you. We have four men who have + taken a vow. +021:024 Take them, and purify yourself with them, and pay their + expenses for them, that they may shave their heads. + Then all will know that there is no truth in the things + that they have been informed about you, but that you yourself + also walk keeping the law. +021:025 But concerning the Gentiles who believe, we have written our + decision that they should observe no such thing, except that they + should keep themselves from food offered to idols, from blood, + from strangled things, and from sexual immorality." +021:026 Then Paul took the men, and the next day, purified himself + and went with them into the temple, declaring the fulfillment + of the days of purification, until the offering was offered + for every one of them. +021:027 When the seven days were almost completed, the Jews from Asia, + when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the multitude + and laid hands on him, +021:028 crying out, "Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches all + men everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place. + Moreover, he also brought Greeks into the temple, and has + defiled this holy place!" +021:029 For they had seen Trophimus, the Ephesian, with him in the city, + and they supposed that Paul had brought him into the temple. +021:030 All the city was moved, and the people ran together. + They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple. + Immediately the doors were shut. +021:031 As they were trying to kill him, news came up to the commanding + officer of the regiment that all Jerusalem was in an uproar. +021:032 Immediately he took soldiers and centurions, and ran down to them. + They, when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, + stopped beating Paul. +021:033 Then the commanding officer came near, arrested him, + commanded him to be bound with two chains, and inquired + who he was and what he had done. +021:034 Some shouted one thing, and some another, among the crowd. + When he couldn't find out the truth because of the noise, + he commanded him to be brought into the barracks. +021:035 When he came to the stairs, it happened that he was carried + by the soldiers because of the violence of the crowd; +021:036 for the multitude of the people followed after, crying out, + "Away with him!" +021:037 As Paul was about to be brought into the barracks, + he asked the commanding officer, "May I speak to you?" + He said, "Do you know Greek? +021:038 Aren't you then the Egyptian, who before these days stirred up + to sedition and led out into the wilderness the four thousand + men of the Assassins?" +021:039 But Paul said, "I am a Jew, from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen + of no insignificant city. I beg you, allow me to speak + to the people." +021:040 When he had given him permission, Paul, standing on the stairs, + beckoned with his hand to the people. When there was a + great silence, he spoke to them in the Hebrew language, saying, +022:001 "Brothers and fathers, listen to the defense which I now + make to you." +022:002 When they heard that he spoke to them in the Hebrew language, + they were even more quiet. He said, +022:003 "I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up + in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed according + to the strict manner of the law of our fathers, being zealous + for God, even as you all are this day. +022:004 I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering + into prisons both men and women. +022:005 As also the high priest and all the council of the elders testify, + from whom also I received letters to the brothers, and traveled + to Damascus to bring them also who were there to Jerusalem + in bonds to be punished. +022:006 It happened that, as I made my journey, and came close + to Damascus, about noon, suddenly there shone from the sky + a great light around me. +022:007 I fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to me, 'Saul, Saul, + why are you persecuting me?' +022:008 I answered, 'Who are you, Lord?' He said to me, 'I am Jesus + of Nazareth, whom you persecute.' +022:009 "Those who were with me indeed saw the light and were afraid, + but they didn't understand the voice of him who spoke to me. +022:010 I said, 'What shall I do, Lord?' The Lord said to me, 'Arise, + and go into Damascus. There you will be told about all things + which are appointed for you to do.' +022:011 When I couldn't see for the glory of that light, being led + by the hand of those who were with me, I came into Damascus. +022:012 One Ananias, a devout man according to the law, well reported + of by all the Jews who lived in Damascus, +022:013 came to me, and standing by me said to me, 'Brother Saul, + receive your sight!' In that very hour I looked up at him. +022:014 He said, 'The God of our fathers has appointed you to know + his will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice + from his mouth. +022:015 For you will be a witness for him to all men of what you + have seen and heard. +022:016 Now why do you wait? Arise, be baptized, and wash away your sins, + calling on the name of the Lord.' +022:017 "It happened that, when I had returned to Jerusalem, and while I + prayed in the temple, I fell into a trance, +022:018 and saw him saying to me, 'Hurry and get out of Jerusalem quickly, + because they will not receive testimony concerning me from you.' +022:019 I said, 'Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat + in every synagogue those who believed in you. +022:020 When the blood of Stephen, your witness, was shed, I also + was standing by, and consenting to his death, and guarding + the cloaks of those who killed him.' +022:021 "He said to me, 'Depart, for I will send you out far from here + to the Gentiles.'" +022:022 They listened to him until he said that; then they lifted + up their voice, and said, "Rid the earth of this fellow, + for he isn't fit to live!" +022:023 As they cried out, and threw off their cloaks, and threw dust + into the air, +022:024 the commanding officer commanded him to be brought into the barracks, + ordering him to be examined by scourging, that he might know + for what crime they shouted against him like that. +022:025 When they had tied him up with thongs, Paul asked the centurion + who stood by, "Is it lawful for you to scourge a man who is + a Roman, and not found guilty?" +022:026 When the centurion heard it, he went to the commanding officer + and told him, "Watch what you are about to do, for this man + is a Roman!" +022:027 The commanding officer came and asked him, "Tell me, are you + a Roman?" He said, "Yes." +022:028 The commanding officer answered, "I bought my citizenship + for a great price." Paul said, "But I was born a Roman." +022:029 Immediately those who were about to examine him departed from him, + and the commanding officer also was afraid when he realized + that he was a Roman, because he had bound him. +022:030 But on the next day, desiring to know the truth about why he was + accused by the Jews, he freed him from the bonds, and commanded + the chief priests and all the council to come together, + and brought Paul down and set him before them. +023:001 Paul, looking steadfastly at the council, said, "Brothers, I have + lived before God in all good conscience until this day." +023:002 The high priest, Ananias, commanded those who stood by him + to strike him on the mouth. +023:003 Then Paul said to him, "God will strike you, you whitewashed wall! + Do you sit to judge me according to the law, and command me + to be struck contrary to the law?" +023:004 Those who stood by said, "Do you malign God's high priest?" +023:005 Paul said, "I didn't know, brothers, that he was high priest. + For it is written, 'You shall not speak evil of a ruler + of your people.'"{Exodus 22:28} +023:006 But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees + and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, + "Men and brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. + Concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I + am being judged!" +023:007 When he had said this, an argument arose between the Pharisees + and Sadducees, and the assembly was divided. +023:008 For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, nor angel, + nor spirit; but the Pharisees confess all of these. +023:009 A great clamor arose, and some of the scribes of the Pharisees part + stood up, and contended, saying, "We find no evil in this man. + But if a spirit or angel has spoken to him, let's not + fight against God!" +023:010 When a great argument arose, the commanding officer, fearing that + Paul would be torn in pieces by them, commanded the soldiers + to go down and take him by force from among them, and bring + him into the barracks. +023:011 The following night, the Lord stood by him, and said, + "Cheer up, Paul, for as you have testified about me at Jerusalem, + so you must testify also at Rome." +023:012 When it was day, some of the Jews banded together, and bound + themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat + nor drink until they had killed Paul. +023:013 There were more than forty people who had made this conspiracy. +023:014 They came to the chief priests and the elders, and said, + "We have bound ourselves under a great curse, to taste nothing + until we have killed Paul. +023:015 Now therefore, you with the council inform the commanding + officer that he should bring him down to you tomorrow, + as though you were going to judge his case more exactly. + We are ready to kill him before he comes near." +023:016 But Paul's sister's son heard of their lying in wait, + and he came and entered into the barracks and told Paul. +023:017 Paul summoned one of the centurions, and said, "Bring this + young man to the commanding officer, for he has something + to tell him." +023:018 So he took him, and brought him to the commanding officer, + and said, "Paul, the prisoner, summoned me and asked me to bring + this young man to you, who has something to tell you." +023:019 The commanding officer took him by the hand, and going aside, + asked him privately, "What is it that you have to tell me?" +023:020 He said, "The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul + down to the council tomorrow, as though intending to inquire + somewhat more accurately concerning him. +023:021 Therefore don't yield to them, for more than forty men lie + in wait for him, who have bound themselves under a curse + neither to eat nor to drink until they have killed him. + Now they are ready, looking for the promise from you." +023:022 So the commanding officer let the young man go, charging him, + "Tell no one that you have revealed these things to me." +023:023 He called to himself two of the centurions, and said, + "Prepare two hundred soldiers to go as far as Caesarea, + with seventy horsemen, and two hundred men armed with spears, + at the third hour of the night{about 9:00 PM}." +023:024 He asked them to provide animals, that they might set Paul on one, + and bring him safely to Felix the governor. +023:025 He wrote a letter like this: +023:026 "Claudius Lysias to the most excellent governor Felix: Greetings. +023:027 "This man was seized by the Jews, and was about to be killed + by them, when I came with the soldiers and rescued him, + having learned that he was a Roman. +023:028 Desiring to know the cause why they accused him, I brought + him down to their council. +023:029 I found him to be accused about questions of their law, + but to have nothing laid to his charge worthy of death + or of bonds. +023:030 When I was told that the Jews lay in wait for the man, I sent + him to you immediately, charging his accusers also to bring + their accusations against him before you. Farewell." +023:031 So the soldiers, carrying out their orders, took Paul and brought + him by night to Antipatris. +023:032 But on the next day they left the horsemen to go with him, + and returned to the barracks. +023:033 When they came to Caesarea and delivered the letter to the governor, + they also presented Paul to him. +023:034 When the governor had read it, he asked what province he was from. + When he understood that he was from Cilicia, he said, +023:035 "I will hear you fully when your accusers also arrive." + He commanded that he be kept in Herod's palace. +024:001 After five days, the high priest, Ananias, came down + with certain elders and an orator, one Tertullus. + They informed the governor against Paul. +024:002 When he was called, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying, + "Seeing that by you we enjoy much peace, and that excellent + measures are coming to this nation, +024:003 we accept it in all ways and in all places, most excellent Felix, + with all thankfulness. +024:004 But, that I don't delay you, I entreat you to bear with us + and hear a few words. +024:005 For we have found this man to be a plague, an instigator + of insurrections among all the Jews throughout the world, + and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes. +024:006 He even tried to profane the temple, and we arrested him.{TR + adds "We wanted to judge him according to our law,"} +024:007 {TR adds "but the commanding officer, Lysias, came by and with + great violence took him out of our hands,"} +024:008 {TR adds "commanding his accusers to come to you."}By examining + him yourself you may ascertain all these things of which + we accuse him." +024:009 The Jews also joined in the attack, affirming that these + things were so. +024:010 When the governor had beckoned to him to speak, Paul answered, + "Because I know that you have been a judge of this nation + for many years, I cheerfully make my defense, +024:011 seeing that you can recognize that it is not more than twelve + days since I went up to worship at Jerusalem. +024:012 In the temple they didn't find me disputing with anyone or stirring + up a crowd, either in the synagogues, or in the city. +024:013 Nor can they prove to you the things of which they now accuse me. +024:014 But this I confess to you, that after the Way, which they call + a sect, so I serve the God of our fathers, believing all + things which are according to the law, and which are written + in the prophets; +024:015 having hope toward God, which these also themselves look for, + that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of + the just and unjust. +024:016 Herein I also practice always having a conscience void of offense + toward God and men. +024:017 Now after some years, I came to bring gifts for the needy + to my nation, and offerings; +024:018 amid which certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, + not with a mob, nor with turmoil. +024:019 They ought to have been here before you, and to make accusation, + if they had anything against me. +024:020 Or else let these men themselves say what injustice they found + in me when I stood before the council, +024:021 unless it is for this one thing that I cried standing among them, + 'Concerning the resurrection of the dead I am being judged + before you today!'" +024:022 But Felix, having more exact knowledge concerning the Way, + deferred them, saying, "When Lysias, the commanding officer, + comes down, I will decide your case." +024:023 He ordered the centurion that Paul should be kept in custody, + and should have some privileges, and not to forbid any of his + friends to serve him or to visit him. +024:024 But after some days, Felix came with Drusilla, his wife, + who was a Jewess, and sent for Paul, and heard him concerning + the faith in Christ Jesus. +024:025 As he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the + judgment to come, Felix was terrified, and answered, + "Go your way for this time, and when it is convenient for me, + I will summon you." +024:026 Meanwhile, he also hoped that money would be given to him by Paul, + that he might release him. Therefore also he sent for him + more often, and talked with him. +024:027 But when two years were fulfilled, Felix was succeeded by + Porcius Festus, and desiring to gain favor with the Jews, Felix left + Paul in bonds. +025:001 Festus therefore, having come into the province, after three days + went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea. +025:002 Then the high priest and the principal men of the Jews informed + him against Paul, and they begged him, +025:003 asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem; + plotting to kill him on the way. +025:004 However Festus answered that Paul should be kept in custody + at Caesarea, and that he himself was about to depart shortly. +025:005 "Let them therefore," said he, "that are in power among you + go down with me, and if there is anything wrong in the man, + let them accuse him." +025:006 When he had stayed among them more than ten days, he went down + to Caesarea, and on the next day he sat on the judgment seat, + and commanded Paul to be brought. +025:007 When he had come, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem + stood around him, bringing against him many and grievous + charges which they could not prove, +025:008 while he said in his defense, "Neither against the law + of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar, + have I sinned at all." +025:009 But Festus, desiring to gain favor with the Jews, answered Paul + and said, "Are you willing to go up to Jerusalem, and be judged + by me there concerning these things?" +025:010 But Paul said, "I am standing before Caesar's judgment seat, + where I ought to be tried. I have done no wrong to the Jews, + as you also know very well. +025:011 For if I have done wrong, and have committed anything worthy + of death, I don't refuse to die; but if none of those things + is true that they accuse me of, no one can give me up to them. + I appeal to Caesar!" +025:012 Then Festus, when he had conferred with the council, answered, + "You have appealed to Caesar. To Caesar you shall go." +025:013 Now when some days had passed, Agrippa the King and Bernice + arrived at Caesarea, and greeted Festus. +025:014 As he stayed there many days, Festus laid Paul's case before + the king, saying, "There is a certain man left a prisoner by Felix; +025:015 about whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders + of the Jews informed me, asking for a sentence against him. +025:016 To whom I answered that it is not the custom of the Romans + to give up any man to destruction, before the accused has met + the accusers face to face, and has had opportunity to make + his defense concerning the matter laid against him. +025:017 When therefore they had come together here, I didn't delay, + but on the next day sat on the judgment seat, and commanded + the man to be brought. +025:018 Concerning whom, when the accusers stood up, they brought + no charge of such things as I supposed; +025:019 but had certain questions against him about their own religion, + and about one Jesus, who was dead, whom Paul affirmed + to be alive. +025:020 Being perplexed how to inquire concerning these things, + I asked whether he was willing to go to Jerusalem and there + be judged concerning these matters. +025:021 But when Paul had appealed to be kept for the decision of + the emperor, I commanded him to be kept until I could send + him to Caesar." +025:022 Agrippa said to Festus, "I also would like to hear the man myself." + "Tomorrow," he said, "you shall hear him." +025:023 So on the next day, when Agrippa and Bernice had come with + great pomp, and they had entered into the place of hearing + with the commanding officers and principal men of the city, + at the command of Festus, Paul was brought in. +025:024 Festus said, "King Agrippa, and all men who are here present + with us, you see this man, about whom all the multitude + of the Jews petitioned me, both at Jerusalem and here, + crying that he ought not to live any longer. +025:025 But when I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, + and as he himself appealed to the emperor I determined + to send him. +025:026 Of whom I have no certain thing to write to my lord. + Therefore I have brought him forth before you, and especially + before you, King Agrippa, that, after examination, I may have + something to write. +025:027 For it seems to me unreasonable, in sending a prisoner, + not to also specify the charges against him." +026:001 Agrippa said to Paul, "You may speak for yourself." + Then Paul stretched out his hand, and made his defense. +026:002 "I think myself happy, King Agrippa, that I am to make my + defense before you this day concerning all the things that I + am accused by the Jews, +026:003 especially because you are expert in all customs and + questions which are among the Jews. Therefore I beg you + to hear me patiently. +026:004 "Indeed, all the Jews know my way of life from my youth up, + which was from the beginning among my own nation and at Jerusalem; +026:005 having known me from the first, if they are willing to testify, + that after the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee. +026:006 Now I stand here to be judged for the hope of the promise made + by God to our fathers, +026:007 which our twelve tribes, earnestly serving night and day, + hope to attain. Concerning this hope I am accused by + the Jews, King Agrippa! +026:008 Why is it judged incredible with you, if God does raise the dead? +026:009 "I myself most certainly thought that I ought to do many things + contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth. +026:010 This I also did in Jerusalem. I both shut up many of the saints + in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests, + and when they were put to death I gave my vote against them. +026:011 Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make + them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged against them, + I persecuted them even to foreign cities. +026:012 "Whereupon as I traveled to Damascus with the authority + and commission from the chief priests, +026:013 at noon, O King, I saw on the way a light from the sky, + brighter than the sun, shining around me and those who + traveled with me. +026:014 When we had all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice saying to me + in the Hebrew language, 'Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? + It is hard for you to kick against the goads.' +026:015 "I said, 'Who are you, Lord?' "He said, 'I am Jesus, + whom you are persecuting. +026:016 But arise, and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you + for this purpose: to appoint you a servant and a witness + both of the things which you have seen, and of the things + which I will reveal to you; +026:017 delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, + to whom I send you, +026:018 to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light + and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive + remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are + sanctified by faith in me.' +026:019 "Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to + the heavenly vision, +026:020 but declared first to them of Damascus, at Jerusalem, + and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, + that they should repent and turn to God, doing works + worthy of repentance. +026:021 For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple, and tried + to kill me. +026:022 Having therefore obtained the help that is from God, I stand + to this day testifying both to small and great, saying nothing + but what the prophets and Moses said would happen, +026:023 how the Christ must suffer, and how, by the resurrection of the dead, + he would be first to proclaim light both to these people + and to the Gentiles." +026:024 As he thus made his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, "Paul, + you are crazy! Your great learning is driving you insane!" +026:025 But he said, "I am not crazy, most excellent Festus, but boldly + declare words of truth and reasonableness. +026:026 For the king knows of these things, to whom also I speak freely. + For I am persuaded that none of these things is hidden from him, + for this has not been done in a corner. +026:027 King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know that you believe." +026:028 Agrippa said to Paul, "With a little persuasion are you trying + to make me a Christian?" +026:029 Paul said, "I pray to God, that whether with little or with much, + not only you, but also all that hear me this day, might become + such as I am, except for these bonds." +026:030 The king rose up with the governor, and Bernice, and those + who sat with them. +026:031 When they had withdrawn, they spoke one to another, saying, + "This man does nothing worthy of death or of bonds." +026:032 Agrippa said to Festus, "This man might have been set free + if he had not appealed to Caesar." +027:001 When it was determined that we should sail for Italy, + they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners to a centurion + named Julius, of the Augustan band. +027:002 Embarking in a ship of Adramyttium, which was about to sail to places + on the coast of Asia, we put to sea; Aristarchus, a Macedonian + of Thessalonica, being with us. +027:003 The next day, we touched at Sidon. Julius treated Paul kindly, + and gave him permission to go to his friends and refresh himself. +027:004 Putting to sea from there, we sailed under the lee of Cyprus, + because the winds were contrary. +027:005 When we had sailed across the sea which is off Cilicia + and Pamphylia, we came to Myra, a city of Lycia. +027:006 There the centurion found a ship of Alexandria sailing for Italy, + and he put us on board. +027:007 When we had sailed slowly many days, and had come with + difficulty opposite Cnidus, the wind not allowing us further, + we sailed under the lee of Crete, opposite Salmone. +027:008 With difficulty sailing along it we came to a certain place + called Fair Havens, near the city of Lasea. +027:009 When much time had passed and the voyage was now dangerous, + because the Fast had now already gone by, Paul admonished them, +027:010 and said to them, "Sirs, I perceive that the voyage will be + with injury and much loss, not only of the cargo and the ship, + but also of our lives." +027:011 But the centurion gave more heed to the master and to the owner + of the ship than to those things which were spoken by Paul. +027:012 Because the haven was not suitable to winter in, the majority + advised going to sea from there, if by any means they could + reach Phoenix, and winter there, which is a port of Crete, + looking northeast and southeast. +027:013 When the south wind blew softly, supposing that they had obtained + their purpose, they weighed anchor and sailed along Crete, + close to shore. +027:014 But before long, a stormy wind beat down from shore, which is + called Euroclydon.{Or, "a northeaster."} +027:015 When the ship was caught, and couldn't face the wind, we gave + way to it, and were driven along. +027:016 Running under the lee of a small island called Clauda, + we were able, with difficulty, to secure the boat. +027:017 After they had hoisted it up, they used cables to help + reinforce the ship. Fearing that they would run aground + on the Syrtis sand bars, they lowered the sea anchor, + and so were driven along. +027:018 As we labored exceedingly with the storm, the next day they + began to throw things overboard. +027:019 On the third day, they threw out the ship's tackle with + their own hands. +027:020 When neither sun nor stars shone on us for many days, + and no small storm pressed on us, all hope that we would + be saved was now taken away. +027:021 When they had been long without food, Paul stood up in the middle + of them, and said, "Sirs, you should have listened to me, + and not have set sail from Crete, and have gotten this + injury and loss. +027:022 Now I exhort you to cheer up, for there will be no loss of life + among you, but only of the ship. +027:023 For there stood by me this night an angel, belonging to the God + whose I am and whom I serve, +027:024 saying, 'Don't be afraid, Paul. You must stand before Caesar. + Behold, God has granted you all those who sail with you.' +027:025 Therefore, sirs, cheer up! For I believe God, that it will + be just as it has been spoken to me. +027:026 But we must run aground on a certain island." +027:027 But when the fourteenth night had come, as we were driven back + and forth in the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors + surmised that they were drawing near to some land. +027:028 They took soundings, and found twenty fathoms.{20 fathoms + = 120 feet = 36.6 meters} After a little while, they took + soundings again, and found fifteen fathoms.{15 fathoms = 90 + feet = 27.4 meters} +027:029 Fearing that we would run aground on rocky ground, they let + go four anchors from the stern, and wished for daylight. +027:030 As the sailors were trying to flee out of the ship, and had + lowered the boat into the sea, pretending that they would + lay out anchors from the bow, +027:031 Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, "Unless these + stay in the ship, you can't be saved." +027:032 Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the boat, and let + it fall off. +027:033 While the day was coming on, Paul begged them all to take + some food, saying, "This day is the fourteenth day that you + wait and continue fasting, having taken nothing. +027:034 Therefore I beg you to take some food, for this is for your safety; + for not a hair will perish from any of your heads." +027:035 When he had said this, and had taken bread, he gave thanks to God + in the presence of all, and he broke it, and began to eat. +027:036 Then they all cheered up, and they also took food. +027:037 In all, we were two hundred seventy-six souls on the ship. +027:038 When they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, + throwing out the wheat into the sea. +027:039 When it was day, they didn't recognize the land, but they + noticed a certain bay with a beach, and they decided to try + to drive the ship onto it. +027:040 Casting off the anchors, they left them in the sea, at the same + time untying the rudder ropes. Hoisting up the foresail + to the wind, they made for the beach. +027:041 But coming to a place where two seas met, they ran + the vessel aground. The bow struck and remained immovable, + but the stern began to break up by the violence of the waves. +027:042 The soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, so that none + of them would swim out and escape. +027:043 But the centurion, desiring to save Paul, stopped them from + their purpose, and commanded that those who could swim should + throw themselves overboard first to go toward the land; +027:044 and the rest should follow, some on planks, and some on other + things from the ship. So it happened that they all escaped + safely to the land. +028:001 When we had escaped, then they{NU reads "we"} learned that + the island was called Malta. +028:002 The natives showed us uncommon kindness; for they kindled + a fire, and received us all, because of the present rain, + and because of the cold. +028:003 But when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and laid + them on the fire, a viper came out because of the heat, + and fastened on his hand. +028:004 When the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, + they said one to another, "No doubt this man is a murderer, + whom, though he has escaped from the sea, yet Justice has + not allowed to live." +028:005 However he shook off the creature into the fire, and wasn't harmed. +028:006 But they expected that he would have swollen or fallen + down dead suddenly, but when they watched for a long time + and saw nothing bad happen to him, they changed their minds, + and said that he was a god. +028:007 Now in the neighborhood of that place were lands belonging + to the chief man of the island, named Publius, who received us, + and courteously entertained us for three days. +028:008 It happened that the father of Publius lay sick of fever + and dysentery. Paul entered in to him, prayed, and laying + his hands on him, healed him. +028:009 Then when this was done, the rest also who had diseases + in the island came, and were cured. +028:010 They also honored us with many honors, and when we sailed, + they put on board the things that we needed. +028:011 After three months, we set sail in a ship of Alexandria which had + wintered in the island, whose sign was "The Twin Brothers." +028:012 Touching at Syracuse, we stayed there three days. +028:013 From there we circled around and arrived at Rhegium. + After one day, a south wind sprang up, and on the second day + we came to Puteoli, +028:014 where we found brothers,{The word for "brothers" here and where + context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers + and sisters" or "siblings."} and were entreated to stay + with them for seven days. So we came to Rome. +028:015 From there the brothers, when they heard of us, came to meet + us as far as The Market of Appius and The Three Taverns. + When Paul saw them, he thanked God, and took courage. +028:016 When we entered into Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners + to the captain of the guard, but Paul was allowed to stay + by himself with the soldier who guarded him. +028:017 It happened that after three days Paul called together those who + were the leaders of the Jews. When they had come together, + he said to them, "I, brothers, though I had done nothing + against the people, or the customs of our fathers, still was + delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans, +028:018 who, when they had examined me, desired to set me free, + because there was no cause of death in me. +028:019 But when the Jews spoke against it, I was constrained + to appeal to Caesar, not that I had anything about which to + accuse my nation. +028:020 For this cause therefore I asked to see you and to speak with you. + For because of the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain." +028:021 They said to him, "We neither received letters from Judea + concerning you, nor did any of the brothers come here and report + or speak any evil of you. +028:022 But we desire to hear from you what you think. For, as concerning + this sect, it is known to us that everywhere it is spoken against." +028:023 When they had appointed him a day, many people came to him + at his lodging. He explained to them, testifying about + the Kingdom of God, and persuading them concerning Jesus, + both from the law of Moses and from the prophets, + from morning until evening. +028:024 Some believed the things which were spoken, and some disbelieved. +028:025 When they didn't agree among themselves, they departed after + Paul had spoken one word, "The Holy Spirit spoke rightly + through Isaiah, the prophet, to our fathers, +028:026 saying, 'Go to this people, and say, in hearing, you will hear, + but will in no way understand. In seeing, you will see, + but will in no way perceive. +028:027 For this people's heart has grown callous. Their ears + are dull of hearing. Their eyes they have closed. + Lest they should see with their eyes, hear with their ears, + understand with their heart, and would turn again, and I + would heal them.'{Isaiah 6:9-10} +028:028 "Be it known therefore to you, that the salvation of God + is sent to the nations. They will also listen." +028:029 When he had said these words, the Jews departed, having a great + dispute among themselves. +028:030 Paul stayed two whole years in his own rented house, + and received all who were coming to him, +028:031 preaching the Kingdom of God, and teaching the things concerning + the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness, without hindrance. +Book 45 Romans +001:001 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, + set apart for the Good News of God, +001:002 which he promised before through his prophets in the holy Scriptures, +001:003 concerning his Son, who was born of the seed of David according + to the flesh, +001:004 who was declared to be the Son of God with power, according to + the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead, + Jesus Christ our Lord, +001:005 through whom we received grace and apostleship, for obedience + of faith among all the nations, for his name's sake; +001:006 among whom you are also called to belong to Jesus Christ; +001:007 to all who are in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: + Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the + Lord Jesus Christ. +001:008 First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, + that your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world. +001:009 For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Good News + of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always + in my prayers, +001:010 requesting, if by any means now at last I may be prospered + by the will of God to come to you. +001:011 For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, + to the end that you may be established; +001:012 that is, that I with you may be encouraged in you, each of us + by the other's faith, both yours and mine. +001:013 Now I don't desire to have you unaware, brothers, that I + often planned to come to you, and was hindered so far, + that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among + the rest of the Gentiles. +001:014 I am debtor both to Greeks and to foreigners, both to the wise + and to the foolish. +001:015 So, as much as is in me, I am eager to preach the Good News + to you also who are in Rome. +001:016 For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, for it is + the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; + for the Jew first, and also for the Greek. +001:017 For in it is revealed God's righteousness from faith to faith. + As it is written, "But the righteous shall live + by faith."{Habakkuk 2:4} +001:018 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all + ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress + the truth in unrighteousness, +001:019 because that which is known of God is revealed in them, + for God revealed it to them. +001:020 For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world + are clearly seen, being perceived through the things + that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; + that they may be without excuse. +001:021 Because, knowing God, they didn't glorify him as God, + neither gave thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, + and their senseless heart was darkened. +001:022 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, +001:023 and traded the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an + image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed animals, + and creeping things. +001:024 Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their + hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be + dishonored among themselves, +001:025 who exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped + and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is + blessed forever. Amen. +001:026 For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. + For their women changed the natural function into that which + is against nature. +001:027 Likewise also the men, leaving the natural function of the woman, + burned in their lust toward one another, men doing what is + inappropriate with men, and receiving in themselves the due + penalty of their error. +001:028 Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, + God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things + which are not fitting; +001:029 being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, + wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, + murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers, +001:030 backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, + inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, +001:031 without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural + affection, unforgiving, unmerciful; +001:032 who, knowing the ordinance of God, that those who practice + such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, + but also approve of those who practice them. +002:001 Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. + For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. + For you who judge practice the same things. +002:002 We know that the judgment of God is according to truth against + those who practice such things. +002:003 Do you think this, O man who judges those who practice such things, + and do the same, that you will escape the judgment of God? +002:004 Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, + and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads + you to repentance? +002:005 But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you + are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, + revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God; +002:006 who "will pay back to everyone according to their + works:"{Psalm 62:12; Proverbs 24:12} +002:007 to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory, honor, + and incorruptibility, eternal life; +002:008 but to those who are self-seeking, and don't obey the truth, + but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath and indignation, +002:009 oppression and anguish, on every soul of man who works evil, + to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. +002:010 But glory, honor, and peace go to every man who works good, + to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. +002:011 For there is no partiality with God. +002:012 For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without + the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged + by the law. +002:013 For it isn't the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, + but the doers of the law will be justified +002:014 (for when Gentiles who don't have the law do by nature the things + of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves, +002:015 in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, + their conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts + among themselves accusing or else excusing them) +002:016 in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to + my Good News, by Jesus Christ. +002:017 Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, and rest on the law, + and glory in God, +002:018 and know his will, and approve the things that are excellent, + being instructed out of the law, +002:019 and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, + a light to those who are in darkness, +002:020 a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in + the law the form of knowledge and of the truth. +002:021 You therefore who teach another, don't you teach yourself? + You who preach that a man shouldn't steal, do you steal? +002:022 You who say a man shouldn't commit adultery. Do you commit adultery? + You who abhor idols, do you rob temples? +002:023 You who glory in the law, through your disobedience of the law + do you dishonor God? +002:024 For "the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because + of you,"{Isaiah 52:5; Ezekiel 36:22} just as it is written. +002:025 For circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of the law, + but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision + has become uncircumcision. +002:026 If therefore the uncircumcised keep the ordinances of the law, + won't his uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision? +002:027 Won't the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfills + the law, judge you, who with the letter and circumcision + are a transgressor of the law? +002:028 For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that + circumcision which is outward in the flesh; +002:029 but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision + is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; + whose praise is not from men, but from God. +003:001 Then what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the + profit of circumcision? +003:002 Much in every way! Because first of all, they were entrusted + with the oracles of God. +003:003 For what if some were without faith? Will their lack of faith + nullify the faithfulness of God? +003:004 May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. + As it is written, "That you might be justified in your words, + and might prevail when you come into judgment."{Psalm 51:4} +003:005 But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, + what will we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? + I speak like men do. +003:006 May it never be! For then how will God judge the world? +003:007 For if the truth of God through my lie abounded to his glory, + why am I also still judged as a sinner? +003:008 Why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm + that we say), "Let us do evil, that good may come?" + Those who say so are justly condemned. +003:009 What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. + For we previously charged both Jews and Greeks, that they + are all under sin. +003:010 As it is written, "There is no one righteous; no, not one. +003:011 There is no one who understands. There is no one who + seeks after God. +003:012 They have all turned aside. They have together become unprofitable. + There is no one who does good, no, not, so much as + one."{Psalms 14:1-3; 53:1-3; Ecclesiastes 7:20} +003:013 "Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they + have used deceit."{Psalm 5:9} "The poison of vipers is under + their lips;"{Psalm 140:3} +003:014 "Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness."{Psalm 10:7} +003:015 "Their feet are swift to shed blood. +003:016 Destruction and misery are in their ways. +003:017 The way of peace, they haven't known."{Isaiah 59:7-8} +003:018 "There is no fear of God before their eyes."{Psalm 36:1} +003:019 Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to + those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, + and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God. +003:020 Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified + in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin. +003:021 But now apart from the law, a righteousness of God has + been revealed, being testified by the law and the prophets; +003:022 even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ + to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction, +003:023 for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God; +003:024 being justified freely by his grace through the redemption + that is in Christ Jesus; +003:025 whom God set forth to be an atoning sacrifice{or, a propitiation}, + through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his + righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, + in God's forbearance; +003:026 to demonstrate his righteousness at this present time; + that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him + who has faith in Jesus. +003:027 Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what manner of law? + Of works? No, but by a law of faith. +003:028 We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart + from the works of the law. +003:029 Or is God the God of Jews only? Isn't he the God of Gentiles also? + Yes, of Gentiles also, +003:030 since indeed there is one God who will justify the circumcised + by faith, and the uncircumcised through faith. +003:031 Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! + No, we establish the law. +004:001 What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found + according to the flesh? +004:002 For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something + to boast about, but not toward God. +004:003 For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, + and it was accounted to him for righteousness."{Genesis 15:6} +004:004 Now to him who works, the reward is not counted as grace, + but as debt. +004:005 But to him who doesn't work, but believes in him who justifies + the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness. +004:006 Even as David also pronounces blessing on the man to whom God + counts righteousness apart from works, +004:007 "Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, + whose sins are covered. +004:008 Blessed is the man whom the Lord will by no means charge + with sin."{Psalm 32:1-2} +004:009 Is this blessing then pronounced on the circumcised, or on + the uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was accounted + to Abraham for righteousness. +004:010 How then was it counted? When he was in circumcision, + or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision. +004:011 He received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness + of the faith which he had while he was in uncircumcision, + that he might be the father of all those who believe, + though they be in uncircumcision, that righteousness might + also be accounted to them. +004:012 The father of circumcision to those who not only are of + the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of that faith + of our father Abraham, which he had in uncircumcision. +004:013 For the promise to Abraham and to his seed that he should + be heir of the world wasn't through the law, but through + the righteousness of faith. +004:014 For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, + and the promise is made of no effect. +004:015 For the law works wrath, for where there is no law, + neither is there disobedience. +004:016 For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, + to the end that the promise may be sure to all the seed, + not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which + is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all. +004:017 As it is written, "I have made you a father of many nations."{Genesis + 17:5} This is in the presence of him whom he believed: + God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, + as though they were. +004:018 Who in hope believed against hope, to the end that he might + become a father of many nations, according to that which had + been spoken, "So will your seed be."{Genesis 15:5} +004:019 Without being weakened in faith, he didn't consider his own body, + already having been worn out, (he being about a hundred + years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb. +004:020 Yet, looking to the promise of God, he didn't waver through unbelief, + but grew strong through faith, giving glory to God, +004:021 and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was able + also to perform. +004:022 Therefore it also was "reckoned to him for righteousness."{Genesis + 15:6} +004:023 Now it was not written that it was accounted to him for + his sake alone, +004:024 but for our sake also, to whom it will be accounted, who believe + in him who raised Jesus, our Lord, from the dead, +004:025 who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised + for our justification. +005:001 Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God + through our Lord Jesus Christ; +005:002 through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace + in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God. +005:003 Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, + knowing that suffering works perseverance; +005:004 and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope: +005:005 and hope doesn't disappoint us, because God's love has been + poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was + given to us. +005:006 For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died + for the ungodly. +005:007 For one will hardly die for a righteous man. Yet perhaps + for a righteous person someone would even dare to die. +005:008 But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we + were yet sinners, Christ died for us. +005:009 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be + saved from God's wrath through him. +005:010 For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God + through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, + we will be saved by his life. +005:011 Not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, + through whom we have now received the reconciliation. +005:012 Therefore, as sin entered into the world through one man, + and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, + because all sinned. +005:013 For until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged + when there is no law. +005:014 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, + even over those whose sins weren't like Adam's disobedience, + who is a foreshadowing of him who was to come. +005:015 But the free gift isn't like the trespass. For if by the trespass + of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God, + and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, + abound to the many. +005:016 The gift is not as through one who sinned: for the judgment + came by one to condemnation, but the free gift came of many + trespasses to justification. +005:017 For if by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; + so much more will those who receive the abundance of grace + and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through + the one, Jesus Christ. +005:018 So then as through one trespass, all men were condemned; + even so through one act of righteousness, all men were + justified to life. +005:019 For as through the one man's disobedience many were made sinners, + even so through the obedience of the one, many will + be made righteous. +005:020 The law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; + but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly; +005:021 that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through + righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. +006:001 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, + that grace may abound? +006:002 May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live + in it any longer? +006:003 Or don't you know that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus + were baptized into his death? +006:004 We were buried therefore with him through baptism to death, + that just like Christ was raised from the dead through the glory + of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life. +006:005 For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, + we will also be part of his resurrection; +006:006 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, + that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we + would no longer be in bondage to sin. +006:007 For he who has died has been freed from sin. +006:008 But if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also + live with him; +006:009 knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more. + Death no more has dominion over him! +006:010 For the death that he died, he died to sin one time; + but the life that he lives, he lives to God. +006:011 Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive + to God in Christ Jesus our Lord. +006:012 Therefore don't let sin reign in your mortal body, that you + should obey it in its lusts. +006:013 Neither present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, + but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, + and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. +006:014 For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, + but under grace. +006:015 What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, + but under grace? May it never be! +006:016 Don't you know that to whom you present yourselves as + servants to obedience, his servants you are whom you obey; + whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness? +006:017 But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, + you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching + whereunto you were delivered. +006:018 Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness. +006:019 I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, + for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness + and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your + members as servants to righteousness for sanctification. +006:020 For when you were servants of sin, you were free in + regard to righteousness. +006:021 What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which + you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. +006:022 But now, being made free from sin, and having become servants + of God, you have your fruit of sanctification, and the result + of eternal life. +006:023 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is + eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. +007:001 Or don't you know, brothers{The word for "brothers" + here and where context allows may also be correctly translated + "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."} (for I speak to men + who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man + for as long as he lives? +007:002 For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband + while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged + from the law of the husband. +007:003 So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, + she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, + she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, + though she is joined to another man. +007:004 Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law + through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, + to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring + forth fruit to God. +007:005 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which + were through the law, worked in our members to bring forth + fruit to death. +007:006 But now we have been discharged from the law, having died + to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness + of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter. +007:007 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! + However, I wouldn't have known sin, except through the law. + For I wouldn't have known coveting, unless the law had said, + "You shall not covet."{Exodus 20:17; Deuteronomy 5:21} +007:008 But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, + produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, + sin is dead. +007:009 I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, + sin revived, and I died. +007:010 The commandment, which was for life, this I found to be for death; +007:011 for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, + and through it killed me. +007:012 Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, + and righteous, and good. +007:013 Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be! + But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death + to me through that which is good; that through the commandment + sin might become exceeding sinful. +007:014 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, + sold under sin. +007:015 For I don't know what I am doing. For I don't practice what I + desire to do; but what I hate, that I do. +007:016 But if what I don't desire, that I do, I consent to the law + that it is good. +007:017 So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me. +007:018 For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. + For desire is present with me, but I don't find it doing + that which is good. +007:019 For the good which I desire, I don't do; but the evil which I + don't desire, that I practice. +007:020 But if what I don't desire, that I do, it is no more I that do it, + but sin which dwells in me. +007:021 I find then the law, that, to me, while I desire to do good, + evil is present. +007:022 For I delight in God's law after the inward man, +007:023 but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law + of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law + of sin which is in my members. +007:024 What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body + of this death? +007:025 I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the mind, + I myself serve God's law, but with the flesh, the sin's law. +008:001 There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are + in Christ Jesus, who don't walk according to the flesh, + but according to the Spirit.{NU omits "who don't walk according + to the flesh, but according to the Spirit"} +008:002 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free + from the law of sin and of death. +008:003 For what the law couldn't do, in that it was weak through the flesh, + God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh + and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh; +008:004 that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, + who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. +008:005 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds + on the things of the flesh, but those who live according + to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. +008:006 For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit + is life and peace; +008:007 because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; + for it is not subject to God's law, neither indeed can it be. +008:008 Those who are in the flesh can't please God. +008:009 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so + that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn't + have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his. +008:010 If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, + but the spirit is alive because of righteousness. +008:011 But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead + dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead + will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit + who dwells in you. +008:012 So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live + after the flesh. +008:013 For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit + you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. +008:014 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are + children of God. +008:015 For you didn't receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, + but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, + "Abba{Abba is an Aramaic word for father or daddy, often used + affectionately and respectfully in prayer to our Father + in heaven.}! Father!" +008:016 The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are + children of God; +008:017 and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs + with Christ; if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be + glorified with him. +008:018 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time + are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be + revealed toward us. +008:019 For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children + of God to be revealed. +008:020 For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, + but because of him who subjected it, in hope +008:021 that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage + of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God. +008:022 For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain + together until now. +008:023 Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits + of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, + waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body. +008:024 For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. + For who hopes for that which he sees? +008:025 But if we hope for that which we don't see, we wait for + it with patience. +008:026 In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we + don't know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself + makes intercession for us with groanings which can't be uttered. +008:027 He who searches the hearts knows what is on the Spirit's mind, + because he makes intercession for the saints according to God. +008:028 We know that all things work together for good for those who + love God, to those who are called according to his purpose. +008:029 For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed + to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn + among many brothers.{The word for "brothers" here and where + context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers + and sisters" or "siblings."} +008:030 Whom he predestined, those he also called. + Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, + those he also glorified. +008:031 What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, + who can be against us? +008:032 He who didn't spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, + how would he not also with him freely give us all things? +008:033 Who could bring a charge against God's chosen ones? + It is God who justifies. +008:034 Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, + who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, + who also makes intercession for us. +008:035 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, + or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, + or peril, or sword? +008:036 Even as it is written, "For your sake we are killed all day long. + We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter."{Psalm 44:22} +008:037 No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through + him who loved us. +008:038 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, + nor principalities, nor things present, nor things + to come, nor powers, +008:039 nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, + will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is + in Christ Jesus our Lord. +009:001 I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience + testifying with me in the Holy Spirit, +009:002 that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart. +009:003 For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ + for my brothers' sake, my relatives according to the flesh, +009:004 who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, + the giving of the law, the service, and the promises; +009:005 of whom are the fathers, and from whom is Christ as concerning + the flesh, who is over all, God, blessed forever. Amen. +009:006 But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. + For they are not all Israel, that are of Israel. +009:007 Neither, because they are Abraham's seed, are they all children. + But, "In Isaac will your seed be called."{Genesis 21:12} +009:008 That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children + of God, but the children of the promise are counted as a seed. +009:009 For this is a word of promise, "At the appointed time I will come, + and Sarah will have a son."{Genesis 18:10,14} +009:010 Not only so, but Rebecca also conceived by one, by our father Isaac. +009:011 For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, + that the purpose of God according to election might stand, + not of works, but of him who calls, +009:012 it was said to her, "The elder will serve the younger."{Genesis 25:23} +009:013 Even as it is written, "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated."{Malachi + 1:2-3} +009:014 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness + with God? May it never be! +009:015 For he said to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, + and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion."{Exodus 33:19} +009:016 So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, + but of God who has mercy. +009:017 For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "For this very purpose I + caused you to be raised up, that I might show in you my power, + and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth."{Exodus 9:16} +009:018 So then, he has mercy on whom he desires, and he hardens + whom he desires. +009:019 You will say then to me, "Why does he still find fault? + For who withstands his will?" +009:020 But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the + thing formed ask him who formed it, "Why did you make me + like this?"{Isaiah 29:16; 45:9} +009:021 Or hasn't the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump + to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor? +009:022 What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his + power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath + made for destruction, +009:023 and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels + of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory, +009:024 us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also + from the Gentiles? +009:025 As he says also in Hosea, "I will call them 'my people,' + which were not my people; and her 'beloved,' who was + not beloved."{Hosea 2:23} +009:026 "It will be that in the place where it was said to them, + 'You are not my people,' There they will be called 'children + of the living God.'"{Hosea 1:10} +009:027 Isaiah cries concerning Israel, "If the number of the children + of Israel are as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant + who will be saved; +009:028 for He will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness, + because the LORD will make a short work upon the earth."{Isaiah + 10:22-23} +009:029 As Isaiah has said before, "Unless the Lord of Armies{Greek: Sabaoth + (for Hebrew: Tze'va'ot)} had left us a seed, we would have become + like Sodom, and would have been made like Gomorrah."{Isaiah 1:9} +009:030 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who didn't + follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, + even the righteousness which is of faith; +009:031 but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn't arrive + at the law of righteousness. +009:032 Why? Because they didn't seek it by faith, but as it were + by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone; +009:033 even as it is written, "Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling + stone and a rock of offense; and no one who believes in him + will be disappointed."{Isaiah 8:14; 28:16} +010:001 Brothers, my heart's desire and my prayer to God is for Israel, + that they may be saved. +010:002 For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, + but not according to knowledge. +010:003 For being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking + to establish their own righteousness, they didn't subject + themselves to the righteousness of God. +010:004 For Christ is the fulfillment{or, completion, or end} of the law + for righteousness to everyone who believes. +010:005 For Moses writes about the righteousness of the law, "The one + who does them will live by them."{Leviticus 18:5} +010:006 But the righteousness which is of faith says this, "Don't say + in your heart, 'Who will ascend into heaven?'{Deuteronomy 30:12} + (that is, to bring Christ down); +010:007 or, 'Who will descend into the abyss?'{Deuteronomy 30:13} + (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead.)" +010:008 But what does it say? "The word is near you, in your mouth, + and in your heart;"{Deuteronomy 30:14} that is, the word of faith, + which we preach: +010:009 that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, + and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, + you will be saved. +010:010 For with the heart, one believes unto righteousness; + and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. +010:011 For the Scripture says, "Whoever believes in him will not + be disappointed."{Isaiah 28:16} +010:012 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same + Lord is Lord of all, and is rich to all who call on him. +010:013 For, "Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will + be saved."{Joel 2:32} +010:014 How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? + How will they believe in him whom they have not heard? + How will they hear without a preacher? +010:015 And how will they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: + "How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the Good News + of peace, who bring glad tidings of good things!"{Isaiah 52:7} +010:016 But they didn't all listen to the glad news. For Isaiah says, + "Lord, who has believed our report?"{Isaiah 53:1} +010:017 So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. +010:018 But I say, didn't they hear? Yes, most certainly, "Their sound + went out into all the earth, their words to the ends of + the world."{Psalm 19:4} +010:019 But I ask, didn't Israel know? First Moses says, "I will provoke + you to jealousy with that which is no nation, with a nation + void of understanding I will make you angry."{Deuteronomy 32:31} +010:020 Isaiah is very bold, and says, "I was found by those who + didn't seek me. I was revealed to those who didn't ask + for me."{Isaiah 65:1} +010:021 But as to Israel he says, "All day long I stretched out my hands + to a disobedient and contrary people."{Isaiah 65:2} +011:001 I ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! + For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, + of the tribe of Benjamin. +011:002 God didn't reject his people, which he foreknew. Or don't you + know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads + with God against Israel: +011:003 "Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have broken + down your altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my + life."{1 Kings 19:10,14} +011:004 But how does God answer him? "I have reserved for myself seven + thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal."{1 Kings 19:18} +011:005 Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant + according to the election of grace. +011:006 And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace + is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; + otherwise work is no longer work. +011:007 What then? That which Israel seeks for, that he didn't obtain, + but the chosen ones obtained it, and the rest were hardened. +011:008 According as it is written, "God gave them a spirit of stupor, + eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, + to this very day."{Deuteronomy 29:4; Isaiah 29:10} +011:009 David says, "Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, + a stumbling block, and a retribution to them. +011:010 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see. + Bow down their back always."{Psalm 69:22,23} +011:011 I ask then, did they stumble that they might fall? May it never be! + But by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, + to provoke them to jealousy. +011:012 Now if their fall is the riches of the world, and their loss + the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fullness? +011:013 For I speak to you who are Gentiles. Since then as I am + an apostle to Gentiles, I glorify my ministry; +011:014 if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, + and may save some of them. +011:015 For if the rejection of them is the reconciling of the world, + what would their acceptance be, but life from the dead? +011:016 If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump. If the root is holy, + so are the branches. +011:017 But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a + wild olive, were grafted in among them, and became partaker + with them of the root and of the richness of the olive tree; +011:018 don't boast over the branches. But if you boast, it is not you + who support the root, but the root supports you. +011:019 You will say then, "Branches were broken off, that I might + be grafted in." +011:020 True; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand + by your faith. Don't be conceited, but fear; +011:021 for if God didn't spare the natural branches, neither will + he spare you. +011:022 See then the goodness and severity of God. Toward those + who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue + in his goodness; otherwise you also will be cut off. +011:023 They also, if they don't continue in their unbelief, will be + grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. +011:024 For if you were cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive tree, + and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree, + how much more will these, which are the natural branches, + be grafted into their own olive tree? +011:025 For I don't desire you to be ignorant, brothers,{The word + for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be + correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."} + of this mystery, so that you won't be wise in your own conceits, + that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the + fullness of the Gentiles has come in, +011:026 and so all Israel will be saved. Even as it is written, + "There will come out of Zion the Deliverer, and he will turn + away ungodliness from Jacob. +011:027 This is my covenant to them, when I will take away their + sins."{Isaiah 59:20-21; 27:9; Jeremiah 31:33-34} +011:028 Concerning the Good News, they are enemies for your sake. + But concerning the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sake. +011:029 For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. +011:030 For as you in time past were disobedient to God, but now have + obtained mercy by their disobedience, +011:031 even so these also have now been disobedient, that by the mercy + shown to you they may also obtain mercy. +011:032 For God has shut up all to disobedience, that he might have + mercy on all. +011:033 Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge + of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways + past tracing out! +011:034 "For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been + his counselor?"{Isaiah 40:13} +011:035 "Or who has first given to him, and it will be repaid to + him again?"{Job 41:11} +011:036 For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things. + To him be the glory for ever! Amen. +012:001 Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present + your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, + which is your spiritual service. +012:002 Don't be conformed to this world, but be transformed by + the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is + the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God. +012:003 For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every + man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly + than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has + apportioned to each person a measure of faith. +012:004 For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members + don't have the same function, +012:005 so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually + members one of another. +012:006 Having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us, + if prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion + of our faith; +012:007 or service, let us give ourselves to service; or he who teaches, + to his teaching; +012:008 or he who exhorts, to his exhorting: he who gives, + let him do it with liberality; he who rules, with diligence; + he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness. +012:009 Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. + Cling to that which is good. +012:010 In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; + in honor preferring one another; +012:011 not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord; +012:012 rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly + in prayer; +012:013 contributing to the needs of the saints; given to hospitality. +012:014 Bless those who persecute you; bless, and don't curse. +012:015 Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep. +012:016 Be of the same mind one toward another. Don't set your + mind on high things, but associate with the humble. + Don't be wise in your own conceits. +012:017 Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is honorable + in the sight of all men. +012:018 If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace + with all men. +012:019 Don't seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to + God's wrath. For it is written, "Vengeance belongs to me; + I will repay, says the Lord."{Deuteronomy 32:35} +012:020 Therefore "If your enemy is hungry, feed him. If he is thirsty, + give him a drink; for in doing so, you will heap coals of fire + on his head."{Proverbs 25:21-22} +012:021 Don't be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. +013:001 Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, + for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist + are ordained by God. +013:002 Therefore he who resists the authority, withstands the ordinance + of God; and those who withstand will receive to themselves judgment. +013:003 For rulers are not a terror to the good work, but to the evil. + Do you desire to have no fear of the authority? + Do that which is good, and you will have praise from the same, +013:004 for he is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do that + which is evil, be afraid, for he doesn't bear the sword in vain; + for he is a servant of God, an avenger for wrath to him + who does evil. +013:005 Therefore you need to be in subjection, not only because of + the wrath, but also for conscience' sake. +013:006 For this reason you also pay taxes, for they are servants + of God's service, attending continually on this very thing. +013:007 Give therefore to everyone what you owe: taxes to whom taxes + are due; customs to whom customs; respect to whom respect; + honor to whom honor. +013:008 Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves + his neighbor has fulfilled the law. +013:009 For the commandments, "You shall not commit adultery," + "You shall not murder," "You shall not steal," "You shall + not give false testimony," "You shall not covet,"{TR adds + "You shall not give false testimony,"}{Exodus 20:13-15,17; + Deuteronomy 5:17-19,21} and whatever other commandments there are, + are all summed up in this saying, namely, "You shall love + your neighbor as yourself."{Leviticus 19:18} +013:010 Love doesn't harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment + of the law. +013:011 Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you + to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us + than when we first believed. +013:012 The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let's therefore throw + off the works of darkness, and let's put on the armor of light. +013:013 Let us walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling + and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, + and not in strife and jealousy. +013:014 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision + for the flesh, for its lusts. +014:001 Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes + over opinions. +014:002 One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak + eats only vegetables. +014:003 Don't let him who eats despise him who doesn't eat. + Don't let him who doesn't eat judge him who eats, for God + has accepted him. +014:004 Who are you who judge another's servant? To his own lord + he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God + has power to make him stand. +014:005 One man esteems one day as more important. Another esteems every + day alike. Let each man be fully assured in his own mind. +014:006 He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does + not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. + He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks. + He who doesn't eat, to the Lord he doesn't eat, + and gives God thanks. +014:007 For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself. +014:008 For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die + to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord's. +014:009 For to this end Christ died, rose, and lived again, + that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living. +014:010 But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, + why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand + before the judgment seat of Christ. +014:011 For it is written, "'As I live,' says the Lord, 'to me every knee + will bow. Every tongue will confess to God.'"{Isaiah 45:23} +014:012 So then each one of us will give account of himself to God. +014:013 Therefore let's not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, + that no man put a stumbling block in his brother's way, + or an occasion for falling. +014:014 I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is + unclean of itself; except that to him who considers anything + to be unclean, to him it is unclean. +014:015 Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk + no longer in love. Don't destroy with your food him for + whom Christ died. +014:016 Then don't let your good be slandered, +014:017 for the Kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, + but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit. +014:018 For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God + and approved by men. +014:019 So then, let us follow after things which make for peace, + and things by which we may build one another up. +014:020 Don't overthrow God's work for food's sake. All things indeed + are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates + a stumbling block by eating. +014:021 It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything + by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak. +014:022 Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. + Happy is he who doesn't judge himself in that which he approves. +014:023 But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it + isn't of faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin. + (14:24) Now to him who is able to establish you according + to my Good News and the preaching of Jesus Christ, + according to the revelation of the mystery which has been + kept secret through long ages, (14:25) but now is revealed, + and by the Scriptures of the prophets, according to the + commandment of the eternal God, is made known for obedience + of faith to all the nations; (14:26) to the only wise God, + through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever! + Amen.{TR places verses 24-26 after Romans 16:24 as verses 25-27.} +015:001 Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, + and not to please ourselves. +015:002 Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, + to be building him up. +015:003 For even Christ didn't please himself. But, as it is written, + "The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me."{Psalm 69:9} +015:004 For whatever things were written before were written for + our learning, that through patience and through encouragement + of the Scriptures we might have hope. +015:005 Now the God of patience and of encouragement grant you to be + of the same mind one with another according to Christ Jesus, +015:006 that with one accord you may with one mouth glorify the God + and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. +015:007 Therefore accept one another, even as Christ also accepted + you,{TR reads "us" instead of "you"} to the glory of God. +015:008 Now I say that Christ has been made a servant of the circumcision + for the truth of God, that he might confirm the promises + given to the fathers, +015:009 and that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. + As it is written, "Therefore will I give praise to you among + the Gentiles, and sing to your name."{2 Samuel 22:50; Psalm 18:49} +015:010 Again he says, "Rejoice, you Gentiles, with his people."{Deuteronomy + 32:43} +015:011 Again, "Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles! Let all the peoples + praise him."{Psalm 117:1} +015:012 Again, Isaiah says, "There will be the root of Jesse, + he who arises to rule over the Gentiles; in him the Gentiles + will hope."{Isaiah 11:10} +015:013 Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace + in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power + of the Holy Spirit. +015:014 I myself am also persuaded about you, my brothers{The word + for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be correctly + translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."}, that you + yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, + able also to admonish others. +015:015 But I write the more boldly to you in part, as reminding you, + because of the grace that was given to me by God, +015:016 that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, + serving as a priest the Good News of God, that the offering + up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by + the Holy Spirit. +015:017 I have therefore my boasting in Christ Jesus in things + pertaining to God. +015:018 For I will not dare to speak of any things except those which + Christ worked through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, + by word and deed, +015:019 in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of God's Spirit; + so that from Jerusalem, and around as far as to Illyricum, I have + fully preached the Good News of Christ; +015:020 yes, making it my aim to preach the Good News, not where Christ + was already named, that I might not build on another's foundation. +015:021 But, as it is written, "They will see, to whom no news of him came. + They who haven't heard will understand."{Isaiah 52:15} +015:022 Therefore also I was hindered these many times from coming to you, +015:023 but now, no longer having any place in these regions, + and having these many years a longing to come to you, +015:024 whenever I journey to Spain, I will come to you. + For I hope to see you on my journey, and to be helped on my way + there by you, if first I may enjoy your company for a while. +015:025 But now, I say, I am going to Jerusalem, serving the saints. +015:026 For it has been the good pleasure of Macedonia and Achaia + to make a certain contribution for the poor among the saints + who are at Jerusalem. +015:027 Yes, it has been their good pleasure, and they are their debtors. + For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their + spiritual things, they owe it to them also to serve them + in fleshly things. +015:028 When therefore I have accomplished this, and have sealed + to them this fruit, I will go on by way of you to Spain. +015:029 I know that, when I come to you, I will come in the fullness + of the blessing of the Good News of Christ. +015:030 Now I beg you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by + the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me + in your prayers to God for me, +015:031 that I may be delivered from those who are disobedient in Judea, + and that my service which I have for Jerusalem may be acceptable + to the saints; +015:032 that I may come to you in joy through the will of God, + and together with you, find rest. +015:033 Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen. +016:001 I commend to you Phoebe, our sister, who is a servant{or, + deacon} of the assembly that is at Cenchreae, +016:002 that you receive her in the Lord, in a way worthy of the saints, + and that you assist her in whatever matter she may need + from you, for she herself also has been a helper of many, + and of my own self. +016:003 Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus, +016:004 who for my life, laid down their own necks; to whom not only I + give thanks, but also all the assemblies of the Gentiles. +016:005 Greet the assembly that is in their house. Greet Epaenetus, + my beloved, who is the first fruits of Achaia to Christ. +016:006 Greet Mary, who labored much for us. +016:007 Greet Andronicus and Junias, my relatives and my fellow prisoners, + who are notable among the apostles, who also were in + Christ before me. +016:008 Greet Amplias, my beloved in the Lord. +016:009 Greet Urbanus, our fellow worker in Christ, and Stachys, my beloved. +016:010 Greet Apelles, the approved in Christ. Greet those who are + of the household of Aristobulus. +016:011 Greet Herodion, my kinsman. Greet them of the household + of Narcissus, who are in the Lord. +016:012 Greet Tryphaena and Tryphosa, who labor in the Lord. + Greet Persis, the beloved, who labored much in the Lord. +016:013 Greet Rufus, the chosen in the Lord, and his mother and mine. +016:014 Greet Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, and the + brothers{The word for "brothers" here and where context allows + may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" + or "siblings."} who are with them. +016:015 Greet Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, + and all the saints who are with them. +016:016 Greet one another with a holy kiss. The assemblies of + Christ greet you. +016:017 Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing + the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine + which you learned, and turn away from them. +016:018 For those who are such don't serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, + but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, + they deceive the hearts of the innocent. +016:019 For your obedience has become known to all. I rejoice therefore + over you. But I desire to have you wise in that which is good, + but innocent in that which is evil. +016:020 And the God of peace will quickly crush Satan under your feet. + The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. +016:021 Timothy, my fellow worker, greets you, as do Lucius, Jason, + and Sosipater, my relatives. +016:022 I, Tertius, who write the letter, greet you in the Lord. +016:023 Gaius, my host and host of the whole assembly, greets you. + Erastus, the treasurer of the city, greets you, + as does Quartus, the brother. +016:024 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all! Amen. +016:025 {See Romans 14:23} +016:026 {See Romans 14:23} +016:027 {See Romans 14:23} {TR places Romans 14:24-26 at the end + of Romans instead of at the end of chapter 14, and numbers + these verses 16:25-27.} +Book 46 1 Corinthians +001:001 Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will + of God, and our brother Sosthenes, +001:002 to the assembly of God which is at Corinth; those who are + sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all + who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, + both theirs and ours: +001:003 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. +001:004 I always thank my God concerning you, for the grace of God + which was given you in Christ Jesus; +001:005 that in everything you were enriched in him, in all speech + and all knowledge; +001:006 even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you: +001:007 so that you come behind in no gift; waiting for the revelation + of our Lord Jesus Christ; +001:008 who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day + of our Lord Jesus Christ. +001:009 God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship + of his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord. +001:010 Now I beg you, brothers,{The word for "brothers" here and + where context allows may also be correctly translated + "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."} through the name + of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing + and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be + perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment. +001:011 For it has been reported to me concerning you, my brothers, + by those who are from Chloe's household, that there are + contentions among you. +001:012 Now I mean this, that each one of you says, "I follow Paul," "I + follow Apollos," "I follow Cephas," and, "I follow Christ." +001:013 Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? + Or were you baptized into the name of Paul? +001:014 I thank God that I baptized none of you, except Crispus and Gaius, +001:015 so that no one should say that I had baptized you into + my own name. +001:016 (I also baptized the household of Stephanas; besides them, + I don't know whether I baptized any other.) +001:017 For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the Good News-- + not in wisdom of words, so that the cross of Christ wouldn't + be made void. +001:018 For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, + but to us who are saved it is the power of God. +001:019 For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, I will + bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing."{Isaiah 29:14} +001:020 Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the lawyer + of this world? Hasn't God made foolish the wisdom of this world? +001:021 For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its + wisdom didn't know God, it was God's good pleasure through + the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe. +001:022 For Jews ask for signs, Greeks seek after wisdom, +001:023 but we preach Christ crucified; a stumbling block to Jews, + and foolishness to Greeks, +001:024 but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is + the power of God and the wisdom of God. +001:025 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness + of God is stronger than men. +001:026 For you see your calling, brothers, that not many are wise + according to the flesh, not many mighty, and not many noble; +001:027 but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put + to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world, + that he might put to shame the things that are strong; +001:028 and God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things + that are despised, and the things that are not, that he might + bring to nothing the things that are: +001:029 that no flesh should boast before God. +001:030 But of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom + from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption: +001:031 that, according as it is written, "He who boasts, let him + boast in the Lord."{Jeremiah 9:24} +002:001 When I came to you, brothers, I didn't come with excellence + of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God. +002:002 For I determined not to know anything among you, except Jesus Christ, + and him crucified. +002:003 I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling. +002:004 My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of + human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, +002:005 that your faith wouldn't stand in the wisdom of men, + but in the power of God. +002:006 We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown; + yet a wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, + who are coming to nothing. +002:007 But we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has + been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds + for our glory, +002:008 which none of the rulers of this world has known. For had they + known it, they wouldn't have crucified the Lord of glory. +002:009 But as it is written, "Things which an eye didn't see, + and an ear didn't hear, which didn't enter into the heart of man, + these God has prepared for those who love him."{Isaiah 64:4} +002:010 But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. + For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. +002:011 For who among men knows the things of a man, except the spirit + of the man, which is in him? Even so, no one knows the things + of God, except God's Spirit. +002:012 But we received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit + which is from God, that we might know the things that were + freely given to us by God. +002:013 Which things also we speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches, + but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things + with spiritual things. +002:014 Now the natural man doesn't receive the things of God's Spirit, + for they are foolishness to him, and he can't know them, + because they are spiritually discerned. +002:015 But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself + is judged by no one. +002:016 "For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct + him?"{Isaiah 40:13} But we have Christ's mind. +003:001 Brothers, I couldn't speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, + as to babies in Christ. +003:002 I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you weren't yet ready. + Indeed, not even now are you ready, +003:003 for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, + strife, and factions among you, aren't you fleshly, and don't + you walk in the ways of men? +003:004 For when one says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos," + aren't you fleshly? +003:005 Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom + you believed; and each as the Lord gave to him? +003:006 I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase. +003:007 So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, + but God who gives the increase. +003:008 Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each + will receive his own reward according to his own labor. +003:009 For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's farming, + God's building. +003:010 According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise + master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. + But let each man be careful how he builds on it. +003:011 For no one can lay any other foundation than that which has + been laid, which is Jesus Christ. +003:012 But if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, + costly stones, wood, hay, or stubble; +003:013 each man's work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, + because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will test + what sort of work each man's work is. +003:014 If any man's work remains which he built on it, he will + receive a reward. +003:015 If any man's work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself + will be saved, but as through fire. +003:016 Don't you know that you are a temple of God, and that God's Spirit + lives in you? +003:017 If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; + for God's temple is holy, which you are. +003:018 Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is + wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, + that he may become wise. +003:019 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it + is written, "He has taken the wise in their craftiness."{Job 5:13} +003:020 And again, "The Lord knows the reasoning of the wise, that it + is worthless."{Psalm 94:11} +003:021 Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours, +003:022 whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, + or life, or death, or things present, or things to come. + All are yours, +003:023 and you are Christ's, and Christ is God's. +004:001 So let a man think of us as Christ's servants, and stewards + of God's mysteries. +004:002 Here, moreover, it is required of stewards, that they + be found faithful. +004:003 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged + by you, or by man's judgment. Yes, I don't judge my own self. +004:004 For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified + by this, but he who judges me is the Lord. +004:005 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, + who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, + and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get + his praise from God. +004:006 Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred + to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might + learn not to think beyond the things which are written, + that none of you be puffed up against one another. +004:007 For who makes you different? And what do you have that you + didn't receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast + as if you had not received it? +004:008 You are already filled. You have already become rich. + You have come to reign without us. Yes, and I wish that you + did reign, that we also might reign with you. +004:009 For, I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, + like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle + to the world, both to angels and men. +004:010 We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ. + We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, + but we have dishonor. +004:011 Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, + are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place. +004:012 We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. + Being persecuted, we endure. +004:013 Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, + the dirt wiped off by all, even until now. +004:014 I don't write these things to shame you, but to admonish you + as my beloved children. +004:015 For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet not + many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father + through the Good News. +004:016 I beg you therefore, be imitators of me. +004:017 Because of this I have sent Timothy to you, who is my + beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you + of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere + in every assembly. +004:018 Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you. +004:019 But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord is willing. + And I will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, + but the power. +004:020 For the Kingdom of God is not in word, but in power. +004:021 What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love + and a spirit of gentleness? +005:001 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, + and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, + that one has his father's wife. +005:002 You are puffed up, and didn't rather mourn, that he who had + done this deed might be removed from among you. +005:003 For I most certainly, as being absent in body but present + in spirit, have already, as though I were present, judged him + who has done this thing. +005:004 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, you being gathered together, + and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, +005:005 are to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, + that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. +005:006 Your boasting is not good. Don't you know that a little yeast + leavens the whole lump? +005:007 Purge out the old yeast, that you may be a new lump, + even as you are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, + has been sacrificed in our place. +005:008 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old yeast, + neither with the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with + the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. +005:009 I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners; +005:010 yet not at all meaning with the sexual sinners of this world, + or with the covetous and extortioners, or with idolaters; + for then you would have to leave the world. +005:011 But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone + who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, + or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner. + Don't even eat with such a person. +005:012 For what have I to do with also judging those who are outside? + Don't you judge those who are within? +005:013 But those who are outside, God judges. "Put away the wicked man + from among yourselves."{Deuteronomy 17:7; 19:19; 21:21; 22:21; 24:7} +006:001 Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, + go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? +006:002 Don't you know that the saints will judge the world? + And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge + the smallest matters? +006:003 Don't you know that we will judge angels? How much more, + things that pertain to this life? +006:004 If then, you have to judge things pertaining to this life, + do you set them to judge who are of no account in the assembly? +006:005 I say this to move you to shame. Isn't there even one wise man + among you who would be able to decide between his brothers? +006:006 But brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers! +006:007 Therefore it is already altogether a defect in you, that you + have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather be wronged? + Why not rather be defrauded? +006:008 No, but you yourselves do wrong, and defraud, and that + against your brothers. +006:009 Or don't you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom + of God? Don't be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, + nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, +006:010 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, + nor extortioners, will inherit the Kingdom of God. +006:011 Such were some of you, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. + But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, + and in the Spirit of our God. +006:012 "All things are lawful for me," but not all things are expedient. + "All things are lawful for me," but I will not be brought + under the power of anything. +006:013 "Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods," + but God will bring to nothing both it and them. + But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; + and the Lord for the body. +006:014 Now God raised up the Lord, and will also raise us up + by his power. +006:015 Don't you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then + take the members of Christ, and make them members of a prostitute? + May it never be! +006:016 Or don't you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? + For, "The two," says he, "will become one flesh."{Genesis 2:24} +006:017 But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit. +006:018 Flee sexual immorality! "Every sin that a man does is outside + the body," but he who commits sexual immorality sins against + his own body. +006:019 Or don't you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit + which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own, +006:020 for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God + in your body and in your spirit, which are God's. +007:001 Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: + it is good for a man not to touch a woman. +007:002 But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his + own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. +007:003 Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, + and likewise also the wife to her husband. +007:004 The wife doesn't have authority over her own body, but the husband. + Likewise also the husband doesn't have authority over his + own body, but the wife. +007:005 Don't deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, + that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, + and may be together again, that Satan doesn't tempt you + because of your lack of self-control. +007:006 But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment. +007:007 Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his + own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind. +007:008 But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them + if they remain even as I am. +007:009 But if they don't have self-control, let them marry. + For it's better to marry than to burn. +007:010 But to the married I command--not I, but the Lord--that the wife + not leave her husband +007:011 (but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled + to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife. +007:012 But to the rest I--not the Lord--say, if any brother has + an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, + let him not leave her. +007:013 The woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he is content + to live with her, let her not leave her husband. +007:014 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, + and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. + Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy. +007:015 Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. + The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, + but God has called us in peace. +007:016 For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? + Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife? +007:017 Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, + so let him walk. So I command in all the assemblies. +007:018 Was anyone called having been circumcised? Let him not + become uncircumcised. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision? + Let him not be circumcised. +007:019 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, + but the keeping of the commandments of God. +007:020 Let each man stay in that calling in which he was called. +007:021 Were you called being a bondservant? Don't let that bother you, + but if you get an opportunity to become free, use it. +007:022 For he who was called in the Lord being a bondservant is + the Lord's free man. Likewise he who was called being free + is Christ's bondservant. +007:023 You were bought with a price. Don't become bondservants of men. +007:024 Brothers, let each man, in whatever condition he was called, + stay in that condition with God. +007:025 Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord, + but I give my judgment as one who has obtained mercy from + the Lord to be trustworthy. +007:026 I think that it is good therefore, because of the distress + that is on us, that it is good for a man to be as he is. +007:027 Are you bound to a wife? Don't seek to be freed. + Are you free from a wife? Don't seek a wife. +007:028 But if you marry, you have not sinned. If a virgin marries, + she has not sinned. Yet such will have oppression in the flesh, + and I want to spare you. +007:029 But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, + both those who have wives may be as though they had none; +007:030 and those who weep, as though they didn't weep; and those + who rejoice, as though they didn't rejoice; and those who buy, + as though they didn't possess; +007:031 and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. + For the mode of this world passes away. +007:032 But I desire to have you to be free from cares. + He who is unmarried is concerned for the things of the Lord, + how he may please the Lord; +007:033 but he who is married is concerned about the things of the world, + how he may please his wife. +007:034 There is also a difference between a wife and a virgin. + The unmarried woman cares about the things of the Lord, + that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. + But she who is married cares about the things of the world-- + how she may please her husband. +007:035 This I say for your own profit; not that I may ensnare you, + but for that which is appropriate, and that you may attend + to the Lord without distraction. +007:036 But if any man thinks that he is behaving inappropriately + toward his virgin, if she is past the flower of her age, + and if need so requires, let him do what he desires. + He doesn't sin. Let them marry. +007:037 But he who stands steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, + but has power over his own heart, to keep his own virgin, does well. +007:038 So then both he who gives his own virgin in marriage does well, + and he who doesn't give her in marriage does better. +007:039 A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; + but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whoever + she desires, only in the Lord. +007:040 But she is happier if she stays as she is, in my judgment, + and I think that I also have God's Spirit. +008:001 Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we + all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. +008:002 But if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he doesn't yet + know as he ought to know. +008:003 But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him. +008:004 Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, + we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there + is no other God but one. +008:005 For though there are things that are called "gods," + whether in the heavens or on earth; as there are many "gods" + and many "lords;" +008:006 yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, + and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom + are all things, and we live through him. +008:007 However, that knowledge isn't in all men. But some, + with consciousness of the idol until now, eat as of + a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, + being weak, is defiled. +008:008 But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we don't eat, + are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better. +008:009 But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours + become a stumbling block to the weak. +008:010 For if a man sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol's temple, + won't his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat + things sacrificed to idols? +008:011 And through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the brother + for whose sake Christ died. +008:012 Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience + when it is weak, you sin against Christ. +008:013 Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat + no meat forevermore, that I don't cause my brother to stumble. +009:001 Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven't I seen Jesus Christ, + our Lord? Aren't you my work in the Lord? +009:002 If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; + for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord. +009:003 My defense to those who examine me is this. +009:004 Have we no right to eat and to drink? +009:005 Have we no right to take along a wife who is a believer, + even as the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of + the Lord, and Cephas? +009:006 Or have only Barnabas and I no right to not work? +009:007 What soldier ever serves at his own expense? + Who plants a vineyard, and doesn't eat of its fruit? + Or who feeds a flock, and doesn't drink from the flock's milk? +009:008 Do I speak these things according to the ways of men? + Or doesn't the law also say the same thing? +009:009 For it is written in the law of Moses, "You shall not muzzle + an ox while it treads out the grain."{Deuteronomy 25:4} Is + it for the oxen that God cares, +009:010 or does he say it assuredly for our sake? Yes, it was written + for our sake, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, + and he who threshes in hope should partake of his hope. +009:011 If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we + reap your fleshly things? +009:012 If others partake of this right over you, don't we yet more? + Nevertheless we did not use this right, but we bear all things, + that we may cause no hindrance to the Good News of Christ. +009:013 Don't you know that those who serve around sacred things eat + from the things of the temple, and those who wait on the altar + have their portion with the altar? +009:014 Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the Good News + should live from the Good News. +009:015 But I have used none of these things, and I don't write these things + that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, + than that anyone should make my boasting void. +009:016 For if I preach the Good News, I have nothing to boast about; + for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me, if I don't + preach the Good News. +009:017 For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward. + But if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me. +009:018 What then is my reward? That, when I preach the Good News, I may + present the Good News of Christ without charge, so as not + to abuse my authority in the Good News. +009:019 For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage + to all, that I might gain the more. +009:020 To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; + to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I + might gain those who are under the law; +009:021 to those who are without law, as without law (not being + without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), + that I might win those who are without law. +009:022 To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. + I have become all things to all men, that I may by all + means save some. +009:023 Now I do this for the sake of the Good News, that I may be + a joint partaker of it. +009:024 Don't you know that those who run in a race all run, but one + receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win. +009:025 Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control + in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, + but we an incorruptible. +009:026 I therefore run like that, as not uncertainly. I fight like that, + as not beating the air, +009:027 but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, + after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected. +010:001 Now I would not have you ignorant, brothers, that our fathers + were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; +010:002 and were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea; +010:003 and all ate the same spiritual food; +010:004 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of a + spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ. +010:005 However with most of them, God was not well pleased, for they + were overthrown in the wilderness. +010:006 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should + not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. +010:007 Neither be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, + "The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up + to play."{Exodus 32:6} +010:008 Neither let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed, + and in one day twenty-three thousand fell. +010:009 Neither let us test the Lord, as some of them tested, + and perished by the serpents. +010:010 Neither grumble, as some of them also grumbled, and perished + by the destroyer. +010:011 Now all these things happened to them by way of example, + and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends + of the ages have come. +010:012 Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that + he doesn't fall. +010:013 No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. + God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above + what you are able, but will with the temptation also make + the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it. +010:014 Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry. +010:015 I speak as to wise men. Judge what I say. +010:016 The cup of blessing which we bless, isn't it a communion + of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, isn't it + a communion of the body of Christ? +010:017 Because there is one loaf of bread, we, who are many, are one body; + for we all partake of the one loaf of bread. +010:018 Consider Israel according to the flesh. Don't those who eat + the sacrifices have communion with the altar? +010:019 What am I saying then? That a thing sacrificed to idols + is anything, or that an idol is anything? +010:020 But I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, + they sacrifice to demons, and not to God, and I don't desire + that you would have communion with demons. +010:021 You can't both drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. + You can't both partake of the table of the Lord, and of + the table of demons. +010:022 Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he? +010:023 "All things are lawful for me," but not all things are profitable. + "All things are lawful for me," but not all things build up. +010:024 Let no one seek his own, but each one his neighbor's good. +010:025 Whatever is sold in the butcher shop, eat, asking no question + for the sake of conscience, +010:026 for "the earth is the Lord's, and its fullness."{Psalm 24:1} +010:027 But if one of those who don't believe invites you to a meal, + and you are inclined to go, eat whatever is set before you, + asking no questions for the sake of conscience. +010:028 But if anyone says to you, "This was offered to idols," + don't eat it for the sake of the one who told you, + and for the sake of conscience. For "the earth is the Lord's, + and all its fullness." +010:029 Conscience, I say, not your own, but the other's conscience. + For why is my liberty judged by another conscience? +010:030 If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced for that + for which I give thanks? +010:031 Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, + do all to the glory of God. +010:032 Give no occasions for stumbling, either to Jews, or to Greeks, + or to the assembly of God; +010:033 even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my + own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved. +011:001 Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ. +011:002 Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things, + and hold firm the traditions, even as I delivered them to you. +011:003 But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, + and the head of the woman is the man, and the head of + Christ is God. +011:004 Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, + dishonors his head. +011:005 But every woman praying or prophesying with her head unveiled + dishonors her head. For it is one and the same thing as if + she were shaved. +011:006 For if a woman is not covered, let her also be shorn. + But if it is shameful for a woman to be shorn or shaved, + let her be covered. +011:007 For a man indeed ought not to have his head covered, + because he is the image and glory of God, but the woman + is the glory of the man. +011:008 For man is not from woman, but woman from man; +011:009 for neither was man created for the woman, but woman for the man. +011:010 For this cause the woman ought to have authority on her head, + because of the angels. +011:011 Nevertheless, neither is the woman independent of the man, + nor the man independent of the woman, in the Lord. +011:012 For as woman came from man, so a man also comes through a woman; + but all things are from God. +011:013 Judge for yourselves. Is it appropriate that a woman pray + to God unveiled? +011:014 Doesn't even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, + it is a dishonor to him? +011:015 But if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her, for her + hair is given to her for a covering. +011:016 But if any man seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, + neither do God's assemblies. +011:017 But in giving you this command, I don't praise you, that you + come together not for the better but for the worse. +011:018 For first of all, when you come together in the assembly, + I hear that divisions exist among you, and I partly believe it. +011:019 For there also must be factions among you, that those who are + approved may be revealed among you. +011:020 When therefore you assemble yourselves together, it is not + the Lord's supper that you eat. +011:021 For in your eating each one takes his own supper first. + One is hungry, and another is drunken. +011:022 What, don't you have houses to eat and to drink in? + Or do you despise God's assembly, and put them to shame + who don't have? What shall I tell you? Shall I praise you? + In this I don't praise you. +011:023 For I received from the Lord that which also I delivered + to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night in which he was + betrayed took bread. +011:024 When he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, "Take, eat. + This is my body, which is broken for you. Do this in + memory of me." +011:025 In the same way he also took the cup, after supper, + saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood. + Do this, as often as you drink, in memory of me." +011:026 For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, + you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes. +011:027 Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks the Lord's cup + in a manner unworthy of the Lord will be guilty of the body + and the blood of the Lord. +011:028 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread, + and drink of the cup. +011:029 For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy manner eats and drinks + judgment to himself, if he doesn't discern the Lord's body. +011:030 For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and not + a few sleep. +011:031 For if we discerned ourselves, we wouldn't be judged. +011:032 But when we are judged, we are punished by the Lord, that we + may not be condemned with the world. +011:033 Therefore, my brothers, when you come together to eat, + wait one for another. +011:034 But if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, lest your coming + together be for judgment. The rest I will set in order + whenever I come. +012:001 Now concerning spiritual things, brothers, I don't want you + to be ignorant. +012:002 You know that when you were heathen{or Gentiles}, you were led + away to those mute idols, however you might be led. +012:003 Therefore I make known to you that no man speaking by + God's Spirit says, "Jesus is accursed." No one can say, + "Jesus is Lord," but by the Holy Spirit. +012:004 Now there are various kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit. +012:005 There are various kinds of service, and the same Lord. +012:006 There are various kinds of workings, but the same God, + who works all things in all. +012:007 But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit + for the profit of all. +012:008 For to one is given through the Spirit the word of wisdom, + and to another the word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit; +012:009 to another faith, by the same Spirit; and to another gifts + of healings, by the same Spirit; +012:010 and to another workings of miracles; and to another prophecy; + and to another discerning of spirits; to another different kinds + of languages; and to another the interpretation of languages. +012:011 But the one and the same Spirit works all of these, + distributing to each one separately as he desires. +012:012 For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members + of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ. +012:013 For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, + whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all + given to drink into one Spirit. +012:014 For the body is not one member, but many. +012:015 If the foot would say, "Because I'm not the hand, I'm not part + of the body," it is not therefore not part of the body. +012:016 If the ear would say, "Because I'm not the eye, I'm not part + of the body," it's not therefore not part of the body. +012:017 If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? + If the whole were hearing, where would the smelling be? +012:018 But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body, + just as he desired. +012:019 If they were all one member, where would the body be? +012:020 But now they are many members, but one body. +012:021 The eye can't tell the hand, "I have no need for you," + or again the head to the feet, "I have no need for you." +012:022 No, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be + weaker are necessary. +012:023 Those parts of the body which we think to be less honorable, + on those we bestow more abundant honor; and our unpresentable + parts have more abundant propriety; +012:024 whereas our presentable parts have no such need. + But God composed the body together, giving more abundant + honor to the inferior part, +012:025 that there should be no division in the body, but that the members + should have the same care for one another. +012:026 When one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. + Or when one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it. +012:027 Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually. +012:028 God has set some in the assembly: first apostles, + second prophets, third teachers, then miracle workers, + then gifts of healings, helps, governments, and various + kinds of languages. +012:029 Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? + Are all miracle workers? +012:030 Do all have gifts of healings? Do all speak with various languages? + Do all interpret? +012:031 But earnestly desire the best gifts. Moreover, I show a most + excellent way to you. +013:001 If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don't + have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. +013:002 If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and + all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, + but don't have love, I am nothing. +013:003 If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my + body to be burned, but don't have love, it profits me nothing. +013:004 Love is patient and is kind; love doesn't envy. + Love doesn't brag, is not proud, +013:005 doesn't behave itself inappropriately, doesn't seek its own way, + is not provoked, takes no account of evil; +013:006 doesn't rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; +013:007 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, + endures all things. +013:008 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done + away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. + Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with. +013:009 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part; +013:010 but when that which is complete has come, then that which is + partial will be done away with. +013:011 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, + I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, + I have put away childish things. +013:012 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. + Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I + was also fully known. +013:013 But now faith, hope, and love remain--these three. + The greatest of these is love. +014:001 Follow after love, and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, + but especially that you may prophesy. +014:002 For he who speaks in another language speaks not to men, but to God; + for no one understands; but in the Spirit he speaks mysteries. +014:003 But he who prophesies speaks to men for their edification, + exhortation, and consolation. +014:004 He who speaks in another language edifies himself, but he who + prophesies edifies the assembly. +014:005 Now I desire to have you all speak with other languages, + but rather that you would prophesy. For he is greater + who prophesies than he who speaks with other languages, + unless he interprets, that the assembly may be built up. +014:006 But now, brothers,{The word for "brothers" here and where context + allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" + or "siblings."} if I come to you speaking with other languages, + what would I profit you, unless I speak to you either + by way of revelation, or of knowledge, or of prophesying, + or of teaching? +014:007 Even things without life, giving a voice, whether pipe or harp, + if they didn't give a distinction in the sounds, how would + it be known what is piped or harped? +014:008 For if the trumpet gave an uncertain sound, who would prepare + himself for war? +014:009 So also you, unless you uttered by the tongue words easy + to understand, how would it be known what is spoken? + For you would be speaking into the air. +014:010 There are, it may be, so many kinds of sounds in the world, + and none of them is without meaning. +014:011 If then I don't know the meaning of the sound, I would + be to him who speaks a foreigner, and he who speaks would + be a foreigner to me. +014:012 So also you, since you are zealous for spiritual gifts, + seek that you may abound to the building up of the assembly. +014:013 Therefore let him who speaks in another language pray that + he may interpret. +014:014 For if I pray in another language, my spirit prays, but my + understanding is unfruitful. +014:015 What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray + with the understanding also. I will sing with the spirit, + and I will sing with the understanding also. +014:016 Otherwise if you bless with the spirit, how will he who fills + the place of the unlearned say the "Amen" at your giving + of thanks, seeing he doesn't know what you say? +014:017 For you most certainly give thanks well, but the other person + is not built up. +014:018 I thank my God, I speak with other languages more than you all. +014:019 However in the assembly I would rather speak five words + with my understanding, that I might instruct others also, + than ten thousand words in another language. +014:020 Brothers, don't be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, + but in thoughts be mature. +014:021 In the law it is written, "By men of strange languages + and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people. + Not even thus will they hear me, says the Lord."{Isaiah 28:11-12} +014:022 Therefore other languages are for a sign, not to those who believe, + but to the unbelieving; but prophesying is for a sign, + not to the unbelieving, but to those who believe. +014:023 If therefore the whole assembly is assembled together and all + speak with other languages, and unlearned or unbelieving + people come in, won't they say that you are crazy? +014:024 But if all prophesy, and someone unbelieving or unlearned comes in, + he is reproved by all, and he is judged by all. +014:025 And thus the secrets of his heart are revealed. So he will + fall down on his face and worship God, declaring that God + is among you indeed. +014:026 What is it then, brothers? When you come together, + each one of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, + has another language, has an interpretation. Let all things + be done to build each other up. +014:027 If any man speaks in another language, let it be two, + or at the most three, and in turn; and let one interpret. +014:028 But if there is no interpreter, let him keep silent in the assembly, + and let him speak to himself, and to God. +014:029 Let the prophets speak, two or three, and let the others discern. +014:030 But if a revelation is made to another sitting by, + let the first keep silent. +014:031 For you all can prophesy one by one, that all may learn, + and all may be exhorted. +014:032 The spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets, +014:033 for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace. + As in all the assemblies of the saints, +014:034 let your wives keep silent in the assemblies, for it has not been + permitted for them to speak; but let them be in subjection, + as the law also says. +014:035 If they desire to learn anything, let them ask their own + husbands at home, for it is shameful for a woman to chatter + in the assembly. +014:036 What? Was it from you that the word of God went out? + Or did it come to you alone? +014:037 If any man thinks himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, + let him recognize the things which I write to you, that they + are the commandment of the Lord. +014:038 But if anyone is ignorant, let him be ignorant. +014:039 Therefore, brothers, desire earnestly to prophesy, and don't + forbid speaking with other languages. +014:040 Let all things be done decently and in order. +015:001 Now I declare to you, brothers, the Good News which I preached + to you, which also you received, in which you also stand, +015:002 by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word + which I preached to you--unless you believed in vain. +015:003 For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: + that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, +015:004 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day + according to the Scriptures, +015:005 and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. +015:006 Then he appeared to over five hundred brothers at once, + most of whom remain until now, but some have also fallen asleep. +015:007 Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles, +015:008 and last of all, as to the child born at the wrong time, + he appeared to me also. +015:009 For I am the least of the apostles, who is not worthy to be + called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God. +015:010 But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was + bestowed on me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; + yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me. +015:011 Whether then it is I or they, so we preach, and so you believed. +015:012 Now if Christ is preached, that he has been raised from the dead, + how do some among you say that there is no resurrection + of the dead? +015:013 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, neither has + Christ been raised. +015:014 If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain, + and your faith also is in vain. +015:015 Yes, we are found false witnesses of God, because we testified + about God that he raised up Christ, whom he didn't raise up, + if it is so that the dead are not raised. +015:016 For if the dead aren't raised, neither has Christ been raised. +015:017 If Christ has not been raised, your faith is vain; you are still + in your sins. +015:018 Then they also who are fallen asleep in Christ have perished. +015:019 If we have only hoped in Christ in this life, we are of all + men most pitiable. +015:020 But now Christ has been raised from the dead. He became + the first fruits of those who are asleep. +015:021 For since death came by man, the resurrection of the dead + also came by man. +015:022 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive. +015:023 But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, + then those who are Christ's, at his coming. +015:024 Then the end comes, when he will deliver up the Kingdom to God, + even the Father; when he will have abolished all rule and all + authority and power. +015:025 For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. +015:026 The last enemy that will be abolished is death. +015:027 For, "He put all things in subjection under his feet."{Psalm + 8:6} But when he says, "All things are put in subjection," + it is evident that he is excepted who subjected all things to him. +015:028 When all things have been subjected to him, then the Son will + also himself be subjected to him who subjected all things to him, + that God may be all in all. +015:029 Or else what will they do who are baptized for the dead? + If the dead aren't raised at all, why then are they baptized + for the dead? +015:030 Why do we also stand in jeopardy every hour? +015:031 I affirm, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus + our Lord, I die daily. +015:032 If I fought with animals at Ephesus for human purposes, + what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, then "let + us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die."{Isaiah 22:13} +015:033 Don't be deceived! "Evil companionships corrupt good morals." +015:034 Wake up righteously, and don't sin, for some have no knowledge + of God. I say this to your shame. +015:035 But someone will say, "How are the dead raised?" and, "With what + kind of body do they come?" +015:036 You foolish one, that which you yourself sow is not made alive + unless it dies. +015:037 That which you sow, you don't sow the body that will be, + but a bare grain, maybe of wheat, or of some other kind. +015:038 But God gives it a body even as it pleased him, and to each + seed a body of its own. +015:039 All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one flesh of men, + another flesh of animals, another of fish, and another of birds. +015:040 There are also celestial bodies, and terrestrial bodies; + but the glory of the celestial differs from that of the terrestrial. +015:041 There is one glory of the sun, another glory of the moon, + and another glory of the stars; for one star differs from + another star in glory. +015:042 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; + it is raised in incorruption. +015:043 It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown + in weakness; it is raised in power. +015:044 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. + There is a natural body and there is also a spiritual body. +015:045 So also it is written, "The first man, Adam, became a living + soul."{Genesis 2:7} The last Adam became a life-giving spirit. +015:046 However that which is spiritual isn't first, but that which + is natural, then that which is spiritual. +015:047 The first man is of the earth, made of dust. The second man + is the Lord from heaven. +015:048 As is the one made of dust, such are those who are also made of dust; + and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. +015:049 As we have borne the image of those made of dust, let's{NU, TR read + "we will" instead of "let's"} also bear the image of the heavenly. +015:050 Now I say this, brothers,{The word for "brothers" here and where + context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers + and sisters" or "siblings."} that flesh and blood can't inherit + the Kingdom of God; neither does corruption inherit incorruption. +015:051 Behold, I tell you a mystery. We will not all sleep, but we + will all be changed, +015:052 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. + For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised + incorruptible, and we will be changed. +015:053 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal + must put on immortality. +015:054 But when this corruptible will have put on incorruption, + and this mortal will have put on immortality, then what is written + will happen: "Death is swallowed up in victory."{Isaiah 25:8} +015:055 "Death, where is your sting? Hades{or, Hell}, where is + your victory?"{Hosea 13:14} +015:056 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. +015:057 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our + Lord Jesus Christ. +015:058 Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, + always abounding in the Lord's work, because you know that + your labor is not in vain in the Lord. +016:001 Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I commanded + the assemblies of Galatia, you do likewise. +016:002 On the first day of the week, let each one of you save, + as he may prosper, that no collections be made when I come. +016:003 When I arrive, I will send whoever you approve with letters + to carry your gracious gift to Jerusalem. +016:004 If it is appropriate for me to go also, they will go with me. +016:005 But I will come to you when I have passed through Macedonia, + for I am passing through Macedonia. +016:006 But with you it may be that I will stay, or even winter, + that you may send me on my journey wherever I go. +016:007 For I do not wish to see you now in passing, but I hope to stay + a while with you, if the Lord permits. +016:008 But I will stay at Ephesus until Pentecost, +016:009 for a great and effective door has opened to me, and there + are many adversaries. +016:010 Now if Timothy comes, see that he is with you without fear, + for he does the work of the Lord, as I also do. +016:011 Therefore let no one despise him. But set him forward on his + journey in peace, that he may come to me; for I expect him + with the brothers. +016:012 Now concerning Apollos, the brother, I strongly urged him to come + to you with the brothers; and it was not at all his desire + to come now; but he will come when he has an opportunity. +016:013 Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong! +016:014 Let all that you do be done in love. +016:015 Now I beg you, brothers (you know the house of Stephanas, + that it is the first fruits of Achaia, and that they have set + themselves to serve the saints), +016:016 that you also be in subjection to such, and to everyone + who helps in the work and labors. +016:017 I rejoice at the coming of Stephanas, Fortunatus, and Achaicus; + for that which was lacking on your part, they supplied. +016:018 For they refreshed my spirit and yours. Therefore acknowledge + those who are like that. +016:019 The assemblies of Asia greet you. Aquila and Priscilla greet + you much in the Lord, together with the assembly that is + in their house. +016:020 All the brothers greet you. Greet one another with a holy kiss. +016:021 This greeting is by me, Paul, with my own hand. +016:022 If any man doesn't love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be + accursed{Greek: anathema.}. Come, Lord!{Aramaic: Maranatha!} +016:023 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you. +016:024 My love to all of you in Christ Jesus. Amen. +Book 47 2 Corinthians +001:001 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, + and Timothy our brother, to the assembly of God which is at Corinth, + with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia: +001:002 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. +001:003 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, + the Father of mercies and God of all comfort; +001:004 who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able + to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort + with which we ourselves are comforted by God. +001:005 For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our + comfort also abounds through Christ. +001:006 But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. + If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces + in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which + we also suffer. +001:007 Our hope for you is steadfast, knowing that, since you are + partakers of the sufferings, so also are you of the comfort. +001:008 For we don't desire to have you uninformed, brothers,{The word + for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be + correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."} + concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia, + that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, + so much that we despaired even of life. +001:009 Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, + that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who + raises the dead, +001:010 who delivered us out of so great a death, and does deliver; + on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us; +001:011 you also helping together on our behalf by your supplication; + that, for the gift bestowed on us by means of many, + thanks may be given by many persons on your behalf. +001:012 For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, + that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom + but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, + and more abundantly toward you. +001:013 For we write no other things to you, than what you read or + even acknowledge, and I hope you will acknowledge to the end; +001:014 as also you acknowledged us in part, that we are your boasting, + even as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus. +001:015 In this confidence, I was determined to come first to you, + that you might have a second benefit; +001:016 and by you to pass into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come + to you, and to be sent forward by you on my journey to Judea. +001:017 When I therefore was thus determined, did I show fickleness? + Or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, + that with me there should be the "Yes, yes" and the "No, no?" +001:018 But as God is faithful, our word toward you was not "Yes and no." +001:019 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you + by us, by me, Silvanus, and Timothy, was not "Yes and no," + but in him is "Yes." +001:020 For however many are the promises of God, in him is the "Yes." + Therefore also through him is the "Amen," to the glory + of God through us. +001:021 Now he who establishes us with you in Christ, and anointed + us, is God; +001:022 who also sealed us, and gave us the down payment of the Spirit + in our hearts. +001:023 But I call God for a witness to my soul, that I didn't come + to Corinth to spare you. +001:024 Not that we have lordship over your faith, but are fellow + workers with you for your joy. For you stand firm in faith. +002:001 But I determined this for myself, that I would not come to you + again in sorrow. +002:002 For if I make you sorry, then who will make me glad but he who + is made sorry by me? +002:003 And I wrote this very thing to you, so that, when I came, + I wouldn't have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; + having confidence in you all, that my joy would be shared + by all of you. +002:004 For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you + with many tears, not that you should be made sorry, but that you + might know the love that I have so abundantly for you. +002:005 But if any has caused sorrow, he has caused sorrow, not to me, + but in part (that I not press too heavily) to you all. +002:006 Sufficient to such a one is this punishment which was inflicted + by the many; +002:007 so that on the contrary you should rather forgive him and + comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed + up with his excessive sorrow. +002:008 Therefore I beg you to confirm your love toward him. +002:009 For to this end I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you, + whether you are obedient in all things. +002:010 Now I also forgive whomever you forgive anything. + For if indeed I have forgiven anything, I have forgiven + that one for your sakes in the presence of Christ, +002:011 that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan; for we are + not ignorant of his schemes. +002:012 Now when I came to Troas for the Good News of Christ, + and when a door was opened to me in the Lord, +002:013 I had no relief for my spirit, because I didn't find Titus, + my brother, but taking my leave of them, I went out into Macedonia. +002:014 Now thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, + and reveals through us the sweet aroma of his knowledge + in every place. +002:015 For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God, in those who are saved, + and in those who perish; +002:016 to the one a stench from death to death; to the other a sweet + aroma from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things? +002:017 For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. + But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, + we speak in Christ. +003:001 Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, + as do some, letters of commendation to you or from you? +003:002 You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read + by all men; +003:003 being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, + written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; + not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh. +003:004 Such confidence we have through Christ toward God; +003:005 not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything + as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God; +003:006 who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant; + not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, + but the Spirit gives life. +003:007 But if the service of death, written engraved on stones, + came with glory, so that the children of Israel could not look + steadfastly on the face of Moses for the glory of his face; + which was passing away: +003:008 won't service of the Spirit be with much more glory? +003:009 For if the service of condemnation has glory, the service + of righteousness exceeds much more in glory. +003:010 For most certainly that which has been made glorious has + not been made glorious in this respect, by reason of the + glory that surpasses. +003:011 For if that which passes away was with glory, much more that + which remains is in glory. +003:012 Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness of speech, +003:013 and not as Moses, who put a veil on his face, that the children + of Israel wouldn't look steadfastly on the end of that which + was passing away. +003:014 But their minds were hardened, for until this very day + at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains, + because in Christ it passes away. +003:015 But to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart. +003:016 But whenever one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. +003:017 Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, + there is liberty. +003:018 But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory + of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory + to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit. +004:001 Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, + we don't faint. +004:002 But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking + in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; + but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves + to every man's conscience in the sight of God. +004:003 Even if our Good News is veiled, it is veiled in those who perish; +004:004 in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of + the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory + of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them. +004:005 For we don't preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, + and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake; +004:006 seeing it is God who said, "Light will shine out of + darkness,"{Genesis 1:3} who has shone in our hearts, to give + the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face + of Jesus Christ. +004:007 But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding + greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves. +004:008 We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet + not to despair; +004:009 pursued, yet not forsaken; struck down, yet not destroyed; +004:010 always carrying in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, + that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. +004:011 For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus' + sake, that the life also of Jesus may be revealed in + our mortal flesh. +004:012 So then death works in us, but life in you. +004:013 But having the same spirit of faith, according to that which + is written, "I believed, and therefore I spoke."{Psalm 116:10} + We also believe, and therefore also we speak; +004:014 knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us + also with Jesus, and will present us with you. +004:015 For all things are for your sakes, that the grace, + being multiplied through the many, may cause the thanksgiving + to abound to the glory of God. +004:016 Therefore we don't faint, but though our outward man is decaying, + yet our inward man is renewed day by day. +004:017 For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us + more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory; +004:018 while we don't look at the things which are seen, but at the things + which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal, + but the things which are not seen are eternal. +005:001 For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, + we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, + eternal, in the heavens. +005:002 For most certainly in this we groan, longing to be clothed + with our habitation which is from heaven; +005:003 if so be that being clothed we will not be found naked. +005:004 For indeed we who are in this tent do groan, being burdened; + not that we desire to be unclothed, but that we desire to + be clothed, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. +005:005 Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave + to us the down payment of the Spirit. +005:006 Therefore, we are always confident and know that while we + are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord; +005:007 for we walk by faith, not by sight. +005:008 We are of good courage, I say, and are willing rather to be + absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord. +005:009 Therefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, + to be well pleasing to him. +005:010 For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ; + that each one may receive the things in the body, according to + what he has done, whether good or bad. +005:011 Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, + but we are revealed to God; and I hope that we are revealed + also in your consciences. +005:012 For we are not commending ourselves to you again, but speak + as giving you occasion of boasting on our behalf, that you + may have something to answer those who boast in appearance, + and not in heart. +005:013 For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God. Or if we are + of sober mind, it is for you. +005:014 For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, + that one died for all, therefore all died. +005:015 He died for all, that those who live should no longer + live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died + and rose again. +005:016 Therefore we know no one after the flesh from now on. + Even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we + know him so no more. +005:017 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. + The old things have passed away. Behold, all things + have become new. +005:018 But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through + Jesus Christ, and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation; +005:019 namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, + not reckoning to them their trespasses, and having committed + to us the word of reconciliation. +005:020 We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though + God were entreating by us. We beg you on behalf of Christ, + be reconciled to God. +005:021 For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; + so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. +006:001 Working together, we entreat also that you not receive the grace + of God in vain, +006:002 for he says, "At an acceptable time I listened to you, + in a day of salvation I helped you."{Isaiah 49:8} Behold, + now is the acceptable time. Behold, now is the day of salvation. +006:003 We give no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our service + may not be blamed, +006:004 but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, + in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses, +006:005 in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, + in watchings, in fastings; +006:006 in pureness, in knowledge, in patience, in kindness, + in the Holy Spirit, in sincere love, +006:007 in the word of truth, in the power of God; by the armor + of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, +006:008 by glory and dishonor, by evil report and good report; + as deceivers, and yet true; +006:009 as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; + as punished, and not killed; +006:010 as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; + as having nothing, and yet possessing all things. +006:011 Our mouth is open to you, Corinthians. Our heart is enlarged. +006:012 You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted by + your own affections. +006:013 Now in return, I speak as to my children, you also be open wide. +006:014 Don't be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship + have righteousness and iniquity? Or what communion has + light with darkness? +006:015 What agreement has Christ with Belial? Or what portion has + a believer with an unbeliever? +006:016 What agreement has a temple of God with idols? + For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, + "I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be + their God, and they will be my people."{Leviticus 26:12; + Jeremiah 32:38; Ezekiel 37:27} +006:017 Therefore, "'Come out from among them, and be separate,' + says the Lord. 'Touch no unclean thing. I will receive + you.{Isaiah 52:11; Ezekiel 20:34,41} +006:018 I will be to you a Father. You will be to me sons and daughters,' + says the Lord Almighty."{2 Samuel 7:14; 7:8} +007:001 Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves + from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness + in the fear of God. +007:002 Open your hearts to us. We wronged no one. We corrupted no one. + We took advantage of no one. +007:003 I say this not to condemn you, for I have said before, + that you are in our hearts to die together and live together. +007:004 Great is my boldness of speech toward you. Great is my + boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort. + I overflow with joy in all our affliction. +007:005 For even when we had come into Macedonia, our flesh had no relief, + but we were afflicted on every side. Fightings were outside. + Fear was inside. +007:006 Nevertheless, he who comforts the lowly, God, comforted us + by the coming of Titus; +007:007 and not by his coming only, but also by the comfort with which + he was comforted in you, while he told us of your longing, + your mourning, and your zeal for me; so that I rejoiced still more. +007:008 For though I made you sorry with my letter, I do not regret it, + though I did regret it. For I see that my letter made you sorry, + though just for a while. +007:009 I now rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that you were made + sorry to repentance. For you were made sorry in a godly way, + that you might suffer loss by us in nothing. +007:010 For godly sorrow works repentance to salvation, which brings + no regret. But the sorrow of the world works death. +007:011 For behold, this same thing, that you were made sorry + in a godly way, what earnest care it worked in you. + Yes, what defense, indignation, fear, longing, zeal, and vengeance! + In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be pure + in the matter. +007:012 So although I wrote to you, I wrote not for his cause that + did the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered the wrong, + but that your earnest care for us might be revealed in you + in the sight of God. +007:013 Therefore we have been comforted. In our comfort we rejoiced + the more exceedingly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit + has been refreshed by you all. +007:014 For if in anything I have boasted to him on your behalf, + I was not disappointed. But as we spoke all things to you + in truth, so our glorying also which I made before Titus + was found to be truth. +007:015 His affection is more abundantly toward you, while he remembers + all of your obedience, how with fear and trembling + you received him. +007:016 I rejoice that in everything I am of good courage concerning you. +008:001 Moreover, brothers, we make known to you the grace of God + which has been given in the assemblies of Macedonia; +008:002 how that in much proof of affliction the abundance of their joy + and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of their liberality. +008:003 For according to their power, I testify, yes and beyond their power, + they gave of their own accord, +008:004 begging us with much entreaty to receive this grace and + the fellowship in the service to the saints. +008:005 This was not as we had hoped, but first they gave their own + selves to the Lord, and to us through the will of God. +008:006 So we urged Titus, that as he made a beginning before, + so he would also complete in you this grace. +008:007 But as you abound in everything, in faith, utterance, knowledge, + all earnestness, and in your love to us, see that you also + abound in this grace. +008:008 I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through + the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love. +008:009 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, + though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, + that you through his poverty might become rich. +008:010 I give a judgment in this: for this is expedient for you, + who were the first to start a year ago, not only to do, + but also to be willing. +008:011 But now complete the doing also, that as there was the readiness + to be willing, so there may be the completion also out + of your ability. +008:012 For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according + to what you have, not according to what you don't have. +008:013 For this is not that others may be eased and you distressed, +008:014 but for equality. Your abundance at this present time supplies + their lack, that their abundance also may become a supply + for your lack; that there may be equality. +008:015 As it is written, "He who gathered much had nothing left over, + and he who gathered little had no lack."{Exodus 16:8} +008:016 But thanks be to God, who puts the same earnest care for you + into the heart of Titus. +008:017 For he indeed accepted our exhortation, but being himself + very earnest, he went out to you of his own accord. +008:018 We have sent together with him the brother whose praise + in the Good News is known through all the assemblies. +008:019 Not only so, but who was also appointed by the assemblies + to travel with us in this grace, which is served by us + to the glory of the Lord himself, and to show our readiness. +008:020 We are avoiding this, that any man should blame us concerning + this abundance which is administered by us. +008:021 Having regard for honorable things, not only in the sight + of the Lord, but also in the sight of men. +008:022 We have sent with them our brother, whom we have many times + proved earnest in many things, but now much more earnest, + by reason of the great confidence which he has in you. +008:023 As for Titus, he is my partner and fellow worker for you. + As for our brothers, they are the apostles of the assemblies, + the glory of Christ. +008:024 Therefore show the proof of your love to them in front + of the assemblies, and of our boasting on your behalf. +009:001 It is indeed unnecessary for me to write to you concerning + the service to the saints, +009:002 for I know your readiness, of which I boast on your behalf to them + of Macedonia, that Achaia has been prepared for a year past. + Your zeal has stirred up very many of them. +009:003 But I have sent the brothers that our boasting on your behalf + may not be in vain in this respect, that, just as I said, + you may be prepared, +009:004 so that I won't by any means, if there come with me any of + Macedonia and find you unprepared, we (to say nothing of you) + should be disappointed in this confident boasting. +009:005 I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brothers that they + would go before to you, and arrange ahead of time the generous + gift that you promised before, that the same might be ready + as a matter of generosity, and not of greediness. +009:006 Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. + He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. +009:007 Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart; + not grudgingly, or under compulsion; for God loves + a cheerful giver. +009:008 And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, + always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound + to every good work. +009:009 As it is written, "He has scattered abroad, he has given to the poor. + His righteousness remains forever."{Psalm 112:9} +009:010 Now may he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, + supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase + the fruits of your righteousness; +009:011 you being enriched in everything to all liberality, which works + through us thanksgiving to God. +009:012 For this service of giving that you perform not only makes + up for lack among the saints, but abounds also through many + givings of thanks to God; +009:013 seeing that through the proof given by this service, they glorify + God for the obedience of your confession to the Good News + of Christ, and for the liberality of your contribution to them + and to all; +009:014 while they themselves also, with supplication on your behalf, + yearn for you by reason of the exceeding grace of God in you. +009:015 Now thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift! +010:001 Now I Paul, myself, entreat you by the humility and gentleness + of Christ; I who in your presence am lowly among you, + but being absent am of good courage toward you. +010:002 Yes, I beg you that I may not, when present, show courage with + the confidence with which I intend to be bold against some, + who consider us to be walking according to the flesh. +010:003 For though we walk in the flesh, we don't wage war according + to the flesh; +010:004 for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty + before God to the throwing down of strongholds, +010:005 throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted + against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought + into captivity to the obedience of Christ; +010:006 and being in readiness to avenge all disobedience, when your + obedience will be made full. +010:007 Do you look at things only as they appear in front of your face? + If anyone trusts in himself that he is Christ's, let him + consider this again with himself, that, even as he is Christ's, + so also we are Christ's. +010:008 For though I should boast somewhat abundantly concerning + our authority, (which the Lord gave for building you up, + and not for casting you down) I will not be disappointed, +010:009 that I may not seem as if I desire to terrify you by my letters. +010:010 For, "His letters," they say, "are weighty and strong, + but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech is despised." +010:011 Let such a person consider this, that what we are in word + by letters when we are absent, such are we also in deed + when we are present. +010:012 For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with some + of those who commend themselves. But they themselves, + measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves + with themselves, are without understanding. +010:013 But we will not boast beyond proper limits, but within + the boundaries with which God appointed to us, which reach + even to you. +010:014 For we don't stretch ourselves too much, as though we didn't + reach to you. For we came even as far as to you with the + Good News of Christ, +010:015 not boasting beyond proper limits in other men's labors, + but having hope that as your faith grows, we will be abundantly + enlarged by you in our sphere of influence, +010:016 so as to preach the Good News even to the parts beyond you, + not to boast in what someone else has already done. +010:017 But "he who boasts, let him boast in the Lord."{Jeremiah 9:24} +010:018 For it isn't he who commends himself who is approved, + but whom the Lord commends. +011:001 I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness, + but indeed you do bear with me. +011:002 For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. + For I married you to one husband, that I might present you + as a pure virgin to Christ. +011:003 But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve + in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from + the simplicity that is in Christ. +011:004 For if he who comes preaches another Jesus, whom we did not preach, + or if you receive a different spirit, which you did not receive, + or a different "good news", which you did not accept, + you put up with that well enough. +011:005 For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles. +011:006 But though I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not unskilled + in knowledge. No, in every way we have been revealed to you + in all things. +011:007 Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, + because I preached to you God's Good News free of charge? +011:008 I robbed other assemblies, taking wages from them that I + might serve you. +011:009 When I was present with you and was in need, I wasn't a burden + on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, + supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself + from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so. +011:010 As the truth of Christ is in me, no one will stop me from this + boasting in the regions of Achaia. +011:011 Why? Because I don't love you? God knows. +011:012 But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion + from them that desire an occasion, that in which they boast, + they may be found even as we. +011:013 For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, + masquerading as Christ's apostles. +011:014 And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light. +011:015 It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade + as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according + to their works. +011:016 I say again, let no one think me foolish. But if so, + yet receive me as foolish, that I also may boast a little. +011:017 That which I speak, I don't speak according to the Lord, + but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting. +011:018 Seeing that many boast after the flesh, I will also boast. +011:019 For you bear with the foolish gladly, being wise. +011:020 For you bear with a man, if he brings you into bondage, + if he devours you, if he takes you captive, if he exalts himself, + if he strikes you on the face. +011:021 I speak by way of disparagement, as though we had been weak. + Yet however any is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also. +011:022 Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are + they the seed of Abraham? So am I. +011:023 Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) + I am more so; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, + in stripes above measure, in deaths often. +011:024 Five times from the Jews I received forty stripes minus one. +011:025 Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. + Three times I suffered shipwreck. I have been a night + and a day in the deep. +011:026 I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, + perils from my countrymen, perils from the Gentiles, + perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, + perils among false brothers; +011:027 in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, + in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness. +011:028 Besides those things that are outside, there is that which + presses on me daily, anxiety for all the assemblies. +011:029 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, + and I don't burn with indignation? +011:030 If I must boast, I will boast of the things that concern my weakness. +011:031 The God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, he who is + blessed forevermore, knows that I don't lie. +011:032 In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king guarded the city + of the Damascenes desiring to arrest me. +011:033 Through a window I was let down in a basket by the wall, + and escaped his hands. +012:001 It is doubtless not profitable for me to boast. + For I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. +012:002 I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago (whether in the body, + I don't know, or whether out of the body, I don't know; + God knows), such a one caught up into the third heaven. +012:003 I know such a man (whether in the body, or outside of the body, + I don't know; God knows), +012:004 how he was caught up into Paradise, and heard unspeakable words, + which it is not lawful for a man to utter. +012:005 On behalf of such a one I will boast, but on my own behalf I + will not boast, except in my weaknesses. +012:006 For if I would desire to boast, I will not be foolish; + for I will speak the truth. But I refrain, so that no + man may think more of me than that which he sees in me, + or hears from me. +012:007 By reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, + that I should not be exalted excessively, there was given to me + a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me, + that I should not be exalted excessively. +012:008 Concerning this thing, I begged the Lord three times that it + might depart from me. +012:009 He has said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my + power is made perfect in weakness." Most gladly therefore I + will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ + may rest on me. +012:010 Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, + in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake. + For when I am weak, then am I strong. +012:011 I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I + ought to have been commended by you, for in nothing was I + inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing. +012:012 Truly the signs of an apostle were worked among you in all patience, + in signs and wonders and mighty works. +012:013 For what is there in which you were made inferior to the rest of + the assemblies, unless it is that I myself was not a burden to you? + Forgive me this wrong. +012:014 Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you, and I + will not be a burden to you; for I seek not your possessions, + but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, + but the parents for the children. +012:015 I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. + If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less? +012:016 But be it so, I did not myself burden you. But, being crafty, + I caught you with deception. +012:017 Did I take advantage of you by anyone of them whom I have + sent to you? +012:018 I exhorted Titus, and I sent the brother with him. Did Titus + take any advantage of you? Didn't we walk in the same spirit? + Didn't we walk in the same steps? +012:019 Again, do you think that we are excusing ourselves to you? + In the sight of God we speak in Christ. But all things, + beloved, are for your edifying. +012:020 For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find + you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you + as you don't desire; that by any means there would be strife, + jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, + proud thoughts, riots; +012:021 that again when I come my God would humble me before you, + and I would mourn for many of those who have sinned before now, + and not repented of the uncleanness and sexual immorality + and lustfulness which they committed. +013:001 This is the third time I am coming to you. "At the mouth of two + or three witnesses shall every word established."{Deuteronomy 19:15} +013:002 I have said beforehand, and I do say beforehand, as when I + was present the second time, so now, being absent, I write + to those who have sinned before now, and to all the rest, + that, if I come again, I will not spare; +013:003 seeing that you seek a proof of Christ who speaks in me; + who toward you is not weak, but is powerful in you. +013:004 For he was crucified through weakness, yet he lives through + the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we will + live with him through the power of God toward you. +013:005 Test your own selves, whether you are in the faith. + Test your own selves. Or don't you know as to your own selves, + that Jesus Christ is in you?--unless indeed you are disqualified. +013:006 But I hope that you will know that we aren't disqualified. +013:007 Now I pray to God that you do no evil; not that we may + appear approved, but that you may do that which is honorable, + though we are as reprobate. +013:008 For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth. +013:009 For we rejoice when we are weak and you are strong. + And this we also pray for, even your perfecting. +013:010 For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not + deal sharply when present, according to the authority which + the Lord gave me for building up, and not for tearing down. +013:011 Finally, brothers, rejoice. Be perfected, be comforted, + be of the same mind, live in peace, and the God of love + and peace will be with you. +013:012 Greet one another with a holy kiss. +013:013 All the saints greet you. +013:014 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, + and the communion of the Holy Spirit, be with you all. Amen. +Book 48 Galatians +001:001 Paul, an apostle (not from men, neither through man, + but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him + from the dead), +001:002 and all the brothers{The word for "brothers" here and where context + allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" + or "siblings."} who are with me, to the assemblies of Galatia: +001:003 Grace to you and peace from God the Father, and our + Lord Jesus Christ, +001:004 who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us + out of this present evil age, according to the will of our + God and Father-- +001:005 to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen. +001:006 I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you + in the grace of Christ to a different "good news"; +001:007 and there isn't another "good news." Only there are some who + trouble you, and want to pervert the Good News of Christ. +001:008 But even though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you + any "good news" other than that which we preached to you, + let him be cursed. +001:009 As we have said before, so I now say again: if any man preaches + to you any "good news" other than that which you received, + let him be cursed. +001:010 For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I + striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, + I wouldn't be a servant of Christ. +001:011 But I make known to you, brothers, concerning the Good News + which was preached by me, that it is not according to man. +001:012 For neither did I receive it from man, nor was I taught it, + but it came to me through revelation of Jesus Christ. +001:013 For you have heard of my way of living in time past in the Jews' + religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the assembly + of God, and ravaged it. +001:014 I advanced in the Jews' religion beyond many of my own age among + my countrymen, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions + of my fathers. +001:015 But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me + from my mother's womb, and called me through his grace, +001:016 to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among + the Gentiles, I didn't immediately confer with flesh and blood, +001:017 nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, + but I went away into Arabia. Then I returned to Damascus. +001:018 Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Peter, + and stayed with him fifteen days. +001:019 But of the other apostles I saw no one, except James, + the Lord's brother. +001:020 Now about the things which I write to you, behold, + before God, I'm not lying. +001:021 Then I came to the regions of Syria and Cilicia. +001:022 I was still unknown by face to the assemblies of Judea which + were in Christ, +001:023 but they only heard: "He who once persecuted us now preaches + the faith that he once tried to destroy." +001:024 And they glorified God in me. +002:001 Then after a period of fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem + with Barnabas, taking Titus also with me. +002:002 I went up by revelation, and I laid before them the Good News + which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately before + those who were respected, for fear that I might be running, + or had run, in vain. +002:003 But not even Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled + to be circumcised. +002:004 This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, + who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, + that they might bring us into bondage; +002:005 to whom we gave no place in the way of subjection, not for an hour, + that the truth of the Good News might continue with you. +002:006 But from those who were reputed to be important (whatever they were, + it makes no difference to me; God doesn't show partiality + to man)--they, I say, who were respected imparted nothing to me, +002:007 but to the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted + with the Good News for the uncircumcision, even as Peter + with the Good News for the circumcision +002:008 (for he who appointed Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision + appointed me also to the Gentiles); +002:009 and when they perceived the grace that was given to me, + James and Cephas and John, they who were reputed to be pillars, + gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we + should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision. +002:010 They only asked us to remember the poor--which very thing I + was also zealous to do. +002:011 But when Peter came to Antioch, I resisted him to his face, + because he stood condemned. +002:012 For before some people came from James, he ate with the Gentiles. + But when they came, he drew back and separated himself, + fearing those who were of the circumcision. +002:013 And the rest of the Jews joined him in his hypocrisy; + so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy. +002:014 But when I saw that they didn't walk uprightly according to the truth + of the Good News, I said to Peter before them all, "If you, + being a Jew, live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do, + why do you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews do? +002:015 "We, being Jews by nature, and not Gentile sinners, +002:016 yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law + but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in + Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, + and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be + justified by the works of the law. +002:017 But if, while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves + also were found sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? + Certainly not! +002:018 For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, + I prove myself a law-breaker. +002:019 For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God. +002:020 I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I + that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live + in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, + and gave himself up for me. +002:021 I don't make void the grace of God. For if righteousness + is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!" +003:001 Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, + before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly set forth among + you as crucified? +003:002 I just want to learn this from you. Did you receive the Spirit + by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith? +003:003 Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now + completed in the flesh? +003:004 Did you suffer so many things in vain, if it is indeed in vain? +003:005 He therefore who supplies the Spirit to you, and works + miracles among you, does he do it by the works of the law, + or by hearing of faith? +003:006 Even as Abraham "believed God, and it was counted to + him for righteousness." +003:007 Know therefore that those who are of faith, the same are + children of Abraham. +003:008 The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles + by faith, preached the Good News beforehand to Abraham, saying, + "In you all the nations will be blessed."{Genesis 12:3; 18:18; 22:18} +003:009 So then, those who are of faith are blessed with + the faithful Abraham. +003:010 For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. + For it is written, "Cursed is everyone who doesn't continue + in all things that are written in the book of the law, + to do them."{Deuteronomy 27:26} +003:011 Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, + for, "The righteous will live by faith."{Habakkuk 2:4} +003:012 The law is not of faith, but, "The man who does them will live + by them."{Leviticus 18:5} +003:013 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become + a curse for us. For it is written, "Cursed is everyone + who hangs on a tree,"{Deuteronomy 21:23} +003:014 that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles + through Christ Jesus; that we might receive the promise + of the Spirit through faith. +003:015 Brothers, speaking of human terms, though it is only a man's covenant, + yet when it has been confirmed, no one makes it void, + or adds to it. +003:016 Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. + He doesn't say, "To seeds," as of many, but as of one, + "To your seed,"{Genesis 12:7; 13:15; 24:7} which is Christ. +003:017 Now I say this. A covenant confirmed beforehand by God in Christ, + the law, which came four hundred thirty years after, + does not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect. +003:018 For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more of promise; + but God has granted it to Abraham by promise. +003:019 What then is the law? It was added because of transgressions, + until the seed should come to whom the promise has been made. + It was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator. +003:020 Now a mediator is not between one, but God is one. +003:021 Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! + For if there had been a law given which could make alive, + most certainly righteousness would have been of the law. +003:022 But the Scriptures imprisoned all things under sin, + that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given + to those who believe. +003:023 But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, + confined for the faith which should afterwards be revealed. +003:024 So that the law has become our tutor to bring us to Christ, + that we might be justified by faith. +003:025 But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor. +003:026 For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus. +003:027 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. +003:028 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor + free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all + one in Christ Jesus. +003:029 If you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed and heirs + according to promise. +004:001 But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he is no different + from a bondservant, though he is lord of all; +004:002 but is under guardians and stewards until the day appointed + by the father. +004:003 So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under + the elemental principles of the world. +004:004 But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, + born to a woman, born under the law, +004:005 that he might redeem those who were under the law, that we + might receive the adoption of children. +004:006 And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit + of his Son into your hearts, crying, "Abba,{Abba is a Greek + spelling for the Aramaic word for "Father" or "Daddy" + used in a familiar, respectful, and loving way.} Father!" +004:007 So you are no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, + then an heir of God through Christ. +004:008 However at that time, not knowing God, you were in bondage + to those who by nature are not gods. +004:009 But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known + by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable + elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage + all over again? +004:010 You observe days, months, seasons, and years. +004:011 I am afraid for you, that I might have wasted my labor for you. +004:012 I beg you, brothers, become as I am, for I also have become + as you are. You did me no wrong, +004:013 but you know that because of weakness of the flesh I preached + the Good News to you the first time. +004:014 That which was a temptation to you in my flesh, you didn't + despise nor reject; but you received me as an angel of God, + even as Christ Jesus. +004:015 What was the blessing you enjoyed? For I testify to you that, + if possible, you would have plucked out your eyes and given + them to me. +004:016 So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth? +004:017 They zealously seek you in no good way. No, they desire + to alienate you, that you may seek them. +004:018 But it is always good to be zealous in a good cause, and not + only when I am present with you. +004:019 My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ + is formed in you-- +004:020 but I could wish to be present with you now, and to change + my tone, for I am perplexed about you. +004:021 Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, don't you listen + to the law? +004:022 For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the handmaid, + and one by the free woman. +004:023 However, the son by the handmaid was born according to the flesh, + but the son by the free woman was born through promise. +004:024 These things contain an allegory, for these are two covenants. + One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children to bondage, + which is Hagar. +004:025 For this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers + to the Jerusalem that exists now, for she is in bondage + with her children. +004:026 But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is the mother + of us all. +004:027 For it is written, "Rejoice, you barren who don't bear. + Break forth and shout, you that don't travail. + For more are the children of the desolate than of her who has + a husband."{Isaiah 54:1} +004:028 Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are children of promise. +004:029 But as then, he who was born according to the flesh persecuted + him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now. +004:030 However what does the Scripture say? "Throw out the handmaid + and her son, for the son of the handmaid will not inherit + with the son of the free woman."{Genesis 21:10} +004:031 So then, brothers, we are not children of a handmaid, + but of the free woman. +005:001 Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made + us free, and don't be entangled again with a yoke of bondage. +005:002 Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, + Christ will profit you nothing. +005:003 Yes, I testify again to every man who receives circumcision, + that he is a debtor to do the whole law. +005:004 You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified + by the law. You have fallen away from grace. +005:005 For we, through the Spirit, by faith wait for the + hope of righteousness. +005:006 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, + nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love. +005:007 You were running well! Who interfered with you that you + should not obey the truth? +005:008 This persuasion is not from him who calls you. +005:009 A little yeast grows through the whole lump. +005:010 I have confidence toward you in the Lord that you will think + no other way. But he who troubles you will bear his judgment, + whoever he is. +005:011 But I, brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I + still persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the cross + has been removed. +005:012 I wish that those who disturb you would cut themselves off. +005:013 For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don't use + your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants + to one another. +005:014 For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: + "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."{Leviticus 19:18} +005:015 But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you + don't consume one another. +005:016 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won't fulfill the lust + of the flesh. +005:017 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit + against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, + that you may not do the things that you desire. +005:018 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. +005:019 Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: + adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, +005:020 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, + rivalries, divisions, heresies, +005:021 envyings, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; + of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, + that those who practice such things will not inherit + the Kingdom of God. +005:022 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, + kindness, goodness, faith,{or, faithfulness} +005:023 gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there + is no law. +005:024 Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its + passions and lusts. +005:025 If we live by the Spirit, let's also walk by the Spirit. +005:026 Let's not become conceited, provoking one another, + and envying one another. +006:001 Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are + spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; + looking to yourself so that you also aren't tempted. +006:002 Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. +006:003 For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, + he deceives himself. +006:004 But let each man test his own work, and then he will take + pride in himself and not in his neighbor. +006:005 For each man will bear his own burden. +006:006 But let him who is taught in the word share all good things + with him who teaches. +006:007 Don't be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, + that he will also reap. +006:008 For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. + But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit + reap eternal life. +006:009 Let us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, + if we don't give up. +006:010 So then, as we have opportunity, let's do what is good toward + all men, and especially toward those who are of the household + of the faith. +006:011 See with what large letters I write to you with my own hand. +006:012 As many as desire to look good in the flesh, they compel you + to be circumcised; only that they may not be persecuted + for the cross of Christ. +006:013 For even they who receive circumcision don't keep the law themselves, + but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may boast + in your flesh. +006:014 But far be it from me to boast, except in the cross of our + Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified + to me, and I to the world. +006:015 For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision anything, + nor uncircumcision, but a new creation. +006:016 As many as walk by this rule, peace and mercy be on them, + and on God's Israel. +006:017 From now on, let no one cause me any trouble, for I bear + the marks of the Lord Jesus branded on my body. +006:018 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your + spirit, brothers. Amen. +Book 49 Ephesians +001:001 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, + to the saints who are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus: +001:002 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. +001:003 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, + who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly + places in Christ; +001:004 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, + that we would be holy and without blemish before him in love; +001:005 having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ + to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire, +001:006 to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely + bestowed favor on us in the Beloved, +001:007 in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness + of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, +001:008 which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence, +001:009 making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his + good pleasure which he purposed in him +001:010 to an administration of the fullness of the times, + to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens, + and the things on the earth, in him; +001:011 in whom also we were assigned an inheritance, having been + foreordained according to the purpose of him who works all + things after the counsel of his will; +001:012 to the end that we should be to the praise of his glory, + we who had before hoped in Christ: +001:013 in whom you also, having heard the word of the truth, + the Good News of your salvation,--in whom, having also believed, + you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, +001:014 who is a pledge of our inheritance, to the redemption of God's + own possession, to the praise of his glory. +001:015 For this cause I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus + which is among you, and the love which you have toward + all the saints, +001:016 don't cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you + in my prayers, +001:017 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, + may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the + knowledge of him; +001:018 having the eyes of your hearts{TR reads "understanding" + instead of "hearts"} enlightened, that you may know what is + the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory + of his inheritance in the saints, +001:019 and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us + who believe, according to that working of the strength + of his might +001:020 which he worked in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, + and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places, +001:021 far above all rule, and authority, and power, and dominion, + and every name that is named, not only in this age, + but also in that which is to come. +001:022 He put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him + to be head over all things for the assembly, +001:023 which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all. +002:001 You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins, +002:002 in which you once walked according to the course of this world, + according to the prince of the powers of the air, the spirit + who now works in the children of disobedience; +002:003 among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, + doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were + by nature children of wrath, even as the rest. +002:004 But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which + he loved us, +002:005 even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive + together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), +002:006 and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him + in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, +002:007 that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches + of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus; +002:008 for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not + of yourselves; it is the gift of God, +002:009 not of works, that no one would boast. +002:010 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, + which God prepared before that we would walk in them. +002:011 Therefore remember that once you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are + called "uncircumcision" by that which is called "circumcision," + (in the flesh, made by hands); +002:012 that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from + the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants + of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world. +002:013 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off are made + near in the blood of Christ. +002:014 For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle + wall of partition, +002:015 having abolished in the flesh the hostility, the law of + commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create + in himself one new man of the two, making peace; +002:016 and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, + having killed the hostility thereby. +002:017 He came and preached peace to you who were far off and to + those who were near. +002:018 For through him we both have our access in one Spirit + to the Father. +002:019 So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are + fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God, +002:020 being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, + Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone; +002:021 in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy + temple in the Lord; +002:022 in whom you also are built together for a habitation of God + in the Spirit. +003:001 For this cause I, Paul, am the prisoner of Christ Jesus on + behalf of you Gentiles, +003:002 if it is so that you have heard of the administration of that + grace of God which was given me toward you; +003:003 how that by revelation the mystery was made known to me, + as I wrote before in few words, +003:004 by which, when you read, you can perceive my understanding + in the mystery of Christ; +003:005 which in other generations was not made known to the children + of men, as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles + and prophets in the Spirit; +003:006 that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, and fellow members of the body, + and fellow partakers of his promise in Christ Jesus through + the Good News, +003:007 of which I was made a servant, according to the gift of that + grace of God which was given me according to the working + of his power. +003:008 To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, + to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, +003:009 and to make all men see what is the administration{TR + reads "fellowship" instead of "administration"} of the mystery + which for ages has been hidden in God, who created all things + through Jesus Christ; +003:010 to the intent that now through the assembly the manifold wisdom + of God might be made known to the principalities and the powers + in the heavenly places, +003:011 according to the eternal purpose which he purposed in + Christ Jesus our Lord; +003:012 in whom we have boldness and access in confidence through our + faith in him. +003:013 Therefore I ask that you may not lose heart at my troubles + for you, which are your glory. +003:014 For this cause, I bow my knees to the Father of our + Lord Jesus Christ, +003:015 from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, +003:016 that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, + that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit + in the inward man; +003:017 that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; to the end + that you, being rooted and grounded in love, +003:018 may be strengthened to comprehend with all the saints what is + the breadth and length and height and depth, +003:019 and to know Christ's love which surpasses knowledge, that you + may be filled with all the fullness of God. +003:020 Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all + that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, +003:021 to him be the glory in the assembly and in Christ Jesus to all + generations forever and ever. Amen. +004:001 I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily + of the calling with which you were called, +004:002 with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with + one another in love; +004:003 being eager to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. +004:004 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as you also were called + in one hope of your calling; +004:005 one Lord, one faith, one baptism, +004:006 one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, + and in us all. +004:007 But to each one of us was the grace given according to the measure + of the gift of Christ. +004:008 Therefore he says, "When he ascended on high, he led + captivity captive, and gave gifts to men."{Psalm 68:18} +004:009 Now this, "He ascended," what is it but that he also first + descended into the lower parts of the earth? +004:010 He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all + the heavens, that he might fill all things. +004:011 He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, + evangelists; and some, shepherds{or, pastors} and teachers; +004:012 for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, + to the building up of the body of Christ; +004:013 until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of + the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full grown man, + to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; +004:014 that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried + about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, + in craftiness, after the wiles of error; +004:015 but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, + who is the head, Christ; +004:016 from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through + that which every joint supplies, according to the working + in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase + to the building up of itself in love. +004:017 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you + no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, + in the futility of their mind, +004:018 being darkened in their understanding, alienated from + the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, + because of the hardening of their hearts; +004:019 who having become callous gave themselves up to lust, to work + all uncleanness with greediness. +004:020 But you did not learn Christ that way; +004:021 if indeed you heard him, and were taught in him, even as truth + is in Jesus: +004:022 that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, + the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit; +004:023 and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind, +004:024 and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been + created in righteousness and holiness of truth. +004:025 Therefore, putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with + his neighbor. For we are members of one another. +004:026 "Be angry, and don't sin."{Psalm 4:4} Don't let the sun go + down on your wrath, +004:027 neither give place to the devil. +004:028 Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, + working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may + have something to give to him who has need. +004:029 Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is + good for building up as the need may be, that it may give + grace to those who hear. +004:030 Don't grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed + for the day of redemption. +004:031 Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, + be put away from you, with all malice. +004:032 And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, + just as God also in Christ forgave you. +005:001 Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. +005:002 Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave + himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for + a sweet-smelling fragrance. +005:003 But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, + let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints; +005:004 nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are + not appropriate; but rather giving of thanks. +005:005 Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, + nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, + has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God. +005:006 Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, + the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience. +005:007 Therefore don't be partakers with them. +005:008 For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. + Walk as children of light, +005:009 for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and + righteousness and truth, +005:010 proving what is well pleasing to the Lord. +005:011 Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, + but rather even reprove them. +005:012 For the things which are done by them in secret, it is a shame + even to speak of. +005:013 But all things, when they are reproved, are revealed by the light, + for everything that reveals is light. +005:014 Therefore he says, "Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, + and Christ will shine on you." +005:015 Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, + but as wise; +005:016 redeeming the time, because the days are evil. +005:017 Therefore don't be foolish, but understand what the will + of the Lord is. +005:018 Don't be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be + filled with the Spirit, +005:019 speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; + singing, and singing praises in your heart to the Lord; +005:020 giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our + Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father; +005:021 subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ. +005:022 Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. +005:023 For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is + the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body. +005:024 But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives + also be to their own husbands in everything. +005:025 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, + and gave himself up for it; +005:026 that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing + of water with the word, +005:027 that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, + not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it + should be holy and without blemish. +005:028 Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their + own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself. +005:029 For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, + even as the Lord also does the assembly; +005:030 because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones. +005:031 "For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, + and will be joined to his wife. The two will become + one flesh."{Genesis 2:24} +005:032 This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and + of the assembly. +005:033 Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; + and let the wife see that she respects her husband. +006:001 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. +006:002 "Honor your father and mother," which is the first commandment + with a promise: +006:003 "that it may be well with you, and you may live long on + the earth."{Deuteronomy 5:16} +006:004 You fathers, don't provoke your children to wrath, but nurture + them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. +006:005 Servants, be obedient to those who according to the flesh + are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness + of your heart, as to Christ; +006:006 not in the way of service only when eyes are on you, as men pleasers; + but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart; +006:007 with good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men; +006:008 knowing that whatever good thing each one does, he will receive + the same again from the Lord, whether he is bound or free. +006:009 You masters, do the same things to them, and give up threatening, + knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, + and there is no partiality with him. +006:010 Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might. +006:011 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand + against the wiles of the devil. +006:012 For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against + the principalities, against the powers, against the world's + rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual + forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. +006:013 Therefore, put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able + to withstand in the evil day, and, having done all, to stand. +006:014 Stand therefore, having the utility belt of truth buckled around + your waist, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, +006:015 and having fitted your feet with the preparation of the + Good News of peace; +006:016 above all, taking up the shield of faith, with which you will + be able to quench all the fiery darts of the evil one. +006:017 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, + which is the spoken word of God; +006:018 with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, + and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests + for all the saints: +006:019 on my behalf, that utterance may be given to me in opening my mouth, + to make known with boldness the mystery of the Good News, +006:020 for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may + speak boldly, as I ought to speak. +006:021 But that you also may know my affairs, how I am doing, Tychicus, + the beloved brother and faithful servant in the Lord, + will make known to you all things; +006:022 whom I have sent to you for this very purpose, that you may + know our state, and that he may comfort your hearts. +006:023 Peace be to the brothers, and love with faith, from God + the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. +006:024 Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ with + incorruptible love. Amen. +Book 50 Philippians +001:001 Paul and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ; To all the saints + in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers{or, + superintendents, or bishops} and servants{Or, deacons}: +001:002 Grace to you, and peace from God, our Father, and the + Lord Jesus Christ. +001:003 I thank my God whenever I remember you, +001:004 always in every request of mine on behalf of you all making + my requests with joy, +001:005 for your partnership{The word translated "partnership" + (koinonia) also means "fellowship" and "sharing."} in furtherance + of the Good News from the first day until now; +001:006 being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good + work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ. +001:007 It is even right for me to think this way on behalf of all of you, + because I have you in my heart, because, both in my bonds + and in the defense and confirmation of the Good News, + you all are partakers with me of grace. +001:008 For God is my witness, how I long after all of you in the tender + mercies of Christ Jesus. +001:009 This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more + in knowledge and all discernment; +001:010 so that you may approve the things that are excellent; + that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ; +001:011 being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are + through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God. +001:012 Now I desire to have you know, brothers,{The word for "brothers" + here and where context allows may also be correctly translated + "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."} that the things + which happened to me have turned out rather to the progress + of the Good News; +001:013 so that it became evident to the whole praetorian guard, + and to all the rest, that my bonds are in Christ; +001:014 and that most of the brothers in the Lord, being confident + through my bonds, are more abundantly bold to speak the word + of God without fear. +001:015 Some indeed preach Christ even out of envy and strife, + and some also out of good will. +001:016 The former insincerely preach Christ from selfish ambition, + thinking that they add affliction to my chains; +001:017 but the latter out of love, knowing that I am appointed + for the defense of the Good News. +001:018 What does it matter? Only that in every way, + whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed. + I rejoice in this, yes, and will rejoice. +001:019 For I know that this will turn out to my salvation, through your + supplication and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, +001:020 according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will + in no way be disappointed, but with all boldness, as always, + now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life, + or by death. +001:021 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. +001:022 But if I live on in the flesh, this will bring fruit from my work; + yet I don't make known what I will choose. +001:023 But I am in a dilemma between the two, having the desire + to depart and be with Christ, which is far better. +001:024 Yet, to remain in the flesh is more needful for your sake. +001:025 Having this confidence, I know that I will remain, yes, and remain + with you all, for your progress and joy in the faith, +001:026 that your rejoicing may abound in Christ Jesus in me through + my presence with you again. +001:027 Only let your manner of life be worthy of the Good News + of Christ, that, whether I come and see you or am absent, + I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, + with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News; +001:028 and in nothing frightened by the adversaries, which is + for them a proof of destruction, but to you of salvation, + and that from God. +001:029 Because it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ, + not only to believe in him, but also to suffer on his behalf, +001:030 having the same conflict which you saw in me, and now hear + is in me. +002:001 If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any + consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, + if any tender mercies and compassion, +002:002 make my joy full, by being like-minded, having the same love, + being of one accord, of one mind; +002:003 doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, + each counting others better than himself; +002:004 each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you + also to the things of others. +002:005 Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus, +002:006 who, existing in the form of God, didn't consider equality + with God a thing to be grasped, +002:007 but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made + in the likeness of men. +002:008 And being found in human form, he humbled himself, + becoming obedient to death, yes, the death of the cross. +002:009 Therefore God also highly exalted him, and gave to him the name + which is above every name; +002:010 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, + those on earth, and those under the earth, +002:011 and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, + to the glory of God the Father. +002:012 So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, + not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, + work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. +002:013 For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, + for his good pleasure. +002:014 Do all things without murmurings and disputes, +002:015 that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without + blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, + among whom you are seen as lights in the world, +002:016 holding up the word of life; that I may have something + to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn't run in vain nor + labor in vain. +002:017 Yes, and if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service + of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice with you all. +002:018 In the same way, you also rejoice, and rejoice with me. +002:019 But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, + that I also may be cheered up when I know how you are doing. +002:020 For I have no one else like-minded, who will truly care about you. +002:021 For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ. +002:022 But you know the proof of him, that, as a child serves a father, + so he served with me in furtherance of the Good News. +002:023 Therefore I hope to send him at once, as soon as I see how it + will go with me. +002:024 But I trust in the Lord that I myself also will come shortly. +002:025 But I counted it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, + my brother, fellow worker, fellow soldier, and your apostle + and servant of my need; +002:026 since he longed for you all, and was very troubled, because you + had heard that he was sick. +002:027 For indeed he was sick, nearly to death, but God had mercy on him; + and not on him only, but on me also, that I might not have + sorrow on sorrow. +002:028 I have sent him therefore the more diligently, that, when you see + him again, you may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful. +002:029 Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy, and hold + such in honor, +002:030 because for the work of Christ he came near to death, + risking his life to supply that which was lacking in your + service toward me. +003:001 Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same + things to you, to me indeed is not tiresome, but for you + it is safe. +003:002 Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of + the false circumcision. +003:003 For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, + and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh; +003:004 though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh. + If any other man thinks that he has confidence in the flesh, + I yet more: +003:005 circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe + of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee; +003:006 concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the + righteousness which is in the law, found blameless. +003:007 However, what things were gain to me, these have I counted + loss for Christ. +003:008 Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be loss for + the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, + for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them + nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ +003:009 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, + that which is of the law, but that which is through faith + in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith; +003:010 that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, + and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed + to his death; +003:011 if by any means I may attain to the resurrection from the dead. +003:012 Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; + but I press on, if it is so that I may take hold of that for + which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus. +003:013 Brothers, I don't regard myself as yet having taken hold, + but one thing I do. Forgetting the things which are behind, + and stretching forward to the things which are before, +003:014 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling + of God in Christ Jesus. +003:015 Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. + If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal + that to you. +003:016 Nevertheless, to the extent that we have already attained, + let us walk by the same rule. Let us be of the same mind. +003:017 Brothers, be imitators together of me, and note those who walk + this way, even as you have us for an example. +003:018 For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you + even weeping, as the enemies of the cross of Christ, +003:019 whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose + glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things. +003:020 For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait + for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ; +003:021 who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed + to the body of his glory, according to the working by which + he is able even to subject all things to himself. +004:001 Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, + so stand firm in the Lord, my beloved. +004:002 I exhort Euodia, and I exhort Syntyche, to think the same way + in the Lord. +004:003 Yes, I beg you also, true yokefellow, help these women, + for they labored with me in the Good News, with Clement also, + and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the + book of life. +004:004 Rejoice in the Lord always! Again I will say, Rejoice! +004:005 Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand. +004:006 In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition + with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. +004:007 And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, + will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus. +004:008 Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things + are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, + whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; + if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, + think about these things. +004:009 The things which you learned, received, heard, and saw in me: + do these things, and the God of peace will be with you. +004:010 But I rejoice in the Lord greatly, that now at length you + have revived your thought for me; in which you did indeed + take thought, but you lacked opportunity. +004:011 Not that I speak in respect to lack, for I have learned + in whatever state I am, to be content in it. +004:012 I know how to be humbled, and I know also how to abound. + In everything and in all things I have learned the secret + both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to + be in need. +004:013 I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me. +004:014 However you did well that you shared in my affliction. +004:015 You yourselves also know, you Philippians, that in the beginning + of the Good News, when I departed from Macedonia, no assembly + shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving + but you only. +004:016 For even in Thessalonica you sent once and again to my need. +004:017 Not that I seek for the gift, but I seek for the fruit that + increases to your account. +004:018 But I have all things, and abound. I am filled, having + received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, + a sweet-smelling fragrance, an acceptable and well-pleasing + sacrifice to God. +004:019 My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches + in glory in Christ Jesus. +004:020 Now to our God and Father be the glory forever and ever! Amen. +004:021 Greet every saint in Christ Jesus. The brothers who are + with me greet you. +004:022 All the saints greet you, especially those who are + of Caesar's household. +004:023 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen. +Book 51 Colossians +001:001 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, + and Timothy our brother, +001:002 to the saints and faithful brothers{The word for "brothers" + here and where context allows may also be correctly + translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."} in Christ + at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, + and the Lord Jesus Christ. +001:003 We give thanks to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, + praying always for you, +001:004 having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love + which you have toward all the saints, +001:005 because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, + of which you heard before in the word of the truth of + the Good News, +001:006 which has come to you; even as it is in all the world + and is bearing fruit and growing, as it does in you also, + since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth; +001:007 even as you learned of Epaphras our beloved fellow servant, + who is a faithful servant of Christ on our behalf, +001:008 who also declared to us your love in the Spirit. +001:009 For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, + don't cease praying and making requests for you, that you + may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual + wisdom and understanding, +001:010 that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in + all respects, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing + in the knowledge of God; +001:011 strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, + for all endurance and perseverance with joy; +001:012 giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers + of the inheritance of the saints in light; +001:013 who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated + us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love; +001:014 in whom we have our redemption,{TR adds "through his blood,"} + the forgiveness of our sins; +001:015 who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn + of all creation. +001:016 For by him all things were created, in the heavens + and on the earth, things visible and things invisible, + whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; + all things have been created through him, and for him. +001:017 He is before all things, and in him all things are held together. +001:018 He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, + the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might + have the preeminence. +001:019 For all the fullness was pleased to dwell in him; +001:020 and through him to reconcile all things to himself, by him, + whether things on the earth, or things in the heavens, + having made peace through the blood of his cross. +001:021 You, being in past times alienated and enemies in your mind + in your evil works, +001:022 yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, + to present you holy and without blemish and blameless before him, +001:023 if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, + and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, + which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven; + of which I, Paul, was made a servant. +001:024 Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up + on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ + in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the assembly; +001:025 of which I was made a servant, according to the stewardship of God + which was given me toward you, to fulfill the word of God, +001:026 the mystery which has been hidden for ages and generations. + But now it has been revealed to his saints, +001:027 to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches + of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is + Christ in you, the hope of glory; +001:028 whom we proclaim, admonishing every man and teaching every + man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect + in Christ Jesus; +001:029 for which I also labor, striving according to his working, + which works in me mightily. +002:001 For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, + and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen + my face in the flesh; +002:002 that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together + in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance + of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, + both of the Father and of Christ, +002:003 in whom are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge hidden. +002:004 Now this I say that no one may delude you with persuasiveness + of speech. +002:005 For though I am absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, + rejoicing and seeing your order, and the steadfastness of your + faith in Christ. +002:006 As therefore you received Christ Jesus, the Lord, walk in him, +002:007 rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, + even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving. +002:008 Be careful that you don't let anyone rob you through his + philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, + after the elements of the world, and not after Christ. +002:009 For in him all the fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily, +002:010 and in him you are made full, who is the head of all + principality and power; +002:011 in whom you were also circumcised with a circumcision not + made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins + of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ; +002:012 having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were + also raised with him through faith in the working of God, + who raised him from the dead. +002:013 You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision + of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, + having forgiven us all our trespasses, +002:014 wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us; + and he has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross; +002:015 having stripped the principalities and the powers, he made + a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it. +002:016 Let no man therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, + or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day, +002:017 which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ's. +002:018 Let no one rob you of your prize by a voluntary humility and + worshipping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has + not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, +002:019 and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, + being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, + grows with God's growth. +002:020 If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though + living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances, +002:021 "Don't handle, nor taste, nor touch" +002:022 (all of which perish with use), according to the precepts + and doctrines of men? +002:023 Which things indeed appear like wisdom in self-imposed worship, + and humility, and severity to the body; but aren't of any value + against the indulgence of the flesh. +003:001 If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things + that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. +003:002 Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things + that are on the earth. +003:003 For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. +003:004 When Christ, our life, is revealed, then you will also be + revealed with him in glory. +003:005 Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: + sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, + and covetousness, which is idolatry; +003:006 for which things' sake the wrath of God comes on the + children of disobedience. +003:007 You also once walked in those, when you lived in them; +003:008 but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, + and shameful speaking out of your mouth. +003:009 Don't lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old + man with his doings, +003:010 and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge + after the image of his Creator, +003:011 where there can't be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, + barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, freeman; but Christ is all, + and in all. +003:012 Put on therefore, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart + of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance; +003:013 bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man + has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, + so you also do. +003:014 Above all these things, walk in love, which is the + bond of perfection. +003:015 And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you + were called in one body; and be thankful. +003:016 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching + and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, + singing with grace in your heart to the Lord. +003:017 Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of + the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him. +003:018 Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting + in the Lord. +003:019 Husbands, love your wives, and don't be bitter against them. +003:020 Children, obey your parents in all things, for this + pleases the Lord. +003:021 Fathers, don't provoke your children, so that they + won't be discouraged. +003:022 Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according + to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, + but in singleness of heart, fearing God. +003:023 And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, + and not for men, +003:024 knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward + of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ. +003:025 But he who does wrong will receive again for the wrong that + he has done, and there is no partiality. +004:001 Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, + knowing that you also have a Master in heaven. +004:002 Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching therein with thanksgiving; +004:003 praying together for us also, that God may open to us a door + for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am + also in bonds; +004:004 that I may reveal it as I ought to speak. +004:005 Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time. +004:006 Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, + that you may know how you ought to answer each one. +004:007 All my affairs will be made known to you by Tychicus, + the beloved brother, faithful servant, and fellow bondservant + in the Lord. +004:008 I am sending him to you for this very purpose, that he may know + your circumstances and comfort your hearts, +004:009 together with Onesimus, the faithful and beloved brother, + who is one of you. They will make known to you everything + that is going on here. +004:010 Aristarchus, my fellow prisoner greets you, and Mark, the cousin + of Barnabas (concerning whom you received commandments, + "if he comes to you, receive him"), +004:011 and Jesus who is called Justus, who are of the circumcision. + These are my only fellow workers for the Kingdom of God, + men who have been a comfort to me. +004:012 Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, + always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand + perfect and complete in all the will of God. +004:013 For I testify about him, that he has great zeal for you, + and for those in Laodicea, and for those in Hierapolis. +004:014 Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas greet you. +004:015 Greet the brothers who are in Laodicea, and Nymphas, + and the assembly that is in his house. +004:016 When this letter has been read among you, cause it to be read + also in the assembly of the Laodiceans; and that you also read + the letter from Laodicea. +004:017 Tell Archippus, "Take heed to the ministry which you have + received in the Lord, that you fulfill it." +004:018 The salutation of me, Paul, with my own hand: remember my bonds. + Grace be with you. Amen. +Book 52 1 Thessalonians +001:001 Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians + in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you + and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. +001:002 We always give thanks to God for all of you, mentioning you + in our prayers, +001:003 remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor + of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, + before our God and Father. +001:004 We know, brothers{The word for "brothers" here and where context + allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" + or "siblings."} loved by God, that you are chosen, +001:005 and that our Good News came to you not in word only, but also + in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and with much assurance. + You know what kind of men we showed ourselves to be among + you for your sake. +001:006 You became imitators of us, and of the Lord, having received + the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit, +001:007 so that you became an example to all who believe in Macedonia + and in Achaia. +001:008 For from you the word of the Lord has been declared, not only + in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith + toward God has gone out; so that we need not to say anything. +001:009 For they themselves report concerning us what kind of a reception + we had from you; and how you turned to God from idols, + to serve a living and true God, +001:010 and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from + the dead--Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come. +002:001 For you yourselves know, brothers, our visit to you wasn't in vain, +002:002 but having suffered before and been shamefully treated, + as you know, at Philippi, we grew bold in our God to tell + you the Good News of God in much conflict. +002:003 For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, + nor in deception. +002:004 But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted + with the Good News, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, + who tests our hearts. +002:005 For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, + as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness), +002:006 nor seeking glory from men (neither from you nor from others), + when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ. +002:007 But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes + her own children. +002:008 Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased + to impart to you, not the Good News of God only, but also our + own souls, because you had become very dear to us. +002:009 For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; + for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, + we preached to you the Good News of God. +002:010 You are witnesses with God, how holy, righteously, and blamelessly + we behaved ourselves toward you who believe. +002:011 As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, + as a father does his own children, +002:012 to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls + you into his own Kingdom and glory. +002:013 For this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, + when you received from us the word of the message of God, + you accepted it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, + the word of God, which also works in you who believe. +002:014 For you, brothers, became imitators of the assemblies of God + which are in Judea in Christ Jesus; for you also suffered + the same things from your own countrymen, even as they did + from the Jews; +002:015 who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, + and drove us out, and didn't please God, and are contrary + to all men; +002:016 forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved; + to fill up their sins always. But wrath has come on them + to the uttermost. +002:017 But we, brothers, being bereaved of you for a short season, + in presence, not in heart, tried even harder to see your face + with great desire, +002:018 because we wanted to come to you--indeed, I, Paul, once and again-- + but Satan hindered us. +002:019 For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? + Isn't it even you, before our Lord Jesus{TR adds "Christ"} + at his coming? +002:020 For you are our glory and our joy. +003:001 Therefore, when we couldn't stand it any longer, we thought + it good to be left behind at Athens alone, +003:002 and sent Timothy, our brother and God's servant in the + Good News of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you + concerning your faith; +003:003 that no one be moved by these afflictions. For you know + that we are appointed to this task. +003:004 For most certainly, when we were with you, we told you beforehand + that we are to suffer affliction, even as it happened, + and you know. +003:005 For this cause I also, when I couldn't stand it any longer, + sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any + means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have + been in vain. +003:006 But when Timothy came just now to us from you, and brought + us glad news of your faith and love, and that you have good + memories of us always, longing to see us, even as we also long + to see you; +003:007 for this cause, brothers, we were comforted over you in all + our distress and affliction through your faith. +003:008 For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord. +003:009 For what thanksgiving can we render again to God for you, + for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sakes + before our God; +003:010 night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face, + and may perfect that which is lacking in your faith? +003:011 Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, + direct our way to you; +003:012 and the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one + toward another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you, +003:013 to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness + before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus + with all his saints. +004:001 Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, + that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to + please God, that you abound more and more. +004:002 For you know what charge we gave you through the Lord Jesus. +004:003 For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you + abstain from sexual immorality, +004:004 that each one of you know how to possess himself of his own + vessel in sanctification and honor, +004:005 not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don't know God; +004:006 that no one should take advantage of and wrong a brother + or sister in this matter; because the Lord is an avenger + in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified. +004:007 For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification. +004:008 Therefore he who rejects this doesn't reject man, but God, + who has also given his Holy Spirit to you. +004:009 But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write + to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another, +004:010 for indeed you do it toward all the brothers who are in + all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, that you abound + more and more; +004:011 and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, + and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, + even as we charged you; +004:012 that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, + and may have need of nothing. +004:013 But we don't want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those + who have fallen asleep, so that you don't grieve like the rest, + who have no hope. +004:014 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God + will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus. +004:015 For this we tell you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, + who are left to the coming of the Lord, will in no way precede + those who have fallen asleep. +004:016 For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, + with the voice of the archangel, and with God's trumpet. + The dead in Christ will rise first, +004:017 then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together + with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. + So we will be with the Lord forever. +004:018 Therefore comfort one another with these words. +005:001 But concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have + no need that anything be written to you. +005:002 For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes + like a thief in the night. +005:003 For when they are saying, "Peace and safety," then sudden destruction + will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman; + and they will in no way escape. +005:004 But you, brothers, aren't in darkness, that the day should + overtake you like a thief. +005:005 You are all children of light, and children of the day. + We don't belong to the night, nor to darkness, +005:006 so then let's not sleep, as the rest do, but let's watch + and be sober. +005:007 For those who sleep, sleep in the night, and those who are drunk + are drunk in the night. +005:008 But let us, since we belong to the day, be sober, putting on + the breastplate of faith and love, and, for a helmet, + the hope of salvation. +005:009 For God didn't appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining + of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, +005:010 who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live + together with him. +005:011 Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, + even as you also do. +005:012 But we beg you, brothers, to know those who labor among you, + and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you, +005:013 and to respect and honor them in love for their work's sake. + Be at peace among yourselves. +005:014 We exhort you, brothers, admonish the disorderly, encourage + the fainthearted, support the weak, be patient toward all. +005:015 See that no one returns evil for evil to anyone, but always + follow after that which is good, for one another, and for all. +005:016 Rejoice always. +005:017 Pray without ceasing. +005:018 In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God + in Christ Jesus toward you. +005:019 Don't quench the Spirit. +005:020 Don't despise prophesies. +005:021 Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good. +005:022 Abstain from every form of evil. +005:023 May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. + May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless + at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. +005:024 He who calls you is faithful, who will also do it. +005:025 Brothers, pray for us. +005:026 Greet all the brothers with a holy kiss. +005:027 I solemnly charge you by the Lord that this letter be read + to all the holy brothers. +005:028 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen. +Book 53 2 Thessalonians +001:001 Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians + in God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ: +001:002 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. +001:003 We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, + brothers,{The word for "brothers" here and where context + allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" + or "siblings."} even as it is appropriate, because your faith + grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you + towards one another abounds; +001:004 so that we ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of God + for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and in + the afflictions which you endure. +001:005 This is an obvious sign of the righteous judgment of God, + to the end that you may be counted worthy of the Kingdom of God, + for which you also suffer. +001:006 Since it is a righteous thing with God to repay affliction + to those who afflict you, +001:007 and to give relief to you who are afflicted with us, + when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty + angels in flaming fire, +001:008 giving vengeance to those who don't know God, and to those + who don't obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus, +001:009 who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face + of the Lord and from the glory of his might, +001:010 when he comes to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired + among all those who have believed (because our testimony + to you was believed) in that day. +001:011 To this end we also pray always for you, that our God may + count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire + of goodness and work of faith, with power; +001:012 that the name of our Lord Jesus{TR adds "Christ"} may be + glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace + of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ. +002:001 Now, brothers, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, + and our gathering together to him, we ask you +002:002 not to be quickly shaken in your mind, nor yet be troubled, + either by spirit, or by word, or by letter as from us, + saying that the day of Christ had come. +002:003 Let no one deceive you in any way. For it will not be, + unless the departure comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, + the son of destruction, +002:004 he who opposes and exalts himself against all that is called + God or that is worshiped; so that he sits as God in the temple + of God, setting himself up as God. +002:005 Don't you remember that, when I was still with you, I told + you these things? +002:006 Now you know what is restraining him, to the end that he may + be revealed in his own season. +002:007 For the mystery of lawlessness already works. Only there + is one who restrains now, until he is taken out of the way. +002:008 Then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will kill + with the breath of his mouth, and destroy by the manifestation + of his coming; +002:009 even he whose coming is according to the working of Satan + with all power and signs and lying wonders, +002:010 and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, + because they didn't receive the love of the truth, that they + might be saved. +002:011 Because of this, God sends them a working of error, that they + should believe a lie; +002:012 that they all might be judged who didn't believe the truth, + but had pleasure in unrighteousness. +002:013 But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, + brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the + beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit + and belief in the truth; +002:014 to which he called you through our Good News, for the obtaining + of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. +002:015 So then, brothers, stand firm, and hold the traditions which you + were taught by us, whether by word, or by letter. +002:016 Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved + us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace, +002:017 comfort your hearts and establish you in every good work and word. +003:001 Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord + may spread rapidly and be glorified, even as also with you; +003:002 and that we may be delivered from unreasonable and evil men; + for not all have faith. +003:003 But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you, and guard + you from the evil one. +003:004 We have confidence in the Lord concerning you, that you both + do and will do the things we command. +003:005 May the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, + and into the patience of Christ. +003:006 Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, + that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks + in rebellion, and not after the tradition which they + received from us. +003:007 For you know how you ought to imitate us. For we didn't behave + ourselves rebelliously among you, +003:008 neither did we eat bread from anyone's hand without paying + for it, but in labor and travail worked night and day, + that we might not burden any of you; +003:009 not because we don't have the right, but to make ourselves + an example to you, that you should imitate us. +003:010 For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: + "If anyone will not work, neither let him eat." +003:011 For we hear of some who walk among you in rebellion, who don't + work at all, but are busybodies. +003:012 Now those who are that way, we command and exhort in the + Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat + their own bread. +003:013 But you, brothers, don't be weary in doing well. +003:014 If any man doesn't obey our word in this letter, note that man, + that you have no company with him, to the end that he + may be ashamed. +003:015 Don't count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother. +003:016 Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times + in all ways. The Lord be with you all. +003:017 The greeting of me, Paul, with my own hand, which is the sign + in every letter: this is how I write. +003:018 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen. +Book 54 1 Timothy +001:001 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus according to the commandment + of God our Savior, and Christ Jesus our hope; +001:002 to Timothy, my true child in faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, + from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. +001:003 As I urged you when I was going into Macedonia, stay at + Ephesus that you might charge certain men not to teach + a different doctrine, +001:004 neither to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, + which cause disputes, rather than God's stewardship, + which is in faith-- +001:005 but the end of the charge is love, out of a pure heart and a + good conscience and unfeigned faith; +001:006 from which things some, having missed the mark, have turned + aside to vain talking; +001:007 desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand + neither what they say, nor about what they strongly affirm. +001:008 But we know that the law is good, if a man uses it lawfully, +001:009 as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous man, + but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly + and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers + of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, +001:010 for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, + for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary + to the sound doctrine; +001:011 according to the Good News of the glory of the blessed God, + which was committed to my trust. +001:012 And I thank him who enabled me, Christ Jesus our Lord, + because he counted me faithful, appointing me to service; +001:013 although I was before a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. + However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief. +001:014 The grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love + which is in Christ Jesus. +001:015 The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, + that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; + of whom I am chief. +001:016 However, for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first, + Jesus Christ might display all his patience, for an example + of those who were going to believe in him for eternal life. +001:017 Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to God who alone + is wise, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen. +001:018 This charge I commit to you, my child Timothy, according to + the prophecies which led the way to you, that by them you + may wage the good warfare; +001:019 holding faith and a good conscience; which some having thrust + away made a shipwreck concerning the faith; +001:020 of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I delivered to Satan, + that they might be taught not to blaspheme. +002:001 I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, + intercessions, and givings of thanks, be made for all men: +002:002 for kings and all who are in high places; that we may lead + a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and reverence. +002:003 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior; +002:004 who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge + of the truth. +002:005 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, + the man Christ Jesus, +002:006 who gave himself as a ransom for all; the testimony in + its own times; +002:007 to which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I am telling + the truth in Christ, not lying), a teacher of the Gentiles + in faith and truth. +002:008 I desire therefore that the men in every place pray, lifting up + holy hands without anger and doubting. +002:009 In the same way, that women also adorn themselves in decent clothing, + with modesty and propriety; not just with braided hair, + gold, pearls, or expensive clothing; +002:010 but (which becomes women professing godliness) with good works. +002:011 Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection. +002:012 But I don't permit a woman to teach, nor to exercise authority + over a man, but to be in quietness. +002:013 For Adam was first formed, then Eve. +002:014 Adam wasn't deceived, but the woman, being deceived, + has fallen into disobedience; +002:015 but she will be saved through her childbearing, if they continue + in faith, love, and sanctification with sobriety. +003:001 This is a faithful saying: if a man seeks the office + of an overseer{or, superintendents, or bishops}, he desires + a good work. +003:002 The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband + of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, + good at teaching; +003:003 not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, + not quarrelsome, not covetous; +003:004 one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection + with all reverence; +003:005 (but if a man doesn't know how to rule his own house, + how will he take care of the assembly of God?) +003:006 not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same + condemnation as the devil. +003:007 Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, + to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil. +003:008 Servants{or, Deacons.}, in the same way, must be reverent, + not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money; +003:009 holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience. +003:010 Let them also first be tested; then let them serve{or, + serve as deacons} if they are blameless. +003:011 Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, + temperate, faithful in all things. +003:012 Let servants{or, deacons} be husbands of one wife, ruling their + children and their own houses well. +003:013 For those who have served well{or, served well as deacons} + gain for themselves a good standing, and great boldness + in the faith which is in Christ Jesus. +003:014 These things I write to you, hoping to come to you shortly; +003:015 but if I wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave + themselves in the house of God, which is the assembly + of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth. +003:016 Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: + God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, + seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on + in the world, and received up in glory. +004:001 But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall + away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits + and doctrines of demons, +004:002 through the hypocrisy of men who speak lies, branded in their + own conscience as with a hot iron; +004:003 forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God + created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe + and know the truth. +004:004 For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, + if it is received with thanksgiving. +004:005 For it is sanctified through the word of God and prayer. +004:006 If you instruct the brothers of these things, you will be a good + servant of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith, + and of the good doctrine which you have followed. +004:007 But refuse profane and old wives' fables. Exercise yourself + toward godliness. +004:008 For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value + in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, + and of that which is to come. +004:009 This saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance. +004:010 For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we have + set our trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, + especially of those who believe. +004:011 Command and teach these things. +004:012 Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those + who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, + in faith, and in purity. +004:013 Until I come, pay attention to reading, to exhortation, + and to teaching. +004:014 Don't neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you + by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the elders. +004:015 Be diligent in these things. Give yourself wholly to them, + that your progress may be revealed to all. +004:016 Pay attention to yourself, and to your teaching. + Continue in these things, for in doing this you will save + both yourself and those who hear you. +005:001 Don't rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; + the younger men as brothers; +005:002 the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, + in all purity. +005:003 Honor widows who are widows indeed. +005:004 But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn + first to show piety towards their own family, and to repay + their parents, for this is{TR adds "good and"} acceptable + in the sight of God. +005:005 Now she who is a widow indeed, and desolate, has her hope set + on God, and continues in petitions and prayers night and day. +005:006 But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives. +005:007 Also command these things, that they may be without reproach. +005:008 But if anyone doesn't provide for his own, and especially + his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse + than an unbeliever. +005:009 Let no one be enrolled as a widow under sixty years old, + having been the wife of one man, +005:010 being approved by good works, if she has brought up children, + if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed + the saints' feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, + and if she has diligently followed every good work. +005:011 But refuse younger widows, for when they have grown wanton + against Christ, they desire to marry; +005:012 having condemnation, because they have rejected their first pledge. +005:013 Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. + Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things + which they ought not. +005:014 I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, + bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion + to the adversary for reviling. +005:015 For already some have turned aside after Satan. +005:016 If any man or woman who believes has widows, let them relieve them, + and don't let the assembly be burdened; that it might relieve + those who are widows indeed. +005:017 Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, + especially those who labor in the word and in teaching. +005:018 For the Scripture says, "You shall not muzzle the ox when it + treads out the grain."{Deuteronomy 25:4} And, "The laborer + is worthy of his wages."{Luke 10:7; Leviticus 19:13} +005:019 Don't receive an accusation against an elder, except at the word + of two or three witnesses. +005:020 Those who sin, reprove in the sight of all, that the rest + also may be in fear. +005:021 I charge you in the sight of God, and Christ Jesus, and the + chosen angels, that you observe these things without prejudice, + doing nothing by partiality. +005:022 Lay hands hastily on no one, neither be a participant in other + men's sins. Keep yourself pure. +005:023 Be no longer a drinker of water only, but use a little wine + for your stomach's sake and your frequent infirmities. +005:024 Some men's sins are evident, preceding them to judgment, + and some also follow later. +005:025 In the same way also there are good works that are obvious, + and those that are otherwise can't be hidden. +006:001 Let as many as are bondservants under the yoke count their + own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and + the doctrine not be blasphemed. +006:002 Those who have believing masters, let them not despise them, + because they are brothers, but rather let them serve them, + because those who partake of the benefit are believing and beloved. + Teach and exhort these things. +006:003 If anyone teaches a different doctrine, and doesn't consent + to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, + and to the doctrine which is according to godliness, +006:004 he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, + disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, + reviling, evil suspicions, +006:005 constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute + of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. + Withdraw yourself from such.{NU omits "Withdraw yourself from such."} +006:006 But godliness with contentment is great gain. +006:007 For we brought nothing into the world, and we certainly can't + carry anything out. +006:008 But having food and clothing, we will be content with that. +006:009 But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation + and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown + men in ruin and destruction. +006:010 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. + Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, + and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows. +006:011 But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after + righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, and gentleness. +006:012 Fight the good fight of faith. Lay hold of the eternal life + to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession + in the sight of many witnesses. +006:013 I charge you before God, who gives life to all things, + and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate testified + the good confession, +006:014 that you keep the commandment without spot, blameless, until the + appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ; +006:015 which in its own times he will show, who is the blessed + and only Ruler, the King of kings, and Lord of lords; +006:016 who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light; + whom no man has seen, nor can see: to whom be honor and + eternal power. Amen. +006:017 Charge those who are rich in this present world that they + not be haughty, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty + of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us + with everything to enjoy; +006:018 that they do good, that they be rich in good works, that they + be ready to distribute, willing to communicate; +006:019 laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against + the time to come, that they may lay hold of eternal life. +006:020 Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away + from the empty chatter and oppositions of the knowledge + which is falsely so called; +006:021 which some professing have erred concerning the faith. + Grace be with you. Amen. +Book 55 2 Timothy +001:001 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, + according to the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus, +001:002 to Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace, + from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. +001:003 I thank God, whom I serve as my forefathers did, with a + pure conscience. How unceasing is my memory of you in my petitions, + night and day +001:004 longing to see you, remembering your tears, that I may be + filled with joy; +001:005 having been reminded of the unfeigned faith that is in you; + which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your + mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also. +001:006 For this cause, I remind you that you should stir up the gift + of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands. +001:007 For God didn't give us a spirit of fear, but of power, + love, and self-control. +001:008 Therefore don't be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, + nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News + according to the power of God, +001:009 who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according + to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, + which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal, +001:010 but has now been revealed by the appearing of our + Savior, Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life + and immortality to light through the Good News. +001:011 For this, I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, + and a teacher of the Gentiles. +001:012 For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, + for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded + that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him + against that day. +001:013 Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, + in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. +001:014 That good thing which was committed to you, guard through + the Holy Spirit who dwells in us. +001:015 This you know, that all who are in Asia turned away from me; + of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes. +001:016 May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, + for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain, +001:017 but when he was in Rome, he sought me diligently, and found me +001:018 (the Lord grant to him to find the Lord's mercy in that day); + and in how many things he served at Ephesus, you know very well. +002:001 You therefore, my child, be strengthened in the grace that is + in Christ Jesus. +002:002 The things which you have heard from me among many witnesses, + commit the same to faithful men, who will be able to + teach others also. +002:003 You therefore must endure hardship, as a good soldier + of Christ Jesus. +002:004 No soldier on duty entangles himself in the affairs of life, + that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier. +002:005 Also, if anyone competes in athletics, he isn't crowned unless + he has competed by the rules. +002:006 The farmers who labor must be the first to get a share + of the crops. +002:007 Consider what I say, and may the Lord give you understanding + in all things. +002:008 Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, of the seed of David, + according to my Good News, +002:009 in which I suffer hardship to the point of chains as a criminal. + But God's word isn't chained. +002:010 Therefore I endure all things for the chosen ones' sake, that they + also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus + with eternal glory. +002:011 This saying is faithful: "For if we died with him, we will + also live with him. +002:012 If we endure, we will also reign with him. If we deny him, + he also will deny us. +002:013 If we are faithless, he remains faithful. He can't deny himself." +002:014 Remind them of these things, charging them in the sight + of the Lord, that they don't argue about words, to no profit, + to the subverting of those who hear. +002:015 Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, + a workman who doesn't need to be ashamed, properly handling + the Word of Truth. +002:016 But shun empty chatter, for they will proceed further in ungodliness, +002:017 and their word will consume like gangrene, of whom is + Hymenaeus and Philetus; +002:018 men who have erred concerning the truth, saying that the resurrection + is already past, and overthrowing the faith of some. +002:019 However God's firm foundation stands, having this seal, + "The Lord knows those who are his,"{Numbers 16:5} and, + "Let every one who names the name of the Lord{TR reads "Christ" + instead of "the Lord"} depart from unrighteousness." +002:020 Now in a large house there are not only vessels of gold and + of silver, but also of wood and of clay. Some are for honor, + and some for dishonor. +002:021 If anyone therefore purges himself from these, he will be a vessel + for honor, sanctified, and suitable for the master's use, + prepared for every good work. +002:022 Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, + and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart. +002:023 But refuse foolish and ignorant questionings, knowing that + they generate strife. +002:024 The Lord's servant must not quarrel, but be gentle towards all, + able to teach, patient, +002:025 in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may + give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth, +002:026 and they may recover themselves out of the devil's snare, + having been taken captive by him to his will. +003:001 But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come. +003:002 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, + arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, +003:003 without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, + without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good, +003:004 traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather + than lovers of God; +003:005 holding a form of godliness, but having denied the power thereof. + Turn away from these, also. +003:006 For of these are those who creep into houses, and take captive + gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, +003:007 always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge + of the truth. +003:008 Even as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so do these also oppose + the truth; men corrupted in mind, reprobate concerning the faith. +003:009 But they will proceed no further. For their folly will be + evident to all men, as theirs also came to be. +003:010 But you did follow my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, + patience, love, steadfastness, +003:011 persecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me + at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. + Out of them all the Lord delivered me. +003:012 Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus + will suffer persecution. +003:013 But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, + deceiving and being deceived. +003:014 But you remain in the things which you have learned and have + been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them. +003:015 From infancy, you have known the sacred writings which are + able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is + in Christ Jesus. +003:016 Every writing inspired by God{literally, God-breathed} is + profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, + and for instruction which is in righteousness, +003:017 that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped + for every good work. +004:001 I charge you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, + who will judge the living and the dead at his appearing + and his Kingdom: +004:002 preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; + reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with all patience and teaching. +004:003 For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound + doctrine, but, having itching ears, will heap up for themselves + teachers after their own lusts; +004:004 and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn + aside to fables. +004:005 But you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work + of an evangelist, and fulfill your ministry. +004:006 For I am already being offered, and the time of my + departure has come. +004:007 I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. + I have kept the faith. +004:008 From now on, there is stored up for me the crown of righteousness, + which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on + that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have + loved his appearing. +004:009 Be diligent to come to me soon, +004:010 for Demas left me, having loved this present world, and went + to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia. +004:011 Only Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him with you, + for he is useful to me for service. +004:012 But I sent Tychicus to Ephesus. +004:013 Bring the cloak that I left at Troas with Carpus when you come, + and the books, especially the parchments. +004:014 Alexander, the coppersmith, did much evil to me. + The Lord will repay him according to his works, +004:015 of whom you also must beware; for he greatly opposed our words. +004:016 At my first defense, no one came to help me, but all left me. + May it not be held against them. +004:017 But the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me, that through me + the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles + might hear; and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion. +004:018 And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and will + preserve me for his heavenly Kingdom; to whom be the glory + forever and ever. Amen. +004:019 Greet Prisca and Aquila, and the house of Onesiphorus. +004:020 Erastus remained at Corinth, but I left Trophimus at Miletus sick. +004:021 Be diligent to come before winter. Eubulus salutes you, + as do Pudens, Linus, Claudia, and all the brothers. +004:022 The Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Grace be + with you. Amen. +Book 56 Titus +001:001 Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, + according to the faith of God's chosen ones, and the knowledge + of the truth which is according to godliness, +001:002 in hope of eternal life, which God, who can't lie, + promised before time began; +001:003 but in his own time revealed his word in the message with which I + was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior; +001:004 to Titus, my true child according to a common faith: + Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and the + Lord Jesus Christ our Savior. +001:005 I left you in Crete for this reason, that you would set in order + the things that were lacking, and appoint elders in every city, + as I directed you; +001:006 if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children + who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behavior. +001:007 For the overseer must be blameless, as God's steward; + not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, + not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain; +001:008 but given to hospitality, as a lover of good, sober minded, + fair, holy, self-controlled; +001:009 holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, + that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, + and to convict those who contradict him. +001:010 For there are also many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, + especially those of the circumcision, +001:011 whose mouths must be stopped; men who overthrow whole houses, + teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain's sake. +001:012 One of them, a prophet of their own, said, "Cretans are always liars, + evil beasts, and idle gluttons." +001:013 This testimony is true. For this cause, reprove them sharply, + that they may be sound in the faith, +001:014 not paying attention to Jewish fables and commandments of men + who turn away from the truth. +001:015 To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled + and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their + conscience are defiled. +001:016 They profess that they know God, but by their works they deny him, + being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work. +002:001 But say the things which fit sound doctrine, +002:002 that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, + sound in faith, in love, and in patience: +002:003 and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, + not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that + which is good; +002:004 that they may train the young women to love their husbands, + to love their children, +002:005 to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in + subjection to their own husbands, that God's word may + not be blasphemed. +002:006 Likewise, exhort the younger men to be sober minded; +002:007 in all things showing yourself an example of good works; + in your teaching showing integrity, seriousness, incorruptibility, +002:008 and soundness of speech that can't be condemned; that he who opposes + you may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us. +002:009 Exhort servants to be in subjection to their own masters, + and to be well-pleasing in all things; not contradicting; +002:010 not stealing, but showing all good fidelity; that they may adorn + the doctrine of God, our Savior, in all things. +002:011 For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, +002:012 instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and + worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly + in this present world; +002:013 looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our + great God and Savior, Jesus Christ; +002:014 who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, + and purify for himself a people for his own possession, + zealous for good works. +002:015 Say these things and exhort and reprove with all authority. + Let no man despise you. +003:001 Remind them to be in subjection to rulers and to authorities, + to be obedient, to be ready for every good work, +003:002 to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, + showing all humility toward all men. +003:003 For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, + serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice + and envy, hateful, and hating one another. +003:004 But when the kindness of God our Savior and his love + toward mankind appeared, +003:005 not by works of righteousness, which we did ourselves, + but according to his mercy, he saved us, through the washing + of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit, +003:006 whom he poured out on us richly, through Jesus Christ our Savior; +003:007 that, being justified by his grace, we might be made heirs + according to the hope of eternal life. +003:008 This saying is faithful, and concerning these things I + desire that you affirm confidently, so that those who have + believed God may be careful to maintain good works. + These things are good and profitable to men; +003:009 but shun foolish questionings, genealogies, strife, and disputes + about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain. +003:010 Avoid a factious man after a first and second warning; +003:011 knowing that such a one is perverted, and sins, being self-condemned. +003:012 When I send Artemas to you, or Tychicus, be diligent to come + to me to Nicopolis, for I have determined to winter there. +003:013 Send Zenas, the lawyer, and Apollos on their journey speedily, + that nothing may be lacking for them. +003:014 Let our people also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, + that they may not be unfruitful. +003:015 All who are with me greet you. Greet those who love us in faith. + Grace be with you all. Amen. +Book 57 Philemon +001:001 Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, + to Philemon, our beloved fellow worker, +001:002 to the beloved Apphia, to Archippus, our fellow soldier, + and to the assembly in your house: +001:003 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. +001:004 I thank my God always, making mention of you in my prayers, +001:005 hearing of your love, and of the faith which you have toward + the Lord Jesus, and toward all the saints; +001:006 that the fellowship of your faith may become effective, + in the knowledge of every good thing which is in us + in Christ Jesus. +001:007 For we have much joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts + of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother. +001:008 Therefore, though I have all boldness in Christ to command + you that which is appropriate, +001:009 yet for love's sake I rather beg, being such a one as Paul, + the aged, but also a prisoner of Jesus Christ. +001:010 I beg you for my child, whom I have become the father of in + my chains, Onesimus,{Onesimus means "useful."} +001:011 who once was useless to you, but now is useful to you and to me. +001:012 I am sending him back. Therefore receive him, that is, + my own heart, +001:013 whom I desired to keep with me, that on your behalf he might + serve me in my chains for the Good News. +001:014 But I was willing to do nothing without your consent, that your + goodness would not be as of necessity, but of free will. +001:015 For perhaps he was therefore separated from you for a while, + that you would have him forever, +001:016 no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, a beloved brother, + especially to me, but how much rather to you, both in the flesh + and in the Lord. +001:017 If then you count me a partner, receive him as you would receive me. +001:018 But if he has wronged you at all, or owes you anything, + put that to my account. +001:019 I, Paul, write this with my own hand: I will repay it + (not to mention to you that you owe to me even your + own self besides). +001:020 Yes, brother, let me have joy from you in the Lord. + Refresh my heart in the Lord. +001:021 Having confidence in your obedience, I write to you, + knowing that you will do even beyond what I say. +001:022 Also, prepare a guest room for me, for I hope that through + your prayers I will be restored to you. +001:023 Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, greets you, +001:024 as do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers. +001:025 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen. +Book 58 Hebrews +001:001 God, having in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets + at many times and in various ways, +001:002 has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, + whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also + he made the worlds. +001:003 His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of + his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, + when he had by himself made purification for our sins, + sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; +001:004 having become so much better than the angels, as he has + inherited a more excellent name than they have. +001:005 For to which of the angels did he say at any time, "You are my Son. + Today have I become your father?"{Psalm 2:7} and again, "I will + be to him a Father, and he will be to me a Son?"{2 Samuel 7:14; + 1 Chronicles 17:13} +001:006 Again, when he brings in the firstborn into the world he says, + "Let all the angels of God worship him." +001:007 Of the angels he says, "Who makes his angels winds, and his + servants a flame of fire."{Psalm 104:4} +001:008 But of the Son he says, "Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. + The scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your Kingdom. +001:009 You have loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, + your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above + your fellows."{Psalm 45:6-7} +001:010 And, "You, Lord, in the beginning, laid the foundation of the earth. + The heavens are the works of your hands. +001:011 They will perish, but you continue. They all will grow old + like a garment does. +001:012 As a mantle, you will roll them up, and they will be changed; + but you are the same. Your years will not fail."{Psalm 102:25-27} +001:013 But which of the angels has he told at any time, "Sit at + my right hand, until I make your enemies the footstool + of your feet?"{Psalm 110:1} +001:014 Aren't they all serving spirits, sent out to do service + for the sake of those who will inherit salvation? +002:001 Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things + that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away. +002:002 For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every + transgression and disobedience received a just recompense; +002:003 how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation-- + which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, + was confirmed to us by those who heard; +002:004 God also testifying with them, both by signs and wonders, + by various works of power, and by gifts of the Holy Spirit, + according to his own will? +002:005 For he didn't subject the world to come, of which we speak, + to angels. +002:006 But one has somewhere testified, saying, "What is man, that you + think of him? Or the son of man, that you care for him? +002:007 You made him a little lower than the angels. You crowned him + with glory and honor.{TR adds "and set him over the works + of your hands"} +002:008 You have put all things in subjection under his feet."{Psalm + 8:4-6} For in that he subjected all things to him, he left + nothing that is not subject to him. But now we don't see + all things subjected to him, yet. +002:009 But we see him who has been made a little lower than + the angels, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned + with glory and honor, that by the grace of God he should taste + of death for everyone. +002:010 For it became him, for whom are all things, and through whom + are all things, in bringing many children to glory, to make + the author of their salvation perfect through sufferings. +002:011 For both he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified + are all from one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call + them brothers{The word for "brothers" here and where + context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers + and sisters" or "siblings."}, +002:012 saying, "I will declare your name to my brothers. In the midst + of the congregation I will sing your praise."{Psalm 22:22} +002:013 Again, "I will put my trust in him."{Isaiah 8:17} Again, "Behold, + here I am with the children whom God has given me."{Isaiah 8:18} +002:014 Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, + he also himself in like manner partook of the same, that through + death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, + that is, the devil, +002:015 and might deliver all of them who through fear of death were + all their lifetime subject to bondage. +002:016 For most certainly, he doesn't give help to angels, but he gives + help to the seed of Abraham. +002:017 Therefore he was obligated in all things to be made like + his brothers, that he might become a merciful and faithful + high priest in things pertaining to God, to make atonement + for the sins of the people. +002:018 For in that he himself has suffered being tempted, he is able + to help those who are tempted. +003:001 Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, + consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Jesus; +003:002 who was faithful to him who appointed him, as also was Moses + in all his house. +003:003 For he has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, + inasmuch as he who built the house has more honor than the house. +003:004 For every house is built by someone; but he who built all + things is God. +003:005 Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, + for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken, +003:006 but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house; whose house we are, + if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope + firm to the end. +003:007 Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, "Today if you will + hear his voice, +003:008 don't harden your hearts, as in the provocation, like as in + the day of the trial in the wilderness, +003:009 where your fathers tested me by proving me, and saw my works + for forty years. +003:010 Therefore I was displeased with that generation, and said, + 'They always err in their heart, but they didn't know my ways;' +003:011 as I swore in my wrath, 'They will not enter into + my rest.'"{Psalm 95:7-11} +003:012 Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there be in any one of you + an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God; +003:013 but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called "today;" + lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. +003:014 For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast + the beginning of our confidence firm to the end: +003:015 while it is said, "Today if you will hear his voice, + don't harden your hearts, as in the rebellion."{Psalm 95:7-8} +003:016 For who, when they heard, rebelled? No, didn't all those who + came out of Egypt by Moses? +003:017 With whom was he displeased forty years? Wasn't it with those + who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? +003:018 To whom did he swear that they wouldn't enter into his rest, + but to those who were disobedient? +003:019 We see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief. +004:001 Let us fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem + to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest. +004:002 For indeed we have had good news preached to us, even as they + also did, but the word they heard didn't profit them, + because it wasn't mixed with faith by those who heard. +004:003 For we who have believed do enter into that rest, even as + he has said, "As I swore in my wrath, they will not enter + into my rest;"{Psalm 95:11} although the works were finished + from the foundation of the world. +004:004 For he has said this somewhere about the seventh day, "God rested + on the seventh day from all his works;"{Genesis 2:2} +004:005 and in this place again, "They will not enter into + my rest."{Psalm 95:11} +004:006 Seeing therefore it remains that some should enter therein, + and they to whom the good news was before preached failed + to enter in because of disobedience, +004:007 he again defines a certain day, today, saying through David + so long a time afterward (just as has been said), "Today if you + will hear his voice, don't harden your hearts."{Psalm 95:7-8} +004:008 For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have spoken + afterward of another day. +004:009 There remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of God. +004:010 For he who has entered into his rest has himself also rested + from his works, as God did from his. +004:011 Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, + lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience. +004:012 For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any + two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul + and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern + the thoughts and intentions of the heart. +004:013 There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all + things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him with whom + we have to do. +004:014 Having then a great high priest, who has passed through + the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold tightly + to our confession. +004:015 For we don't have a high priest who can't be touched with + the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all + points tempted like we are, yet without sin. +004:016 Let us therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, + that we may receive mercy, and may find grace for help + in time of need. +005:001 For every high priest, being taken from among men, is appointed + for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both + gifts and sacrifices for sins. +005:002 The high priest can deal gently with those who are ignorant and + going astray, because he himself is also surrounded with weakness. +005:003 Because of this, he must offer sacrifices for sins for the people, + as well as for himself. +005:004 Nobody takes this honor on himself, but he is called by God, + just like Aaron was. +005:005 So also Christ didn't glorify himself to be made a high priest, + but it was he who said to him, "You are my Son. + Today I have become your father."{Psalm 2:7} +005:006 As he says also in another place, "You are a priest forever, + after the order of Melchizedek."{Psalm 110:4} +005:007 He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and + petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able + to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear, +005:008 though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things + which he suffered. +005:009 Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey + him the author of eternal salvation, +005:010 named by God a high priest after the order of Melchizedek. +005:011 About him we have many words to say, and hard to interpret, + seeing you have become dull of hearing. +005:012 For when by reason of the time you ought to be teachers, + you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments + of the first principles of the oracles of God. + You have come to need milk, and not solid food. +005:013 For everyone who lives on milk is not experienced in the word + of righteousness, for he is a baby. +005:014 But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason + of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil. +006:001 Therefore leaving the doctrine of the first principles of Christ, + let us press on to perfection--not laying again a foundation + of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God, +006:002 of the teaching of baptisms, of laying on of hands, + of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. +006:003 This will we do, if God permits. +006:004 For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of + the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit, +006:005 and tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the age to come, +006:006 and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again + to repentance; seeing they crucify the Son of God for + themselves again, and put him to open shame. +006:007 For the land which has drunk the rain that comes often on it, + and brings forth a crop suitable for them for whose sake it + is also tilled, receives blessing from God; +006:008 but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near + being cursed, whose end is to be burned. +006:009 But, beloved, we are persuaded of better things for you, + and things that accompany salvation, even though we + speak like this. +006:010 For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work + and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, + in that you served the saints, and still do serve them. +006:011 We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence + to the fullness of hope even to the end, +006:012 that you won't be sluggish, but imitators of those who through + faith and patience inherited the promises. +006:013 For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he could swear + by none greater, he swore by himself, +006:014 saying, "Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I + will multiply you."{Genesis 22:17} +006:015 Thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise. +006:016 For men indeed swear by a greater one, and in every dispute + of theirs the oath is final for confirmation. +006:017 In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly + to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, + interposed with an oath; +006:018 that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God + to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled + for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us. +006:019 This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure + and steadfast and entering into that which is within the veil; +006:020 where as a forerunner Jesus entered for us, having become + a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek. +007:001 For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High, + who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings + and blessed him, +007:002 to whom also Abraham divided a tenth part of all (being first, + by interpretation, king of righteousness, and then also king + of Salem, which is king of peace; +007:003 without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither + beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God), + remains a priest continually. +007:004 Now consider how great this man was, to whom even Abraham, + the patriarch, gave a tenth out of the best spoils. +007:005 They indeed of the sons of Levi who receive the priest's office + have a commandment to take tithes of the people according + to the law, that is, of their brothers, though these have come + out of the body of Abraham, +007:006 but he whose genealogy is not counted from them has accepted + tithes from Abraham, and has blessed him who has the promises. +007:007 But without any dispute the lesser is blessed by the greater. +007:008 Here people who die receive tithes, but there one receives + tithes of whom it is testified that he lives. +007:009 We can say that through Abraham even Levi, who receives tithes, + has paid tithes, +007:010 for he was yet in the body of his father when Melchizedek met him. +007:011 Now if there was perfection through the Levitical priesthood + (for under it the people have received the law), what further + need was there for another priest to arise after the order + of Melchizedek, and not be called after the order of Aaron? +007:012 For the priesthood being changed, there is of necessity a change + made also in the law. +007:013 For he of whom these things are said belongs to another tribe, + from which no one has officiated at the altar. +007:014 For it is evident that our Lord has sprung out of Judah, + about which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priesthood. +007:015 This is yet more abundantly evident, if after the likeness + of Melchizedek there arises another priest, +007:016 who has been made, not after the law of a fleshly commandment, + but after the power of an endless life: +007:017 for it is testified, "You are a priest forever, according to + the order of Melchizedek."{Psalm 110:4} +007:018 For there is an annulling of a foregoing commandment because + of its weakness and uselessness +007:019 (for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a + better hope, through which we draw near to God. +007:020 Inasmuch as he was not made priest without the taking of an oath +007:021 (for they indeed have been made priests without an oath), + but he with an oath by him that says of him, "The Lord swore + and will not change his mind, 'You are a priest forever, + according to the order of Melchizedek.'"{Psalm 110:4} +007:022 By so much, Jesus has become the collateral of a better covenant. +007:023 Many, indeed, have been made priests, because they are hindered + from continuing by death. +007:024 But he, because he lives forever, has his priesthood unchangeable. +007:025 Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw + near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make + intercession for them. +007:026 For such a high priest was fitting for us: holy, guiltless, + undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; +007:027 who doesn't need, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices + daily, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. + For he did this once for all, when he offered up himself. +007:028 For the law appoints men as high priests who have weakness, + but the word of the oath which came after the law appoints + a Son forever who has been perfected. +008:001 Now in the things which we are saying, the main point is this. + We have such a high priest, who sat down on the right hand + of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, +008:002 a servant of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, + which the Lord pitched, not man. +008:003 For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts + and sacrifices. Therefore it is necessary that this high + priest also have something to offer. +008:004 For if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, + seeing there are priests who offer the gifts according + to the law; +008:005 who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses + was warned by God when he was about to make the tabernacle, + for he said, "See, you shall make everything according to the + pattern that was shown to you on the mountain."{Exodus 25:40} +008:006 But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry, + by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, + which on better promises has been given as law. +008:007 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place + would have been sought for a second. +008:008 For finding fault with them, he said, "Behold, the days come," + says the Lord, "that I will make a new covenant with the house + of Israel and with the house of Judah; +008:009 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers, + in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of + the land of Egypt; for they didn't continue in my covenant, + and I disregarded them," says the Lord. +008:010 "For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. + After those days," says the Lord; "I will put my laws + into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. + I will be their God, and they will be my people. +008:011 They will not teach every man his fellow citizen,{TR + reads "neighbor" instead of "fellow citizen"} and every man + his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' for all will know me, + from the least of them to the greatest of them. +008:012 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness. I will remember + their sins and lawless deeds no more."{Jeremiah 31:31-34} +008:013 In that he says, "A new covenant," he has made the first old. + But that which is becoming old and grows aged is near + to vanishing away. +009:001 Now indeed even the first{TR adds "tabernacle"} covenant had + ordinances of divine service, and an earthly sanctuary. +009:002 For a tabernacle was prepared. In the first part were the lampstand, + the table, and the show bread; which is called the Holy Place. +009:003 After the second veil was the tabernacle which is called + the Holy of Holies, +009:004 having a golden altar of incense, and the ark of the covenant + overlaid on all sides with gold, in which was a golden pot + holding the manna, Aaron's rod that budded, and the tablets + of the covenant; +009:005 and above it cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat, + of which things we can't speak now in detail. +009:006 Now these things having been thus prepared, the priests go in + continually into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the services, +009:007 but into the second the high priest alone, once in the year, + not without blood, which he offers for himself, and for + the errors of the people. +009:008 The Holy Spirit is indicating this, that the way into + the Holy Place wasn't yet revealed while the first tabernacle + was still standing; +009:009 which is a symbol of the present age, where gifts and sacrifices + are offered that are incapable, concerning the conscience, + of making the worshipper perfect; +009:010 being only (with meats and drinks and various washings) + fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation. +009:011 But Christ having come as a high priest of the coming good things, + through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made + with hands, that is to say, not of this creation, +009:012 nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through + his own blood, entered in once for all into the Holy Place, + having obtained eternal redemption. +009:013 For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer + sprinkling those who have been defiled, sanctify to the cleanness + of the flesh: +009:014 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal + Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, cleanse your + conscience from dead works to serve the living God? +009:015 For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, since a + death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions + that were under the first covenant, that those who have been + called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance. +009:016 For where a last will and testament is, there must of necessity + be the death of him who made it. +009:017 For a will is in force where there has been death, for it + is never in force while he who made it lives. +009:018 Therefore even the first covenant has not been dedicated + without blood. +009:019 For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all + the people according to the law, he took the blood of the calves + and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, + and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, +009:020 saying, "This is the blood of the covenant which God has + commanded you."{Exodus 24:8} +009:021 Moreover he sprinkled the tabernacle and all the vessels + of the ministry in like manner with the blood. +009:022 According to the law, nearly everything is cleansed with blood, + and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission. +009:023 It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things + in the heavens should be cleansed with these; but the heavenly + things themselves with better sacrifices than these. +009:024 For Christ hasn't entered into holy places made with hands, + which are representations of the true, but into heaven itself, + now to appear in the presence of God for us; +009:025 nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest + enters into the holy place year by year with blood not his own, +009:026 or else he must have suffered often since the foundation + of the world. But now once at the end of the ages, he has + been revealed to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. +009:027 Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, + and after this, judgment, +009:028 so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, + will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are + eagerly waiting for him for salvation. +010:001 For the law, having a shadow of the good to come, not the very + image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices + year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect + those who draw near. +010:002 Or else wouldn't they have ceased to be offered, + because the worshippers, having been once cleansed, + would have had no more consciousness of sins? +010:003 But in those sacrifices there is yearly reminder of sins. +010:004 For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should + take away sins. +010:005 Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, "Sacrifice and + offering you didn't desire, but you prepared a body for me; +010:006 You had no pleasure in whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin. +010:007 Then I said, 'Behold, I have come (in the scroll of the book + it is written of me) to do your will, O God.'"{Psalm 40:6-8} +010:008 Previously saying, "Sacrifices and offerings and whole + burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you didn't desire, + neither had pleasure in them" (those which are offered + according to the law), +010:009 then he has said, "Behold, I have come to do your will." + He takes away the first, that he may establish the second, +010:010 by which will we have been sanctified through the offering + of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. +010:011 Every priest indeed stands day by day serving and often offering + the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins, +010:012 but he, when he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, + sat down on the right hand of God; +010:013 from that time waiting until his enemies are made the footstool + of his feet. +010:014 For by one offering he has perfected forever those who + are being sanctified. +010:015 The Holy Spirit also testifies to us, for after saying, +010:016 "This is the covenant that I will make with them: + 'After those days,' says the Lord, 'I will put my laws on + their heart, I will also write them on their mind;'"{Jeremiah + 31:33} then he says, +010:017 "I will remember their sins and their iniquities + no more."{Jeremiah 31:34} +010:018 Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin. +010:019 Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the holy + place by the blood of Jesus, +010:020 by the way which he dedicated for us, a new and living way, + through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; +010:021 and having a great priest over the house of God, +010:022 let's draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, + having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, + and having our body washed with pure water, +010:023 let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; + for he who promised is faithful. +010:024 Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works, +010:025 not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom + of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, + as you see the Day approaching. +010:026 For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge + of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins, +010:027 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness + of fire which will devour the adversaries. +010:028 A man who disregards Moses' law dies without compassion on + the word of two or three witnesses. +010:029 How much worse punishment, do you think, will he be judged + worthy of, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has + counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified + an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace? +010:030 For we know him who said, "Vengeance belongs to me," + says the Lord, "I will repay."{Deuteronomy 32:35} Again, "The Lord + will judge his people."{Deuteronomy 32:36; Psalm 135:14} +010:031 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. +010:032 But remember the former days, in which, after you were enlightened, + you endured a great struggle with sufferings; +010:033 partly, being exposed to both reproaches and oppressions; + and partly, becoming partakers with those who were treated so. +010:034 For you both had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully + accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you + have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one + in the heavens. +010:035 Therefore don't throw away your boldness, which has a great reward. +010:036 For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, + you may receive the promise. +010:037 "In a very little while, he who comes will come, and will not wait. +010:038 But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, + my soul has no pleasure in him."{Habakkuk 2:3-4} +010:039 But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, + but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul. +011:001 Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of + things not seen. +011:002 For by this, the elders obtained testimony. +011:003 By faith, we understand that the universe has been framed + by the word of God, so that what is seen has not been made + out of things which are visible. +011:004 By faith, Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, + through which he had testimony given to him that he was righteous, + God testifying with respect to his gifts; and through it he, + being dead, still speaks. +011:005 By faith, Enoch was taken away, so that he wouldn't see death, + and he was not found, because God translated him. + For he has had testimony given to him that before his translation + he had been well pleasing to God. +011:006 Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, + for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, + and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him. +011:007 By faith, Noah, being warned about things not yet seen, + moved with godly fear, prepared an ark for the saving of + his house, through which he condemned the world, and became + heir of the righteousness which is according to faith. +011:008 By faith, Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out + to the place which he was to receive for an inheritance. + He went out, not knowing where he went. +011:009 By faith, he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in + a land not his own, dwelling in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, + the heirs with him of the same promise. +011:010 For he looked for the city which has the foundations, + whose builder and maker is God. +011:011 By faith, even Sarah herself received power to conceive, + and she bore a child when she was past age, since she counted + him faithful who had promised. +011:012 Therefore as many as the stars of the sky in multitude, + and as innumerable as the sand which is by the sea shore, + were fathered by one man, and him as good as dead. +011:013 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, + but having seen{TR adds "and being convinced of"} them + and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they + were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. +011:014 For those who say such things make it clear that they are + seeking a country of their own. +011:015 If indeed they had been thinking of that country from which they + went out, they would have had enough time to return. +011:016 But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. + Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, + for he has prepared a city for them. +011:017 By faith, Abraham, being tested, offered up Isaac. + Yes, he who had gladly received the promises was offering up + his one and only son; +011:018 even he to whom it was said, "In Isaac will your seed + be called;"{Genesis 21:12} +011:019 concluding that God is able to raise up even from the dead. + Figuratively speaking, he also did receive him back from the dead. +011:020 By faith, Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, even concerning + things to come. +011:021 By faith, Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of the sons + of Joseph, and worshiped, leaning on the top of his staff. +011:022 By faith, Joseph, when his end was near, made mention of + the departure of the children of Israel; and gave instructions + concerning his bones. +011:023 By faith, Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months + by his parents, because they saw that he was a beautiful child, + and they were not afraid of the king's commandment. +011:024 By faith, Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called + the son of Pharaoh's daughter, +011:025 choosing rather to share ill treatment with God's people, + than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time; +011:026 accounting the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures + of Egypt; for he looked to the reward. +011:027 By faith, he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; + for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible. +011:028 By faith, he kept the Passover, and the sprinkling of the blood, + that the destroyer of the firstborn should not touch them. +011:029 By faith, they passed through the Red Sea as on dry land. + When the Egyptians tried to do so, they were swallowed up. +011:030 By faith, the walls of Jericho fell down, after they had been + encircled for seven days. +011:031 By faith, Rahab the prostitute, didn't perish with those who + were disobedient, having received the spies in peace. +011:032 What more shall I say? For the time would fail me if I told + of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets; +011:033 who, through faith subdued kingdoms, worked out righteousness, + obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,{Daniel 6:22-23} +011:034 quenched the power of fire,{Daniel 3:1-30} escaped the edge + of the sword,{1 Kings 19:1-3; 2 Kings 6:31-7:20} from weakness + were made strong, grew mighty in war, and caused foreign + armies to flee. +011:035 Women received their dead by resurrection.{1 Kings 19:1-3; + 2 Kings 6:31-7:20} Others were tortured, not accepting + their deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection. +011:036 Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by + bonds and imprisonment. +011:037 They were stoned.{2 Chronicles 24:20-21} They were sawn apart. + They were tempted. They were slain with the sword.{Jeremiah + 26:20-23; 1 Kings 19:10} They went around in sheep skins + and in goat skins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated +011:038 (of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts, + mountains, caves, and the holes of the earth. +011:039 These all, having had testimony given to them through their faith, + didn't receive the promise, +011:040 God having provided some better thing concerning us, + so that apart from us they should not be made perfect. +012:001 Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great + a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin + which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience + the race that is set before us, +012:002 looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, + who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, + despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand + of the throne of God. +012:003 For consider him who has endured such contradiction + of sinners against himself, that you don't grow weary, + fainting in your souls. +012:004 You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin; +012:005 and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you + as with children, "My son, don't take lightly the chastening + of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him; +012:006 For whom the Lord loves, he chastens, and scourges every son + whom he receives."{Proverbs 3:11-12} +012:007 It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with + you as with children, for what son is there whom his + father doesn't discipline? +012:008 But if you are without discipline, of which all have been + made partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not children. +012:009 Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, + and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in + subjection to the Father of spirits, and live? +012:010 For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; + but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness. +012:011 All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; + yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness + to those who have been exercised thereby. +012:012 Therefore, lift up the hands that hang down and the + feeble knees,{Isaiah 35:3} +012:013 and make straight paths for your feet,{Proverbs 4:26} so that + which is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed. +012:014 Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without + which no man will see the Lord, +012:015 looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace + of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, + and many be defiled by it; +012:016 lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person, + like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal. +012:017 For you know that even when he afterward desired to inherit + the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for a + change of mind though he sought it diligently with tears. +012:018 For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched, + and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm, +012:019 the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which those who + heard it begged that not one more word should be spoken to them, +012:020 for they could not stand that which was commanded, "If even + an animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned{TR adds "or + shot with an arrow" [see Exodus 19:12-13]};"{Exodus 19:12-13} +012:021 and so fearful was the appearance, that Moses said, "I am + terrified and trembling."{Deuteronomy 9:19} +012:022 But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, + the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels, +012:023 to the general assembly and assembly of the firstborn who are + enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits + of just men made perfect, +012:024 to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant,{Jeremiah 31:31} + and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than + that of Abel. +012:025 See that you don't refuse him who speaks. For if they didn't + escape when they refused him who warned on the Earth, + how much more will we not escape who turn away from him + who warns from heaven, +012:026 whose voice shook the earth then, but now he has promised, + saying, "Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, + but also the heavens."{Haggai 2:6} +012:027 This phrase, "Yet once more," signifies the removing of those + things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, + that those things which are not shaken may remain. +012:028 Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can't be shaken, + let us have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, + with reverence and awe, +012:029 for our God is a consuming fire.{Deuteronomy 4:24} +013:001 Let brotherly love continue. +013:002 Don't forget to show hospitality to strangers, for in doing so, + some have entertained angels without knowing it. +013:003 Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them; + and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in the body. +013:004 Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let + the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually + immoral and adulterers. +013:005 Be free from the love of money, content with such things + as you have, for he has said, "I will in no way leave you, + neither will I in any way forsake you."{Deuteronomy 31:6} +013:006 So that with good courage we say, "The Lord is my helper. + I will not fear. What can man do to me?"{Psalm 118:6-7} +013:007 Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of God, + and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith. +013:008 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. +013:009 Don't be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it + is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, + through which those who were so occupied were not benefited. +013:010 We have an altar from which those who serve the holy tabernacle + have no right to eat. +013:011 For the bodies of those animals, whose blood is brought into + the holy place by the high priest as an offering for sin, + are burned outside of the camp.{Leviticus 16:27} +013:012 Therefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people through + his own blood, suffered outside of the gate. +013:013 Let us therefore go out to him outside of the camp, + bearing his reproach. +013:014 For we don't have here an enduring city, but we seek that + which is to come. +013:015 Through him, then, let us offer up a sacrifice of praise + to God{Psalm 50:23} continually, that is, the fruit of lips + which proclaim allegiance to his name. +013:016 But don't forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such + sacrifices God is well pleased. +013:017 Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch + on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, + that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, + for that would be unprofitable for you. +013:018 Pray for us, for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, + desiring to live honorably in all things. +013:019 I strongly urge you to do this, that I may be restored + to you sooner. +013:020 Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great + shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, + our Lord Jesus, +013:021 make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you + that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, + to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen. +013:022 But I exhort you, brothers, endure the word of exhortation, + for I have written to you in few words. +013:023 Know that our brother Timothy has been freed, with whom, + if he comes shortly, I will see you. +013:024 Greet all of your leaders and all the saints. + The Italians greet you. +013:025 Grace be with you all. Amen. +Book 59 James +001:001 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, + to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings. +001:002 Count it all joy, my brothers{The word for "brothers" + here and where context allows may also be correctly translated + "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."}, when you fall + into various temptations, +001:003 knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. +001:004 Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect + and complete, lacking in nothing. +001:005 But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, + who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it + will be given to him. +001:006 But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts + is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed. +001:007 For let that man not think that he will receive anything + from the Lord. +001:008 He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways. +001:009 But let the brother in humble circumstances glory in + his high position; +001:010 and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower + in the grass, he will pass away. +001:011 For the sun arises with the scorching wind, and withers + the grass, and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its + appearance perishes. So also will the rich man fade away + in his pursuits. +001:012 Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has + been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord + promised to those who love him. +001:013 Let no man say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God," + for God can't be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one. +001:014 But each one is tempted, when he is drawn away by his + own lust, and enticed. +001:015 Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, + when it is full grown, brings forth death. +001:016 Don't be deceived, my beloved brothers. +001:017 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down + from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, + nor turning shadow. +001:018 Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, + that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures. +001:019 So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, + slow to speak, and slow to anger; +001:020 for the anger of man doesn't produce the righteousness of God. +001:021 Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing + of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, + which is able to save your souls{or, preserve your life.}. +001:022 But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding + your own selves. +001:023 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, + he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror; +001:024 for he sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets + what kind of man he was. +001:025 But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom, and continues, + not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, + this man will be blessed in what he does. +001:026 If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while + he doesn't bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, + this man's religion is worthless. +001:027 Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: + to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, + and to keep oneself unstained by the world. +002:001 My brothers, don't hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ + of glory with partiality. +002:002 For if a man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, comes into + your synagogue{or, meeting}, and a poor man in filthy clothing + also comes in; +002:003 and you pay special attention to him who wears the fine clothing, + and say, "Sit here in a good place;" and you tell the poor man, + "Stand there," or "Sit by my footstool;" +002:004 haven't you shown partiality among yourselves, and become + judges with evil thoughts? +002:005 Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn't God choose those who are poor + in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom + which he promised to those who love him? +002:006 But you have dishonored the poor man. Don't the rich oppress you, + and personally drag you before the courts? +002:007 Don't they blaspheme the honorable name by which you are called? +002:008 However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to + the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself,"{Leviticus + 19:18} you do well. +002:009 But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted + by the law as transgressors. +002:010 For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, + he has become guilty of all. +002:011 For he who said, "Do not commit adultery,"{Exodus 20:14; + Deuteronomy 5:18} also said, "Do not commit murder."{Exodus 10:13; + Deuteronomy 5:17} Now if you do not commit adultery, but murder, + you have become a transgressor of the law. +002:012 So speak, and so do, as men who are to be judged by a + law of freedom. +002:013 For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. + Mercy triumphs over judgment. +002:014 What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, + but has no works? Can faith save him? +002:015 And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food, +002:016 and one of you tells them, "Go in peace, be warmed and filled;" + and yet you didn't give them the things the body needs, + what good is it? +002:017 Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself. +002:018 Yes, a man will say, "You have faith, and I have works." + Show me your faith without works, and I by my works will show + you my faith. +002:019 You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons + also believe, and shudder. +002:020 But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from + works is dead? +002:021 Wasn't Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered + up Isaac his son on the altar? +002:022 You see that faith worked with his works, and by works + faith was perfected; +002:023 and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "Abraham believed God, + and it was accounted to him as righteousness;"{Genesis 15:16} + and he was called the friend of God. +002:024 You see then that by works, a man is justified, and not + only by faith. +002:025 In like manner wasn't Rahab the prostitute also justified + by works, in that she received the messengers, and sent them + out another way? +002:026 For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith + apart from works is dead. +003:001 Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we + will receive heavier judgment. +003:002 For in many things we all stumble. If anyone doesn't + stumble in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle + the whole body also. +003:003 Indeed, we put bits into the horses' mouths so that they may + obey us, and we guide their whole body. +003:004 Behold, the ships also, though they are so big and are driven + by fierce winds, are yet guided by a very small rudder, + wherever the pilot desires. +003:005 So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. + See how a small fire can spread to a large forest! +003:006 And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among + our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, + and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire + by Gehenna.{or, Hell} +003:007 For every kind of animal, bird, creeping thing, and thing + in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind. +003:008 But nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, + full of deadly poison. +003:009 With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, + who are made in the image of God. +003:010 Out of the same mouth comes forth blessing and cursing. + My brothers, these things ought not to be so. +003:011 Does a spring send out from the same opening fresh and bitter water? +003:012 Can a fig tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine figs? + Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh water. +003:013 Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his + good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom. +003:014 But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, + don't boast and don't lie against the truth. +003:015 This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, + but is earthly, sensual, and demonic. +003:016 For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion + and every evil deed. +003:017 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, + gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, + without partiality, and without hypocrisy. +003:018 Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those + who make peace. +004:001 Where do wars and fightings among you come from? + Don't they come from your pleasures that war in your members? +004:002 You lust, and don't have. You kill, covet, and can't obtain. + You fight and make war. You don't have, because you don't ask. +004:003 You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, + so that you may spend it for your pleasures. +004:004 You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship + with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants + to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. +004:005 Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit + who lives in us yearns jealously"? +004:006 But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, "God resists + the proud, but gives grace to the humble."{Proverbs 3:34} +004:007 Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will + flee from you. +004:008 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, + you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded. +004:009 Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, + and your joy to gloom. +004:010 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you. +004:011 Don't speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks + against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against + the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, + you are not a doer of the law, but a judge. +004:012 Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. + But who are you to judge another? +004:013 Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow let's go into this city, + and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit." +004:014 Whereas you don't know what your life will be like tomorrow. + For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears + for a little time, and then vanishes away. +004:015 For you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will both live, + and do this or that." +004:016 But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil. +004:017 To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn't do it, + to him it is sin. +005:001 Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are + coming on you. +005:002 Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten. +005:003 Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be + for a testimony against you, and will eat your flesh like fire. + You have laid up your treasure in the last days. +005:004 Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, + which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries + of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord + of Armies{Greek: Sabaoth (for Hebrew: Tze'va'ot)}. +005:005 You have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure. + You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter. +005:006 You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous one. + He doesn't resist you. +005:007 Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. + Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, + being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain. +005:008 You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming + of the Lord is at hand. +005:009 Don't grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you + won't be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door. +005:010 Take, brothers, for an example of suffering and of patience, + the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord. +005:011 Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard + of the patience of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, + and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy. +005:012 But above all things, my brothers, don't swear, neither by heaven, + nor by the earth, nor by any other oath; but let your "yes" + be "yes," and your "no," "no;" so that you don't fall into + hypocrisy.{TR reads "under judgment" instead of "into hypocrisy"} +005:013 Is any among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? + Let him sing praises. +005:014 Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the assembly, + and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name + of the Lord, +005:015 and the prayer of faith will heal him who is sick, + and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed sins, + he will be forgiven. +005:016 Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, + that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous + person is powerfully effective. +005:017 Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly + that it might not rain, and it didn't rain on the earth + for three years and six months. +005:018 He prayed again, and the sky gave rain, and the earth brought + forth its fruit. +005:019 Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth, and someone + turns him back, +005:020 let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way + will save a soul from death, and will cover a multitude of sins. +Book 60 1 Peter +001:001 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen + ones who are living as foreigners in the Dispersion + in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, +001:002 according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification + of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled + with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied. +001:003 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, + who according to his great mercy became our father again + to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ + from the dead, +001:004 to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn't + fade away, reserved in Heaven for you, +001:005 who by the power of God are guarded through faith for a salvation + ready to be revealed in the last time. +001:006 Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, + if need be, you have been put to grief in various trials, +001:007 that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold + that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found + to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation + of Jesus Christ-- +001:008 whom not having known you love; in whom, though now you + don't see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy + unspeakable and full of glory-- +001:009 receiving the result of your faith, the salvation of your souls. +001:010 Concerning this salvation, the prophets sought and searched + diligently, who prophesied of the grace that would come to you, +001:011 searching for who or what kind of time the Spirit of Christ, + which was in them, pointed to, when he predicted the sufferings + of Christ, and the glories that would follow them. +001:012 To them it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to you, + they ministered these things, which now have been announced + to you through those who preached the Good News to you + by the Holy Spirit sent out from heaven; which things angels + desire to look into. +001:013 Therefore, prepare your minds for action,{literally, "gird up + the waist of your mind"} be sober and set your hope fully + on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation + of Jesus Christ-- +001:014 as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according + to your former lusts as in your ignorance, +001:015 but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be + holy in all of your behavior; +001:016 because it is written, "You shall be holy; for I + am holy."{Leviticus 11:44-45} +001:017 If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons + judges according to each man's work, pass the time of your + living as foreigners here in reverent fear: +001:018 knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, + with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed + down from your fathers, +001:019 but with precious blood, as of a faultless and pure lamb, + the blood of Christ; +001:020 who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, + but was revealed at the end of times for your sake, +001:021 who through him are believers in God, who raised him from + the dead, and gave him glory; so that your faith and hope + might be in God. +001:022 Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to + the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, + love one another from the heart fervently: +001:023 having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, + through the word of God, which lives and remains forever. +001:024 For, "All flesh is like grass, and all of man's glory like the + flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls; +001:025 but the Lord's word endures forever."{Isaiah 40:6-8} This + is the word of Good News which was preached to you. +002:001 Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, + envies, and all evil speaking, +002:002 as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, + that you may grow thereby, +002:003 if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious: +002:004 coming to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, + but chosen by God, precious. +002:005 You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, + to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, + acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. +002:006 Because it is contained in Scripture, "Behold, I lay + in Zion a chief cornerstone, chosen, and precious: + He who believes in him will not be disappointed."{Isaiah 28:16} +002:007 For you who believe therefore is the honor, but for those who + are disobedient, "The stone which the builders rejected, + has become the chief cornerstone,"{Psalm 118:22} +002:008 and, "a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense."{Isaiah + 8:14} For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, + to which also they were appointed. +002:009 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, + a people for God's own possession, that you may proclaim + the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into + his marvelous light: +002:010 who in time past were no people, but now are God's people, + who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy. +002:011 Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain + from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; +002:012 having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they + speak against you as evil-doers, they may by your good works, + which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation. +002:013 Therefore subject yourselves to every ordinance of man for + the Lord's sake: whether to the king, as supreme; +002:014 or to governors, as sent by him for vengeance on evil-doers + and for praise to those who do well. +002:015 For this is the will of God, that by well-doing you should put + to silence the ignorance of foolish men: +002:016 as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, + but as bondservants of God. +002:017 Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. + Honor the king. +002:018 Servants, be in subjection to your masters with all fear; + not only to the good and gentle, but also to the wicked. +002:019 For it is commendable if someone endures pain, suffering unjustly, + because of conscience toward God. +002:020 For what glory is it if, when you sin, you patiently endure beating? + But if, when you do well, you patiently endure suffering, + this is commendable with God. +002:021 For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, + leaving you{TR reads "us" instead of "you"} an example, + that you should follow his steps, +002:022 who did not sin, "neither was deceit found in his mouth."{Isaiah 53:9} +002:023 Who, when he was cursed, didn't curse back. When he suffered, + didn't threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously; +002:024 who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, + that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; + by whose stripes you were healed. +002:025 For you were going astray like sheep; but now have returned to + the Shepherd and Overseer{"Overseer" is from the Greek episkopon, + which can mean overseer, curator, guardian, or superintendent.} + of your souls. +003:001 In like manner, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; + so that, even if any don't obey the Word, they may be won + by the behavior of their wives without a word; +003:002 seeing your pure behavior in fear. +003:003 Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding + the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting + on fine clothing; +003:004 but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible + adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is in the sight + of God very precious. +003:005 For this is how the holy women before, who hoped in God also + adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands: +003:006 as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you + now are, if you do well, and are not put in fear by any terror. +003:007 You husbands, in like manner, live with your wives according + to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, + as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your + prayers may not be hindered. +003:008 Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as + brothers, tenderhearted, courteous, +003:009 not rendering evil for evil, or reviling for reviling; + but instead blessing; knowing that to this were you called, + that you may inherit a blessing. +003:010 For, "He who would love life, and see good days, let him keep + his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking deceit. +003:011 Let him turn away from evil, and do good. Let him seek peace, + and pursue it. +003:012 For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears + open to their prayer; but the face of the Lord is against + those who do evil."{Psalm 34:12-16} +003:013 Now who is he who will harm you, if you become imitators + of that which is good? +003:014 But even if you should suffer for righteousness' + sake, you are blessed. "Don't fear what they fear, + neither be troubled."{Isaiah 8:12} +003:015 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts; and always be ready + to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning + the hope that is in you, with humility and fear: +003:016 having a good conscience; that, while you are spoken against + as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good + manner of life in Christ. +003:017 For it is better, if it is God's will, that you suffer for doing + well than for doing evil. +003:018 Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous + for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God; + being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit; +003:019 in which he also went and preached to the spirits in prison, +003:020 who before were disobedient, when God waited patiently + in the days of Noah, while the ark was being built. + In it, few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water. +003:021 This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you-- + not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer + of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection + of Jesus Christ, +003:022 who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, + angels and authorities and powers being made subject to him. +004:001 Forasmuch then as Christ suffered for us in the flesh, + arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered + in the flesh has ceased from sin; +004:002 that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh + for the lusts of men, but for the will of God. +004:003 For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire + of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, + drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries. +004:004 They think it is strange that you don't run with them into + the same excess of riot, blaspheming: +004:005 who will give account to him who is ready to judge the living + and the dead. +004:006 For to this end the Good News was preached even to the dead, + that they might be judged indeed as men in the flesh, + but live as to God in the spirit. +004:007 But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, + self-controlled, and sober in prayer. +004:008 And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, + for love covers a multitude of sins. +004:009 Be hospitable to one another without grumbling. +004:010 As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, + as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms. +004:011 If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. + If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, + that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, + to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen. +004:012 Beloved, don't be astonished at the fiery trial which has + come upon you, to test you, as though a strange thing + happened to you. +004:013 But because you are partakers of Christ's sufferings, rejoice; + that at the revelation of his glory you also may rejoice + with exceeding joy. +004:014 If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed; + because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. + On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified. +004:015 For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, + or an evil doer, or a meddler in other men's matters. +004:016 But if one of you suffers for being a Christian, let him not + be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this matter. +004:017 For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household + of God. If it begins first with us, what will happen + to those who don't obey the Good News of God? +004:018 "If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will happen + to the ungodly and the sinner?"{Proverbs 11:31} +004:019 Therefore let them also who suffer according to the will + of God in doing good entrust their souls to him, as to + a faithful Creator. +005:001 I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder, and a witness + of the sufferings of Christ, and who will also share in the glory + that will be revealed. +005:002 Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, exercising + the oversight, not under compulsion, but voluntarily, + not for dishonest gain, but willingly; +005:003 neither as lording it over the charge allotted to you, + but making yourselves examples to the flock. +005:004 When the chief Shepherd is revealed, you will receive the crown + of glory that doesn't fade away. +005:005 Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. + Yes, all of you gird yourselves with humility, to subject + yourselves to one another; for "God resists the proud, + but gives grace to the humble."{Proverbs 3:34} +005:006 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, + that he may exalt you in due time; +005:007 casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you. +005:008 Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary + the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom + he may devour. +005:009 Withstand him steadfast in your faith, knowing that your brothers + who are in the world are undergoing the same sufferings. +005:010 But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal + glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, + perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you. +005:011 To him be the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen. +005:012 Through Silvanus, our faithful brother, as I consider him, + I have written to you briefly, exhorting, and testifying + that this is the true grace of God in which you stand. +005:013 She who is in Babylon, chosen together with you, greets you; + and so does Mark, my son. +005:014 Greet one another with a kiss of love. Peace be to you all + who are in Christ Jesus. Amen. +Book 61 2 Peter +001:001 Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, + to those who have obtained a like precious faith with us + in the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ: +001:002 Grace to you and peace be multiplied in the knowledge of God + and of Jesus our Lord, +001:003 seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things + that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge + of him who called us by his own glory and virtue; +001:004 by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly + great promises; that through these you may become partakers + of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption + that is in the world by lust. +001:005 Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part + all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; + and in moral excellence, knowledge; +001:006 and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control patience; + and in patience godliness; +001:007 and in godliness brotherly affection; and in brotherly + affection, love. +001:008 For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to be not + idle nor unfruitful to the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. +001:009 For he who lacks these things is blind, seeing only what is near, + having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins. +001:010 Therefore, brothers,{The word for "brothers" here and where + context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers + and sisters" or "siblings."} be more diligent to make your + calling and election sure. For if you do these things, + you will never stumble. +001:011 For thus you will be richly supplied with the entrance into + the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. +001:012 Therefore I will not be negligent to remind you of these things, + though you know them, and are established in the present truth. +001:013 I think it right, as long as I am in this tent, to stir you + up by reminding you; +001:014 knowing that the putting off of my tent comes swiftly, + even as our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me. +001:015 Yes, I will make every effort that you may always be able + to remember these things even after my departure. +001:016 For we did not follow cunningly devised fables, when we made + known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, + but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty. +001:017 For he received from God the Father honor and glory, + when the voice came to him from the Majestic Glory, "This is + my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased."{Matthew 17:5; + Mark 9:7; Luke 9:35} +001:018 We heard this voice come out of heaven when we were with him + on the holy mountain. +001:019 We have the more sure word of prophecy; and you do well that you + heed it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns, + and the morning star arises in your hearts: +001:020 knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is + of private interpretation. +001:021 For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but holy men + of God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit. +002:001 But false prophets also arose among the people, as false + teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in + destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, + bringing on themselves swift destruction. +002:002 Many will follow their immoral{TR reads "destructive" + instead of "immoral"} ways, and as a result, the way of the truth + will be maligned. +002:003 In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: + whose sentence now from of old doesn't linger, and their + destruction will not slumber. +002:004 For if God didn't spare angels when they sinned, but cast + them down to Tartarus{Tartarus is another name for Hell}, + and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; +002:005 and didn't spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with + seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought + a flood on the world of the ungodly; +002:006 and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, + condemned them to destruction, having made them an example + to those who would live ungodly; +002:007 and delivered righteous Lot, who was very distressed by the lustful + life of the wicked +002:008 (for that righteous man dwelling among them, was tormented + in his righteous soul from day to day with seeing and + hearing lawless deeds): +002:009 the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to + keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment; +002:010 but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement, + and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not + afraid to speak evil of dignitaries; +002:011 whereas angels, though greater in might and power, don't bring + a railing judgment against them before the Lord. +002:012 But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be + taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they + are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed, +002:013 receiving the wages of unrighteousness; people who count + it pleasure to revel in the daytime, spots and blemishes, + reveling in their deceit while they feast with you; +002:014 having eyes full of adultery, and who can't cease from sin; + enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; + children of cursing; +002:015 forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way + of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrong-doing; +002:016 but he was rebuked for his own disobedience. A mute donkey spoke + with a man's voice and stopped the madness of the prophet. +002:017 These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm; + for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever. +002:018 For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice + in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are + indeed escaping from those who live in error; +002:019 promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants + of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by + whoever overcomes him. +002:020 For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world + through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, + they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state + has become worse for them than the first. +002:021 For it would be better for them not to have known the way + of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from + the holy commandment delivered to them. +002:022 But it has happened to them according to the true proverb, + "The dog turns to his own vomit again,"{Proverbs 26:11} + and "the sow that has washed to wallowing in the mire." +003:001 This is now, beloved, the second letter that I have written to you; + and in both of them I stir up your sincere mind by reminding you; +003:002 that you should remember the words which were spoken before + by the holy prophets, and the commandments of us, the apostles + of the Lord and Savior: +003:003 knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, + walking after their own lusts, +003:004 and saying, "Where is the promise of his coming? For, from the day + that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they + were from the beginning of the creation." +003:005 For this they willfully forget, that there were heavens from + of old, and an earth formed out of water and amid water, + by the word of God; +003:006 by which means the world that then was, being overflowed + with water, perished. +003:007 But the heavens that now are, and the earth, by the same word + have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day + of judgment and destruction of ungodly men. +003:008 But don't forget this one thing, beloved, that one day + is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years + as one day. +003:009 The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; + but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, + but that all should come to repentance. +003:010 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; + in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, + and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat, + and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up. +003:011 Therefore since all these things will be destroyed like this, + what kind of people ought you to be in holy living and godliness, +003:012 looking for and earnestly desiring the coming of the day of God, + which will cause the burning heavens to be dissolved, + and the elements will melt with fervent heat? +003:013 But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a + new earth, in which righteousness dwells. +003:014 Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for these things, + be diligent to be found in peace, without blemish and blameless + in his sight. +003:015 Regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; even as our beloved + brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, + wrote to you; +003:016 as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things. + In those, there are some things that are hard to understand, + which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do + to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction. +003:017 You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, + beware, lest being carried away with the error of the wicked, + you fall from your own steadfastness. +003:018 But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and + Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now + and forever. Amen. +Book 62 1 John +001:001 That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, + that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we saw, + and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life +001:002 (and the life was revealed, and we have seen, and testify, + and declare to you the life, the eternal life, which was + with the Father, and was revealed to us); +001:003 that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you + also may have fellowship with us. Yes, and our fellowship + is with the Father, and with his Son, Jesus Christ. +001:004 And we write these things to you, that our joy may be fulfilled. +001:005 This is the message which we have heard from him and announce + to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. +001:006 If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, + we lie, and don't tell the truth. +001:007 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have + fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, + his Son, cleanses us from all sin. +001:008 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, + and the truth is not in us. +001:009 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive + us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. +001:010 If we say that we haven't sinned, we make him a liar, + and his word is not in us. +002:001 My little children, I write these things to you so that you may + not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor{Greek Parakleton: + Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, and Comfortor.} + with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous. +002:002 And he is the atoning sacrifice{"atoning sacrifice" + is from the Greek "hilasmos," an appeasing, propitiating, + or the means of appeasement or propitiation--the sacrifice + that turns away God's wrath because of our sin.} for our sins, + and not for ours only, but also for the whole world. +002:003 This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments. +002:004 One who says, "I know him," and doesn't keep his commandments, + is a liar, and the truth isn't in him. +002:005 But whoever keeps his word, God's love has most certainly been + perfected in him. This is how we know that we are in him: +002:006 he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk + just like he walked. +002:007 Brothers, I write no new commandment to you, but an old + commandment which you had from the beginning. The old + commandment is the word which you heard from the beginning. +002:008 Again, I write a new commandment to you, which is true + in him and in you; because the darkness is passing away, + and the true light already shines. +002:009 He who says he is in the light and hates his brother, + is in the darkness even until now. +002:010 He who loves his brother remains in the light, and there + is no occasion for stumbling in him. +002:011 But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks + in the darkness, and doesn't know where he is going, + because the darkness has blinded his eyes. +002:012 I write to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven + you for his name's sake. +002:013 I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from + the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have + overcome the evil one. I write to you, little children, + because you know the Father. +002:014 I have written to you, fathers, because you know him who is + from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, + because you are strong, and the word of God remains in you, + and you have overcome the evil one. +002:015 Don't love the world, neither the things that are in the world. + If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't in him. +002:016 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust + of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn't the Father's, + but is the world's. +002:017 The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does + God's will remains forever. +002:018 Little children, these are the end times, and as you heard that + the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen. + By this we know that it is the final hour. +002:019 They went out from us, but they didn't belong to us; for if they + had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. + But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them + belong to us. +002:020 You have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know the truth. +002:021 I have not written to you because you don't know the truth, + but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth. +002:022 Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is + the Antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son. +002:023 Whoever denies the Son, the same doesn't have the Father. + He who confesses the Son has the Father also. +002:024 Therefore, as for you, let that remain in you which you + heard from the beginning. If that which you heard from + the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son, + and in the Father. +002:025 This is the promise which he promised us, the eternal life. +002:026 These things I have written to you concerning those who would + lead you astray. +002:027 As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains + in you, and you don't need for anyone to teach you. + But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, + and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, + you will remain in him. +002:028 Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, + we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming. +002:029 If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone + who practices righteousness is born of him. +003:001 Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, + that we should be called children of God! For this cause + the world doesn't know us, because it didn't know him. +003:002 Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed + what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, + we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is. +003:003 Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, + even as he is pure. +003:004 Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness. +003:005 You know that he was revealed to take away our sins, and in him + is no sin. +003:006 Whoever remains in him doesn't sin. Whoever sins hasn't seen him, + neither knows him. +003:007 Little children, let no one lead you astray. He who does + righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous. +003:008 He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning + from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed, + that he might destroy the works of the devil. +003:009 Whoever is born of God doesn't commit sin, because his seed + remains in him; and he can't sin, because he is born of God. +003:010 In this the children of God are revealed, and the children + of the devil. Whoever doesn't do righteousness is not of God, + neither is he who doesn't love his brother. +003:011 For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, + that we should love one another; +003:012 unlike Cain, who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. + Why did he kill him? Because his works were evil, + and his brother's righteous. +003:013 Don't be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you. +003:014 We know that we have passed out of death into life, + because we love the brothers. He who doesn't love his brother + remains in death. +003:015 Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no + murderer has eternal life remaining in him. +003:016 By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. + And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. +003:017 But whoever has the world's goods, and sees his brother in need, + and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does + the love of God remain in him? +003:018 My little children, let's not love in word only, neither with + the tongue only, but in deed and truth. +003:019 And by this we know that we are of the truth, and persuade + our hearts before him, +003:020 because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, + and knows all things. +003:021 Beloved, if our hearts don't condemn us, we have boldness toward God; +003:022 and whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his + commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight. +003:023 This is his commandment, that we should believe in + the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, + even as he commanded. +003:024 He who keeps his commandments remains in him, and he in him. + By this we know that he remains in us, by the Spirit which + he gave us. +004:001 Beloved, don't believe every spirit, but test the spirits, + whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone + out into the world. +004:002 By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit who confesses + that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, +004:003 and every spirit who doesn't confess that Jesus Christ has + come in the flesh is not of God, and this is the spirit + of the antichrist, of whom you have heard that it comes. + Now it is in the world already. +004:004 You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; + because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world. +004:005 They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, + and the world hears them. +004:006 We are of God. He who knows God listens to us. + He who is not of God doesn't listen to us. By this we know + the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error. +004:007 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; + and everyone who loves is born of God, and knows God. +004:008 He who doesn't love doesn't know God, for God is love. +004:009 By this God's love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one + and only Son into the world that we might live through him. +004:010 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, + and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice{"atoning sacrifice" + is from the Greek "hilasmos," an appeasing, propitiating, + or the means of appeasement or propitiation--the sacrifice + that turns away God's wrath because of our sin.} for our sins. +004:011 Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to + love one another. +004:012 No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, + God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us. +004:013 By this we know that we remain in him and he in us, + because he has given us of his Spirit. +004:014 We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son + as the Savior of the world. +004:015 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains + in him, and he in God. +004:016 We know and have believed the love which God has for us. + God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, + and God remains in him. +004:017 In this love has been made perfect among us, that we may + have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, + even so are we in this world. +004:018 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, + because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made + perfect in love. +004:019 We love Him, because he first loved us. +004:020 If a man says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; + for he who doesn't love his brother whom he has seen, + how can he love God whom he has not seen? +004:021 This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God + should also love his brother. +005:001 Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God. + Whoever loves the father also loves the child who is born of him. +005:002 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love + God and keep his commandments. +005:003 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. + His commandments are not grievous. +005:004 For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. + This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith. +005:005 Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus + is the Son of God? +005:006 This is he who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ; + not with the water only, but with the water and the blood. + It is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth. +005:007 For there are three who testify{Only a few recent manuscripts + add "in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; + and these three are one. And there are three that + testify on earth"}: +005:008 the Spirit, the water, and the blood; and the three agree as one. +005:009 If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater; + for this is God's testimony which he has testified + concerning his Son. +005:010 He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. + He who doesn't believe God has made him a liar, because he has not + believed in the testimony that God has given concerning his Son. +005:011 The testimony is this, that God gave to us eternal life, + and this life is in his Son. +005:012 He who has the Son has the life. He who doesn't have God's Son + doesn't have the life. +005:013 These things I have written to you who believe in the name + of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, + and that you may continue to believe in the name of the + Son of God. +005:014 This is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we + ask anything according to his will, he listens to us. +005:015 And if we know that he listens to us, whatever we ask, we know + that we have the petitions which we have asked of him. +005:016 If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin not leading to death, + he shall ask, and God will give him life for those who sin + not leading to death. There is a sin leading to death. + I don't say that he should make a request concerning this. +005:017 All unrighteousness is sin, and there is a sin not leading to death. +005:018 We know that whoever is born of God doesn't sin, but he who was + born of God keeps himself, and the evil one doesn't touch him. +005:019 We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power + of the evil one. +005:020 We know that the Son of God has come, and has given + us an understanding, that we know him who is true, + and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. + This is the true God, and eternal life. +005:021 Little children, keep yourselves from idols. +Book 63 2 John +001:001 The elder, to the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in truth; + and not I only, but also all those who know the truth; +001:002 for the truth's sake, which remains in us, and it will be + with us forever: +001:003 Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us, from God the Father, + and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, + in truth and love. +001:004 I rejoice greatly that I have found some of your children walking + in truth, even as we have been commanded by the Father. +001:005 Now I beg you, dear lady, not as though I wrote to you + a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, + that we love one another. +001:006 This is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. + This is the commandment, even as you heard from the beginning, + that you should walk in it. +001:007 For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who + don't confess that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. + This is the deceiver and the Antichrist. +001:008 Watch yourselves, that we don't lose the things which we + have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward. +001:009 Whoever transgresses and doesn't remain in the teaching + of Christ, doesn't have God. He who remains in the teaching, + the same has both the Father and the Son. +001:010 If anyone comes to you, and doesn't bring this teaching, + don't receive him into your house, and don't welcome him, +001:011 for he who welcomes him participates in his evil works. +001:012 Having many things to write to you, I don't want to do so with paper + and ink, but I hope to come to you, and to speak face to face, + that our joy may be made full. +001:013 The children of your chosen sister greet you. Amen. +Book 64 3 John +001:001 The elder to Gaius the beloved, whom I love in truth. +001:002 Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be healthy, + even as your soul prospers. +001:003 For I rejoiced greatly, when brothers came and testified + about your truth, even as you walk in truth. +001:004 I have no greater joy than this, to hear about my children + walking in truth. +001:005 Beloved, you do a faithful work in whatever you accomplish + for those who are brothers and strangers. +001:006 They have testified about your love before the assembly. + You will do well to send them forward on their journey + in a manner worthy of God, +001:007 because for the sake of the Name they went out, taking nothing + from the Gentiles. +001:008 We therefore ought to receive such, that we may be fellow + workers for the truth. +001:009 I wrote to the assembly, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first + among them, doesn't accept what we say. +001:010 Therefore, if I come, I will call attention to his deeds + which he does, unjustly accusing us with wicked words. + Not content with this, neither does he himself receive + the brothers, and those who would, he forbids and throws + out of the assembly. +001:011 Beloved, don't imitate that which is evil, but that which is good. + He who does good is of God. He who does evil hasn't seen God. +001:012 Demetrius has the testimony of all, and of the truth itself; + yes, we also testify, and you know that our testimony is true. +001:013 I had many things to write to you, but I am unwilling to write + to you with ink and pen; +001:014 but I hope to see you soon, and we will speak face to face. + Peace be to you. The friends greet you. Greet the friends by name. +Book 65 Jude +001:001 Jude,{or, Judah} a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, + to those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, + and kept for Jesus Christ: +001:002 Mercy to you and peace and love be multiplied. +001:003 Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our + common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting + you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all + delivered to the saints. +001:004 For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those + who were long ago written about for this condemnation: + ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, + and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ. +001:005 Now I desire to remind you, though you already know this, + that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, + afterward destroyed those who didn't believe. +001:006 Angels who didn't keep their first domain, but deserted + their own dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds + under darkness for the judgment of the great day. +001:007 Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, having, + in the same way as these, given themselves over to sexual + immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth + as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire. +001:008 Yet in like manner these also in their dreaming defile the flesh, + despise authority, and slander celestial beings. +001:009 But Michael, the archangel, when contending with the devil + and arguing about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him + an abusive condemnation, but said, "May the Lord rebuke you!" +001:010 But these speak evil of whatever things they don't know. + What they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason, + they are destroyed in these things. +001:011 Woe to them! For they went in the way of Cain, and ran + riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished + in Korah's rebellion. +001:012 These are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts when they + feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves; + clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn leaves + without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; +001:013 wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; + wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness has + been reserved forever. +001:014 About these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, + "Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones, +001:015 to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly + of all their works of ungodliness which they have done + in an ungodly way, and of all the hard things which ungodly + sinners have spoken against him." +001:016 These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts + (and their mouth speaks proud things), showing respect + of persons to gain advantage. +001:017 But you, beloved, remember the words which have been spoken + before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ. +001:018 They said to you that "In the last time there will be mockers, + walking after their own ungodly lusts." +001:019 These are they who cause divisions, and are sensual, + not having the Spirit. +001:020 But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most + holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit. +001:021 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy + of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life. +001:022 On some have compassion, making a distinction, +001:023 and some save, snatching them out of the fire with fear, + hating even the clothing stained by the flesh. +001:024 Now to him who is able to keep them{TR and NU read "you"} + from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence + of his glory in great joy, +001:025 to God our Savior, who alone is wise, be glory and majesty, + dominion and power, both now and forever. Amen. +Book 66 Revelation +001:001 This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him + to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, + which he sent and made known by his angel{or, messenger + (here and wherever angel is mentioned)} to his servant, John, +001:002 who testified to God's word, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, + about everything that he saw. +001:003 Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of + the prophecy, and keep the things that are written in it, + for the time is at hand. +001:004 John, to the seven assemblies that are in Asia: Grace to you + and peace, from God, who is and who was and who is to come; + and from the seven Spirits who are before his throne; +001:005 and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn + of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. + To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood; +001:006 and he made us to be a Kingdom, priests{Exodus 19:6; + Isaiah 61:6} to his God and Father; to him be the glory + and the dominion forever and ever. Amen. +001:007 Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, + including those who pierced him. All the tribes of the earth + will mourn over him. Even so, Amen. +001:008 "I am the Alpha and the Omega,{TR adds "the Beginning and the End"}" + says the Lord God,{TR omits "God"} "who is and who was and + who is to come, the Almighty." +001:009 I John, your brother and partner with you in oppression, + Kingdom, and perseverance in Christ Jesus, was on the isle + that is called Patmos because of God's Word and the testimony + of Jesus Christ. +001:010 I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me + a loud voice, like a trumpet +001:011 saying, "{TR adds "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First + and the Last."}What you see, write in a book and send + to the seven assemblies{TR adds "which are in Asia"}: + to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, + and to Laodicea." +001:012 I turned to see the voice that spoke with me. Having turned, + I saw seven golden lampstands. +001:013 And among the lampstands was one like a son of man,{Daniel + 7:13} clothed with a robe reaching down to his feet, + and with a golden sash around his chest. +001:014 His head and his hair were white as white wool, like snow. + His eyes were like a flame of fire. +001:015 His feet were like burnished brass, as if it had been refined + in a furnace. His voice was like the voice of many waters. +001:016 He had seven stars in his right hand. Out of his mouth proceeded + a sharp two-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining + at its brightest. +001:017 When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man. + He laid his right hand on me, saying, "Don't be afraid. + I am the first and the last, +001:018 and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am + alive forevermore. Amen. I have the keys of Death and + of Hades{or, Hell}. +001:019 Write therefore the things which you have seen, and the things + which are, and the things which will happen hereafter; +001:020 the mystery of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand, + and the seven golden lampstands. The seven stars are + the angels{or, messengers (here and wherever angels are + mentioned)} of the seven assemblies. The seven lampstands + are seven assemblies. +002:001 "To the angel of the assembly in Ephesus write: + "He who holds the seven stars in his right hand, he who walks + among the seven golden lampstands says these things: +002:002 "I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, and that + you can't tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call + themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them false. +002:003 You have perseverance and have endured for my name's sake, + and have{TR adds "have labored and"} not grown weary. +002:004 But I have this against you, that you left your first love. +002:005 Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent + and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, + and will move your lampstand out of its place, unless you repent. +002:006 But this you have, that you hate the works of the Nicolaitans, + which I also hate. +002:007 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to + the assemblies. To him who overcomes I will give to eat + of the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of my God. +002:008 "To the angel of the assembly in Smyrna write: + "The first and the last, who was dead, and has come to life + says these things: +002:009 "I know your works, oppression, and your poverty (but you + are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, + and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan. +002:010 Don't be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. + Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, + that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. + Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life. +002:011 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says + to the assemblies. He who overcomes won't be harmed by + the second death. +002:012 "To the angel of the assembly in Pergamum write: + "He who has the sharp two-edged sword says these things: +002:013 "I know your works and where you dwell, where Satan's throne is. + You hold firmly to my name, and didn't deny my faith in the days + of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, + where Satan dwells. +002:014 But I have a few things against you, because you have there + some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw + a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things + sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality. +002:015 So you also have some who hold to the teaching + of the Nicolaitans likewise{TR reads "which I hate" + instead of "likewise"}. +002:016 Repent therefore, or else I am coming to you quickly, and I + will make war against them with the sword of my mouth. +002:017 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to + the assemblies. To him who overcomes, to him I will give + of the hidden manna,{Manna is supernatural food, named after + the Hebrew for "What is it?". See Exodus 11:7-9.} and I will + give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written, + which no one knows but he who receives it. +002:018 "To the angel of the assembly in Thyatira write: + "The Son of God, who has his eyes like a flame of fire, + and his feet are like burnished brass, says these things: +002:019 "I know your works, your love, faith, service, patient endurance, + and that your last works are more than the first. +002:020 But I have this against you, that you tolerate your{TR, NU read "that" + instead of "your"} woman, Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. + She teaches and seduces my servants to commit sexual immorality, + and to eat things sacrificed to idols. +002:021 I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of + her sexual immorality. +002:022 Behold, I will throw her into a bed, and those who commit + adultery with her into great oppression, unless they repent + of her works. +002:023 I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies + will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. + I will give to each one of you according to your deeds. +002:024 But to you I say, to the rest who are in Thyatira, as many + as don't have this teaching, who don't know what some call + 'the deep things of Satan,' to you I say, I am not putting + any other burden on you. +002:025 Nevertheless, hold firmly that which you have, until I come. +002:026 He who overcomes, and he who keeps my works to the end, + to him I will give authority over the nations. +002:027 He will rule them with a rod of iron, shattering them like clay + pots;{Psalm 2:9} as I also have received of my Father: +002:028 and I will give him the morning star. +002:029 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says + to the assemblies. +003:001 "And to the angel of the assembly in Sardis write: "He who has + the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars says these things: + "I know your works, that you have a reputation of being alive, + but you are dead. +003:002 Wake up, and keep the things that remain, which you were about + to throw away, for I have found no works of yours perfected + before my God. +003:003 Remember therefore how you have received and heard. + Keep it, and repent. If therefore you won't watch, I will come + as a thief, and you won't know what hour I will come upon you. +003:004 Nevertheless you have a few names in Sardis that did not + defile their garments. They will walk with me in white, + for they are worthy. +003:005 He who overcomes will be arrayed in white garments, and I + will in no way blot his name out of the book of life, and I + will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels. +003:006 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says + to the assemblies. +003:007 "To the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write: + "He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, + he who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one opens, + says these things: +003:008 "I know your works (behold, I have set before you an open door, + which no one can shut), that you have a little power, + and kept my word, and didn't deny my name. +003:009 Behold, I give of the synagogue of Satan, of those who say they + are Jews, and they are not, but lie. Behold, I will make + them to come and worship before your feet, and to know that I + have loved you. +003:010 Because you kept my command to endure, I also will keep you + from the hour of testing, which is to come on the whole world, + to test those who dwell on the earth. +003:011 I am coming quickly! Hold firmly that which you have, + so that no one takes your crown. +003:012 He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, + and he will go out from there no more. I will write on him + the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, + the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God, + and my own new name. +003:013 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says + to the assemblies. +003:014 "To the angel of the assembly in Laodicea write: "The Amen, + the Faithful and True Witness, the Head of God's creation, + says these things: +003:015 "I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. + I wish you were cold or hot. +003:016 So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, + I will vomit you out of my mouth. +003:017 Because you say, 'I am rich, and have gotten riches, + and have need of nothing;' and don't know that you are + the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked; +003:018 I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, that you may + become rich; and white garments, that you may clothe yourself, + and that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; + and eye salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see. +003:019 As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, + and repent. +003:020 Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears + my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him, + and will dine with him, and he with me. +003:021 He who overcomes, I will give to him to sit down with me on + my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father + on his throne. +003:022 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says + to the assemblies." +004:001 After these things I looked and saw a door opened in heaven, + and the first voice that I heard, like a trumpet speaking + with me, was one saying, "Come up here, and I will show you + the things which must happen after this." +004:002 Immediately I was in the Spirit. Behold, there was a throne + set in heaven, and one sitting on the throne +004:003 that looked like a jasper stone and a sardius. There was + a rainbow around the throne, like an emerald to look at. +004:004 Around the throne were twenty-four thrones. On the thrones + were twenty-four elders sitting, dressed in white garments, + with crowns of gold on their heads. +004:005 Out of the throne proceed lightnings, sounds, and thunders. + There were seven lamps of fire burning before his throne, + which are the seven Spirits of God. +004:006 Before the throne was something like a sea of glass, similar + to crystal. In the midst of the throne, and around the throne + were four living creatures full of eyes before and behind. +004:007 The first creature was like a lion, and the second creature + like a calf, and the third creature had a face like a man, + and the fourth was like a flying eagle. +004:008 The four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, + are full of eyes around about and within. They have no rest day + and night, saying, "Holy, holy, holy{Hodges/Farstad MT reads "holy" + 9 times instead of 3.} is the Lord God, the Almighty, + who was and who is and who is to come!" +004:009 When the living creatures give glory, honor, and thanks to him + who sits on the throne, to him who lives forever and ever, +004:010 the twenty-four elders fall down before him who sits on + the throne, and worship him who lives forever and ever, + and throw their crowns before the throne, saying, +004:011 "Worthy are you, our Lord and God, the Holy One,{TR omits + "and God, the Holy One,"} to receive the glory, the honor, + and the power, for you created all things, and because of your + desire they existed, and were created!" +005:001 I saw, in the right hand of him who sat on the throne, a book + written inside and outside, sealed shut with seven seals. +005:002 I saw a mighty angel proclaiming with a loud voice, "Who is + worthy to open the book, and to break its seals?" +005:003 No one in heaven above, or on the earth, or under the earth, + was able to open the book, or to look in it. +005:004 And I wept much, because no one was found worthy to open the book, + or to look in it. +005:005 One of the elders said to me, "Don't weep. Behold, the Lion + who is of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has overcome; + he who opens the book and its seven seals." +005:006 I saw in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, + and in the midst of the elders, a Lamb standing, as though + it had been slain, having seven horns, and seven eyes, + which are the seven Spirits of God, sent out into all the earth. +005:007 Then he came, and he took it out of the right hand of him + who sat on the throne. +005:008 Now when he had taken the book, the four living creatures + and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, + each one having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, + which are the prayers of the saints. +005:009 They sang a new song, saying, "You are worthy to take the book, + and to open its seals: for you were killed, and bought us for God + with your blood, out of every tribe, language, people, and nation, +005:010 and made us kings and priests to our God, and we will + reign on earth." +005:011 I saw, and I heard something like a voice of many angels + around the throne, the living creatures, and the elders; + and the number of them was ten thousands of ten thousands, + and thousands of thousands; +005:012 saying with a loud voice, "Worthy is the Lamb who has been + killed to receive the power, wealth, wisdom, strength, honor, + glory, and blessing!" +005:013 I heard every created thing which is in heaven, on the earth, + under the earth, on the sea, and everything in them, saying, + "To him who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb be the blessing, + the honor, the glory, and the dominion, forever and ever! + Amen!{TR omits "Amen!"}" +005:014 The four living creatures said, "Amen!" The {TR adds + "twenty-four"}elders fell down and worshiped.{TR adds "the + one living forever and ever"} +006:001 I saw that the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard + one of the four living creatures saying, as with a voice + of thunder, "Come and see!" +006:002 And behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it had a bow. + A crown was given to him, and he came forth conquering, + and to conquer. +006:003 When he opened the second seal, I heard the second living + creature saying, "Come!" +006:004 Another came forth, a red horse. To him who sat on it was given + power to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill + one another. There was given to him a great sword. +006:005 When he opened the third seal, I heard the third living + creature saying, "Come and see!" And behold, a black horse, + and he who sat on it had a balance in his hand. +006:006 I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, + "A choenix{A choenix is a dry volume measure that is a little + more than a litre (a little more than a quart).} of wheat + for a denarius, and three choenix of barley for a denarius! + Don't damage the oil and the wine!" +006:007 When he opened the fourth seal, I heard the fourth living + creature saying, "Come and see!" +006:008 And behold, a pale horse, and he who sat on it, + his name was Death. Hades{or, Hell} followed with him. + Authority over one fourth of the earth, to kill with the sword, + with famine, with death, and by the wild animals of the earth + was given to him. +006:009 When he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar + the souls of those who had been killed for the Word of God, + and for the testimony of the Lamb which they had. +006:010 They cried with a loud voice, saying, "How long, Master, the holy + and true, until you judge and avenge our blood on those who + dwell on the earth?" +006:011 A long white robe was given to each of them. They were told + that they should rest yet for a while, until their fellow servants + and their brothers,{The word for "brothers" here and where context + allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" + or "siblings."} who would also be killed even as they were, + should complete their course. +006:012 I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and there was a + great earthquake. The sun became black as sackcloth made + of hair, and the whole moon became as blood. +006:013 The stars of the sky fell to the earth, like a fig tree dropping + its unripe figs when it is shaken by a great wind. +006:014 The sky was removed like a scroll when it is rolled up. + Every mountain and island were moved out of their places. +006:015 The kings of the earth, the princes, the commanding officers, + the rich, the strong, and every slave and free person, + hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains. +006:016 They told the mountains and the rocks, "Fall on us, + and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne, + and from the wrath of the Lamb, +006:017 for the great day of his wrath has come; and who is able to stand?" +007:001 After this, I saw four angels standing at the four corners + of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, + so that no wind would blow on the earth, or on the sea, + or on any tree. +007:002 I saw another angel ascend from the sunrise, having the seal + of the living God. He cried with a loud voice to the four + angels to whom it was given to harm the earth and the sea, +007:003 saying, "Don't harm the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, + until we have sealed the bondservants of our God + on their foreheads!" +007:004 I heard the number of those who were sealed, one hundred + forty-four thousand, sealed out of every tribe of the + children of Israel: +007:005 of the tribe of Judah were sealed twelve thousand, of the tribe + of Reuben twelve thousand, of the tribe of Gad twelve thousand, +007:006 of the tribe of Asher twelve thousand, of the tribe of Naphtali + twelve thousand, of the tribe of Manasseh twelve thousand, +007:007 of the tribe of Simeon twelve thousand, of the tribe of Levi + twelve thousand, of the tribe of Issachar twelve thousand, +007:008 of the tribe of Zebulun twelve thousand, of the tribe + of Joseph twelve thousand, of the tribe of Benjamin were + sealed twelve thousand. +007:009 After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude, + which no man could number, out of every nation and of + all tribes, peoples, and languages, standing before the throne + and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, with palm branches + in their hands. +007:010 They cried with a loud voice, saying, "Salvation be to our God, + who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!" +007:011 All the angels were standing around the throne, the elders, + and the four living creatures; and they fell on their faces + before his throne, and worshiped God, +007:012 saying, "Amen! Blessing, glory, wisdom, thanksgiving, honor, power, + and might, be to our God forever and ever! Amen." +007:013 One of the elders answered, saying to me, "These who are arrayed + in white robes, who are they, and from where did they come?" +007:014 I told him, "My lord, you know." He said to me, + "These are those who came out of the great tribulation. + They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb's blood. +007:015 Therefore they are before the throne of God, they serve him + day and night in his temple. He who sits on the throne + will spread his tent over them. +007:016 They will never be hungry, neither thirsty any more; + neither will the sun beat on them, nor any heat; +007:017 for the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne shepherds them, + and leads them to springs of waters of life. And God will + wipe away every tear from their eyes." +008:001 When he opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven + for about half an hour. +008:002 I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets + were given to them. +008:003 Another angel came and stood over the altar, having a golden censer. + Much incense was given to him, that he should add it to + the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar which was + before the throne. +008:004 The smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, + went up before God out of the angel's hand. +008:005 The angel took the censer, and he filled it with the fire of + the altar, and threw it on the earth. There followed thunders, + sounds, lightnings, and an earthquake. +008:006 The seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared + themselves to sound. +008:007 The first sounded, and there followed hail and fire, + mixed with blood, and they were thrown to the earth. + One third of the earth was burnt up,{TR omits "One third + of the earth was burnt up"} and one third of the trees were + burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up. +008:008 The second angel sounded, and something like a great burning mountain + was thrown into the sea. One third of the sea became blood, +008:009 and one third of the living creatures which were in the sea died. + One third of the ships were destroyed. +008:010 The third angel sounded, and a great star fell from the sky, + burning like a torch, and it fell on one third of the rivers, + and on the springs of the waters. +008:011 The name of the star is called "Wormwood." One third of the + waters became wormwood. Many people died from the waters, + because they were made bitter. +008:012 The fourth angel sounded, and one third of the sun was struck, + and one third of the moon, and one third of the stars; + so that one third of them would be darkened, and the day wouldn't + shine for one third of it, and the night in the same way. +008:013 I saw, and I heard an eagle,{TR reads "angel" + instead of "eagle"} flying in mid heaven, saying with a + loud voice, "Woe! Woe! Woe for those who dwell on the earth, + because of the other voices of the trumpets of the three angels, + who are yet to sound!" +009:001 The fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from the sky which + had fallen to the earth. The key to the pit of the abyss + was given to him. +009:002 He opened the pit of the abyss, and smoke went up out of the pit, + like the smoke from a{TR adds "great"} burning furnace. + The sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke + from the pit. +009:003 Then out of the smoke came forth locusts on the earth, and power + was given to them, as the scorpions of the earth have power. +009:004 They were told that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, + neither any green thing, neither any tree, but only those people + who don't have God's seal on their foreheads. +009:005 They were given power not to kill them, but to torment them for + five months. Their torment was like the torment of a scorpion, + when it strikes a person. +009:006 In those days people will seek death, and will in no way find it. + They will desire to die, and death will flee from them. +009:007 The shapes of the locusts were like horses prepared for war. + On their heads were something like golden crowns, and their + faces were like people's faces. +009:008 They had hair like women's hair, and their teeth were like + those of lions. +009:009 They had breastplates, like breastplates of iron. + The sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots, + or of many horses rushing to war. +009:010 They have tails like those of scorpions, and stings. + In their tails they have power to harm men for five months. +009:011 They have over them as king the angel of the abyss. + His name in Hebrew is "Abaddon,"{"Abaddon" is a Hebrew word that + means ruin, destruction, or the place of destruction} but in Greek, + he has the name "Apollyon."{"Apollyon" means "Destroyer."} +009:012 The first woe is past. Behold, there are still two woes + coming after this. +009:013 The sixth angel sounded. I heard a voice from the horns + of the golden altar which is before God, +009:014 saying to the sixth angel who had one trumpet, "Free the four + angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates!" +009:015 The four angels were freed who had been prepared for that hour + and day and month and year, so that they might kill one + third of mankind. +009:016 The number of the armies of the horsemen was two hundred + million{literally, "ten thousands of ten thousands"}. I heard + the number of them. +009:017 Thus I saw the horses in the vision, and those who sat on them, + having breastplates of fiery red, hyacinth blue, and sulfur yellow; + and the heads of lions. Out of their mouths proceed fire, + smoke, and sulfur. +009:018 By these three plagues were one third of mankind killed: + by the fire, the smoke, and the sulfur, which proceeded out + of their mouths. +009:019 For the power of the horses is in their mouths, and in their tails. + For their tails are like serpents, and have heads, and with + them they harm. +009:020 The rest of mankind, who were not killed with these plagues, + didn't repent of the works of their hands, that they wouldn't + worship demons, and the idols of gold, and of silver, + and of brass, and of stone, and of wood; which can neither see, + nor hear, nor walk. +009:021 They didn't repent of their murders, nor of their sorceries,{The + word for "sorceries" (pharmakeia) also implies the use + of potions, poisons, and drugs} nor of their sexual immorality, + nor of their thefts. +010:001 I saw a mighty angel coming down out of the sky, clothed with + a cloud. A rainbow was on his head. His face was like the sun, + and his feet like pillars of fire. +010:002 He had in his hand a little open book. He set his right foot + on the sea, and his left on the land. +010:003 He cried with a loud voice, as a lion roars. When he cried, + the seven thunders uttered their voices. +010:004 When the seven thunders sounded, I was about to write; + but I heard a voice from the sky saying, "Seal up the things + which the seven thunders said, and don't write them." +010:005 The angel who I saw standing on the sea and on the land lifted + up his right hand to the sky, +010:006 and swore by him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven + and the things that are in it, the earth and the things + that are in it, and the sea and the things that are in it, + that there will no longer be delay, +010:007 but in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he is + about to sound, then the mystery of God is finished, + as he declared to his servants, the prophets. +010:008 The voice which I heard from heaven, again speaking with me, + said, "Go, take the book which is open in the hand of the angel + who stands on the sea and on the land." +010:009 I went to the angel, telling him to give me the little book. + He said to me, "Take it, and eat it up. It will make your + stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey." +010:010 I took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it up. + It was as sweet as honey in my mouth. When I had eaten it, + my stomach was made bitter. +010:011 They told me, "You must prophesy again over many peoples, + nations, languages, and kings." +011:001 A reed like a rod was given to me. Someone said, "Rise, and measure + God's temple, and the altar, and those who worship in it. +011:002 Leave out the court which is outside of the temple, + and don't measure it, for it has been given to the nations. + They will tread the holy city under foot for forty-two months. +011:003 I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy + one thousand two hundred sixty days, clothed in sackcloth." +011:004 These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands, + standing before the Lord of the earth. +011:005 If anyone desires to harm them, fire proceeds out of their mouth + and devours their enemies. If anyone desires to harm them, + he must be killed in this way. +011:006 These have the power to shut up the sky, that it may not rain + during the days of their prophecy. They have power over + the waters, to turn them into blood, and to strike the earth + with every plague, as often as they desire. +011:007 When they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up + out of the abyss will make war with them, and overcome them, + and kill them. +011:008 Their dead bodies will be in the street of the great city, + which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also their + Lord was crucified. +011:009 From among the peoples, tribes, languages, and nations people + will look at their dead bodies for three and a half days, + and will not allow their dead bodies to be laid in a tomb. +011:010 Those who dwell on the earth rejoice over them, and they will + be glad. They will give gifts to one another, because these + two prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth. +011:011 After the three and a half days, the breath of life from + God entered into them, and they stood on their feet. + Great fear fell on those who saw them. +011:012 I heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, "Come up here!" + They went up into heaven in the cloud, and their enemies saw them. +011:013 In that day there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the + city fell. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, + and the rest were terrified, and gave glory to the God of heaven. +011:014 The second woe is past. Behold, the third woe comes quickly. +011:015 The seventh angel sounded, and great voices in heaven followed, + saying, "The kingdom of the world has become the Kingdom of + our Lord, and of his Christ. He will reign forever and ever!" +011:016 The twenty-four elders, who sit on their thrones before God's throne, + fell on their faces and worshiped God, +011:017 saying: "We give you thanks, Lord God, the Almighty, + the one who is and who was{TR adds "and who is coming"}; + because you have taken your great power, and reigned. +011:018 The nations were angry, and your wrath came, as did the time + for the dead to be judged, and to give your bondservants + the prophets, their reward, as well as to the saints, + and those who fear your name, to the small and the great; + and to destroy those who destroy the earth." +011:019 God's temple that is in heaven was opened, and the ark of the Lord's + covenant was seen in his temple. Lightnings, sounds, thunders, + an earthquake, and great hail followed. +012:001 A great sign was seen in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, + and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown + of twelve stars. +012:002 She was with child. She cried out in pain, laboring to give birth. +012:003 Another sign was seen in heaven. Behold, a great red dragon, + having seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven crowns. +012:004 His tail drew one third of the stars of the sky, and threw + them to the earth. The dragon stood before the woman who was + about to give birth, so that when she gave birth he might + devour her child. +012:005 She gave birth to a son, a male child, who is to rule all + the nations with a rod of iron. Her child was caught up to God, + and to his throne. +012:006 The woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place + prepared by God, that there they may nourish her one thousand + two hundred sixty days. +012:007 There was war in the sky. Michael and his angels made war + on the dragon. The dragon and his angels made war. +012:008 They didn't prevail, neither was a place found for him any + more in heaven. +012:009 The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is + called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. + He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown + down with him. +012:010 I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, "Now is come the salvation, + the power, and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority of + his Christ; for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, + who accuses them before our God day and night. +012:011 They overcame him because of the Lamb's blood, and because of + the word of their testimony. They didn't love their life, + even to death. +012:012 Therefore rejoice, heavens, and you who dwell in them. + Woe to the earth and to the sea, because the devil has + gone down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has + but a short time." +012:013 When the dragon saw that he was thrown down to the earth, + he persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male child. +012:014 Two wings of the great eagle were given to the woman, that she + might fly into the wilderness to her place, so that she + might be nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, + from the face of the serpent. +012:015 The serpent spewed water out of his mouth after the woman + like a river, that he might cause her to be carried away + by the stream. +012:016 The earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth + and swallowed up the river which the dragon spewed out + of his mouth. +012:017 The dragon grew angry with the woman, and went away to make + war with the rest of her seed, who keep God's commandments + and hold Jesus' testimony. +013:001 Then I stood on the sand of the sea. I saw a beast coming + up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads. + On his horns were ten crowns, and on his heads, blasphemous names. +013:002 The beast which I saw was like a leopard, and his feet were + like those of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion. + The dragon gave him his power, his throne, and great authority. +013:003 One of his heads looked like it had been wounded fatally. + His fatal wound was healed, and the whole earth marveled + at the beast. +013:004 They worshiped the dragon, because he gave his authority to the beast, + and they worshiped the beast, saying, "Who is like the beast? + Who is able to make war with him?" +013:005 A mouth speaking great things and blasphemy was given to him. + Authority to make war for forty-two months was given to him. +013:006 He opened his mouth for blasphemy against God, to blaspheme + his name, and his dwelling, those who dwell in heaven. +013:007 It was given to him to make war with the saints, and to + overcome them. Authority over every tribe, people, language, + and nation was given to him. +013:008 All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose + name has not been written from the foundation of the world + in the book of life of the Lamb who has been killed. +013:009 If anyone has an ear, let him hear. +013:010 If anyone has captivity, he will go. If anyone is with the sword, + he must be killed.{TR reads "If anyone leads into captivity, + into captivity he goes. If anyone will kill with the sword, + he must be killed with a sword." instead of "If anyone + has captivity, he goes away. If anyone is with the sword, + he must be killed."} Here is the endurance and the faith + of the saints. +013:011 I saw another beast coming up out of the earth. + He had two horns like a lamb, and he spoke like a dragon. +013:012 He exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence. + He makes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship + the first beast, whose fatal wound was healed. +013:013 He performs great signs, even making fire come down out of + the sky to the earth in the sight of people. +013:014 He deceives my own people who dwell on the earth because + of the signs he was granted to do in front of the beast; + saying to those who dwell on the earth, that they should make + an image to the beast who had the sword wound and lived. +013:015 It was given to him to give breath to it, to the image + of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, + and cause as many as wouldn't worship the image of the beast + to be killed. +013:016 He causes all, the small and the great, the rich and the poor, + and the free and the slave, to be given marks on their right hands, + or on their foreheads; +013:017 and that no one would be able to buy or to sell, unless he has + that mark, the name of the beast or the number of his name. +013:018 Here is wisdom. He who has understanding, let him calculate + the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man. + His number is six hundred sixty-six. +014:001 I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him + a number, one hundred forty-four thousand, having his name, + and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads. +014:002 I heard a sound from heaven, like the sound of many waters, + and like the sound of a great thunder. The sound which I + heard was like that of harpists playing on their harps. +014:003 They sing a new song before the throne, and before the four + living creatures and the elders. No one could learn the song + except the one hundred forty-four thousand, those who had been + redeemed out of the earth. +014:004 These are those who were not defiled with women, for they + are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. + These were redeemed by Jesus from among men, the first fruits + to God and to the Lamb. +014:005 In their mouth was found no lie, for they are blameless.{TR + adds "before the throne of God"} +014:006 I saw an angel flying in mid heaven, having an eternal + Good News to proclaim to those who dwell on the earth, + and to every nation, tribe, language, and people. +014:007 He said with a loud voice, "Fear the Lord, and give him glory; + for the hour of his judgment has come. Worship him who made + the heaven, the earth, the sea, and the springs of waters!" +014:008 Another, a second angel, followed, saying, "Babylon the great + has fallen, which has made all the nations to drink of the wine + of the wrath of her sexual immorality." +014:009 Another angel, a third, followed them, saying with a great voice, + "If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives + a mark on his forehead, or on his hand, +014:010 he also will drink of the wine of the wrath of God, + which is prepared unmixed in the cup of his anger. + He will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence + of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb. +014:011 The smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever. + They have no rest day and night, those who worship the beast + and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name. +014:012 Here is the patience of the saints, those who keep the commandments + of God, and the faith of Jesus." +014:013 I heard the voice from heaven saying, "Write, 'Blessed are the dead + who die in the Lord from now on.'" "Yes," says the Spirit, + "that they may rest from their labors; for their works + follow with them." +014:014 I looked, and behold, a white cloud; and on the cloud one + sitting like a son of man,{Daniel 7:13} having on his head + a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle. +014:015 Another angel came out from the temple, crying with a loud + voice to him who sat on the cloud, "Send forth your sickle, + and reap; for the hour to reap has come; for the harvest + of the earth is ripe!" +014:016 He who sat on the cloud thrust his sickle on the earth, + and the earth was reaped. +014:017 Another angel came out from the temple which is in heaven. + He also had a sharp sickle. +014:018 Another angel came out from the altar, he who has power + over fire, and he called with a great voice to him who had + the sharp sickle, saying, "Send forth your sharp sickle, + and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth, for the earth's + grapes are fully ripe!" +014:019 The angel thrust his sickle into the earth, and gathered + the vintage of the earth, and threw it into the great winepress + of the wrath of God. +014:020 The winepress was trodden outside of the city, and blood came + out from the winepress, even to the bridles of the horses, + as far as one thousand six hundred stadia.{1600 stadia = 296 + kilometers or 184 miles} +015:001 I saw another great and marvelous sign in the sky: + seven angels having the seven last plagues, for in them God's + wrath is finished. +015:002 I saw something like a sea of glass mixed with fire, and those + who overcame the beast, his image,{TR adds "his mark,"} + and the number of his name, standing on the sea of glass, + having harps of God. +015:003 They sang the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song + of the Lamb, saying, "Great and marvelous are your works, + Lord God, the Almighty! Righteous and true are your ways, + you King of the nations. +015:004 Who wouldn't fear you, Lord, and glorify your name? For you only + are holy. For all the nations will come and worship before you. + For your righteous acts have been revealed." +015:005 After these things I looked, and the temple of the tabernacle + of the testimony in heaven was opened. +015:006 The seven angels who had the seven plagues came out, + clothed with pure, bright linen, and wearing golden sashes + around their breasts. +015:007 One of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels + seven golden bowls full of the wrath of God, who lives + forever and ever. +015:008 The temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, + and from his power. No one was able to enter into the temple, + until the seven plagues of the seven angels would be finished. +016:001 I heard a loud voice out of the temple, saying to the seven angels, + "Go and pour out the seven bowls of the wrath of God + on the earth!" +016:002 The first went, and poured out his bowl into the earth, + and it became a harmful and evil sore on the people who had + the mark of the beast, and who worshiped his image. +016:003 The second angel poured out his bowl into the sea, and it became + blood as of a dead man. Every living thing in the sea died. +016:004 The third poured out his bowl into the rivers and springs of water, + and they became blood. +016:005 I heard the angel of the waters saying, "You are righteous, + who are and who were, you Holy One, because you have + judged these things. +016:006 For they poured out the blood of the saints and the prophets, + and you have given them blood to drink. They deserve this." +016:007 I heard the altar saying, "Yes, Lord God, the Almighty, + true and righteous are your judgments." +016:008 The fourth poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was given + to him to scorch men with fire. +016:009 People were scorched with great heat, and people blasphemed + the name of God who has the power over these plagues. + They didn't repent and give him glory. +016:010 The fifth poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, + and his kingdom was darkened. They gnawed their tongues + because of the pain, +016:011 and they blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains + and their sores. They didn't repent of their works. +016:012 The sixth poured out his bowl on the great river, the Euphrates. + Its water was dried up, that the way might be made ready + for the kings that come from the sunrise. +016:013 I saw coming out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth + of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet, + three unclean spirits, something like frogs; +016:014 for they are spirits of demons, performing signs; which go forth + to the kings of the whole inhabited earth, to gather them + together for the war of that great day of God, the Almighty. +016:015 "Behold, I come like a thief. Blessed is he who watches, + and keeps his clothes, so that he doesn't walk naked, + and they see his shame." +016:016 He gathered them together into the place which is called + in Hebrew, Megiddo. +016:017 The seventh poured out his bowl into the air. + A loud voice came forth out of the temple of heaven, + from the throne, saying, "It is done!" +016:018 There were lightnings, sounds, and thunders; and there was + a great earthquake, such as was not since there were men + on the earth, so great an earthquake, so mighty. +016:019 The great city was divided into three parts, and the cities + of the nations fell. Babylon the great was remembered + in the sight of God, to give to her the cup of the wine + of the fierceness of his wrath. +016:020 Every island fled away, and the mountains were not found. +016:021 Great hailstones, about the weight of a talent,{1 talent is about + 34 kilograms or 75 pounds} came down out of the sky on people. + People blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, + for this plague is exceedingly severe. +017:001 One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke + with me, saying, "Come here. I will show you the judgment + of the great prostitute who sits on many waters, +017:002 with whom the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality, + and those who dwell in the earth were made drunken with the wine + of her sexual immorality." +017:003 He carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness. + I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet-colored animal, full of + blasphemous names, having seven heads and ten horns. +017:004 The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and decked with gold + and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden + cup full of abominations and the impurities of the sexual + immorality of the earth. +017:005 And on her forehead a name was written, "MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, + THE MOTHER OF THE PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH." +017:006 I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, + and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her, + I wondered with great amazement. +017:007 The angel said to me, "Why do you wonder? I will tell you + the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carries her, + which has the seven heads and the ten horns. +017:008 The beast that you saw was, and is not; and is about + to come up out of the abyss and to go into destruction. + Those who dwell on the earth and whose names have not + been written in the book of life from the foundation + of the world will marvel when they see that the beast was, + and is not, and shall be present.{TR reads "yet is" + instead of "shall be present"} +017:009 Here is the mind that has wisdom. The seven heads are + seven mountains, on which the woman sits. +017:010 They are seven kings. Five have fallen, the one is, + the other has not yet come. When he comes, he must continue + a little while. +017:011 The beast that was, and is not, is himself also an eighth, + and is of the seven; and he goes to destruction. +017:012 The ten horns that you saw are ten kings who have received + no kingdom as yet, but they receive authority as kings, + with the beast, for one hour. +017:013 These have one mind, and they give their power and authority + to the beast. +017:014 These will war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, + for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings. They also will + overcome who are with him, called and chosen and faithful." +017:015 He said to me, "The waters which you saw, where the prostitute sits, + are peoples, multitudes, nations, and languages. +017:016 The ten horns which you saw, and the beast, these will hate + the prostitute, and will make her desolate, and will make her naked, + and will eat her flesh, and will burn her utterly with fire. +017:017 For God has put in their hearts to do what he has in mind, + and to be of one mind, and to give their kingdom to the beast, + until the words of God should be accomplished. +017:018 The woman whom you saw is the great city, which reigns over + the kings of the earth." +018:001 After these things, I saw another angel coming down out of + the sky, having great authority. The earth was illuminated + with his glory. +018:002 He cried with a mighty voice, saying, "Fallen, fallen is + Babylon the great, and she has become a habitation of demons, + a prison of every unclean spirit, and a prison of every + unclean and hateful bird! +018:003 For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her + sexual immorality, the kings of the earth committed sexual + immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich + from the abundance of her luxury." +018:004 I heard another voice from heaven, saying, "Come out of her, + my people, that you have no participation in her sins, + and that you don't receive of her plagues, +018:005 for her sins have reached to the sky, and God has + remembered her iniquities. +018:006 Return to her just as she returned, and repay her double as she did, + and according to her works. In the cup which she mixed, + mix to her double. +018:007 However much she glorified herself, and grew wanton, so much + give her of torment and mourning. For she says in her heart, + 'I sit a queen, and am no widow, and will in no way see mourning.' +018:008 Therefore in one day her plagues will come: death, mourning, + and famine; and she will be utterly burned with fire; + for the Lord God who has judged her is strong. +018:009 The kings of the earth, who committed sexual immorality + and lived wantonly with her, will weep and wail over her, + when they look at the smoke of her burning, +018:010 standing far away for the fear of her torment, saying, + 'Woe, woe, the great city, Babylon, the strong city! + For your judgment has come in one hour.' +018:011 The merchants of the earth weep and mourn over her, for no + one buys their merchandise any more; +018:012 merchandise of gold, silver, precious stones, pearls, fine linen, + purple, silk, scarlet, all expensive wood, every vessel of ivory, + every vessel made of most precious wood, and of brass, + and iron, and marble; +018:013 and cinnamon, incense, perfume, frankincense, wine, olive oil, + fine flour, wheat, sheep, horses, chariots, and people's + bodies and souls. +018:014 The fruits which your soul lusted after have been lost to you, + and all things that were dainty and sumptuous have perished + from you, and you will find them no more at all. +018:015 The merchants of these things, who were made rich by her, + will stand far away for the fear of her torment, + weeping and mourning; +018:016 saying, 'Woe, woe, the great city, she who was dressed + in fine linen, purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold + and precious stones and pearls! +018:017 For in an hour such great riches are made desolate.' + Every shipmaster, and everyone who sails anywhere, and mariners, + and as many as gain their living by sea, stood far away, +018:018 and cried out as they looked at the smoke of her burning, + saying, 'What is like the great city?' +018:019 They cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and mourning, + saying, 'Woe, woe, the great city, in which all who had their + ships in the sea were made rich by reason of her great wealth!' + For in one hour is she made desolate. +018:020 "Rejoice over her, O heaven, you saints, apostles, and prophets; + for God has judged your judgment on her." +018:021 A mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and cast + it into the sea, saying, "Thus with violence will Babylon, + the great city, be thrown down, and will be found no more at all. +018:022 The voice of harpists, minstrels, flute players, and trumpeters + will be heard no more at all in you. No craftsman, + of whatever craft, will be found any more at all in you. + The sound of a mill will be heard no more at all in you. +018:023 The light of a lamp will shine no more at all in you. + The voice of the bridegroom and of the bride will be heard no more + at all in you; for your merchants were the princes of the earth; + for with your sorcery all the nations were deceived. +018:024 In her was found the blood of prophets and of saints, + and of all who have been slain on the earth." +019:001 After these things I heard something like a loud voice of a great + multitude in heaven, saying, "Hallelujah! Salvation, power, + and glory belong to our God: +019:002 for true and righteous are his judgments. For he has judged + the great prostitute, who corrupted the earth with her + sexual immorality, and he has avenged the blood of his servants + at her hand." +019:003 A second said, "Hallelujah! Her smoke goes up forever and ever." +019:004 The twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and + worshiped God who sits on the throne, saying, "Amen! Hallelujah!" +019:005 A voice came forth from the throne, saying, "Give praise + to our God, all you his servants, you who fear him, the small + and the great!" +019:006 I heard something like the voice of a great multitude, + and like the voice of many waters, and like the voice of + mighty thunders, saying, "Hallelujah! For the Lord our God, + the Almighty, reigns! +019:007 Let us rejoice and be exceedingly glad, and let us give + the glory to him. For the marriage of the Lamb has come, + and his wife has made herself ready." +019:008 It was given to her that she would array herself in bright, + pure, fine linen: for the fine linen is the righteous acts + of the saints. +019:009 He said to me, "Write, 'Blessed are those who are invited + to the marriage supper of the Lamb.'" He said to me, + "These are true words of God." +019:010 I fell down before his feet to worship him. He said + to me, "Look! Don't do it! I am a fellow bondservant with you + and with your brothers who hold the testimony of Jesus. + Worship God, for the testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of Prophecy." +019:011 I saw the heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, + and he who sat on it is called Faithful and True. + In righteousness he judges and makes war. +019:012 His eyes are a flame of fire, and on his head are many crowns. + He has names written and a name written which no one knows + but he himself. +019:013 He is clothed in a garment sprinkled with blood. + His name is called "The Word of God." +019:014 The armies which are in heaven followed him on white horses, + clothed in white, pure, fine linen. +019:015 Out of his mouth proceeds a sharp, double-edged sword, + that with it he should strike the nations. He will rule + them with an iron rod.{Psalm 2:9} He treads the winepress + of the fierceness of the wrath of God, the Almighty. +019:016 He has on his garment and on his thigh a name written, + "KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS." +019:017 I saw an angel standing in the sun. He cried with a loud voice, + saying to all the birds that fly in the sky, "Come! Be gathered + together to the great supper of God,{TR reads "supper + of the great God" instead of "great supper of God"} +019:018 that you may eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, + the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses and of those + who sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and slave, + and small and great." +019:019 I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, + gathered together to make war against him who sat on the horse, + and against his army. +019:020 The beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who worked + the signs in his sight, with which he deceived those who had + received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. + These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that + burns with sulfur. +019:021 The rest were killed with the sword of him who sat on + the horse, the sword which came forth out of his mouth. + All the birds were filled with their flesh. +020:001 I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key + of the abyss and a great chain in his hand. +020:002 He seized the dragon, the old serpent, which is the devil + and Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited earth, and bound + him for a thousand years, +020:003 and cast him into the abyss, and shut it, and sealed it + over him, that he should deceive the nations no more, + until the thousand years were finished. After this, he must + be freed for a short time. +020:004 I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given + to them. I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded + for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, + and such as didn't worship the beast nor his image, and didn't + receive the mark on their forehead and on their hand. + They lived, and reigned with Christ for the thousand years. +020:005 The rest of the dead didn't live until the thousand years + were finished. This is the first resurrection. +020:006 Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. + Over these, the second death has no power, but they will + be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with him + one thousand years. +020:007 And after the thousand years, Satan will be released + from his prison, +020:008 and he will come out to deceive the nations which are in the four + corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together + to the war; the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. +020:009 They went up over the breadth of the earth, and surrounded + the camp of the saints, and the beloved city. Fire came + down out of heaven from God, and devoured them. +020:010 The devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire + and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet are also. + They will be tormented day and night forever and ever. +020:011 I saw a great white throne, and him who sat on it, + from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. + There was found no place for them. +020:012 I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before + the throne, and they opened books. Another book was opened, + which is the book of life. The dead were judged out of the things + which were written in the books, according to their works. +020:013 The sea gave up the dead who were in it. + Death and Hades{or, Hell} gave up the dead who were in them. + They were judged, each one according to his works. +020:014 Death and Hades{or, Hell} were thrown into the lake of fire. + This is the second death, the lake of fire. +020:015 If anyone was not found written in the book of life, he was + cast into the lake of fire. +021:001 I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven + and the first earth have passed away, and the sea is no more. +021:002 I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven + from God, made ready like a bride adorned for her husband. +021:003 I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying, "Behold, God's dwelling + is with people, and he will dwell with them, and they will be + his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. +021:004 He will wipe away from them every tear from their eyes. + Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, + nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away." +021:005 He who sits on the throne said, "Behold, I am making all things new." + He said, "Write, for these words of God are faithful and true." +021:006 He said to me, "It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, + the Beginning and the End. I will give freely to him who is + thirsty from the spring of the water of life. +021:007 He who overcomes, I will give him these things. + I will be his God, and he will be my son. +021:008 But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, + sexually immoral, sorcerers,{The word for "sorcerers" + here also includes users of potions and drugs.} idolaters, + and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire + and sulfur, which is the second death." +021:009 One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls, who were + loaded with the seven last plagues came, and he spoke + with me, saying, "Come here. I will show you the wife, + the Lamb's bride." +021:010 He carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, + and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out + of heaven from God, +021:011 having the glory of God. Her light was like a most precious stone, + as if it was a jasper stone, clear as crystal; +021:012 having a great and high wall; having twelve gates, and at + the gates twelve angels; and names written on them, which are + the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel. +021:013 On the east were three gates; and on the north three gates; + and on the south three gates; and on the west three gates. +021:014 The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them twelve + names of the twelve Apostles of the Lamb. +021:015 He who spoke with me had for a measure, a golden reed, + to measure the city, its gates, and its walls. +021:016 The city lies foursquare, and its length is as great as its breadth. + He measured the city with the reed, Twelve thousand twelve + stadia{12,012 stadia = or 2,221 kilometers or 1,380 miles. + TR reads 12,000 stadia instead of 12,012 stadia.}. Its length, + breadth, and height are equal. +021:017 Its wall is one hundred forty-four cubits,{144 cubits is about + 65.8 meters or 216 feet} by the measure of a man, that is, + of an angel. +021:018 The construction of its wall was jasper. The city was pure gold, + like pure glass. +021:019 The foundations of the city's wall were adorned with all + kinds of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; + the second, sapphire{or, lapis lazuli}; the third, chalcedony; + the fourth, emerald; +021:020 the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; + the eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth, chrysoprasus; + the eleventh, jacinth; and the twelfth, amethyst. +021:021 The twelve gates were twelve pearls. Each one of the gates + was made of one pearl. The street of the city was pure gold, + like transparent glass. +021:022 I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God, the Almighty, + and the Lamb, are its temple. +021:023 The city has no need for the sun, neither of the moon, to shine, + for the very glory of God illuminated it, and its lamp + is the Lamb. +021:024 The nations will walk in its light. The kings of the earth + bring the glory and honor of the nations into it. +021:025 Its gates will in no way be shut by day (for there will be + no night there), +021:026 and they shall bring the glory and the honor of the nations + into it so that they may enter. +021:027 There will in no way enter into it anything profane, or one + who causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are + written in the Lamb's book of life. +022:001 He showed me a{TR adds "pure"} river of water of life, + clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and + of the Lamb, +022:002 in the middle of its street. On this side of the river and on + that was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruits, + yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree + were for the healing of the nations. +022:003 There will be no curse any more. The throne of God and of + the Lamb will be in it, and his servants serve him. +022:004 They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads. +022:005 There will be no night, and they need no lamp light; + for the Lord God will illuminate them. They will reign + forever and ever. +022:006 He said to me, "These words are faithful and true. + The Lord God of the spirits of the prophets sent his angel + to show to his bondservants the things which must happen soon." +022:007 "Behold, I come quickly. Blessed is he who keeps the words + of the prophecy of this book." +022:008 Now I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things. + When I heard and saw, I fell down to worship before the feet + of the angel who had shown me these things. +022:009 He said to me, "See you don't do it! I am a fellow bondservant + with you and with your brothers, the prophets, and with those + who keep the words of this book. Worship God." +022:010 He said to me, "Don't seal up the words of the prophecy + of this book, for the time is at hand. +022:011 He who acts unjustly, let him act unjustly still. + He who is filthy, let him be filthy still. He who is righteous, + let him do righteousness still. He who is holy, let him + be holy still." +022:012 "Behold, I come quickly. My reward is with me, to repay + to each man according to his work. +022:013 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, + the Beginning and the End. +022:014 Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have + the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates + into the city. +022:015 Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, + the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves + and practices falsehood. +022:016 I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify these things to you + for the assemblies. I am the root and the offspring of David; + the Bright and Morning Star." +022:017 The Spirit and the bride say, "Come!" He who hears, + let him say, "Come!" He who is thirsty, let him come. + He who desires, let him take the water of life freely. +022:018 I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy + of this book, if anyone adds to them, may God add to him + the plagues which are written in this book. +022:019 If anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, + may God take away his part from the tree of life, and out + of the holy city, which are written in this book. +022:020 He who testifies these things says, "Yes, I come quickly." + Amen! Yes, come, Lord Jesus. +022:021 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with all the saints. Amen. + + + + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, THE WORLD ENGLISH BIBLE (WEB): COMPLETE *** + +This file should be named 8294.txt or 8294.zip + +Project Gutenberg eBooks are often created from several printed +editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the US +unless a copyright notice is included. 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