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Book 01 Genesis
001:001 In the beginning God{After "God," the Hebrew has the two letters
"Aleph Tav" (the first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet)
as a grammatical marker.} created the heavens and the earth.
001:002 Now the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface
of the deep. 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 <> 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 <> 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 <>
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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <>
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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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.
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046:001 <> 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 <>
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 <> 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 <>
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 <> 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 <>
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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <>
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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <>
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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <>
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.
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