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Genesis 1.2: 2 The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.

Genesis 1.4: 4 God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness.

Genesis 1.5: 5 God called the light “day”, and the darkness he called “night”. There was evening and there was morning, the first day.

Genesis 1.6: 6 God said, “Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.”

Genesis 1.7: 7 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.

Genesis 1.8: 8 God called the expanse “sky”. There was evening and there was morning, a second day.

Genesis 1.9: 9 God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear;” and it was so.

Genesis 1.10: 10 God called the dry land “earth”, and the gathering together of the waters he called “seas”. God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1.11: 11 God said, “Let the earth yield grass, herbs yielding seeds, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with their seeds in it, on the earth;” and it was so.

Genesis 1.12: 12 The earth yielded grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with their seeds in it, after their kind; and God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1.14: 14 God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs to mark seasons, days, and years;

Genesis 1.15: 15 and let them be for lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth;” and it was so.

Genesis 1.16: 16 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.

Genesis 1.17: 17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light to the earth,

Genesis 1.18: 18 and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1.20: 20 God said, “Let the waters abound with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.”

Genesis 1.21: 21 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.

Genesis 1.22: 22 God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”

Genesis 1.24: 24 God said, “Let the earth produce living creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind;” and it was so.

Genesis 1.25: 25 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.

Genesis 1.26: 26 God said, “Let’s make man in our image, after our likeness. 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.”

Genesis 1.27: 27 God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.

Genesis 1.28: 28 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.”

Genesis 1.29: 29 God said, “Behold,2 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.

Genesis 1.30: 30 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.

Genesis 1.31: 31 God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.

Genesis 2.2: 2 On the seventh day God finished his work which he had done; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done.

Genesis 2.3: 3 God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work of creation which he had done.

Genesis 2.4: 4 This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Yahweh1 God made the earth and the heavens.

Genesis 2.5: 5 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,

Genesis 2.6: 6 but a mist went up from the earth, and watered the whole surface of the ground.

Genesis 2.7: 7 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.

Genesis 2.8: 8 Yahweh God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.

Genesis 2.9: 9 Out of the ground Yahweh God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food, including the tree of life in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Genesis 2.10: 10 A river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it was parted, and became the source of four rivers.

Genesis 2.11: 11 The name of the first is Pishon: it flows through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

Genesis 2.12: 12 and the gold of that land is good. Bdellium2 and onyx stone are also there.

Genesis 2.13: 13 The name of the second river is Gihon. It is the same river that flows through the whole land of Cush.

Genesis 2.14: 14 The name of the third river is Hiddekel. This is the one which flows in front of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.

Genesis 2.15: 15 Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.

Genesis 2.16: 16 Yahweh God commanded the man, saying, “You may freely eat of every tree of the garden;

Genesis 2.17: 17 but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”

Genesis 2.18: 18 Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to3 him.”

Genesis 2.19: 19 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 became its name.

Genesis 2.20: 20 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 comparable to him.

Genesis 2.21: 21 Yahweh God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep. As the man slept, he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.

Genesis 2.22: 22 Yahweh God made a woman from the rib which he had taken from the man, and brought her to the man.

Genesis 2.23: 23 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.”

Genesis 2.24: 24 Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

Genesis 2.25: 25 The man and his wife were both naked, and they were not ashamed.

Genesis 3.1: 3Now 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’?”

Genesis 3.2: 2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees of the garden,

Genesis 3.3: 3 but not the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden. God has said, ‘You shall not eat of it. You shall not touch it, lest you die.’”

Genesis 3.5: 5 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.”

Genesis 3.6: 6 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 some of its fruit, and ate. Then she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate it, too.

Genesis 3.7: 7 Their eyes were opened, and they both knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together, and made coverings for themselves.

Genesis 3.8: 8 They heard Yahweh God’s voice 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.

Genesis 3.9: 9 Yahweh God called to the man, and said to him, “Where are you?”

Genesis 3.10: 10 The man said, “I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; so I hid myself.”

Genesis 3.11: 11 God said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”

Genesis 3.12: 12 The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”

Genesis 3.19: 19 You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground,

Genesis 3.20: 20 The man called his wife Eve because she would be the mother of all the living.

Genesis 3.21: 21 Yahweh God made garments of animal skins for Adam and for his wife, and clothed them.

Genesis 3.22: 22 Yahweh God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever—”

Genesis 3.23: 23 Therefore Yahweh God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.

Genesis 3.24: 24 So he drove out the man; and he placed cherubim1 at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.

Genesis 4.1: 4The man knew1 Eve his wife. She conceived,2 and gave birth to Cain, and said, “I have gotten a man with Yahweh’s help.”

Genesis 4.2: 2 Again she gave birth, to Cain’s brother Abel. Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

Genesis 4.3: 3 As time passed, Cain brought an offering to Yahweh from the fruit of the ground.

Genesis 4.4: 4 Abel also brought some of the firstborn of his flock and of its fat. Yahweh respected Abel and his offering,

Genesis 4.5: 5 but he didn’t respect Cain and his offering. Cain was very angry, and the expression on his face fell.

Genesis 4.6: 6 Yahweh said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why has the expression of your face fallen?

Genesis 4.7: 7 If you do well, won’t it 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.”

Genesis 4.8: 8 Cain said to Abel, his brother, “Let’s go into the field.” While they were in the field, Cain rose up against Abel, his brother, and killed him.

Genesis 4.10: 10 Yahweh said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries to me from the ground.

Genesis 4.11: 11 Now you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.

Genesis 4.12: 12 From now on, when you till the ground, it won’t yield its strength to you. You will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth.”

Genesis 4.13: 13 Cain said to Yahweh, “My punishment is greater than I can bear.

Genesis 4.14: 14 Behold, you have driven me out today 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. Whoever finds me will kill me.”

Genesis 4.15: 15 Yahweh said to him, “Therefore whoever slays Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold.” Yahweh appointed a sign for Cain, so that anyone finding him would not strike him.

Genesis 4.16: 16 Cain left Yahweh’s presence, and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

Genesis 4.17: 17 Cain knew his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Enoch. He built a city, and named the city after the name of his son, Enoch.

Genesis 4.18: 18 Irad was born to Enoch. Irad became the father of Mehujael. Mehujael became the father of Methushael. Methushael became the father of Lamech.

Genesis 4.19: 19 Lamech took two wives: the name of the first one was Adah, and the name of the second one was Zillah.

Genesis 4.20: 20 Adah gave birth to Jabal, who was the father of those who dwell in tents and have livestock.

Genesis 4.21: 21 His brother’s name was Jubal, who was the father of all who handle the harp and pipe.

Genesis 4.22: 22 Zillah also gave birth to Tubal Cain, the forger of every cutting instrument of bronze and iron. Tubal Cain’s sister was Naamah.

Genesis 4.25: 25 Adam knew his wife again. She gave birth to a son, and named him Seth, saying, “for God has given me another child instead of Abel, for Cain killed him.”

Genesis 4.26: 26 A son was also born to Seth, and he named him Enosh. At that time men began to call on Yahweh’s name.

Genesis 5.1: 5This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him in God’s likeness.

Genesis 5.2: 2 He created them male and female, and blessed them. On the day they were created, he named them Adam.1

Genesis 5.3: 3 Adam lived one hundred thirty years, and became the father of a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.

Genesis 5.4: 4 The days of Adam after he became the father of Seth were eight hundred years, and he became the father of other sons and daughters.

Genesis 5.5: 5 All the days that Adam lived were nine hundred thirty years, then he died.

Genesis 5.6: 6 Seth lived one hundred five years, then became the father of Enosh.

Genesis 5.7: 7 Seth lived after he became the father of Enosh eight hundred seven years, and became the father of other sons and daughters.

Genesis 5.8: 8 All of the days of Seth were nine hundred twelve years, then he died.

Genesis 5.10: 10 Enosh lived after he became the father of Kenan eight hundred fifteen years, and became the father of other sons and daughters.

Genesis 5.11: 11 All of the days of Enosh were nine hundred five years, then he died.

Genesis 5.12: 12 Kenan lived seventy years, then became the father of Mahalalel.

Genesis 5.13: 13 Kenan lived after he became the father of Mahalalel eight hundred forty years, and became the father of other sons and daughters

Genesis 5.14: 14 and all of the days of Kenan were nine hundred ten years, then he died.

Genesis 5.15: 15 Mahalalel lived sixty-five years, then became the father of Jared.

Genesis 5.16: 16 Mahalalel lived after he became the father of Jared eight hundred thirty years, and became the father of other sons and daughters.

Genesis 5.17: 17 All of the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred ninety-five years, then he died.

Genesis 5.18: 18 Jared lived one hundred sixty-two years, then became the father of Enoch.

Genesis 5.19: 19 Jared lived after he became the father of Enoch eight hundred years, and became the father of other sons and daughters.

Genesis 5.20: 20 All of the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty-two years, then he died.

Genesis 5.21: 21 Enoch lived sixty-five years, then became the father of Methuselah.

Genesis 5.22: 22 After Methuselah’s birth, Enoch walked with God for three hundred years, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

Genesis 5.25: 25 Methuselah lived one hundred eighty-seven years, then became the father of Lamech.

Genesis 5.26: 26 Methuselah lived after he became the father of Lamech seven hundred eighty-two years, and became the father of other sons and daughters.

Genesis 5.27: 27 All the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty-nine years, then he died.

Genesis 5.28: 28 Lamech lived one hundred eighty-two years, then became the father of a son.

Genesis 5.29: 29 He named him Noah, saying, “This one will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, caused by the ground which Yahweh has cursed.”

Genesis 5.30: 30 Lamech lived after he became the father of Noah five hundred ninety-five years, and became the father of other sons and daughters.

Genesis 5.31: 31 All the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy-seven years, then he died.

Genesis 5.32: 32 Noah was five hundred years old, then Noah became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Genesis 6.1: 6When men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them,

Genesis 6.2: 2 God’s sons saw that men’s daughters were beautiful, and they took any that they wanted for themselves as wives.

Genesis 6.3: 3 Yahweh said, “My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; so his days will be one hundred twenty years.”

Genesis 6.4: 4 The Nephilim1 were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when God’s sons came in to men’s daughters and had children with them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.

Genesis 6.5: 5 Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.

Genesis 6.6: 6 Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.

Genesis 6.7: 7 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.”

Genesis 6.9: 9 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.

Genesis 6.11: 11 The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

Genesis 6.12: 12 God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.

Genesis 6.13: 13 God said to Noah, “I will bring an end to all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them and the earth.

Genesis 6.14: 14 Make a ship of gopher wood. You shall make rooms in the ship, and shall seal it inside and outside with pitch.

Genesis 6.15: 15 This is how you shall make it. The length of the ship shall be three hundred cubits,2 its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.

Genesis 6.16: 16 You shall make a roof in the ship, and you shall finish it to a cubit upward. You shall set the door of the ship in its side. You shall make it with lower, second, and third levels.

Genesis 6.17: 17 I, even I, will 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.

Genesis 6.18: 18 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.

Genesis 6.19: 19 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.

Genesis 6.20: 20 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 will come to you, to keep them alive.

Genesis 6.21: 21 Take with you some of all food that is eaten, and gather it to yourself; and it will be for food for you, and for them.”

Genesis 7.1: 7Yahweh said to Noah, “Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.

Genesis 7.2: 2 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.

Genesis 7.3: 3 Also of the birds of the sky, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive on the surface of all the earth.

Genesis 7.4: 4 In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. I will destroy every living thing that I have made from the surface of the ground.”

Genesis 7.6: 6 Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came on the earth.

Genesis 7.7: 7 Noah went into the ship with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, because of the floodwaters.

Genesis 7.8: 8 Clean animals, unclean animals, birds, and everything that creeps on the ground

Genesis 7.9: 9 went by pairs to Noah into the ship, male and female, as God commanded Noah.

Genesis 7.11: 11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the sky’s windows opened.

Genesis 7.13: 13 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—

Genesis 7.14: 14 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.

Genesis 7.15: 15 Pairs from all flesh with the breath of life in them went into the ship to Noah.

Genesis 7.16: 16 Those who went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him; then Yahweh shut him in.

Genesis 7.17: 17 The flood was forty days on the earth. The waters increased, and lifted up the ship, and it was lifted up above the earth.

Genesis 7.18: 18 The waters rose, and increased greatly on the earth; and the ship floated on the surface of the waters.

Genesis 7.19: 19 The waters rose very high on the earth. All the high mountains that were under the whole sky were covered.

Genesis 7.20: 20 The waters rose fifteen cubits1 higher, and the mountains were covered.

Genesis 7.21: 21 All flesh died that moved on the earth, including birds, livestock, animals, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man.

Genesis 7.22: 22 All on the dry land, in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, died.

Genesis 7.23: 23 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.

Genesis 8.1: 8God 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.

Genesis 8.2: 2 The deep’s fountains and the sky’s windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.

Genesis 8.3: 3 The waters continually receded from the earth. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters receded.

Genesis 8.4: 4 The ship rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on Ararat’s mountains.

Genesis 8.5: 5 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 visible.

Genesis 8.6: 6 At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window of the ship which he had made,

Genesis 8.7: 7 and he sent out a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from the earth.

Genesis 8.8: 8 He himself sent out a dove to see if the waters were abated from the surface of the ground,

Genesis 8.9: 9 but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned into the ship to him, for the waters were on the surface of the whole earth. He put out his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the ship.

Genesis 8.10: 10 He waited yet another seven days; and again he sent the dove out of the ship.

Genesis 8.11: 11 The dove came back to him at evening and, behold, in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters were abated from the earth.

Genesis 8.12: 12 He waited yet another seven days, and sent out the dove; and she didn’t return to him any more.

Genesis 8.13: 13 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 dry.

Genesis 8.14: 14 In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.

Genesis 8.16: 16 “Go out of the ship, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives with you.

Genesis 8.17: 17 Bring out 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.”

Genesis 8.18: 18 Noah went out, with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives with him.

Genesis 8.19: 19 Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, whatever moves on the earth, after their families, went out of the ship.

Genesis 8.20: 20 Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

Genesis 8.21: 21 Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. 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. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.

Genesis 8.22: 22 While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”

Genesis 9.1: 9God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, and replenish the earth.

Genesis 9.2: 2 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 moves along the ground, and all the fish of the sea, are delivered into your hand.

Genesis 9.3: 3 Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As I gave you the green herb, I have given everything to you.

Genesis 9.5: 5 I will surely require accounting for your life’s blood. 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.

Genesis 9.6: 6 Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.

Genesis 9.7: 7 Be fruitful and multiply. Increase abundantly in the earth, and multiply in it.”

Genesis 9.9: 9 “As for me, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you,

Genesis 9.10: 10 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.

Genesis 9.11: 11 I will establish my covenant with you: All flesh will not be cut off any more by the waters of the flood. There will never again be a flood to destroy the earth.”

Genesis 9.12: 12 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:

Genesis 9.13: 13 I set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be a sign of a covenant between me and the earth.

Genesis 9.14: 14 When I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow will be seen in the cloud,

Genesis 9.15: 15 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.

Genesis 9.16: 16 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.”

Genesis 9.17: 17 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.”

Genesis 9.18: 18 The sons of Noah who went out from the ship were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham is the father of Canaan.

Genesis 9.19: 19 These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth was populated.

Genesis 9.21: 21 He drank of the wine and got drunk. He was uncovered within his tent.

Genesis 9.22: 22 Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.

Genesis 9.23: 23 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.

Genesis 9.24: 24 Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his youngest son had done to him.

Genesis 9.29: 29 All the days of Noah were nine hundred fifty years, and then he died.

Genesis 10.1: 10Now 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.

Genesis 10.2: 2 The sons of Japheth were: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.

Genesis 10.5: 5 Of these were the islands of the nations divided in their lands, everyone after his language, after their families, in their nations.

Genesis 10.7: 7 The sons of Cush were: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah were: Sheba and Dedan.

Genesis 10.8: 8 Cush became the father of Nimrod. He began to be a mighty one in the earth.

Genesis 10.9: 9 He was a mighty hunter before Yahweh. Therefore it is said, “like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before Yahweh”.

Genesis 10.10: 10 The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

Genesis 10.11: 11 Out of that land he went into Assyria, and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,

Genesis 10.13: 13 Mizraim became the father of Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim,

Genesis 10.14: 14 Pathrusim, Casluhim (which the Philistines descended from), and Caphtorim.

Genesis 10.18: 18 the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Afterward the families of the Canaanites were spread abroad.

Genesis 10.19: 19 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.

Genesis 10.20: 20 These are the sons of Ham, after their families, according to their languages, in their lands and their nations.

Genesis 10.21: 21 Children were also born to Shem (the elder brother of Japheth), the father of all the children of Eber.

Genesis 10.22: 22 The sons of Shem were: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.

Genesis 10.24: 24 Arpachshad became the father of Shelah. Shelah became the father of Eber.

Genesis 10.25: 25 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.

Genesis 10.26: 26 Joktan became the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,

Genesis 10.30: 30 Their dwelling extended from Mesha, as you go toward Sephar, the mountain of the east.

Genesis 10.31: 31 These are the sons of Shem, by their families, according to their languages, lands, and nations.

Genesis 10.32: 32 These are the families of the sons of Noah, by their generations, according to their nations. The nations divided from these in the earth after the flood.

Genesis 11.2: 2 As they traveled from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there.

Genesis 11.3: 3 They said to one another, “Come, let’s make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.

Genesis 11.4: 4 They said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let’s make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth.”

Genesis 11.5: 5 Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.

Genesis 11.6: 6 Yahweh said, “Behold, they are one people, and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.

Genesis 11.7: 7 Come, let’s go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”

Genesis 11.8: 8 So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.

Genesis 11.9: 9 Therefore its name 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.

Genesis 11.10: 10 This is the history of the generations of Shem: Shem was one hundred years old when he became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood.

Genesis 11.11: 11 Shem lived five hundred years after he became the father of Arpachshad, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

Genesis 11.12: 12 Arpachshad lived thirty-five years and became the father of Shelah.

Genesis 11.13: 13 Arpachshad lived four hundred three years after he became the father of Shelah, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

Genesis 11.15: 15 Shelah lived four hundred three years after he became the father of Eber, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

Genesis 11.17: 17 Eber lived four hundred thirty years after he became the father of Peleg, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

Genesis 11.19: 19 Peleg lived two hundred nine years after he became the father of Reu, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

Genesis 11.21: 21 Reu lived two hundred seven years after he became the father of Serug, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

Genesis 11.23: 23 Serug lived two hundred years after he became the father of Nahor, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

Genesis 11.24: 24 Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and became the father of Terah.

Genesis 11.25: 25 Nahor lived one hundred nineteen years after he became the father of Terah, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

Genesis 11.26: 26 Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

Genesis 11.27: 27 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.

Genesis 11.28: 28 Haran died in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees, while his father Terah was still alive.

Genesis 11.29: 29 Abram and Nahor married wives. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran, who was also the father of Iscah.

Genesis 11.31: 31 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 from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. They came to Haran and lived there.

Genesis 11.32: 32 The days of Terah were two hundred five years. Terah died in Haran.

Genesis 12.1: 12Now Yahweh said to Abram, “Leave your country, and your relatives, and your father’s house, and go to the land that I will show you.

Genesis 12.2: 2 I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.

Genesis 12.3: 3 I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who treats you with contempt. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you.”

Genesis 12.4: 4 So Abram went, as Yahweh had told him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.

Genesis 12.5: 5 Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother’s son, all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people whom they had acquired in Haran, and they went to go into the land of Canaan. They entered into the land of Canaan.

Genesis 12.6: 6 Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time, Canaanites were in the land.

Genesis 12.7: 7 Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” 1

Genesis 12.8: 8 He left from there to go 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 Yahweh’s name.

Genesis 12.10: 10 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.

Genesis 12.11: 11 When he had come near to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, “See now, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look at.

Genesis 12.12: 12 It will happen, when the Egyptians see you, that they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ They will kill me, but they will save you alive.

Genesis 12.13: 13 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.”

Genesis 12.14: 14 When Abram had come into Egypt, Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

Genesis 12.15: 15 The princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.

Genesis 12.16: 16 He dealt well with Abram for her sake. He had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.

Genesis 12.17: 17 Yahweh afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.

Genesis 12.18: 18 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?

Genesis 12.19: 19 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.”

Genesis 12.20: 20 Pharaoh commanded men concerning him, and they escorted him away with his wife and all that he had.

Genesis 13.1: 13Abram went up out of Egypt—he, his wife, all that he had, and Lot with him—into the South.

Genesis 13.3: 3 He went on his journeys from the South as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,

Genesis 13.4: 4 to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first. There Abram called on Yahweh’s name.

Genesis 13.6: 6 The land was not able to bear them, that they might live together; for their possessions were so great that they couldn’t live together.

Genesis 13.7: 7 There was strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. The Canaanites and the Perizzites lived in the land at that time.

Genesis 13.8: 8 Abram said to Lot, “Please, let there be no strife between you and me, and between your herdsmen and my herdsmen; for we are relatives.

Genesis 13.9: 9 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.”

Genesis 13.10: 10 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.

Genesis 13.11: 11 So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself. Lot traveled east, and they separated themselves from one other.

Genesis 13.12: 12 Abram lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived in the cities of the plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom.

Genesis 13.13: 13 Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against Yahweh.

Genesis 13.14: 14 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,

Genesis 13.15: 15 for I will give all the land which you see to you and to your offspring forever.

Genesis 13.16: 16 I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can count the dust of the earth, then your offspring may also be counted.

Genesis 13.17: 17 Arise, walk through the land in its length and in its width; for I will give it to you.”

Genesis 13.18: 18 Abram moved his tent, and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to Yahweh.

Genesis 14.1: 14In the days of Amraphel, king of Shinar; Arioch, king of Ellasar; Chedorlaomer, king of Elam; and Tidal, king of Goiim,

Genesis 14.2: 2 they made war with Bera, king of Sodom; Birsha, king of Gomorrah; Shinab, king of Admah; Shemeber, king of Zeboiim; and the king of Bela (also called Zoar).

Genesis 14.3: 3 All these joined together in the valley of Siddim (also called the Salt Sea).

Genesis 14.4: 4 They served Chedorlaomer for twelve years, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.

Genesis 14.5: 5 In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer came, and the kings who were with him, and struck the Rephaim in Ashteroth Karnaim, the Zuzim in Ham, the Emim in Shaveh Kiriathaim,

Genesis 14.6: 6 and the Horites in their Mount Seir, to El Paran, which is by the wilderness.

Genesis 14.7: 7 They returned, and came to En Mishpat (also called Kadesh), and struck all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that lived in Hazazon Tamar.

Genesis 14.8: 8 The king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (also called Zoar) went out; and they set the battle in array against them in the valley of Siddim

Genesis 14.9: 9 against Chedorlaomer king of Elam, Tidal king of Goiim, Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings against the five.

Genesis 14.10: 10 Now the valley of Siddim was full of tar pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and some fell there. Those who remained fled to the hills.

Genesis 14.11: 11 They took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their food, and went their way.

Genesis 14.12: 12 They took Lot, Abram’s brother’s son, who lived in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.

Genesis 14.13: 13 One who had escaped came and told Abram, the Hebrew. At that time, he lived by the oaks of Mamre, the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and brother of Aner. They were allies of Abram.

Genesis 14.14: 14 When Abram heard that his relative was taken captive, he led out his three hundred eighteen trained men, born in his house, and pursued as far as Dan.

Genesis 14.15: 15 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.

Genesis 14.16: 16 He brought back all the goods, and also brought back his relative Lot and his goods, and the women also, and the other people.

Genesis 14.17: 17 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).

Genesis 14.18: 18 Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. He was priest of God Most High.

Genesis 14.19: 19 He blessed him, and said, “Blessed be Abram of God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth.

Genesis 14.20: 20 Blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand.”

Genesis 14.21: 21 The king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the people, and take the goods for yourself.”

Genesis 14.22: 22 Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have lifted up my hand to Yahweh, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth,

Genesis 14.23: 23 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.’

Genesis 14.24: 24 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.”

Genesis 15.1: 15After these things Yahweh’s word came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Don’t be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.”

Genesis 15.2: 2 Abram said, “Lord1 Yahweh, what will you give me, since I go childless, and he who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?”

Genesis 15.3: 3 Abram said, “Behold, you have given no children to me: and, behold, one born in my house is my heir.”

Genesis 15.4: 4 Behold, Yahweh’s word came to him, saying, “This man will not be your heir, but he who will come out of your own body will be your heir.”

Genesis 15.5: 5 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 your offspring will be.”

Genesis 15.6: 6 He believed in Yahweh, who credited it to him for righteousness.

Genesis 15.7: 7 He said to Abram, “I am Yahweh who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land to inherit it.”

Genesis 15.8: 8 He said, “Lord Yahweh, how will I know that I will inherit it?”

Genesis 15.9: 9 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.”

Genesis 15.10: 10 He brought him all these, and divided them in the middle, and laid each half opposite the other; but he didn’t divide the birds.

Genesis 15.11: 11 The birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.

Genesis 15.12: 12 When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. Now terror and great darkness fell on him.

Genesis 15.13: 13 He said to Abram, “Know for sure that your offspring will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.

Genesis 15.14: 14 I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve. Afterward they will come out with great wealth;

Genesis 15.15: 15 but you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried at a good old age.

Genesis 15.16: 16 In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.”

Genesis 15.17: 17 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.

Genesis 15.18: 18 In that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, saying, “I have given this land to your offspring, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:

Genesis 15.21: 21 the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.”

Genesis 16.1: 16Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, bore him no children. She had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

Genesis 16.2: 2 Sarai said to Abram, “See now, Yahweh has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my servant. It may be that I will obtain children by her.” Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

Genesis 16.3: 3 Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her servant, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife.

Genesis 16.4: 4 He went in to Hagar, and she conceived. When she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.

Genesis 16.5: 5 Sarai said to Abram, “This wrong is your fault. I gave my servant into your bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, she despised me. May Yahweh judge between me and you.”

Genesis 16.6: 6 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.

Genesis 16.7: 7 Yahweh’s angel found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain on the way to Shur.

Genesis 16.8: 8 He said, “Hagar, Sarai’s servant, where did you come from? Where are you going?”

Genesis 16.9: 9 Yahweh’s angel said to her, “Return to your mistress, and submit yourself under her hands.”

Genesis 16.10: 10 Yahweh’s angel said to her, “I will greatly multiply your offspring, that they will not be counted for multitude.”

Genesis 16.11: 11 Yahweh’s angel 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.

Genesis 16.12: 12 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 opposed to all of his brothers.”

Genesis 16.13: 13 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?”

Genesis 16.14: 14 Therefore the well was called Beer Lahai Roi.1 Behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.

Genesis 16.15: 15 Hagar bore a son for Abram. Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.

Genesis 16.16: 16 Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.

Genesis 17.1: 17When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me and be blameless.

Genesis 17.2: 2 I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly.”

Genesis 17.4: 4 “As for me, behold, my covenant is with you. You will be the father of a multitude of nations.

Genesis 17.5: 5 Your name will no more be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham; for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.

Genesis 17.6: 6 I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you. Kings will come out of you.

Genesis 17.7: 7 I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your offspring after you.

Genesis 17.8: 8 I will give to you, and to your offspring after you, the land where you are traveling, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. I will be their God.”

Genesis 17.9: 9 God said to Abraham, “As for you, you will keep my covenant, you and your offspring after you throughout their generations.

Genesis 17.10: 10 This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your offspring after you. Every male among you shall be circumcised.

Genesis 17.11: 11 You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin. It will be a token of the covenant between me and you.

Genesis 17.12: 12 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 offspring.

Genesis 17.13: 13 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.

Genesis 17.14: 14 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.”

Genesis 17.15: 15 God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but her name will be Sarah.

Genesis 17.16: 16 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.”

Genesis 17.17: 17 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?”

Genesis 17.18: 18 Abraham said to God, “Oh that Ishmael might live before you!”

Genesis 17.19: 19 God said, “No, but Sarah, your wife, will bear you a son. You shall call his name Isaac.1 I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his offspring after him.

Genesis 17.20: 20 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.

Genesis 17.21: 21 But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time next year.”

Genesis 17.23: 23 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.

Genesis 17.24: 24 Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

Genesis 17.25: 25 Ishmael, his son, was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

Genesis 17.26: 26 In the same day both Abraham and Ishmael, his son, were circumcised.

Genesis 17.27: 27 All the men of his house, those born in the house, and those bought with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him.

Genesis 18.1: 18Yahweh appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day.

Genesis 18.2: 2 He lifted up his eyes and looked, and saw that three men stood near him. When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the earth,

Genesis 18.3: 3 and said, “My lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, please don’t go away from your servant.

Genesis 18.4: 4 Now let a little water be fetched, wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.

Genesis 18.5: 5 I will get a piece of bread so you can refresh your heart. After that you may go your way, now that you have come to your servant.”

Genesis 18.6: 6 Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, “Quickly prepare three seahs1 of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes.”

Genesis 18.7: 7 Abraham ran to the herd, and fetched a tender and good calf, and gave it to the servant. He hurried to dress it.

Genesis 18.8: 8 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.

Genesis 18.10: 10 He said, “I will certainly return to you at about this time next year; and behold, Sarah your wife will have a son.”

Genesis 18.11: 11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.

Genesis 18.12: 12 Sarah laughed within herself, saying, “After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?”

Genesis 18.13: 13 Yahweh said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Will I really bear a child when I am old?’

Genesis 18.14: 14 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.”

Genesis 18.15: 15 Then Sarah denied it, saying, “I didn’t laugh,” for she was afraid.

Genesis 18.16: 16 The men rose up from there, and looked toward Sodom. Abraham went with them to see them on their way.

Genesis 18.18: 18 since Abraham will surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?

Genesis 18.19: 19 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.”

Genesis 18.20: 20 Yahweh said, “Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,

Genesis 18.21: 21 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.”

Genesis 18.22: 22 The men turned from there, and went toward Sodom, but Abraham stood yet before Yahweh.

Genesis 18.23: 23 Abraham came near, and said, “Will you consume the righteous with the wicked?

Genesis 18.24: 24 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?

Genesis 18.25: 25 May it be 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?”

Genesis 18.26: 26 Yahweh said, “If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare the whole place for their sake.”

Genesis 18.27: 27 Abraham answered, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, although I am dust and ashes.

Genesis 18.28: 28 What if there will lack five of the fifty righteous? Will you destroy all the city for lack of five?”

Genesis 18.29: 29 He spoke to him yet again, and said, “What if there are forty found there?”

Genesis 18.30: 30 He said, “Oh don’t let the Lord be angry, and I will speak. What if there are thirty found there?”

Genesis 18.31: 31 He said, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord. What if there are twenty found there?”

Genesis 18.32: 32 He said, “Oh don’t let the Lord be angry, and I will speak just once more. What if ten are found there?”

Genesis 18.33: 33 Yahweh went his way, as soon as he had finished communing with Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.

Genesis 19.1: 19The 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,

Genesis 19.2: 2 and he said, “See now, my lords, please come into your servant’s house, stay all night, wash your feet, and you can rise up early, and go on your way.”

Genesis 19.3: 3 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.

Genesis 19.4: 4 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.

Genesis 19.5: 5 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.”

Genesis 19.6: 6 Lot went out to them through the door, and shut the door after himself.

Genesis 19.8: 8 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.”

Genesis 19.9: 9 They said, “Stand back!” Then they said, “This one fellow came in to live as a foreigner, and he appoints himself a judge. Now we will deal worse with you than with them!” They pressed hard on the man Lot, and came near to break the door.

Genesis 19.10: 10 But the men reached out their hand, and brought Lot into the house to them, and shut the door.

Genesis 19.11: 11 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.

Genesis 19.12: 12 The men said to Lot, “Do you have anybody else here? Sons-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and whomever you have in the city, bring them out of the place:

Genesis 19.13: 13 for we will destroy this place, because the outcry against them has grown so great before Yahweh that Yahweh has sent us to destroy it.”

Genesis 19.14: 14 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!”

Genesis 19.15: 15 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.”

Genesis 19.16: 16 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.

Genesis 19.17: 17 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!”

Genesis 19.19: 19 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.

Genesis 19.20: 20 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.”

Genesis 19.21: 21 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.

Genesis 19.22: 22 Hurry, escape there, for I can’t do anything until you get there.” Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.1

Genesis 19.24: 24 Then Yahweh rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from Yahweh out of the sky.

Genesis 19.25: 25 He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew on the ground.

Genesis 19.26: 26 But Lot’s wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

Genesis 19.27: 27 Abraham went up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before Yahweh.

Genesis 19.28: 28 He looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and saw that the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.

Genesis 19.29: 29 When God destroyed the cities of the plain, God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.

Genesis 19.30: 30 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.

Genesis 19.31: 31 The firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in to us in the way of all the earth.

Genesis 19.32: 32 Come, let’s make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve our father’s family line.”

Genesis 19.33: 33 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.

Genesis 19.34: 34 It came to pass on the next day, that the firstborn said to the younger, “Behold, I lay last night with my father. Let’s make him drink wine again tonight. You go in, and lie with him, that we may preserve our father’s family line.”

Genesis 19.35: 35 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.

Genesis 19.36: 36 Thus both of Lot’s daughters were with child by their father.

Genesis 19.37: 37 The firstborn bore a son, and named him Moab. He is the father of the Moabites to this day.

Genesis 19.38: 38 The younger also bore a son, and called his name Ben Ammi. He is the father of the children of Ammon to this day.

Genesis 20.1: 20Abraham traveled from there toward the land of the South, and lived between Kadesh and Shur. He lived as a foreigner in Gerar.

Genesis 20.2: 2 Abraham said about Sarah his wife, “She is my sister.” Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.

Genesis 20.3: 3 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.”

Genesis 20.4: 4 Now Abimelech had not come near her. He said, “Lord, will you kill even a righteous nation?

Genesis 20.5: 5 Didn’t he tell me, ‘She is my sister’? She, even she herself, said, ‘He is my brother.’ I have done this in the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands.”

Genesis 20.6: 6 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.

Genesis 20.7: 7 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.”

Genesis 20.8: 8 Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ear. The men were very scared.

Genesis 20.9: 9 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!”

Genesis 20.10: 10 Abimelech said to Abraham, “What did you see, that you have done this thing?”

Genesis 20.11: 11 Abraham said, “Because I thought, ‘Surely the fear of God is not in this place. They will kill me for my wife’s sake.’

Genesis 20.12: 12 Besides, she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.

Genesis 20.13: 13 When God caused me to wander from my father’s house, 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.”’”

Genesis 20.14: 14 Abimelech took sheep and cattle, male servants and female servants, and gave them to Abraham, and restored Sarah, his wife, to him.

Genesis 20.15: 15 Abimelech said, “Behold, my land is before you. Dwell where it pleases you.”

Genesis 20.16: 16 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.”

Genesis 20.17: 17 Abraham prayed to God. God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his female servants, and they bore children.

Genesis 20.18: 18 For Yahweh had closed up tight all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.

Genesis 21.1: 21Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said, and Yahweh did to Sarah as he had spoken.

Genesis 21.2: 2 Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

Genesis 21.3: 3 Abraham called his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac. 1

Genesis 21.4: 4 Abraham circumcised his son, Isaac, when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.

Genesis 21.5: 5 Abraham was one hundred years old when his son, Isaac, was born to him.

Genesis 21.6: 6 Sarah said, “God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me.”

Genesis 21.7: 7 She said, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old age.”

Genesis 21.8: 8 The child grew and was weaned. Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.

Genesis 21.9: 9 Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.

Genesis 21.10: 10 Therefore she said to Abraham, “Cast out this servant and her son! For the son of this servant will not be heir with my son, Isaac.”

Genesis 21.11: 11 The thing was very grievous in Abraham’s sight on account of his son.

Genesis 21.12: 12 God said to Abraham, “Don’t let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your servant. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For your offspring will be named through Isaac.

Genesis 21.13: 13 I will also make a nation of the son of the servant, because he is your child.”

Genesis 21.14: 14 Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a container 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.

Genesis 21.15: 15 The water in the container was spent, and she put the child under one of the shrubs.

Genesis 21.16: 16 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 opposite him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.

The angel of God called to Hagar out of the sky, and said to her, “What troubles you, Hagar? Don’t be afraid. For God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.

Genesis 21.18: 18 Get up, lift up the boy, and hold him with your hand. For I will make him a great nation.”

Genesis 21.19: 19 God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. She went, filled the container with water, and gave the boy a drink.

Genesis 21.20: 20 God was with the boy, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness, and as he grew up, became an archer.

Genesis 21.21: 21 He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother got a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.

Genesis 21.22: 22 At that time, Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his army spoke to Abraham, saying, “God is with you in all that you do.

Genesis 21.23: 23 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.”

Genesis 21.25: 25 Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away.

Genesis 21.26: 26 Abimelech said, “I don’t know who has done this thing. You didn’t tell me, and I didn’t hear of it until today.”

Genesis 21.27: 27 Abraham took sheep and cattle, and gave them to Abimelech. Those two made a covenant.

Genesis 21.29: 29 Abimelech said to Abraham, “What do these seven ewe lambs, which you have set by themselves, mean?”

Genesis 21.30: 30 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.”

Genesis 21.31: 31 Therefore he called that place Beersheba,2 because they both swore an oath there.

Genesis 21.32: 32 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.

Genesis 21.33: 33 Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and called there on the name of Yahweh, the Everlasting God.

Genesis 21.34: 34 Abraham lived as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines many days.

Genesis 22.1: 22After these things, God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!”

Genesis 22.2: 2 He said, “Now take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go into the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will tell you of.”

Genesis 22.3: 3 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.

Genesis 22.4: 4 On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place far off.

Genesis 22.5: 5 Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey. The boy and I will go over there. We will worship, and come back to you.”

Genesis 22.6: 6 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.

He said, “Here is the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?”

Genesis 22.8: 8 Abraham said, “God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son.” So they both went together.

Genesis 22.9: 9 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.

Genesis 22.10: 10 Abraham stretched out his hand, and took the knife to kill his son.

Genesis 22.11: 11 Yahweh’s angel called to him out of the sky, and said, “Abraham, Abraham!”

Genesis 22.12: 12 He said, “Don’t lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”

Genesis 22.13: 13 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.

Genesis 22.14: 14 Abraham called the name of that place “Yahweh Will Provide”.1 As it is said to this day, “On Yahweh’s mountain, it will be provided.”

Genesis 22.15: 15 Yahweh’s angel called to Abraham a second time out of the sky,

Genesis 22.16: 16 and said, “‘I have sworn by myself,’ says Yahweh, ‘because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son,

Genesis 22.17: 17 that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your offspring greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand which is on the seashore. Your offspring will possess the gate of his enemies.

Genesis 22.18: 18 All the nations of the earth will be blessed by your offspring, because you have obeyed my voice.’”

Genesis 22.19: 19 So Abraham returned to his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beersheba. Abraham lived at Beersheba.

Genesis 22.20: 20 After these things, Abraham was told, “Behold, Milcah, she also has borne children to your brother Nahor:

Genesis 22.23: 23 Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.

Genesis 22.24: 24 His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.

Genesis 23.1: 23Sarah lived one hundred twenty-seven years. This was the length of Sarah’s life.

Genesis 23.2: 2 Sarah died in Kiriath Arba (also called Hebron), in the land of Canaan. Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.

Genesis 23.3: 3 Abraham rose up from before his dead and spoke to the children of Heth, saying,

Genesis 23.4: 4 “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.”

Genesis 23.6: 6 “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.”

Genesis 23.7: 7 Abraham rose up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, to the children of Heth.

Genesis 23.8: 8 He talked with them, saying, “If you agree that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and entreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,

Genesis 23.9: 9 that he may sell me the cave of Machpelah, which he has, which is in the end of his field. For the full price let him sell it to me among you as a possession for a burial place.”

Genesis 23.10: 10 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,

Genesis 23.11: 11 “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.”

Genesis 23.13: 13 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.”

Genesis 23.15: 15 “My lord, listen to me. What is a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver1 between me and you? Therefore bury your dead.”

Genesis 23.16: 16 Abraham listened to Ephron. Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the hearing of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the current merchants’ standard.

Genesis 23.17: 17 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

Genesis 23.18: 18 to Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all who went in at the gate of his city.

Genesis 23.19: 19 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.

Genesis 23.20: 20 The field, and the cave that is in it, were deeded to Abraham by the children of Heth as a possession for a burial place.

Genesis 24.1: 24Abraham was old, and well advanced in age. Yahweh had blessed Abraham in all things.

Genesis 24.2: 2 Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that he had, “Please put your hand under my thigh.

Genesis 24.3: 3 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.

Genesis 24.4: 4 But you shall go to my country, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son Isaac.”

Genesis 24.5: 5 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?”

Genesis 24.6: 6 Abraham said to him, “Beware that you don’t bring my son there again.

Genesis 24.7: 7 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 offspring—he will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.

Genesis 24.8: 8 If the woman isn’t willing to follow you, then you shall be clear from this oath to me. Only you shall not bring my son there again.”

Genesis 24.9: 9 The servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and swore to him concerning this matter.

Genesis 24.10: 10 The servant took ten 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.

Genesis 24.11: 11 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.

Genesis 24.12: 12 He said, “Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, please give me success today, and show kindness to my master Abraham.

Genesis 24.13: 13 Behold, I am standing by the spring of water. The daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water.

Genesis 24.14: 14 Let it happen, that the young lady to whom I will say, ‘Please let down your pitcher, that I may drink,’ then she says, ‘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.”

Genesis 24.15: 15 Before he had finished speaking, 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.

Genesis 24.16: 16 The young lady was very beautiful to look at, a virgin. No man had known her. She went down to the spring, filled her pitcher, and came up.

Genesis 24.17: 17 The servant ran to meet her, and said, “Please give me a drink, a little water from your pitcher.”

Genesis 24.18: 18 She said, “Drink, my lord.” She hurried, and let down her pitcher on her hand, and gave him a drink.

Genesis 24.19: 19 When she had finished giving him a drink, she said, “I will also draw for your camels, until they have finished drinking.”

Genesis 24.20: 20 She hurried, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again to the well to draw, and drew for all his camels.

Genesis 24.21: 21 The man looked steadfastly at her, remaining silent, to know whether Yahweh had made his journey prosperous or not.

Genesis 24.22: 22 As the camels had done drinking, the man took a golden ring of half a shekel1 weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold,

Genesis 24.23: 23 and said, “Whose daughter are you? Please tell me. Is there room in your father’s house for us to stay?”

Genesis 24.24: 24 She said to him, “I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor.”

Genesis 24.25: 25 She said moreover to him, “We have both straw and feed enough, and room to lodge in.”

Genesis 24.27: 27 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 on the way to the house of my master’s relatives.”

Genesis 24.28: 28 The young lady ran, and told her mother’s house about these words.

Genesis 24.29: 29 Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban. Laban ran out to the man, to the spring.

Genesis 24.30: 30 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,” he came to the man. Behold, he was standing by the camels at the spring.

Genesis 24.31: 31 He said, “Come in, you blessed of Yahweh. Why do you stand outside? For I have prepared the house, and room for the camels.”

Genesis 24.32: 32 The man came into the house, and he unloaded the camels. He gave straw and feed for the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with him.

Genesis 24.33: 33 Food was set before him to eat, but he said, “I will not eat until I have told my message.”

Genesis 24.35: 35 Yahweh has blessed my master greatly. He has become great. Yahweh has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male servants and female servants, and camels and donkeys.

Genesis 24.36: 36 Sarah, my master’s wife, bore a son to my master when she was old. He has given all that he has to him.

Genesis 24.37: 37 My master made me swear, saying, ‘You shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I live,

Genesis 24.38: 38 but you shall go to my father’s house, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son.’

Genesis 24.39: 39 I asked my master, ‘What if the woman will not follow me?’

Genesis 24.40: 40 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 from my relatives, and of my father’s house.

Genesis 24.41: 41 Then you will 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.’

Genesis 24.42: 42 I came today to the spring, and said, ‘Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, if now you do prosper my way which I go—

Genesis 24.43: 43 behold, I am standing by this spring of water. Let it happen, that the maiden who comes out to draw, to whom I will say, “Please give me a little water from your pitcher to drink,”

Genesis 24.44: 44 then she tells me, “Drink, and I will also draw for your camels,”—let her be the woman whom Yahweh has appointed for my master’s son.’

Genesis 24.45: 45 Before I had finished speaking in my heart, behold, Rebekah came out with her pitcher on her shoulder. She went down to the spring, and drew. I said to her, ‘Please let me drink.’

Genesis 24.46: 46 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 also gave the camels a drink.

Genesis 24.47: 47 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.

Genesis 24.48: 48 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.

Genesis 24.49: 49 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.”

Genesis 24.50: 50 Then Laban and Bethuel answered, “The thing proceeds from Yahweh. We can’t speak to you bad or good.

Genesis 24.51: 51 Behold, Rebekah is before you. Take her, and go, and let her be your master’s son’s wife, as Yahweh has spoken.”

Genesis 24.52: 52 When Abraham’s servant heard their words, he bowed himself down to the earth to Yahweh.

Genesis 24.53: 53 The servant brought out 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.

Genesis 24.54: 54 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.”

Genesis 24.55: 55 Her brother and her mother said, “Let the young lady stay with us a few days, at least ten. After that she will go.”

Genesis 24.56: 56 He said to them, “Don’t hinder me, since Yahweh has prospered my way. Send me away that I may go to my master.”

Genesis 24.58: 58 They called Rebekah, and said to her, “Will you go with this man?”

Genesis 24.59: 59 They sent away Rebekah, their sister, with her nurse, Abraham’s servant, and his men.

Genesis 24.60: 60 They blessed Rebekah, and said to her, “Our sister, may you be the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let your offspring possess the gate of those who hate them.”

Genesis 24.61: 61 Rebekah arose with her ladies. They rode on the camels, and followed the man. The servant took Rebekah, and went his way.

Genesis 24.62: 62 Isaac came from the way of Beer Lahai Roi, for he lived in the land of the South.

Genesis 24.63: 63 Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the evening. He lifted up his eyes and looked. Behold, there were camels coming.

Genesis 24.64: 64 Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she got off the camel.

Genesis 24.65: 65 She said to the servant, “Who is the man who is walking in the field to meet us?”

Genesis 24.67: 67 Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.

Genesis 25.3: 3 Jokshan became the father of Sheba, and Dedan. The sons of Dedan were Asshurim, Letushim, and Leummim.

Genesis 25.4: 4 The sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah.

Genesis 25.6: 6 but Abraham gave gifts to the sons of Abraham’s concubines. While he still lived, he sent them away from Isaac his son, eastward, to the east country.

Genesis 25.7: 7 These are the days of the years of Abraham’s life which he lived: one hundred seventy-five years.

Genesis 25.8: 8 Abraham gave up his spirit, and died at a good old age, an old man, and full of years, and was gathered to his people.

Genesis 25.9: 9 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 near Mamre,

Genesis 25.10: 10 the field which Abraham purchased from the children of Heth. Abraham was buried there with Sarah, his wife.

Genesis 25.11: 11 After the death of Abraham, God blessed Isaac, his son. Isaac lived by Beer Lahai Roi.

Genesis 25.12: 12 Now this is the history of the generations of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s servant, bore to Abraham.

Genesis 25.13: 13 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,

Genesis 25.16: 16 These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their villages, and by their encampments: twelve princes, according to their nations.

Genesis 25.17: 17 These are the years of the life of Ishmael: one hundred thirty-seven years. He gave up his spirit and died, and was gathered to his people.

Genesis 25.18: 18 They lived from Havilah to Shur that is before Egypt, as you go toward Assyria. He lived opposite all his relatives.

Genesis 25.19: 19 This is the history of the generations of Isaac, Abraham’s son. Abraham became the father of Isaac.

Genesis 25.20: 20 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.

Genesis 25.21: 21 Isaac entreated Yahweh for his wife, because she was barren. Yahweh was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

Genesis 25.22: 22 The children struggled together within her. She said, “If it is like this, why do I live?” She went to inquire of Yahweh.

Genesis 25.24: 24 When her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.

Genesis 25.25: 25 The first came out red all over, like a hairy garment. They named him Esau.

Genesis 25.26: 26 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.

Genesis 25.27: 27 The boys grew. Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field. Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.

Genesis 25.28: 28 Now Isaac loved Esau, because he ate his venison. Rebekah loved Jacob.

Genesis 25.29: 29 Jacob boiled stew. Esau came in from the field, and he was famished.

Genesis 25.30: 30 Esau said to Jacob, “Please feed me with some of that red stew, for I am famished.” Therefore his name was called Edom.1

Genesis 25.32: 32 Esau said, “Behold, I am about to die. What good is the birthright to me?”

Genesis 25.34: 34 Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew. He ate and drank, rose up, and went his way. So Esau despised his birthright.

Genesis 26.1: 26There was a famine in the land, in addition to the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar.

Genesis 26.2: 2 Yahweh appeared to him, and said, “Don’t go down into Egypt. Live in the land I will tell you about.

Genesis 26.3: 3 Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For I will give to you, and to your offspring, all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.

Genesis 26.4: 4 I will multiply your offspring as the stars of the sky, and will give all these lands to your offspring. In your offspring all the nations of the earth will be blessed,

Genesis 26.5: 5 because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”

Genesis 26.7: 7 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.”

Genesis 26.8: 8 When he had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was caressing Rebekah, his wife.

Genesis 26.9: 9 Abimelech called Isaac, and said, “Behold, surely she is your wife. Why did you say, ‘She is my sister?’”

Genesis 26.10: 10 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!”

Genesis 26.11: 11 Abimelech commanded all the people, saying, “He who touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death.”

Genesis 26.12: 12 Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. Yahweh blessed him.

Genesis 26.13: 13 The man grew great, and grew more and more until he became very great.

Genesis 26.14: 14 He had possessions of flocks, possessions of herds, and a great household. The Philistines envied him.

Genesis 26.15: 15 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.

Genesis 26.16: 16 Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go away from us, for you are much mightier than we.”

Genesis 26.17: 17 Isaac departed from there, encamped in the valley of Gerar, and lived there.

Genesis 26.18: 18 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.

Genesis 26.19: 19 Isaac’s servants dug in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.

Genesis 26.20: 20 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.

Genesis 26.21: 21 They dug another well, and they argued over that, also. He called its name Sitnah.

Genesis 26.22: 22 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.”

Genesis 26.24: 24 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 offspring for my servant Abraham’s sake.”

Genesis 26.25: 25 He built an altar there, and called on Yahweh’s name, and pitched his tent there. There Isaac’s servants dug a well.

Genesis 26.26: 26 Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his army.

Genesis 26.27: 27 Isaac said to them, “Why have you come to me, since you hate me, and have sent me away from you?”

Genesis 26.28: 28 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’s make a covenant with you,

Genesis 26.29: 29 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.”

Genesis 26.31: 31 They rose up some time in the morning, and swore an oath to one another. Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.

Genesis 26.32: 32 The same day, Isaac’s servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had dug, and said to him, “We have found water.”

Genesis 26.33: 33 He called it “Shibah”.1 Therefore the name of the city is “Beersheba”2 to this day.

Genesis 26.34: 34 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.

Genesis 27.1: 27When 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?”

Genesis 27.2: 2 He said, “See now, I am old. I don’t know the day of my death.

Genesis 27.3: 3 Now therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field, and get me venison.

Genesis 27.4: 4 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.”

Genesis 27.5: 5 Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it.

Genesis 27.6: 6 Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, “Behold, I heard your father speak to Esau your brother, saying,

Genesis 27.7: 7 ‘Bring me venison, and make me savory food, that I may eat, and bless you before Yahweh before my death.’

Genesis 27.8: 8 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command you.

Genesis 27.9: 9 Go now to the flock and get me two good young goats from there. I will make them savory food for your father, such as he loves.

Genesis 27.10: 10 You shall bring it to your father, that he may eat, so that he may bless you before his death.”

Genesis 27.11: 11 Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.

Genesis 27.12: 12 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.”

Genesis 27.13: 13 His mother said to him, “Let your curse be on me, my son. Only obey my voice, and go get them for me.”

Genesis 27.14: 14 He went, and got them, and brought them to his mother. His mother made savory food, such as his father loved.

Genesis 27.15: 15 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.

Genesis 27.16: 16 She put the skins of the young goats on his hands, and on the smooth of his neck.

Genesis 27.17: 17 She gave the savory food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.

Genesis 27.19: 19 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.”

Genesis 27.20: 20 Isaac said to his son, “How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?”

Genesis 27.21: 21 Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come near, that I may feel you, my son, whether you are really my son Esau or not.”

Genesis 27.22: 22 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.”

Genesis 27.23: 23 He didn’t recognize him, because his hands were hairy, like his brother, Esau’s hands. So he blessed him.

Genesis 27.25: 25 He said, “Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son’s venison, that my soul may bless you.”

Genesis 27.26: 26 His father Isaac said to him, “Come near now, and kiss me, my son.”

Genesis 27.27: 27 He came near, and kissed him. He smelled the smell of his clothing, and blessed him, and said,

Genesis 27.30: 30 As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had just gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, Esau his brother came in from his hunting.

Genesis 27.31: 31 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.”

Genesis 27.33: 33 Isaac trembled violently, and said, “Who, then, is he who has taken venison, and brought it to me, and I have eaten of all before you came, and have blessed him? Yes, he will be blessed.”

Genesis 27.34: 34 When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceedingly great and bitter cry, and said to his father, “Bless me, even me also, my father.”

Genesis 27.35: 35 He said, “Your brother came with deceit, and has taken away your blessing.”

Genesis 27.36: 36 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?”

Genesis 27.37: 37 Isaac answered Esau, “Behold, I have made him your lord, and all his brothers I have given to him for servants. I have sustained him with grain and new wine. What then will I do for you, my son?”

Genesis 27.38: 38 Esau said to his father, “Do you have just one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, my father.” Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.

Genesis 27.41: 41 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.”

Genesis 27.42: 42 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.

Genesis 27.43: 43 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban, my brother, in Haran.

Genesis 27.44: 44 Stay with him a few days, until your brother’s fury turns away—

Genesis 27.45: 45 until your brother’s anger turns 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?”

Genesis 27.46: 46 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?”

Genesis 28.1: 28Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, “You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.

Genesis 28.2: 2 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.

Genesis 28.3: 3 May God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a company of peoples,

Genesis 28.4: 4 and give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your offspring with you, that you may inherit the land where you travel, which God gave to Abraham.”

Genesis 28.5: 5 Isaac sent Jacob away. He went to Paddan Aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob’s and Esau’s mother.

Genesis 28.6: 6 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 command, saying, “You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan;”

Genesis 28.7: 7 and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan Aram.

Genesis 28.8: 8 Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan didn’t please Isaac, his father.

Genesis 28.9: 9 Esau went to Ishmael, and took, in addition to the wives that he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife.

Genesis 28.11: 11 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.

Genesis 28.12: 12 He dreamed and saw a stairway set upon the earth, and its top reached to heaven. Behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.

Genesis 28.13: 13 Behold, Yahweh stood above it, and said, “I am Yahweh, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac. I will give the land you lie on to you and to your offspring.

Genesis 28.14: 14 Your offspring 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 offspring, all the families of the earth will be blessed.

Genesis 28.15: 15 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.”

Genesis 28.16: 16 Jacob awakened out of his sleep, and he said, “Surely Yahweh is in this place, and I didn’t know it.”

Genesis 28.17: 17 He was afraid, and said, “How awesome this place is! This is none other than God’s house, and this is the gate of heaven.”

Genesis 28.18: 18 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 its top.

Genesis 28.19: 19 He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.

Genesis 28.20: 20 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,

Genesis 28.21: 21 so that I come again to my father’s house in peace, and Yahweh will be my God,

Genesis 28.22: 22 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 a tenth to you.”

Genesis 29.1: 29Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the children of the east.

Genesis 29.2: 2 He looked, and behold, a well in the field, and saw 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.

Genesis 29.3: 3 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.

They said, “It is well. See, Rachel, his daughter, is coming with the sheep.”

Genesis 29.7: 7 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.”

Genesis 29.8: 8 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.”

Genesis 29.9: 9 While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep, for she kept them.

Genesis 29.10: 10 When Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban, his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother’s brother, Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother’s brother.

Genesis 29.12: 12 Jacob told Rachel that he was her father’s relative, and that he was Rebekah’s son. She ran and told her father.

Genesis 29.13: 13 When Laban heard the news of Jacob, his sister’s son, he ran to meet Jacob, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban all these things.

Genesis 29.14: 14 Laban said to him, “Surely you are my bone and my flesh.” Jacob stayed with him for a month.

Genesis 29.15: 15 Laban said to Jacob, “Because you are my relative, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will your wages be?”

Genesis 29.16: 16 Laban had two daughters. The name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.

Genesis 29.17: 17 Leah’s eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in form and attractive.

Genesis 29.18: 18 Jacob loved Rachel. He said, “I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.”

Genesis 29.19: 19 Laban said, “It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me.”

Genesis 29.20: 20 Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.

Genesis 29.21: 21 Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her.”

Genesis 29.22: 22 Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.

Genesis 29.23: 23 In the evening, he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to Jacob. He went in to her.

Genesis 29.24: 24 Laban gave Zilpah his servant to his daughter Leah for a servant.

Genesis 29.25: 25 In the morning, 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?”

Genesis 29.26: 26 Laban said, “It is not done so in our place, to give the younger before the firstborn.

Genesis 29.27: 27 Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you will serve with me for seven more years.”

Genesis 29.28: 28 Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave him Rachel his daughter as wife.

Genesis 29.29: 29 Laban gave Bilhah, his servant, to his daughter Rachel to be her servant.

Genesis 29.30: 30 He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him seven more years.

Genesis 29.31: 31 Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

Genesis 29.32: 32 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.”

Genesis 29.33: 33 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.

Genesis 29.34: 34 She conceived again, and bore a son. She said, “Now this time my husband will be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons.” Therefore his name was called Levi.

Genesis 29.35: 35 She conceived again, and bore a son. She said, “This time I will praise Yahweh.” Therefore she named him Judah. Then she stopped bearing.

Genesis 30.1: 30When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I will die.”

Genesis 30.2: 2 Jacob’s anger burned against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in God’s place, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”

Genesis 30.3: 3 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.”

Genesis 30.4: 4 She gave him Bilhah her servant as wife, and Jacob went in to her.

Genesis 30.6: 6 Rachel said, “God has judged me, and has also heard my voice, and has given me a son.” Therefore she called his name Dan.

Genesis 30.7: 7 Bilhah, Rachel’s servant, conceived again, and bore Jacob a second son.

Genesis 30.8: 8 Rachel said, “I have wrestled with my sister with mighty wrestlings, and have prevailed.” She named him Naphtali.

Genesis 30.9: 9 When Leah saw that she had finished bearing, she took Zilpah, her servant, and gave her to Jacob as a wife.

Genesis 30.13: 13 Leah said, “Happy am I, for the daughters will call me happy.” She named him Asher.

Genesis 30.14: 14 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.”

Genesis 30.15: 15 Leah 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.”

Genesis 30.16: 16 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.”

Genesis 30.17: 17 God listened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob a fifth son.

Genesis 30.18: 18 Leah said, “God has given me my hire, because I gave my servant to my husband.” She named him Issachar.

Genesis 30.20: 20 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.

Genesis 30.22: 22 God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.

Genesis 30.23: 23 She conceived, bore a son, and said, “God has taken away my reproach.”

Genesis 30.24: 24 She named him Joseph,1 saying, “May Yahweh add another son to me.”

Genesis 30.25: 25 When Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away, that I may go to my own place, and to my country.

Genesis 30.26: 26 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.”

Genesis 30.27: 27 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.”

Genesis 30.29: 29 Jacob said to him, “You know how I have served you, and how your livestock have fared with me.

Genesis 30.30: 30 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?”

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.

Genesis 30.32: 32 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.

Genesis 30.33: 33 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 considered stolen.”

Genesis 30.35: 35 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.

Genesis 30.36: 36 He set three days’ journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob fed the rest of Laban’s flocks.

Genesis 30.37: 37 Jacob took to himself rods of fresh poplar, almond, and plane tree, peeled white streaks in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.

Genesis 30.38: 38 He set the rods which he had peeled opposite the flocks in the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink. They conceived when they came to drink.

Genesis 30.39: 39 The flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks produced streaked, speckled, and spotted.

Genesis 30.40: 40 Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the streaked and all the black in Laban’s flock. He put his own droves apart, and didn’t put them into Laban’s flock.

Genesis 30.41: 41 Whenever the stronger of the flock conceived, Jacob laid the rods in front of the eyes of the flock in the watering troughs, that they might conceive among the rods;

Genesis 30.42: 42 but when the flock were feeble, he didn’t put them in. So the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.

Genesis 30.43: 43 The man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, female servants and male servants, and camels and donkeys.

Genesis 31.1: 31Jacob heard Laban’s sons’ words, saying, “Jacob has taken away all that was our father’s. He has obtained all this wealth from that which was our father’s.”

Genesis 31.2: 2 Jacob saw the expression on Laban’s face, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.

Genesis 31.3: 3 Yahweh said to Jacob, “Return to the land of your fathers, and to your relatives, and I will be with you.”

Genesis 31.4: 4 Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field to his flock,

Genesis 31.5: 5 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.

Genesis 31.6: 6 You know that I have served your father with all of my strength.

Genesis 31.7: 7 Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn’t allow him to hurt me.

Genesis 31.8: 8 If he said, ‘The speckled will be your wages,’ then all the flock bore speckled. If he said, ‘The streaked will be your wages,’ then all the flock bore streaked.

Genesis 31.9: 9 Thus God has taken away your father’s livestock, and given them to me.

Genesis 31.10: 10 During mating season, 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.

Genesis 31.11: 11 The angel of God said to me in the dream, ‘Jacob,’ and I said, ‘Here I am.’

Genesis 31.12: 12 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.

Genesis 31.13: 13 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.’”

Genesis 31.14: 14 Rachel and Leah answered him, “Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father’s house?

Genesis 31.15: 15 Aren’t we considered as foreigners by him? For he has sold us, and has also used up our money.

Genesis 31.16: 16 For all the riches which God has taken away from our father are ours and our children’s. Now then, whatever God has said to you, do.”

Genesis 31.17: 17 Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives on the camels,

Genesis 31.18: 18 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.

Genesis 31.19: 19 Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep; and Rachel stole the teraphim 1 that were her father’s.

Genesis 31.20: 20 Jacob deceived Laban the Syrian, in that he didn’t tell him that he was running away.

Genesis 31.21: 21 So he fled with all that he had. He rose up, passed over the River, and set his face toward the mountain of Gilead.

Genesis 31.23: 23 He took his relatives with him, and pursued him seven days’ journey. He overtook him in the mountain of Gilead.

Genesis 31.24: 24 God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream of the night, and said to him, “Be careful that you don’t speak to Jacob either good or bad.”

Genesis 31.25: 25 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.

Genesis 31.26: 26 Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done, that you have deceived me, and carried away my daughters like captives of the sword?

Genesis 31.27: 27 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;

Genesis 31.28: 28 and didn’t allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now have you done foolishly.

Genesis 31.29: 29 It is in the power of my hand to hurt you, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, ‘Be careful that you don’t speak to Jacob either good or bad.’

Genesis 31.30: 30 Now, you want to be gone, because you greatly longed for your father’s house, but why have you stolen my gods?”

Genesis 31.31: 31 Jacob answered Laban, “Because I was afraid, for I said, ‘Lest you should take your daughters from me by force.’

Genesis 31.32: 32 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.

Genesis 31.33: 33 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.

Genesis 31.34: 34 Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, put them in the camel’s saddle, and sat on them. Laban felt around all the tent, but didn’t find them.

Genesis 31.35: 35 She said to her father, “Don’t let my lord be angry that I can’t rise up before you; for I’m having my period.” He searched, but didn’t find the teraphim.

Genesis 31.36: 36 Jacob was angry, and argued with Laban. Jacob answered Laban, “What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued me?

Genesis 31.37: 37 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.

Genesis 31.38: 38 “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.

Genesis 31.39: 39 That which was torn of animals, I didn’t bring to you. I bore its loss. Of my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.

Genesis 31.40: 40 This was my situation: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes.

Genesis 31.41: 41 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.

Genesis 31.42: 42 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.”

Genesis 31.43: 43 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! What can I do today to these my daughters, or to their children whom they have borne?

Genesis 31.44: 44 Now come, let’s make a covenant, you and I. Let it be for a witness between me and you.”

Genesis 31.46: 46 Jacob said to his relatives, “Gather stones.” They took stones, and made a heap. They ate there by the heap.

Genesis 31.47: 47 Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha,2 but Jacob called it Galeed.3

Genesis 31.48: 48 Laban said, “This heap is witness between me and you today.” Therefore it was named Galeed

Genesis 31.49: 49 and Mizpah, for he said, “Yahweh watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another.

Genesis 31.50: 50 If you afflict my daughters, or if you take wives in addition to my daughters, no man is with us; behold, God is witness between me and you.”

Genesis 31.51: 51 Laban said to Jacob, “See this heap, and see the pillar, which I have set between me and you.

Genesis 31.52: 52 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.

Genesis 31.53: 53 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.

Genesis 31.54: 54 Jacob offered a sacrifice in the mountain, and called his relatives to eat bread. They ate bread, and stayed all night in the mountain.

Genesis 31.55: 55 Early in the morning, Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them. Laban departed and returned to his place.

Genesis 32.2: 2 When he saw them, Jacob said, “This is God’s army.” He called the name of that place Mahanaim.

Genesis 32.3: 3 Jacob sent messengers in front of him to Esau, his brother, to the land of Seir, the field of Edom.

Genesis 32.4: 4 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.

Genesis 32.5: 5 I have cattle, donkeys, flocks, male servants, and female servants. I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in your sight.’”

Genesis 32.6: 6 The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, “We came to your brother Esau. He is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him.”

Genesis 32.7: 7 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;

Genesis 32.8: 8 and he said, “If Esau comes to the one company, and strikes it, then the company which is left will escape.”

Genesis 32.9: 9 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,’

Genesis 32.10: 10 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 crossed over this Jordan; and now I have become two companies.

Genesis 32.11: 11 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.

Genesis 32.12: 12 You said, ‘I will surely do you good, and make your offspring as the sand of the sea, which can’t be counted because there are so many.’”

Genesis 32.13: 13 He stayed there that night, and took from that which he had with him a present for Esau, his brother:

Genesis 32.14: 14 two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,

Genesis 32.15: 15 thirty milk camels and their colts, forty cows, ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten foals.

Genesis 32.16: 16 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.”

Genesis 32.17: 17 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?’

Genesis 32.18: 18 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.’”

Genesis 32.19: 19 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.

Genesis 32.20: 20 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.”

Genesis 32.21: 21 So the present passed over before him, and he himself stayed that night in the camp.

Genesis 32.22: 22 He rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two servants, and his eleven sons, and crossed over the ford of the Jabbok.

Genesis 32.23: 23 He took them, and sent them over the stream, and sent over that which he had.

Genesis 32.24: 24 Jacob was left alone, and wrestled with a man there until the breaking of the day.

Genesis 32.25: 25 When he saw that he didn’t prevail against him, the man touched the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was strained as he wrestled.

Genesis 32.28: 28 He said, “Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed.”

Genesis 32.30: 30 Jacob called the name of the place Peniel;1 for he said, “I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.”

Genesis 32.31: 31 The sun rose on him as he passed over Peniel, and he limped because of his thigh.

Genesis 32.32: 32 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.

Genesis 33.1: 33Jacob 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 servants.

Genesis 33.2: 2 He put the servants and their children in front, Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear.

Genesis 33.3: 3 He himself passed over in front of them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.

Genesis 33.4: 4 Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, kissed him, and they wept.

Genesis 33.5: 5 He lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, “Who are these with you?”

Genesis 33.6: 6 Then the servants came near with their children, and they bowed themselves.

Genesis 33.7: 7 Leah also and her children came near, and bowed themselves. After them, Joseph came near with Rachel, and they bowed themselves.

Genesis 33.8: 8 Esau said, “What do you mean by all this company which I met?”

Genesis 33.9: 9 Esau said, “I have enough, my brother; let that which you have be yours.”

Genesis 33.10: 10 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.

Genesis 33.11: 11 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.

Genesis 33.12: 12 Esau said, “Let’s take our journey, and let’s go, and I will go before you.”

Genesis 33.13: 13 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.

Genesis 33.14: 14 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.”

Genesis 33.15: 15 Esau said, “Let me now leave with you some of the people who are with me.”

Genesis 33.17: 17 Jacob traveled to Succoth, built himself a house, and made shelters for his livestock. Therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.1

Genesis 33.18: 18 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.

Genesis 33.19: 19 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.

Genesis 34.1: 34Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.

Genesis 34.2: 2 Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her. He took her, lay with her, and humbled her.

Genesis 34.3: 3 His soul joined to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young lady, and spoke kindly to the young lady.

Genesis 34.4: 4 Shechem spoke to his father, Hamor, saying, “Get me this young lady as a wife.”

Genesis 34.5: 5 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.

Genesis 34.7: 7 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 thing ought not to be done.

Genesis 34.8: 8 Hamor talked with them, saying, “The soul of my son, Shechem, longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife.

Genesis 34.9: 9 Make marriages with us. Give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.

Genesis 34.10: 10 You shall dwell with us, and the land will be before you. Live and trade in it, and get possessions in it.”

Genesis 34.11: 11 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.

Genesis 34.12: 12 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.”

Genesis 34.13: 13 The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit when they spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister,

Genesis 34.14: 14 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.

Genesis 34.15: 15 Only on this condition will we consent to you. If you will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised,

Genesis 34.16: 16 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.

Genesis 34.17: 17 But if you will not listen to us and be circumcised, then we will take our sister,1 and we will be gone.”

Genesis 34.19: 19 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.

Genesis 34.20: 20 Hamor and Shechem, his son, came to the gate of their city, and talked with the men of their city, saying,

Genesis 34.21: 21 “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’s take their daughters to us for wives, and let’s give them our daughters.

Genesis 34.22: 22 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.

Genesis 34.23: 23 Won’t their livestock and their possessions and all their animals be ours? Only let’s give our consent to them, and they will dwell with us.”

Genesis 34.24: 24 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.

Genesis 34.25: 25 On the third day, when they were sore, 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.

Genesis 34.26: 26 They killed Hamor and Shechem, his son, with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and went away.

Genesis 34.27: 27 Jacob’s sons came on the dead, and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.

Genesis 34.28: 28 They took their flocks, their herds, their donkeys, that which was in the city, that which was in the field,

Genesis 34.29: 29 and all their wealth. They took captive all their little ones and their wives, and took as plunder everything that was in the house.

Genesis 34.30: 30 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.”

Genesis 34.31: 31 They said, “Should he deal with our sister as with a prostitute?”

Genesis 35.1: 35God 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.”

Genesis 35.2: 2 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.

Genesis 35.3: 3 Let’s 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 on the way which I went.”

Genesis 35.4: 4 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.

Genesis 35.5: 5 They traveled, and a terror of God was on the cities that were around them, and they didn’t pursue the sons of Jacob.

Genesis 35.6: 6 So Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him.

Genesis 35.7: 7 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.

Genesis 35.8: 8 Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; and its name was called Allon Bacuth.

Genesis 35.9: 9 God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan Aram, and blessed him.

Genesis 35.10: 10 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.

Genesis 35.11: 11 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.

Genesis 35.12: 12 The land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give it to you, and to your offspring after you I will give the land.”

Genesis 35.14: 14 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.

Genesis 35.15: 15 Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him “Bethel”.

Genesis 35.16: 16 They traveled from Bethel. There was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor.

Genesis 35.17: 17 When she was in hard labor, the midwife said to her, “Don’t be afraid, for now you will have another son.”

Genesis 35.18: 18 As her soul was departing (for she died), she named him Benoni,1 but his father named him Benjamin.2

Genesis 35.19: 19 Rachel died, and was buried on the way to Ephrath (also called Bethlehem).

Genesis 35.20: 20 Jacob set up a pillar on her grave. The same is the Pillar of Rachel’s grave to this day.

Genesis 35.21: 21 Israel traveled, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Eder.

Genesis 35.22: 22 While Israel lived in that land, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father’s concubine, and Israel heard of it.

Genesis 35.23: 23 The sons of Leah: Reuben (Jacob’s firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.

Genesis 35.26: 26 The sons of Zilpah (Leah’s servant): Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan Aram.

Genesis 35.27: 27 Jacob came to Isaac his father, to Mamre, to Kiriath Arba (which is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac lived as foreigners.

Genesis 35.29: 29 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.

Genesis 36.1: 36Now this is the history of the generations of Esau (that is, Edom).

Genesis 36.2: 2 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;

Genesis 36.5: 5 Oholibamah bore Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. These are the sons of Esau, who were born to him in the land of Canaan.

Genesis 36.6: 6 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.

Genesis 36.7: 7 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.

Genesis 36.9: 9 This is the history of the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in the hill country of Seir:

Genesis 36.10: 10 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.

Genesis 36.11: 11 The sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and Kenaz.

Genesis 36.12: 12 Timna was concubine to Eliphaz, Esau’s son; and she bore to Eliphaz Amalek. These are the descendants of Adah, Esau’s wife.

Genesis 36.13: 13 These are the sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. These were the descendants of Basemath, Esau’s wife.

Genesis 36.14: 14 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.

Genesis 36.15: 15 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,

Genesis 36.16: 16 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.

Genesis 36.17: 17 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.

Genesis 36.18: 18 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.

Genesis 36.19: 19 These are the sons of Esau (that is, Edom), and these are their chiefs.

Genesis 36.20: 20 These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,

Genesis 36.21: 21 Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. These are the chiefs who came of the Horites, the children of Seir in the land of Edom.

Genesis 36.22: 22 The children of Lotan were Hori and Heman. Lotan’s sister was Timna.

Genesis 36.23: 23 These are the children of Shobal: Alvan, Manahath, Ebal, Shepho, and Onam.

Genesis 36.24: 24 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.

Genesis 36.25: 25 These are the children of Anah: Dishon and Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah.

Genesis 36.26: 26 These are the children of Dishon: Hemdan, Eshban, Ithran, and Cheran.

Genesis 36.29: 29 These are the chiefs who came of the Horites: chief Lotan, chief Shobal, chief Zibeon, chief Anah,

Genesis 36.30: 30 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.

Genesis 36.31: 31 These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom, before any king reigned over the children of Israel.

Genesis 36.32: 32 Bela, the son of Beor, reigned in Edom. The name of his city was Dinhabah.

Genesis 36.33: 33 Bela died, and Jobab, the son of Zerah of Bozrah, reigned in his place.

Genesis 36.34: 34 Jobab died, and Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his place.

Genesis 36.35: 35 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.

Genesis 36.37: 37 Samlah died, and Shaul of Rehoboth by the river, reigned in his place.

Genesis 36.38: 38 Shaul died, and Baal Hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his place.

Genesis 36.39: 39 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.

Genesis 36.40: 40 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,

Genesis 36.43: 43 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.

Genesis 37.1: 37Jacob lived in the land of his father’s travels, in the land of Canaan.

Genesis 37.2: 2 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.

Genesis 37.3: 3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age, and he made him a tunic of many colors.

Genesis 37.4: 4 His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn’t speak peaceably to him.

Genesis 37.5: 5 Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the more.

Genesis 37.6: 6 He said to them, “Please hear this dream which I have dreamed:

Genesis 37.7: 7 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.”

Genesis 37.8: 8 His brothers asked him, “Will you indeed reign over us? Will you indeed have dominion over us?” They hated him all the more for his dreams and for his words.

Genesis 37.9: 9 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.”

Genesis 37.10: 10 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?”

Genesis 37.11: 11 His brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in mind.

Genesis 37.13: 13 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.”

Genesis 37.14: 14 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.

Genesis 37.15: 15 A certain man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the field. The man asked him, “What are you looking for?”

Genesis 37.16: 16 He said, “I am looking for my brothers. Tell me, please, where they are feeding the flock.”

Genesis 37.17: 17 The man said, “They have left here, for I heard them say, ‘Let’s go to Dothan.’”

Genesis 37.18: 18 They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.

Genesis 37.20: 20 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.”

Genesis 37.21: 21 Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and said, “Let’s not take his life.”

Genesis 37.22: 22 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.

Genesis 37.23: 23 When Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped Joseph of his tunic, the tunic of many colors that was on him;

Genesis 37.24: 24 and they took him, and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty. There was no water in it.

Genesis 37.25: 25 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.

Genesis 37.26: 26 Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?

Genesis 37.27: 27 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.

Genesis 37.28: 28 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. The merchants brought Joseph into Egypt.

Genesis 37.29: 29 Reuben returned to the pit, and saw that Joseph wasn’t in the pit; and he tore his clothes.

Genesis 37.30: 30 He returned to his brothers, and said, “The child is no more; and I, where will I go?”

Genesis 37.31: 31 They took Joseph’s tunic, and killed a male goat, and dipped the tunic in the blood.

Genesis 37.32: 32 They took the tunic of many colors, and they brought it to their father, and said, “We have found this. Examine it, now, and see if it is your son’s tunic or not.”

Genesis 37.33: 33 He recognized it, and said, “It is my son’s tunic. An evil animal has devoured him. Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces.”

Genesis 37.34: 34 Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for his son many days.

Genesis 37.35: 35 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 Sheol1 to my son, mourning.” His father wept for him.

Genesis 37.36: 36 The Midianites sold him into Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s, the captain of the guard.

Genesis 38.1: 38At that time, Judah went down from his brothers, and visited a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.

Genesis 38.2: 2 There, Judah saw the daughter of a certain Canaanite man named Shua. He took her, and went in to her.

Genesis 38.5: 5 She yet again bore a son, and named him Shelah. He was at Chezib when she bore him.

Genesis 38.6: 6 Judah took a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.

Genesis 38.7: 7 Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in Yahweh’s sight. So Yahweh killed him.

Genesis 38.8: 8 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 offspring for your brother.”

Genesis 38.9: 9 Onan knew that the offspring wouldn’t be his; and when he went in to his brother’s wife, he spilled his semen on the ground, lest he should give offspring to his brother.

Genesis 38.10: 10 The thing which he did was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and he killed him also.

Genesis 38.11: 11 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.

Genesis 38.12: 12 After many days, Shua’s daughter, the wife of Judah, died. Judah was comforted, and went up to his sheep shearers to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah, the Adullamite.

Genesis 38.13: 13 Tamar was told, “Behold, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep.”

Genesis 38.14: 14 She took off the garments of her widowhood, and covered herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gate of Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she wasn’t given to him as a wife.

Genesis 38.15: 15 When Judah saw her, he thought that she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face.

Genesis 38.16: 16 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.

Genesis 38.19: 19 She arose, and went away, and put off her veil from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.

Genesis 38.20: 20 Judah sent the young goat by the hand of his friend, the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman’s hand, but he didn’t find her.

Genesis 38.21: 21 Then he asked the men of her place, saying, “Where is the prostitute, that was at Enaim by the road?”

Genesis 38.22: 22 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.’”

Genesis 38.23: 23 Judah said, “Let her keep it, lest we be shamed. Behold, I sent this young goat, and you haven’t found her.”

Genesis 38.24: 24 About three months later, Judah was told, “Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has played the prostitute. Moreover, behold, she is with child by prostitution.”

Genesis 38.25: 25 When she was brought out, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, “I am with child by the man who owns these.” She also said, “Please discern whose these are—the signet, and the cords, and the staff.”

Genesis 38.26: 26 Judah acknowledged them, and said, “She is more righteous than I, because I didn’t give her to Shelah, my son.”

Genesis 38.28: 28 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.”

Genesis 38.29: 29 As he drew back his hand, behold, his brother came out, and she said, “Why have you made a breach for yourself?” Therefore his name was called Perez.1

Genesis 38.30: 30 Afterward his brother came out, who had the scarlet thread on his hand, and his name was called Zerah.2

Genesis 39.1: 39Joseph 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.

Genesis 39.2: 2 Yahweh was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man. He was in the house of his master the Egyptian.

Genesis 39.3: 3 His master saw that Yahweh was with him, and that Yahweh made all that he did prosper in his hand.

Genesis 39.4: 4 Joseph found favor in his sight. He ministered to him, and Potiphar made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand.

Genesis 39.5: 5 From the time that he made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, Yahweh blessed the Egyptian’s house for Joseph’s sake. Yahweh’s blessing was on all that he had, in the house and in the field.

Genesis 39.6: 6 He left all that he had in Joseph’s hand. He didn’t concern himself with anything, except for the food which he ate.

Genesis 39.7: 7 After these things, his master’s wife set her eyes on Joseph; and she said, “Lie with me.”

Genesis 39.8: 8 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.

Genesis 39.9: 9 No one is greater in this house than I am, and he has not kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?”

Genesis 39.10: 10 As she spoke to Joseph day by day, he didn’t listen to her, to lie by her, or to be with her.

Genesis 39.11: 11 About this time, he went into the house to do his work, and there were none of the men of the house inside.

Genesis 39.13: 13 When she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and had run outside,

Genesis 39.14: 14 she called to the men of her house, and spoke to them, saying, “Behold, he has brought a Hebrew in to us to mock us. He came in to me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice.

Genesis 39.15: 15 When he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, he left his garment by me, and ran outside.”

Genesis 39.17: 17 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,

Genesis 39.18: 18 and as I lifted up my voice and cried, he left his garment by me, and ran outside.”

Genesis 39.19: 19 When his master heard the words of his wife, which she spoke to him, saying, “This is what your servant did to me,” his wrath was kindled.

Genesis 39.20: 20 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.

Genesis 39.21: 21 But Yahweh was with Joseph, and showed kindness to him, and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.

Genesis 39.22: 22 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.

Genesis 39.23: 23 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.

Genesis 40.1: 40After these things, the butler of the king of Egypt and his baker offended their lord, the king of Egypt.

Genesis 40.2: 2 Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cup bearer and the chief baker.

Genesis 40.3: 3 He put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.

Genesis 40.4: 4 The captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph, and he took care of them. They stayed in prison many days.

Genesis 40.5: 5 They both dreamed a dream, each man his dream, in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the cup bearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were bound in the prison.

Genesis 40.6: 6 Joseph came in to them in the morning, and saw them, and saw that they were sad.

Genesis 40.7: 7 He asked Pharaoh’s officers who were with him in custody in his master’s house, saying, “Why do you look so sad today?”

Genesis 40.8: 8 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.”

Genesis 40.9: 9 The chief cup bearer told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, “In my dream, behold, a vine was in front of me,

Genesis 40.10: 10 and in the vine were three branches. It was as though it budded, it blossomed, and its clusters produced ripe grapes.

Genesis 40.11: 11 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.”

Genesis 40.12: 12 Joseph said to him, “This is its interpretation: the three branches are three days.

Genesis 40.13: 13 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 cup bearer.

Genesis 40.14: 14 But remember me when it is well with you. Please show kindness to me, and make mention of me to Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house.

Genesis 40.15: 15 For indeed, I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also I have done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.”

Genesis 40.16: 16 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.

Genesis 40.17: 17 In the uppermost basket there were all kinds of baked food for Pharaoh, and the birds ate them out of the basket on my head.”

Genesis 40.18: 18 Joseph answered, “This is its interpretation. The three baskets are three days.

Genesis 40.19: 19 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.”

Genesis 40.20: 20 On the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, he made a feast for all his servants, and he lifted up the head of the chief cup bearer and the head of the chief baker among his servants.

Genesis 40.21: 21 He restored the chief cup bearer to his position again, and he gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand;

Genesis 40.22: 22 but he hanged the chief baker, as Joseph had interpreted to them.

Genesis 40.23: 23 Yet the chief cup bearer didn’t remember Joseph, but forgot him.

Genesis 41.1: 41At the end of two full years, Pharaoh dreamed, and behold, he stood by the river.

Genesis 41.2: 2 Behold, seven cattle came up out of the river. They were sleek and fat, and they fed in the marsh grass.

Genesis 41.3: 3 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.

Genesis 41.4: 4 The ugly and thin cattle ate up the seven sleek and fat cattle. So Pharaoh awoke.

Genesis 41.5: 5 He slept and dreamed a second time; and behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, healthy and good.

Genesis 41.6: 6 Behold, seven heads of grain, thin and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.

Genesis 41.7: 7 The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven healthy and full ears. Pharaoh awoke, and behold, it was a dream.

Genesis 41.8: 8 In the morning, 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.

Genesis 41.9: 9 Then the chief cup bearer spoke to Pharaoh, saying, “I remember my faults today.

Genesis 41.10: 10 Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and put me in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, with the chief baker.

Genesis 41.11: 11 We dreamed a dream in one night, he and I. Each man dreamed according to the interpretation of his dream.

Genesis 41.12: 12 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. He interpreted to each man according to his dream.

Genesis 41.13: 13 As he interpreted to us, so it was. He restored me to my office, and he hanged him.”

Genesis 41.14: 14 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.

Genesis 41.15: 15 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.”

Genesis 41.16: 16 Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, “It isn’t in me. God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace.”

Genesis 41.17: 17 Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, “In my dream, behold, I stood on the brink of the river;

Genesis 41.18: 18 and behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, fat and sleek. They fed in the marsh grass;

Genesis 41.19: 19 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.

Genesis 41.21: 21 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.

Genesis 41.22: 22 I saw in my dream, and behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, full and good;

Genesis 41.23: 23 and behold, seven heads of grain, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.

Genesis 41.24: 24 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.”

Genesis 41.25: 25 Joseph said to Pharaoh, “The dream of Pharaoh is one. What God is about to do he has declared to Pharaoh.

Genesis 41.26: 26 The seven good cattle are seven years; and the seven good heads of grain are seven years. The dream is one.

Genesis 41.27: 27 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.

Genesis 41.28: 28 That is the thing which I have spoken to Pharaoh. God has shown Pharaoh what he is about to do.

Genesis 41.29: 29 Behold, seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt are coming.

Genesis 41.30: 30 Seven years of famine will arise after them, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. The famine will consume the land,

Genesis 41.31: 31 and the plenty will not be known in the land by reason of that famine which follows; for it will be very grievous.

Genesis 41.32: 32 The dream was doubled to Pharaoh, because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.

Genesis 41.33: 33 “Now therefore let Pharaoh look for a discreet and wise man, and set him over the land of Egypt.

Genesis 41.34: 34 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.

Genesis 41.35: 35 Let them gather all the food of these good years that come, and store grain under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it.

Genesis 41.36: 36 The food will be to supply the land against the seven years of famine, which will be in the land of Egypt; so that the land will not perish through the famine.”

Genesis 41.37: 37 The thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants.

Genesis 41.38: 38 Pharaoh said to his servants, “Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom is the Spirit of God?”

Genesis 41.39: 39 Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Because God has shown you all of this, there is no one so discreet and wise as you.

Genesis 41.40: 40 You shall be over my house. All my people will be ruled according to your word. Only in the throne I will be greater than you.”

Genesis 41.41: 41 Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Behold, I have set you over all the land of Egypt.”

Genesis 41.42: 42 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.

Genesis 41.43: 43 He made him ride in the second chariot which he had. They cried before him, “Bow the knee!” He set him over all the land of Egypt.

Genesis 41.44: 44 Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I am Pharaoh. Without you, no man shall lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt.”

Genesis 41.45: 45 Pharaoh called Joseph’s name Zaphenath-Paneah. He gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On as a wife. Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.

Genesis 41.46: 46 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.

Genesis 41.48: 48 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. He stored food in each city from the fields around that city.

Genesis 41.49: 49 Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he stopped counting, for it was without number.

Genesis 41.50: 50 To Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore to him.

Genesis 41.51: 51 Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh,1 “For”, he said, “God has made me forget all my toil, and all my father’s house.”

Genesis 41.52: 52 The name of the second, he called Ephraim:2 “For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”

Genesis 41.53: 53 The seven years of plenty, that were in the land of Egypt, came to an end.

Genesis 41.54: 54 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.

Genesis 41.55: 55 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.”

Genesis 41.56: 56 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.

Genesis 41.57: 57 All countries came into Egypt, to Joseph, to buy grain, because the famine was severe in all the earth.

Genesis 42.1: 42Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, “Why do you look at one another?”

Genesis 42.2: 2 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.”

Genesis 42.4: 4 But Jacob didn’t send Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, with his brothers; for he said, “Lest perhaps harm happen to him.”

Genesis 42.5: 5 The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

Genesis 42.6: 6 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.

Genesis 42.7: 7 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?”

Genesis 42.8: 8 Joseph recognized his brothers, but they didn’t recognize him.

Genesis 42.9: 9 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.”

Genesis 42.10: 10 They said to him, “No, my lord, but your servants have come to buy food.

Genesis 42.11: 11 We are all one man’s sons; we are honest men. Your servants are not spies.”

Genesis 42.12: 12 He said to them, “No, but you have come to see the nakedness of the land!”

Genesis 42.13: 13 They said, “We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest is today with our father, and one is no more.”

Genesis 42.14: 14 Joseph said to them, “It is like I told you, saying, ‘You are spies!’

Genesis 42.15: 15 By this you shall be tested. By the life of Pharaoh, you shall not go out from here, unless your youngest brother comes here.

Genesis 42.16: 16 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.”

Genesis 42.18: 18 Joseph said to them the third day, “Do this, and live, for I fear God.

Genesis 42.19: 19 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.

Genesis 42.20: 20 Bring your youngest brother to me; so will your words be verified, and you won’t die.”

Genesis 42.21: 21 They said to one 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.”

Genesis 42.22: 22 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.”

Genesis 42.23: 23 They didn’t know that Joseph understood them; for there was an interpreter between them.

Genesis 42.24: 24 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.

Genesis 42.25: 25 Then Joseph gave a command to fill their bags with grain, and to restore each man’s money into his sack, and to give them food for the way. So it was done to them.

Genesis 42.26: 26 They loaded their donkeys with their grain, and departed from there.

Genesis 42.27: 27 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.

Genesis 42.28: 28 He said to his brothers, “My money is restored! Behold, it is in my sack!” Their hearts failed them, and they turned trembling to one another, saying, “What is this that God has done to us?”

Genesis 42.29: 29 They came to Jacob their father, to the land of Canaan, and told him all that had happened to them, saying,

Genesis 42.30: 30 “The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us, and took us for spies of the country.

Genesis 42.32: 32 We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, and the youngest is today with our father in the land of Canaan.’

Genesis 42.33: 33 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.

Genesis 42.34: 34 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.’”

Genesis 42.35: 35 As they emptied their sacks, behold, each man’s bundle of money was in his sack. When they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were afraid.

Genesis 42.36: 36 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.”

Genesis 42.37: 37 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.”

Genesis 42.38: 38 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.”1

Genesis 43.2: 2 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.”

Genesis 43.3: 3 Judah spoke to him, saying, “The man solemnly warned us, saying, ‘You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.’

Genesis 43.4: 4 If you’ll send our brother with us, we’ll go down and buy you food;

Genesis 43.5: 5 but if you don’t send him, we won’t go down, for the man said to us, ‘You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.’”

Genesis 43.6: 6 Israel said, “Why did you treat me so badly, telling the man that you had another brother?”

Genesis 43.7: 7 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?’”

Genesis 43.8: 8 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.

Genesis 43.9: 9 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;

Genesis 43.10: 10 for if we hadn’t delayed, surely we would have returned a second time by now.”

Genesis 43.11: 11 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;

Genesis 43.12: 12 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.

Genesis 43.14: 14 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.”

Genesis 43.15: 15 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.

Genesis 43.16: 16 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 prepare; for the men will dine with me at noon.”

Genesis 43.17: 17 The man did as Joseph commanded, and the man brought the men to Joseph’s house.

Genesis 43.18: 18 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 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.”

Genesis 43.19: 19 They came near to the steward of Joseph’s house, and they spoke to him at the door of the house,

Genesis 43.20: 20 and said, “Oh, my lord, we indeed came down the first time to buy food.

Genesis 43.21: 21 When we came to the lodging place, we opened our sacks, and behold, each man’s money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight. We have brought it back in our hand.

Genesis 43.22: 22 We have brought down other money in our hand to buy food. We don’t know who put our money in our sacks.”

Genesis 43.23: 23 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.

Genesis 43.24: 24 The man brought the men into Joseph’s house, and gave them water, and they washed their feet. He gave their donkeys fodder.

Genesis 43.25: 25 They prepared the present for Joseph’s coming at noon, for they heard that they should eat bread there.

Genesis 43.26: 26 When Joseph came home, they brought him the present which was in their hand into the house, and bowed themselves down to the earth before him.

Genesis 43.27: 27 He asked them of their welfare, and said, “Is your father well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he yet alive?”

Genesis 43.28: 28 They said, “Your servant, our father, is well. He is still alive.” They bowed down humbly.

Genesis 43.29: 29 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.”

Genesis 43.30: 30 Joseph hurried, for his heart yearned over his brother; and he sought a place to weep. He entered into his room, and wept there.

Genesis 43.31: 31 He washed his face, and came out. He controlled himself, and said, “Serve the meal.”

Genesis 43.32: 32 They served him by himself, and them by themselves, and the Egyptians who ate with him by themselves, because the Egyptians don’t eat with the Hebrews, for that is an abomination to the Egyptians.

Genesis 43.33: 33 They sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth, and the men marveled with one another.

Genesis 43.34: 34 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.

Genesis 44.1: 44He commanded the steward of his house, saying, “Fill the men’s sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put each man’s money in his sack’s mouth.

Genesis 44.2: 2 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.

Genesis 44.3: 3 As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they and their donkeys.

Genesis 44.4: 4 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?

Genesis 44.5: 5 Isn’t this that from which my lord drinks, and by which he indeed divines? You have done evil in so doing.’”

Genesis 44.7: 7 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!

Genesis 44.8: 8 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?

Genesis 44.9: 9 With whomever of your servants it is found, let him die, and we also will be my lord’s slaves.”

Genesis 44.10: 10 He said, “Now also let it be according to your words. He with whom it is found will be my slave; and you will be blameless.”

Genesis 44.11: 11 Then they hurried, and each man took his sack down to the ground, and each man opened his sack.

Genesis 44.12: 12 He searched, beginning with the oldest, and ending at the youngest. The cup was found in Benjamin’s sack.

Genesis 44.13: 13 Then they tore their clothes, and each man loaded his donkey, and returned to the city.

Genesis 44.14: 14 Judah and his brothers came to Joseph’s house, and he was still there. They fell on the ground before him.

Genesis 44.15: 15 Joseph said to them, “What deed is this that you have done? Don’t you know that such a man as I can indeed do divination?”

Genesis 44.16: 16 Judah said, “What will we tell my lord? What will we speak? How will we clear ourselves? God has found out the iniquity of your servants. Behold, we are my lord’s slaves, both we and he also in whose hand the cup is found.”

Genesis 44.17: 17 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 slave; but as for you, go up in peace to your father.”

Genesis 44.18: 18 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.

Genesis 44.19: 19 My lord asked his servants, saying, ‘Have you a father, or a brother?’

Genesis 44.20: 20 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.’

Genesis 44.21: 21 You said to your servants, ‘Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.’

Genesis 44.22: 22 We said to my lord, ‘The boy can’t leave his father, for if he should leave his father, his father would die.’

Genesis 44.23: 23 You said to your servants, ‘Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will see my face no more.’

Genesis 44.24: 24 When we came up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.

Genesis 44.26: 26 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.’

Genesis 44.27: 27 Your servant, my father, said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons.

Genesis 44.28: 28 One went out from me, and I said, “Surely he is torn in pieces;” and I haven’t seen him since.

Genesis 44.29: 29 If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.’1

Genesis 44.30: 30 Now therefore when I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us; since his life is bound up in the boy’s life;

Genesis 44.31: 31 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.2

Genesis 44.32: 32 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.’

Genesis 44.33: 33 Now therefore, please let your servant stay instead of the boy, my lord’s slave; and let the boy go up with his brothers.

Genesis 44.34: 34 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.”

Genesis 45.1: 45Then Joseph couldn’t control himself before all those who stood before him, and he called out, “Cause everyone to go out from me!” No one else stood with him, while Joseph made himself known to his brothers.

Genesis 45.2: 2 He wept aloud. The Egyptians heard, and the house of Pharaoh heard.

Genesis 45.3: 3 Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph! Does my father still live?”

They came near. He said, “I am Joseph, your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.

Genesis 45.5: 5 Now don’t be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.

Genesis 45.6: 6 For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are yet five years, in which there will be no plowing and no harvest.

Genesis 45.7: 7 God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.

Genesis 45.8: 8 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.

Genesis 45.9: 9 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.

Genesis 45.10: 10 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.

Genesis 45.11: 11 There I will provide for you; for there are yet five years of famine; lest you come to poverty, you, and your household, and all that you have.”’

Genesis 45.12: 12 Behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaks to you.

Genesis 45.13: 13 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.”

Genesis 45.14: 14 He fell on his brother Benjamin’s neck and wept, and Benjamin wept on his neck.

Genesis 45.15: 15 He kissed all his brothers, and wept on them. After that his brothers talked with him.

Genesis 45.16: 16 The report of it was heard in Pharaoh’s house, saying, “Joseph’s brothers have come.” It pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants.

Genesis 45.17: 17 Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Tell your brothers, ‘Do this: Load your animals, and go, travel to the land of Canaan.

Genesis 45.18: 18 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.’

Genesis 45.19: 19 Now you are commanded to do this: Take wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.

Genesis 45.20: 20 Also, don’t concern yourselves about your belongings, for the good of all the land of Egypt is yours.”

Genesis 45.21: 21 The sons of Israel did so. Joseph gave them wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way.

Genesis 45.22: 22 He gave each one of them changes of clothing, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five changes of clothing.

Genesis 45.23: 23 He sent the following to his father: 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.

Genesis 45.24: 24 So he sent his brothers away, and they departed. He said to them, “See that you don’t quarrel on the way.”

Genesis 45.25: 25 They went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan, to Jacob their father.

Genesis 45.26: 26 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.

Genesis 45.27: 27 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.

Genesis 45.28: 28 Israel said, “It is enough. Joseph my son is still alive. I will go and see him before I die.”

Genesis 46.1: 46Israel traveled with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father, Isaac.

Genesis 46.2: 2 God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night, and said, “Jacob, Jacob!”

Genesis 46.3: 3 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.

Genesis 46.4: 4 I will go down with you into Egypt. I will also surely bring you up again. Joseph’s hand will close your eyes.”

Genesis 46.5: 5 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.

Genesis 46.6: 6 They took their livestock, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt—Jacob, and all his offspring with him,

Genesis 46.7: 7 his sons, and his sons’ sons with him, his daughters, and his sons’ daughters, and he brought all his offspring with him into Egypt.

Genesis 46.8: 8 These are the names of the children of Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn.

Genesis 46.10: 10 The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman.

Genesis 46.12: 12 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.

Genesis 46.15: 15 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.

Genesis 46.16: 16 The sons of Gad: Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli.

Genesis 46.17: 17 The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and Serah their sister. The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.

Genesis 46.18: 18 These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah, his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob, even sixteen souls.

Genesis 46.20: 20 To Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, bore to him.

Genesis 46.21: 21 The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard.

Genesis 46.22: 22 These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob: all the souls were fourteen.

Genesis 46.25: 25 These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel, his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob: all the souls were seven.

Genesis 46.26: 26 All the souls who came with Jacob into Egypt, who were his direct offspring, in addition to Jacob’s sons’ wives, all the souls were sixty-six.

Genesis 46.27: 27 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.

Genesis 46.28: 28 Jacob sent Judah before him to Joseph, to show the way before him to Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen.

Genesis 46.29: 29 Joseph prepared 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.

Genesis 46.30: 30 Israel said to Joseph, “Now let me die, since I have seen your face, that you are still alive.”

Genesis 46.31: 31 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.

Genesis 46.32: 32 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.’

Genesis 46.33: 33 It will happen, when Pharaoh summons you, and will say, ‘What is your occupation?’

Genesis 46.34: 34 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.”

Genesis 47.1: 47Then 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.”

Genesis 47.2: 2 From among his brothers he took five men, and presented them to Pharaoh.

They said to Pharaoh, “Your servants are shepherds, both we, and our fathers.”

Genesis 47.4: 4 They also 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.”

Genesis 47.5: 5 Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, “Your father and your brothers have come to you.

Genesis 47.6: 6 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.”

Genesis 47.7: 7 Joseph brought in Jacob, his father, and set him before Pharaoh; and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

Genesis 47.9: 9 Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. The days of the years of my life have been few and evil. They have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”

Genesis 47.10: 10 Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from the presence of Pharaoh.

Genesis 47.11: 11 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.

Genesis 47.12: 12 Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all of his father’s household with bread, according to the sizes of their families.

Genesis 47.13: 13 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.

Genesis 47.14: 14 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.

Genesis 47.15: 15 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.”

Genesis 47.16: 16 Joseph said, “Give me your livestock; and I will give you food for your livestock, if your money is gone.”

Genesis 47.17: 17 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.

Genesis 47.18: 18 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.

Genesis 47.19: 19 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.”

Genesis 47.20: 20 So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for every man of the Egyptians sold his field, because the famine was severe on them, and the land became Pharaoh’s.

Genesis 47.21: 21 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.

Genesis 47.22: 22 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.

Genesis 47.23: 23 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.

Genesis 47.24: 24 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.”

Genesis 47.25: 25 They said, “You have saved our lives! Let us find favor in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants.”

Genesis 47.26: 26 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.

Genesis 47.27: 27 Israel lived in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen; and they got themselves possessions therein, and were fruitful, and multiplied exceedingly.

Genesis 47.28: 28 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.

Genesis 47.29: 29 The time came 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,

Genesis 47.30: 30 but when I sleep with my fathers, you shall carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their burying place.”

Genesis 47.31: 31 Israel said, “Swear to me,” and he swore to him. Then Israel bowed himself on the bed’s head.

Genesis 48.1: 48After these things, someone said to Joseph, “Behold, your father is sick.” He took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.

Genesis 48.2: 2 Someone told Jacob, and said, “Behold, your son Joseph comes to you,” and Israel strengthened himself, and sat on the bed.

Genesis 48.3: 3 Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,

Genesis 48.4: 4 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 offspring after you for an everlasting possession.’

Genesis 48.5: 5 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.

Genesis 48.6: 6 Your offspring, whom you become the father of after them, will be yours. They will be called after the name of their brothers in their inheritance.

Genesis 48.7: 7 As for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died beside me in the land of Canaan on the way, when there was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (also called Bethlehem).”

Genesis 48.9: 9 Joseph said to his father, “They are my sons, whom God has given me here.”

Genesis 48.10: 10 Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he couldn’t see well. Joseph brought them near to him; and he kissed them, and embraced them.

Genesis 48.11: 11 Israel said to Joseph, “I didn’t think I would see your face, and behold, God has let me see your offspring also.”

Genesis 48.12: 12 Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.

Genesis 48.13: 13 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.

Genesis 48.14: 14 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.

Genesis 48.17: 17 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.

Genesis 48.18: 18 Joseph said to his father, “Not so, my father, for this is the firstborn. Put your right hand on his head.”

Genesis 48.19: 19 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 offspring will become a multitude of nations.”

Genesis 48.20: 20 He blessed them that day, saying, “Israel will bless in you, saying, ‘God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh’” He set Ephraim before Manasseh.

Genesis 48.21: 21 Israel said to Joseph, “Behold, I am dying, but God will be with you, and bring you again to the land of your fathers.

Genesis 48.22: 22 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.”

Genesis 49.1: 49Jacob 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.

Genesis 49.3: 3 “Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength;

Genesis 49.26: 26 The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of your ancestors,

Genesis 49.28: 28 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 own blessing.

Genesis 49.29: 29 He instructed 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,

Genesis 49.30: 30 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.

Genesis 49.31: 31 There they buried Abraham and Sarah, his wife. There they buried Isaac and Rebekah, his wife, and there I buried Leah:

Genesis 49.32: 32 the field and the cave that is therein, which was purchased from the children of Heth.”

Genesis 49.33: 33 When Jacob finished charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, breathed his last breath, and was gathered to his people.

Genesis 50.1: 50Joseph fell on his father’s face, wept on him, and kissed him.

Genesis 50.2: 2 Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel.

Genesis 50.3: 3 Forty days were used for him, for that is how many the days it takes to embalm. The Egyptians wept for Israel for seventy days.

Genesis 50.4: 4 When the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke to Pharaoh’s staff, saying, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,

Genesis 50.5: 5 ‘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.’”

Genesis 50.6: 6 Pharaoh said, “Go up, and bury your father, just like he made you swear.”

Genesis 50.7: 7 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,

Genesis 50.8: 8 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.

Genesis 50.9: 9 There went up with him both chariots and horsemen. It was a very great company.

Genesis 50.10: 10 They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and severe lamentation. He mourned for his father seven days.

Genesis 50.11: 11 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 its name was called Abel Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.

Genesis 50.13: 13 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, as a possession for a burial site, from Ephron the Hittite, near Mamre.

Genesis 50.14: 14 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.

Genesis 50.15: 15 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 the evil which we did to him.”

Genesis 50.16: 16 They sent a message to Joseph, saying, “Your father commanded before he died, saying,

Genesis 50.17: 17 ‘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.

Genesis 50.18: 18 His brothers also went and fell down before his face; and they said, “Behold, we are your servants.”

Genesis 50.19: 19 Joseph said to them, “Don’t be afraid, for am I in the place of God?

Genesis 50.20: 20 As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to save many people alive, as is happening today.

Genesis 50.21: 21 Now therefore don’t be afraid. I will provide for you and your little ones.” He comforted them, and spoke kindly to them.

Genesis 50.22: 22 Joseph lived in Egypt, he, and his father’s house. Joseph lived one hundred ten years.

Genesis 50.23: 23 Joseph saw Ephraim’s children to the third generation. The children also of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born on Joseph’s knees.

Genesis 50.24: 24 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.”

Genesis 50.25: 25 Joseph took an oath from the children of Israel, saying, “God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here.”

Genesis 50.26: 26 So Joseph died, being one hundred ten years old, and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

Acts 1.1: 1The first book I wrote, Theophilus, concerned all that Jesus began both to do and to teach,

Acts 1.2: 2 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.

Acts 1.3: 3 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.

Acts 1.4: 4 Being assembled together with them, he commanded them, “Don’t depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which you heard from me.

Acts 1.5: 5 For John indeed baptized in water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”

Acts 1.6: 6 Therefore when they had come together, they asked him, “Lord, are you now restoring the kingdom to Israel?”

Acts 1.7: 7 He said to them, “It isn’t for you to know times or seasons which the Father has set within his own authority.

Acts 1.8: 8 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.”

Acts 1.9: 9 When he had said these things, as they were looking, he was taken up, and a cloud received him out of their sight.

Acts 1.10: 10 While they were looking steadfastly into the sky as he went, behold,1 two men stood by them in white clothing,

Acts 1.11: 11 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.”

Acts 1.12: 12 Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mountain called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day’s journey away.

Acts 1.13: 13 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.

Acts 1.14: 14 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.

Acts 1.15: 15 In these days, Peter stood up in the middle of the disciples (and the number of names was about one hundred twenty), and said,

Acts 1.16: 16 “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.

Acts 1.17: 17 For he was counted with us, and received his portion in this ministry.

Acts 1.18: 18 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.

Acts 1.19: 19 It became known to everyone who lived in Jerusalem that in their language that field was called ‘Akeldama,’ that is, ‘The field of blood.’

Acts 1.21: 21 “Of the men therefore who have accompanied us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,

Acts 1.22: 22 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.”

Acts 1.23: 23 They put forward two, Joseph called Barsabbas, who was also called Justus, and Matthias.

Acts 1.24: 24 They prayed and said, “You, Lord, who know the hearts of all men, show which one of these two you have chosen

Acts 1.25: 25 to take part in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas fell away, that he might go to his own place.”

Acts 1.26: 26 They drew lots for them, and the lot fell on Matthias, and he was counted with the eleven apostles.

Acts 2.1: 2Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place.

Acts 2.2: 2 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.

Acts 2.3: 3 Tongues like fire appeared and were distributed to them, and one sat on each of them.

Acts 2.4: 4 They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other languages, as the Spirit gave them the ability to speak.

Acts 2.5: 5 Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from every nation under the sky.

Acts 2.6: 6 When this sound was heard, the multitude came together and were bewildered, because everyone heard them speaking in his own language.

Acts 2.7: 7 They were all amazed and marveled, saying to one another, “Behold, aren’t all these who speak Galileans?

Acts 2.9: 9 Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and people from Mesopotamia, Judea, Cappadocia, Pontus, Asia,

Acts 2.10: 10 Phrygia, Pamphylia, Egypt, the parts of Libya around Cyrene, visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes,

Acts 2.11: 11 Cretans and Arabians: we hear them speaking in our languages the mighty works of God!”

Acts 2.12: 12 They were all amazed, and were perplexed, saying to one another, “What does this mean?”

Acts 2.14: 14 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.

Acts 2.15: 15 For these aren’t drunken, as you suppose, seeing it is only the third hour of the day.1

Acts 2.21: 21 It will be that whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.’a

Acts 2.22: 22 “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 among you, even as you yourselves know,

Acts 2.23: 23 him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;

Acts 2.24: 24 whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.

Acts 2.29: 29 “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.

Acts 2.30: 30 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,

Acts 2.31: 31 he foreseeing this spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that his soul wasn’t left in Hades,3 and his flesh didn’t see decay.

Acts 2.33: 33 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.

Acts 2.36: 36 “Let all the house of Israel therefore know certainly that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.”

Acts 2.37: 37 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?”

Acts 2.38: 38 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.

Acts 2.39: 39 For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”

Acts 2.40: 40 With many other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation!”

Acts 2.41: 41 Then those who gladly received his word were baptized. There were added that day about three thousand souls.

Acts 2.42: 42 They continued steadfastly in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and prayer.

Acts 2.43: 43 Fear came on every soul, and many wonders and signs were done through the apostles.

Acts 2.45: 45 They sold their possessions and goods, and distributed them to all, according as anyone had need.

Acts 2.46: 46 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,

Acts 2.47: 47 praising God, and having favor with all the people. The Lord added to the assembly day by day those who were being saved.

Acts 3.1: 3Peter and John were going up into the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour.1

Acts 3.2: 2 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.

Acts 3.3: 3 Seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, he asked to receive gifts for the needy.

Acts 3.4: 4 Peter, fastening his eyes on him, with John, said, “Look at us.”

Acts 3.6: 6 But Peter said, “I have no silver or gold, but what I have, that I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, get up and walk!”

Acts 3.7: 7 He took him by the right hand and raised him up. Immediately his feet and his ankle bones received strength.

Acts 3.8: 8 Leaping up, he stood and began to walk. He entered with them into the temple, walking, leaping, and praising God.

Acts 3.10: 10 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.

Acts 3.11: 11 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.

Acts 3.12: 12 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?

Acts 3.13: 13 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.

Acts 3.14: 14 But you denied the Holy and Righteous One and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,

Acts 3.15: 15 and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, to which we are witnesses.

Acts 3.16: 16 By faith in his name, his name has 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.

Acts 3.17: 17 “Now, brothers,2 I know that you did this in ignorance, as did also your rulers.

Acts 3.18: 18 But the things which God announced by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled.

Acts 3.19: 19 “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,

Acts 3.20: 20 and that he may send Christ Jesus, who was ordained for you before,

Acts 3.21: 21 whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God spoke long ago by the mouth of his holy prophets.

Acts 3.22: 22 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.

Acts 3.23: 23 It will be that every soul that will not listen to that prophet will be utterly destroyed from among the people.’a

Acts 3.24: 24 Yes, and all the prophets from Samuel and those who followed after, as many as have spoken, they also told of these days.

Acts 3.25: 25 You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘All the families of the earth will be blessed through your offspring.’3 b

Acts 3.26: 26 God, having raised up his servant Jesus, sent him to you first to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your wickedness.”

Acts 4.1: 4As they spoke to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came to them,

Acts 4.2: 2 being upset because they taught the people and proclaimed in Jesus the resurrection from the dead.

Acts 4.3: 3 They laid hands on them, and put them in custody until the next day, for it was now evening.

Acts 4.4: 4 But many of those who heard the word believed, and the number of the men came to be about five thousand.

Acts 4.5: 5 In the morning, their rulers, elders, and scribes were gathered together in Jerusalem.

Acts 4.6: 6 Annas the high priest was there, with Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and as many as were relatives of the high priest.

Acts 4.7: 7 When they had stood Peter and John in the middle of them, they inquired, “By what power, or in what name, have you done this?”

Acts 4.8: 8 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “You rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,

Acts 4.9: 9 if we are examined today concerning a good deed done to a crippled man, by what means this man has been healed,

Acts 4.10: 10 may it be 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, this man stands here before you whole in him.

Acts 4.11: 11 He is ‘the stone which was regarded as worthless by you, the builders, which has become the head of the corner.’a

Acts 4.12: 12 There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven that is given among men, by which we must be saved!”

Acts 4.13: 13 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.

Acts 4.14: 14 Seeing the man who was healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it.

Acts 4.15: 15 But when they had commanded them to go aside out of the council, they conferred among themselves,

Acts 4.16: 16 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.

Acts 4.17: 17 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.”

Acts 4.18: 18 They called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus.

Acts 4.19: 19 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,

Acts 4.21: 21 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.

Acts 4.22: 22 For the man on whom this miracle of healing was performed was more than forty years old.

Acts 4.23: 23 Being let go, they came to their own company and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said to them.

Acts 4.24: 24 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;

Acts 4.27: 27 “For truly,2 both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together against your holy servant, Jesus, whom you anointed,

Acts 4.29: 29 Now, Lord, look at their threats, and grant to your servants to speak your word with all boldness,

Acts 4.30: 30 while you stretch out your hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of your holy Servant Jesus.”

Acts 4.31: 31 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.

Acts 4.32: 32 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.

Acts 4.33: 33 With great power, the apostles gave their testimony of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. Great grace was on them all.

Acts 4.34: 34 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,

Acts 4.35: 35 and laid them at the apostles’ feet, and distribution was made to each, according as anyone had need.

Acts 4.36: 36 Joses, who by the apostles was also called Barnabas (which is, being interpreted, Son of Encouragement), a Levite, a man of Cyprus by race,

Acts 4.37: 37 having a field, sold it and brought the money and laid it at the apostles’ feet.

Acts 5.1: 5But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira, his wife, sold a possession,

Acts 5.2: 2 and kept back part of the price, his wife also being aware of it, then brought a certain part and laid it at the apostles’ feet.

Acts 5.3: 3 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?

Acts 5.4: 4 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.”

Acts 5.5: 5 Ananias, hearing these words, fell down and died. Great fear came on all who heard these things.

Acts 5.6: 6 The young men arose and wrapped him up, and they carried him out and buried him.

Acts 5.7: 7 About three hours later, his wife, not knowing what had happened, came in.

Acts 5.8: 8 Peter answered her, “Tell me whether you sold the land for so much.”

Acts 5.9: 9 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.”

Acts 5.10: 10 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.

Acts 5.11: 11 Great fear came on the whole assembly, and on all who heard these things.

Acts 5.12: 12 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.

Acts 5.13: 13 None of the rest dared to join them, however the people honored them.

Acts 5.14: 14 More believers were added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women.

Acts 5.15: 15 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.

Acts 5.16: 16 The multitude also came together from the cities around Jerusalem, bringing sick people and those who were tormented by unclean spirits: and they were all healed.

Acts 5.17: 17 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

Acts 5.19: 19 But an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors by night, and brought them out and said,

Acts 5.20: 20 “Go stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life.”

Acts 5.21: 21 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.

Acts 5.22: 22 But the officers who came didn’t find them in the prison. They returned and reported,

Acts 5.23: 23 “We found the prison shut and locked, and the guards standing before the doors, but when we opened them, we found no one inside!”

Acts 5.24: 24 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.

Acts 5.25: 25 One came and told them, “Behold, the men whom you put in prison are in the temple, standing and teaching the people.”

Acts 5.26: 26 Then the captain went with the officers, and brought them without violence, for they were afraid that the people might stone them.

Acts 5.27: 27 When they had brought them, they set them before the council. The high priest questioned them,

Acts 5.28: 28 saying, “Didn’t we strictly command 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.”

Acts 5.29: 29 But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

Acts 5.30: 30 The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you killed, hanging him on a tree.

Acts 5.31: 31 God exalted him with his right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins.

Acts 5.32: 32 We are his witnesses of these things; and so also is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.”

Acts 5.33: 33 But they, when they heard this, were cut to the heart, and were determined to kill them.

Acts 5.34: 34 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.

Acts 5.35: 35 He said to them, “You men of Israel, be careful concerning these men, what you are about to do.

Acts 5.36: 36 For before these days Theudas rose up, making himself out to be somebody; to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves. He was slain; and all, as many as obeyed him, were dispersed, and came to nothing.

Acts 5.37: 37 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.

Acts 5.38: 38 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.

Acts 5.39: 39 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!”

Acts 5.40: 40 They agreed with him. Summoning the apostles, they beat them and commanded them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.

Acts 5.41: 41 They therefore departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for Jesus’ name.

Acts 5.42: 42 Every day, in the temple and at home, they never stopped teaching and preaching Jesus, the Christ.

Acts 6.1: 6Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, a complaint arose from the Hellenists1 against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily service.

Acts 6.2: 2 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.

Acts 6.3: 3 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.

Acts 6.4: 4 But we will continue steadfastly in prayer and in the ministry of the word.”

Acts 6.5: 5 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;

Acts 6.6: 6 whom they set before the apostles. When they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.

Acts 6.7: 7 The word of God increased and the number of the disciples greatly multiplied in Jerusalem. A great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.

Acts 6.8: 8 Stephen, full of faith and power, performed great wonders and signs among the people.

Acts 6.9: 9 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.

Acts 6.10: 10 They weren’t able to withstand the wisdom and the Spirit by which he spoke.

Acts 6.11: 11 Then they secretly induced men to say, “We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God.”

Acts 6.12: 12 They stirred up the people, the elders, and the scribes, and came against him and seized him, then brought him in to the council,

Acts 6.13: 13 and set up false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.

Acts 6.14: 14 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.”

Acts 6.15: 15 All who sat in the council, fastening their eyes on him, saw his face like it was the face of an angel.

Acts 7.2: 2 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,

Acts 7.3: 3 and said to him, ‘Get out of your land and away from your relatives, and come into a land which I will show you.’a

Acts 7.4: 4 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.

Acts 7.5: 5 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 offspring after him, when he still had no child.

Acts 7.6: 6 God spoke in this way: that his offspring would live as aliens in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years.

Acts 7.7: 7 ‘I will judge the nation to which they will be in bondage,’ said God, ‘and after that they will come out, and serve me in this place.’b

Acts 7.8: 8 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.

Acts 7.9: 9 “The patriarchs, moved with jealousy against Joseph, sold him into Egypt. God was with him,

Acts 7.10: 10 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.

Acts 7.11: 11 Now a famine came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction. Our fathers found no food.

Acts 7.12: 12 But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers the first time.

Acts 7.13: 13 On the second time Joseph was made known to his brothers, and Joseph’s race was revealed to Pharaoh.

Acts 7.14: 14 Joseph sent and summoned Jacob, his father, and all his relatives, seventy-five souls.

Acts 7.16: 16 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.

Acts 7.17: 17 “But as the time of the promise came close which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,

Acts 7.19: 19 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.

Acts 7.20: 20 At that time Moses was born, and was exceedingly handsome. He was nourished three months in his father’s house.

Acts 7.21: 21 When he was thrown out, Pharaoh’s daughter took him up and reared him as her own son.

Acts 7.22: 22 Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians. He was mighty in his words and works.

Acts 7.23: 23 But when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers,1 the children of Israel.

Acts 7.24: 24 Seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him who was oppressed, striking the Egyptian.

Acts 7.25: 25 He supposed that his brothers understood that God, by his hand, was giving them deliverance; but they didn’t understand.

Acts 7.26: 26 “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?’

Acts 7.27: 27 But he who did his neighbor wrong pushed him away, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?

Acts 7.29: 29 Moses fled at this saying, and became a stranger in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.

Acts 7.30: 30 “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.

Acts 7.31: 31 When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight. As he came close to see, a voice of the Lord came to him,

Acts 7.32: 32 ‘I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’d Moses trembled, and dared not look.

Acts 7.33: 33 The Lord said to him, ‘Take off your sandals, for the place where you stand is holy ground.

Acts 7.34: 34 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.’e

Acts 7.35: 35 “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.

Acts 7.36: 36 This man led them out, having worked wonders and signs in Egypt, in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.

Acts 7.37: 37 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.’2 f

Acts 7.38: 38 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 revelations to give to us,

Acts 7.39: 39 to whom our fathers wouldn’t be obedient, but rejected him, and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,

Acts 7.40: 40 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.’g

Acts 7.41: 41 They made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands.

Acts 7.42: 42 But God turned, and gave them up to serve the army of the sky,3 as it is written in the book of the prophets,

Acts 7.44: 44 “Our fathers had the tabernacle 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;

Acts 7.45: 45 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,

Acts 7.46: 46 who found favor in the sight of God, and asked to find a habitation for the God of Jacob.

Acts 7.48: 48 However, the Most High doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands, as the prophet says,

Acts 7.51: 51 “You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.

Acts 7.52: 52 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.

Acts 7.53: 53 You received the law as it was ordained by angels, and didn’t keep it!”

Acts 7.54: 54 Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth.

Acts 7.55: 55 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,

Acts 7.56: 56 and said, “Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!”

Acts 7.57: 57 But they cried out with a loud voice and stopped their ears, then rushed at him with one accord.

Acts 7.58: 58 They threw him out of the city and stoned him. The witnesses placed their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.

Acts 7.59: 59 They stoned Stephen as he called out, saying, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!”

Acts 7.60: 60 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.

Acts 8.1: 8Saul 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.

Acts 8.3: 3 But Saul ravaged the assembly, entering into every house and dragged both men and women off to prison.

Acts 8.4: 4 Therefore those who were scattered abroad went around preaching the word.

Acts 8.5: 5 Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and proclaimed to them the Christ.

Acts 8.6: 6 The multitudes listened with one accord to the things that were spoken by Philip when they heard and saw the signs which he did.

Acts 8.7: 7 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.

Acts 8.9: 9 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,

Acts 8.10: 10 to whom they all listened, from the least to the greatest, saying, “This man is that great power of God.”

Acts 8.11: 11 They listened to him, because for a long time he had amazed them with his sorceries.

Acts 8.12: 12 But when they believed Philip preaching good news concerning God’s Kingdom and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.

Acts 8.13: 13 Simon himself also believed. Being baptized, he continued with Philip. Seeing signs and great miracles occurring, he was amazed.

Acts 8.14: 14 Now when the apostles who were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them,

Acts 8.15: 15 who, when they had come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Spirit;

Acts 8.16: 16 for as yet he had fallen on none of them. They had only been baptized in the name of Christ Jesus.

Acts 8.17: 17 Then they laid their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.

Acts 8.18: 18 Now when Simon saw that the Holy Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them money,

Acts 8.19: 19 saying, “Give me also this power, that whomever I lay my hands on may receive the Holy Spirit.”

Acts 8.20: 20 But Peter said to him, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money!

Acts 8.21: 21 You have neither part nor lot in this matter, for your heart isn’t right before God.

Acts 8.22: 22 Repent therefore of this, your wickedness, and ask God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.

Acts 8.23: 23 For I see that you are in the poison of bitterness and in the bondage of iniquity.”

Acts 8.24: 24 Simon answered, “Pray for me to the Lord, that none of the things which you have spoken happen to me.”

Acts 8.25: 25 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.

Acts 8.26: 26 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.”

Acts 8.27: 27 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.

Acts 8.28: 28 He was returning and sitting in his chariot, and was reading the prophet Isaiah.

Acts 8.29: 29 The Spirit said to Philip, “Go near, and join yourself to this chariot.”

Acts 8.30: 30 Philip ran to him, and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said, “Do you understand what you are reading?”

Acts 8.31: 31 He said, “How can I, unless someone explains it to me?” He begged Philip to come up and sit with him.

Acts 8.34: 34 The eunuch answered Philip, “Who is the prophet talking about? About himself, or about someone else?”

Acts 8.35: 35 Philip opened his mouth, and beginning from this Scripture, preached to him about Jesus.

Acts 8.36: 36 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?”

Acts 8.38: 38 He commanded the chariot to stand still, and they both went down into the water, both Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him.

Acts 8.39: 39 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.

Acts 8.40: 40 But Philip was found at Azotus. Passing through, he preached the Good News to all the cities, until he came to Caesarea.

Acts 9.1: 9But Saul, still breathing threats and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest

Acts 9.2: 2 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.

Acts 9.3: 3 As he traveled, he got close to Damascus, and suddenly a light from the sky shone around him.

Acts 9.4: 4 He fell on the earth, and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?”

Acts 9.6: 6 But2 rise up and enter into the city, then you will be told what you must do.”

Acts 9.7: 7 The men who traveled with him stood speechless, hearing the sound, but seeing no one.

Acts 9.8: 8 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.

Acts 9.10: 10 Now there was a certain disciple at Damascus named Ananias. The Lord said to him in a vision, “Ananias!”

Acts 9.11: 11 The Lord said to him, “Arise, and go to the street which is called Straight, and inquire in the house of Judah3 for one named Saul, a man of Tarsus. For behold, he is praying,

Acts 9.12: 12 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.”

Acts 9.13: 13 But Ananias answered, “Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how much evil he did to your saints at Jerusalem.

Acts 9.14: 14 Here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call on your name.”

Acts 9.15: 15 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.

Acts 9.16: 16 For I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name’s sake.”

Acts 9.17: 17 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.”

Acts 9.18: 18 Immediately something like scales fell from his eyes, and he received his sight. He arose and was baptized.

Acts 9.19: 19 He took food and was strengthened. Saul stayed several days with the disciples who were at Damascus.

Acts 9.20: 20 Immediately in the synagogues he proclaimed the Christ, that he is the Son of God.

Acts 9.21: 21 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!”

Acts 9.22: 22 But Saul increased more in strength, and confounded the Jews who lived at Damascus, proving that this is the Christ.

Acts 9.23: 23 When many days were fulfilled, the Jews conspired together to kill him,

Acts 9.24: 24 but their plot became known to Saul. They watched the gates both day and night that they might kill him,

Acts 9.25: 25 but his disciples took him by night and let him down through the wall, lowering him in a basket.

Acts 9.26: 26 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.

Acts 9.27: 27 But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles, and declared to them how he had seen the Lord on the way, and that he had spoken to him, and how at Damascus he had preached boldly in the name of Jesus.

Acts 9.29: 29 preaching boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus.5 He spoke and disputed against the Hellenists,6 but they were seeking to kill him.

Acts 9.30: 30 When the brothers7 knew it, they brought him down to Caesarea, and sent him off to Tarsus.

Acts 9.31: 31 So the assemblies throughout all Judea, 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.

Acts 9.32: 32 As Peter went throughout all those parts, he came down also to the saints who lived at Lydda.

Acts 9.33: 33 There he found a certain man named Aeneas, who had been bedridden for eight years, because he was paralyzed.

Acts 9.34: 34 Peter said to him, “Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you. Get up and make your bed!” Immediately he arose.

Acts 9.35: 35 All who lived at Lydda and in Sharon saw him, and they turned to the Lord.

Acts 9.36: 36 Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which when translated, means Dorcas.8 This woman was full of good works and acts of mercy which she did.

Acts 9.37: 37 In those days, she became sick, and died. When they had washed her, they laid her in an upper room.

Acts 9.38: 38 As Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples, hearing that Peter was there, sent two men9 to him, imploring him not to delay in coming to them.

Acts 9.39: 39 Peter got up and went with them. When he had come, they brought him into the upper room. All the widows stood by him weeping, and showing the coats and garments which Dorcas had made while she was with them.

Acts 9.40: 40 Peter sent them all out, and knelt down and prayed. Turning to the body, he said, “Tabitha, get up!” She opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter, she sat up.

Acts 9.41: 41 He gave her his hand, and raised her up. Calling the saints and widows, he presented her alive.

Acts 9.42: 42 This became known throughout all Joppa, and many believed in the Lord.

Acts 10.1: 10Now there was a certain man in Caesarea, Cornelius by name, a centurion of what was called the Italian Regiment,

Acts 10.2: 2 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.

Acts 10.3: 3 At about the ninth hour of the day,1 he clearly saw in a vision an angel of God coming to him, and saying to him, “Cornelius!”

Acts 10.4: 4 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.

Acts 10.6: 6 He is staying with a tanner named Simon, whose house is by the seaside. 2

Acts 10.7: 7 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.

Acts 10.9: 9 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.

Acts 10.10: 10 He became hungry and desired to eat, but while they were preparing, he fell into a trance.

Acts 10.11: 11 He saw heaven opened and a certain container descending to him, like a great sheet let down by four corners on the earth,

Acts 10.12: 12 in which were all kinds of four-footed animals of the earth, wild animals, reptiles, and birds of the sky.

Acts 10.14: 14 But Peter said, “Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean.”

Acts 10.15: 15 A voice came to him again the second time, “What God has cleansed, you must not call unclean.”

Acts 10.16: 16 This was done three times, and immediately the vessel was received up into heaven.

Acts 10.17: 17 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,

Acts 10.18: 18 and called and asked whether Simon, who was also called Peter, was lodging there.

Acts 10.19: 19 While Peter was pondering the vision, the Spirit said to him, “Behold, three 3 men seek you.

Acts 10.20: 20 But arise, get down, and go with them, doubting nothing; for I have sent them.”

Acts 10.21: 21 Peter went down to the men, and said, “Behold, I am he whom you seek. Why have you come?”

Acts 10.22: 22 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.”

Acts 10.23: 23 So he called them in and provided a place to stay. On the next day Peter arose and went out with them, and some of the brothers from Joppa accompanied him.

Acts 10.24: 24 On the next day they entered into Caesarea. Cornelius was waiting for them, having called together his relatives and his near friends.

Acts 10.25: 25 When Peter entered, Cornelius met him, fell down at his feet, and worshiped him.

Acts 10.26: 26 But Peter raised him up, saying, “Stand up! I myself am also a man.”

Acts 10.27: 27 As he talked with him, he went in and found many gathered together.

Acts 10.28: 28 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.

Acts 10.29: 29 Therefore I also came without complaint when I was sent for. I ask therefore, why did you send for me?”

Acts 10.30: 30 Cornelius said, “Four days ago, I was fasting until this hour, and at the ninth hour,4 I prayed in my house, and behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing,

Acts 10.31: 31 and said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer is heard, and your gifts to the needy are remembered in the sight of God.

Acts 10.32: 32 Send therefore to Joppa, and summon Simon, who is also called Peter. He is staying in the house of a tanner named Simon, by the seaside. When he comes, he will speak to you.’

Acts 10.33: 33 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.”

Acts 10.34: 34 Peter opened his mouth and said, “Truly I perceive that God doesn’t show favoritism;

Acts 10.35: 35 but in every nation he who fears him and works righteousness is acceptable to him.

Acts 10.36: 36 The word which he sent to the children of Israel, preaching good news of peace by Jesus Christ—he is Lord of all—

Acts 10.37: 37 you yourselves know what happened, which was proclaimed throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached;

Acts 10.38: 38 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.

Acts 10.39: 39 We are witnesses of everything he did both in the country of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they also5 killed, hanging him on a tree.

Acts 10.41: 41 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.

Acts 10.42: 42 He commanded 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.

Acts 10.43: 43 All the prophets testify about him, that through his name everyone who believes in him will receive remission of sins.”

Acts 10.44: 44 While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell on all those who heard the word.

Acts 10.45: 45 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 Gentiles.

Acts 10.46: 46 For they heard them speaking in other languages and magnifying God.

Acts 10.47: 47 “Can anyone forbid these people from being baptized with water? They have received the Holy Spirit just like us.”

Acts 10.48: 48 He commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay some days.

Acts 11.1: 11Now the apostles and the brothers1 who were in Judea heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God.

Acts 11.2: 2 When Peter had come up to Jerusalem, those who were of the circumcision contended with him,

Acts 11.5: 5 “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.

Acts 11.6: 6 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.

Acts 11.7: 7 I also heard a voice saying to me, ‘Rise, Peter, kill and eat!’

Acts 11.8: 8 But I said, ‘Not so, Lord, for nothing unholy or unclean has ever entered into my mouth.’

Acts 11.9: 9 But a voice answered me the second time out of heaven, ‘What God has cleansed, don’t you call unclean.’

Acts 11.10: 10 This was done three times, and all were drawn up again into heaven.

Acts 11.11: 11 Behold, immediately three men stood before the house where I was, having been sent from Caesarea to me.

Acts 11.12: 12 The Spirit told me to go with them, without discriminating. These six brothers also accompanied me, and we entered into the man’s house.

Acts 11.13: 13 He told us how he had seen the angel standing in his house, and saying to him, ‘Send to Joppa, and get Simon, who is called Peter,

Acts 11.14: 14 who will speak to you words by which you will be saved, you and all your house.’

Acts 11.15: 15 As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them, even as on us at the beginning.

Acts 11.16: 16 I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, ‘John indeed baptized in water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit.’

Acts 11.17: 17 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?”

Acts 11.18: 18 When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, “Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life!”

Acts 11.19: 19 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.

Acts 11.20: 20 But there were some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who, when they had come to Antioch, spoke to the Hellenists,2 preaching the Lord Jesus.

Acts 11.21: 21 The hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number believed and turned to the Lord.

Acts 11.22: 22 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,

Acts 11.23: 23 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.

Acts 11.24: 24 For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith, and many people were added to the Lord.

Acts 11.26: 26 When he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they were gathered together with the assembly, and taught many people. The disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.

Acts 11.28: 28 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.

Acts 11.29: 29 As any of the disciples had plenty, each determined to send relief to the brothers who lived in Judea;

Acts 11.30: 30 which they also did, sending it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.

Acts 12.1: 12Now about that time, King Herod stretched out his hands to oppress some of the assembly.

Acts 12.3: 3 When he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to seize Peter also. This was during the days of unleavened bread.

Acts 12.4: 4 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.

Acts 12.5: 5 Peter therefore was kept in the prison, but constant prayer was made by the assembly to God for him.

Acts 12.6: 6 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.

Acts 12.7: 7 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 his hands.

Acts 12.8: 8 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.”

Acts 12.9: 9 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.

Acts 12.10: 10 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.

Acts 12.11: 11 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.”

Acts 12.12: 12 Thinking about that, he came to the house of Mary, the mother of John who was called Mark, where many were gathered together and were praying.

Acts 12.13: 13 When Peter knocked at the door of the gate, a servant girl named Rhoda came to answer.

Acts 12.14: 14 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.

Acts 12.15: 15 They said to her, “You are crazy!” But she insisted that it was so. They said, “It is his angel.”

Acts 12.16: 16 But Peter continued knocking. When they had opened, they saw him, and were amazed.

Acts 12.17: 17 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.

Acts 12.18: 18 Now as soon as it was day, there was no small stir among the soldiers about what had become of Peter.

Acts 12.19: 19 When Herod had sought for him, and didn’t find him, he examined the guards, then commanded that they should be put to death. He went down from Judea to Caesarea, and stayed there.

Acts 12.20: 20 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.

Acts 12.21: 21 On an appointed day, Herod dressed himself in royal clothing, sat on the throne, and gave a speech to them.

Acts 12.23: 23 Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he didn’t give God the glory. Then he was eaten by worms and died.

Acts 12.25: 25 Barnabas and Saul returned to1 Jerusalem when they had fulfilled their service, also taking with them John who was called Mark.

Acts 13.1: 13Now 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.

Acts 13.2: 2 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.”

Acts 13.3: 3 Then, when they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.

Acts 13.4: 4 So, being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia. From there they sailed to Cyprus.

Acts 13.5: 5 When they were at Salamis, they proclaimed God’s word in the Jewish synagogues. They also had John as their attendant.

Acts 13.6: 6 When they had gone through the island to Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Bar Jesus,

Acts 13.7: 7 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.

Acts 13.8: 8 But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn the proconsul away from the faith.

Acts 13.9: 9 But Saul, who is also called Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, fastened his eyes on him,

Acts 13.10: 10 and said, “You son of the devil, full of all deceit and all cunning, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

Acts 13.11: 11 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.

Acts 13.12: 12 Then the proconsul, when he saw what was done, believed, being astonished at the teaching of the Lord.

Acts 13.13: 13 Now Paul and his company set sail from Paphos, and came to Perga in Pamphylia. John departed from them and returned to Jerusalem.

Acts 13.14: 14 But they, passing on from Perga, came to Antioch of Pisidia. They went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and sat down.

Acts 13.15: 15 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.”

Acts 13.16: 16 Paul stood up, and beckoning with his hand said, “Men of Israel, and you who fear God, listen.

Acts 13.17: 17 The God of this people1 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.

Acts 13.18: 18 For a period of about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.

Acts 13.19: 19 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.

Acts 13.20: 20 After these things, he gave them judges until Samuel the prophet.

Acts 13.21: 21 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.

Acts 13.22: 22 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.’

Acts 13.23: 23 From this man’s offspring, God has brought salvation2 to Israel according to his promise,

Acts 13.24: 24 before his coming, when John had first preached the baptism of repentance to Israel.3

Acts 13.25: 25 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.’

Acts 13.26: 26 Brothers, children of the stock of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, the word of this salvation is sent out to you.

Acts 13.27: 27 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.

Acts 13.28: 28 Though they found no cause for death, they still asked Pilate to have him killed.

Acts 13.29: 29 When they had fulfilled all things that were written about him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a tomb.

Acts 13.31: 31 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.

Acts 13.33: 33 that God has fulfilled this to us, their children, in that he raised up Jesus. As it is also written in the second psalm,

Acts 13.34: 34 “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.’b

Acts 13.35: 35 Therefore he says also in another psalm, ‘You will not allow your Holy One to see decay.’c

Acts 13.36: 36 For David, after he had in his own generation served the counsel of God, fell asleep, was laid with his fathers, and saw decay.

Acts 13.38: 38 Be it known to you therefore, brothers,4 that through this man is proclaimed to you remission of sins,

Acts 13.39: 39 and by him everyone who believes is justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.

Acts 13.40: 40 Beware therefore, lest that come on you which is spoken in the prophets:

Acts 13.42: 42 So when the Jews went out of the synagogue, the Gentiles begged that these words might be preached to them the next Sabbath.

Acts 13.43: 43 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.

Acts 13.44: 44 The next Sabbath, almost the whole city was gathered together to hear the word of God.

Acts 13.45: 45 But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with jealousy, and contradicted the things which were spoken by Paul, and blasphemed.

Acts 13.46: 46 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 yourselves, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.

Acts 13.48: 48 As the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of God. As many as were appointed to eternal life believed.

Acts 13.50: 50 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.

Acts 13.51: 51 But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came to Iconium.

Acts 14.1: 14In Iconium, they entered together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spoke that a great multitude both of Jews and of Greeks believed.

Acts 14.2: 2 But the disbelieving1 Jews stirred up and embittered the souls of the Gentiles against the brothers.

Acts 14.3: 3 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.

Acts 14.4: 4 But the multitude of the city was divided. Part sided with the Jews, and part with the apostles.

Acts 14.5: 5 When some of both the Gentiles and the Jews, with their rulers, made a violent attempt to mistreat and stone them,

Acts 14.6: 6 they became aware of it and fled to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra, Derbe, and the surrounding region.

Acts 14.8: 8 At Lystra a certain man sat, impotent in his feet, a cripple from his mother’s womb, who never had walked.

Acts 14.9: 9 He was listening to Paul speaking, who, fastening eyes on him, and seeing that he had faith to be made whole,

Acts 14.10: 10 said with a loud voice, “Stand upright on your feet!” He leaped up and walked.

Acts 14.11: 11 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!”

Acts 14.12: 12 They called Barnabas “Jupiter”, and Paul “Mercury”, because he was the chief speaker.

Acts 14.13: 13 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.

Acts 14.14: 14 But when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of it, they tore their clothes, and sprang into the multitude, crying out,

Acts 14.15: 15 “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, the earth, the sea, and all that is in them;

Acts 14.16: 16 who in the generations gone by allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways.

Acts 14.17: 17 Yet he didn’t leave himself without witness, in that he did good and gave you2 rains from the sky and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.”

Acts 14.18: 18 Even saying these things, they hardly stopped the multitudes from making a sacrifice to them.

Acts 14.19: 19 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.

Acts 14.20: 20 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.

Acts 14.21: 21 When they had preached the Good News to that city, and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch,

Acts 14.22: 22 strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into God’s Kingdom.

Acts 14.23: 23 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.

Acts 14.25: 25 When they had spoken the word in Perga, they went down to Attalia.

Acts 14.26: 26 From there they sailed to Antioch, from where they had been committed to the grace of God for the work which they had fulfilled.

Acts 14.27: 27 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.

Acts 15.1: 15Some men came down from Judea and taught the brothers,1 “Unless you are circumcised after the custom of Moses, you can’t be saved.”

Acts 15.2: 2 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.

Acts 15.3: 3 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.

Acts 15.4: 4 When they had come to Jerusalem, they were received by the assembly and the apostles and the elders, and they reported everything that God had done with them.

Acts 15.5: 5 But some of the sect of the Pharisees who believed rose up, saying, “It is necessary to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.”

Acts 15.6: 6 The apostles and the elders were gathered together to see about this matter.

Acts 15.7: 7 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.

Acts 15.8: 8 God, who knows the heart, testified about them, giving them the Holy Spirit, just like he did to us.

Acts 15.9: 9 He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.

Acts 15.10: 10 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?

Acts 15.11: 11 But we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, 2 just as they are.”

Acts 15.12: 12 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.

Acts 15.13: 13 After they were silent, James answered, “Brothers, listen to me.

Acts 15.14: 14 Simeon has reported how God first visited the nations to take out of them a people for his name.

Acts 15.19: 19 Therefore my judgment is that we don’t trouble those from among the Gentiles who turn to God,

Acts 15.20: 20 but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.

Acts 15.21: 21 For Moses from generations of old has in every city those who preach him, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath.”

Acts 15.22: 22 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. 3

“The apostles, the elders, and the brothers, to the brothers who are of the Gentiles in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia: greetings.

Acts 15.24: 24 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;

Acts 15.25: 25 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,

Acts 15.26: 26 men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Acts 15.27: 27 We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who themselves will also tell you the same things by word of mouth.

Acts 15.28: 28 For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay no greater burden on you than these necessary things:

Acts 15.29: 29 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.”

Acts 15.30: 30 So, when they were sent off, they came to Antioch. Having gathered the multitude together, they delivered the letter.

Acts 15.32: 32 Judas and Silas, also being prophets themselves, encouraged the brothers with many words and strengthened them.

Acts 15.33: 33 After they had spent some time there, they were sent back with greetings from the brothers to the apostles.

Acts 15.35: 35 But Paul and Barnabas stayed in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of the Lord, with many others also.

Acts 15.36: 36 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.”

Acts 15.37: 37 Barnabas planned to take John, who was called Mark, with them also.

Acts 15.38: 38 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.

Acts 15.39: 39 Then the contention grew so sharp that they separated from each other. Barnabas took Mark with him and sailed away to Cyprus,

Acts 15.40: 40 but Paul chose Silas and went out, being commended by the brothers to the grace of God.

Acts 16.1: 16He 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.

Acts 16.2: 2 The brothers who were at Lystra and Iconium gave a good testimony about him.

Acts 16.3: 3 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.

Acts 16.4: 4 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.

Acts 16.5: 5 So the assemblies were strengthened in the faith, and increased in number daily.

Acts 16.6: 6 When they had gone through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia.

Acts 16.7: 7 When they had come opposite Mysia, they tried to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit didn’t allow them.

Acts 16.9: 9 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.”

Acts 16.10: 10 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.

Acts 16.11: 11 Setting sail therefore from Troas, we made a straight course to Samothrace, and the day following to Neapolis;

Acts 16.12: 12 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.

Acts 16.13: 13 On the Sabbath day we went 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.

Acts 16.14: 14 A certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, one who worshiped God, heard us. The Lord opened her heart to listen to the things which were spoken by Paul.

Acts 16.15: 15 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.

Acts 16.16: 16 As we were going to prayer, a certain girl having a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much gain by fortune telling.

Acts 16.17: 17 Following Paul and us, she cried out, “These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us a way of salvation!”

But Paul, becoming greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her!” It came out that very hour.

Acts 16.19: 19 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.

Acts 16.20: 20 When they had brought them to the magistrates, they said, “These men, being Jews, are agitating our city

Acts 16.21: 21 and advocate customs which it is not lawful for us to accept or to observe, being Romans.”

Acts 16.22: 22 The multitude rose up together against them and the magistrates tore their clothes from them, then commanded them to be beaten with rods.

Acts 16.23: 23 When they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely,

Acts 16.24: 24 who, having received such a command, threw them into the inner prison, and secured their feet in the stocks.

Acts 16.25: 25 But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.

Acts 16.26: 26 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.

Acts 16.27: 27 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.

Acts 16.28: 28 But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, “Don’t harm yourself, for we are all here!”

Acts 16.29: 29 He called for lights, sprang in, fell down trembling before Paul and Silas,

Acts 16.30: 30 brought them out, and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”

Acts 16.31: 31 They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.”

Acts 16.32: 32 They spoke the word of the Lord to him, and to all who were in his house.

Acts 16.33: 33 He took them the same hour of the night and washed their stripes, and was immediately baptized, he and all his household.

Acts 16.34: 34 He brought them up into his house, and set food before them, and rejoiced greatly, with all his household, having believed in God.

Acts 16.35: 35 But when it was day, the magistrates sent the sergeants, saying, “Let those men go.”

Acts 16.36: 36 The jailer reported these words to Paul, saying, “The magistrates have sent to let you go; now therefore come out and go in peace.”

Acts 16.37: 37 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!”

Acts 16.38: 38 The sergeants reported these words to the magistrates, and they were afraid when they heard that they were Romans,

Acts 16.39: 39 and they came and begged them. When they had brought them out, they asked them to depart from the city.

Acts 16.40: 40 They went out of the prison, and entered into Lydia’s house. When they had seen the brothers, they encouraged them, then departed.

Acts 17.1: 17Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.

Acts 17.2: 2 Paul, as was his custom, went in to them, and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

Acts 17.3: 3 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.”

Acts 17.4: 4 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.

Acts 17.5: 5 But the unpersuaded Jews took along1 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.

Acts 17.6: 6 When they didn’t find them, they dragged Jason and certain brothers 2 before the rulers of the city, crying, “These who have turned the world upside down have come here also,

Acts 17.7: 7 whom Jason has received. These all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus!”

Acts 17.8: 8 The multitude and the rulers of the city were troubled when they heard these things.

Acts 17.9: 9 When they had taken security from Jason and the rest, they let them go.

Acts 17.10: 10 The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue.

Acts 17.11: 11 Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

Acts 17.12: 12 Many of them therefore believed; also of the prominent Greek women, and not a few men.

Acts 17.13: 13 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.

Acts 17.14: 14 Then the brothers immediately sent out Paul to go as far as to the sea, and Silas and Timothy still stayed there.

Acts 17.15: 15 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.

Acts 17.16: 16 Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw the city full of idols.

Acts 17.17: 17 So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who met him.

Acts 17.18: 18 Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also3 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.

Acts 17.19: 19 They took hold of him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new teaching is, which you are speaking about?

Acts 17.20: 20 For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean.”

Acts 17.21: 21 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.

Acts 17.22: 22 Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus, and said, “You men of Athens, I perceive that you are very religious in all things.

Acts 17.23: 23 For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I also found an altar with this inscription: ‘TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.’ What therefore you worship in ignorance, I announce to you.

Acts 17.24: 24 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.

Acts 17.25: 25 He isn’t served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath, and all things.

Acts 17.26: 26 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,

Acts 17.27: 27 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.

Acts 17.28: 28 ‘For in him we live, move, and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’

Acts 17.29: 29 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.

Acts 17.30: 30 The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,

Acts 17.31: 31 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.”

Acts 17.32: 32 Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, “We want to hear you again concerning this.”

Acts 17.34: 34 But certain men joined with him and believed, among whom also was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.

Acts 18.2: 2 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,

Acts 18.3: 3 and because he practiced the same trade, he lived with them and worked, for by trade they were tent makers.

Acts 18.4: 4 He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath and persuaded Jews and Greeks.

Acts 18.5: 5 But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was compelled by the Spirit, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.

Acts 18.6: 6 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!”

Acts 18.7: 7 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.

Acts 18.8: 8 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.

Acts 18.9: 9 The Lord said to Paul in the night by a vision, “Don’t be afraid, but speak and don’t be silent;

Acts 18.10: 10 for I am with you, and no one will attack you to harm you, for I have many people in this city.”

Acts 18.11: 11 He lived there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.

Acts 18.12: 12 But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and brought him before the judgment seat,

Acts 18.13: 13 saying, “This man persuades men to worship God contrary to the law.”

Acts 18.14: 14 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;

Acts 18.15: 15 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.”

Acts 18.17: 17 Then all the Greeks seized Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. Gallio didn’t care about any of these things.

Acts 18.18: 18 Paul, having stayed after this many more days, took his leave of the brothers, 1 and sailed from there for Syria, together with Priscilla and Aquila. He shaved his head in Cenchreae, for he had a vow.

Acts 18.19: 19 He came to Ephesus, and he left them there; but he himself entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews.

Acts 18.20: 20 When they asked him to stay with them a longer time, he declined;

Acts 18.21: 21 but taking his leave of them, he said, “I must by all means keep this coming feast in Jerusalem, but I will return again to you if God wills.” Then he set sail from Ephesus.

Acts 18.22: 22 When he had landed at Caesarea, he went up and greeted the assembly, and went down to Antioch.

Acts 18.23: 23 Having spent some time there, he departed, and went through the region of Galatia, and Phrygia, in order, establishing all the disciples.

Acts 18.24: 24 Now a certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by race, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus. He was mighty in the Scriptures.

Acts 18.25: 25 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.

Acts 18.26: 26 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.

Acts 18.27: 27 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;

Acts 18.28: 28 for he powerfully refuted the Jews, publicly showing by the Scriptures that Jesus was the Christ.

Acts 19.1: 19While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul, having passed through the upper country, came to Ephesus and found certain disciples.

Acts 19.2: 2 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.”

Acts 19.4: 4 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.”

Acts 19.5: 5 When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.

Acts 19.6: 6 When Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them and they spoke with other languages and prophesied.

Acts 19.8: 8 He entered into the synagogue and spoke boldly for a period of three months, reasoning and persuading about the things concerning God’s Kingdom.

Acts 19.9: 9 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.

Acts 19.10: 10 This continued for two years, so that all those who lived in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.

Acts 19.12: 12 so that even handkerchiefs or aprons were carried away from his body to the sick, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out.

Acts 19.13: 13 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.”

Acts 19.14: 14 There were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, who did this.

Acts 19.15: 15 The evil spirit answered, “Jesus I know, and Paul I know, but who are you?”

Acts 19.16: 16 The man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, overpowered them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.

Acts 19.17: 17 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.

Acts 19.18: 18 Many also of those who had believed came, confessing, and declaring their deeds.

Acts 19.19: 19 Many of those who practiced magical arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. They counted their price, and found it to be fifty thousand pieces of silver.1

Acts 19.21: 21 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.”

Acts 19.22: 22 Having sent into Macedonia two of those who served him, Timothy and Erastus, he himself stayed in Asia for a while.

Acts 19.23: 23 About that time there arose no small disturbance concerning the Way.

Acts 19.24: 24 For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith who made silver shrines of Artemis, brought no little business to the craftsmen,

Acts 19.25: 25 whom he gathered together, with the workmen of like occupation, and said, “Sirs, you know that by this business we have our wealth.

Acts 19.26: 26 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.

Acts 19.27: 27 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.”

Acts 19.28: 28 When they heard this they were filled with anger, and cried out, saying, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”

Acts 19.29: 29 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.

Acts 19.30: 30 When Paul wanted to enter in to the people, the disciples didn’t allow him.

Acts 19.31: 31 Certain also of the Asiarchs, being his friends, sent to him and begged him not to venture into the theater.

Acts 19.32: 32 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.

Acts 19.33: 33 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.

Acts 19.34: 34 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!”

Acts 19.35: 35 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?

Acts 19.36: 36 Seeing then that these things can’t be denied, you ought to be quiet and to do nothing rash.

Acts 19.37: 37 For you have brought these men here, who are neither robbers of temples nor blasphemers of your goddess.

Acts 19.38: 38 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.

Acts 19.39: 39 But if you seek anything about other matters, it will be settled in the regular assembly.

Acts 19.40: 40 For indeed we are in danger of being accused concerning today’s riot, there being no cause. Concerning it, we wouldn’t be able to give an account of this commotion.”

Acts 20.1: 20After the uproar had ceased, Paul sent for the disciples, took leave of them, and departed to go into Macedonia.

Acts 20.2: 2 When he had gone through those parts, and had encouraged them with many words, he came into Greece.

Acts 20.3: 3 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.

Acts 20.4: 4 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.

Acts 20.6: 6 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.

Acts 20.7: 7 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.

Acts 20.8: 8 There were many lights in the upper room where we1 were gathered together.

Acts 20.9: 9 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 floor and was taken up dead.

Acts 20.10: 10 Paul went down and fell upon him, and embracing him said, “Don’t be troubled, for his life is in him.”

Acts 20.11: 11 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.

Acts 20.13: 13 But we, going 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.

Acts 20.14: 14 When he met us at Assos, we took him aboard, and came to Mitylene.

Acts 20.15: 15 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.

Acts 20.16: 16 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.

Acts 20.17: 17 From Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called to himself the elders of the assembly.

Acts 20.18: 18 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,

Acts 20.19: 19 serving the Lord with all humility, with many tears, and with trials which happened to me by the plots of the Jews;

Acts 20.20: 20 how I didn’t shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,

Acts 20.21: 21 testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus.2

Acts 20.22: 22 Now, behold, I go bound by the Spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there;

Acts 20.23: 23 except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions wait for me.

Acts 20.24: 24 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.

Acts 20.25: 25 “Now, behold, I know that you all, among whom I went about preaching God’s Kingdom, will see my face no more.

Acts 20.26: 26 Therefore I testify to you today that I am clean from the blood of all men,

Acts 20.27: 27 for I didn’t shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

Acts 20.28: 28 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 3 God which he purchased with his own blood.

Acts 20.29: 29 For I know that after my departure, vicious wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock.

Acts 20.30: 30 Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

Acts 20.31: 31 Therefore watch, remembering that for a period of three years I didn’t cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears.

Acts 20.32: 32 Now, brothers,4 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.

Acts 20.34: 34 You yourselves know that these hands served my necessities, and those who were with me.

Acts 20.35: 35 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.’”

Acts 20.36: 36 When he had spoken these things, he knelt down and prayed with them all.

Acts 20.38: 38 sorrowing most of all because of the word which he had spoken, that they should see his face no more. Then they accompanied him to the ship.

Acts 21.1: 21When we had departed 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.

Acts 21.2: 2 Having found a ship crossing over to Phoenicia, we went aboard, and set sail.

Acts 21.3: 3 When we had come in sight of Cyprus, leaving it on the left hand, we sailed to Syria and landed at Tyre, for the ship was there to unload her cargo.

Acts 21.4: 4 Having found disciples, we stayed there seven days. These said to Paul through the Spirit that he should not go up to Jerusalem.

Acts 21.5: 5 When those days were over, 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.

Acts 21.6: 6 After saying goodbye to each other, we went on board the ship, and they returned home again.

Acts 21.7: 7 When we had finished the voyage from Tyre, we arrived at Ptolemais. We greeted the brothers and stayed with them one day.

Acts 21.8: 8 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.

Acts 21.10: 10 As we stayed there some days, a certain prophet named Agabus came down from Judea.

Acts 21.11: 11 Coming to us and taking Paul’s belt, he bound his own feet and hands, and said, “The Holy Spirit says: ‘So the Jews at Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt, and will deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.’”

Acts 21.12: 12 When we heard these things, both we and the people of that place begged him not to go up to Jerusalem.

Acts 21.13: 13 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.”

Acts 21.14: 14 When he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, “The Lord’s will be done.”

Acts 21.15: 15 After these days we took up our baggage and went up to Jerusalem.

Acts 21.16: 16 Some of the disciples from Caesarea also went with us, bringing one Mnason of Cyprus, an early disciple, with whom we would stay.

Acts 21.18: 18 The day following, Paul went in with us to James; and all the elders were present.

Acts 21.19: 19 When he had greeted them, he reported one by one the things which God had worked among the Gentiles through his ministry.

Acts 21.20: 20 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.

Acts 21.21: 21 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 and not to walk after the customs.

Acts 21.22: 22 What then? The assembly must certainly meet, for they will hear that you have come.

Acts 21.23: 23 Therefore do what we tell you. We have four men who have taken a vow.

Acts 21.24: 24 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.

Acts 21.25: 25 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.”

Acts 21.26: 26 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.

Acts 21.27: 27 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,

Acts 21.28: 28 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!”

Acts 21.29: 29 For they had seen Trophimus, the Ephesian, with him in the city, and they supposed that Paul had brought him into the temple.

Acts 21.30: 30 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.

Acts 21.31: 31 As they were trying to kill him, news came up to the commanding officer of the regiment that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.

Acts 21.32: 32 Immediately he took soldiers and centurions and ran down to them. They, when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, stopped beating Paul.

Acts 21.33: 33 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.

Acts 21.34: 34 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.

Acts 21.35: 35 When he came to the stairs, he was carried by the soldiers because of the violence of the crowd;

Acts 21.36: 36 for the multitude of the people followed after, crying out, “Away with him!”

Acts 21.37: 37 As Paul was about to be brought into the barracks, he asked the commanding officer, “May I speak to you?”

Acts 21.38: 38 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?”

Acts 21.39: 39 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.”

Acts 21.40: 40 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,

Acts 22.1: 22“Brothers and fathers, listen to the defense which I now make to you.”

Acts 22.2: 2 When they heard that he spoke to them in the Hebrew language, they were even more quiet. He said,

Acts 22.3: 3 “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 tradition of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, even as you all are today.

Acts 22.4: 4 I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.

Acts 22.5: 5 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.

Acts 22.6: 6 As I made my journey, and came close to Damascus, about noon, suddenly a great light shone around me from the sky.

Acts 22.7: 7 I fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to me, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?’

Acts 22.8: 8 I answered, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ He said to me, ‘I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom you persecute.’

Acts 22.9: 9 “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.

Acts 22.10: 10 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.’

Acts 22.11: 11 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.

Acts 22.12: 12 One Ananias, a devout man according to the law, well reported of by all the Jews who lived in Damascus,

Acts 22.13: 13 came to me, and standing by me said to me, ‘Brother Saul, receive your sight!’ In that very hour I looked up at him.

Acts 22.14: 14 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.

Acts 22.15: 15 For you will be a witness for him to all men of what you have seen and heard.

Acts 22.16: 16 Now why do you wait? Arise, be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.’

Acts 22.17: 17 “When I had returned to Jerusalem, and while I prayed in the temple, I fell into a trance,

Acts 22.18: 18 and saw him saying to me, ‘Hurry and get out of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not receive testimony concerning me from you.’

Acts 22.19: 19 I said, ‘Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue those who believed in you.

Acts 22.20: 20 When the blood of Stephen, your witness, was shed, I also was standing by, consenting to his death, and guarding the cloaks of those who killed him.’

Acts 22.21: 21 “He said to me, ‘Depart, for I will send you out far from here to the Gentiles.’”

Acts 22.22: 22 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!”

Acts 22.23: 23 As they cried out, threw off their cloaks, and threw dust into the air,

Acts 22.24: 24 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.

Acts 22.25: 25 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?”

Acts 22.26: 26 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!”

Acts 22.27: 27 The commanding officer came and asked him, “Tell me, are you a Roman?”

Acts 22.28: 28 The commanding officer answered, “I bought my citizenship for a great price.”

Acts 22.29: 29 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.

Acts 22.30: 30 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.

Acts 23.1: 23Paul, looking steadfastly at the council, said, “Brothers, I have lived before God in all good conscience until today.”

Acts 23.2: 2 The high priest, Ananias, commanded those who stood by him to strike him on the mouth.

Acts 23.3: 3 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?”

Acts 23.5: 5 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.’”a

Acts 23.6: 6 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!”

Acts 23.7: 7 When he had said this, an argument arose between the Pharisees and Sadducees, and the crowd was divided.

Acts 23.8: 8 For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, nor angel, nor spirit; but the Pharisees confess all of these.

Acts 23.9: 9 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!”

Acts 23.10: 10 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.

Acts 23.11: 11 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.”

Acts 23.12: 12 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.

Acts 23.14: 14 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.

Acts 23.15: 15 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.”

Acts 23.16: 16 But Paul’s sister’s son heard they were lying in wait, and he came and entered into the barracks and told Paul.

Acts 23.17: 17 Paul summoned one of the centurions, and said, “Bring this young man to the commanding officer, for he has something to tell him.”

Acts 23.18: 18 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. He has something to tell you.”

Acts 23.19: 19 The commanding officer took him by the hand, and going aside, asked him privately, “What is it that you have to tell me?”

Acts 23.20: 20 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.

Acts 23.21: 21 Therefore don’t yield to them, for more than forty men lie in wait for him, who have bound themselves under a curse to neither eat nor drink until they have killed him. Now they are ready, looking for the promise from you.”

Acts 23.22: 22 So the commanding officer let the young man go, charging him, “Tell no one that you have revealed these things to me.”

Acts 23.23: 23 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.”1

Acts 23.24: 24 He asked them to provide animals, that they might set Paul on one, and bring him safely to Felix the governor.

Acts 23.26: 26 “Claudius Lysias to the most excellent governor Felix: Greetings.

Acts 23.27: 27 “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.

Acts 23.28: 28 Desiring to know the cause why they accused him, I brought him down to their council.

Acts 23.29: 29 I found him to be accused about questions of their law, but not to be charged with anything worthy of death or of imprisonment.

Acts 23.30: 30 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.”

Acts 23.31: 31 So the soldiers, carrying out their orders, took Paul and brought him by night to Antipatris.

Acts 23.32: 32 But on the next day they left the horsemen to go with him, and returned to the barracks.

Acts 23.33: 33 When they came to Caesarea and delivered the letter to the governor, they also presented Paul to him.

Acts 23.34: 34 When the governor had read it, he asked what province he was from. When he understood that he was from Cilicia, he said,

Acts 23.35: 35 “I will hear you fully when your accusers also arrive.” He commanded that he be kept in Herod’s palace.

Acts 24.1: 24After five days, the high priest, Ananias, came down with certain elders and an orator, one Tertullus. They informed the governor against Paul.

Acts 24.2: 2 When he was called, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying, “Seeing that by you we enjoy much peace, and that prosperity is coming to this nation by your foresight,

Acts 24.3: 3 we accept it in all ways and in all places, most excellent Felix, with all thankfulness.

Acts 24.4: 4 But that I don’t delay you, I entreat you to bear with us and hear a few words.

Acts 24.5: 5 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.

Acts 24.8: 8 3By examining him yourself you may ascertain all these things of which we accuse him.”

Acts 24.9: 9 The Jews also joined in the attack, affirming that these things were so.

Acts 24.10: 10 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,

Acts 24.11: 11 seeing that you can verify that it is not more than twelve days since I went up to worship at Jerusalem.

Acts 24.12: 12 In the temple they didn’t find me disputing with anyone or stirring up a crowd, either in the synagogues, or in the city.

Acts 24.13: 13 Nor can they prove to you the things of which they now accuse me.

Acts 24.14: 14 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;

Acts 24.15: 15 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.

Acts 24.16: 16 In this I also practice always having a conscience void of offense toward God and men.

Acts 24.17: 17 Now after some years, I came to bring gifts for the needy to my nation, and offerings;

Acts 24.18: 18 amid which certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, not with a mob, nor with turmoil.

Acts 24.19: 19 They ought to have been here before you, and to make accusation, if they had anything against me.

Acts 24.20: 20 Or else let these men themselves say what injustice they found in me when I stood before the council,

Acts 24.21: 21 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!’”

Acts 24.22: 22 But Felix, having more exact knowledge concerning the Way, deferred them, saying, “When Lysias, the commanding officer, comes down, I will decide your case.”

Acts 24.23: 23 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.

Acts 24.24: 24 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.

Acts 24.25: 25 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.”

Acts 24.26: 26 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.

Acts 24.27: 27 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.

Acts 25.1: 25Festus therefore, having come into the province, after three days went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea.

Acts 25.2: 2 Then the high priest and the principal men of the Jews informed him against Paul, and they begged him,

Acts 25.3: 3 asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem; plotting to kill him on the way.

Acts 25.4: 4 However Festus answered that Paul should be kept in custody at Caesarea, and that he himself was about to depart shortly.

Acts 25.5: 5 “Let them therefore”, he said, “that are in power among you go down with me, and if there is anything wrong in the man, let them accuse him.”

Acts 25.6: 6 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.

Acts 25.7: 7 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,

Acts 25.8: 8 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.”

Acts 25.9: 9 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?”

Acts 25.10: 10 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.

Acts 25.11: 11 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!”

Acts 25.12: 12 Then Festus, when he had conferred with the council, answered, “You have appealed to Caesar. To Caesar you shall go.”

Acts 25.13: 13 Now when some days had passed, King Agrippa and Bernice arrived at Caesarea, and greeted Festus.

Acts 25.14: 14 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;

Acts 25.15: 15 about whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me, asking for a sentence against him.

Acts 25.16: 16 I answered them 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.

Acts 25.17: 17 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.

Acts 25.18: 18 When the accusers stood up, they brought no charges against him of such things as I supposed;

Acts 25.19: 19 but had certain questions against him about their own religion, and about one Jesus, who was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.

Acts 25.20: 20 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.

Acts 25.21: 21 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.”

Acts 25.22: 22 Agrippa said to Festus, “I also would like to hear the man myself.”

Acts 25.23: 23 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 the principal men of the city, at the command of Festus, Paul was brought in.

Acts 25.24: 24 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.

Acts 25.25: 25 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,

Acts 25.26: 26 of whom I have no certain thing to write to my lord. Therefore I have brought him out before you, and especially before you, King Agrippa, that, after examination, I may have something to write.

Acts 25.27: 27 For it seems to me unreasonable, in sending a prisoner, not to also specify the charges against him.”

Acts 26.2: 2 “I think myself happy, King Agrippa, that I am to make my defense before you today concerning all the things that I am accused by the Jews,

Acts 26.3: 3 especially because you are expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews. Therefore I beg you to hear me patiently.

Acts 26.4: 4 “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;

Acts 26.5: 5 having known me from the first, if they are willing to testify, that after the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

Acts 26.6: 6 Now I stand here to be judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers,

Acts 26.7: 7 which our twelve tribes, earnestly serving night and day, hope to attain. Concerning this hope I am accused by the Jews, King Agrippa!

Acts 26.9: 9 “I myself most certainly thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

Acts 26.10: 10 I also did this 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.

Acts 26.11: 11 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.

Acts 26.12: 12 “Whereupon as I traveled to Damascus with the authority and commission from the chief priests,

Acts 26.13: 13 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.

Acts 26.14: 14 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.’

Acts 26.16: 16 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;

Acts 26.17: 17 delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you,

Acts 26.18: 18 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.’

Acts 26.19: 19 “Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision,

Acts 26.20: 20 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.

Acts 26.21: 21 For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple and tried to kill me.

Acts 26.22: 22 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,

Acts 26.23: 23 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.”

Acts 26.24: 24 As he thus made his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, “Paul, you are crazy! Your great learning is driving you insane!”

Acts 26.25: 25 But he said, “I am not crazy, most excellent Festus, but boldly declare words of truth and reasonableness.

Acts 26.26: 26 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.

Acts 26.27: 27 King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know that you believe.”

Acts 26.28: 28 Agrippa said to Paul, “With a little persuasion are you trying to make me a Christian?”

Acts 26.29: 29 Paul said, “I pray to God, that whether with little or with much, not only you, but also all that hear me today, might become such as I am, except for these bonds.”

Acts 26.30: 30 The king rose up with the governor, and Bernice, and those who sat with them.

Acts 26.31: 31 When they had withdrawn, they spoke to one another, saying, “This man does nothing worthy of death or of bonds.”

Acts 26.32: 32 Agrippa said to Festus, “This man might have been set free if he had not appealed to Caesar.”

Acts 27.1: 27When 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.

Acts 27.2: 2 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.

Acts 27.3: 3 The next day, we touched at Sidon. Julius treated Paul kindly, and gave him permission to go to his friends and refresh himself.

Acts 27.4: 4 Putting to sea from there, we sailed under the lee of Cyprus, because the winds were contrary.

Acts 27.5: 5 When we had sailed across the sea which is off Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra, a city of Lycia.

Acts 27.6: 6 There the centurion found a ship of Alexandria sailing for Italy, and he put us on board.

Acts 27.7: 7 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.

Acts 27.8: 8 With difficulty sailing along it we came to a certain place called Fair Havens, near the city of Lasea.

Acts 27.9: 9 When much time had passed and the voyage was now dangerous, because the Fast had now already gone by, Paul admonished them

Acts 27.10: 10 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.”

Acts 27.11: 11 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.

Acts 27.12: 12 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 southwest and northwest.

Acts 27.13: 13 When the south wind blew softly, supposing that they had obtained their purpose, they weighed anchor and sailed along Crete, close to shore.

Acts 27.14: 14 But before long, a stormy wind beat down from shore, which is called Euroclydon. 1

Acts 27.15: 15 When the ship was caught and couldn’t face the wind, we gave way to it and were driven along.

Acts 27.16: 16 Running under the lee of a small island called Clauda, we were able, with difficulty, to secure the boat.

Acts 27.17: 17 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.

Acts 27.18: 18 As we labored exceedingly with the storm, the next day they began to throw things overboard.

Acts 27.19: 19 On the third day, they threw out the ship’s tackle with their own hands.

Acts 27.20: 20 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.

Acts 27.21: 21 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.

Acts 27.22: 22 Now I exhort you to cheer up, for there will be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship.

Acts 27.23: 23 For there stood by me this night an angel, belonging to the God whose I am and whom I serve,

Acts 27.24: 24 saying, ‘Don’t be afraid, Paul. You must stand before Caesar. Behold, God has granted you all those who sail with you.’

Acts 27.25: 25 Therefore, sirs, cheer up! For I believe God, that it will be just as it has been spoken to me.

Acts 27.27: 27 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.

Acts 27.28: 28 They took soundings, and found twenty fathoms.2 After a little while, they took soundings again, and found fifteen fathoms.3

Acts 27.29: 29 Fearing that we would run aground on rocky ground, they let go four anchors from the stern, and wished for daylight.

Acts 27.30: 30 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,

Acts 27.31: 31 Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, “Unless these stay in the ship, you can’t be saved.”

Acts 27.32: 32 Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the boat, and let it fall off.

Acts 27.33: 33 While the day was coming on, Paul begged them all to take some food, saying, “Today is the fourteenth day that you wait and continue fasting, having taken nothing.

Acts 27.34: 34 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.”

Acts 27.35: 35 When he had said this, and had taken bread, he gave thanks to God in the presence of all, then he broke it and began to eat.

Acts 27.38: 38 When they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, throwing out the wheat into the sea.

Acts 27.39: 39 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.

Acts 27.40: 40 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.

Acts 27.41: 41 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.

Acts 27.42: 42 The soldiers’ counsel was to kill the prisoners, so that none of them would swim out and escape.

Acts 27.43: 43 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;

Acts 27.44: 44 and the rest should follow, some on planks, and some on other things from the ship. So they all escaped safely to the land.

Acts 28.1: 28When we had escaped, then they1 learned that the island was called Malta.

Acts 28.2: 2 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.

Acts 28.3: 3 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.

Acts 28.4: 4 When the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he has escaped from the sea, yet Justice has not allowed to live.”

Acts 28.5: 5 However he shook off the creature into the fire, and wasn’t harmed.

Acts 28.6: 6 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.

Acts 28.7: 7 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.

Acts 28.8: 8 The father of Publius lay sick of fever and dysentery. Paul entered in to him, prayed, and laying his hands on him, healed him.

Acts 28.9: 9 Then when this was done, the rest also who had diseases in the island came and were cured.

Acts 28.10: 10 They also honored us with many honors, and when we sailed, they put on board the things that we needed.

Acts 28.11: 11 After three months, we set sail in a ship of Alexandria which had wintered in the island, whose sign was “The Twin Brothers.”

Acts 28.13: 13 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,

Acts 28.14: 14 where we found brothers,2 and were entreated to stay with them for seven days. So we came to Rome.

Acts 28.15: 15 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.

Acts 28.16: 16 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.

Acts 28.17: 17 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,

Acts 28.18: 18 who, when they had examined me, desired to set me free, because there was no cause of death in me.

Acts 28.19: 19 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.

Acts 28.20: 20 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.”

Acts 28.21: 21 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.

Acts 28.22: 22 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.”

Acts 28.23: 23 When they had appointed him a day, many people came to him at his lodging. He explained to them, testifying about God’s Kingdom, and persuading them concerning Jesus, both from the law of Moses and from the prophets, from morning until evening.

Acts 28.24: 24 Some believed the things which were spoken, and some disbelieved.

Acts 28.25: 25 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,

Acts 28.28: 28 “Be it known therefore to you, that the salvation of God is sent to the nations, and they will listen.”

Acts 28.29: 29 When he had said these words, the Jews departed, having a great dispute among themselves.3

Acts 28.30: 30 Paul stayed two whole years in his own rented house and received all who were coming to him,

Acts 28.31: 31 preaching God’s Kingdom, and teaching the things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness, without hindrance.

The book of Baruch is recognized as Deuterocanonical Scripture by the Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, and Russian Orthodox Churches. In some Bibles, Baruch chapter 6 is listed as a separate book called The Letter of Jeremiah, reflecting its separation from Baruch in some copies of the Greek Septuagint.

Baruch 1.1: 1These are the words of the book, which Baruch the son of Nerias, the son of Maaseas, the son of Sedekias, the son of Asadias, the son of Helkias, wrote in Babylon,

Baruch 1.2: 2 in the fifth year, and in the seventh day of the month, what time as the Chaldeans took Jerusalem, and burned it with fire.

Baruch 1.3: 3 And Baruch did read the words of this book in the hearing of Jechonias the son of Joakim king of Judah, and in the hearing of all the people that came to hear the book,

Baruch 1.4: 4 and in the hearing of the mighty men, and of the kings’ sons, and in the hearing of the elders, and in the hearing of all the people, from the least to the greatest, even of all those who lived at Babylon by the river Sud.

Baruch 1.6: 6 they made also a collection of money according to every man’s power:

Baruch 1.7: 7 and they sent it to Jerusalem to Joakim the high priest, the son of Helkias, the son of Salom, and to the priests, and to all the people which were found with him at Jerusalem,

Baruch 1.8: 8 at the same time when he took the vessels of the house of the Lord, that had been carried out of the temple, to return them into the land of Judah, the tenth day of the month Sivan, namely, silver vessels, which Sedekias the son of Josias king of Judah had made,

Baruch 1.9: 9 after Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon had carried away Jechonias, and the princes, and the captives, and the mighty men, and the people of the land, from Jerusalem, and brought them to Babylon.

Baruch 1.10: 10 And they said, Behold, we have sent you money; buy you therefore with the money burnt offerings, and sin offerings, and incense, and prepare an oblation, and offer upon the altar of the Lord our God;

Baruch 1.11: 11 and pray for the life of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and for the life of Baltasar his son, that their days may be 2 as the days of heaven above the earth:

Baruch 1.12: 12 and the Lord will give us strength, and lighten our eyes, and we shall live under the shadow of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and under the shadow of Baltasar his son, and we shall serve them many days, and find favor in their sight.

Baruch 1.13: 13 Pray for us also to the Lord our God, for we have sinned against the Lord our God; and to this day the wrath of the Lord and his indignation is not turned from us.

Baruch 1.14: 14 And you° shall read this book which we have sent to you, to make confession in the house of the Lord, upon the day of the feast and on the days of the solemn assembly.

Baruch 1.15: 15 And you° shall say, To the Lord our God belongs righteousness, but to us confusion of face, as at this day, to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem,

Baruch 1.16: 16 and to our kings, and to our princes, and to our priests, and to our prophets, and to our fathers:

Baruch 1.18: 18 and disobeyed him, and have not listened to the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in the commandments of the Lord that he has set before us:

Baruch 1.19: 19 since the day that the Lord brought our fathers out of the land of Egypt, to this present day, we have been disobedient to the Lord our God, and we have dealt unadvisedly in not listening to his voice.

Baruch 1.20: 20 Wherefore the plagues clave to us, and the curse, which the Lord commanded Moses his servant to pronounce in the day that he brought our fathers out of the land of Egypt, to give us a land that flows with milk and honey, as at this day.

Baruch 1.21: 21 Nevertheless we didn’t listen to the voice of the Lord our God, according to all the words of the prophets, whom he sent to us:

Baruch 1.22: 22 but we walked every man in the imagination of his own wicked heart, to serve strange gods, and to do that which is evil in the sight of the Lord our God.

Baruch 2.1: 2Therefore the Lord has made good his word, which he pronounced against us, and against our judges that judged Israel, and against our kings, and against our princes, and against the men of Israel and Judah,

Baruch 2.2: 2 to bring upon us great plagues, such as never happened under the whole heaven, 1 as it came to pass in Jerusalem, according to the things that are written in the law of Moses;

Baruch 2.3: 3 That we should eat every man the flesh of his own son, and every man the flesh of his own daughter.

Baruch 2.4: 4 Moreover he has given them to be in subjection to all the kingdoms that are round about us, to be a reproach and a desolation among all the people round about, where the Lord has scattered them.

Baruch 2.5: 5 Thus were they cast down, and not exalted, because we sinned against the Lord our God, in not listening to his voice.

Baruch 2.6: 6 To the Lord our God belongs righteousness: but to us and to our fathers confusion of face, as at this day.

Baruch 2.7: 7 For all these plagues are come upon us, which the Lord has pronounced against us.

Baruch 2.8: 8 Yet have we not entreated the favor of the Lord, in turning every one from the thoughts of his wicked heart.

Baruch 2.9: 9 Therefore has the Lord kept watch over the plagues, and the Lord has brought them upon us; for the Lord is righteous in all his works which he has commanded us.

Baruch 2.10: 10 Yet we have not listened to his voice, to walk in the commandments of the Lord that he has set before us.

Baruch 2.11: 11 And now, O Lord, you God of Israel, that have brought your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with signs, and with wonders, and with great power, and with a high arm, and have gotten yourself a name, as at this day:

Baruch 2.12: 12 O Lord our God, we have sinned, we have done ungodly, we have dealt unrighteously in all your ordinances.

Baruch 2.13: 13 Let your wrath turn from us: for we are but a few left among the heathen, where you have scattered us.

Baruch 2.14: 14 Hear our prayer, O Lord, and our petition, and deliver us for your own sake, and give us favor in the sight of them which have led us away captive:

Baruch 2.15: 15 that all the earth may know that you are the Lord our God, because Israel and his posterity is called by your name.

Baruch 2.16: 16 O Lord, look down from your holy house, and consider us: incline your ear, O Lord, and hear:

Baruch 2.17: 17 open your eyes, and behold: for the dead that are in 2 the grave, whose breath is taken from their bodies, will give to the Lord neither glory nor righteousness:

Baruch 2.18: 18 but the soul that is greatly vexed, which goes stooping and feeble, and the eyes that fail, and the hungry soul, will give you glory and righteousness, O Lord.

Baruch 2.19: 19 For we do not present our supplication before you, O Lord our God, for the righteousness of our fathers, and of our kings.

Baruch 2.20: 20 For you have sent your wrath and your indignation upon us, as you have spoken by your servants the prophets, saying,

Baruch 2.21: 21 The Lord says, Bow your shoulders to serve the king of Babylon, and remain in the land that I gave to your fathers.

Baruch 2.22: 22 But if you° will not hear the voice of the Lord, to serve the king of Babylon,

Baruch 2.23: 23 I will cause to cease out of the cities of Judah, and from without Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: and the whole land shall be desolate without inhabitant.

Baruch 2.24: 24 But we would not listen to your voice, to serve the king of Babylon: therefore have you made good your words that you spoke by your servants the prophets, namely, that the bones of our kings, and the bones of our fathers, should be taken out of their places.

Baruch 2.25: 25 And, behold, they are cast out to the heat by day, and to the frost by night, and they died in great miseries by famine, by sword, and by 3 pestilence.

Baruch 2.26: 26 And the house which is called by your name have you laid waste, as at this day, for the wickedness of the house of Israel and the house of Judah.

Baruch 2.27: 27 Yet, O Lord our God, you have dealt with us after all your kindness, and according to all that great mercy of your,

Baruch 2.28: 28 as you spoke by your servant Moses in the day when you did command him to write your law before the children of Israel, saying,

Baruch 2.29: 29 If you° will not hear my voice, surely this very great multitude shall be turned into a small number among the nations, where I will scatter them.

Baruch 2.30: 30 For I know that they will not hear me, because it is a stiff-necked people: but in the land of their captivity they shall take it to heart,

Baruch 2.31: 31 and shall know that I am the Lord their God: and I will give them a heart, and ears to hear:

Baruch 2.32: 32 and they shall praise me in the land of their captivity, and think upon my name,

Baruch 2.33: 33 and shall return from their stiff neck, and from their wicked deeds: for they shall remember the way of their fathers, which sinned before the Lord.

Baruch 2.34: 34 And I will bring them again into the land which I sware to their fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, and they shall be lords of it: and I will increase them, and they shall not be diminished.

Baruch 2.35: 35 And I will make an everlasting covenant with them to be their God, and they shall be my people: and I will no more remove my people of Israel out of the land that I have given them.

Baruch 3.1: 3O Lord Almighty, you God of Israel, the soul in anguish, the troubled spirit, cries to you.

Baruch 3.2: 2 Hear, O Lord, and have mercy; for you are a merciful God: yes, have mercy upon us, because we have sinned before you.

Baruch 3.4: 4 O Lord Almighty, you God of Israel, hear now the prayer of 1 the dead Israelites, and of the children of them which were sinners before you, that didn’t listen to the voice of you their God: for the which cause these plagues clave to us.

Baruch 3.5: 5 Remember not the iniquities of our fathers: but remember your power and your name now at this time.

Baruch 3.7: 7 For for this cause you have put your fear in our hearts, 2 to the intent that we should call upon your name: and we will praise you in our captivity, for we have 3 called to mind all the iniquity of our fathers, that sinned before you.

Baruch 3.8: 8 Behold, we are yet this day in our captivity, where you have scattered us, for a reproach and a curse, and to be subject to penalty, according to all the iniquities of our fathers, which departed from the Lord our God.

Baruch 3.9: 9 Hear, O Israel, the commandments of life: give ear to understand wisdom.

Baruch 3.10: 10 How is it, O Israel, that you are in your enemies’ land, that you have become old in a strange country, that you are defiled with the dead,

Baruch 3.13: 13 For if you had walked in the way of God, you should have dwelled in peace forever.

Baruch 3.14: 14 Learn where is 5 wisdom, where is strength, where is understanding; that you may know also where is length of days, and life, where is the light of the eyes, and peace.

Baruch 3.15: 15 Who has found out her place? and who has come into her treasuries?

Baruch 3.16: 16 Where are the princes of the heathen, and such as ruled the beasts that are upon the earth;

Baruch 3.17: 17 those who had their pastime with the fowls of the air, and those who hoarded up silver and gold, wherein men trust; and of whose getting there is no end?

Baruch 3.18: 18 For those who 6 made in silver, and were so careful, and whose works are past finding out,

Baruch 3.19: 19 they are vanished and gone down to 7 the grave, and others are come up in their steads.

Baruch 3.20: 20 Younger men have seen the light, and lived upon the earth: but the way of knowledge have they not known,

Baruch 3.21: 21 neither understood they the paths thereof: neither have their children embraced it: they are far off from 8 their way.

Baruch 3.22: 22 It has not been heard of in Canaan, neither has it been seen in Teman.

Baruch 3.23: 23 The sons also of Agar that seek understanding, which are in the land, the merchants of Merran and Teman, and the authors of fables, and the searchers out of understanding; none of these have known the way of wisdom, or remembered her paths.

Baruch 3.24: 24 O Israel, how great is the house of God! and how large is the place of his possession!

Baruch 3.26: 26 There were the giants born that were famous of old, great of stature, and expert in war.

Baruch 3.27: 27 God didn’t choose these, nor did he give the way of knowledge to them;

Baruch 3.28: 28 so they perished, because they had no 9 wisdom, they perished through their own foolishness.

Baruch 3.29: 29 Who has gone up into heaven, and taken her, and brought her down from the clouds?

Baruch 3.30: 30 Who has gone over the sea, and found her, and will bring her for choice gold?

Baruch 3.31: 31 There is none that knows her way, nor any that comprehends her path.

Baruch 3.32: 32 But he that knows all things knows her, he found her out with his understanding: he that prepared the earth for evermore has filled it with four-footed beasts:

Baruch 3.33: 33 he that sends forth the light, and it goes; he called it, and it obeyed him with fear:

Baruch 3.34: 34 and the stars shined in their watches, and were glad: when he called them, they said, Here we be; they shined with gladness to him that made them.

Baruch 3.35: 35 This is our God, and there shall none other be accounted of in comparison of him.

Baruch 3.36: 36 He has found out all the way of knowledge, and has given it to Jacob his servant, and to Israel that is beloved of him.

Baruch 3.37: 37 Afterward did she appear upon earth, and was conversant with men.

Baruch 4.1: 4This is the book of the commandments of God, and the law that endures forever: all those who hold it fast are appointed to life; but such as leave it shall die.

Baruch 4.2: 2 Turn you, O Jacob, and take hold of it: walk toward her shining in the presence of the light thereof.

Baruch 4.3: 3 Give not your glory to another, nor the things that are profitable to you to a strange nation.

Baruch 4.4: 4 O Israel, happy are we: for the things that are pleasing to God are made known to us.

Baruch 4.6: 6 You° were sold to the nations, but not for destruction: because you° moved God to wrath, you° were delivered to your adversaries.

Baruch 4.7: 7 For you° provoked him that made you by sacrificing to demons, and not to God.

Baruch 4.8: 8 You° forgot the everlasting God, that brought you up; you° grieved also Jerusalem, that nursed you.

Baruch 4.9: 9 For she saw the wrath that is come upon you from God, and said, Listen, you° women that dwell about Sion: for God has brought upon me great mourning;

Baruch 4.10: 10 for I have seen the captivity of my sons and daughters, which the Everlasting has brought upon them.

Baruch 4.11: 11 For with joy did I nourish them; but sent them away with weeping and mourning.

Baruch 4.12: 12 Let no man rejoice over me, a widow, and forsaken of many: for the sins of my children am I left desolate; because they turned away from the law of God,

Baruch 4.13: 13 and had no regard to his statutes, neither walked they in the ways of God’s commandments, nor trod in the paths of discipline in his righteousness.

Baruch 4.14: 14 Let those who dwell about Sion come, and remember you° the captivity of my sons and daughters, which the Everlasting has brought upon them.

Baruch 4.15: 15 For he has brought a nation upon them from far, a shameless nation, and of a strange language, 1 who neither reverenced old man, nor pitied child.

Baruch 4.16: 16 And they have carried away the dear beloved sons of the widow, and left her that was alone desolate of her daughters.

Baruch 4.18: 18 For he that brought these plagues upon you will deliver you from the hand of your enemies.

Baruch 4.19: 19 Go your way, O my children, go your way: for I am left desolate.

Baruch 4.20: 20 I have put off the garment of peace, and put upon me the sackcloth of my petition: I will cry to the Everlasting as long as I live.

Baruch 4.21: 21 Be of good cheer, O my children, cry to God, and he shall deliver you from the power and hand of the enemies.

Baruch 4.22: 22 For I have trusted in the Everlasting, that he will save you; and joy is come to me from the Holy One, because of the mercy which shall soon come to you 2 from the Everlasting your Savior.

Baruch 4.23: 23 For I sent you out with mourning and weeping: but God will give you to me again with joy and gladness forever.

Baruch 4.24: 24 For like as now those who dwell about Sion have seen your captivity: so shall they see shortly your salvation from 3 our God, which shall come upon you with great glory, and brightness of the Everlasting.

Baruch 4.25: 25 My children, suffer patiently the wrath that is come upon you from God: for your enemy has persecuted you; but shortly you shall see his destruction, and shall tread upon their necks.

Baruch 4.26: 26 My delicate ones have gone rough ways; they were taken away as a flock carried off by the enemies.

Baruch 4.27: 27 Be of good cheer, O my children, and cry to God: for you° shall be remembered of him that has brought these things upon you.

Baruch 4.28: 28 For as it was your mind to go astray from God: so, return and seek him ten times more.

Baruch 4.29: 29 For he that brought these plagues upon you shall bring you everlasting joy again with your salvation.

Baruch 4.30: 30 Be of good cheer, O Jerusalem: for he that called you by name will comfort you.

Baruch 4.31: 31 Miserable are those who afflicted you, and rejoiced at your fall.

Baruch 4.32: 32 Miserable are the cities which your children served: miserable is she that received your sons.

Baruch 4.33: 33 For as she rejoiced at your fall, and was glad of your ruin: so shall she be grieved for her own desolation.

Baruch 4.34: 34 And I will take away her exultation in her great multitude, and her boasting shall be turned into mourning.

Baruch 4.35: 35 For fire shall come upon her from the Everlasting, long to endure; and she shall be inhabited of 4 devils for a great time.

Baruch 4.36: 36 O Jerusalem, look about you toward the east, and behold the joy that comes to you from God.

Baruch 4.37: 37 Behold, your sons come, whom you sent away, they come gathered together from the east to the west at the word of the Holy One, rejoicing in the glory of God.

Baruch 5.1: 5Put off, O Jerusalem, the garment of your mourning and affliction, and put on the beauty of the glory that comes from God forever.

Baruch 5.2: 2 Cast about you the robe of the righteousness which comes from God; set a diadem on your head of the glory of the Everlasting.

Baruch 5.4: 4 For your name shall be called of God forever The peace of righteousness, and The glory of godliness.

Baruch 5.5: 5 Arise, O Jerusalem, and stand upon the height, and look about you toward the east, and behold your children gathered from the going down of the sun to the rising thereof at the word of the Holy One, rejoicing that God has remembered them.

Baruch 5.6: 6 For they went from you on foot, being led away of their enemies: but God brings them in to you borne on high with glory, 1 as on a royal throne.

Baruch 5.7: 7 For God has appointed that every high mountain, and the everlasting hills, should be made low, and the valleys filled up, to make plain the ground, that Israel may go safely in the glory of God.

Baruch 5.8: 8 Moreover the woods and every sweet smelling tree have overshadowed Israel by the commandment of God.

Baruch 5.9: 9 For God shall lead Israel with joy in the light of his glory with the mercy and righteousness that comes from him.

Baruch 6.1: 6A copy of an letter, which Jeremy sent to them which were to be led captives into Babylon by the king of the Babylonians, to certify them, as it was commanded him of God.

Baruch 6.2: 2 Because of the sins which you° have committed before God, you° shall be led away captives to Babylon by Nabuchodonosor king of the Babylonians.

Baruch 6.3: 3 So when you° come to Babylon, you° shall remain there many years, and for a long season, even for seven generations: and after that I will bring you out peaceably from thence.

Baruch 6.4: 4 But now shall you° see in Babylon gods of silver, and of gold, and of wood, borne upon shoulders, which cause the nations to fear.

Baruch 6.5: 5 Beware therefore that you° in no wise become like to the strangers, neither let fear take hold upon you because of them, when you° see the multitude before them and behind them, worshiping them.

Baruch 6.7: 7 For my angel is with you, 1 and I myself do care for your 2 souls.

Baruch 6.8: 8 For their tongue is polished by the workman, and they themselves are overlaid with gold and with silver; yet are they but false, and can’t speak.

Baruch 6.9: 9 And taking gold, as it were for a virgin that loves to be happy, they make crowns for the heads of their gods:

Baruch 6.10: 10 and sometimes also the priests convey from their gods gold and silver, and bestow it upon themselves;

Baruch 6.11: 11 and will even give thereof to the common prostitutes: and they deck them as men with garments, even the gods of silver, and gods of gold, and of wood.

Baruch 6.12: 12 Yet can’t these gods save themselves from rust and moths, though they be covered with purple raiment.

Baruch 6.13: 13 They wipe their faces because of the dust of the temple, which is thick upon them.

Baruch 6.14: 14 And he that can’t put to death one that offends against him holds a sceptre, as though he were judge of a country.

Baruch 6.15: 15 He has also a dagger in his right hand, and an axe: but can’t deliver himself from war and robbers.

Baruch 6.17: 17 For like as a vessel that a man uses is nothing worth when it is broken; even so it is with their gods: when they be set up in the temples their eyes be full of dust through the feet of those who come in.

Baruch 6.18: 18 And as the courts are made sure on every side upon him that offends the king, as being committed to suffer death; even so the priests make fast their temples with doors, with locks, and bars, lest they be carried off by robbers.

Baruch 6.19: 19 They light them candles, yes, more than for themselves, whereof they can’t see one.

Baruch 6.20: 20 They are as one of the beams of the temple; and men say their hearts are eaten out, when things creeping out of the earth devour both them and their raiment: they feel it not

Baruch 6.21: 21 when their faces are blackened through the smoke that comes out of the temple:

Baruch 6.22: 22 bats, swallows, and birds land on their bodies and heads; and in like manner the cats also.

Baruch 6.23: 23 Whereby you° may know that they are no gods: therefore fear them not.

Baruch 6.24: 24 Notwithstanding the gold wherewith they are beset to make them beautiful, except one wipe off the rust, they will not shine: for not even when they were molten did they feel it.

Baruch 6.26: 26 Having no feet, they are borne upon shoulders, whereby they declare to men that they be nothing worth.

Baruch 6.27: 27 They also that serve them are ashamed: for if they fall to the ground at any time, they can’t rise up again of themselves: neither, if they are bowed down, can they make themselves straight: but the offerings are set before them, as if they were dead men.

Baruch 6.28: 28 And the things that are sacrificed to them, their priests sell and spend; and in like manner their wives also lay up part thereof in salt; but to the poor and to the impotent they will give nothing thereof.

Baruch 6.29: 29 The menstruous woman and the woman in childbed touch their sacrifices: knowing therefore by these things that they are no gods, fear them not.

Baruch 6.30: 30 For how can they be called gods? because women set meat before the gods of silver, gold, and wood.

Baruch 6.31: 31 And in their temples the priests 3 sit on seats, having their clothes tore, and their heads and beards shaven, and nothing upon their heads.

Baruch 6.32: 32 They roar and cry before their gods, as men do at the feast when one is dead.

Baruch 6.33: 33 The priests also take off garments from them, and clothe their wives and children withal.

Baruch 6.34: 34 Whether it be evil that one does to them, or good, they are not able to recompense it: they can neither set up a king, nor put him down.

Baruch 6.35: 35 In like manner, they can neither give riches nor money: though a man make a vow to them, and keep it not, they will never exact it.

Baruch 6.36: 36 They can save no man from death, neither deliver the weak from the mighty.

Baruch 6.37: 37 They can’t restore a blind man to his sight, nor deliver any that is in distress.

Baruch 6.38: 38 They can show no mercy to the widow, nor do good to the fatherless.

Baruch 6.39: 39 They are like the stones that be hewn out of the mountain, these gods of wood, and that are overlaid with gold and with silver: those who minister to them shall be confounded.

Baruch 6.40: 40 How should a man then think or say that they are gods, when even the Chaldeans themselves dishonor them?

Baruch 6.41: 41 Who if they shall see one mute that can’t speak, they bring him, and entreat him to call upon Bel, as though he were able to understand.

Baruch 6.42: 42 Yet they can’t perceive this themselves, and forsake them: for they have no understanding.

Baruch 6.43: 43 The women also with cords about them sit in the ways, burning bran for incense: but if any of them, drawn by some that passes by, lie with him, she reproaches her fellow, that she was not thought as worthy as herself, nor her cord broken.

Baruch 6.44: 44 Whatsoever is done among them is false: how should a man then think or say that they are gods?

Baruch 6.45: 45 They are fashioned by carpenters and goldsmiths: they can be nothing else than the workmen will have them to be.

Baruch 6.46: 46 And they themselves that fashioned them can never continue long; how then should the things that are fashioned by them?

Baruch 6.48: 48 For when there comes any war or plague upon them, the priests consult with themselves, where they may be hidden with them.

Baruch 6.49: 49 How then can’t men understand that they be no gods, which can neither save themselves from war, nor from plague?

Baruch 6.50: 50 For seeing they be but of wood, and overlaid with gold and with silver, it shall be known hereafter that they are false:

Baruch 6.51: 51 and it shall be manifest to all nations and kings that they are no gods, but the works of men’s hands, and that there is no work of God in them.

Baruch 6.53: 53 For neither can they set up a king in a land, nor give rain to men.

Baruch 6.54: 54 Neither can they judge their own cause, nor 4 redress a wrong, being unable: for they are as crows between heaven and earth.

Baruch 6.55: 55 For even when fire falls upon the house of gods of wood, or overlaid with gold or with silver, their priests will flee away, and escape, but they themselves shall be burned apart like beams.

Baruch 6.56: 56 Moreover they can’t withstand any king or enemies: how should a man then allow or think that they be gods?

Baruch 6.57: 57 Neither are those gods of wood, and overlaid with silver or with gold, able to escape either from thieves or robbers.

Baruch 6.58: 58 Whose gold, and silver, and garments wherewith they are clothed, they that are strong will take from them, and go away withal: neither shall they be able to help themselves.

Baruch 6.59: 59 Therefore it is better to be a king that shows his manhood, or else a vessel in a house profitable for that whereof the owner shall have need, than such false gods; or even a door in a house, to keep the things safe that be therein, than such false gods; or a pillar of wood in a palace, than such false gods.

Baruch 6.60: 60 For sun, and moon, and stars, being bright and sent to do their offices, are obedient.

Baruch 6.61: 61 Likewise also the lightning when it glitters is fair to see; and after the same manner the wind also blows in every country.

Baruch 6.62: 62 And when God commands the clouds to go over the whole world, they do as they are told.

Baruch 6.63: 63 And the fire sent from above to consume mountains and woods does as it is commanded: but these are to be likened to them neither in show nor power.

Baruch 6.64: 64 Wherefore a man should neither think nor say that they are gods, seeing they are able neither to judge causes, nor to do good to men.

Baruch 6.67: 67 neither can they show signs in the heavens among the nations, nor shine as the sun, nor give light as the moon.

Baruch 6.68: 68 The beasts are better than they: for they can get under a covert, and help themselves.

Baruch 6.69: 69 In no wise then is it manifest to us that they are gods: therefore fear them not.

Baruch 6.70: 70 For as a scarecrow in a garden of cucumbers that keeps nothing, so are their gods of wood, and overlaid with gold and with silver.

Baruch 6.71: 71 Likewise also their gods of wood, and overlaid with gold and with silver, are like to a white thorn in an orchard, that every bird sits upon; as also to a dead body, that is cast forth into the dark.

Baruch 6.72: 72 And you° shall know them to be no gods by the 5 bright purple that rots upon them: And they themselves afterward shall be consumed, and shall be a reproach in the country.

Baruch 6.73: 73 Better therefore is the just man that has none idols: for he shall be far from reproach.

1 1:1 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).

2 1:29 “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.

1 2:4 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.

2 2:12 or, aromatic resin

3 2:18 or, suitable for, or appropriate for.

1 3:24 cherubim are powerful angelic creatures, messengers of God with wings. See Ezekiel 10.

1 4:1 or, lay with, or, had relations with

2 4:1 or, became pregnant

1 5:2 “Adam” and “Man” are spelled with the exact same consonants in Hebrew, so this can be correctly translated either way.

1 6:4 or, giants

2 6:15 A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.

1 7:20 A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.

1 12:7 or, seed

1 15:2 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai”.

1 16:14 Beer Lahai Roi means “well of the one who lives and sees me”.

1 17:19 Isaac means “he laughs”.

1 18:6 1 seah is about 7 liters or 1.9 gallons or 0.8 pecks

1 19:22 Zoar means “little”.

1 21:3 Isaac means “He laughs”.

2 21:31 Beersheba can mean “well of the oath” or “well of seven”.

1 22:14 or, Yahweh-Jireh, or, Yahweh-Seeing

1 23:15 A shekel is about 10 grams, so 400 shekels would be about 4 kg. or 8.8 pounds.

1 24:22 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.

1 25:30 “Edom” means “red”.

1 26:33 Shibah means “oath” or “seven”.

2 26:33 Beersheba means “well of the oath” or “well of the seven”

1 30:24 Joseph means “may he add”.

1 31:19 teraphim were household idols that may have been associated with inheritance rights to the household property.

2 31:47 “Jegar Sahadutha” means “Witness Heap” in Aramaic.

3 31:47 “Galeed” means “Witness Heap” in Hebrew.

1 32:30 Peniel means “face of God”.

1 33:17 succoth means shelters or booths.

2 33:20 El Elohe Israel means “God, the God of Israel” or “The God of Israel is mighty”.

1 34:17 Hebrew has, literally, “daughter”

1 35:18 “Benoni” means “son of my trouble”.

2 35:18 “Benjamin” means “son of my right hand”.

1 37:35 Sheol is the place of the dead.

1 38:29 Perez means “breaking out”.

2 38:30 Zerah means “scarlet” or “brightness”.

1 41:51 “Manasseh” sounds like the Hebrew for “forget”.

2 41:52 “Ephraim” sounds like the Hebrew for “twice fruitful”.

1 42:38 Sheol is the place of the dead.

1 44:29 Sheol is the place of the dead.

2 44:31 Sheol is the place of the dead.

1 1:10 “Behold”, from “ἰδοὺ”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.

a 1:20 Psalm 69:25

b 1:20 Psalm 109:8

1 2:15 about 9:00 a.m.

a 2:21 Joel 2:28-32

2 2:27 or, Hell

b 2:28 Psalm 16:8-11

3 2:31 or, Hell

c 2:35 Psalm 110:1

1 3:1 3:00 p.m.

2 3:17 The word for “brothers” here may be also correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”

a 3:23 Deuteronomy 18:15,18-19

3 3:25 or, seed

b 3:25 Genesis 22:18; 26:4

a 4:11 Psalm 118:22

1 4:26 Christ (Greek) and Messiah (Hebrew) both mean Anointed One.

b 4:26 Psalm 2:1-2

2 4:27 nu adds “in this city,”

1 6:1 The Hellenists used Greek language and culture, even though they were also of Hebrew descent.

a 7:3 Genesis 12:1

b 7:7 Genesis 15:13-14

1 7:23 The word for “brothers” here and where the context allows may be also correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”

c 7:28 Exodus 2:14

d 7:32 Exodus 3:6

e 7:34 Exodus 3:5,7-8,10

2 7:37 TR adds “You shall listen to him.”

f 7:37 Deuteronomy 18:15

g 7:40 Exodus 32:1

3 7:42 This idiom could also be translated “host of heaven”, or “angelic beings”, or “heavenly bodies.”

h 7:43 Amos 5:25-27

i 7:50 Isaiah 66:1-2

a 8:33 Isaiah 53:7,8

1 8:37 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.”

1 9:5 TR adds “It’s hard for you to kick against the cattle prods.”

2 9:6 TR omits “But”

3 9:11 or, Judas

4 9:28 TR and NU add “and going out”

5 9:29 TR and NU omit “Jesus” and reverse the order of verses 28 & 29.

6 9:29 The Hellenists were Hebrews who used Greek language and culture.

7 9:30 The word for “brothers” here and where the context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”

8 9:36 “Dorcas” is Greek for “Gazelle.”

9 9:38 Reading from NU, TR; MT omits “two men”

1 10:3 3:00 p.m.

2 10:6 TR adds “This one will tell you what it is necessary for you to do.”

3 10:19 Reading from TR and NU. MT omits “three”

4 10:30 3:00 p.m.

5 10:39 TR omits “also”

1 11:1 The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”

2 11:20 A Hellenist is someone who keeps Greek customs and culture.

1 12:25 TR reads “from” instead of “to”

1 13:17 TR, NU add “Israel”

2 13:23 TR, NU read “a Savior, Jesus” instead of “salvation”

3 13:24 TR, NU read “to all the people of Israel” instead of “to Israel”

a 13:33 Psalm 2:7

b 13:34 Isaiah 55:3

c 13:35 Psalm 16:10

4 13:38 The word for “brothers” here and where the context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”

d 13:41 Habakkuk 1:5

e 13:47 Isaiah 49:6

1 14:2 or, disobedient

2 14:17 TR reads “us” instead of “you”

1 15:1 The word for “brothers” here and where the context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”

2 15:11 TR adds “Christ”

a 15:17 Amos 9:11-12

3 15:22 The word for “brothers” here and where the context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”

4 15:34 Some manuscripts add: But it seemed good to Silas to stay there.

1 17:5 TR reads “And the Jews who were unpersuaded, becoming envious and taking along” instead of “But the unpersuaded Jews took along”

2 17:6 The word for “brothers” here and where the context allows may be also correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”

3 17:18 TR omits “also”

1 18:18 The word for “brothers” here and where the context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”

1 19:19 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

1 20:8 TR reads “they” instead of “we”

2 20:21 TR adds “Christ”

3 20:28 TR, NU omit “the Lord and”

4 20:32 The word for “brothers” here and where the context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”

a 23:5 Exodus 22:28

1 23:23 about 9:00 p.m.

1 24:6 TR adds “We wanted to judge him according to our law,”

2 24:7 TR adds “but the commanding officer, Lysias, came by and with great violence took him out of our hands,”

3 24:8 TR adds “commanding his accusers to come to you.”

1 27:14 Or, “a northeaster”.

2 27:28 20 fathoms = 120 feet = 36.6 meters

3 27:28 15 fathoms = 90 feet = 27.4 meters

1 28:1 NU reads “we”

2 28:14 The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”

a 28:27 Isaiah 6:9-10

3 28:29 NU omits verse 29.

1 1:5 Another reading is, and vowed vows.

2 1:11 See Deuteronomy 11:21.

1 2:2 Another reading is, even as he has done.

2 2:17 Gr. Hades.

3 2:25 See Jeremiah 32:36.

1 3:4 Probably a mistake for the men of Israel.

2 3:7 Another reading is, and made us to call.

3 3:7 Another reading is, put away from our heart all etc.

4 3:11 Gr. Hades.

5 3:14 Or, prudence

6 3:18 Or, diligently sought after: Proverbs 11:27 (Sept.).

7 3:19 Gr. Hades.

8 3:21 Another reading is, the way thereof.

9 3:28 Or, prudence

1 4:15 Another reading is, for they.

2 4:22 Or, from your everlasting Savior

3 4:24 Another reading is, your.

4 4:35 Gr. demons.

1 5:6 Another reading is, as children of the kingdom.

1 6:7 Or, and he cares

2 6:7 Or, lives

3 6:31 Or, bear the litter

4 6:54 Another reading is, deliver him that is wronged.

5 6:72 Gr. purple and brightness.