Genesis 31.0: 
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Genesis 31.1: 1 Jacob 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 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 31.22: 22 Laban was told on the third day that Jacob had fled.
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 31.45: 45 Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.
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, but Jacob called it Galeed.
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.
Exodus 1.0: 
1
Exodus 1.1: 1 Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt (every man and his household came with Jacob):
Exodus 1.2: 2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,
Exodus 1.3: 3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,
Exodus 1.4: 4 Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.
Exodus 1.5: 5 All the souls who came out of Jacob’s body were seventy souls, and Joseph was in Egypt already.
Exodus 1.6: 6 Joseph died, as did all his brothers, and all that generation.
Exodus 1.7: 7 The children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.
Exodus 1.8: 8 Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who didn’t know Joseph.
Exodus 1.9: 9 He said to his people, “Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we.
Exodus 1.10: 10 Come, let’s deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it happen that when any war breaks out, they also join themselves to our enemies and fight against us, and escape out of the land.”
Exodus 1.11: 11 Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses.
Exodus 1.12: 12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out. They started to dread the children of Israel.
Exodus 1.13: 13 The Egyptians ruthlessly made the children of Israel serve,
Exodus 1.14: 14 and they made their lives bitter with hard service in mortar and in brick, and in all kinds of service in the field, all their service, in which they ruthlessly made them serve.
Exodus 1.15: 15 The king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah,
Exodus 1.16: 16 and he said, “When you perform the duty of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birth stool, if it is a son, then you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live.”
Exodus 1.17: 17 But the midwives feared God, and didn’t do what the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive.
Exodus 1.18: 18 The king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said to them, “Why have you done this thing and saved the boys alive?”
Exodus 1.19: 19 The midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women aren’t like the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous and give birth before the midwife comes to them.”
Exodus 1.20: 20 God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied, and grew very mighty.
Exodus 1.21: 21 Because the midwives feared God, he gave them families.
Exodus 1.22: 22 Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, “You shall cast every son who is born into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive.”
Exodus 18.0: 
18
Exodus 18.1: 1 Now Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses’ father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, how Yahweh had brought Israel out of Egypt.
Exodus 18.2: 2 Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, received Zipporah, Moses’ wife, after he had sent her away,
Exodus 18.3: 3 and her two sons. The name of one son was Gershom, for Moses said, “I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land”.
Exodus 18.4: 4 The name of the other was Eliezer, for he said, “My father’s God was my help and delivered me from Pharaoh’s sword.”
Exodus 18.5: 5 Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, came with Moses’ sons and his wife to Moses into the wilderness where he was encamped, at the Mountain of God.
Exodus 18.6: 6 He said to Moses, “I, your father-in-law Jethro, have come to you with your wife, and her two sons with her.”
Exodus 18.7: 7 Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and bowed and kissed him. They asked each other of their welfare, and they came into the tent.
Exodus 18.8: 8 Moses told his father-in-law all that Yahweh had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, all the hardships that had come on them on the way, and how Yahweh delivered them.
Exodus 18.9: 9 Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which Yahweh had done to Israel, in that he had delivered them out of the hand of the Egyptians.
Exodus 18.10: 10 Jethro said, “Blessed be Yahweh, who has delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh; who has delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.
Exodus 18.11: 11 Now I know that Yahweh is greater than all gods because of the way that they treated people arrogantly.”
Exodus 18.12: 12 Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God. Aaron came with all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses’ father-in-law before God.
Exodus 18.13: 13 On the next day, Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood around Moses from the morning to the evening.
Exodus 18.14: 14 When Moses’ father-in-law saw all that he did to the people, he said, “What is this thing that you do for the people? Why do you sit alone, and all the people stand around you from morning to evening?”
Exodus 18.15: 15 Moses said to his father-in-law, “Because the people come to me to inquire of God.
Exodus 18.16: 16 When they have a matter, they come to me, and I judge between a man and his neighbor, and I make them know the statutes of God, and his laws.”
Exodus 18.17: 17 Moses’ father-in-law said to him, “The thing that you do is not good.
Exodus 18.18: 18 You will surely wear away, both you, and this people that is with you; for the thing is too heavy for you. You are not able to perform it yourself alone.
Exodus 18.19: 19 Listen now to my voice. I will give you counsel, and God be with you. You represent the people before God, and bring the causes to God.
Exodus 18.20: 20 You shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and shall show them the way in which they must walk, and the work that they must do.
Exodus 18.21: 21 Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men which fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
Exodus 18.22: 22 Let them judge the people at all times. It shall be that every great matter they shall bring to you, but every small matter they shall judge themselves. So shall it be easier for you, and they shall share the load with you.
Exodus 18.23: 23 If you will do this thing, and God commands you so, then you will be able to endure, and all these people also will go to their place in peace.”
Exodus 18.24: 24 So Moses listened to the voice of his father-in-law, and did all that he had said.
Exodus 18.25: 25 Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
Exodus 18.26: 26 They judged the people at all times. They brought the hard cases to Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.
Exodus 18.27: 27 Moses let his father-in-law depart, and he went his way into his own land.
Exodus 27.0: 
27
Exodus 27.1: 1 “You shall make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long, and five cubits wide. The altar shall be square. Its height shall be three cubits.
Exodus 27.2: 2 You shall make its horns on its four corners. Its horns shall be of one piece with it. You shall overlay it with bronze.
Exodus 27.3: 3 You shall make its pots to take away its ashes; and its shovels, its basins, its meat hooks, and its fire pans. You shall make all its vessels of bronze.
Exodus 27.4: 4 You shall make a grating for it of network of bronze. On the net you shall make four bronze rings in its four corners.
Exodus 27.5: 5 You shall put it under the ledge around the altar beneath, that the net may reach halfway up the altar.
Exodus 27.6: 6 You shall make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with bronze.
Exodus 27.7: 7 Its poles shall be put into the rings, and the poles shall be on the two sides of the altar when carrying it.
Exodus 27.8: 8 You shall make it hollow with planks. They shall make it as it has been shown you on the mountain.
Exodus 27.9: 9 “You shall make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen one hundred cubits long for one side.
Exodus 27.10: 10 Its pillars shall be twenty, and their sockets twenty, of bronze. The hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver.
Exodus 27.11: 11 Likewise for the length of the north side, there shall be hangings one hundred cubits long, and its pillars twenty, and their sockets twenty, of bronze; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver.
Exodus 27.12: 12 For the width of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits; their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.
Exodus 27.13: 13 The width of the court on the east side eastward shall be fifty cubits.
Exodus 27.14: 14 The hangings for the one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.
Exodus 27.15: 15 For the other side shall be hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.
Exodus 27.16: 16 For the gate of the court shall be a screen of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the embroiderer; their pillars four, and their sockets four.
Exodus 27.17: 17 All the pillars of the court around shall be filleted with silver; their hooks of silver, and their sockets of bronze.
Exodus 27.18: 18 The length of the court shall be one hundred cubits, and the width fifty throughout, and the height five cubits, of fine twined linen, and their sockets of bronze.
Exodus 27.19: 19 All the instruments of the tabernacle in all its service, and all its pins, and all the pins of the court, shall be of bronze.
Exodus 27.20: 20 “You shall command the children of Israel, that they bring to you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually.
Exodus 27.21: 21 In the Tent of Meeting, outside the veil which is before the covenant, Aaron and his sons shall keep it in order from evening to morning before Yahweh: it shall be a statute forever throughout their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.
Exodus 36.0: 
36
Exodus 36.1: 1 “Bezalel and Oholiab shall work with every wise-hearted man, in whom Yahweh has put wisdom and understanding to know how to do all the work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all that Yahweh has commanded.”
Exodus 36.2: 2 Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab, and every wise-hearted man, in whose heart Yahweh had put wisdom, even everyone whose heart stirred him up to come to the work to do it.
Exodus 36.3: 3 They received from Moses all the offering which the children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, with which to make it. They kept bringing free will offerings to him every morning.
Exodus 36.4: 4 All the wise men, who performed all the work of the sanctuary, each came from his work which he did.
Exodus 36.5: 5 They spoke to Moses, saying, “The people have brought much more than enough for the service of the work which Yahweh commanded to make.”
Exodus 36.6: 6 Moses gave a commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, “Let neither man nor woman make anything else for the offering for the sanctuary.” So the people were restrained from bringing.
Exodus 36.7: 7 For the stuff they had was sufficient to do all the work, and too much.
Exodus 36.8: 8 All the wise-hearted men among those who did the work made the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, blue, purple, and scarlet. They made them with cherubim, the work of a skillful workman.
Exodus 36.9: 9 The length of each curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits. All the curtains had one measure.
Exodus 36.10: 10 He coupled five curtains to one another, and the other five curtains he coupled to one another.
Exodus 36.11: 11 He made loops of blue on the edge of the one curtain from the edge in the coupling. Likewise he made in the edge of the curtain that was outermost in the second coupling.
Exodus 36.12: 12 He made fifty loops in the one curtain, and he made fifty loops in the edge of the curtain that was in the second coupling. The loops were opposite to one another.
Exodus 36.13: 13 He made fifty clasps of gold, and coupled the curtains to one another with the clasps: so the tabernacle was a unit.
Exodus 36.14: 14 He made curtains of goats’ hair for a covering over the tabernacle. He made them eleven curtains.
Exodus 36.15: 15 The length of each curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits the width of each curtain. The eleven curtains had one measure.
Exodus 36.16: 16 He coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves.
Exodus 36.17: 17 He made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that was outermost in the coupling, and he made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain which was outermost in the second coupling.
Exodus 36.18: 18 He made fifty clasps of bronze to couple the tent together, that it might be a unit.
Exodus 36.19: 19 He made a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of sea cow hides above.
Exodus 36.20: 20 He made the boards for the tabernacle of acacia wood, standing up.
Exodus 36.21: 21 Ten cubits was the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the width of each board.
Exodus 36.22: 22 Each board had two tenons, joined to one another. He made all the boards of the tabernacle this way.
Exodus 36.23: 23 He made the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards for the south side southward.
Exodus 36.24: 24 He made forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards: two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons.
Exodus 36.25: 25 For the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, he made twenty boards
Exodus 36.26: 26 and their forty sockets of silver: two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
Exodus 36.27: 27 For the far part of the tabernacle westward he made six boards.
Exodus 36.28: 28 He made two boards for the corners of the tabernacle in the far part.
Exodus 36.29: 29 They were double beneath, and in the same way they were all the way to its top to one ring. He did this to both of them in the two corners.
Exodus 36.30: 30 There were eight boards and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets—under every board two sockets.
Exodus 36.31: 31 He made bars of acacia wood: five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,
Exodus 36.32: 32 and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle for the hinder part westward.
Exodus 36.33: 33 He made the middle bar to pass through in the middle of the boards from the one end to the other.
Exodus 36.34: 34 He overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings of gold as places for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.
Exodus 36.35: 35 He made the veil of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cherubim. He made it the work of a skillful workman.
Exodus 36.36: 36 He made four pillars of acacia for it, and overlaid them with gold. Their hooks were of gold. He cast four sockets of silver for them.
Exodus 36.37: 37 He made a screen for the door of the tent, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of an embroiderer;
Exodus 36.38: 38 and the five pillars of it with their hooks. He overlaid their capitals and their fillets with gold, and their five sockets were of bronze.
Deuteronomy 0.0: 
The Fifth Book of Moses,
Commonly Called
Deuteronomy
Deuteronomy 20.0: 
20
Deuteronomy 20.1: 1 When you go out to battle against your enemies, and see horses, chariots, and a people more numerous than you, you shall not be afraid of them; for Yahweh your God is with you, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 20.2: 2 It shall be, when you draw near to the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak to the people,
Deuteronomy 20.3: 3 and shall tell them, “Hear, Israel, you draw near today to battle against your enemies. Don’t let your heart faint! Don’t be afraid, nor tremble, neither be scared of them;
Deuteronomy 20.4: 4 for Yahweh your God is he who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.”
Deuteronomy 20.5: 5 The officers shall speak to the people, saying, “What man is there who has built a new house, and has not dedicated it? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it.
Deuteronomy 20.6: 6 What man is there who has planted a vineyard, and has not used its fruit? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man use its fruit.
Deuteronomy 20.7: 7 What man is there who has pledged to be married to a wife, and has not taken her? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.”
Deuteronomy 20.8: 8 The officers shall speak further to the people, and they shall say, “What man is there who is fearful and faint-hearted? Let him go and return to his house, lest his brother’s heart melt as his heart.”
Deuteronomy 20.9: 9 It shall be, when the officers have finished speaking to the people, that they shall appoint captains of armies at the head of the people.
Deuteronomy 20.10: 10 When you draw near to a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace to it.
Deuteronomy 20.11: 11 It shall be, if it gives you answer of peace and opens to you, then it shall be that all the people who are found therein shall become forced laborers to you, and shall serve you.
Deuteronomy 20.12: 12 If it will make no peace with you, but will make war against you, then you shall besiege it.
Deuteronomy 20.13: 13 When Yahweh your God delivers it into your hand, you shall strike every male of it with the edge of the sword;
Deuteronomy 20.14: 14 but the women, the little ones, the livestock, and all that is in the city, even all its plunder, you shall take for plunder for yourself. You may use the plunder of your enemies, which Yahweh your God has given you.
Deuteronomy 20.15: 15 Thus you shall do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.
Deuteronomy 20.16: 16 But of the cities of these peoples that Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes;
Deuteronomy 20.17: 17 but you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, as Yahweh your God has commanded you;
Deuteronomy 20.18: 18 that they not teach you to follow all their abominations, which they have done for their gods; so would you sin against Yahweh your God.
Deuteronomy 20.19: 19 When you shall besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an ax against them; for you may eat of them. You shall not cut them down, for is the tree of the field man, that it should be besieged by you?
Deuteronomy 20.20: 20 Only the trees that you know are not trees for food, you shall destroy and cut them down. You shall build bulwarks against the city that makes war with you, until it falls.
Deuteronomy 33.0: 
33
Deuteronomy 33.1: 1 This is the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death.
Deuteronomy 33.2: 2 He said,
“Yahweh came from Sinai,
and rose from Seir to them.
He shone from Mount Paran.
He came from the ten thousands of holy ones.
At his right hand was a fiery law for them.
Deuteronomy 33.3: 3 Yes, he loves the people.
All his saints are in your hand.
They sat down at your feet.
Each receives your words.
Deuteronomy 33.4: 4 Moses commanded us a law,
an inheritance for the assembly of Jacob.
Deuteronomy 33.5: 5 He was king in Jeshurun,
when the heads of the people were gathered,
all the tribes of Israel together.
Deuteronomy 33.6: 6 “Let Reuben live, and not die;
Nor let his men be few.”
Deuteronomy 33.7: 7 This is for Judah. He said,
“Hear, Yahweh, the voice of Judah.
Bring him in to his people.
With his hands he contended for himself.
You shall be a help against his adversaries.”
Deuteronomy 33.8: 8 About Levi he said,
“Your Thummim and your Urim are with your godly one,
whom you proved at Massah,
with whom you contended at the waters of Meribah.
Deuteronomy 33.9: 9 He said of his father, and of his mother, ‘I have not seen him.’
He didn’t acknowledge his brothers,
nor did he know his own children;
for they have observed your word,
and keep your covenant.
Deuteronomy 33.10: 10 They shall teach Jacob your ordinances,
and Israel your law.
They shall put incense before you,
and whole burnt offering on your altar.
Deuteronomy 33.11: 11 Yahweh, bless his skills.
Accept the work of his hands.
Strike through the hips of those who rise up against him,
of those who hate him, that they not rise again.”
Deuteronomy 33.12: 12 About Benjamin he said,
“The beloved of Yahweh will dwell in safety by him.
He covers him all day long.
He dwells between his shoulders.”
Deuteronomy 33.13: 13 About Joseph he said,
“His land is blessed by Yahweh,
for the precious things of the heavens, for the dew,
for the deep that couches beneath,
Deuteronomy 33.14: 14 for the precious things of the fruits of the sun,
for the precious things that the moon can yield,
Deuteronomy 33.15: 15 for the best things of the ancient mountains,
for the precious things of the everlasting hills,
Deuteronomy 33.16: 16 for the precious things of the earth and its fullness,
the good will of him who lived in the bush.
Let this come on the head of Joseph,
on the crown of the head of him who was separated from his brothers.
Deuteronomy 33.17: 17 Majesty belongs to the firstborn of his herd.
His horns are the horns of the wild ox.
With them he will push all the peoples to the ends of the earth.
They are the ten thousands of Ephraim.
They are the thousands of Manasseh.”
Deuteronomy 33.18: 18 About Zebulun he said,
“Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going out;
and Issachar, in your tents.
Deuteronomy 33.19: 19 They will call the peoples to the mountain.
There they will offer sacrifices of righteousness,
for they will draw out the abundance of the seas,
the hidden treasures of the sand.”
Deuteronomy 33.20: 20 About Gad he said,
“He who enlarges Gad is blessed.
He dwells as a lioness,
and tears the arm and the crown of the head.
Deuteronomy 33.21: 21 He provided the first part for himself,
for the lawgiver’s portion reserved was reserved for him.
He came with the heads of the people.
He executed the righteousness of Yahweh,
His ordinances with Israel.”
Deuteronomy 33.22: 22 About Dan he said,
“Dan is a lion’s cub
that leaps out of Bashan.”
Deuteronomy 33.23: 23 About Naphtali he said,
“Naphtali, satisfied with favor,
full of Yahweh’s blessing,
Possess the west and the south.”
Deuteronomy 33.24: 24 About Asher he said,
“Asher is blessed with children.
Let him be acceptable to his brothers.
Let him dip his foot in oil.
Deuteronomy 33.25: 25 Your bars will be iron and bronze.
As your days, so your strength will be.
Deuteronomy 33.26: 26 “There is no one like God, Jeshurun,
who rides on the heavens for your help,
in his excellency on the skies.
Deuteronomy 33.27: 27 The eternal God is your dwelling place.
Underneath are the everlasting arms.
He thrust out the enemy from before you,
and said, ‘Destroy!’
Deuteronomy 33.28: 28 Israel dwells in safety,
the fountain of Jacob alone,
In a land of grain and new wine.
Yes, his heavens drop down dew.
Deuteronomy 33.29: 29 You are happy, Israel!
Who is like you, a people saved by Yahweh,
the shield of your help,
the sword of your excellency?
Your enemies will submit themselves to you.
You will tread on their high places.”
2 Samuel 2.0: 
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2 Samuel 2.1: 1 After this, David inquired of Yahweh, saying, “Shall I go up into any of the cities of Judah?”
Yahweh said to him, “Go up.”
David said, “Where shall I go up?”
He said, “To Hebron.”
2 Samuel 2.2: 2 So David went up there with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.
2 Samuel 2.3: 3 David brought up his men who were with him, every man with his household. They lived in the cities of Hebron.
2 Samuel 2.4: 4 The men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. They told David, “The men of Jabesh Gilead were those who buried Saul.”
2 Samuel 2.5: 5 David sent messengers to the men of Jabesh Gilead, and said to them, “Blessed are you by Yahweh, that you have shown this kindness to your lord, even to Saul, and have buried him.
2 Samuel 2.6: 6 Now may Yahweh show loving kindness and truth to you. I also will reward you for this kindness, because you have done this thing.
2 Samuel 2.7: 7 Now therefore let your hands be strong, and be valiant; for Saul your lord is dead, and also the house of Judah have anointed me king over them.”
2 Samuel 2.8: 8 Now Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul’s army, had taken Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim;
2 Samuel 2.9: 9 and he made him king over Gilead, and over the Ashurites, and over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all Israel.
2 Samuel 2.10: 10 Ishbosheth, Saul’s son, was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and he reigned two years. But the house of Judah followed David.
2 Samuel 2.11: 11 The time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six months.
2 Samuel 2.12: 12 Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ishbosheth the son of Saul, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.
2 Samuel 2.13: 13 Joab the son of Zeruiah and David’s servants went out, and met them by the pool of Gibeon; and they sat down, the one on the one side of the pool, and the other on the other side of the pool.
2 Samuel 2.14: 14 Abner said to Joab, “Please let the young men arise and play before us!”
Joab said, “Let them arise!”
2 Samuel 2.15: 15 Then they arose and went over by number: twelve for Benjamin and for Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and twelve of David’s servants.
2 Samuel 2.16: 16 They each caught his opponent by the head, and thrust his sword in his fellow’s side; so they fell down together: therefore that place in Gibeon was called Helkath Hazzurim.
2 Samuel 2.17: 17 The battle was very severe that day; and Abner was beaten, and the men of Israel, before David’s servants.
2 Samuel 2.18: 18 The three sons of Zeruiah were there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel: and Asahel was as light of foot as a wild gazelle.
2 Samuel 2.19: 19 Asahel pursued Abner; and in going he didn’t turn to the right hand or to the left from following Abner.
2 Samuel 2.20: 20 Then Abner looked behind him, and said, “Is that you, Asahel?”
He answered, “It is.”
2 Samuel 2.21: 21 Abner said to him, “Turn away to your right hand or to your left, and grab one of the young men, and take his armor.” But Asahel would not turn away from following him.
2 Samuel 2.22: 22 Abner said again to Asahel, “Turn away from following me. Why should I strike you to the ground? How then could I look Joab your brother in the face?”
2 Samuel 2.23: 23 However he refused to turn away. Therefore Abner with the back end of the spear struck him in the body, so that the spear came out behind him; and he fell down there, and died in the same place. As many as came to the place where Asahel fell down and died stood still.
2 Samuel 2.24: 24 But Joab and Abishai pursued Abner. The sun went down when they had come to the hill of Ammah, that lies before Giah by the way of the wilderness of Gibeon.
2 Samuel 2.25: 25 The children of Benjamin gathered themselves together after Abner, and became one band, and stood on the top of a hill.
2 Samuel 2.26: 26 Then Abner called to Joab, and said, “Shall the sword devour forever? Don’t you know that it will be bitterness in the latter end? How long will it be then, before you ask the people to return from following their brothers?”
2 Samuel 2.27: 27 Joab said, “As God lives, if you had not spoken, surely then in the morning the people would have gone away, and not each followed his brother.”
2 Samuel 2.28: 28 So Joab blew the trumpet; and all the people stood still, and pursued Israel no more, and they fought no more.
2 Samuel 2.29: 29 Abner and his men went all that night through the Arabah; and they passed over the Jordan, and went through all Bithron, and came to Mahanaim.
2 Samuel 2.30: 30 Joab returned from following Abner; and when he had gathered all the people together, nineteen men of David’s and Asahel were missing.
2 Samuel 2.31: 31 But David’s servants had struck Benjamin and of Abner’s men so that three hundred sixty men died.
2 Samuel 2.32: 32 They took up Asahel, and buried him in the tomb of his father, which was in Bethlehem. Joab and his men went all night, and the day broke on them at Hebron.
2 Samuel 8.0: 
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2 Samuel 8.1: 1 After this, David struck the Philistines and subdued them; and David took the bridle of the mother city out of the hand of the Philistines.
2 Samuel 8.2: 2 He struck Moab, and measured them with the line, making them to lie down on the ground; and he measured two lines to put to death, and one full line to keep alive. The Moabites became servants to David, and brought tribute.
2 Samuel 8.3: 3 David struck also Hadadezer the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he went to recover his dominion at the River.
2 Samuel 8.4: 4 David took from him one thousand seven hundred horsemen and twenty thousand footmen. David hamstrung all the chariot horses, but reserved of them for one hundred chariots.
2 Samuel 8.5: 5 When the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, David struck twenty two thousand men of the Syrians.
2 Samuel 8.6: 6 Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus; and the Syrians became servants to David, and brought tribute. Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he went.
2 Samuel 8.7: 7 David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadadezer, and brought them to Jerusalem.
2 Samuel 8.8: 8 From Betah and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, king David took a great quantity of bronze.
2 Samuel 8.9: 9 When Toi king of Hamath heard that David had struck all the army of Hadadezer,
2 Samuel 8.10: 10 then Toi sent Joram his son to king David, to greet him, and to bless him, because he had fought against Hadadezer and struck him; for Hadadezer had wars with Toi. Joram brought with him vessels of silver, vessels of gold, and vessels of bronze.
2 Samuel 8.11: 11 King David also dedicated these to Yahweh, with the silver and gold that he dedicated of all the nations which he subdued;
2 Samuel 8.12: 12 of Syria, of Moab, of the children of Ammon, of the Philistines, of Amalek, and of the plunder of Hadadezer, son of Rehob, king of Zobah.
2 Samuel 8.13: 13 David earned a reputation when he returned from striking down eighteen thousand men of the Syrians in the Valley of Salt.
2 Samuel 8.14: 14 He put garrisons in Edom. Throughout all Edom, he put garrisons, and all the Edomites became servants to David. Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he went.
2 Samuel 8.15: 15 David reigned over all Israel; and David executed justice and righteousness for all his people.
2 Samuel 8.16: 16 Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the army, Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder,
2 Samuel 8.17: 17 Zadok the son of Ahitub and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar were priests, Seraiah was scribe,
2 Samuel 8.18: 18 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites, and David’s sons were chief ministers.
2 Samuel 9.0: 
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2 Samuel 9.1: 1 David said, “Is there yet any who is left of Saul’s house, that I may show him kindness for Jonathan’s sake?”
2 Samuel 9.2: 2 There was of Saul’s house a servant whose name was Ziba, and they called him to David; and the king said to him, “Are you Ziba?”
He said, “I am your servant.”
2 Samuel 9.3: 3 The king said, “Is there not yet any of Saul’s house, that I may show the kindness of God to him?”
Ziba said to the king, “Jonathan still has a son, who is lame in his feet.”
2 Samuel 9.4: 4 The king said to him, “Where is he?”
Ziba said to the king, “Behold, he is in the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, in Lo Debar.”
2 Samuel 9.5: 5 Then king David sent, and brought him out of the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, from Lo Debar.
2 Samuel 9.6: 6 Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, came to David, and fell on his face, and showed respect. David said, “Mephibosheth.”
He answered, “Behold, your servant!”
2 Samuel 9.7: 7 David said to him, “Don’t be afraid; for I will surely show you kindness for Jonathan your father’s sake, and will restore to you all the land of Saul your father. You will eat bread at my table continually.”
2 Samuel 9.8: 8 He bowed down, and said, “What is your servant, that you should look at such a dead dog as I am?”
2 Samuel 9.9: 9 Then the king called to Ziba, Saul’s servant, and said to him, “All that belonged to Saul and to all his house I have given to your master’s son.
2 Samuel 9.10: 10 Till the land for him, you, your sons, and your servants. Bring in the harvest, that your master’s son may have bread to eat; but Mephibosheth your master’s son will always eat bread at my table.”
Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.
2 Samuel 9.11: 11 Then Ziba said to the king, “According to all that my lord the king commands his servant, so your servant will do.” So Mephibosheth ate at the king’s table, like one of the king’s sons.
2 Samuel 9.12: 12 Mephibosheth had a young son, whose name was Mica. All that lived in Ziba’s house were servants to Mephibosheth.
2 Samuel 9.13: 13 So Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem; for he ate continually at the king’s table. He was lame in both his feet.
1 Chronicles 27.0: 
27
1 Chronicles 27.1: 1 Now the children of Israel after their number, the heads of fathers’ households and the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and their officers who served the king, in any matter of the divisions which came in and went out month by month throughout all the months of the year—of every division were twenty-four thousand.
1 Chronicles 27.2: 2 Over the first division for the first month was Jashobeam the son of Zabdiel: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.
1 Chronicles 27.3: 3 He was of the children of Perez, the chief of all the captains of the army for the first month.
1 Chronicles 27.4: 4 Over the division of the second month was Dodai the Ahohite, and his division; and Mikloth the ruler: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.
1 Chronicles 27.5: 5 The third captain of the army for the third month was Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada the chief priest. In his division were twenty-four thousand.
1 Chronicles 27.6: 6 This is that Benaiah who was the mighty man of the thirty, and over the thirty: and of his division was Ammizabad his son.
1 Chronicles 27.7: 7 The fourth captain for the fourth month was Asahel the brother of Joab, and Zebadiah his son after him: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.
1 Chronicles 27.8: 8 The fifth captain for the fifth month was Shamhuth the Izrahite: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.
1 Chronicles 27.9: 9 The sixth captain for the sixth month was Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.
1 Chronicles 27.10: 10 The seventh captain for the seventh month was Helez the Pelonite, of the children of Ephraim. In his division were twenty-four thousand.
1 Chronicles 27.11: 11 The eighth captain for the eighth month was Sibbecai the Hushathite, of the Zerahites. In his division were twenty-four thousand.
1 Chronicles 27.12: 12 The ninth captain for the ninth month was Abiezer the Anathothite, of the Benjamites. In his division were twenty-four thousand.
1 Chronicles 27.13: 13 The tenth captain for the tenth month was Maharai the Netophathite, of the Zerahites. In his division were twenty-four thousand.
1 Chronicles 27.14: 14 The eleventh captain for the eleventh month was Benaiah the Pirathonite, of the children of Ephraim. In his division were twenty-four thousand.
1 Chronicles 27.15: 15 The twelfth captain for the twelfth month was Heldai the Netophathite, of Othniel. In his division were twenty-four thousand.
1 Chronicles 27.16: 16 Furthermore over the tribes of Israel: of the Reubenites, Eliezer the son of Zichri was the ruler; of the Simeonites, Shephatiah the son of Maacah;
1 Chronicles 27.17: 17 of Levi, Hashabiah the son of Kemuel; of Aaron, Zadok;
1 Chronicles 27.18: 18 of Judah, Elihu, one of the brothers of David; of Issachar, Omri the son of Michael;
1 Chronicles 27.19: 19 of Zebulun, Ishmaiah the son of Obadiah; of Naphtali, Jeremoth the son of Azriel;
1 Chronicles 27.20: 20 of the children of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Azaziah; of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Joel the son of Pedaiah;
1 Chronicles 27.21: 21 of the half-tribe of Manasseh in Gilead, Iddo the son of Zechariah; of Benjamin, Jaasiel the son of Abner;
1 Chronicles 27.22: 22 of Dan, Azarel the son of Jeroham. These were the captains of the tribes of Israel.
1 Chronicles 27.23: 23 But David didn’t take the number of them from twenty years old and under, because Yahweh had said he would increase Israel like the stars of the sky.
1 Chronicles 27.24: 24 Joab the son of Zeruiah began to take a census, but didn’t finish; and wrath came on Israel for this. The number wasn’t put into the account in the chronicles of king David.
1 Chronicles 27.25: 25 Over the king’s treasures was Azmaveth the son of Adiel: and over the treasures in the fields, in the cities, and in the villages, and in the towers, was Jonathan the son of Uzziah;
1 Chronicles 27.26: 26 Over those who did the work of the field for tillage of the ground was Ezri the son of Chelub;
1 Chronicles 27.27: 27 and over the vineyards was Shimei the Ramathite; and over the increase of the vineyards for the wine cellars was Zabdi the Shiphmite;
1 Chronicles 27.28: 28 and over the olive trees and the sycamore trees that were in the lowland was Baal Hanan the Gederite; and over the cellars of oil was Joash;
1 Chronicles 27.29: 29 and over the herds that fed in Sharon was Shitrai the Sharonite; and over the herds that were in the valleys was Shaphat the son of Adlai;
1 Chronicles 27.30: 30 and over the camels was Obil the Ishmaelite; and over the donkeys was Jehdeiah the Meronothite; and over the flocks was Jaziz the Hagrite.
1 Chronicles 27.31: 31 All these were the rulers of the property which was king David’s.
1 Chronicles 27.32: 32 Also Jonathan, David’s uncle, was a counselor, a man of understanding, and a scribe. Jehiel the son of Hachmoni was with the king’s sons.
1 Chronicles 27.33: 33 Ahithophel was the king’s counselor. Hushai the Archite was the king’s friend.
1 Chronicles 27.34: 34 After Ahithophel was Jehoiada the son of Benaiah, and Abiathar. Joab was the captain of the king’s army.
2 Chronicles 22.0: 
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2 Chronicles 22.1: 1 The inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his place, because the band of men who came with the Arabians to the camp had slain all the oldest. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned.
2 Chronicles 22.2: 2 Ahaziah was forty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Athaliah the daughter of Omri.
2 Chronicles 22.3: 3 He also walked in the ways of Ahab’s house, because his mother was his counselor in acting wickedly.
2 Chronicles 22.4: 4 He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, as did Ahab’s house, for they were his counselors after the death of his father, to his destruction.
2 Chronicles 22.5: 5 He also followed their counsel, and went with Jehoram the son of Ahab king of Israel to war against Hazael king of Syria at Ramoth Gilead, and the Syrians wounded Joram.
2 Chronicles 22.6: 6 He returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which they had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. Azariah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Jehoram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.
2 Chronicles 22.7: 7 Now the destruction of Ahaziah was of God, in that he went to Joram; for when he had come, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom Yahweh had anointed to cut off Ahab’s house.
2 Chronicles 22.8: 8 When Jehu was executing judgment on Ahab’s house, he found the princes of Judah and the sons of the brothers of Ahaziah, serving Ahaziah, and killed them.
2 Chronicles 22.9: 9 He sought Ahaziah, and they caught him (now he was hiding in Samaria), and they brought him to Jehu, and killed him; and they buried him, for they said, “He is the son of Jehoshaphat, who sought Yahweh with all his heart.” The house of Ahaziah had no power to hold the kingdom.
2 Chronicles 22.10: 10 Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal offspring of the house of Judah.
2 Chronicles 22.11: 11 But Jehoshabeath, the king’s daughter, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stealthily rescued him from among the king’s sons who were slain, and put him and his nurse in the bedroom. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of king Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest (for she was the sister of Ahaziah), hid him from Athaliah, so that she didn’t kill him.
2 Chronicles 22.12: 12 He was with them hidden in God’s house six years while Athaliah reigned over the land.
2 Chronicles 24.0: 
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2 Chronicles 24.1: 1 Joash was seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah, of Beersheba.
2 Chronicles 24.2: 2 Joash did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes all the days of Jehoiada the priest.
2 Chronicles 24.3: 3 Jehoiada took for him two wives, and he became the father of sons and daughters.
2 Chronicles 24.4: 4 After this, Joash intended to restore Yahweh’s house.
2 Chronicles 24.5: 5 He gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them, “Go out to the cities of Judah, and gather money to repair the house of your God from all Israel from year to year. See that you expedite this matter.” However the Levites didn’t do it right away.
2 Chronicles 24.6: 6 The king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said to him, “Why haven’t you required of the Levites to bring in the tax of Moses the servant of Yahweh, and of the assembly of Israel, out of Judah and out of Jerusalem, for the Tent of the Testimony?”
2 Chronicles 24.7: 7 For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken up God’s house; and they also gave all the dedicated things of Yahweh’s house to the Baals.
2 Chronicles 24.8: 8 So the king commanded, and they made a chest, and set it outside at the gate of Yahweh’s house.
2 Chronicles 24.9: 9 They made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem, to bring in for Yahweh the tax that Moses the servant of God laid on Israel in the wilderness.
2 Chronicles 24.10: 10 All the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in, and cast into the chest, until they had filled it.
2 Chronicles 24.11: 11 Whenever the chest was brought to the king’s officers by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that there was much money, the king’s scribe and the chief priest’s officer came and emptied the chest, and took it, and carried it to its place again. Thus they did day by day, and gathered money in abundance.
2 Chronicles 24.12: 12 The king and Jehoiada gave it to those who did the work of the service of Yahweh’s house. They hired masons and carpenters to restore Yahweh’s house, and also those who worked iron and bronze to repair Yahweh’s house.
2 Chronicles 24.13: 13 So the workmen worked, and the work of repairing went forward in their hands. They set up God’s house as it was designed, and strengthened it.
2 Chronicles 24.14: 14 When they had finished, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada, from which were made vessels for Yahweh’s house, even vessels with which to minister and to offer, including spoons and vessels of gold and silver. They offered burnt offerings in Yahweh’s house continually all the days of Jehoiada.
2 Chronicles 24.15: 15 But Jehoiada grew old and was full of days, and he died. He was one hundred thirty years old when he died.
2 Chronicles 24.16: 16 They buried him in David’s city among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, and toward God and his house.
2 Chronicles 24.17: 17 Now after the death of Jehoiada, the princes of Judah came, and bowed down to the king. Then the king listened to them.
2 Chronicles 24.18: 18 They abandoned the house of Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherah poles and the idols, so wrath came on Judah and Jerusalem for this their guiltiness.
2 Chronicles 24.19: 19 Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again to Yahweh, and they testified against them; but they would not listen.
2 Chronicles 24.20: 20 The Spirit of God came on Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest; and he stood above the people, and said to them, “God says, ‘Why do you disobey Yahweh’s commandments, so that you can’t prosper? Because you have forsaken Yahweh, he has also forsaken you.’”
2 Chronicles 24.21: 21 They conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of Yahweh’s house.
2 Chronicles 24.22: 22 Thus Joash the king didn’t remember the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but killed his son. When he died, he said, “May Yahweh look at it, and repay it.”
2 Chronicles 24.23: 23 At the end of the year, the army of the Syrians came up against him: and they came to Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people, and sent all their plunder to the king of Damascus.
2 Chronicles 24.24: 24 For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men; and Yahweh delivered a very great army into their hand, because they had forsaken Yahweh, the God of their fathers. So they executed judgment on Joash.
2 Chronicles 24.25: 25 When they had departed from him (for they left him very sick), his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and killed him on his bed, and he died. They buried him in David’s city, but they didn’t bury him in the tombs of the kings.
2 Chronicles 24.26: 26 These are those who conspired against him: Zabad the son of Shimeath the Ammonitess and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith the Moabitess.
2 Chronicles 24.27: 27 Now concerning his sons, the greatness of the burdens laid on him, and the rebuilding of God’s house, behold, they are written in the commentary of the book of the kings. Amaziah his son reigned in his place.
Nehemiah 11.0: 
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Nehemiah 11.1: 1 The princes of the people lived in Jerusalem. The rest of the people also cast lots, to bring one of ten to dwell in Jerusalem the holy city, and nine parts in the other cities.
Nehemiah 11.2: 2 The people blessed all the men who willingly offered themselves to dwell in Jerusalem.
Nehemiah 11.3: 3 Now these are the chiefs of the province who lived in Jerusalem; but in the cities of Judah everyone lived in his possession in their cities: Israel, the priests, the Levites, the temple servants, and the children of Solomon’s servants.
Nehemiah 11.4: 4 Some of the children of Judah and of the children of Benjamin lived in Jerusalem. Of the children of Judah: Athaiah the son of Uzziah, the son of Zechariah, the son of Amariah, the son of Shephatiah, the son of Mahalalel, of the children of Perez;
Nehemiah 11.5: 5 and Maaseiah the son of Baruch, the son of Colhozeh, the son of Hazaiah, the son of Adaiah, the son of Joiarib, the son of Zechariah, the son of the Shilonite.
Nehemiah 11.6: 6 All the sons of Perez who lived in Jerusalem were four hundred sixty-eight valiant men.
Nehemiah 11.7: 7 These are the sons of Benjamin: Sallu the son of Meshullam, the son of Joed, the son of Pedaiah, the son of Kolaiah, the son of Maaseiah, the son of Ithiel, the son of Jeshaiah.
Nehemiah 11.8: 8 After him Gabbai, Sallai, nine hundred twenty-eight.
Nehemiah 11.9: 9 Joel the son of Zichri was their overseer; and Judah the son of Hassenuah was second over the city.
Nehemiah 11.10: 10 Of the priests: Jedaiah the son of Joiarib, Jachin,
Nehemiah 11.11: 11 Seraiah the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the ruler of God’s house,
Nehemiah 11.12: 12 and their brothers who did the work of the house, eight hundred twenty-two; and Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son of Pelaliah, the son of Amzi, the son of Zechariah, the son of Pashhur, the son of Malchijah,
Nehemiah 11.13: 13 and his brothers, chiefs of fathers’ households, two hundred forty-two; and Amashsai the son of Azarel, the son of Ahzai, the son of Meshillemoth, the son of Immer,
Nehemiah 11.14: 14 and their brothers, mighty men of valor, one hundred twenty-eight; and their overseer was Zabdiel, the son of Haggedolim.
Nehemiah 11.15: 15 Of the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Bunni;
Nehemiah 11.16: 16 and Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chiefs of the Levites, who had the oversight of the outward business of God’s house;
Nehemiah 11.17: 17 and Mattaniah the son of Mica, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, who was the chief to begin the thanksgiving in prayer, and Bakbukiah, the second among his brothers; and Abda the son of Shammua, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun.
Nehemiah 11.18: 18 All the Levites in the holy city were two hundred eighty-four.
Nehemiah 11.19: 19 Moreover the gatekeepers, Akkub, Talmon, and their brothers, who kept watch at the gates, were one hundred seventy-two.
Nehemiah 11.20: 20 The residue of Israel, of the priests, the Levites, were in all the cities of Judah, everyone in his inheritance.
Nehemiah 11.21: 21 But the temple servants lived in Ophel: and Ziha and Gishpa were over the temple servants.
Nehemiah 11.22: 22 The overseer also of the Levites at Jerusalem was Uzzi the son of Bani, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Mica, of the sons of Asaph, the singers, over the business of God’s house.
Nehemiah 11.23: 23 For there was a commandment from the king concerning them, and a settled provision for the singers, as every day required.
Nehemiah 11.24: 24 Pethahiah the son of Meshezabel, of the children of Zerah the son of Judah, was at the king’s hand in all matters concerning the people.
Nehemiah 11.25: 25 As for the villages, with their fields, some of the children of Judah lived in Kiriath Arba and its towns, in Dibon and its towns, in Jekabzeel and its villages,
Nehemiah 11.26: 26 in Jeshua, in Moladah, Beth Pelet,
Nehemiah 11.27: 27 in Hazar Shual, in Beersheba and its towns,
Nehemiah 11.28: 28 in Ziklag, in Meconah and in its towns,
Nehemiah 11.29: 29 in En Rimmon, in Zorah, in Jarmuth,
Nehemiah 11.30: 30 Zanoah, Adullam, and their villages, Lachish and its fields, and Azekah and its towns. So they encamped from Beersheba to the valley of Hinnom.
Nehemiah 11.31: 31 The children of Benjamin also lived from Geba onward, at Michmash and Aija, and at Bethel and its towns,
Nehemiah 11.32: 32 at Anathoth, Nob, Ananiah,
Nehemiah 11.33: 33 Hazor, Ramah, Gittaim,
Nehemiah 11.34: 34 Hadid, Zeboim, Neballat,
Nehemiah 11.35: 35 Lod, and Ono, the valley of craftsmen.
Nehemiah 11.36: 36 Of the Levites, certain divisions in Judah settled in Benjamin’s territory.
Psalms 37.0: 
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By David.
Psalms 37.1: 1 Don’t fret because of evildoers,
neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness.
Psalms 37.2: 2 For they shall soon be cut down like the grass,
and wither like the green herb.
Psalms 37.3: 3 Trust in Yahweh, and do good.
Dwell in the land, and enjoy safe pasture.
Psalms 37.4: 4 Also delight yourself in Yahweh,
and he will give you the desires of your heart.
Psalms 37.5: 5 Commit your way to Yahweh.
Trust also in him, and he will do this:
Psalms 37.6: 6 he will make your righteousness shine out like light,
and your justice as the noon day sun.
Psalms 37.7: 7 Rest in Yahweh, and wait patiently for him.
Don’t fret because of him who prospers in his way,
because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.
Psalms 37.8: 8 Cease from anger, and forsake wrath.
Don’t fret; it leads only to evildoing.
Psalms 37.9: 9 For evildoers shall be cut off,
but those who wait for Yahweh shall inherit the land.
Psalms 37.10: 10 For yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more.
Yes, though you look for his place, he isn’t there.
Psalms 37.11: 11 But the humble shall inherit the land,
and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.
Psalms 37.12: 12 The wicked plots against the just,
and gnashes at him with his teeth.
Psalms 37.13: 13 The Lord will laugh at him,
for he sees that his day is coming.
Psalms 37.14: 14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow,
to cast down the poor and needy,
to kill those who are upright on the path.
Psalms 37.15: 15 Their sword shall enter into their own heart.
Their bows shall be broken.
Psalms 37.16: 16 Better is a little that the righteous has,
than the abundance of many wicked.
Psalms 37.17: 17 For the arms of the wicked shall be broken,
but Yahweh upholds the righteous.
Psalms 37.18: 18 Yahweh knows the days of the perfect.
Their inheritance shall be forever.
Psalms 37.19: 19 They shall not be disappointed in the time of evil.
In the days of famine they shall be satisfied.
Psalms 37.20: 20 But the wicked shall perish.
The enemies of Yahweh shall be like the beauty of the fields.
They will vanish—
vanish like smoke.
Psalms 37.21: 21 The wicked borrow, and don’t pay back,
but the righteous give generously.
Psalms 37.22: 22 For such as are blessed by him shall inherit the land.
Those who are cursed by him shall be cut off.
Psalms 37.23: 23 A man’s steps are established by Yahweh.
He delights in his way.
Psalms 37.24: 24 Though he stumble, he shall not fall,
for Yahweh holds him up with his hand.
Psalms 37.25: 25 I have been young, and now am old,
yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken,
nor his children begging for bread.
Psalms 37.26: 26 All day long he deals graciously, and lends.
His offspring is blessed.
Psalms 37.27: 27 Depart from evil, and do good.
Live securely forever.
Psalms 37.28: 28 For Yahweh loves justice,
and doesn’t forsake his saints.
They are preserved forever,
but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.
Psalms 37.29: 29 The righteous shall inherit the land,
and live in it forever.
Psalms 37.30: 30 The mouth of the righteous talks of wisdom.
His tongue speaks justice.
Psalms 37.31: 31 The law of his God is in his heart.
None of his steps shall slide.
Psalms 37.32: 32 The wicked watch the righteous,
and seek to kill him.
Psalms 37.33: 33 Yahweh will not leave him in his hand,
nor condemn him when he is judged.
Psalms 37.34: 34 Wait for Yahweh, and keep his way,
and he will exalt you to inherit the land.
When the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.
Psalms 37.35: 35 I have seen the wicked in great power,
spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.
Psalms 37.36: 36 But he passed away, and behold, he was not.
Yes, I sought him, but he could not be found.
Psalms 37.37: 37 Mark the perfect man, and see the upright,
for there is a future for the man of peace.
Psalms 37.38: 38 As for transgressors, they shall be destroyed together.
The future of the wicked shall be cut off.
Psalms 37.39: 39 But the salvation of the righteous is from Yahweh.
He is their stronghold in the time of trouble.
Psalms 37.40: 40 Yahweh helps them and rescues them.
He rescues them from the wicked and saves them,
because they have taken refuge in him.
Psalms 76.0: 
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For the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A Psalm by Asaph. A song.
Psalms 76.1: 1 In Judah, God is known.
His name is great in Israel.
Psalms 76.2: 2 His tabernacle is also in Salem;
His dwelling place in Zion.
Psalms 76.3: 3 There he broke the flaming arrows of the bow,
the shield, and the sword, and the weapons of war. Selah.
Psalms 76.4: 4 Glorious are you, and excellent,
more than mountains of game.
Psalms 76.5: 5 Valiant men lie plundered,
they have slept their last sleep.
None of the men of war can lift their hands.
Psalms 76.6: 6 At your rebuke, God of Jacob,
both chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep.
Psalms 76.7: 7 You, even you, are to be feared.
Who can stand in your sight when you are angry?
Psalms 76.8: 8 You pronounced judgment from heaven.
The earth feared, and was silent,
Psalms 76.9: 9 when God arose to judgment,
to save all the afflicted ones of the earth. Selah.
Psalms 76.10: 10 Surely the wrath of man praises you.
The survivors of your wrath are restrained.
Psalms 76.11: 11 Make vows to Yahweh your God, and fulfill them!
Let all of his neighbors bring presents to him who is to be feared.
Psalms 76.12: 12 He will cut off the spirit of princes.
He is feared by the kings of the earth.
Psalms 86.0: 
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A Prayer by David.
Psalms 86.1: 1 Hear, Yahweh, and answer me,
for I am poor and needy.
Psalms 86.2: 2 Preserve my soul, for I am godly.
You, my God, save your servant who trusts in you.
Psalms 86.3: 3 Be merciful to me, Lord,
for I call to you all day long.
Psalms 86.4: 4 Bring joy to the soul of your servant,
for to you, Lord, do I lift up my soul.
Psalms 86.5: 5 For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive,
abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.
Psalms 86.6: 6 Hear, Yahweh, my prayer.
Listen to the voice of my petitions.
Psalms 86.7: 7 In the day of my trouble I will call on you,
for you will answer me.
Psalms 86.8: 8 There is no one like you among the gods, Lord,
nor any deeds like your deeds.
Psalms 86.9: 9 All nations you have made will come and worship before you, Lord.
They shall glorify your name.
Psalms 86.10: 10 For you are great, and do wondrous things.
You are God alone.
Psalms 86.11: 11 Teach me your way, Yahweh.
I will walk in your truth.
Make my heart undivided to fear your name.
Psalms 86.12: 12 I will praise you, Lord my God, with my whole heart.
I will glorify your name forever more.
Psalms 86.13: 13 For your loving kindness is great toward me.
You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.
Psalms 86.14: 14 God, the proud have risen up against me.
A company of violent men have sought after my soul,
and they don’t hold regard for you before them.
Psalms 86.15: 15 But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God,
slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.
Psalms 86.16: 16 Turn to me, and have mercy on me!
Give your strength to your servant.
Save the son of your servant.
Psalms 86.17: 17 Show me a sign of your goodness,
that those who hate me may see it, and be shamed,
because you, Yahweh, have helped me, and comforted me.
Psalms 89.0: 
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A contemplation by Ethan, the Ezrahite.
Psalms 89.1: 1 I will sing of the loving kindness of Yahweh forever.
With my mouth, I will make known your faithfulness to all generations.
Psalms 89.2: 2 I indeed declare, “Love stands firm forever.
You established the heavens.
Your faithfulness is in them.”
Psalms 89.3: 3 “I have made a covenant with my chosen one,
I have sworn to David, my servant,
Psalms 89.4: 4 ‘I will establish your offspring forever,
and build up your throne to all generations.’” Selah.
Psalms 89.5: 5 The heavens will praise your wonders, Yahweh,
your faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones.
Psalms 89.6: 6 For who in the skies can be compared to Yahweh?
Who among the sons of the heavenly beings is like Yahweh,
Psalms 89.7: 7 a very awesome God in the council of the holy ones,
to be feared above all those who are around him?
Psalms 89.8: 8 Yahweh, God of Armies, who is a mighty one, like you?
Yah, your faithfulness is around you.
Psalms 89.9: 9 You rule the pride of the sea.
When its waves rise up, you calm them.
Psalms 89.10: 10 You have broken Rahab in pieces, like one of the slain.
You have scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.
Psalms 89.11: 11 The heavens are yours.
The earth also is yours,
the world and its fullness.
You have founded them.
Psalms 89.12: 12 You have created the north and the south.
Tabor and Hermon rejoice in your name.
Psalms 89.13: 13 You have a mighty arm.
Your hand is strong, and your right hand is exalted.
Psalms 89.14: 14 Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne.
Loving kindness and truth go before your face.
Psalms 89.15: 15 Blessed are the people who learn to acclaim you.
They walk in the light of your presence, Yahweh.
Psalms 89.16: 16 In your name they rejoice all day.
In your righteousness, they are exalted.
Psalms 89.17: 17 For you are the glory of their strength.
In your favor, our horn will be exalted.
Psalms 89.18: 18 For our shield belongs to Yahweh,
our king to the Holy One of Israel.
Psalms 89.19: 19 Then you spoke in vision to your saints,
and said, “I have given strength to the warrior.
I have exalted a young man from the people.
Psalms 89.20: 20 I have found David, my servant.
I have anointed him with my holy oil,
Psalms 89.21: 21 with whom my hand shall be established.
My arm will also strengthen him.
Psalms 89.22: 22 No enemy will tax him.
No wicked man will oppress him.
Psalms 89.23: 23 I will beat down his adversaries before him,
and strike those who hate him.
Psalms 89.24: 24 But my faithfulness and my loving kindness will be with him.
In my name, his horn will be exalted.
Psalms 89.25: 25 I will set his hand also on the sea,
and his right hand on the rivers.
Psalms 89.26: 26 He will call to me, ‘You are my Father,
my God, and the rock of my salvation!’
Psalms 89.27: 27 I will also appoint him my firstborn,
the highest of the kings of the earth.
Psalms 89.28: 28 I will keep my loving kindness for him forever more.
My covenant will stand firm with him.
Psalms 89.29: 29 I will also make his offspring endure forever,
and his throne as the days of heaven.
Psalms 89.30: 30 If his children forsake my law,
and don’t walk in my ordinances;
Psalms 89.31: 31 if they break my statutes,
and don’t keep my commandments;
Psalms 89.32: 32 then I will punish their sin with the rod,
and their iniquity with stripes.
Psalms 89.33: 33 But I will not completely take my loving kindness from him,
nor allow my faithfulness to fail.
Psalms 89.34: 34 I will not break my covenant,
nor alter what my lips have uttered.
Psalms 89.35: 35 Once I have sworn by my holiness,
I will not lie to David.
Psalms 89.36: 36 His offspring will endure forever,
his throne like the sun before me.
Psalms 89.37: 37 It will be established forever like the moon,
the faithful witness in the sky.” Selah.
Psalms 89.38: 38 But you have rejected and spurned.
You have been angry with your anointed.
Psalms 89.39: 39 You have renounced the covenant of your servant.
You have defiled his crown in the dust.
Psalms 89.40: 40 You have broken down all his hedges.
You have brought his strongholds to ruin.
Psalms 89.41: 41 All who pass by the way rob him.
He has become a reproach to his neighbors.
Psalms 89.42: 42 You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries.
You have made all of his enemies rejoice.
Psalms 89.43: 43 Yes, you turn back the edge of his sword,
and haven’t supported him in battle.
Psalms 89.44: 44 You have ended his splendor,
and thrown his throne down to the ground.
Psalms 89.45: 45 You have shortened the days of his youth.
You have covered him with shame. Selah.
Psalms 89.46: 46 How long, Yahweh?
Will you hide yourself forever?
Will your wrath burn like fire?
Psalms 89.47: 47 Remember how short my time is,
for what vanity you have created all the children of men!
Psalms 89.48: 48 What man is he who shall live and not see death,
who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.
Psalms 89.49: 49 Lord, where are your former loving kindnesses,
which you swore to David in your faithfulness?
Psalms 89.50: 50 Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants,
how I bear in my heart the taunts of all the mighty peoples,
Psalms 89.51: 51 With which your enemies have mocked, Yahweh,
with which they have mocked the footsteps of your anointed one.
Psalms 89.52: 52 Blessed be Yahweh forever more.
Amen, and Amen.
Psalms 131.0: 
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A Song of Ascents. By David.
Psalms 131.1: 1 Yahweh, my heart isn’t arrogant, nor my eyes lofty;
nor do I concern myself with great matters,
or things too wonderful for me.
Psalms 131.2: 2 Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul,
like a weaned child with his mother,
like a weaned child is my soul within me.
Psalms 131.3: 3 Israel, hope in Yahweh,
from this time forward and forever more.
Proverbs 3.0: 
3
Proverbs 3.1: 1 My son, don’t forget my teaching;
but let your heart keep my commandments:
Proverbs 3.2: 2 for they will add to you length of days,
years of life, and peace.
Proverbs 3.3: 3 Don’t let kindness and truth forsake you.
Bind them around your neck.
Write them on the tablet of your heart.
Proverbs 3.4: 4 So you will find favor,
and good understanding in the sight of God and man.
Proverbs 3.5: 5 Trust in Yahweh with all your heart,
and don’t lean on your own understanding.
Proverbs 3.6: 6 In all your ways acknowledge him,
and he will make your paths straight.
Proverbs 3.7: 7 Don’t be wise in your own eyes.
Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil.
Proverbs 3.8: 8 It will be health to your body,
and nourishment to your bones.
Proverbs 3.9: 9 Honor Yahweh with your substance,
with the first fruits of all your increase:
Proverbs 3.10: 10 so your barns will be filled with plenty,
and your vats will overflow with new wine.
Proverbs 3.11: 11 My son, don’t despise Yahweh’s discipline,
neither be weary of his correction;
Proverbs 3.12: 12 for whom Yahweh loves, he corrects,
even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.
Proverbs 3.13: 13 Happy is the man who finds wisdom,
the man who gets understanding.
Proverbs 3.14: 14 For her good profit is better than getting silver,
and her return is better than fine gold.
Proverbs 3.15: 15 She is more precious than rubies.
None of the things you can desire are to be compared to her.
Proverbs 3.16: 16 Length of days is in her right hand.
In her left hand are riches and honor.
Proverbs 3.17: 17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness.
All her paths are peace.
Proverbs 3.18: 18 She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her.
Happy is everyone who retains her.
Proverbs 3.19: 19 By wisdom Yahweh founded the earth.
By understanding, he established the heavens.
Proverbs 3.20: 20 By his knowledge, the depths were broken up,
and the skies drop down the dew.
Proverbs 3.21: 21 My son, let them not depart from your eyes.
Keep sound wisdom and discretion:
Proverbs 3.22: 22 so they will be life to your soul,
and grace for your neck.
Proverbs 3.23: 23 Then you shall walk in your way securely.
Your foot won’t stumble.
Proverbs 3.24: 24 When you lie down, you will not be afraid.
Yes, you will lie down, and your sleep will be sweet.
Proverbs 3.25: 25 Don’t be afraid of sudden fear,
neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it comes;
Proverbs 3.26: 26 for Yahweh will be your confidence,
and will keep your foot from being taken.
Proverbs 3.27: 27 Don’t withhold good from those to whom it is due,
when it is in the power of your hand to do it.
Proverbs 3.28: 28 Don’t say to your neighbor, “Go, and come again;
tomorrow I will give it to you,”
when you have it by you.
Proverbs 3.29: 29 Don’t devise evil against your neighbor,
since he dwells securely by you.
Proverbs 3.30: 30 Don’t strive with a man without cause,
if he has done you no harm.
Proverbs 3.31: 31 Don’t envy the man of violence.
Choose none of his ways.
Proverbs 3.32: 32 For the perverse is an abomination to Yahweh,
but his friendship is with the upright.
Proverbs 3.33: 33 Yahweh’s curse is in the house of the wicked,
but he blesses the habitation of the righteous.
Proverbs 3.34: 34 Surely he mocks the mockers,
but he gives grace to the humble.
Proverbs 3.35: 35 The wise will inherit glory,
but shame will be the promotion of fools.
Proverbs 11.0: 
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Proverbs 11.1: 1 A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh,
but accurate weights are his delight.
Proverbs 11.2: 2 When pride comes, then comes shame,
but with humility comes wisdom.
Proverbs 11.3: 3 The integrity of the upright shall guide them,
but the perverseness of the treacherous shall destroy them.
Proverbs 11.4: 4 Riches don’t profit in the day of wrath,
but righteousness delivers from death.
Proverbs 11.5: 5 The righteousness of the blameless will direct his way,
but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
Proverbs 11.6: 6 The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them,
but the unfaithful will be trapped by evil desires.
Proverbs 11.7: 7 When a wicked man dies, hope perishes,
and expectation of power comes to nothing.
Proverbs 11.8: 8 A righteous person is delivered out of trouble,
and the wicked takes his place.
Proverbs 11.9: 9 With his mouth the godless man destroys his neighbor,
but the righteous will be delivered through knowledge.
Proverbs 11.10: 10 When it goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices.
When the wicked perish, there is shouting.
Proverbs 11.11: 11 By the blessing of the upright, the city is exalted,
but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.
Proverbs 11.12: 12 One who despises his neighbor is void of wisdom,
but a man of understanding holds his peace.
Proverbs 11.13: 13 One who brings gossip betrays a confidence,
but one who is of a trustworthy spirit is one who keeps a secret.
Proverbs 11.14: 14 Where there is no wise guidance, the nation falls,
but in the multitude of counselors there is victory.
Proverbs 11.15: 15 He who is collateral for a stranger will suffer for it,
but he who refuses pledges of collateral is secure.
Proverbs 11.16: 16 A gracious woman obtains honor,
but violent men obtain riches.
Proverbs 11.17: 17 The merciful man does good to his own soul,
but he who is cruel troubles his own flesh.
Proverbs 11.18: 18 Wicked people earn deceitful wages,
but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.
Proverbs 11.19: 19 He who is truly righteous gets life.
He who pursues evil gets death.
Proverbs 11.20: 20 Those who are perverse in heart are an abomination to Yahweh,
but those whose ways are blameless are his delight.
Proverbs 11.21: 21 Most certainly, the evil man will not be unpunished,
but the offspring of the righteous will be delivered.
Proverbs 11.22: 22 Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout,
is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion.
Proverbs 11.23: 23 The desire of the righteous is only good.
The expectation of the wicked is wrath.
Proverbs 11.24: 24 There is one who scatters, and increases yet more.
There is one who withholds more than is appropriate, but gains poverty.
Proverbs 11.25: 25 The liberal soul shall be made fat.
He who waters shall be watered also himself.
Proverbs 11.26: 26 People curse someone who withholds grain,
but blessing will be on the head of him who sells it.
Proverbs 11.27: 27 He who diligently seeks good seeks favor,
but he who searches after evil, it shall come to him.
Proverbs 11.28: 28 He who trusts in his riches will fall,
but the righteous shall flourish as the green leaf.
Proverbs 11.29: 29 He who troubles his own house shall inherit the wind.
The foolish shall be servant to the wise of heart.
Proverbs 11.30: 30 The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life.
He who is wise wins souls.
Proverbs 11.31: 31 Behold, the righteous shall be repaid in the earth,
how much more the wicked and the sinner!
Proverbs 21.0: 
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Proverbs 21.1: 1 The king’s heart is in Yahweh’s hand like the watercourses.
He turns it wherever he desires.
Proverbs 21.2: 2 Every way of a man is right in his own eyes,
but Yahweh weighs the hearts.
Proverbs 21.3: 3 To do righteousness and justice
is more acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.
Proverbs 21.4: 4 A high look and a proud heart,
the lamp of the wicked, is sin.
Proverbs 21.5: 5 The plans of the diligent surely lead to profit;
and everyone who is hasty surely rushes to poverty.
Proverbs 21.6: 6 Getting treasures by a lying tongue
is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.
Proverbs 21.7: 7 The violence of the wicked will drive them away,
because they refuse to do what is right.
Proverbs 21.8: 8 The way of the guilty is devious,
but the conduct of the innocent is upright.
Proverbs 21.9: 9 It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop
than to share a house with a contentious woman.
Proverbs 21.10: 10 The soul of the wicked desires evil;
his neighbor finds no mercy in his eyes.
Proverbs 21.11: 11 When the mocker is punished, the simple gains wisdom.
When the wise is instructed, he receives knowledge.
Proverbs 21.12: 12 The Righteous One considers the house of the wicked,
and brings the wicked to ruin.
Proverbs 21.13: 13 Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor,
he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.
Proverbs 21.14: 14 A gift in secret pacifies anger,
and a bribe in the cloak, strong wrath.
Proverbs 21.15: 15 It is joy to the righteous to do justice;
but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.
Proverbs 21.16: 16 The man who wanders out of the way of understanding
shall rest in the assembly of the departed spirits.
Proverbs 21.17: 17 He who loves pleasure will be a poor man.
He who loves wine and oil won’t be rich.
Proverbs 21.18: 18 The wicked is a ransom for the righteous,
the treacherous for the upright.
Proverbs 21.19: 19 It is better to dwell in a desert land,
than with a contentious and fretful woman.
Proverbs 21.20: 20 There is precious treasure and oil in the dwelling of the wise;
but a foolish man swallows it up.
Proverbs 21.21: 21 He who follows after righteousness and kindness
finds life, righteousness, and honor.
Proverbs 21.22: 22 A wise man scales the city of the mighty,
and brings down the strength of its confidence.
Proverbs 21.23: 23 Whoever guards his mouth and his tongue
keeps his soul from troubles.
Proverbs 21.24: 24 The proud and arrogant man—“Scoffer” is his name—
he works in the arrogance of pride.
Proverbs 21.25: 25 The desire of the sluggard kills him,
for his hands refuse to labor.
Proverbs 21.26: 26 There are those who covet greedily all day long;
but the righteous give and don’t withhold.
Proverbs 21.27: 27 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination—
how much more, when he brings it with a wicked mind!
Proverbs 21.28: 28 A false witness will perish.
A man who listens speaks to eternity.
Proverbs 21.29: 29 A wicked man hardens his face;
but as for the upright, he establishes his ways.
Proverbs 21.30: 30 There is no wisdom nor understanding
nor counsel against Yahweh.
Proverbs 21.31: 31 The horse is prepared for the day of battle;
but victory is with Yahweh.
Ecclesiastes 7.0: 
7
Ecclesiastes 7.1: 1 A good name is better than fine perfume; and the day of death better than the day of one’s birth.
Ecclesiastes 7.2: 2 It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting; for that is the end of all men, and the living should take this to heart.
Ecclesiastes 7.3: 3 Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the face the heart is made good.
Ecclesiastes 7.4: 4 The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.
Ecclesiastes 7.5: 5 It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise than for a man to hear the song of fools.
Ecclesiastes 7.6: 6 For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This also is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 7.7: 7 Surely extortion makes the wise man foolish; and a bribe destroys the understanding.
Ecclesiastes 7.8: 8 Better is the end of a thing than its beginning.
The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
Ecclesiastes 7.9: 9 Don’t be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.
Ecclesiastes 7.10: 10 Don’t say, “Why were the former days better than these?” For you do not ask wisely about this.
Ecclesiastes 7.11: 11 Wisdom is as good as an inheritance. Yes, it is more excellent for those who see the sun.
Ecclesiastes 7.12: 12 For wisdom is a defense, even as money is a defense; but the excellency of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.
Ecclesiastes 7.13: 13 Consider the work of God, for who can make that straight, which he has made crooked?
Ecclesiastes 7.14: 14 In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; yes, God has made the one side by side with the other, to the end that man should not find out anything after him.
Ecclesiastes 7.15: 15 All this I have seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who lives long in his evildoing.
Ecclesiastes 7.16: 16 Don’t be overly righteous, neither make yourself overly wise. Why should you destroy yourself?
Ecclesiastes 7.17: 17 Don’t be too wicked, neither be foolish. Why should you die before your time?
Ecclesiastes 7.18: 18 It is good that you should take hold of this. Yes, also don’t withdraw your hand from that; for he who fears God will come out of them all.
Ecclesiastes 7.19: 19 Wisdom is a strength to the wise man more than ten rulers who are in a city.
Ecclesiastes 7.20: 20 Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and doesn’t sin.
Ecclesiastes 7.21: 21 Also don’t take heed to all words that are spoken, lest you hear your servant curse you;
Ecclesiastes 7.22: 22 for often your own heart knows that you yourself have likewise cursed others.
Ecclesiastes 7.23: 23 All this I have proved in wisdom. I said, “I will be wise;” but it was far from me.
Ecclesiastes 7.24: 24 That which is, is far off and exceedingly deep. Who can find it out?
Ecclesiastes 7.25: 25 I turned around, and my heart sought to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity, and that foolishness is madness.
Ecclesiastes 7.26: 26 I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and traps, whose hands are chains. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner will be ensnared by her.
Ecclesiastes 7.27: 27 “Behold, I have found this,” says the Preacher, “to one another, to find out the scheme
Ecclesiastes 7.28: 28 which my soul still seeks, but I have not found. I have found one man among a thousand, but I have not found a woman among all those.
Ecclesiastes 7.29: 29 Behold, I have only found this: that God made man upright; but they search for many schemes.”
Hosea 1.0: 
1
Hosea 1.1: 1 Yahweh’s word that came to Hosea the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.
Hosea 1.2: 2 When Yahweh spoke at first by Hosea, Yahweh said to Hosea, “Go, take for yourself a wife of prostitution and children of unfaithfulness; for the land commits great adultery, forsaking Yahweh.”
Hosea 1.3: 3 So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; and she conceived, and bore him a son.
Hosea 1.4: 4 Yahweh said to him, “Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel on the house of Jehu, and will cause the kingdom of the house of Israel to cease.
Hosea 1.5: 5 It will happen in that day that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel.”
Hosea 1.6: 6 She conceived again, and bore a daughter.
Then he said to him, “Call her name Lo-Ruhamah; for I will no longer have mercy on the house of Israel, that I should in any way pardon them.
Hosea 1.7: 7 But I will have mercy on the house of Judah, and will save them by Yahweh their God, and will not save them by bow, sword, battle, horses, or horsemen.”
Hosea 1.8: 8 Now when she had weaned Lo-Ruhamah, she conceived, and bore a son.
Hosea 1.9: 9 He said, “Call his name Lo-Ammi; for you are not my people, and I will not be yours.
Hosea 1.10: 10 Yet the number of the children of Israel will be as the sand of the sea, which can’t be measured or counted; and it will come to pass that, in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’
Hosea 1.11: 11 The children of Judah and the children of Israel will be gathered together, and they will appoint themselves one head, and will go up from the land; for great will be the day of Jezreel.
Hosea 5.0: 
5
Hosea 5.1: 1 “Listen to this, you priests!
Listen, house of Israel,
and give ear, house of the king!
For the judgment is against you;
for you have been a snare at Mizpah,
and a net spread on Tabor.
Hosea 5.2: 2 The rebels are deep in slaughter;
but I discipline all of them.
Hosea 5.3: 3 I know Ephraim,
and Israel is not hidden from me;
for now, Ephraim, you have played the prostitute.
Israel is defiled.
Hosea 5.4: 4 Their deeds won’t allow them to turn to their God;
for the spirit of prostitution is within them,
and they don’t know Yahweh.
Hosea 5.5: 5 The pride of Israel testifies to his face.
Therefore Israel and Ephraim will stumble in their iniquity.
Judah also will stumble with them.
Hosea 5.6: 6 They will go with their flocks and with their herds to seek Yahweh;
but they won’t find him.
He has withdrawn himself from them.
Hosea 5.7: 7 They are unfaithful to Yahweh;
for they have borne illegitimate children.
Now the new moon will devour them with their fields.
Hosea 5.8: 8 “Blow the cornet in Gibeah,
and the trumpet in Ramah!
Sound a battle cry at Beth Aven, behind you, Benjamin!
Hosea 5.9: 9 Ephraim will become a desolation in the day of rebuke.
Among the tribes of Israel, I have made known that which will surely be.
Hosea 5.10: 10 The princes of Judah are like those who remove a landmark.
I will pour out my wrath on them like water.
Hosea 5.11: 11 Ephraim is oppressed,
he is crushed in judgment;
Because he is intent in his pursuit of idols.
Hosea 5.12: 12 Therefore I am to Ephraim like a moth,
and to the house of Judah like rottenness.
Hosea 5.13: 13 “When Ephraim saw his sickness,
and Judah his wound,
Then Ephraim went to Assyria,
and sent to king Jareb:
but he is not able to heal you,
neither will he cure you of your wound.
Hosea 5.14: 14 For I will be to Ephraim like a lion,
and like a young lion to the house of Judah.
I myself will tear in pieces and go away.
I will carry off, and there will be no one to deliver.
Hosea 5.15: 15 I will go and return to my place,
until they acknowledge their offense,
and seek my face.
In their affliction they will seek me earnestly.”
Hosea 6.0: 
6
Hosea 6.1: 1 “Come! Let’s return to Yahweh;
for he has torn us to pieces,
and he will heal us;
he has injured us,
and he will bind up our wounds.
Hosea 6.2: 2 After two days he will revive us.
On the third day he will raise us up,
and we will live before him.
Hosea 6.3: 3 Let’s acknowledge Yahweh.
Let’s press on to know Yahweh.
As surely as the sun rises,
Yahweh will appear.
He will come to us like the rain,
like the spring rain that waters the earth.”
Hosea 6.4: 4 “Ephraim, what shall I do to you?
Judah, what shall I do to you?
For your love is like a morning cloud,
and like the dew that disappears early.
Hosea 6.5: 5 Therefore I have cut them to pieces with the prophets;
I killed them with the words of my mouth.
Your judgments are like a flash of lightning.
Hosea 6.6: 6 For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice;
and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
Hosea 6.7: 7 But they, like Adam, have broken the covenant.
They were unfaithful to me, there.
Hosea 6.8: 8 Gilead is a city of those who work iniquity;
it is stained with blood.
Hosea 6.9: 9 As gangs of robbers wait to ambush a man,
so the company of priests murder on the path toward Shechem,
committing shameful crimes.
Hosea 6.10: 10 In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing.
There is prostitution in Ephraim.
Israel is defiled.
Hosea 6.11: 11 “Also, Judah, there is a harvest appointed for you,
when I restore the fortunes of my people.
Hosea 8.0: 
8
Hosea 8.1: 1 “Put the trumpet to your lips!
Something like an eagle is over Yahweh’s house,
because they have broken my covenant,
and rebelled against my law.
Hosea 8.2: 2 They cry to me, ‘My God, we Israel acknowledge you!’
Hosea 8.3: 3 Israel has cast off that which is good.
The enemy will pursue him.
Hosea 8.4: 4 They have set up kings, but not by me.
They have made princes, and I didn’t approve.
Of their silver and their gold they have made themselves idols,
that they may be cut off.
Hosea 8.5: 5 Let Samaria throw out his calf idol!
My anger burns against them!
How long will it be until they are capable of purity?
Hosea 8.6: 6 For this is even from Israel!
The workman made it, and it is no God;
indeed, the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.
Hosea 8.7: 7 For they sow the wind,
and they will reap the whirlwind.
He has no standing grain.
The stalk will yield no head.
If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.
Hosea 8.8: 8 Israel is swallowed up.
Now they are among the nations like a worthless thing.
Hosea 8.9: 9 For they have gone up to Assyria,
like a wild donkey wandering alone.
Ephraim has hired lovers for himself.
Hosea 8.10: 10 But although they sold themselves among the nations,
I will now gather them;
and they begin to waste away because of the oppression of the king of mighty ones.
Hosea 8.11: 11 Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning,
they became for him altars for sinning.
Hosea 8.12: 12 I wrote for him the many things of my law;
but they were regarded as a strange thing.
Hosea 8.13: 13 As for the sacrifices of my offerings,
they sacrifice meat and eat it;
But Yahweh doesn’t accept them.
Now he will remember their iniquity,
and punish their sins.
They will return to Egypt.
Hosea 8.14: 14 For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces;
and Judah has multiplied fortified cities;
but I will send a fire on his cities,
and it will devour its fortresses.”
Habakkuk 3.0: 
3
Habakkuk 3.1: 1 A prayer of Habakkuk, the prophet, set to victorious music.
Habakkuk 3.2: 2 Yahweh, I have heard of your fame.
I stand in awe of your deeds, Yahweh.
Renew your work in the middle of the years.
In the middle of the years make it known.
In wrath, you remember mercy.
Habakkuk 3.3: 3 God came from Teman,
the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah.
His glory covered the heavens,
and his praise filled the earth.
Habakkuk 3.4: 4 His splendor is like the sunrise.
Rays shine from his hand, where his power is hidden.
Habakkuk 3.5: 5 Plague went before him,
and pestilence followed his feet.
Habakkuk 3.6: 6 He stood, and shook the earth.
He looked, and made the nations tremble.
The ancient mountains were crumbled.
The age-old hills collapsed.
His ways are eternal.
Habakkuk 3.7: 7 I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction.
The dwellings of the land of Midian trembled.
Habakkuk 3.8: 8 Was Yahweh displeased with the rivers?
Was your anger against the rivers,
or your wrath against the sea,
that you rode on your horses,
on your chariots of salvation?
Habakkuk 3.9: 9 You uncovered your bow.
You called for your sworn arrows. Selah.
You split the earth with rivers.
Habakkuk 3.10: 10 The mountains saw you, and were afraid.
The storm of waters passed by.
The deep roared and lifted up its hands on high.
Habakkuk 3.11: 11 The sun and moon stood still in the sky,
at the light of your arrows as they went,
at the shining of your glittering spear.
Habakkuk 3.12: 12 You marched through the land in wrath.
You threshed the nations in anger.
Habakkuk 3.13: 13 You went out for the salvation of your people,
for the salvation of your anointed.
You crushed the head of the land of wickedness.
You stripped them head to foot. Selah.
Habakkuk 3.14: 14 You pierced the heads of his warriors with their own spears.
They came as a whirlwind to scatter me,
gloating as if to devour the wretched in secret.
Habakkuk 3.15: 15 You trampled the sea with your horses,
churning mighty waters.
Habakkuk 3.16: 16 I heard, and my body trembled.
My lips quivered at the voice.
Rottenness enters into my bones, and I tremble in my place,
because I must wait quietly for the day of trouble,
for the coming up of the people who invade us.
Habakkuk 3.17: 17 For though the fig tree doesn’t flourish,
nor fruit be in the vines;
the labor of the olive fails,
the fields yield no food;
the flocks are cut off from the fold,
and there is no herd in the stalls:
Habakkuk 3.18: 18 yet I will rejoice in Yahweh.
I will be joyful in the God of my salvation!
Habakkuk 3.19: 19 Yahweh, the Lord, is my strength.
He makes my feet like deer’s feet,
and enables me to go in high places.
For the music director, on my stringed instruments.
Romans 0.0: 
Paul’s Letter to the
Romans
Romans 2.0: 
2
Romans 2.1: 1 Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things.
Romans 2.2: 2 We know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things.
Romans 2.3: 3 Do you think this, O man who judges those who practice such things, and do the same, that you will escape the judgment of God?
Romans 2.4: 4 Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?
Romans 2.5: 5 But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;
Romans 2.6: 6 who “will pay back to everyone according to their works:”
Romans 2.7: 7 to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;
Romans 2.8: 8 but to those who are self-seeking, and don’t obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath, indignation,
Romans 2.9: 9 oppression, and anguish on every soul of man who does evil, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
Romans 2.10: 10 But glory, honor, and peace go to every man who does good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
Romans 2.11: 11 For there is no partiality with God.
Romans 2.12: 12 For as many as have sinned without the law will also perish without the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.
Romans 2.13: 13 For it isn’t the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified
Romans 2.14: 14 (for when Gentiles who don’t have the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves,
Romans 2.15: 15 in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts among themselves accusing or else excusing them)
Romans 2.16: 16 in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Good News, by Jesus Christ.
Romans 2.17: 17 Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, rest on the law, glory in God,
Romans 2.18: 18 know his will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,
Romans 2.19: 19 and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,
Romans 2.20: 20 a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.
Romans 2.21: 21 You therefore who teach another, don’t you teach yourself? You who preach that a man shouldn’t steal, do you steal?
Romans 2.22: 22 You who say a man shouldn’t commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?
Romans 2.23: 23 You who glory in the law, do you dishonor God by disobeying the law?
Romans 2.24: 24 For “the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you,” just as it is written.
Romans 2.25: 25 For circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
Romans 2.26: 26 If therefore the uncircumcised keep the ordinances of the law, won’t his uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision?
Romans 2.27: 27 Won’t the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfills the law, judge you, who with the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the law?
Romans 2.28: 28 For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh;
Romans 2.29: 29 but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.
2 John 0.0: 
John’s Second Letter
Revelation 17.0: 
17
Revelation 17.1: 1 One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying, “Come here. I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who sits on many waters,
Revelation 17.2: 2 with whom the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality. Those who dwell in the earth were made drunken with the wine of her sexual immorality.”
Revelation 17.3: 3 He carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness. I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet-colored beast, full of blasphemous names, having seven heads and ten horns.
Revelation 17.4: 4 The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of the sexual immorality of the earth.
Revelation 17.5: 5 And on her forehead a name was written, “MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.”
Revelation 17.6: 6 I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her, I wondered with great amazement.
Revelation 17.7: 7 The angel said to me, “Why do you wonder? I will tell you the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carries her, which has the seven heads and the ten horns.
Revelation 17.8: 8 The beast that you saw was, and is not; and is about to come up out of the abyss and to go into destruction. Those who dwell on the earth and whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world will marvel when they see that the beast was, and is not, and shall be present.
Revelation 17.9: 9 Here is the mind that has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits.
Revelation 17.10: 10 They are seven kings. Five have fallen, the one is, the other has not yet come. When he comes, he must continue a little while.
Revelation 17.11: 11 The beast that was, and is not, is himself also an eighth, and is of the seven; and he goes to destruction.
Revelation 17.12: 12 The ten horns that you saw are ten kings who have received no kingdom as yet, but they receive authority as kings with the beast for one hour.
Revelation 17.13: 13 These have one mind, and they give their power and authority to the beast.
Revelation 17.14: 14 These will war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings, and those who are with him are called chosen and faithful.”
Revelation 17.15: 15 He said to me, “The waters which you saw, where the prostitute sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations, and languages.
Revelation 17.16: 16 The ten horns which you saw, and the beast, these will hate the prostitute, will make her desolate, will strip her naked, will eat her flesh, and will burn her utterly with fire.
Revelation 17.17: 17 For God has put in their hearts to do what he has in mind, to be of one mind, and to give their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God should be accomplished.
Revelation 17.18: 18 The woman whom you saw is the great city, which reigns over the kings of the earth.”
Sirach 8.0: 
8
Sirach 8.1: 1 Don’t contend with a mighty man,
lest perhaps you fall into his hands.
Sirach 8.2: 2 Don’t strive with a rich man, lest perhaps he overpower you;
for gold has destroyed many,
and turned away the hearts of kings.
Sirach 8.3: 3 Don’t contend with a talkative man.
Don’t heap wood upon his fire.
Sirach 8.4: 4 Don’t jest with a rude man,
Lest your ancestors be dishonored.
Sirach 8.5: 5 Don’t reproach a man when he turns from sin.
Remember that we are all worthy of punishment.
Sirach 8.6: 6 Don’t dishonor a man in his old age;
for some of us are also growing old.
Sirach 8.7: 7 Don’t rejoice over one who is dead.
Remember that we all die.
Sirach 8.8: 8 Don’t neglect the discourse of the wise.
Be conversant with their proverbs;
for from them you will learn instruction
and how to minister to great men.
Sirach 8.9: 9 Don’t miss the discourse of the aged,
for they also learned from their fathers,
because from them you will learn understanding,
and to give an answer in time of need.
Sirach 8.10: 10 Don’t kindle the coals of a sinner,
lest you be burned with the flame of his fire.
Sirach 8.11: 11 Don’t rise up from the presence of an insolent man,
lest he lie in wait as an ambush for your mouth.
Sirach 8.12: 12 Don’t lend to a man who is mightier than yourself;
and if you lend, be as one who has lost.
Sirach 8.13: 13 Don’t be surety above your power.
If you are surety, think as one who will have to pay.
Sirach 8.14: 14 Don’t go to law with a judge;
for according to his honor they will give judgement for him.
Sirach 8.15: 15 Don’t go in the way with a rash man,
lest he be burdonsome to you;
for he will do according to his own will,
and you will perish with his folly.
Sirach 8.16: 16 Don’t fight with a wrathful man.
Don’t travel with him through the desert,
for blood is as nothing in his sight.
Where there is no help, he will overthrow you.
Sirach 8.17: 17 Don’t take counsel with a fool,
for he will not be able to conceal the matter.
Sirach 8.18: 18 Do no secret thing before a stranger,
For you don’t know what it will cause.
Sirach 8.19: 19 Don’t open your heart to every man.
Don’t let him return you a favor.
Sirach 44.0: 
44
Sirach 44.1: 1 Let us now praise famous men,
And our fathers that became the father of us.
Sirach 44.2: 2 The Lord manifested in them great glory,
Even his mighty power from the beginning.
Sirach 44.3: 3 Such as did bear rule in their kingdoms,
And were men renowned for their power,
 Giving counsel by their understanding,
Such as have brought tidings in prophecies:
Sirach 44.4: 4 Leaders of the people by their counsels,
And by their understanding men of learning for the people;
Wise were their words in their instruction:
Sirach 44.5: 5 Such as sought out musical tunes,
And set forth verses in writing:
Sirach 44.6: 6 Rich men furnished with ability,
Living peaceably in their habitations:
Sirach 44.7: 7 All these were honored in their generations,
And were a glory in their days.
Sirach 44.8: 8 There be of them, that have left a name behind them,
To declare their praises.
Sirach 44.9: 9 And some there be, which have no memorial;
Who are perished as though they had not been,
And are become as though they had not been born;
And their children after them.
Sirach 44.10: 10 But these were men of mercy,
Whose righteous deeds have not been forgotten.
Sirach 44.11: 11 With their seed shall remain continually a good inheritance;
Their children are within the covenants.
Sirach 44.12: 12 Their seed stands fast,
And their children for their sakes.
Sirach 44.13: 13 Their seed shall remain forever,
And their glory shall not be blotted out.
Sirach 44.14: 14 Their bodies were buried in peace,
And their name lives to all generations.
Sirach 44.15: 15 Peoples will declare their wisdom,
And the congregation tells out their praise.
Sirach 44.16: 16 Enoch pleased the Lord, and was translated,
Being an example of repentance to all generations.
Sirach 44.17: 17 Noah was found perfect and righteous;
In the season of wrath he was taken in exchange for the world; 
Therefore was there left a remnant to the earth,
When the flood came.
Sirach 44.18: 18 Everlasting covenants were made with him,
That all flesh should no more be blotted out by a flood.
Sirach 44.19: 19 Abraham was a great father of a multitude of nations;
And there was none found like him in glory;
Sirach 44.20: 20 Who kept the law of the Most High,
And was taken into covenant with him:
In his flesh he established the covenant;
And when he was proved, he was found faithful.
Sirach 44.21: 21 Therefore he assured him by an oath,
That the nations should be blessed in his seed;
That he would multiply him as the dust of the earth,
And exalt his seed as the stars,
And cause them to inherit from sea to sea,
And from the River to the utmost part of the earth.
Sirach 44.22: 22 In Isaac also did he establish likewise, for Abraham his father’s sake,
The blessing of all men, and the covenant:
Sirach 44.23: 23 And he made it rest upon the head of Jacob;
He acknowledged him in his blessings,
And gave to him by inheritance,
And divided his portions;
Among twelve tribes did he part them.
Sirach 50.0: 
50
Sirach 50.1: 1 It was Simon, the son of Onias, the great priest,
Who in his life repaired the house,
And in his days strengthened the temple:
Sirach 50.2: 2 And by him was built from the foundation the height of the double wall, 
The lofty underworks of the inclosure of the temple:
Sirach 50.3: 3 In his days the cistern of waters was diminished,
The brazen vessel in compass as the sea.
Sirach 50.4: 4 It was he that took thought for his people that they should not fall,
And fortified the city against besieging:
Sirach 50.5: 5 How glorious was he when the people gathered round him
At his coming forth out of the sanctuary!
Sirach 50.6: 6 As the morning star in the midst of a cloud,
As the moon at the full:
Sirach 50.7: 7 As the sun shining forth upon the temple of the Most High,
And as the rainbow giving light in clouds of glory:
Sirach 50.8: 8 As the flower of roses in the days of new fruits, 
As lilies at the water spring,
As the shoot of the frankincense tree in the time of summer:
Sirach 50.9: 9 As fire and incense in the censer,
As a vessel all of beaten gold
Adorned with all manner of precious stones:
Sirach 50.10: 10 As an olive tree budding forth fruits,
And as a cypress growing high among the clouds.
Sirach 50.11: 11 When he took up the robe of glory,
And put on the perfection of exultation,
In the ascent of the holy altar,
He made glorious the precinct of the sanctuary.
Sirach 50.12: 12 And when he received the portions out of the priests’ hands,
Himself also standing by the hearth of the altar,
His kindred as a garland round about him,
He was as a young cedar in Libanus;
And as stems of palm trees compassed they him round about,
Sirach 50.13: 13 And all the sons of Aaron in their glory,
And the Lord’s offering in their hands, before all the congregation of Israel.
Sirach 50.14: 14 And finishing the service at the altars,
That he might adorn the offering of the Most High, the Almighty,
Sirach 50.15: 15 He stretched out his hand to the cup,
And poured out the cup of the grape;
He poured out at the foot of the altar
A sweet smelling savor to the Most High, the King of all.
Sirach 50.16: 16 Then shouted the sons of Aaron,
They sounded the trumpets of beaten work,
They made a great noise to be heard,
For a remembrance before the Most High.
Sirach 50.17: 17 Then all the people together hurried,
And fell down upon the earth on their faces
To worship their Lord, the Almighty, God Most High.
Sirach 50.18: 18 The singers also praised him with their voices;
In the whole house was there made sweet melody.
Sirach 50.19: 19 And the people implored the Lord Most High,
In prayer before him that is merciful.
Till the worship of the Lord should be ended;
And so they accomplished his service.
Sirach 50.20: 20 Then he went down, and lifted up his hands
Over the whole congregation of the children of Israel,
To give blessing to the Lord with his lips,
And to glory in his name.
Sirach 50.21: 21 And he bowed himself down in worship the second time,
To declare the blessing from the Most High.
Sirach 50.22: 22 And now bless you° the God of all,
Which everywhere does great things,
Which exalts our days from the womb,
And deals with us according to his mercy.
Sirach 50.23: 23 May he grant us joyfulness of heart,
And that peace may be in our days in Israel for the days of eternity:
Sirach 50.24: 24 To entrust his mercy with us;
And let him deliver us in his time!
Sirach 50.25: 25 With two nations is my soul vexed,
And the third is no nation:
Sirach 50.26: 26 They that sit upon the mountain of Samaria, and the Philistines,
And that foolish people that dwells in Sichem.
Sirach 50.27: 27 I have written in this book the instruction of understanding and knowledge,
I Jesus, the son of Sirach Eleazar, of Jerusalem,
Who out of his heart poured forth wisdom.
Sirach 50.28: 28 Blessed is he that shall be exercised in these things;
And he that lays them up in his heart shall become wise.
Sirach 50.29: 29 For if he do them, he shall be strong to all things:
For the light of the Lord is his guide. 
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.0: 
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2 Esdras (Latin) 3.1: 1 In the thirties year after the ruin of the city, I Salathiel (also called Esdras) was in Babylon, and lay troubled upon my bed, and my thoughts came up over my heart:
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.2: 2 for I saw the desolation of Sion, and the wealth of those who lived at Babylon.
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.3: 3 And my spirit was sore moved, so that I began to speak words full of fear to the Most High, and said,
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.4: 4 O Lord that bear rule, did you not not speak at the beginning, when you did fashion the earth, and that yourself alone, and command the dust.
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.5: 5 and it gave you Adam, a body without a soul? yet it was the workmanship of your hands, and you did breathe into him the breath of life, and he was made living before you.
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.6: 6 And you led him into paradise, which your right hand did plant, before ever the earth came forward.
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.7: 7 And to him you gave your one commandment: which he transgressed, and immediately you appointed death for him and in his generations; and there were born of him nations and tribes, peoples and kindred, out of number.
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.8: 8 And every nation walked after their own will, and did ungodly things before you, and despised your commandments, and you didn’t forbid them.
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.9: 9 Nevertheless again in process of time you brought the flood upon those that lived in the world, and destroyed them.
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.10: 10 And it came to pass that the same hap befell them; like as death was to Adam, so was the flood to these.
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.11: 11 Nevertheless one of them you left, Noah with his household, even all the righteous men that came of him.
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.12: 12 And it came to pass, that when those who lived upon the earth began to multiply, they multiplied also children, and peoples, and many nations, and began again to be more ungodly than the first.
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.13: 13 And it came to pass, when they did wickedly before you, you did choose you one from among them, whose name was Abraham;
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.14: 14 and him you loved, and to him only you showed the end of the times secretly by night:
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.15: 15 and made an everlasting covenant with him, promising him that you would never forsake his seed.
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.16: 16 And to him you gave Isaac, and to Isaac you gave Jacob and Esau. And you did set apart Jacob for yourself, but did put by Esau: and Jacob became a great multitude.
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.17: 17 And it came to pass, that when you led his seed out of Egypt, you brought them up to the mount Sinai.
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.18: 18 You bowed the heavens also, and did shake the earth, and movedst the whole world, and made the depths to tremble, and troubled the course of that age.
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.19: 19 And your glory went through four gates, of fire, and of earthquake, and of wind, and of cold; that you might give the law to the seed of Jacob, and the commandment to the generation of Israel.
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.20: 20 And yet took you not away from them their wicked heart, that your law might bring forth fruit in them.
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.21: 21 For the first Adam bearing a wicked heart transgressed, and was overcome; and not he only, but all they also that are born of him.
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.22: 22 Thus disease was made permanent; and the law was in the heart of the people along with the wickedness of the root; so the good departed away, and that which was wicked abode still.
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.23: 23 So the times passed away, and the years were brought to an end: then did you raise you up a servant, called David,
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.24: 24 whom you commanded to build a city to your name, and to offer oblations to you therein of your own.
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.25: 25 When this was done many years, then those who inhabited the city did evil,
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.26: 26 in all things doing even as Adam and all his generations had done: for they also bare a wicked heart:
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.27: 27 and so you gave your city over into the hands of your enemies.
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.28: 28 And I said then in my heart, are their deeds any better that inhabit Babylon? and has she therefore dominion over Sion?
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.29: 29 For it came to pass when I came here, that I saw also impieties without number, and my soul saw many evil-doers in this thirties year, so that my heart failed me.
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.30: 30 For I have seen how you suffer them sinning, and have spared the ungodly doers, and have destroyed your people, and have preserved your enemies; and you have not signified
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.31: 31 to any how your way may be comprehended. Are the deeds of Babylon better than those of Sion?
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.32: 32 Or is there any other nation that knows you beside Israel? or what tribes have so believed your covenants as these tribes of Jacob?
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.33: 33 And yet their reward appears not, and their labor has no fruit: for I have gone here and there through the nations, and I see that they abound in wealth, and think not upon your commandments.
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.34: 34 Weigh you therefore our iniquities now in the balance, and theirs also that dwell in the world; and so shall it be found which way the scale inclines.
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.35: 35 Or when was it that they which dwell upon the earth have not sinned in your sight? or what nation has so kept your commandments?
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.36: 36 You shall find that men who may be reckoned by name have kept your precepts; but nations you shall not find.
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4 Maccabees 11.1: 1 And when he had died, disfigured in his torments, the fifth leaped forward, and said,
4 Maccabees 11.2: 2 I intend not, O tyrant, to get excused from the torment which is in behalf of virtue.
4 Maccabees 11.3: 3 But I have come of my own accord, that by the death of me, you may owe heavenly vengeance a punishment for more crimes.
4 Maccabees 11.4: 4 O you hater of virtue and of men, what have we done that you thus revel in our blood?
4 Maccabees 11.5: 5 Does it seem evil to you that we worship the Founder of all things, and live according to his surpassing law?
4 Maccabees 11.6: 6 But this is worthy of honors, not torments;
4 Maccabees 11.7: 7 had you been capable of the higher feelings of men, and possessed the hope of salvation from God.
4 Maccabees 11.8: 8 Behold now, being alien from God, you make war against those who are religious toward God.
4 Maccabees 11.9: 9 As he said this, the spearbearers bound him, and drew him to the catapelt:
4 Maccabees 11.10: 10 to which binding him at his knees, and fastening them with iron fetters, they bent down his loins upon the wedge of the wheel; and his body was then dismembered, scorpion-fashion.
4 Maccabees 11.11: 11 With his breath thus confined, and his body strangled, he said,
4 Maccabees 11.12: 12 A great favor you bestow upon us, O tyrant, by enabling us to manifest our adherence to the law by means of nobler sufferings.
4 Maccabees 11.13: 13 He also being dead, the sixth, quite a youth, was brought out; and on the tyrant asking him whether he would eat and be delivered, he said,
4 Maccabees 11.14: 14 I am indeed younger than my brothers, but in understanding I am as old;
4 Maccabees 11.15: 15 for having been born and reared to the same end, we are bound to die also in behalf of the same cause.
4 Maccabees 11.16: 16 So that if you° think proper to torment us for not eating the unclean, then torment!
4 Maccabees 11.17: 17 As he said this, they brought him to the wheel.
4 Maccabees 11.18: 18 Extended upon which, with limbs racked and dislocated, he was gradually roasted from beneath.
4 Maccabees 11.19: 19 And having heated sharp spits, they approached them to his back; and having transfixed his sides, they burned away his entrails.
4 Maccabees 11.20: 20 And he, while tormented, said, O period good and holy, in which, for the sake of religion, we kindred have been called to the contest of pain, and have not been conquered.
4 Maccabees 11.21: 21 For religious understanding, O tyrant, is unconquered.
4 Maccabees 11.22: 22 Armed with upright virtue, I also shall depart with my kindred.
4 Maccabees 11.23: 23 I, too, bearing with me a great avenger, O inventor of tortures, and enemy of the truly pious.
4 Maccabees 11.24: 24 We six youths have destroyed your tyranny.
4 Maccabees 11.25: 25 For is not your inability to overrule our reasoning, and to compel us to eat the unclean, your destruction?
4 Maccabees 11.26: 26 Your fire is cold to us, your catapelts are painless, and your violence harmless.
4 Maccabees 11.27: 27 For the guards not of a tyrant but of a divine law are our defenders: through this we keep our reasoning unconquered.
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4 Maccabees 18.1: 1 O Israelitish children, descendants of the seed of Abraham, obey this law, and in every way be religious.
4 Maccabees 18.2: 2 Knowing that religious reasoning is lord of the passions, and those not only inward but outward.
4 Maccabees 18.3: 3 When those persons giving up their bodies to pains for the sake of religion, were not only admired by men, but were deemed worthy of a divine portion.
4 Maccabees 18.4: 4 And the nation through them obtained peace, and having renewed the observance of the law in their country, drove the enemy out of the land.
4 Maccabees 18.5: 5 And the tyrant Antiochus was both punished upon earth, and is punished now he is dead; for when he was quite unable to compel the Israelites to adopt foreign customs, and to desert the manner of life of their fathers,
4 Maccabees 18.6: 6 then, departing from Jerusalem, he made war against the Persians.
4 Maccabees 18.7: 7 And the righteous mother of the seven children spoke also as follows to her offspring: I was a pure virgin, and went not beyond my father’s house; but I took care of the built-up rib.
4 Maccabees 18.8: 8 No destroyer of the desert, or ravisher of the plain, injured me; nor did the destructive, deceitful snake, make plunder of my chaste virginity; and I remained with my husband during the period of my prime.
4 Maccabees 18.9: 9 And these my children, having arrived at maturity, their father died: blessed was he! for having sought out a life of fertility in children, he was not grieved with a period of loss of children.
4 Maccabees 18.10: 10 And he used to teach you, when yet with you, the law and the prophets.
4 Maccabees 18.11: 11 He used to read to you the slaying of Abel by Cain, and the offering up of Isaac, and the imprisonment of Joseph.
4 Maccabees 18.12: 12 And he used to tell you of the zealous Phinehas; and informed you of Ananias and Azarias, and Misael in the fire.
4 Maccabees 18.13: 13 And he used to glorify Daniel, who was in the den of lions, and pronounce him blessed.
4 Maccabees 18.14: 14 And he used to put you in mind of the scripture of Esaias, which says, Even if you pass through the fire, it shall not burn you.
4 Maccabees 18.15: 15 He chanted to you David, the hymn-writer, who says, Many are the afflictions of the just.
4 Maccabees 18.16: 16 He declared the proverbs of Solomon, who says, He is a tree of life to all those who do His will.
4 Maccabees 18.17: 17 He used to verify Ezekiel, who said, Shall these dry bones live?
4 Maccabees 18.18: 18 For he didn’t forget the song which Moses taught, proclaiming, I will kill, and I will make to live.
4 Maccabees 18.19: 19 This is our life, and the length of our days.
4 Maccabees 18.20: 20 O that bitter, and yet not bitter, day when the bitter tyrant of the Greeks, quenching fire with fire in his cruel caldrons, brought with boiling rage the seven sons of the daughter of Abraham to the catapelt, and to all his torments!
4 Maccabees 18.21: 21 He pierced the balls of their eyes, and cut out their tongues, and put them to death with varied tortures.
4 Maccabees 18.22: 22 Wherefore divine retribution pursued and will pursue the pestilent wretch.
4 Maccabees 18.23: 23 But the children of Abraham, with their victorious mother, are assembled together to the choir of their father; having received pure and immortal souls from God.
4 Maccabees 18.24: 24 To whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.