Genesis 0.0:
The First Book of Moses,
Commonly Called
Genesis
Genesis 1.0:
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Genesis 1.1: 1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
Genesis 1.2: 2 The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.
Genesis 1.3: 3 God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
Genesis 1.4: 4 God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness.
Genesis 1.5: 5 God called the light “day”, and the darkness he called “night”. There was evening and there was morning, the first day.
Genesis 1.6: 6 God said, “Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.”
Genesis 1.7: 7 God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so.
Genesis 1.8: 8 God called the expanse “sky”. There was evening and there was morning, a second day.
Genesis 1.9: 9 God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear;” and it was so.
Genesis 1.10: 10 God called the dry land “earth”, and the gathering together of the waters he called “seas”. God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1.11: 11 God said, “Let the earth yield grass, herbs yielding seeds, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with their seeds in it, on the earth;” and it was so.
Genesis 1.12: 12 The earth yielded grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with their seeds in it, after their kind; and God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1.13: 13 There was evening and there was morning, a third day.
Genesis 1.14: 14 God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs to mark seasons, days, and years;
Genesis 1.15: 15 and let them be for lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth;” and it was so.
Genesis 1.16: 16 God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made the stars.
Genesis 1.17: 17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light to the earth,
Genesis 1.18: 18 and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1.19: 19 There was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.
Genesis 1.20: 20 God said, “Let the waters abound with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.”
Genesis 1.21: 21 God created the large sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1.22: 22 God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”
Genesis 1.23: 23 There was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.
Genesis 1.24: 24 God said, “Let the earth produce living creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind;” and it was so.
Genesis 1.25: 25 God made the animals of the earth after their kind, and the livestock after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind. God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1.26: 26 God said, “Let’s make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
Genesis 1.27: 27 God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.
Genesis 1.28: 28 God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
Genesis 1.29: 29 God said, “Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food.
Genesis 1.30: 30 To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food;” and it was so.
Genesis 1.31: 31 God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.
Genesis 2.0:
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Genesis 2.1: 1 The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array were finished.
Genesis 2.2: 2 On the seventh day God finished his work which he had done; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done.
Genesis 2.3: 3 God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work of creation which he had done.
Genesis 2.4: 4 This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Yahweh God made the earth and the heavens.
Genesis 2.5: 5 No plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Yahweh God had not caused it to rain on the earth. There was not a man to till the ground,
Genesis 2.6: 6 but a mist went up from the earth, and watered the whole surface of the ground.
Genesis 2.7: 7 Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Genesis 2.8: 8 Yahweh God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.
Genesis 2.9: 9 Out of the ground Yahweh God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food, including the tree of life in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Genesis 2.10: 10 A river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it was parted, and became the source of four rivers.
Genesis 2.11: 11 The name of the first is Pishon: it flows through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
Genesis 2.12: 12 and the gold of that land is good. Bdellium and onyx stone are also there.
Genesis 2.13: 13 The name of the second river is Gihon. It is the same river that flows through the whole land of Cush.
Genesis 2.14: 14 The name of the third river is Hiddekel. This is the one which flows in front of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.
Genesis 2.15: 15 Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.
Genesis 2.16: 16 Yahweh God commanded the man, saying, “You may freely eat of every tree of the garden;
Genesis 2.17: 17 but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”
Genesis 2.18: 18 Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”
Genesis 2.19: 19 Out of the ground Yahweh God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living creature became its name.
Genesis 2.20: 20 The man gave names to all livestock, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field; but for man there was not found a helper comparable to him.
Genesis 2.21: 21 Yahweh God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep. As the man slept, he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.
Genesis 2.22: 22 Yahweh God made a woman from the rib which he had taken from the man, and brought her to the man.
Genesis 2.23: 23 The man said, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called ‘woman,’ because she was taken out of Man.”
Genesis 2.24: 24 Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
Genesis 2.25: 25 The man and his wife were both naked, and they were not ashamed.
Genesis 3.0:
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Genesis 3.1: 1 Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden’?”
Genesis 3.2: 2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees of the garden,
Genesis 3.3: 3 but not the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden. God has said, ‘You shall not eat of it. You shall not touch it, lest you die.’”
Genesis 3.4: 4 The serpent said to the woman, “You won’t really die,
Genesis 3.5: 5 for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
Genesis 3.6: 6 When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took some of its fruit, and ate. Then she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate it, too.
Genesis 3.7: 7 Their eyes were opened, and they both knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together, and made coverings for themselves.
Genesis 3.8: 8 They heard Yahweh God’s voice walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.
Genesis 3.9: 9 Yahweh God called to the man, and said to him, “Where are you?”
Genesis 3.10: 10 The man said, “I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; so I hid myself.”
Genesis 3.11: 11 God said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”
Genesis 3.12: 12 The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
Genesis 3.13: 13 Yahweh God said to the woman, “What have you done?”
The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
Genesis 3.14: 14 Yahweh God said to the serpent,
“Because you have done this,
you are cursed above all livestock,
and above every animal of the field.
You shall go on your belly
and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.
Genesis 3.15: 15 I will put hostility between you and the woman,
and between your offspring and her offspring.
He will bruise your head,
and you will bruise his heel.”
Genesis 3.16: 16 To the woman he said,
“I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth.
You will bear children in pain.
Your desire will be for your husband,
and he will rule over you.”
Genesis 3.17: 17 To Adam he said,
“Because you have listened to your wife’s voice,
and ate from the tree,
about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’
the ground is cursed for your sake.
You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life.
Genesis 3.18: 18 It will yield thorns and thistles to you;
and you will eat the herb of the field.
Genesis 3.19: 19 You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground,
for you were taken out of it.
For you are dust,
and you shall return to dust.”
Genesis 3.20: 20 The man called his wife Eve because she would be the mother of all the living.
Genesis 3.21: 21 Yahweh God made garments of animal skins for Adam and for his wife, and clothed them.
Genesis 3.22: 22 Yahweh God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever—”
Genesis 3.23: 23 Therefore Yahweh God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.
Genesis 3.24: 24 So he drove out the man; and he placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.
Genesis 4.0:
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Genesis 4.1: 1 The man knew Eve his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Cain, and said, “I have gotten a man with Yahweh’s help.”
Genesis 4.2: 2 Again she gave birth, to Cain’s brother Abel. Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
Genesis 4.3: 3 As time passed, Cain brought an offering to Yahweh from the fruit of the ground.
Genesis 4.4: 4 Abel also brought some of the firstborn of his flock and of its fat. Yahweh respected Abel and his offering,
Genesis 4.5: 5 but he didn’t respect Cain and his offering. Cain was very angry, and the expression on his face fell.
Genesis 4.6: 6 Yahweh said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why has the expression of your face fallen?
Genesis 4.7: 7 If you do well, won’t it be lifted up? If you don’t do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it.”
Genesis 4.8: 8 Cain said to Abel, his brother, “Let’s go into the field.” While they were in the field, Cain rose up against Abel, his brother, and killed him.
Genesis 4.9: 9 Yahweh said to Cain, “Where is Abel, your brother?”
He said, “I don’t know. Am I my brother’s keeper?”
Genesis 4.10: 10 Yahweh said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries to me from the ground.
Genesis 4.11: 11 Now you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.
Genesis 4.12: 12 From now on, when you till the ground, it won’t yield its strength to you. You will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth.”
Genesis 4.13: 13 Cain said to Yahweh, “My punishment is greater than I can bear.
Genesis 4.14: 14 Behold, you have driven me out today from the surface of the ground. I will be hidden from your face, and I will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth. Whoever finds me will kill me.”
Genesis 4.15: 15 Yahweh said to him, “Therefore whoever slays Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold.” Yahweh appointed a sign for Cain, so that anyone finding him would not strike him.
Genesis 4.16: 16 Cain left Yahweh’s presence, and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.
Genesis 4.17: 17 Cain knew his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Enoch. He built a city, and named the city after the name of his son, Enoch.
Genesis 4.18: 18 Irad was born to Enoch. Irad became the father of Mehujael. Mehujael became the father of Methushael. Methushael became the father of Lamech.
Genesis 4.19: 19 Lamech took two wives: the name of the first one was Adah, and the name of the second one was Zillah.
Genesis 4.20: 20 Adah gave birth to Jabal, who was the father of those who dwell in tents and have livestock.
Genesis 4.21: 21 His brother’s name was Jubal, who was the father of all who handle the harp and pipe.
Genesis 4.22: 22 Zillah also gave birth to Tubal Cain, the forger of every cutting instrument of bronze and iron. Tubal Cain’s sister was Naamah.
Genesis 4.23: 23 Lamech said to his wives,
“Adah and Zillah, hear my voice.
You wives of Lamech, listen to my speech,
for I have slain a man for wounding me,
a young man for bruising me.
Genesis 4.24: 24 If Cain will be avenged seven times,
truly Lamech seventy-seven times.”
Genesis 4.25: 25 Adam knew his wife again. She gave birth to a son, and named him Seth, saying, “for God has given me another child instead of Abel, for Cain killed him.”
Genesis 4.26: 26 A son was also born to Seth, and he named him Enosh. At that time men began to call on Yahweh’s name.
Genesis 5.0:
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Genesis 5.1: 1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him in God’s likeness.
Genesis 5.2: 2 He created them male and female, and blessed them. On the day they were created, he named them Adam.
Genesis 5.3: 3 Adam lived one hundred thirty years, and became the father of a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.
Genesis 5.4: 4 The days of Adam after he became the father of Seth were eight hundred years, and he became the father of other sons and daughters.
Genesis 5.5: 5 All the days that Adam lived were nine hundred thirty years, then he died.
Genesis 5.6: 6 Seth lived one hundred five years, then became the father of Enosh.
Genesis 5.7: 7 Seth lived after he became the father of Enosh eight hundred seven years, and became the father of other sons and daughters.
Genesis 5.8: 8 All of the days of Seth were nine hundred twelve years, then he died.
Genesis 5.9: 9 Enosh lived ninety years, and became the father of Kenan.
Genesis 5.10: 10 Enosh lived after he became the father of Kenan eight hundred fifteen years, and became the father of other sons and daughters.
Genesis 5.11: 11 All of the days of Enosh were nine hundred five years, then he died.
Genesis 5.12: 12 Kenan lived seventy years, then became the father of Mahalalel.
Genesis 5.13: 13 Kenan lived after he became the father of Mahalalel eight hundred forty years, and became the father of other sons and daughters
Genesis 5.14: 14 and all of the days of Kenan were nine hundred ten years, then he died.
Genesis 5.15: 15 Mahalalel lived sixty-five years, then became the father of Jared.
Genesis 5.16: 16 Mahalalel lived after he became the father of Jared eight hundred thirty years, and became the father of other sons and daughters.
Genesis 5.17: 17 All of the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred ninety-five years, then he died.
Genesis 5.18: 18 Jared lived one hundred sixty-two years, then became the father of Enoch.
Genesis 5.19: 19 Jared lived after he became the father of Enoch eight hundred years, and became the father of other sons and daughters.
Genesis 5.20: 20 All of the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty-two years, then he died.
Genesis 5.21: 21 Enoch lived sixty-five years, then became the father of Methuselah.
Genesis 5.22: 22 After Methuselah’s birth, Enoch walked with God for three hundred years, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
Genesis 5.23: 23 All the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty-five years.
Genesis 5.24: 24 Enoch walked with God, and he was not found, for God took him.
Genesis 5.25: 25 Methuselah lived one hundred eighty-seven years, then became the father of Lamech.
Genesis 5.26: 26 Methuselah lived after he became the father of Lamech seven hundred eighty-two years, and became the father of other sons and daughters.
Genesis 5.27: 27 All the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty-nine years, then he died.
Genesis 5.28: 28 Lamech lived one hundred eighty-two years, then became the father of a son.
Genesis 5.29: 29 He named him Noah, saying, “This one will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, caused by the ground which Yahweh has cursed.”
Genesis 5.30: 30 Lamech lived after he became the father of Noah five hundred ninety-five years, and became the father of other sons and daughters.
Genesis 5.31: 31 All the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy-seven years, then he died.
Genesis 5.32: 32 Noah was five hundred years old, then Noah became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Genesis 6.0:
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Genesis 6.1: 1 When men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them,
Genesis 6.2: 2 God’s sons saw that men’s daughters were beautiful, and they took any that they wanted for themselves as wives.
Genesis 6.3: 3 Yahweh said, “My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; so his days will be one hundred twenty years.”
Genesis 6.4: 4 The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when God’s sons came in to men’s daughters and had children with them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
Genesis 6.5: 5 Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.
Genesis 6.6: 6 Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.
Genesis 6.7: 7 Yahweh said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground—man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky—for I am sorry that I have made them.”
Genesis 6.8: 8 But Noah found favor in Yahweh’s eyes.
Genesis 6.9: 9 This is the history of the generations of Noah: Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.
Genesis 6.10: 10 Noah became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Genesis 6.11: 11 The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
Genesis 6.12: 12 God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.
Genesis 6.13: 13 God said to Noah, “I will bring an end to all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them and the earth.
Genesis 6.14: 14 Make a ship of gopher wood. You shall make rooms in the ship, and shall seal it inside and outside with pitch.
Genesis 6.15: 15 This is how you shall make it. The length of the ship shall be three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.
Genesis 6.16: 16 You shall make a roof in the ship, and you shall finish it to a cubit upward. You shall set the door of the ship in its side. You shall make it with lower, second, and third levels.
Genesis 6.17: 17 I, even I, will bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die.
Genesis 6.18: 18 But I will establish my covenant with you. You shall come into the ship, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.
Genesis 6.19: 19 Of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ship, to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female.
Genesis 6.20: 20 Of the birds after their kind, of the livestock after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort will come to you, to keep them alive.
Genesis 6.21: 21 Take with you some of all food that is eaten, and gather it to yourself; and it will be for food for you, and for them.”
Genesis 6.22: 22 Thus Noah did. He did all that God commanded him.
Genesis 7.0:
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Genesis 7.1: 1 Yahweh said to Noah, “Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.
Genesis 7.2: 2 You shall take seven pairs of every clean animal with you, the male and his female. Of the animals that are not clean, take two, the male and his female.
Genesis 7.3: 3 Also of the birds of the sky, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive on the surface of all the earth.
Genesis 7.4: 4 In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. I will destroy every living thing that I have made from the surface of the ground.”
Genesis 7.5: 5 Noah did everything that Yahweh commanded him.
Genesis 7.6: 6 Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came on the earth.
Genesis 7.7: 7 Noah went into the ship with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, because of the floodwaters.
Genesis 7.8: 8 Clean animals, unclean animals, birds, and everything that creeps on the ground
Genesis 7.9: 9 went by pairs to Noah into the ship, male and female, as God commanded Noah.
Genesis 7.10: 10 After the seven days, the floodwaters came on the earth.
Genesis 7.11: 11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the sky’s windows opened.
Genesis 7.12: 12 It rained on the earth forty days and forty nights.
Genesis 7.13: 13 In the same day Noah, and Shem, Ham, and Japheth—the sons of Noah—and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the ship—
Genesis 7.14: 14 they, and every animal after its kind, all the livestock after their kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird of every sort.
Genesis 7.15: 15 Pairs from all flesh with the breath of life in them went into the ship to Noah.
Genesis 7.16: 16 Those who went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him; then Yahweh shut him in.
Genesis 7.17: 17 The flood was forty days on the earth. The waters increased, and lifted up the ship, and it was lifted up above the earth.
Genesis 7.18: 18 The waters rose, and increased greatly on the earth; and the ship floated on the surface of the waters.
Genesis 7.19: 19 The waters rose very high on the earth. All the high mountains that were under the whole sky were covered.
Genesis 7.20: 20 The waters rose fifteen cubits higher, and the mountains were covered.
Genesis 7.21: 21 All flesh died that moved on the earth, including birds, livestock, animals, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man.
Genesis 7.22: 22 All on the dry land, in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, died.
Genesis 7.23: 23 Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the ground, including man, livestock, creeping things, and birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ship.
Genesis 7.24: 24 The waters flooded the earth one hundred fifty days.
Genesis 8.0:
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Genesis 8.1: 1 God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided.
Genesis 8.2: 2 The deep’s fountains and the sky’s windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.
Genesis 8.3: 3 The waters continually receded from the earth. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters receded.
Genesis 8.4: 4 The ship rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on Ararat’s mountains.
Genesis 8.5: 5 The waters receded continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were visible.
Genesis 8.6: 6 At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window of the ship which he had made,
Genesis 8.7: 7 and he sent out a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from the earth.
Genesis 8.8: 8 He himself sent out a dove to see if the waters were abated from the surface of the ground,
Genesis 8.9: 9 but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned into the ship to him, for the waters were on the surface of the whole earth. He put out his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the ship.
Genesis 8.10: 10 He waited yet another seven days; and again he sent the dove out of the ship.
Genesis 8.11: 11 The dove came back to him at evening and, behold, in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters were abated from the earth.
Genesis 8.12: 12 He waited yet another seven days, and sent out the dove; and she didn’t return to him any more.
Genesis 8.13: 13 In the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ship, and looked. He saw that the surface of the ground was dry.
Genesis 8.14: 14 In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.
Genesis 8.15: 15 God spoke to Noah, saying,
Genesis 8.16: 16 “Go out of the ship, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives with you.
Genesis 8.17: 17 Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh, including birds, livestock, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply on the earth.”
Genesis 8.18: 18 Noah went out, with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives with him.
Genesis 8.19: 19 Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, whatever moves on the earth, after their families, went out of the ship.
Genesis 8.20: 20 Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
Genesis 8.21: 21 Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.
Genesis 8.22: 22 While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”
Genesis 9.0:
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Genesis 9.1: 1 God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, and replenish the earth.
Genesis 9.2: 2 The fear of you and the dread of you will be on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the sky. Everything that moves along the ground, and all the fish of the sea, are delivered into your hand.
Genesis 9.3: 3 Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As I gave you the green herb, I have given everything to you.
Genesis 9.4: 4 But flesh with its life, that is, its blood, you shall not eat.
Genesis 9.5: 5 I will surely require accounting for your life’s blood. At the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man’s brother, I will require the life of man.
Genesis 9.6: 6 Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.
Genesis 9.7: 7 Be fruitful and multiply. Increase abundantly in the earth, and multiply in it.”
Genesis 9.8: 8 God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying,
Genesis 9.9: 9 “As for me, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you,
Genesis 9.10: 10 and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the livestock, and every animal of the earth with you, of all that go out of the ship, even every animal of the earth.
Genesis 9.11: 11 I will establish my covenant with you: All flesh will not be cut off any more by the waters of the flood. There will never again be a flood to destroy the earth.”
Genesis 9.12: 12 God said, “This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
Genesis 9.13: 13 I set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be a sign of a covenant between me and the earth.
Genesis 9.14: 14 When I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow will be seen in the cloud,
Genesis 9.15: 15 I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters will no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
Genesis 9.16: 16 The rainbow will be in the cloud. I will look at it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.”
Genesis 9.17: 17 God said to Noah, “This is the token of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth.”
Genesis 9.18: 18 The sons of Noah who went out from the ship were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham is the father of Canaan.
Genesis 9.19: 19 These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth was populated.
Genesis 9.20: 20 Noah began to be a farmer, and planted a vineyard.
Genesis 9.21: 21 He drank of the wine and got drunk. He was uncovered within his tent.
Genesis 9.22: 22 Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.
Genesis 9.23: 23 Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it on both their shoulders, went in backwards, and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were backwards, and they didn’t see their father’s nakedness.
Genesis 9.24: 24 Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his youngest son had done to him.
Genesis 9.25: 25 He said,
“Canaan is cursed.
He will be a servant of servants to his brothers.”
Genesis 9.26: 26 He said,
“Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Shem.
Let Canaan be his servant.
Genesis 9.27: 27 May God enlarge Japheth.
Let him dwell in the tents of Shem.
Let Canaan be his servant.”
Genesis 9.28: 28 Noah lived three hundred fifty years after the flood.
Genesis 9.29: 29 All the days of Noah were nine hundred fifty years, and then he died.
Genesis 10.0:
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Genesis 10.1: 1 Now this is the history of the generations of the sons of Noah and of Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.
Genesis 10.2: 2 The sons of Japheth were: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
Genesis 10.3: 3 The sons of Gomer were: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.
Genesis 10.4: 4 The sons of Javan were: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
Genesis 10.5: 5 Of these were the islands of the nations divided in their lands, everyone after his language, after their families, in their nations.
Genesis 10.6: 6 The sons of Ham were: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
Genesis 10.7: 7 The sons of Cush were: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah were: Sheba and Dedan.
Genesis 10.8: 8 Cush became the father of Nimrod. He began to be a mighty one in the earth.
Genesis 10.9: 9 He was a mighty hunter before Yahweh. Therefore it is said, “like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before Yahweh”.
Genesis 10.10: 10 The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
Genesis 10.11: 11 Out of that land he went into Assyria, and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,
Genesis 10.12: 12 and Resen between Nineveh and the great city Calah.
Genesis 10.13: 13 Mizraim became the father of Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim,
Genesis 10.14: 14 Pathrusim, Casluhim (which the Philistines descended from), and Caphtorim.
Genesis 10.15: 15 Canaan became the father of Sidon (his firstborn), Heth,
Genesis 10.16: 16 the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,
Genesis 10.17: 17 the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,
Genesis 10.18: 18 the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Afterward the families of the Canaanites were spread abroad.
Genesis 10.19: 19 The border of the Canaanites was from Sidon—as you go toward Gerar—to Gaza—as you go toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim—to Lasha.
Genesis 10.20: 20 These are the sons of Ham, after their families, according to their languages, in their lands and their nations.
Genesis 10.21: 21 Children were also born to Shem (the elder brother of Japheth), the father of all the children of Eber.
Genesis 10.22: 22 The sons of Shem were: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.
Genesis 10.23: 23 The sons of Aram were: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.
Genesis 10.24: 24 Arpachshad became the father of Shelah. Shelah became the father of Eber.
Genesis 10.25: 25 To Eber were born two sons. The name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided. His brother’s name was Joktan.
Genesis 10.26: 26 Joktan became the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,
Genesis 10.27: 27 Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,
Genesis 10.28: 28 Obal, Abimael, Sheba,
Genesis 10.29: 29 Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.
Genesis 10.30: 30 Their dwelling extended from Mesha, as you go toward Sephar, the mountain of the east.
Genesis 10.31: 31 These are the sons of Shem, by their families, according to their languages, lands, and nations.
Genesis 10.32: 32 These are the families of the sons of Noah, by their generations, according to their nations. The nations divided from these in the earth after the flood.
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Genesis 11.1: 1 The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.
Genesis 11.2: 2 As they traveled from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there.
Genesis 11.3: 3 They said to one another, “Come, let’s make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.
Genesis 11.4: 4 They said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let’s make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth.”
Genesis 11.5: 5 Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.
Genesis 11.6: 6 Yahweh said, “Behold, they are one people, and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.
Genesis 11.7: 7 Come, let’s go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”
Genesis 11.8: 8 So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.
Genesis 11.9: 9 Therefore its name was called Babel, because there Yahweh confused the language of all the earth. From there, Yahweh scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.
Genesis 11.10: 10 This is the history of the generations of Shem: Shem was one hundred years old when he became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood.
Genesis 11.11: 11 Shem lived five hundred years after he became the father of Arpachshad, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
Genesis 11.12: 12 Arpachshad lived thirty-five years and became the father of Shelah.
Genesis 11.13: 13 Arpachshad lived four hundred three years after he became the father of Shelah, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
Genesis 11.14: 14 Shelah lived thirty years, and became the father of Eber.
Genesis 11.15: 15 Shelah lived four hundred three years after he became the father of Eber, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
Genesis 11.16: 16 Eber lived thirty-four years, and became the father of Peleg.
Genesis 11.17: 17 Eber lived four hundred thirty years after he became the father of Peleg, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
Genesis 11.18: 18 Peleg lived thirty years, and became the father of Reu.
Genesis 11.19: 19 Peleg lived two hundred nine years after he became the father of Reu, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
Genesis 11.20: 20 Reu lived thirty-two years, and became the father of Serug.
Genesis 11.21: 21 Reu lived two hundred seven years after he became the father of Serug, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
Genesis 11.22: 22 Serug lived thirty years, and became the father of Nahor.
Genesis 11.23: 23 Serug lived two hundred years after he became the father of Nahor, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
Genesis 11.24: 24 Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and became the father of Terah.
Genesis 11.25: 25 Nahor lived one hundred nineteen years after he became the father of Terah, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
Genesis 11.26: 26 Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
Genesis 11.27: 27 Now this is the history of the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran became the father of Lot.
Genesis 11.28: 28 Haran died in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees, while his father Terah was still alive.
Genesis 11.29: 29 Abram and Nahor married wives. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran, who was also the father of Iscah.
Genesis 11.30: 30 Sarai was barren. She had no child.
Genesis 11.31: 31 Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife. They went from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. They came to Haran and lived there.
Genesis 11.32: 32 The days of Terah were two hundred five years. Terah died in Haran.
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Genesis 12.1: 1 Now Yahweh said to Abram, “Leave your country, and your relatives, and your father’s house, and go to the land that I will show you.
Genesis 12.2: 2 I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.
Genesis 12.3: 3 I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who treats you with contempt. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you.”
Genesis 12.4: 4 So Abram went, as Yahweh had told him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.
Genesis 12.5: 5 Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother’s son, all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people whom they had acquired in Haran, and they went to go into the land of Canaan. They entered into the land of Canaan.
Genesis 12.6: 6 Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time, Canaanites were in the land.
Genesis 12.7: 7 Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.”
He built an altar there to Yahweh, who had appeared to him.
Genesis 12.8: 8 He left from there to go to the mountain on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to Yahweh and called on Yahweh’s name.
Genesis 12.9: 9 Abram traveled, still going on toward the South.
Genesis 12.10: 10 There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was severe in the land.
Genesis 12.11: 11 When he had come near to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, “See now, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look at.
Genesis 12.12: 12 It will happen, when the Egyptians see you, that they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ They will kill me, but they will save you alive.
Genesis 12.13: 13 Please say that you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that my soul may live because of you.”
Genesis 12.14: 14 When Abram had come into Egypt, Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.
Genesis 12.15: 15 The princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.
Genesis 12.16: 16 He dealt well with Abram for her sake. He had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.
Genesis 12.17: 17 Yahweh afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.
Genesis 12.18: 18 Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this that you have done to me? Why didn’t you tell me that she was your wife?
Genesis 12.19: 19 Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her to be my wife? Now therefore, see your wife, take her, and go your way.”
Genesis 12.20: 20 Pharaoh commanded men concerning him, and they escorted him away with his wife and all that he had.
Genesis 13.0:
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Genesis 13.1: 1 Abram went up out of Egypt—he, his wife, all that he had, and Lot with him—into the South.
Genesis 13.2: 2 Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold.
Genesis 13.3: 3 He went on his journeys from the South as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,
Genesis 13.4: 4 to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first. There Abram called on Yahweh’s name.
Genesis 13.5: 5 Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks, herds, and tents.
Genesis 13.6: 6 The land was not able to bear them, that they might live together; for their possessions were so great that they couldn’t live together.
Genesis 13.7: 7 There was strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. The Canaanites and the Perizzites lived in the land at that time.
Genesis 13.8: 8 Abram said to Lot, “Please, let there be no strife between you and me, and between your herdsmen and my herdsmen; for we are relatives.
Genesis 13.9: 9 Isn’t the whole land before you? Please separate yourself from me. If you go to the left hand, then I will go to the right. Or if you go to the right hand, then I will go to the left.”
Genesis 13.10: 10 Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well-watered everywhere, before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar.
Genesis 13.11: 11 So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself. Lot traveled east, and they separated themselves from one other.
Genesis 13.12: 12 Abram lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived in the cities of the plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom.
Genesis 13.13: 13 Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against Yahweh.
Genesis 13.14: 14 Yahweh said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him, “Now, lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward,
Genesis 13.15: 15 for I will give all the land which you see to you and to your offspring forever.
Genesis 13.16: 16 I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can count the dust of the earth, then your offspring may also be counted.
Genesis 13.17: 17 Arise, walk through the land in its length and in its width; for I will give it to you.”
Genesis 13.18: 18 Abram moved his tent, and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to Yahweh.
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Genesis 14.1: 1 In the days of Amraphel, king of Shinar; Arioch, king of Ellasar; Chedorlaomer, king of Elam; and Tidal, king of Goiim,
Genesis 14.2: 2 they made war with Bera, king of Sodom; Birsha, king of Gomorrah; Shinab, king of Admah; Shemeber, king of Zeboiim; and the king of Bela (also called Zoar).
Genesis 14.3: 3 All these joined together in the valley of Siddim (also called the Salt Sea).
Genesis 14.4: 4 They served Chedorlaomer for twelve years, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.
Genesis 14.5: 5 In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer came, and the kings who were with him, and struck the Rephaim in Ashteroth Karnaim, the Zuzim in Ham, the Emim in Shaveh Kiriathaim,
Genesis 14.6: 6 and the Horites in their Mount Seir, to El Paran, which is by the wilderness.
Genesis 14.7: 7 They returned, and came to En Mishpat (also called Kadesh), and struck all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that lived in Hazazon Tamar.
Genesis 14.8: 8 The king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (also called Zoar) went out; and they set the battle in array against them in the valley of Siddim
Genesis 14.9: 9 against Chedorlaomer king of Elam, Tidal king of Goiim, Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings against the five.
Genesis 14.10: 10 Now the valley of Siddim was full of tar pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and some fell there. Those who remained fled to the hills.
Genesis 14.11: 11 They took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their food, and went their way.
Genesis 14.12: 12 They took Lot, Abram’s brother’s son, who lived in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.
Genesis 14.13: 13 One who had escaped came and told Abram, the Hebrew. At that time, he lived by the oaks of Mamre, the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and brother of Aner. They were allies of Abram.
Genesis 14.14: 14 When Abram heard that his relative was taken captive, he led out his three hundred eighteen trained men, born in his house, and pursued as far as Dan.
Genesis 14.15: 15 He divided himself against them by night, he and his servants, and struck them, and pursued them to Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus.
Genesis 14.16: 16 He brought back all the goods, and also brought back his relative Lot and his goods, and the women also, and the other people.
Genesis 14.17: 17 The king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, at the valley of Shaveh (that is, the King’s Valley).
Genesis 14.18: 18 Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. He was priest of God Most High.
Genesis 14.19: 19 He blessed him, and said, “Blessed be Abram of God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth.
Genesis 14.20: 20 Blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand.”
Abram gave him a tenth of all.
Genesis 14.21: 21 The king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the people, and take the goods for yourself.”
Genesis 14.22: 22 Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have lifted up my hand to Yahweh, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth,
Genesis 14.23: 23 that I will not take a thread nor a sandal strap nor anything that is yours, lest you should say, ‘I have made Abram rich.’
Genesis 14.24: 24 I will accept nothing from you except that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men who went with me: Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre. Let them take their portion.”
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Genesis 15.1: 1 After these things Yahweh’s word came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Don’t be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.”
Genesis 15.2: 2 Abram said, “Lord Yahweh, what will you give me, since I go childless, and he who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?”
Genesis 15.3: 3 Abram said, “Behold, you have given no children to me: and, behold, one born in my house is my heir.”
Genesis 15.4: 4 Behold, Yahweh’s word came to him, saying, “This man will not be your heir, but he who will come out of your own body will be your heir.”
Genesis 15.5: 5 Yahweh brought him outside, and said, “Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” He said to Abram, “So your offspring will be.”
Genesis 15.6: 6 He believed in Yahweh, who credited it to him for righteousness.
Genesis 15.7: 7 He said to Abram, “I am Yahweh who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land to inherit it.”
Genesis 15.8: 8 He said, “Lord Yahweh, how will I know that I will inherit it?”
Genesis 15.9: 9 He said to him, “Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.”
Genesis 15.10: 10 He brought him all these, and divided them in the middle, and laid each half opposite the other; but he didn’t divide the birds.
Genesis 15.11: 11 The birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.
Genesis 15.12: 12 When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. Now terror and great darkness fell on him.
Genesis 15.13: 13 He said to Abram, “Know for sure that your offspring will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.
Genesis 15.14: 14 I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve. Afterward they will come out with great wealth;
Genesis 15.15: 15 but you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried at a good old age.
Genesis 15.16: 16 In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.”
Genesis 15.17: 17 It came to pass that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold, a smoking furnace and a flaming torch passed between these pieces.
Genesis 15.18: 18 In that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, saying, “I have given this land to your offspring, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:
Genesis 15.19: 19 the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites,
Genesis 15.20: 20 the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim,
Genesis 15.21: 21 the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.”
Genesis 16.0:
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Genesis 16.1: 1 Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, bore him no children. She had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
Genesis 16.2: 2 Sarai said to Abram, “See now, Yahweh has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my servant. It may be that I will obtain children by her.” Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.
Genesis 16.3: 3 Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her servant, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife.
Genesis 16.4: 4 He went in to Hagar, and she conceived. When she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.
Genesis 16.5: 5 Sarai said to Abram, “This wrong is your fault. I gave my servant into your bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, she despised me. May Yahweh judge between me and you.”
Genesis 16.6: 6 But Abram said to Sarai, “Behold, your maid is in your hand. Do to her whatever is good in your eyes.” Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her face.
Genesis 16.7: 7 Yahweh’s angel found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain on the way to Shur.
Genesis 16.8: 8 He said, “Hagar, Sarai’s servant, where did you come from? Where are you going?”
She said, “I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai.”
Genesis 16.9: 9 Yahweh’s angel said to her, “Return to your mistress, and submit yourself under her hands.”
Genesis 16.10: 10 Yahweh’s angel said to her, “I will greatly multiply your offspring, that they will not be counted for multitude.”
Genesis 16.11: 11 Yahweh’s angel said to her, “Behold, you are with child, and will bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael, because Yahweh has heard your affliction.
Genesis 16.12: 12 He will be like a wild donkey among men. His hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him. He will live opposed to all of his brothers.”
Genesis 16.13: 13 She called the name of Yahweh who spoke to her, “You are a God who sees,” for she said, “Have I even stayed alive after seeing him?”
Genesis 16.14: 14 Therefore the well was called Beer Lahai Roi. Behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.
Genesis 16.15: 15 Hagar bore a son for Abram. Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.
Genesis 16.16: 16 Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.
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Genesis 17.1: 1 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me and be blameless.
Genesis 17.2: 2 I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly.”
Genesis 17.3: 3 Abram fell on his face. God talked with him, saying,
Genesis 17.4: 4 “As for me, behold, my covenant is with you. You will be the father of a multitude of nations.
Genesis 17.5: 5 Your name will no more be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham; for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.
Genesis 17.6: 6 I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you. Kings will come out of you.
Genesis 17.7: 7 I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your offspring after you.
Genesis 17.8: 8 I will give to you, and to your offspring after you, the land where you are traveling, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. I will be their God.”
Genesis 17.9: 9 God said to Abraham, “As for you, you will keep my covenant, you and your offspring after you throughout their generations.
Genesis 17.10: 10 This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your offspring after you. Every male among you shall be circumcised.
Genesis 17.11: 11 You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin. It will be a token of the covenant between me and you.
Genesis 17.12: 12 He who is eight days old will be circumcised among you, every male throughout your generations, he who is born in the house, or bought with money from any foreigner who is not of your offspring.
Genesis 17.13: 13 He who is born in your house, and he who is bought with your money, must be circumcised. My covenant will be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.
Genesis 17.14: 14 The uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his people. He has broken my covenant.”
Genesis 17.15: 15 God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but her name will be Sarah.
Genesis 17.16: 16 I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. Yes, I will bless her, and she will be a mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her.”
Genesis 17.17: 17 Then Abraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, “Will a child be born to him who is one hundred years old? Will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?”
Genesis 17.18: 18 Abraham said to God, “Oh that Ishmael might live before you!”
Genesis 17.19: 19 God said, “No, but Sarah, your wife, will bear you a son. You shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his offspring after him.
Genesis 17.20: 20 As for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He will become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.
Genesis 17.21: 21 But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time next year.”
Genesis 17.22: 22 When he finished talking with him, God went up from Abraham.
Genesis 17.23: 23 Abraham took Ishmael his son, all who were born in his house, and all who were bought with his money: every male among the men of Abraham’s house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the same day, as God had said to him.
Genesis 17.24: 24 Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
Genesis 17.25: 25 Ishmael, his son, was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
Genesis 17.26: 26 In the same day both Abraham and Ishmael, his son, were circumcised.
Genesis 17.27: 27 All the men of his house, those born in the house, and those bought with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him.
Genesis 18.0:
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Genesis 18.1: 1 Yahweh appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day.
Genesis 18.2: 2 He lifted up his eyes and looked, and saw that three men stood near him. When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the earth,
Genesis 18.3: 3 and said, “My lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, please don’t go away from your servant.
Genesis 18.4: 4 Now let a little water be fetched, wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.
Genesis 18.5: 5 I will get a piece of bread so you can refresh your heart. After that you may go your way, now that you have come to your servant.”
They said, “Very well, do as you have said.”
Genesis 18.6: 6 Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, “Quickly prepare three seahs of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes.”
Genesis 18.7: 7 Abraham ran to the herd, and fetched a tender and good calf, and gave it to the servant. He hurried to dress it.
Genesis 18.8: 8 He took butter, milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them. He stood by them under the tree, and they ate.
Genesis 18.9: 9 They asked him, “Where is Sarah, your wife?”
He said, “There, in the tent.”
Genesis 18.10: 10 He said, “I will certainly return to you at about this time next year; and behold, Sarah your wife will have a son.”
Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him.
Genesis 18.11: 11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.
Genesis 18.12: 12 Sarah laughed within herself, saying, “After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?”
Genesis 18.13: 13 Yahweh said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Will I really bear a child when I am old?’
Genesis 18.14: 14 Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son.”
Genesis 18.15: 15 Then Sarah denied it, saying, “I didn’t laugh,” for she was afraid.
He said, “No, but you did laugh.”
Genesis 18.16: 16 The men rose up from there, and looked toward Sodom. Abraham went with them to see them on their way.
Genesis 18.17: 17 Yahweh said, “Will I hide from Abraham what I do,
Genesis 18.18: 18 since Abraham will surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?
Genesis 18.19: 19 For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him.”
Genesis 18.20: 20 Yahweh said, “Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,
Genesis 18.21: 21 I will go down now, and see whether their deeds are as bad as the reports which have come to me. If not, I will know.”
Genesis 18.22: 22 The men turned from there, and went toward Sodom, but Abraham stood yet before Yahweh.
Genesis 18.23: 23 Abraham came near, and said, “Will you consume the righteous with the wicked?
Genesis 18.24: 24 What if there are fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous who are in it?
Genesis 18.25: 25 May it be far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn’t the Judge of all the earth do right?”
Genesis 18.26: 26 Yahweh said, “If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare the whole place for their sake.”
Genesis 18.27: 27 Abraham answered, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, although I am dust and ashes.
Genesis 18.28: 28 What if there will lack five of the fifty righteous? Will you destroy all the city for lack of five?”
He said, “I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there.”
Genesis 18.29: 29 He spoke to him yet again, and said, “What if there are forty found there?”
He said, “I will not do it for the forty’s sake.”
Genesis 18.30: 30 He said, “Oh don’t let the Lord be angry, and I will speak. What if there are thirty found there?”
He said, “I will not do it if I find thirty there.”
Genesis 18.31: 31 He said, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord. What if there are twenty found there?”
He said, “I will not destroy it for the twenty’s sake.”
Genesis 18.32: 32 He said, “Oh don’t let the Lord be angry, and I will speak just once more. What if ten are found there?”
He said, “I will not destroy it for the ten’s sake.”
Genesis 18.33: 33 Yahweh went his way, as soon as he had finished communing with Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.
Genesis 19.0:
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Genesis 19.1: 1 The two angels came to Sodom at evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. He bowed himself with his face to the earth,
Genesis 19.2: 2 and he said, “See now, my lords, please come into your servant’s house, stay all night, wash your feet, and you can rise up early, and go on your way.”
They said, “No, but we will stay in the street all night.”
Genesis 19.3: 3 He urged them greatly, and they came in with him, and entered into his house. He made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.
Genesis 19.4: 4 But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter.
Genesis 19.5: 5 They called to Lot, and said to him, “Where are the men who came in to you this night? Bring them out to us, that we may have sex with them.”
Genesis 19.6: 6 Lot went out to them through the door, and shut the door after himself.
Genesis 19.7: 7 He said, “Please, my brothers, don’t act so wickedly.
Genesis 19.8: 8 See now, I have two virgin daughters. Please let me bring them out to you, and you may do to them what seems good to you. Only don’t do anything to these men, because they have come under the shadow of my roof.”
Genesis 19.9: 9 They said, “Stand back!” Then they said, “This one fellow came in to live as a foreigner, and he appoints himself a judge. Now we will deal worse with you than with them!” They pressed hard on the man Lot, and came near to break the door.
Genesis 19.10: 10 But the men reached out their hand, and brought Lot into the house to them, and shut the door.
Genesis 19.11: 11 They struck the men who were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves to find the door.
Genesis 19.12: 12 The men said to Lot, “Do you have anybody else here? Sons-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and whomever you have in the city, bring them out of the place:
Genesis 19.13: 13 for we will destroy this place, because the outcry against them has grown so great before Yahweh that Yahweh has sent us to destroy it.”
Genesis 19.14: 14 Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters, and said, “Get up! Get out of this place, for Yahweh will destroy the city!”
But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking.
Genesis 19.15: 15 When the morning came, then the angels hurried Lot, saying, “Get up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the iniquity of the city.”
Genesis 19.16: 16 But he lingered; and the men grabbed his hand, his wife’s hand, and his two daughters’ hands, Yahweh being merciful to him; and they took him out, and set him outside of the city.
Genesis 19.17: 17 It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, “Escape for your life! Don’t look behind you, and don’t stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be consumed!”
Genesis 19.18: 18 Lot said to them, “Oh, not so, my lord.
Genesis 19.19: 19 See now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your loving kindness, which you have shown to me in saving my life. I can’t escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die.
Genesis 19.20: 20 See now, this city is near to flee to, and it is a little one. Oh let me escape there (isn’t it a little one?), and my soul will live.”
Genesis 19.21: 21 He said to him, “Behold, I have granted your request concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken.
Genesis 19.22: 22 Hurry, escape there, for I can’t do anything until you get there.” Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
Genesis 19.23: 23 The sun had risen on the earth when Lot came to Zoar.
Genesis 19.24: 24 Then Yahweh rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from Yahweh out of the sky.
Genesis 19.25: 25 He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew on the ground.
Genesis 19.26: 26 But Lot’s wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
Genesis 19.27: 27 Abraham went up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before Yahweh.
Genesis 19.28: 28 He looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and saw that the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.
Genesis 19.29: 29 When God destroyed the cities of the plain, God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.
Genesis 19.30: 30 Lot went up out of Zoar, and lived in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he was afraid to live in Zoar. He lived in a cave with his two daughters.
Genesis 19.31: 31 The firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in to us in the way of all the earth.
Genesis 19.32: 32 Come, let’s make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve our father’s family line.”
Genesis 19.33: 33 They made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father. He didn’t know when she lay down, nor when she arose.
Genesis 19.34: 34 It came to pass on the next day, that the firstborn said to the younger, “Behold, I lay last night with my father. Let’s make him drink wine again tonight. You go in, and lie with him, that we may preserve our father’s family line.”
Genesis 19.35: 35 They made their father drink wine that night also. The younger went and lay with him. He didn’t know when she lay down, nor when she got up.
Genesis 19.36: 36 Thus both of Lot’s daughters were with child by their father.
Genesis 19.37: 37 The firstborn bore a son, and named him Moab. He is the father of the Moabites to this day.
Genesis 19.38: 38 The younger also bore a son, and called his name Ben Ammi. He is the father of the children of Ammon to this day.
Genesis 20.0:
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Genesis 20.1: 1 Abraham traveled from there toward the land of the South, and lived between Kadesh and Shur. He lived as a foreigner in Gerar.
Genesis 20.2: 2 Abraham said about Sarah his wife, “She is my sister.” Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.
Genesis 20.3: 3 But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him, “Behold, you are a dead man, because of the woman whom you have taken; for she is a man’s wife.”
Genesis 20.4: 4 Now Abimelech had not come near her. He said, “Lord, will you kill even a righteous nation?
Genesis 20.5: 5 Didn’t he tell me, ‘She is my sister’? She, even she herself, said, ‘He is my brother.’ I have done this in the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands.”
Genesis 20.6: 6 God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also withheld you from sinning against me. Therefore I didn’t allow you to touch her.
Genesis 20.7: 7 Now therefore, restore the man’s wife. For he is a prophet, and he will pray for you, and you will live. If you don’t restore her, know for sure that you will die, you, and all who are yours.”
Genesis 20.8: 8 Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ear. The men were very scared.
Genesis 20.9: 9 Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, “What have you done to us? How have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done deeds to me that ought not to be done!”
Genesis 20.10: 10 Abimelech said to Abraham, “What did you see, that you have done this thing?”
Genesis 20.11: 11 Abraham said, “Because I thought, ‘Surely the fear of God is not in this place. They will kill me for my wife’s sake.’
Genesis 20.12: 12 Besides, she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.
Genesis 20.13: 13 When God caused me to wander from my father’s house, I said to her, ‘This is your kindness which you shall show to me. Everywhere that we go, say of me, “He is my brother.”’”
Genesis 20.14: 14 Abimelech took sheep and cattle, male servants and female servants, and gave them to Abraham, and restored Sarah, his wife, to him.
Genesis 20.15: 15 Abimelech said, “Behold, my land is before you. Dwell where it pleases you.”
Genesis 20.16: 16 To Sarah he said, “Behold, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver. Behold, it is for you a covering of the eyes to all that are with you. In front of all you are vindicated.”
Genesis 20.17: 17 Abraham prayed to God. God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his female servants, and they bore children.
Genesis 20.18: 18 For Yahweh had closed up tight all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.
Genesis 21.0:
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Genesis 21.1: 1 Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said, and Yahweh did to Sarah as he had spoken.
Genesis 21.2: 2 Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.
Genesis 21.3: 3 Abraham called his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac.
Genesis 21.4: 4 Abraham circumcised his son, Isaac, when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.
Genesis 21.5: 5 Abraham was one hundred years old when his son, Isaac, was born to him.
Genesis 21.6: 6 Sarah said, “God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me.”
Genesis 21.7: 7 She said, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old age.”
Genesis 21.8: 8 The child grew and was weaned. Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.
Genesis 21.9: 9 Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.
Genesis 21.10: 10 Therefore she said to Abraham, “Cast out this servant and her son! For the son of this servant will not be heir with my son, Isaac.”
Genesis 21.11: 11 The thing was very grievous in Abraham’s sight on account of his son.
Genesis 21.12: 12 God said to Abraham, “Don’t let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your servant. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For your offspring will be named through Isaac.
Genesis 21.13: 13 I will also make a nation of the son of the servant, because he is your child.”
Genesis 21.14: 14 Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a container of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder; and gave her the child, and sent her away. She departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.
Genesis 21.15: 15 The water in the container was spent, and she put the child under one of the shrubs.
Genesis 21.16: 16 She went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a bow shot away. For she said, “Don’t let me see the death of the child.” She sat opposite him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.
Genesis 21.17: 17 God heard the voice of the boy.
The angel of God called to Hagar out of the sky, and said to her, “What troubles you, Hagar? Don’t be afraid. For God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.
Genesis 21.18: 18 Get up, lift up the boy, and hold him with your hand. For I will make him a great nation.”
Genesis 21.19: 19 God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. She went, filled the container with water, and gave the boy a drink.
Genesis 21.20: 20 God was with the boy, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness, and as he grew up, became an archer.
Genesis 21.21: 21 He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother got a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.
Genesis 21.22: 22 At that time, Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his army spoke to Abraham, saying, “God is with you in all that you do.
Genesis 21.23: 23 Now, therefore, swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son’s son. But according to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall do to me, and to the land in which you have lived as a foreigner.”
Genesis 21.24: 24 Abraham said, “I will swear.”
Genesis 21.25: 25 Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away.
Genesis 21.26: 26 Abimelech said, “I don’t know who has done this thing. You didn’t tell me, and I didn’t hear of it until today.”
Genesis 21.27: 27 Abraham took sheep and cattle, and gave them to Abimelech. Those two made a covenant.
Genesis 21.28: 28 Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.
Genesis 21.29: 29 Abimelech said to Abraham, “What do these seven ewe lambs, which you have set by themselves, mean?”
Genesis 21.30: 30 He said, “You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand, that it may be a witness to me, that I have dug this well.”
Genesis 21.31: 31 Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because they both swore an oath there.
Genesis 21.32: 32 So they made a covenant at Beersheba. Abimelech rose up with Phicol, the captain of his army, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.
Genesis 21.33: 33 Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and called there on the name of Yahweh, the Everlasting God.
Genesis 21.34: 34 Abraham lived as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines many days.
Genesis 22.0:
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Genesis 22.1: 1 After these things, God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!”
He said, “Here I am.”
Genesis 22.2: 2 He said, “Now take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go into the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will tell you of.”
Genesis 22.3: 3 Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his donkey; and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son. He split the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went to the place of which God had told him.
Genesis 22.4: 4 On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place far off.
Genesis 22.5: 5 Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey. The boy and I will go over there. We will worship, and come back to you.”
Genesis 22.6: 6 Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son. He took in his hand the fire and the knife. They both went together.
Genesis 22.7: 7 Isaac spoke to Abraham his father, and said, “My father?”
He said, “Here I am, my son.”
He said, “Here is the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?”
Genesis 22.8: 8 Abraham said, “God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son.” So they both went together.
Genesis 22.9: 9 They came to the place which God had told him of. Abraham built the altar there, and laid the wood in order, bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar, on the wood.
Genesis 22.10: 10 Abraham stretched out his hand, and took the knife to kill his son.
Genesis 22.11: 11 Yahweh’s angel called to him out of the sky, and said, “Abraham, Abraham!”
He said, “Here I am.”
Genesis 22.12: 12 He said, “Don’t lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”
Genesis 22.13: 13 Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and saw that behind him was a ram caught in the thicket by his horns. Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering instead of his son.
Genesis 22.14: 14 Abraham called the name of that place “Yahweh Will Provide”. As it is said to this day, “On Yahweh’s mountain, it will be provided.”
Genesis 22.15: 15 Yahweh’s angel called to Abraham a second time out of the sky,
Genesis 22.16: 16 and said, “‘I have sworn by myself,’ says Yahweh, ‘because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son,
Genesis 22.17: 17 that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your offspring greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand which is on the seashore. Your offspring will possess the gate of his enemies.
Genesis 22.18: 18 All the nations of the earth will be blessed by your offspring, because you have obeyed my voice.’”
Genesis 22.19: 19 So Abraham returned to his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beersheba. Abraham lived at Beersheba.
Genesis 22.20: 20 After these things, Abraham was told, “Behold, Milcah, she also has borne children to your brother Nahor:
Genesis 22.21: 21 Uz his firstborn, Buz his brother, Kemuel the father of Aram,
Genesis 22.22: 22 Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel.”
Genesis 22.23: 23 Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.
Genesis 22.24: 24 His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.
Genesis 23.0:
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Genesis 23.1: 1 Sarah lived one hundred twenty-seven years. This was the length of Sarah’s life.
Genesis 23.2: 2 Sarah died in Kiriath Arba (also called Hebron), in the land of Canaan. Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
Genesis 23.3: 3 Abraham rose up from before his dead and spoke to the children of Heth, saying,
Genesis 23.4: 4 “I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”
Genesis 23.5: 5 The children of Heth answered Abraham, saying to him,
Genesis 23.6: 6 “Hear us, my lord. You are a prince of God among us. Bury your dead in the best of our tombs. None of us will withhold from you his tomb. Bury your dead.”
Genesis 23.7: 7 Abraham rose up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, to the children of Heth.
Genesis 23.8: 8 He talked with them, saying, “If you agree that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and entreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,
Genesis 23.9: 9 that he may sell me the cave of Machpelah, which he has, which is in the end of his field. For the full price let him sell it to me among you as a possession for a burial place.”
Genesis 23.10: 10 Now Ephron was sitting in the middle of the children of Heth. Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the children of Heth, even of all who went in at the gate of his city, saying,
Genesis 23.11: 11 “No, my lord, hear me. I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. In the presence of the children of my people I give it to you. Bury your dead.”
Genesis 23.12: 12 Abraham bowed himself down before the people of the land.
Genesis 23.13: 13 He spoke to Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, “But if you will, please hear me. I will give the price of the field. Take it from me, and I will bury my dead there.”
Genesis 23.14: 14 Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him,
Genesis 23.15: 15 “My lord, listen to me. What is a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver between me and you? Therefore bury your dead.”
Genesis 23.16: 16 Abraham listened to Ephron. Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the hearing of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the current merchants’ standard.
Genesis 23.17: 17 So the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, the cave which was in it, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all of its borders, were deeded
Genesis 23.18: 18 to Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all who went in at the gate of his city.
Genesis 23.19: 19 After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre (that is, Hebron), in the land of Canaan.
Genesis 23.20: 20 The field, and the cave that is in it, were deeded to Abraham by the children of Heth as a possession for a burial place.
Genesis 24.0:
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Genesis 24.1: 1 Abraham was old, and well advanced in age. Yahweh had blessed Abraham in all things.
Genesis 24.2: 2 Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that he had, “Please put your hand under my thigh.
Genesis 24.3: 3 I will make you swear by Yahweh, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live.
Genesis 24.4: 4 But you shall go to my country, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son Isaac.”
Genesis 24.5: 5 The servant said to him, “What if the woman isn’t willing to follow me to this land? Must I bring your son again to the land you came from?”
Genesis 24.6: 6 Abraham said to him, “Beware that you don’t bring my son there again.
Genesis 24.7: 7 Yahweh, the God of heaven—who took me from my father’s house, and from the land of my birth, who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, ‘I will give this land to your offspring—he will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.
Genesis 24.8: 8 If the woman isn’t willing to follow you, then you shall be clear from this oath to me. Only you shall not bring my son there again.”
Genesis 24.9: 9 The servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and swore to him concerning this matter.
Genesis 24.10: 10 The servant took ten of his master’s camels, and departed, having a variety of good things of his master’s with him. He arose, and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor.
Genesis 24.11: 11 He made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time that women go out to draw water.
Genesis 24.12: 12 He said, “Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, please give me success today, and show kindness to my master Abraham.
Genesis 24.13: 13 Behold, I am standing by the spring of water. The daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water.
Genesis 24.14: 14 Let it happen, that the young lady to whom I will say, ‘Please let down your pitcher, that I may drink,’ then she says, ‘Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink,’—let her be the one you have appointed for your servant Isaac. By this I will know that you have shown kindness to my master.”
Genesis 24.15: 15 Before he had finished speaking, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham’s brother, with her pitcher on her shoulder.
Genesis 24.16: 16 The young lady was very beautiful to look at, a virgin. No man had known her. She went down to the spring, filled her pitcher, and came up.
Genesis 24.17: 17 The servant ran to meet her, and said, “Please give me a drink, a little water from your pitcher.”
Genesis 24.18: 18 She said, “Drink, my lord.” She hurried, and let down her pitcher on her hand, and gave him a drink.
Genesis 24.19: 19 When she had finished giving him a drink, she said, “I will also draw for your camels, until they have finished drinking.”
Genesis 24.20: 20 She hurried, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again to the well to draw, and drew for all his camels.
Genesis 24.21: 21 The man looked steadfastly at her, remaining silent, to know whether Yahweh had made his journey prosperous or not.
Genesis 24.22: 22 As the camels had done drinking, the man took a golden ring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold,
Genesis 24.23: 23 and said, “Whose daughter are you? Please tell me. Is there room in your father’s house for us to stay?”
Genesis 24.24: 24 She said to him, “I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor.”
Genesis 24.25: 25 She said moreover to him, “We have both straw and feed enough, and room to lodge in.”
Genesis 24.26: 26 The man bowed his head, and worshiped Yahweh.
Genesis 24.27: 27 He said, “Blessed be Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his loving kindness and his truth toward my master. As for me, Yahweh has led me on the way to the house of my master’s relatives.”
Genesis 24.28: 28 The young lady ran, and told her mother’s house about these words.
Genesis 24.29: 29 Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban. Laban ran out to the man, to the spring.
Genesis 24.30: 30 When he saw the ring, and the bracelets on his sister’s hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, “This is what the man said to me,” he came to the man. Behold, he was standing by the camels at the spring.
Genesis 24.31: 31 He said, “Come in, you blessed of Yahweh. Why do you stand outside? For I have prepared the house, and room for the camels.”
Genesis 24.32: 32 The man came into the house, and he unloaded the camels. He gave straw and feed for the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with him.
Genesis 24.33: 33 Food was set before him to eat, but he said, “I will not eat until I have told my message.”
Laban said, “Speak on.”
Genesis 24.34: 34 He said, “I am Abraham’s servant.
Genesis 24.35: 35 Yahweh has blessed my master greatly. He has become great. Yahweh has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male servants and female servants, and camels and donkeys.
Genesis 24.36: 36 Sarah, my master’s wife, bore a son to my master when she was old. He has given all that he has to him.
Genesis 24.37: 37 My master made me swear, saying, ‘You shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I live,
Genesis 24.38: 38 but you shall go to my father’s house, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son.’
Genesis 24.39: 39 I asked my master, ‘What if the woman will not follow me?’
Genesis 24.40: 40 He said to me, ‘Yahweh, before whom I walk, will send his angel with you, and prosper your way. You shall take a wife for my son from my relatives, and of my father’s house.
Genesis 24.41: 41 Then you will be clear from my oath, when you come to my relatives. If they don’t give her to you, you shall be clear from my oath.’
Genesis 24.42: 42 I came today to the spring, and said, ‘Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, if now you do prosper my way which I go—
Genesis 24.43: 43 behold, I am standing by this spring of water. Let it happen, that the maiden who comes out to draw, to whom I will say, “Please give me a little water from your pitcher to drink,”
Genesis 24.44: 44 then she tells me, “Drink, and I will also draw for your camels,”—let her be the woman whom Yahweh has appointed for my master’s son.’
Genesis 24.45: 45 Before I had finished speaking in my heart, behold, Rebekah came out with her pitcher on her shoulder. She went down to the spring, and drew. I said to her, ‘Please let me drink.’
Genesis 24.46: 46 She hurried and let down her pitcher from her shoulder, and said, ‘Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink.’ So I drank, and she also gave the camels a drink.
Genesis 24.47: 47 I asked her, and said, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ She said, ‘The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor’s son, whom Milcah bore to him.’ I put the ring on her nose, and the bracelets on her hands.
Genesis 24.48: 48 I bowed my head, and worshiped Yahweh, and blessed Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me in the right way to take my master’s brother’s daughter for his son.
Genesis 24.49: 49 Now if you will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me. If not, tell me, that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left.”
Genesis 24.50: 50 Then Laban and Bethuel answered, “The thing proceeds from Yahweh. We can’t speak to you bad or good.
Genesis 24.51: 51 Behold, Rebekah is before you. Take her, and go, and let her be your master’s son’s wife, as Yahweh has spoken.”
Genesis 24.52: 52 When Abraham’s servant heard their words, he bowed himself down to the earth to Yahweh.
Genesis 24.53: 53 The servant brought out jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing, and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave precious things to her brother and her mother.
Genesis 24.54: 54 They ate and drank, he and the men who were with him, and stayed all night. They rose up in the morning, and he said, “Send me away to my master.”
Genesis 24.55: 55 Her brother and her mother said, “Let the young lady stay with us a few days, at least ten. After that she will go.”
Genesis 24.56: 56 He said to them, “Don’t hinder me, since Yahweh has prospered my way. Send me away that I may go to my master.”
Genesis 24.57: 57 They said, “We will call the young lady, and ask her.”
Genesis 24.58: 58 They called Rebekah, and said to her, “Will you go with this man?”
She said, “I will go.”
Genesis 24.59: 59 They sent away Rebekah, their sister, with her nurse, Abraham’s servant, and his men.
Genesis 24.60: 60 They blessed Rebekah, and said to her, “Our sister, may you be the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let your offspring possess the gate of those who hate them.”
Genesis 24.61: 61 Rebekah arose with her ladies. They rode on the camels, and followed the man. The servant took Rebekah, and went his way.
Genesis 24.62: 62 Isaac came from the way of Beer Lahai Roi, for he lived in the land of the South.
Genesis 24.63: 63 Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the evening. He lifted up his eyes and looked. Behold, there were camels coming.
Genesis 24.64: 64 Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she got off the camel.
Genesis 24.65: 65 She said to the servant, “Who is the man who is walking in the field to meet us?”
The servant said, “It is my master.”
She took her veil, and covered herself.
Genesis 24.66: 66 The servant told Isaac all the things that he had done.
Genesis 24.67: 67 Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.
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Genesis 25.1: 1 Abraham took another wife, and her name was Keturah.
Genesis 25.2: 2 She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.
Genesis 25.3: 3 Jokshan became the father of Sheba, and Dedan. The sons of Dedan were Asshurim, Letushim, and Leummim.
Genesis 25.4: 4 The sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah.
Genesis 25.5: 5 Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac,
Genesis 25.6: 6 but Abraham gave gifts to the sons of Abraham’s concubines. While he still lived, he sent them away from Isaac his son, eastward, to the east country.
Genesis 25.7: 7 These are the days of the years of Abraham’s life which he lived: one hundred seventy-five years.
Genesis 25.8: 8 Abraham gave up his spirit, and died at a good old age, an old man, and full of years, and was gathered to his people.
Genesis 25.9: 9 Isaac and Ishmael, his sons, buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron, the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is near Mamre,
Genesis 25.10: 10 the field which Abraham purchased from the children of Heth. Abraham was buried there with Sarah, his wife.
Genesis 25.11: 11 After the death of Abraham, God blessed Isaac, his son. Isaac lived by Beer Lahai Roi.
Genesis 25.12: 12 Now this is the history of the generations of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s servant, bore to Abraham.
Genesis 25.13: 13 These are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to the order of their birth: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth, then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,
Genesis 25.14: 14 Mishma, Dumah, Massa,
Genesis 25.15: 15 Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.
Genesis 25.16: 16 These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their villages, and by their encampments: twelve princes, according to their nations.
Genesis 25.17: 17 These are the years of the life of Ishmael: one hundred thirty-seven years. He gave up his spirit and died, and was gathered to his people.
Genesis 25.18: 18 They lived from Havilah to Shur that is before Egypt, as you go toward Assyria. He lived opposite all his relatives.
Genesis 25.19: 19 This is the history of the generations of Isaac, Abraham’s son. Abraham became the father of Isaac.
Genesis 25.20: 20 Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan Aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian, to be his wife.
Genesis 25.21: 21 Isaac entreated Yahweh for his wife, because she was barren. Yahweh was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
Genesis 25.22: 22 The children struggled together within her. She said, “If it is like this, why do I live?” She went to inquire of Yahweh.
Genesis 25.23: 23 Yahweh said to her,
“Two nations are in your womb.
Two peoples will be separated from your body.
The one people will be stronger than the other people.
The elder will serve the younger.”
Genesis 25.24: 24 When her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.
Genesis 25.25: 25 The first came out red all over, like a hairy garment. They named him Esau.
Genesis 25.26: 26 After that, his brother came out, and his hand had hold on Esau’s heel. He was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.
Genesis 25.27: 27 The boys grew. Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field. Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.
Genesis 25.28: 28 Now Isaac loved Esau, because he ate his venison. Rebekah loved Jacob.
Genesis 25.29: 29 Jacob boiled stew. Esau came in from the field, and he was famished.
Genesis 25.30: 30 Esau said to Jacob, “Please feed me with some of that red stew, for I am famished.” Therefore his name was called Edom.
Genesis 25.31: 31 Jacob said, “First, sell me your birthright.”
Genesis 25.32: 32 Esau said, “Behold, I am about to die. What good is the birthright to me?”
Genesis 25.33: 33 Jacob said, “Swear to me first.”
He swore to him. He sold his birthright to Jacob.
Genesis 25.34: 34 Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew. He ate and drank, rose up, and went his way. So Esau despised his birthright.
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Genesis 26.1: 1 There was a famine in the land, in addition to the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar.
Genesis 26.2: 2 Yahweh appeared to him, and said, “Don’t go down into Egypt. Live in the land I will tell you about.
Genesis 26.3: 3 Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For I will give to you, and to your offspring, all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.
Genesis 26.4: 4 I will multiply your offspring as the stars of the sky, and will give all these lands to your offspring. In your offspring all the nations of the earth will be blessed,
Genesis 26.5: 5 because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”
Genesis 26.6: 6 Isaac lived in Gerar.
Genesis 26.7: 7 The men of the place asked him about his wife. He said, “She is my sister,” for he was afraid to say, “My wife”, lest, he thought, “the men of the place might kill me for Rebekah, because she is beautiful to look at.”
Genesis 26.8: 8 When he had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was caressing Rebekah, his wife.
Genesis 26.9: 9 Abimelech called Isaac, and said, “Behold, surely she is your wife. Why did you say, ‘She is my sister?’”
Isaac said to him, “Because I said, ‘Lest I die because of her.’”
Genesis 26.10: 10 Abimelech said, “What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us!”
Genesis 26.11: 11 Abimelech commanded all the people, saying, “He who touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death.”
Genesis 26.12: 12 Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. Yahweh blessed him.
Genesis 26.13: 13 The man grew great, and grew more and more until he became very great.
Genesis 26.14: 14 He had possessions of flocks, possessions of herds, and a great household. The Philistines envied him.
Genesis 26.15: 15 Now all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped, and filled with earth.
Genesis 26.16: 16 Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go away from us, for you are much mightier than we.”
Genesis 26.17: 17 Isaac departed from there, encamped in the valley of Gerar, and lived there.
Genesis 26.18: 18 Isaac dug again the wells of water, which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father, for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham. He called their names after the names by which his father had called them.
Genesis 26.19: 19 Isaac’s servants dug in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.
Genesis 26.20: 20 The herdsmen of Gerar argued with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying, “The water is ours.” He called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.
Genesis 26.21: 21 They dug another well, and they argued over that, also. He called its name Sitnah.
Genesis 26.22: 22 He left that place, and dug another well. They didn’t argue over that one. He called it Rehoboth. He said, “For now Yahweh has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land.”
Genesis 26.23: 23 He went up from there to Beersheba.
Genesis 26.24: 24 Yahweh appeared to him the same night, and said, “I am the God of Abraham your father. Don’t be afraid, for I am with you, and will bless you, and multiply your offspring for my servant Abraham’s sake.”
Genesis 26.25: 25 He built an altar there, and called on Yahweh’s name, and pitched his tent there. There Isaac’s servants dug a well.
Genesis 26.26: 26 Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his army.
Genesis 26.27: 27 Isaac said to them, “Why have you come to me, since you hate me, and have sent me away from you?”
Genesis 26.28: 28 They said, “We saw plainly that Yahweh was with you. We said, ‘Let there now be an oath between us, even between us and you, and let’s make a covenant with you,
Genesis 26.29: 29 that you will do us no harm, as we have not touched you, and as we have done to you nothing but good, and have sent you away in peace.’ You are now the blessed of Yahweh.”
Genesis 26.30: 30 He made them a feast, and they ate and drank.
Genesis 26.31: 31 They rose up some time in the morning, and swore an oath to one another. Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.
Genesis 26.32: 32 The same day, Isaac’s servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had dug, and said to him, “We have found water.”
Genesis 26.33: 33 He called it “Shibah”. Therefore the name of the city is “Beersheba” to this day.
Genesis 26.34: 34 When Esau was forty years old, he took as wife Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite.
Genesis 26.35: 35 They grieved Isaac’s and Rebekah’s spirits.
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Genesis 27.1: 1 When Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said to him, “My son?”
He said to him, “Here I am.”
Genesis 27.2: 2 He said, “See now, I am old. I don’t know the day of my death.
Genesis 27.3: 3 Now therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field, and get me venison.
Genesis 27.4: 4 Make me savory food, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat, and that my soul may bless you before I die.”
Genesis 27.5: 5 Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it.
Genesis 27.6: 6 Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, “Behold, I heard your father speak to Esau your brother, saying,
Genesis 27.7: 7 ‘Bring me venison, and make me savory food, that I may eat, and bless you before Yahweh before my death.’
Genesis 27.8: 8 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command you.
Genesis 27.9: 9 Go now to the flock and get me two good young goats from there. I will make them savory food for your father, such as he loves.
Genesis 27.10: 10 You shall bring it to your father, that he may eat, so that he may bless you before his death.”
Genesis 27.11: 11 Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.
Genesis 27.12: 12 What if my father touches me? I will seem to him as a deceiver, and I would bring a curse on myself, and not a blessing.”
Genesis 27.13: 13 His mother said to him, “Let your curse be on me, my son. Only obey my voice, and go get them for me.”
Genesis 27.14: 14 He went, and got them, and brought them to his mother. His mother made savory food, such as his father loved.
Genesis 27.15: 15 Rebekah took the good clothes of Esau, her elder son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob, her younger son.
Genesis 27.16: 16 She put the skins of the young goats on his hands, and on the smooth of his neck.
Genesis 27.17: 17 She gave the savory food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.
Genesis 27.18: 18 He came to his father, and said, “My father?”
He said, “Here I am. Who are you, my son?”
Genesis 27.19: 19 Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn. I have done what you asked me to do. Please arise, sit and eat of my venison, that your soul may bless me.”
Genesis 27.20: 20 Isaac said to his son, “How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?”
He said, “Because Yahweh your God gave me success.”
Genesis 27.21: 21 Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come near, that I may feel you, my son, whether you are really my son Esau or not.”
Genesis 27.22: 22 Jacob went near to Isaac his father. He felt him, and said, “The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”
Genesis 27.23: 23 He didn’t recognize him, because his hands were hairy, like his brother, Esau’s hands. So he blessed him.
Genesis 27.24: 24 He said, “Are you really my son Esau?”
He said, “I am.”
Genesis 27.25: 25 He said, “Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son’s venison, that my soul may bless you.”
He brought it near to him, and he ate. He brought him wine, and he drank.
Genesis 27.26: 26 His father Isaac said to him, “Come near now, and kiss me, my son.”
Genesis 27.27: 27 He came near, and kissed him. He smelled the smell of his clothing, and blessed him, and said,
“Behold, the smell of my son
is as the smell of a field which Yahweh has blessed.
Genesis 27.28: 28 God give you of the dew of the sky,
of the fatness of the earth,
and plenty of grain and new wine.
Genesis 27.29: 29 Let peoples serve you,
and nations bow down to you.
Be lord over your brothers.
Let your mother’s sons bow down to you.
Cursed be everyone who curses you.
Blessed be everyone who blesses you.”
Genesis 27.30: 30 As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had just gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, Esau his brother came in from his hunting.
Genesis 27.31: 31 He also made savory food, and brought it to his father. He said to his father, “Let my father arise, and eat of his son’s venison, that your soul may bless me.”
Genesis 27.32: 32 Isaac his father said to him, “Who are you?”
He said, “I am your son, your firstborn, Esau.”
Genesis 27.33: 33 Isaac trembled violently, and said, “Who, then, is he who has taken venison, and brought it to me, and I have eaten of all before you came, and have blessed him? Yes, he will be blessed.”
Genesis 27.34: 34 When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceedingly great and bitter cry, and said to his father, “Bless me, even me also, my father.”
Genesis 27.35: 35 He said, “Your brother came with deceit, and has taken away your blessing.”
Genesis 27.36: 36 He said, “Isn’t he rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright. See, now he has taken away my blessing.” He said, “Haven’t you reserved a blessing for me?”
Genesis 27.37: 37 Isaac answered Esau, “Behold, I have made him your lord, and all his brothers I have given to him for servants. I have sustained him with grain and new wine. What then will I do for you, my son?”
Genesis 27.38: 38 Esau said to his father, “Do you have just one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, my father.” Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.
Genesis 27.39: 39 Isaac his father answered him,
“Behold, your dwelling will be of the fatness of the earth,
and of the dew of the sky from above.
Genesis 27.40: 40 You will live by your sword, and you will serve your brother.
It will happen, when you will break loose,
that you will shake his yoke from off your neck.”
Genesis 27.41: 41 Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob.”
Genesis 27.42: 42 The words of Esau, her elder son, were told to Rebekah. She sent and called Jacob, her younger son, and said to him, “Behold, your brother Esau comforts himself about you by planning to kill you.
Genesis 27.43: 43 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban, my brother, in Haran.
Genesis 27.44: 44 Stay with him a few days, until your brother’s fury turns away—
Genesis 27.45: 45 until your brother’s anger turns away from you, and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send, and get you from there. Why should I be bereaved of you both in one day?”
Genesis 27.46: 46 Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good will my life do me?”
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Genesis 28.1: 1 Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, “You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.
Genesis 28.2: 2 Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother’s father. Take a wife from there from the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.
Genesis 28.3: 3 May God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a company of peoples,
Genesis 28.4: 4 and give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your offspring with you, that you may inherit the land where you travel, which God gave to Abraham.”
Genesis 28.5: 5 Isaac sent Jacob away. He went to Paddan Aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob’s and Esau’s mother.
Genesis 28.6: 6 Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan Aram, to take him a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him a command, saying, “You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan;”
Genesis 28.7: 7 and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan Aram.
Genesis 28.8: 8 Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan didn’t please Isaac, his father.
Genesis 28.9: 9 Esau went to Ishmael, and took, in addition to the wives that he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife.
Genesis 28.10: 10 Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran.
Genesis 28.11: 11 He came to a certain place, and stayed there all night, because the sun had set. He took one of the stones of the place, and put it under his head, and lay down in that place to sleep.
Genesis 28.12: 12 He dreamed and saw a stairway set upon the earth, and its top reached to heaven. Behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.
Genesis 28.13: 13 Behold, Yahweh stood above it, and said, “I am Yahweh, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac. I will give the land you lie on to you and to your offspring.
Genesis 28.14: 14 Your offspring will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your offspring, all the families of the earth will be blessed.
Genesis 28.15: 15 Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you, until I have done that which I have spoken of to you.”
Genesis 28.16: 16 Jacob awakened out of his sleep, and he said, “Surely Yahweh is in this place, and I didn’t know it.”
Genesis 28.17: 17 He was afraid, and said, “How awesome this place is! This is none other than God’s house, and this is the gate of heaven.”
Genesis 28.18: 18 Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put under his head, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil on its top.
Genesis 28.19: 19 He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.
Genesis 28.20: 20 Jacob vowed a vow, saying, “If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and clothing to put on,
Genesis 28.21: 21 so that I come again to my father’s house in peace, and Yahweh will be my God,
Genesis 28.22: 22 then this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, will be God’s house. Of all that you will give me I will surely give a tenth to you.”
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Genesis 29.1: 1 Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the children of the east.
Genesis 29.2: 2 He looked, and behold, a well in the field, and saw three flocks of sheep lying there by it. For out of that well they watered the flocks. The stone on the well’s mouth was large.
Genesis 29.3: 3 There all the flocks were gathered. They rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again on the well’s mouth in its place.
Genesis 29.4: 4 Jacob said to them, “My relatives, where are you from?”
They said, “We are from Haran.”
Genesis 29.5: 5 He said to them, “Do you know Laban, the son of Nahor?”
They said, “We know him.”
Genesis 29.6: 6 He said to them, “Is it well with him?”
They said, “It is well. See, Rachel, his daughter, is coming with the sheep.”
Genesis 29.7: 7 He said, “Behold, it is still the middle of the day, not time to gather the livestock together. Water the sheep, and go and feed them.”
Genesis 29.8: 8 They said, “We can’t, until all the flocks are gathered together, and they roll the stone from the well’s mouth. Then we water the sheep.”
Genesis 29.9: 9 While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep, for she kept them.
Genesis 29.10: 10 When Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban, his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother’s brother, Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother’s brother.
Genesis 29.11: 11 Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.
Genesis 29.12: 12 Jacob told Rachel that he was her father’s relative, and that he was Rebekah’s son. She ran and told her father.
Genesis 29.13: 13 When Laban heard the news of Jacob, his sister’s son, he ran to meet Jacob, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban all these things.
Genesis 29.14: 14 Laban said to him, “Surely you are my bone and my flesh.” Jacob stayed with him for a month.
Genesis 29.15: 15 Laban said to Jacob, “Because you are my relative, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will your wages be?”
Genesis 29.16: 16 Laban had two daughters. The name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.
Genesis 29.17: 17 Leah’s eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in form and attractive.
Genesis 29.18: 18 Jacob loved Rachel. He said, “I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.”
Genesis 29.19: 19 Laban said, “It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me.”
Genesis 29.20: 20 Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.
Genesis 29.21: 21 Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her.”
Genesis 29.22: 22 Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.
Genesis 29.23: 23 In the evening, he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to Jacob. He went in to her.
Genesis 29.24: 24 Laban gave Zilpah his servant to his daughter Leah for a servant.
Genesis 29.25: 25 In the morning, behold, it was Leah! He said to Laban, “What is this you have done to me? Didn’t I serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?”
Genesis 29.26: 26 Laban said, “It is not done so in our place, to give the younger before the firstborn.
Genesis 29.27: 27 Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you will serve with me for seven more years.”
Genesis 29.28: 28 Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave him Rachel his daughter as wife.
Genesis 29.29: 29 Laban gave Bilhah, his servant, to his daughter Rachel to be her servant.
Genesis 29.30: 30 He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him seven more years.
Genesis 29.31: 31 Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.
Genesis 29.32: 32 Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Reuben. For she said, “Because Yahweh has looked at my affliction; for now my husband will love me.”
Genesis 29.33: 33 She conceived again, and bore a son, and said, “Because Yahweh has heard that I am hated, he has therefore given me this son also.” She named him Simeon.
Genesis 29.34: 34 She conceived again, and bore a son. She said, “Now this time my husband will be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons.” Therefore his name was called Levi.
Genesis 29.35: 35 She conceived again, and bore a son. She said, “This time I will praise Yahweh.” Therefore she named him Judah. Then she stopped bearing.
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Genesis 30.1: 1 When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I will die.”
Genesis 30.2: 2 Jacob’s anger burned against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in God’s place, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”
Genesis 30.3: 3 She said, “Behold, my maid Bilhah. Go in to her, that she may bear on my knees, and I also may obtain children by her.”
Genesis 30.4: 4 She gave him Bilhah her servant as wife, and Jacob went in to her.
Genesis 30.5: 5 Bilhah conceived, and bore Jacob a son.
Genesis 30.6: 6 Rachel said, “God has judged me, and has also heard my voice, and has given me a son.” Therefore she called his name Dan.
Genesis 30.7: 7 Bilhah, Rachel’s servant, conceived again, and bore Jacob a second son.
Genesis 30.8: 8 Rachel said, “I have wrestled with my sister with mighty wrestlings, and have prevailed.” She named him Naphtali.
Genesis 30.9: 9 When Leah saw that she had finished bearing, she took Zilpah, her servant, and gave her to Jacob as a wife.
Genesis 30.10: 10 Zilpah, Leah’s servant, bore Jacob a son.
Genesis 30.11: 11 Leah said, “How fortunate!” She named him Gad.
Genesis 30.12: 12 Zilpah, Leah’s servant, bore Jacob a second son.
Genesis 30.13: 13 Leah said, “Happy am I, for the daughters will call me happy.” She named him Asher.
Genesis 30.14: 14 Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother, Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”
Genesis 30.15: 15 Leah said to her, “Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son’s mandrakes, also?”
Rachel said, “Therefore he will lie with you tonight for your son’s mandrakes.”
Genesis 30.16: 16 Jacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, “You must come in to me; for I have surely hired you with my son’s mandrakes.”
He lay with her that night.
Genesis 30.17: 17 God listened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob a fifth son.
Genesis 30.18: 18 Leah said, “God has given me my hire, because I gave my servant to my husband.” She named him Issachar.
Genesis 30.19: 19 Leah conceived again, and bore a sixth son to Jacob.
Genesis 30.20: 20 Leah said, “God has endowed me with a good dowry. Now my husband will live with me, because I have borne him six sons.” She named him Zebulun.
Genesis 30.21: 21 Afterwards, she bore a daughter, and named her Dinah.
Genesis 30.22: 22 God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.
Genesis 30.23: 23 She conceived, bore a son, and said, “God has taken away my reproach.”
Genesis 30.24: 24 She named him Joseph, saying, “May Yahweh add another son to me.”
Genesis 30.25: 25 When Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away, that I may go to my own place, and to my country.
Genesis 30.26: 26 Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you know my service with which I have served you.”
Genesis 30.27: 27 Laban said to him, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, stay here, for I have divined that Yahweh has blessed me for your sake.”
Genesis 30.28: 28 He said, “Appoint me your wages, and I will give it.”
Genesis 30.29: 29 Jacob said to him, “You know how I have served you, and how your livestock have fared with me.
Genesis 30.30: 30 For it was little which you had before I came, and it has increased to a multitude. Yahweh has blessed you wherever I turned. Now when will I provide for my own house also?”
Genesis 30.31: 31 Laban said, “What shall I give you?”
Jacob said, “You shall not give me anything. If you will do this thing for me, I will again feed your flock and keep it.
Genesis 30.32: 32 I will pass through all your flock today, removing from there every speckled and spotted one, and every black one among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats. This will be my hire.
Genesis 30.33: 33 So my righteousness will answer for me hereafter, when you come concerning my hire that is before you. Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and black among the sheep, that might be with me, will be considered stolen.”
Genesis 30.34: 34 Laban said, “Behold, let it be according to your word.”
Genesis 30.35: 35 That day, he removed the male goats that were streaked and spotted, and all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white in it, and all the black ones among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.
Genesis 30.36: 36 He set three days’ journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob fed the rest of Laban’s flocks.
Genesis 30.37: 37 Jacob took to himself rods of fresh poplar, almond, and plane tree, peeled white streaks in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.
Genesis 30.38: 38 He set the rods which he had peeled opposite the flocks in the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink. They conceived when they came to drink.
Genesis 30.39: 39 The flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks produced streaked, speckled, and spotted.
Genesis 30.40: 40 Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the streaked and all the black in Laban’s flock. He put his own droves apart, and didn’t put them into Laban’s flock.
Genesis 30.41: 41 Whenever the stronger of the flock conceived, Jacob laid the rods in front of the eyes of the flock in the watering troughs, that they might conceive among the rods;
Genesis 30.42: 42 but when the flock were feeble, he didn’t put them in. So the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.
Genesis 30.43: 43 The man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, female servants and male servants, and camels and donkeys.
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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.
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Genesis 32.1: 1 Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.
Genesis 32.2: 2 When he saw them, Jacob said, “This is God’s army.” He called the name of that place Mahanaim.
Genesis 32.3: 3 Jacob sent messengers in front of him to Esau, his brother, to the land of Seir, the field of Edom.
Genesis 32.4: 4 He commanded them, saying, “This is what you shall tell my lord, Esau: ‘This is what your servant, Jacob, says. I have lived as a foreigner with Laban, and stayed until now.
Genesis 32.5: 5 I have cattle, donkeys, flocks, male servants, and female servants. I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in your sight.’”
Genesis 32.6: 6 The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, “We came to your brother Esau. He is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him.”
Genesis 32.7: 7 Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed. He divided the people who were with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two companies;
Genesis 32.8: 8 and he said, “If Esau comes to the one company, and strikes it, then the company which is left will escape.”
Genesis 32.9: 9 Jacob said, “God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, Yahweh, who said to me, ‘Return to your country, and to your relatives, and I will do you good,’
Genesis 32.10: 10 I am not worthy of the least of all the loving kindnesses, and of all the truth, which you have shown to your servant; for with just my staff I crossed over this Jordan; and now I have become two companies.
Genesis 32.11: 11 Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, lest he come and strike me and the mothers with the children.
Genesis 32.12: 12 You said, ‘I will surely do you good, and make your offspring as the sand of the sea, which can’t be counted because there are so many.’”
Genesis 32.13: 13 He stayed there that night, and took from that which he had with him a present for Esau, his brother:
Genesis 32.14: 14 two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,
Genesis 32.15: 15 thirty milk camels and their colts, forty cows, ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten foals.
Genesis 32.16: 16 He delivered them into the hands of his servants, every herd by itself, and said to his servants, “Pass over before me, and put a space between herd and herd.”
Genesis 32.17: 17 He commanded the foremost, saying, “When Esau, my brother, meets you, and asks you, saying, ‘Whose are you? Where are you going? Whose are these before you?’
Genesis 32.18: 18 Then you shall say, ‘They are your servant, Jacob’s. It is a present sent to my lord, Esau. Behold, he also is behind us.’”
Genesis 32.19: 19 He commanded also the second, and the third, and all that followed the herds, saying, “This is how you shall speak to Esau, when you find him.
Genesis 32.20: 20 You shall say, ‘Not only that, but behold, your servant, Jacob, is behind us.’” For, he said, “I will appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterward I will see his face. Perhaps he will accept me.”
Genesis 32.21: 21 So the present passed over before him, and he himself stayed that night in the camp.
Genesis 32.22: 22 He rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two servants, and his eleven sons, and crossed over the ford of the Jabbok.
Genesis 32.23: 23 He took them, and sent them over the stream, and sent over that which he had.
Genesis 32.24: 24 Jacob was left alone, and wrestled with a man there until the breaking of the day.
Genesis 32.25: 25 When he saw that he didn’t prevail against him, the man touched the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was strained as he wrestled.
Genesis 32.26: 26 The man said, “Let me go, for the day breaks.”
Jacob said, “I won’t let you go unless you bless me.”
Genesis 32.27: 27 He said to him, “What is your name?”
He said, “Jacob”.
Genesis 32.28: 28 He said, “Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed.”
Genesis 32.29: 29 Jacob asked him, “Please tell me your name.”
He said, “Why is it that you ask what my name is?” He blessed him there.
Genesis 32.30: 30 Jacob called the name of the place Peniel; for he said, “I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.”
Genesis 32.31: 31 The sun rose on him as he passed over Peniel, and he limped because of his thigh.
Genesis 32.32: 32 Therefore the children of Israel don’t eat the sinew of the hip, which is on the hollow of the thigh, to this day, because he touched the hollow of Jacob’s thigh in the sinew of the hip.
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Genesis 33.1: 1 Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. He divided the children between Leah, Rachel, and the two servants.
Genesis 33.2: 2 He put the servants and their children in front, Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear.
Genesis 33.3: 3 He himself passed over in front of them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.
Genesis 33.4: 4 Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, kissed him, and they wept.
Genesis 33.5: 5 He lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, “Who are these with you?”
He said, “The children whom God has graciously given your servant.”
Genesis 33.6: 6 Then the servants came near with their children, and they bowed themselves.
Genesis 33.7: 7 Leah also and her children came near, and bowed themselves. After them, Joseph came near with Rachel, and they bowed themselves.
Genesis 33.8: 8 Esau said, “What do you mean by all this company which I met?”
Jacob said, “To find favor in the sight of my lord.”
Genesis 33.9: 9 Esau said, “I have enough, my brother; let that which you have be yours.”
Genesis 33.10: 10 Jacob said, “Please, no, if I have now found favor in your sight, then receive my present at my hand, because I have seen your face, as one sees the face of God, and you were pleased with me.
Genesis 33.11: 11 Please take the gift that I brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough.” He urged him, and he took it.
Genesis 33.12: 12 Esau said, “Let’s take our journey, and let’s go, and I will go before you.”
Genesis 33.13: 13 Jacob said to him, “My lord knows that the children are tender, and that the flocks and herds with me have their young, and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die.
Genesis 33.14: 14 Please let my lord pass over before his servant, and I will lead on gently, according to the pace of the livestock that are before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come to my lord to Seir.”
Genesis 33.15: 15 Esau said, “Let me now leave with you some of the people who are with me.”
He said, “Why? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord.”
Genesis 33.16: 16 So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir.
Genesis 33.17: 17 Jacob traveled to Succoth, built himself a house, and made shelters for his livestock. Therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.
Genesis 33.18: 18 Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan Aram; and encamped before the city.
Genesis 33.19: 19 He bought the parcel of ground where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for one hundred pieces of money.
Genesis 33.20: 20 He erected an altar there, and called it El Elohe Israel.
Genesis 34.0:
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Genesis 34.1: 1 Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.
Genesis 34.2: 2 Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her. He took her, lay with her, and humbled her.
Genesis 34.3: 3 His soul joined to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young lady, and spoke kindly to the young lady.
Genesis 34.4: 4 Shechem spoke to his father, Hamor, saying, “Get me this young lady as a wife.”
Genesis 34.5: 5 Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah, his daughter; and his sons were with his livestock in the field. Jacob held his peace until they came.
Genesis 34.6: 6 Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to talk with him.
Genesis 34.7: 7 The sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it. The men were grieved, and they were very angry, because he had done folly in Israel in lying with Jacob’s daughter, a thing ought not to be done.
Genesis 34.8: 8 Hamor talked with them, saying, “The soul of my son, Shechem, longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife.
Genesis 34.9: 9 Make marriages with us. Give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.
Genesis 34.10: 10 You shall dwell with us, and the land will be before you. Live and trade in it, and get possessions in it.”
Genesis 34.11: 11 Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, “Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you will tell me I will give.
Genesis 34.12: 12 Ask me a great amount for a dowry, and I will give whatever you ask of me, but give me the young lady as a wife.”
Genesis 34.13: 13 The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit when they spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister,
Genesis 34.14: 14 and said to them, “We can’t do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised; for that is a reproach to us.
Genesis 34.15: 15 Only on this condition will we consent to you. If you will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised,
Genesis 34.16: 16 then will we give our daughters to you; and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.
Genesis 34.17: 17 But if you will not listen to us and be circumcised, then we will take our sister, and we will be gone.”
Genesis 34.18: 18 Their words pleased Hamor and Shechem, Hamor’s son.
Genesis 34.19: 19 The young man didn’t wait to do this thing, because he had delight in Jacob’s daughter, and he was honored above all the house of his father.
Genesis 34.20: 20 Hamor and Shechem, his son, came to the gate of their city, and talked with the men of their city, saying,
Genesis 34.21: 21 “These men are peaceful with us. Therefore let them live in the land and trade in it. For behold, the land is large enough for them. Let’s take their daughters to us for wives, and let’s give them our daughters.
Genesis 34.22: 22 Only on this condition will the men consent to us to live with us, to become one people, if every male among us is circumcised, as they are circumcised.
Genesis 34.23: 23 Won’t their livestock and their possessions and all their animals be ours? Only let’s give our consent to them, and they will dwell with us.”
Genesis 34.24: 24 All who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor, and to Shechem his son; and every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city.
Genesis 34.25: 25 On the third day, when they were sore, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, each took his sword, came upon the unsuspecting city, and killed all the males.
Genesis 34.26: 26 They killed Hamor and Shechem, his son, with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and went away.
Genesis 34.27: 27 Jacob’s sons came on the dead, and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.
Genesis 34.28: 28 They took their flocks, their herds, their donkeys, that which was in the city, that which was in the field,
Genesis 34.29: 29 and all their wealth. They took captive all their little ones and their wives, and took as plunder everything that was in the house.
Genesis 34.30: 30 Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I am few in number. They will gather themselves together against me and strike me, and I will be destroyed, I and my house.”
Genesis 34.31: 31 They said, “Should he deal with our sister as with a prostitute?”
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Genesis 35.1: 1 God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and live there. Make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother.”
Genesis 35.2: 2 Then Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, change your garments.
Genesis 35.3: 3 Let’s arise, and go up to Bethel. I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me on the way which I went.”
Genesis 35.4: 4 They gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hands, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.
Genesis 35.5: 5 They traveled, and a terror of God was on the cities that were around them, and they didn’t pursue the sons of Jacob.
Genesis 35.6: 6 So Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him.
Genesis 35.7: 7 He built an altar there, and called the place El Beth El; because there God was revealed to him, when he fled from the face of his brother.
Genesis 35.8: 8 Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; and its name was called Allon Bacuth.
Genesis 35.9: 9 God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan Aram, and blessed him.
Genesis 35.10: 10 God said to him, “Your name is Jacob. Your name shall not be Jacob any more, but your name will be Israel.” He named him Israel.
Genesis 35.11: 11 God said to him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will be from you, and kings will come out of your body.
Genesis 35.12: 12 The land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give it to you, and to your offspring after you I will give the land.”
Genesis 35.13: 13 God went up from him in the place where he spoke with him.
Genesis 35.14: 14 Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he spoke with him, a pillar of stone. He poured out a drink offering on it, and poured oil on it.
Genesis 35.15: 15 Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him “Bethel”.
Genesis 35.16: 16 They traveled from Bethel. There was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor.
Genesis 35.17: 17 When she was in hard labor, the midwife said to her, “Don’t be afraid, for now you will have another son.”
Genesis 35.18: 18 As her soul was departing (for she died), she named him Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin.
Genesis 35.19: 19 Rachel died, and was buried on the way to Ephrath (also called Bethlehem).
Genesis 35.20: 20 Jacob set up a pillar on her grave. The same is the Pillar of Rachel’s grave to this day.
Genesis 35.21: 21 Israel traveled, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Eder.
Genesis 35.22: 22 While Israel lived in that land, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father’s concubine, and Israel heard of it.
Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.
Genesis 35.23: 23 The sons of Leah: Reuben (Jacob’s firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.
Genesis 35.24: 24 The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.
Genesis 35.25: 25 The sons of Bilhah (Rachel’s servant): Dan and Naphtali.
Genesis 35.26: 26 The sons of Zilpah (Leah’s servant): Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan Aram.
Genesis 35.27: 27 Jacob came to Isaac his father, to Mamre, to Kiriath Arba (which is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac lived as foreigners.
Genesis 35.28: 28 The days of Isaac were one hundred eighty years.
Genesis 35.29: 29 Isaac gave up the spirit and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. Esau and Jacob, his sons, buried him.
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Genesis 36.1: 1 Now this is the history of the generations of Esau (that is, Edom).
Genesis 36.2: 2 Esau took his wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah the daughter of Elon, the Hittite; and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon, the Hivite;
Genesis 36.3: 3 and Basemath, Ishmael’s daughter, sister of Nebaioth.
Genesis 36.4: 4 Adah bore to Esau Eliphaz. Basemath bore Reuel.
Genesis 36.5: 5 Oholibamah bore Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. These are the sons of Esau, who were born to him in the land of Canaan.
Genesis 36.6: 6 Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all the members of his household, with his livestock, all his animals, and all his possessions, which he had gathered in the land of Canaan, and went into a land away from his brother Jacob.
Genesis 36.7: 7 For their substance was too great for them to dwell together, and the land of their travels couldn’t bear them because of their livestock.
Genesis 36.8: 8 Esau lived in the hill country of Seir. Esau is Edom.
Genesis 36.9: 9 This is the history of the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in the hill country of Seir:
Genesis 36.10: 10 these are the names of Esau’s sons: Eliphaz, the son of Adah, the wife of Esau; and Reuel, the son of Basemath, the wife of Esau.
Genesis 36.11: 11 The sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and Kenaz.
Genesis 36.12: 12 Timna was concubine to Eliphaz, Esau’s son; and she bore to Eliphaz Amalek. These are the descendants of Adah, Esau’s wife.
Genesis 36.13: 13 These are the sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. These were the descendants of Basemath, Esau’s wife.
Genesis 36.14: 14 These were the sons of Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon, Esau’s wife: she bore to Esau Jeush, Jalam, and Korah.
Genesis 36.15: 15 These are the chiefs of the sons of Esau: the sons of Eliphaz the firstborn of Esau: chief Teman, chief Omar, chief Zepho, chief Kenaz,
Genesis 36.16: 16 chief Korah, chief Gatam, chief Amalek. These are the chiefs who came of Eliphaz in the land of Edom. These are the sons of Adah.
Genesis 36.17: 17 These are the sons of Reuel, Esau’s son: chief Nahath, chief Zerah, chief Shammah, chief Mizzah. These are the chiefs who came of Reuel in the land of Edom. These are the sons of Basemath, Esau’s wife.
Genesis 36.18: 18 These are the sons of Oholibamah, Esau’s wife: chief Jeush, chief Jalam, chief Korah. These are the chiefs who came of Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, Esau’s wife.
Genesis 36.19: 19 These are the sons of Esau (that is, Edom), and these are their chiefs.
Genesis 36.20: 20 These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,
Genesis 36.21: 21 Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. These are the chiefs who came of the Horites, the children of Seir in the land of Edom.
Genesis 36.22: 22 The children of Lotan were Hori and Heman. Lotan’s sister was Timna.
Genesis 36.23: 23 These are the children of Shobal: Alvan, Manahath, Ebal, Shepho, and Onam.
Genesis 36.24: 24 These are the children of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah. This is Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness, as he fed the donkeys of Zibeon his father.
Genesis 36.25: 25 These are the children of Anah: Dishon and Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah.
Genesis 36.26: 26 These are the children of Dishon: Hemdan, Eshban, Ithran, and Cheran.
Genesis 36.27: 27 These are the children of Ezer: Bilhan, Zaavan, and Akan.
Genesis 36.28: 28 These are the children of Dishan: Uz and Aran.
Genesis 36.29: 29 These are the chiefs who came of the Horites: chief Lotan, chief Shobal, chief Zibeon, chief Anah,
Genesis 36.30: 30 chief Dishon, chief Ezer, and chief Dishan. These are the chiefs who came of the Horites, according to their chiefs in the land of Seir.
Genesis 36.31: 31 These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom, before any king reigned over the children of Israel.
Genesis 36.32: 32 Bela, the son of Beor, reigned in Edom. The name of his city was Dinhabah.
Genesis 36.33: 33 Bela died, and Jobab, the son of Zerah of Bozrah, reigned in his place.
Genesis 36.34: 34 Jobab died, and Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his place.
Genesis 36.35: 35 Husham died, and Hadad, the son of Bedad, who struck Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his place. The name of his city was Avith.
Genesis 36.36: 36 Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his place.
Genesis 36.37: 37 Samlah died, and Shaul of Rehoboth by the river, reigned in his place.
Genesis 36.38: 38 Shaul died, and Baal Hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his place.
Genesis 36.39: 39 Baal Hanan the son of Achbor died, and Hadar reigned in his place. The name of his city was Pau. His wife’s name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.
Genesis 36.40: 40 These are the names of the chiefs who came from Esau, according to their families, after their places, and by their names: chief Timna, chief Alvah, chief Jetheth,
Genesis 36.41: 41 chief Oholibamah, chief Elah, chief Pinon,
Genesis 36.42: 42 chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief Mibzar,
Genesis 36.43: 43 chief Magdiel, and chief Iram. These are the chiefs of Edom, according to their habitations in the land of their possession. This is Esau, the father of the Edomites.
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Genesis 37.1: 1 Jacob lived in the land of his father’s travels, in the land of Canaan.
Genesis 37.2: 2 This is the history of the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives. Joseph brought an evil report of them to their father.
Genesis 37.3: 3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age, and he made him a tunic of many colors.
Genesis 37.4: 4 His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn’t speak peaceably to him.
Genesis 37.5: 5 Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the more.
Genesis 37.6: 6 He said to them, “Please hear this dream which I have dreamed:
Genesis 37.7: 7 for behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and behold, your sheaves came around, and bowed down to my sheaf.”
Genesis 37.8: 8 His brothers asked him, “Will you indeed reign over us? Will you indeed have dominion over us?” They hated him all the more for his dreams and for his words.
Genesis 37.9: 9 He dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brothers, and said, “Behold, I have dreamed yet another dream: and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me.”
Genesis 37.10: 10 He told it to his father and to his brothers. His father rebuked him, and said to him, “What is this dream that you have dreamed? Will I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves down to you to the earth?”
Genesis 37.11: 11 His brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in mind.
Genesis 37.12: 12 His brothers went to feed their father’s flock in Shechem.
Genesis 37.13: 13 Israel said to Joseph, “Aren’t your brothers feeding the flock in Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them.” He said to him, “Here I am.”
Genesis 37.14: 14 He said to him, “Go now, see whether it is well with your brothers, and well with the flock; and bring me word again.” So he sent him out of the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.
Genesis 37.15: 15 A certain man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the field. The man asked him, “What are you looking for?”
Genesis 37.16: 16 He said, “I am looking for my brothers. Tell me, please, where they are feeding the flock.”
Genesis 37.17: 17 The man said, “They have left here, for I heard them say, ‘Let’s go to Dothan.’”
Joseph went after his brothers, and found them in Dothan.
Genesis 37.18: 18 They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.
Genesis 37.19: 19 They said to one another, “Behold, this dreamer comes.
Genesis 37.20: 20 Come now therefore, and let’s kill him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, ‘An evil animal has devoured him.’ We will see what will become of his dreams.”
Genesis 37.21: 21 Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and said, “Let’s not take his life.”
Genesis 37.22: 22 Reuben said to them, “Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand on him”—that he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him to his father.
Genesis 37.23: 23 When Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped Joseph of his tunic, the tunic of many colors that was on him;
Genesis 37.24: 24 and they took him, and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty. There was no water in it.
Genesis 37.25: 25 They sat down to eat bread, and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
Genesis 37.26: 26 Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?
Genesis 37.27: 27 Come, and let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites, and not let our hand be on him; for he is our brother, our flesh.” His brothers listened to him.
Genesis 37.28: 28 Midianites who were merchants passed by, and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. The merchants brought Joseph into Egypt.
Genesis 37.29: 29 Reuben returned to the pit, and saw that Joseph wasn’t in the pit; and he tore his clothes.
Genesis 37.30: 30 He returned to his brothers, and said, “The child is no more; and I, where will I go?”
Genesis 37.31: 31 They took Joseph’s tunic, and killed a male goat, and dipped the tunic in the blood.
Genesis 37.32: 32 They took the tunic of many colors, and they brought it to their father, and said, “We have found this. Examine it, now, and see if it is your son’s tunic or not.”
Genesis 37.33: 33 He recognized it, and said, “It is my son’s tunic. An evil animal has devoured him. Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces.”
Genesis 37.34: 34 Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for his son many days.
Genesis 37.35: 35 All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, “For I will go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.” His father wept for him.
Genesis 37.36: 36 The Midianites sold him into Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s, the captain of the guard.
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Genesis 38.1: 1 At that time, Judah went down from his brothers, and visited a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.
Genesis 38.2: 2 There, Judah saw the daughter of a certain Canaanite man named Shua. He took her, and went in to her.
Genesis 38.3: 3 She conceived, and bore a son; and he named him Er.
Genesis 38.4: 4 She conceived again, and bore a son; and she named him Onan.
Genesis 38.5: 5 She yet again bore a son, and named him Shelah. He was at Chezib when she bore him.
Genesis 38.6: 6 Judah took a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.
Genesis 38.7: 7 Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in Yahweh’s sight. So Yahweh killed him.
Genesis 38.8: 8 Judah said to Onan, “Go in to your brother’s wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her, and raise up offspring for your brother.”
Genesis 38.9: 9 Onan knew that the offspring wouldn’t be his; and when he went in to his brother’s wife, he spilled his semen on the ground, lest he should give offspring to his brother.
Genesis 38.10: 10 The thing which he did was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and he killed him also.
Genesis 38.11: 11 Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, “Remain a widow in your father’s house, until Shelah, my son, is grown up;” for he said, “Lest he also die, like his brothers.” Tamar went and lived in her father’s house.
Genesis 38.12: 12 After many days, Shua’s daughter, the wife of Judah, died. Judah was comforted, and went up to his sheep shearers to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah, the Adullamite.
Genesis 38.13: 13 Tamar was told, “Behold, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep.”
Genesis 38.14: 14 She took off the garments of her widowhood, and covered herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gate of Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she wasn’t given to him as a wife.
Genesis 38.15: 15 When Judah saw her, he thought that she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face.
Genesis 38.16: 16 He turned to her by the way, and said, “Please come, let me come in to you,” for he didn’t know that she was his daughter-in-law.
She said, “What will you give me, that you may come in to me?”
Genesis 38.17: 17 He said, “I will send you a young goat from the flock.”
She said, “Will you give me a pledge, until you send it?”
Genesis 38.18: 18 He said, “What pledge will I give you?”
She said, “Your signet and your cord, and your staff that is in your hand.”
He gave them to her, and came in to her, and she conceived by him.
Genesis 38.19: 19 She arose, and went away, and put off her veil from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.
Genesis 38.20: 20 Judah sent the young goat by the hand of his friend, the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman’s hand, but he didn’t find her.
Genesis 38.21: 21 Then he asked the men of her place, saying, “Where is the prostitute, that was at Enaim by the road?”
They said, “There has been no prostitute here.”
Genesis 38.22: 22 He returned to Judah, and said, “I haven’t found her; and also the men of the place said, ‘There has been no prostitute here.’”
Genesis 38.23: 23 Judah said, “Let her keep it, lest we be shamed. Behold, I sent this young goat, and you haven’t found her.”
Genesis 38.24: 24 About three months later, Judah was told, “Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has played the prostitute. Moreover, behold, she is with child by prostitution.”
Judah said, “Bring her out, and let her be burned.”
Genesis 38.25: 25 When she was brought out, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, “I am with child by the man who owns these.” She also said, “Please discern whose these are—the signet, and the cords, and the staff.”
Genesis 38.26: 26 Judah acknowledged them, and said, “She is more righteous than I, because I didn’t give her to Shelah, my son.”
He knew her again no more.
Genesis 38.27: 27 In the time of her travail, behold, twins were in her womb.
Genesis 38.28: 28 When she travailed, one put out a hand, and the midwife took and tied a scarlet thread on his hand, saying, “This came out first.”
Genesis 38.29: 29 As he drew back his hand, behold, his brother came out, and she said, “Why have you made a breach for yourself?” Therefore his name was called Perez.
Genesis 38.30: 30 Afterward his brother came out, who had the scarlet thread on his hand, and his name was called Zerah.
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Genesis 39.1: 1 Joseph was brought down to Egypt. Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the hand of the Ishmaelites that had brought him down there.
Genesis 39.2: 2 Yahweh was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man. He was in the house of his master the Egyptian.
Genesis 39.3: 3 His master saw that Yahweh was with him, and that Yahweh made all that he did prosper in his hand.
Genesis 39.4: 4 Joseph found favor in his sight. He ministered to him, and Potiphar made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand.
Genesis 39.5: 5 From the time that he made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, Yahweh blessed the Egyptian’s house for Joseph’s sake. Yahweh’s blessing was on all that he had, in the house and in the field.
Genesis 39.6: 6 He left all that he had in Joseph’s hand. He didn’t concern himself with anything, except for the food which he ate.
Joseph was well-built and handsome.
Genesis 39.7: 7 After these things, his master’s wife set her eyes on Joseph; and she said, “Lie with me.”
Genesis 39.8: 8 But he refused, and said to his master’s wife, “Behold, my master doesn’t know what is with me in the house, and he has put all that he has into my hand.
Genesis 39.9: 9 No one is greater in this house than I am, and he has not kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?”
Genesis 39.10: 10 As she spoke to Joseph day by day, he didn’t listen to her, to lie by her, or to be with her.
Genesis 39.11: 11 About this time, he went into the house to do his work, and there were none of the men of the house inside.
Genesis 39.12: 12 She caught him by his garment, saying, “Lie with me!”
He left his garment in her hand, and ran outside.
Genesis 39.13: 13 When she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and had run outside,
Genesis 39.14: 14 she called to the men of her house, and spoke to them, saying, “Behold, he has brought a Hebrew in to us to mock us. He came in to me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice.
Genesis 39.15: 15 When he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, he left his garment by me, and ran outside.”
Genesis 39.16: 16 She laid up his garment by her, until his master came home.
Genesis 39.17: 17 She spoke to him according to these words, saying, “The Hebrew servant, whom you have brought to us, came in to me to mock me,
Genesis 39.18: 18 and as I lifted up my voice and cried, he left his garment by me, and ran outside.”
Genesis 39.19: 19 When his master heard the words of his wife, which she spoke to him, saying, “This is what your servant did to me,” his wrath was kindled.
Genesis 39.20: 20 Joseph’s master took him, and put him into the prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were bound, and he was there in custody.
Genesis 39.21: 21 But Yahweh was with Joseph, and showed kindness to him, and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.
Genesis 39.22: 22 The keeper of the prison committed to Joseph’s hand all the prisoners who were in the prison. Whatever they did there, he was responsible for it.
Genesis 39.23: 23 The keeper of the prison didn’t look after anything that was under his hand, because Yahweh was with him; and that which he did, Yahweh made it prosper.
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Genesis 40.1: 1 After these things, the butler of the king of Egypt and his baker offended their lord, the king of Egypt.
Genesis 40.2: 2 Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cup bearer and the chief baker.
Genesis 40.3: 3 He put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.
Genesis 40.4: 4 The captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph, and he took care of them. They stayed in prison many days.
Genesis 40.5: 5 They both dreamed a dream, each man his dream, in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the cup bearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were bound in the prison.
Genesis 40.6: 6 Joseph came in to them in the morning, and saw them, and saw that they were sad.
Genesis 40.7: 7 He asked Pharaoh’s officers who were with him in custody in his master’s house, saying, “Why do you look so sad today?”
Genesis 40.8: 8 They said to him, “We have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it.”
Joseph said to them, “Don’t interpretations belong to God? Please tell it to me.”
Genesis 40.9: 9 The chief cup bearer told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, “In my dream, behold, a vine was in front of me,
Genesis 40.10: 10 and in the vine were three branches. It was as though it budded, it blossomed, and its clusters produced ripe grapes.
Genesis 40.11: 11 Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand; and I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh’s cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand.”
Genesis 40.12: 12 Joseph said to him, “This is its interpretation: the three branches are three days.
Genesis 40.13: 13 Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head, and restore you to your office. You will give Pharaoh’s cup into his hand, the way you did when you were his cup bearer.
Genesis 40.14: 14 But remember me when it is well with you. Please show kindness to me, and make mention of me to Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house.
Genesis 40.15: 15 For indeed, I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also I have done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.”
Genesis 40.16: 16 When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said to Joseph, “I also was in my dream, and behold, three baskets of white bread were on my head.
Genesis 40.17: 17 In the uppermost basket there were all kinds of baked food for Pharaoh, and the birds ate them out of the basket on my head.”
Genesis 40.18: 18 Joseph answered, “This is its interpretation. The three baskets are three days.
Genesis 40.19: 19 Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head from off you, and will hang you on a tree; and the birds will eat your flesh from off you.”
Genesis 40.20: 20 On the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, he made a feast for all his servants, and he lifted up the head of the chief cup bearer and the head of the chief baker among his servants.
Genesis 40.21: 21 He restored the chief cup bearer to his position again, and he gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand;
Genesis 40.22: 22 but he hanged the chief baker, as Joseph had interpreted to them.
Genesis 40.23: 23 Yet the chief cup bearer didn’t remember Joseph, but forgot him.
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Genesis 41.1: 1 At the end of two full years, Pharaoh dreamed, and behold, he stood by the river.
Genesis 41.2: 2 Behold, seven cattle came up out of the river. They were sleek and fat, and they fed in the marsh grass.
Genesis 41.3: 3 Behold, seven other cattle came up after them out of the river, ugly and thin, and stood by the other cattle on the brink of the river.
Genesis 41.4: 4 The ugly and thin cattle ate up the seven sleek and fat cattle. So Pharaoh awoke.
Genesis 41.5: 5 He slept and dreamed a second time; and behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, healthy and good.
Genesis 41.6: 6 Behold, seven heads of grain, thin and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.
Genesis 41.7: 7 The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven healthy and full ears. Pharaoh awoke, and behold, it was a dream.
Genesis 41.8: 8 In the morning, his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called for all of Egypt’s magicians and wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was no one who could interpret them to Pharaoh.
Genesis 41.9: 9 Then the chief cup bearer spoke to Pharaoh, saying, “I remember my faults today.
Genesis 41.10: 10 Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and put me in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, with the chief baker.
Genesis 41.11: 11 We dreamed a dream in one night, he and I. Each man dreamed according to the interpretation of his dream.
Genesis 41.12: 12 There was with us there a young man, a Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard, and we told him, and he interpreted to us our dreams. He interpreted to each man according to his dream.
Genesis 41.13: 13 As he interpreted to us, so it was. He restored me to my office, and he hanged him.”
Genesis 41.14: 14 Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon. He shaved himself, changed his clothing, and came in to Pharaoh.
Genesis 41.15: 15 Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it. I have heard it said of you, that when you hear a dream you can interpret it.”
Genesis 41.16: 16 Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, “It isn’t in me. God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace.”
Genesis 41.17: 17 Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, “In my dream, behold, I stood on the brink of the river;
Genesis 41.18: 18 and behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, fat and sleek. They fed in the marsh grass;
Genesis 41.19: 19 and behold, seven other cattle came up after them, poor and very ugly and thin, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for ugliness.
Genesis 41.20: 20 The thin and ugly cattle ate up the first seven fat cattle;
Genesis 41.21: 21 and when they had eaten them up, it couldn’t be known that they had eaten them, but they were still ugly, as at the beginning. So I awoke.
Genesis 41.22: 22 I saw in my dream, and behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, full and good;
Genesis 41.23: 23 and behold, seven heads of grain, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.
Genesis 41.24: 24 The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads of grain. I told it to the magicians, but there was no one who could explain it to me.”
Genesis 41.25: 25 Joseph said to Pharaoh, “The dream of Pharaoh is one. What God is about to do he has declared to Pharaoh.
Genesis 41.26: 26 The seven good cattle are seven years; and the seven good heads of grain are seven years. The dream is one.
Genesis 41.27: 27 The seven thin and ugly cattle that came up after them are seven years, and also the seven empty heads of grain blasted with the east wind; they will be seven years of famine.
Genesis 41.28: 28 That is the thing which I have spoken to Pharaoh. God has shown Pharaoh what he is about to do.
Genesis 41.29: 29 Behold, seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt are coming.
Genesis 41.30: 30 Seven years of famine will arise after them, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. The famine will consume the land,
Genesis 41.31: 31 and the plenty will not be known in the land by reason of that famine which follows; for it will be very grievous.
Genesis 41.32: 32 The dream was doubled to Pharaoh, because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.
Genesis 41.33: 33 “Now therefore let Pharaoh look for a discreet and wise man, and set him over the land of Egypt.
Genesis 41.34: 34 Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint overseers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt’s produce in the seven plenteous years.
Genesis 41.35: 35 Let them gather all the food of these good years that come, and store grain under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it.
Genesis 41.36: 36 The food will be to supply the land against the seven years of famine, which will be in the land of Egypt; so that the land will not perish through the famine.”
Genesis 41.37: 37 The thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants.
Genesis 41.38: 38 Pharaoh said to his servants, “Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom is the Spirit of God?”
Genesis 41.39: 39 Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Because God has shown you all of this, there is no one so discreet and wise as you.
Genesis 41.40: 40 You shall be over my house. All my people will be ruled according to your word. Only in the throne I will be greater than you.”
Genesis 41.41: 41 Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Behold, I have set you over all the land of Egypt.”
Genesis 41.42: 42 Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand, and put it on Joseph’s hand, and arrayed him in robes of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck.
Genesis 41.43: 43 He made him ride in the second chariot which he had. They cried before him, “Bow the knee!” He set him over all the land of Egypt.
Genesis 41.44: 44 Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I am Pharaoh. Without you, no man shall lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt.”
Genesis 41.45: 45 Pharaoh called Joseph’s name Zaphenath-Paneah. He gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On as a wife. Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.
Genesis 41.46: 46 Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.
Genesis 41.47: 47 In the seven plenteous years the earth produced abundantly.
Genesis 41.48: 48 He gathered up all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities. He stored food in each city from the fields around that city.
Genesis 41.49: 49 Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he stopped counting, for it was without number.
Genesis 41.50: 50 To Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore to him.
Genesis 41.51: 51 Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh, “For”, he said, “God has made me forget all my toil, and all my father’s house.”
Genesis 41.52: 52 The name of the second, he called Ephraim: “For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”
Genesis 41.53: 53 The seven years of plenty, that were in the land of Egypt, came to an end.
Genesis 41.54: 54 The seven years of famine began to come, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.
Genesis 41.55: 55 When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread, and Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, “Go to Joseph. What he says to you, do.”
Genesis 41.56: 56 The famine was over all the surface of the earth. Joseph opened all the store houses, and sold to the Egyptians. The famine was severe in the land of Egypt.
Genesis 41.57: 57 All countries came into Egypt, to Joseph, to buy grain, because the famine was severe in all the earth.
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Genesis 42.1: 1 Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, “Why do you look at one another?”
Genesis 42.2: 2 He said, “Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there, and buy for us from there, so that we may live, and not die.”
Genesis 42.3: 3 Joseph’s ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.
Genesis 42.4: 4 But Jacob didn’t send Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, with his brothers; for he said, “Lest perhaps harm happen to him.”
Genesis 42.5: 5 The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
Genesis 42.6: 6 Joseph was the governor over the land. It was he who sold to all the people of the land. Joseph’s brothers came, and bowed themselves down to him with their faces to the earth.
Genesis 42.7: 7 Joseph saw his brothers, and he recognized them, but acted like a stranger to them, and spoke roughly with them. He said to them, “Where did you come from?”
They said, “From the land of Canaan, to buy food.”
Genesis 42.8: 8 Joseph recognized his brothers, but they didn’t recognize him.
Genesis 42.9: 9 Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed about them, and said to them, “You are spies! You have come to see the nakedness of the land.”
Genesis 42.10: 10 They said to him, “No, my lord, but your servants have come to buy food.
Genesis 42.11: 11 We are all one man’s sons; we are honest men. Your servants are not spies.”
Genesis 42.12: 12 He said to them, “No, but you have come to see the nakedness of the land!”
Genesis 42.13: 13 They said, “We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest is today with our father, and one is no more.”
Genesis 42.14: 14 Joseph said to them, “It is like I told you, saying, ‘You are spies!’
Genesis 42.15: 15 By this you shall be tested. By the life of Pharaoh, you shall not go out from here, unless your youngest brother comes here.
Genesis 42.16: 16 Send one of you, and let him get your brother, and you shall be bound, that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you, or else by the life of Pharaoh surely you are spies.”
Genesis 42.17: 17 He put them all together into custody for three days.
Genesis 42.18: 18 Joseph said to them the third day, “Do this, and live, for I fear God.
Genesis 42.19: 19 If you are honest men, then let one of your brothers be bound in your prison; but you go, carry grain for the famine of your houses.
Genesis 42.20: 20 Bring your youngest brother to me; so will your words be verified, and you won’t die.”
They did so.
Genesis 42.21: 21 They said to one another, “We are certainly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us, and we wouldn’t listen. Therefore this distress has come upon us.”
Genesis 42.22: 22 Reuben answered them, saying, “Didn’t I tell you, saying, ‘Don’t sin against the child,’ and you wouldn’t listen? Therefore also, behold, his blood is required.”
Genesis 42.23: 23 They didn’t know that Joseph understood them; for there was an interpreter between them.
Genesis 42.24: 24 He turned himself away from them, and wept. Then he returned to them, and spoke to them, and took Simeon from among them, and bound him before their eyes.
Genesis 42.25: 25 Then Joseph gave a command to fill their bags with grain, and to restore each man’s money into his sack, and to give them food for the way. So it was done to them.
Genesis 42.26: 26 They loaded their donkeys with their grain, and departed from there.
Genesis 42.27: 27 As one of them opened his sack to give his donkey food in the lodging place, he saw his money. Behold, it was in the mouth of his sack.
Genesis 42.28: 28 He said to his brothers, “My money is restored! Behold, it is in my sack!” Their hearts failed them, and they turned trembling to one another, saying, “What is this that God has done to us?”
Genesis 42.29: 29 They came to Jacob their father, to the land of Canaan, and told him all that had happened to them, saying,
Genesis 42.30: 30 “The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us, and took us for spies of the country.
Genesis 42.31: 31 We said to him, ‘We are honest men. We are no spies.
Genesis 42.32: 32 We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, and the youngest is today with our father in the land of Canaan.’
Genesis 42.33: 33 The man, the lord of the land, said to us, ‘By this I will know that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain for the famine of your houses, and go your way.
Genesis 42.34: 34 Bring your youngest brother to me. Then I will know that you are not spies, but that you are honest men. So I will deliver your brother to you, and you shall trade in the land.’”
Genesis 42.35: 35 As they emptied their sacks, behold, each man’s bundle of money was in his sack. When they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were afraid.
Genesis 42.36: 36 Jacob, their father, said to them, “You have bereaved me of my children! Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and you want to take Benjamin away. All these things are against me.”
Genesis 42.37: 37 Reuben spoke to his father, saying, “Kill my two sons, if I don’t bring him to you. Entrust him to my care, and I will bring him to you again.”
Genesis 42.38: 38 He said, “My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him along the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.”
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Genesis 43.1: 1 The famine was severe in the land.
Genesis 43.2: 2 When they had eaten up the grain which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said to them, “Go again, buy us a little more food.”
Genesis 43.3: 3 Judah spoke to him, saying, “The man solemnly warned us, saying, ‘You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.’
Genesis 43.4: 4 If you’ll send our brother with us, we’ll go down and buy you food;
Genesis 43.5: 5 but if you don’t send him, we won’t go down, for the man said to us, ‘You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.’”
Genesis 43.6: 6 Israel said, “Why did you treat me so badly, telling the man that you had another brother?”
Genesis 43.7: 7 They said, “The man asked directly concerning ourselves, and concerning our relatives, saying, ‘Is your father still alive? Have you another brother?’ We just answered his questions. Is there any way we could know that he would say, ‘Bring your brother down?’”
Genesis 43.8: 8 Judah said to Israel, his father, “Send the boy with me, and we’ll get up and go, so that we may live, and not die, both we, and you, and also our little ones.
Genesis 43.9: 9 I’ll be collateral for him. From my hand will you require him. If I don’t bring him to you, and set him before you, then let me bear the blame forever;
Genesis 43.10: 10 for if we hadn’t delayed, surely we would have returned a second time by now.”
Genesis 43.11: 11 Their father, Israel, said to them, “If it must be so, then do this: Take from the choice fruits of the land in your bags, and carry down a present for the man, a little balm, a little honey, spices and myrrh, nuts, and almonds;
Genesis 43.12: 12 and take double money in your hand, and take back the money that was returned in the mouth of your sacks. Perhaps it was an oversight.
Genesis 43.13: 13 Take your brother also, get up, and return to the man.
Genesis 43.14: 14 May God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may release to you your other brother and Benjamin. If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.”
Genesis 43.15: 15 The men took that present, and they took double money in their hand, and Benjamin; and got up, went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph.
Genesis 43.16: 16 When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the steward of his house, “Bring the men into the house, and butcher an animal, and prepare; for the men will dine with me at noon.”
Genesis 43.17: 17 The man did as Joseph commanded, and the man brought the men to Joseph’s house.
Genesis 43.18: 18 The men were afraid, because they were brought to Joseph’s house; and they said, “Because of the money that was returned in our sacks the first time, we’re brought in; that he may seek occasion against us, attack us, and seize us as slaves, along with our donkeys.”
Genesis 43.19: 19 They came near to the steward of Joseph’s house, and they spoke to him at the door of the house,
Genesis 43.20: 20 and said, “Oh, my lord, we indeed came down the first time to buy food.
Genesis 43.21: 21 When we came to the lodging place, we opened our sacks, and behold, each man’s money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight. We have brought it back in our hand.
Genesis 43.22: 22 We have brought down other money in our hand to buy food. We don’t know who put our money in our sacks.”
Genesis 43.23: 23 He said, “Peace be to you. Don’t be afraid. Your God, and the God of your father, has given you treasure in your sacks. I received your money.” He brought Simeon out to them.
Genesis 43.24: 24 The man brought the men into Joseph’s house, and gave them water, and they washed their feet. He gave their donkeys fodder.
Genesis 43.25: 25 They prepared the present for Joseph’s coming at noon, for they heard that they should eat bread there.
Genesis 43.26: 26 When Joseph came home, they brought him the present which was in their hand into the house, and bowed themselves down to the earth before him.
Genesis 43.27: 27 He asked them of their welfare, and said, “Is your father well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he yet alive?”
Genesis 43.28: 28 They said, “Your servant, our father, is well. He is still alive.” They bowed down humbly.
Genesis 43.29: 29 He lifted up his eyes, and saw Benjamin, his brother, his mother’s son, and said, “Is this your youngest brother, of whom you spoke to me?” He said, “God be gracious to you, my son.”
Genesis 43.30: 30 Joseph hurried, for his heart yearned over his brother; and he sought a place to weep. He entered into his room, and wept there.
Genesis 43.31: 31 He washed his face, and came out. He controlled himself, and said, “Serve the meal.”
Genesis 43.32: 32 They served him by himself, and them by themselves, and the Egyptians who ate with him by themselves, because the Egyptians don’t eat with the Hebrews, for that is an abomination to the Egyptians.
Genesis 43.33: 33 They sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth, and the men marveled with one another.
Genesis 43.34: 34 He sent portions to them from before him, but Benjamin’s portion was five times as much as any of theirs. They drank, and were merry with him.
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Genesis 44.1: 1 He commanded the steward of his house, saying, “Fill the men’s sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put each man’s money in his sack’s mouth.
Genesis 44.2: 2 Put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack’s mouth of the youngest, with his grain money.” He did according to the word that Joseph had spoken.
Genesis 44.3: 3 As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they and their donkeys.
Genesis 44.4: 4 When they had gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Joseph said to his steward, “Up, follow after the men. When you overtake them, ask them, ‘Why have you rewarded evil for good?
Genesis 44.5: 5 Isn’t this that from which my lord drinks, and by which he indeed divines? You have done evil in so doing.’”
Genesis 44.6: 6 He overtook them, and he spoke these words to them.
Genesis 44.7: 7 They said to him, “Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants that they should do such a thing!
Genesis 44.8: 8 Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks’ mouths, we brought again to you out of the land of Canaan. How then should we steal silver or gold out of your lord’s house?
Genesis 44.9: 9 With whomever of your servants it is found, let him die, and we also will be my lord’s slaves.”
Genesis 44.10: 10 He said, “Now also let it be according to your words. He with whom it is found will be my slave; and you will be blameless.”
Genesis 44.11: 11 Then they hurried, and each man took his sack down to the ground, and each man opened his sack.
Genesis 44.12: 12 He searched, beginning with the oldest, and ending at the youngest. The cup was found in Benjamin’s sack.
Genesis 44.13: 13 Then they tore their clothes, and each man loaded his donkey, and returned to the city.
Genesis 44.14: 14 Judah and his brothers came to Joseph’s house, and he was still there. They fell on the ground before him.
Genesis 44.15: 15 Joseph said to them, “What deed is this that you have done? Don’t you know that such a man as I can indeed do divination?”
Genesis 44.16: 16 Judah said, “What will we tell my lord? What will we speak? How will we clear ourselves? God has found out the iniquity of your servants. Behold, we are my lord’s slaves, both we and he also in whose hand the cup is found.”
Genesis 44.17: 17 He said, “Far be it from me that I should do so. The man in whose hand the cup is found, he will be my slave; but as for you, go up in peace to your father.”
Genesis 44.18: 18 Then Judah came near to him, and said, “Oh, my lord, please let your servant speak a word in my lord’s ears, and don’t let your anger burn against your servant; for you are even as Pharaoh.
Genesis 44.19: 19 My lord asked his servants, saying, ‘Have you a father, or a brother?’
Genesis 44.20: 20 We said to my lord, ‘We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother; and his father loves him.’
Genesis 44.21: 21 You said to your servants, ‘Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.’
Genesis 44.22: 22 We said to my lord, ‘The boy can’t leave his father, for if he should leave his father, his father would die.’
Genesis 44.23: 23 You said to your servants, ‘Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will see my face no more.’
Genesis 44.24: 24 When we came up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.
Genesis 44.25: 25 Our father said, ‘Go again and buy us a little food.’
Genesis 44.26: 26 We said, ‘We can’t go down. If our youngest brother is with us, then we will go down: for we may not see the man’s face, unless our youngest brother is with us.’
Genesis 44.27: 27 Your servant, my father, said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons.
Genesis 44.28: 28 One went out from me, and I said, “Surely he is torn in pieces;” and I haven’t seen him since.
Genesis 44.29: 29 If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.’
Genesis 44.30: 30 Now therefore when I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us; since his life is bound up in the boy’s life;
Genesis 44.31: 31 it will happen, when he sees that the boy is no more, that he will die. Your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant, our father, with sorrow to Sheol.
Genesis 44.32: 32 For your servant became collateral for the boy to my father, saying, ‘If I don’t bring him to you, then I will bear the blame to my father forever.’
Genesis 44.33: 33 Now therefore, please let your servant stay instead of the boy, my lord’s slave; and let the boy go up with his brothers.
Genesis 44.34: 34 For how will I go up to my father, if the boy isn’t with me?—lest I see the evil that will come on my father.”
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Genesis 45.1: 1 Then Joseph couldn’t control himself before all those who stood before him, and he called out, “Cause everyone to go out from me!” No one else stood with him, while Joseph made himself known to his brothers.
Genesis 45.2: 2 He wept aloud. The Egyptians heard, and the house of Pharaoh heard.
Genesis 45.3: 3 Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph! Does my father still live?”
His brothers couldn’t answer him; for they were terrified at his presence.
Genesis 45.4: 4 Joseph said to his brothers, “Come near to me, please.”
They came near. He said, “I am Joseph, your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.
Genesis 45.5: 5 Now don’t be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.
Genesis 45.6: 6 For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are yet five years, in which there will be no plowing and no harvest.
Genesis 45.7: 7 God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.
Genesis 45.8: 8 So now it wasn’t you who sent me here, but God, and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
Genesis 45.9: 9 Hurry, and go up to my father, and tell him, ‘This is what your son Joseph says, “God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me. Don’t wait.
Genesis 45.10: 10 You shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you will be near to me, you, your children, your children’s children, your flocks, your herds, and all that you have.
Genesis 45.11: 11 There I will provide for you; for there are yet five years of famine; lest you come to poverty, you, and your household, and all that you have.”’
Genesis 45.12: 12 Behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaks to you.
Genesis 45.13: 13 You shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that you have seen. You shall hurry and bring my father down here.”
Genesis 45.14: 14 He fell on his brother Benjamin’s neck and wept, and Benjamin wept on his neck.
Genesis 45.15: 15 He kissed all his brothers, and wept on them. After that his brothers talked with him.
Genesis 45.16: 16 The report of it was heard in Pharaoh’s house, saying, “Joseph’s brothers have come.” It pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants.
Genesis 45.17: 17 Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Tell your brothers, ‘Do this: Load your animals, and go, travel to the land of Canaan.
Genesis 45.18: 18 Take your father and your households, and come to me, and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and you will eat the fat of the land.’
Genesis 45.19: 19 Now you are commanded to do this: Take wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.
Genesis 45.20: 20 Also, don’t concern yourselves about your belongings, for the good of all the land of Egypt is yours.”
Genesis 45.21: 21 The sons of Israel did so. Joseph gave them wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way.
Genesis 45.22: 22 He gave each one of them changes of clothing, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five changes of clothing.
Genesis 45.23: 23 He sent the following to his father: ten donkeys loaded with the good things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain and bread and provision for his father by the way.
Genesis 45.24: 24 So he sent his brothers away, and they departed. He said to them, “See that you don’t quarrel on the way.”
Genesis 45.25: 25 They went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan, to Jacob their father.
Genesis 45.26: 26 They told him, saying, “Joseph is still alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt.” His heart fainted, for he didn’t believe them.
Genesis 45.27: 27 They told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said to them. When he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob, their father, revived.
Genesis 45.28: 28 Israel said, “It is enough. Joseph my son is still alive. I will go and see him before I die.”
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Genesis 46.1: 1 Israel traveled with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father, Isaac.
Genesis 46.2: 2 God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night, and said, “Jacob, Jacob!”
He said, “Here I am.”
Genesis 46.3: 3 He said, “I am God, the God of your father. Don’t be afraid to go down into Egypt, for there I will make of you a great nation.
Genesis 46.4: 4 I will go down with you into Egypt. I will also surely bring you up again. Joseph’s hand will close your eyes.”
Genesis 46.5: 5 Jacob rose up from Beersheba, and the sons of Israel carried Jacob, their father, their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
Genesis 46.6: 6 They took their livestock, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt—Jacob, and all his offspring with him,
Genesis 46.7: 7 his sons, and his sons’ sons with him, his daughters, and his sons’ daughters, and he brought all his offspring with him into Egypt.
Genesis 46.8: 8 These are the names of the children of Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn.
Genesis 46.9: 9 The sons of Reuben: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.
Genesis 46.10: 10 The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman.
Genesis 46.11: 11 The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
Genesis 46.12: 12 The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. The sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.
Genesis 46.13: 13 The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puvah, Iob, and Shimron.
Genesis 46.14: 14 The sons of Zebulun: Sered, Elon, and Jahleel.
Genesis 46.15: 15 These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan Aram, with his daughter Dinah. All the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty-three.
Genesis 46.16: 16 The sons of Gad: Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli.
Genesis 46.17: 17 The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and Serah their sister. The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.
Genesis 46.18: 18 These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah, his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob, even sixteen souls.
Genesis 46.19: 19 The sons of Rachel, Jacob’s wife: Joseph and Benjamin.
Genesis 46.20: 20 To Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, bore to him.
Genesis 46.21: 21 The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard.
Genesis 46.22: 22 These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob: all the souls were fourteen.
Genesis 46.23: 23 The son of Dan: Hushim.
Genesis 46.24: 24 The sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem.
Genesis 46.25: 25 These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel, his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob: all the souls were seven.
Genesis 46.26: 26 All the souls who came with Jacob into Egypt, who were his direct offspring, in addition to Jacob’s sons’ wives, all the souls were sixty-six.
Genesis 46.27: 27 The sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two souls. All the souls of the house of Jacob, who came into Egypt, were seventy.
Genesis 46.28: 28 Jacob sent Judah before him to Joseph, to show the way before him to Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen.
Genesis 46.29: 29 Joseph prepared his chariot, and went up to meet Israel, his father, in Goshen. He presented himself to him, and fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.
Genesis 46.30: 30 Israel said to Joseph, “Now let me die, since I have seen your face, that you are still alive.”
Genesis 46.31: 31 Joseph said to his brothers, and to his father’s house, “I will go up, and speak with Pharaoh, and will tell him, ‘My brothers, and my father’s house, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.
Genesis 46.32: 32 These men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of livestock, and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.’
Genesis 46.33: 33 It will happen, when Pharaoh summons you, and will say, ‘What is your occupation?’
Genesis 46.34: 34 that you shall say, ‘Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we, and our fathers:’ that you may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians.”
Genesis 47.0:
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Genesis 47.1: 1 Then Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, and said, “My father and my brothers, with their flocks, their herds, and all that they own, have come out of the land of Canaan; and behold, they are in the land of Goshen.”
Genesis 47.2: 2 From among his brothers he took five men, and presented them to Pharaoh.
Genesis 47.3: 3 Pharaoh said to his brothers, “What is your occupation?”
They said to Pharaoh, “Your servants are shepherds, both we, and our fathers.”
Genesis 47.4: 4 They also said to Pharaoh, “We have come to live as foreigners in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants’ flocks. For the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now therefore, please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen.”
Genesis 47.5: 5 Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, “Your father and your brothers have come to you.
Genesis 47.6: 6 The land of Egypt is before you. Make your father and your brothers dwell in the best of the land. Let them dwell in the land of Goshen. If you know any able men among them, then put them in charge of my livestock.”
Genesis 47.7: 7 Joseph brought in Jacob, his father, and set him before Pharaoh; and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.
Genesis 47.8: 8 Pharaoh said to Jacob, “How old are you?”
Genesis 47.9: 9 Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. The days of the years of my life have been few and evil. They have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”
Genesis 47.10: 10 Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from the presence of Pharaoh.
Genesis 47.11: 11 Joseph placed his father and his brothers, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
Genesis 47.12: 12 Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all of his father’s household with bread, according to the sizes of their families.
Genesis 47.13: 13 There was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.
Genesis 47.14: 14 Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the grain which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh’s house.
Genesis 47.15: 15 When the money was all spent in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph, and said, “Give us bread, for why should we die in your presence? For our money fails.”
Genesis 47.16: 16 Joseph said, “Give me your livestock; and I will give you food for your livestock, if your money is gone.”
Genesis 47.17: 17 They brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for the horses, and for the flocks, and for the herds, and for the donkeys: and he fed them with bread in exchange for all their livestock for that year.
Genesis 47.18: 18 When that year was ended, they came to him the second year, and said to him, “We will not hide from my lord how our money is all spent, and the herds of livestock are my lord’s. There is nothing left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands.
Genesis 47.19: 19 Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh. Give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land won’t be desolate.”
Genesis 47.20: 20 So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for every man of the Egyptians sold his field, because the famine was severe on them, and the land became Pharaoh’s.
Genesis 47.21: 21 As for the people, he moved them to the cities from one end of the border of Egypt even to the other end of it.
Genesis 47.22: 22 Only he didn’t buy the land of the priests, for the priests had a portion from Pharaoh, and ate their portion which Pharaoh gave them. That is why they didn’t sell their land.
Genesis 47.23: 23 Then Joseph said to the people, “Behold, I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh. Behold, here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land.
Genesis 47.24: 24 It will happen at the harvests, that you shall give a fifth to Pharaoh, and four parts will be your own, for seed of the field, for your food, for them of your households, and for food for your little ones.”
Genesis 47.25: 25 They said, “You have saved our lives! Let us find favor in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants.”
Genesis 47.26: 26 Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth. Only the land of the priests alone didn’t become Pharaoh’s.
Genesis 47.27: 27 Israel lived in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen; and they got themselves possessions therein, and were fruitful, and multiplied exceedingly.
Genesis 47.28: 28 Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. So the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were one hundred forty-seven years.
Genesis 47.29: 29 The time came near that Israel must die, and he called his son Joseph, and said to him, “If now I have found favor in your sight, please put your hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me. Please don’t bury me in Egypt,
Genesis 47.30: 30 but when I sleep with my fathers, you shall carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their burying place.”
Joseph said, “I will do as you have said.”
Genesis 47.31: 31 Israel said, “Swear to me,” and he swore to him. Then Israel bowed himself on the bed’s head.
Genesis 48.0:
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Genesis 48.1: 1 After these things, someone said to Joseph, “Behold, your father is sick.” He took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.
Genesis 48.2: 2 Someone told Jacob, and said, “Behold, your son Joseph comes to you,” and Israel strengthened himself, and sat on the bed.
Genesis 48.3: 3 Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,
Genesis 48.4: 4 and said to me, ‘Behold, I will make you fruitful, and multiply you, and I will make of you a company of peoples, and will give this land to your offspring after you for an everlasting possession.’
Genesis 48.5: 5 Now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you into Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh, even as Reuben and Simeon, will be mine.
Genesis 48.6: 6 Your offspring, whom you become the father of after them, will be yours. They will be called after the name of their brothers in their inheritance.
Genesis 48.7: 7 As for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died beside me in the land of Canaan on the way, when there was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (also called Bethlehem).”
Genesis 48.8: 8 Israel saw Joseph’s sons, and said, “Who are these?”
Genesis 48.9: 9 Joseph said to his father, “They are my sons, whom God has given me here.”
He said, “Please bring them to me, and I will bless them.”
Genesis 48.10: 10 Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he couldn’t see well. Joseph brought them near to him; and he kissed them, and embraced them.
Genesis 48.11: 11 Israel said to Joseph, “I didn’t think I would see your face, and behold, God has let me see your offspring also.”
Genesis 48.12: 12 Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.
Genesis 48.13: 13 Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel’s left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel’s right hand, and brought them near to him.
Genesis 48.14: 14 Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it on Ephraim’s head, who was the younger, and his left hand on Manasseh’s head, guiding his hands knowingly, for Manasseh was the firstborn.
Genesis 48.15: 15 He blessed Joseph, and said,
“The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked,
the God who has fed me all my life long to this day,
Genesis 48.16: 16 the angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads,
and let my name be named on them,
and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac.
Let them grow into a multitude upon the earth.”
Genesis 48.17: 17 When Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him. He held up his father’s hand, to remove it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s head.
Genesis 48.18: 18 Joseph said to his father, “Not so, my father, for this is the firstborn. Put your right hand on his head.”
Genesis 48.19: 19 His father refused, and said, “I know, my son, I know. He also will become a people, and he also will be great. However, his younger brother will be greater than he, and his offspring will become a multitude of nations.”
Genesis 48.20: 20 He blessed them that day, saying, “Israel will bless in you, saying, ‘God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh’” He set Ephraim before Manasseh.
Genesis 48.21: 21 Israel said to Joseph, “Behold, I am dying, but God will be with you, and bring you again to the land of your fathers.
Genesis 48.22: 22 Moreover I have given to you one portion above your brothers, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.”
Genesis 49.0:
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Genesis 49.1: 1 Jacob called to his sons, and said: “Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which will happen to you in the days to come.
Genesis 49.2: 2 Assemble yourselves, and hear, you sons of Jacob.
Listen to Israel, your father.
Genesis 49.3: 3 “Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength;
excelling in dignity, and excelling in power.
Genesis 49.4: 4 Boiling over like water, you shall not excel;
because you went up to your father’s bed,
then defiled it. He went up to my couch.
Genesis 49.5: 5 “Simeon and Levi are brothers.
Their swords are weapons of violence.
Genesis 49.6: 6 My soul, don’t come into their council.
My glory, don’t be united to their assembly;
for in their anger they killed men.
In their self-will they hamstrung cattle.
Genesis 49.7: 7 Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce;
and their wrath, for it was cruel.
I will divide them in Jacob,
and scatter them in Israel.
Genesis 49.8: 8 “Judah, your brothers will praise you.
Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies.
Your father’s sons will bow down before you.
Genesis 49.9: 9 Judah is a lion’s cub.
From the prey, my son, you have gone up.
He stooped down, he crouched as a lion,
as a lioness.
Who will rouse him up?
Genesis 49.10: 10 The scepter will not depart from Judah,
nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet,
until he comes to whom it belongs.
To him will the obedience of the peoples be.
Genesis 49.11: 11 Binding his foal to the vine,
his donkey’s colt to the choice vine;
he has washed his garments in wine,
his robes in the blood of grapes.
Genesis 49.12: 12 His eyes will be red with wine,
his teeth white with milk.
Genesis 49.13: 13 “Zebulun will dwell at the haven of the sea.
He will be for a haven of ships.
His border will be on Sidon.
Genesis 49.14: 14 “Issachar is a strong donkey,
lying down between the saddlebags.
Genesis 49.15: 15 He saw a resting place, that it was good,
the land, that it was pleasant.
He bows his shoulder to the burden,
and becomes a servant doing forced labor.
Genesis 49.16: 16 “Dan will judge his people,
as one of the tribes of Israel.
Genesis 49.17: 17 Dan will be a serpent on the trail,
an adder in the path,
that bites the horse’s heels,
so that his rider falls backward.
Genesis 49.18: 18 I have waited for your salvation, Yahweh.
Genesis 49.19: 19 “A troop will press on Gad,
but he will press on their heel.
Genesis 49.20: 20 “Asher’s food will be rich.
He will produce royal dainties.
Genesis 49.21: 21 “Naphtali is a doe set free,
who bears beautiful fawns.
Genesis 49.22: 22 “Joseph is a fruitful vine,
a fruitful vine by a spring.
His branches run over the wall.
Genesis 49.23: 23 The archers have severely grieved him,
shot at him, and persecuted him:
Genesis 49.24: 24 But his bow remained strong.
The arms of his hands were made strong,
by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob,
(from there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel),
Genesis 49.25: 25 even by the God of your father, who will help you,
by the Almighty, who will bless you,
with blessings of heaven above,
blessings of the deep that lies below,
blessings of the breasts, and of the womb.
Genesis 49.26: 26 The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of your ancestors,
above the boundaries of the ancient hills.
They will be on the head of Joseph,
on the crown of the head of him who is separated from his brothers.
Genesis 49.27: 27 “Benjamin is a ravenous wolf.
In the morning he will devour the prey.
At evening he will divide the plunder.”
Genesis 49.28: 28 All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father spoke to them, and blessed them. He blessed everyone according to his own blessing.
Genesis 49.29: 29 He instructed them, and said to them, “I am to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
Genesis 49.30: 30 in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite as a burial place.
Genesis 49.31: 31 There they buried Abraham and Sarah, his wife. There they buried Isaac and Rebekah, his wife, and there I buried Leah:
Genesis 49.32: 32 the field and the cave that is therein, which was purchased from the children of Heth.”
Genesis 49.33: 33 When Jacob finished charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, breathed his last breath, and was gathered to his people.
Genesis 50.0:
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Genesis 50.1: 1 Joseph fell on his father’s face, wept on him, and kissed him.
Genesis 50.2: 2 Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel.
Genesis 50.3: 3 Forty days were used for him, for that is how many the days it takes to embalm. The Egyptians wept for Israel for seventy days.
Genesis 50.4: 4 When the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke to Pharaoh’s staff, saying, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,
Genesis 50.5: 5 ‘My father made me swear, saying, “Behold, I am dying. Bury me in my grave which I have dug for myself in the land of Canaan.” Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my father, and I will come again.’”
Genesis 50.6: 6 Pharaoh said, “Go up, and bury your father, just like he made you swear.”
Genesis 50.7: 7 Joseph went up to bury his father; and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, all the elders of the land of Egypt,
Genesis 50.8: 8 All the house of Joseph, his brothers, and his father’s house. Only their little ones, their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.
Genesis 50.9: 9 There went up with him both chariots and horsemen. It was a very great company.
Genesis 50.10: 10 They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and severe lamentation. He mourned for his father seven days.
Genesis 50.11: 11 When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, “This is a grievous mourning by the Egyptians.” Therefore its name was called Abel Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.
Genesis 50.12: 12 His sons did to him just as he commanded them,
Genesis 50.13: 13 for his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field, as a possession for a burial site, from Ephron the Hittite, near Mamre.
Genesis 50.14: 14 Joseph returned into Egypt—he, and his brothers, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.
Genesis 50.15: 15 When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “It may be that Joseph will hate us, and will fully pay us back for all the evil which we did to him.”
Genesis 50.16: 16 They sent a message to Joseph, saying, “Your father commanded before he died, saying,
Genesis 50.17: 17 ‘You shall tell Joseph, “Now please forgive the disobedience of your brothers, and their sin, because they did evil to you.”’ Now, please forgive the disobedience of the servants of the God of your father.” Joseph wept when they spoke to him.
Genesis 50.18: 18 His brothers also went and fell down before his face; and they said, “Behold, we are your servants.”
Genesis 50.19: 19 Joseph said to them, “Don’t be afraid, for am I in the place of God?
Genesis 50.20: 20 As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to save many people alive, as is happening today.
Genesis 50.21: 21 Now therefore don’t be afraid. I will provide for you and your little ones.” He comforted them, and spoke kindly to them.
Genesis 50.22: 22 Joseph lived in Egypt, he, and his father’s house. Joseph lived one hundred ten years.
Genesis 50.23: 23 Joseph saw Ephraim’s children to the third generation. The children also of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born on Joseph’s knees.
Genesis 50.24: 24 Joseph said to his brothers, “I am dying, but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”
Genesis 50.25: 25 Joseph took an oath from the children of Israel, saying, “God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here.”
Genesis 50.26: 26 So Joseph died, being one hundred ten years old, and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
Deuteronomy 0.0:
The Fifth Book of Moses,
Commonly Called
Deuteronomy
Deuteronomy 1.0:
1
Deuteronomy 1.1: 1 These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah opposite Suf, between Paran, Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab.
Deuteronomy 1.2: 2 It is eleven days’ journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh Barnea.
Deuteronomy 1.3: 3 In the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, Moses spoke to the children of Israel according to all that Yahweh had given him in commandment to them,
Deuteronomy 1.4: 4 after he had struck Sihon the king of the Amorites who lived in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan who lived in Ashtaroth, at Edrei.
Deuteronomy 1.5: 5 Beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, Moses began to declare this law, saying,
Deuteronomy 1.6: 6 “Yahweh our God spoke to us in Horeb, saying, ‘You have lived long enough at this mountain.
Deuteronomy 1.7: 7 Turn, and take your journey, and go to the hill country of the Amorites and to all the places near there: in the Arabah, in the hill country, in the lowland, in the South, by the seashore, in the land of the Canaanites, and in Lebanon as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.
Deuteronomy 1.8: 8 Behold, I have set the land before you. Go in and possess the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers—to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob—to give to them and to their offspring after them.’”
Deuteronomy 1.9: 9 I spoke to you at that time, saying, “I am not able to bear you myself alone.
Deuteronomy 1.10: 10 Yahweh your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are today as the stars of the sky for multitude.
Deuteronomy 1.11: 11 Yahweh, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are and bless you, as he has promised you!
Deuteronomy 1.12: 12 How can I myself alone bear your problems, your burdens, and your strife?
Deuteronomy 1.13: 13 Take wise men of understanding who are respected among your tribes, and I will make them heads over you.”
Deuteronomy 1.14: 14 You answered me, and said, “The thing which you have spoken is good to do.”
Deuteronomy 1.15: 15 So I took the heads of your tribes, wise and respected men, and made them heads over you, captains of thousands, captains of hundreds, captains of fifties, captains of tens, and officers, according to your tribes.
Deuteronomy 1.16: 16 I commanded your judges at that time, saying, “Hear cases between your brothers and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the foreigner who is living with him.
Deuteronomy 1.17: 17 You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is God’s. The case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.”
Deuteronomy 1.18: 18 I commanded you at that time all the things which you should do.
Deuteronomy 1.19: 19 We traveled from Horeb and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which you saw, by the way to the hill country of the Amorites, as Yahweh our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh Barnea.
Deuteronomy 1.20: 20 I said to you, “You have come to the hill country of the Amorites, which Yahweh our God gives to us.
Deuteronomy 1.21: 21 Behold, Yahweh your God has set the land before you. Go up, take possession, as Yahweh the God of your fathers has spoken to you. Don’t be afraid, neither be dismayed.”
Deuteronomy 1.22: 22 You came near to me, everyone of you, and said, “Let’s send men before us, that they may search the land for us, and bring back to us word of the way by which we must go up, and the cities to which we shall come.”
Deuteronomy 1.23: 23 The thing pleased me well. I took twelve of your men, one man for every tribe.
Deuteronomy 1.24: 24 They turned and went up into the hill country, and came to the valley of Eshcol, and spied it out.
Deuteronomy 1.25: 25 They took some of the fruit of the land in their hands and brought it down to us, and brought us word again, and said, “It is a good land which Yahweh our God gives to us.”
Deuteronomy 1.26: 26 Yet you wouldn’t go up, but rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh your God.
Deuteronomy 1.27: 27 You murmured in your tents, and said, “Because Yahweh hated us, he has brought us out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to destroy us.
Deuteronomy 1.28: 28 Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our heart melt, saying, ‘The people are greater and taller than we. The cities are great and fortified up to the sky. Moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there!’”
Deuteronomy 1.29: 29 Then I said to you, “Don’t be terrified. Don’t be afraid of them.
Deuteronomy 1.30: 30 Yahweh your God, who goes before you, he will fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes,
Deuteronomy 1.31: 31 and in the wilderness where you have seen how that Yahweh your God carried you, as a man carries his son, in all the way that you went, until you came to this place.”
Deuteronomy 1.32: 32 Yet in this thing you didn’t believe Yahweh your God,
Deuteronomy 1.33: 33 who went before you on the way, to seek out a place for you to pitch your tents in: in fire by night, to show you by what way you should go, and in the cloud by day.
Deuteronomy 1.34: 34 Yahweh heard the voice of your words and was angry, and swore, saying,
Deuteronomy 1.35: 35 “Surely not one of these men of this evil generation shall see the good land which I swore to give to your fathers,
Deuteronomy 1.36: 36 except Caleb the son of Jephunneh. He shall see it. I will give the land that he has trodden on to him and to his children, because he has wholly followed Yahweh.”
Deuteronomy 1.37: 37 Also Yahweh was angry with me for your sakes, saying, “You also shall not go in there.
Deuteronomy 1.38: 38 Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, shall go in there. Encourage him, for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.
Deuteronomy 1.39: 39 Moreover your little ones, whom you said would be captured or killed, your children, who today have no knowledge of good or evil, shall go in there. I will give it to them, and they shall possess it.
Deuteronomy 1.40: 40 But as for you, turn, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.”
Deuteronomy 1.41: 41 Then you answered and said to me, “We have sinned against Yahweh. We will go up and fight, according to all that Yahweh our God commanded us.” Every man of you put on his weapons of war, and presumed to go up into the hill country.
Deuteronomy 1.42: 42 Yahweh said to me, “Tell them, ‘Don’t go up and don’t fight; for I am not among you, lest you be struck before your enemies.’”
Deuteronomy 1.43: 43 So I spoke to you, and you didn’t listen; but you rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh, and were presumptuous, and went up into the hill country.
Deuteronomy 1.44: 44 The Amorites, who lived in that hill country, came out against you and chased you as bees do, and beat you down in Seir, even to Hormah.
Deuteronomy 1.45: 45 You returned and wept before Yahweh; but Yahweh didn’t listen to your voice, nor turn his ear to you.
Deuteronomy 1.46: 46 So you stayed in Kadesh many days, according to the days that you remained.
Deuteronomy 2.0:
2
Deuteronomy 2.1: 1 Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea, as Yahweh spoke to me; and we encircled Mount Seir many days.
Deuteronomy 2.2: 2 Yahweh spoke to me, saying,
Deuteronomy 2.3: 3 “You have encircled this mountain long enough. Turn northward.
Deuteronomy 2.4: 4 Command the people, saying, ‘You are to pass through the border of your brothers, the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir; and they will be afraid of you. Therefore be careful.
Deuteronomy 2.5: 5 Don’t contend with them; for I will not give you any of their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on, because I have given Mount Seir to Esau for a possession.
Deuteronomy 2.6: 6 You shall purchase food from them for money, that you may eat. You shall also buy water from them for money, that you may drink.’”
Deuteronomy 2.7: 7 For Yahweh your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has known your walking through this great wilderness. These forty years, Yahweh your God has been with you. You have lacked nothing.
Deuteronomy 2.8: 8 So we passed by from our brothers, the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, from the way of the Arabah from Elath and from Ezion Geber. We turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.
Deuteronomy 2.9: 9 Yahweh said to me, “Don’t bother Moab, neither contend with them in battle; for I will not give you any of his land for a possession, because I have given Ar to the children of Lot for a possession.”
Deuteronomy 2.10: 10 (The Emim lived there before, a great and numerous people, and tall as the Anakim.
Deuteronomy 2.11: 11 These also are considered to be Rephaim, as the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim.
Deuteronomy 2.12: 12 The Horites also lived in Seir in the past, but the children of Esau succeeded them. They destroyed them from before them, and lived in their place, as Israel did to the land of his possession, which Yahweh gave to them.)
Deuteronomy 2.13: 13 “Now rise up, and cross over the brook Zered.” We went over the brook Zered.
Deuteronomy 2.14: 14 The days in which we came from Kadesh Barnea until we had come over the brook Zered were thirty-eight years: until all the generation of the men of war were consumed from the middle of the camp, as Yahweh swore to them.
Deuteronomy 2.15: 15 Moreover Yahweh’s hand was against them, to destroy them from the middle of the camp, until they were consumed.
Deuteronomy 2.16: 16 So, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,
Deuteronomy 2.17: 17 Yahweh spoke to me, saying,
Deuteronomy 2.18: 18 “You are to pass over Ar, the border of Moab, today.
Deuteronomy 2.19: 19 When you come near the border of the children of Ammon, don’t bother them, nor contend with them; for I will not give you any of the land of the children of Ammon for a possession, because I have given it to the children of Lot for a possession.”
Deuteronomy 2.20: 20 (That also is considered a land of Rephaim. Rephaim lived there in the past, but the Ammonites call them Zamzummim,
Deuteronomy 2.21: 21 a great people, many, and tall, as the Anakim; but Yahweh destroyed them from before Israel, and they succeeded them, and lived in their place;
Deuteronomy 2.22: 22 as he did for the children of Esau who dwell in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites from before them; and they succeeded them, and lived in their place even to this day.
Deuteronomy 2.23: 23 Then the Avvim, who lived in villages as far as Gaza: the Caphtorim, who came out of Caphtor, destroyed them and lived in their place.)
Deuteronomy 2.24: 24 “Rise up, take your journey, and pass over the valley of the Arnon. Behold, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land; begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle.
Deuteronomy 2.25: 25 Today I will begin to put the dread of you and the fear of you on the peoples who are under the whole sky, who shall hear the report of you, and shall tremble and be in anguish because of you.”
Deuteronomy 2.26: 26 I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,
Deuteronomy 2.27: 27 “Let me pass through your land. I will go along by the highway. I will turn neither to the right hand nor to the left.
Deuteronomy 2.28: 28 You shall sell me food for money, that I may eat; and give me water for money, that I may drink. Just let me pass through on my feet,
Deuteronomy 2.29: 29 as the children of Esau who dwell in Seir, and the Moabites who dwell in Ar, did to me; until I pass over the Jordan into the land which Yahweh our God gives us.”
Deuteronomy 2.30: 30 But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him; for Yahweh your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into your hand, as it is today.
Deuteronomy 2.31: 31 Yahweh said to me, “Behold, I have begun to deliver up Sihon and his land before you. Begin to possess, that you may inherit his land.”
Deuteronomy 2.32: 32 Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Jahaz.
Deuteronomy 2.33: 33 Yahweh our God delivered him up before us; and we struck him, his sons, and all his people.
Deuteronomy 2.34: 34 We took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones. We left no one remaining.
Deuteronomy 2.35: 35 Only the livestock we took for plunder for ourselves, with the plunder of the cities which we had taken.
Deuteronomy 2.36: 36 From Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the valley, even to Gilead, there was not a city too high for us. Yahweh our God delivered up all before us.
Deuteronomy 2.37: 37 Only to the land of the children of Ammon you didn’t come near: all the banks of the river Jabbok, and the cities of the hill country, and wherever Yahweh our God forbade us.
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Deuteronomy 3.1: 1 Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan. Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.
Deuteronomy 3.2: 2 Yahweh said to me, “Don’t fear him; for I have delivered him, with all his people, and his land, into your hand. You shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon.”
Deuteronomy 3.3: 3 So Yahweh our God delivered into our hand Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people. We struck him until no one was left to him remaining.
Deuteronomy 3.4: 4 We took all his cities at that time. There was not a city which we didn’t take from them: sixty cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
Deuteronomy 3.5: 5 All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, in addition to a great many villages without walls.
Deuteronomy 3.6: 6 We utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones.
Deuteronomy 3.7: 7 But all the livestock, and the plunder of the cities, we took for plunder for ourselves.
Deuteronomy 3.8: 8 We took the land at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon.
Deuteronomy 3.9: 9 (The Sidonians call Hermon Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir.)
Deuteronomy 3.10: 10 We took all the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, to Salecah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
Deuteronomy 3.11: 11 (For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of the Rephaim. Behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron. Isn’t it in Rabbah of the children of Ammon? Nine cubits was its length, and four cubits its width, after the cubit of a man.)
Deuteronomy 3.12: 12 This land we took in possession at that time: from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, and half the hill country of Gilead with its cities, I gave to the Reubenites and to the Gadites;
Deuteronomy 3.13: 13 and the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh—all the region of Argob, even all Bashan. (The same is called the land of Rephaim.
Deuteronomy 3.14: 14 Jair the son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob, to the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and called them, even Bashan, after his own name, Havvoth Jair, to this day.)
Deuteronomy 3.15: 15 I gave Gilead to Machir.
Deuteronomy 3.16: 16 To the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave from Gilead even to the valley of the Arnon, the middle of the valley, and its border, even to the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon;
Deuteronomy 3.17: 17 the Arabah also, and the Jordan and its border, from Chinnereth even to the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah eastward.
Deuteronomy 3.18: 18 I commanded you at that time, saying, “Yahweh your God has given you this land to possess it. All of you men of valor shall pass over armed before your brothers, the children of Israel.
Deuteronomy 3.19: 19 But your wives, and your little ones, and your livestock, (I know that you have much livestock), shall live in your cities which I have given you,
Deuteronomy 3.20: 20 until Yahweh gives rest to your brothers, as to you, and they also possess the land which Yahweh your God gives them beyond the Jordan. Then you shall each return to his own possession, which I have given you.”
Deuteronomy 3.21: 21 I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, “Your eyes have seen all that Yahweh your God has done to these two kings. So shall Yahweh do to all the kingdoms where you go over.
Deuteronomy 3.22: 22 You shall not fear them; for Yahweh your God himself fights for you.”
Deuteronomy 3.23: 23 I begged Yahweh at that time, saying,
Deuteronomy 3.24: 24 “Lord Yahweh, you have begun to show your servant your greatness, and your strong hand. For what god is there in heaven or in earth that can do works like yours, and mighty acts like yours?
Deuteronomy 3.25: 25 Please let me go over and see the good land that is beyond the Jordan, that fine mountain, and Lebanon.”
Deuteronomy 3.26: 26 But Yahweh was angry with me because of you, and didn’t listen to me. Yahweh said to me, “That is enough! Speak no more to me of this matter.
Deuteronomy 3.27: 27 Go up to the top of Pisgah, and lift up your eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and see with your eyes; for you shall not go over this Jordan.
Deuteronomy 3.28: 28 But commission Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him; for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which you shall see.”
Deuteronomy 3.29: 29 So we stayed in the valley near Beth Peor.
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Deuteronomy 4.1: 1 Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and to the ordinances which I teach you, to do them; that you may live, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, gives you.
Deuteronomy 4.2: 2 You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall you take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of Yahweh your God which I command you.
Deuteronomy 4.3: 3 Your eyes have seen what Yahweh did because of Baal Peor; for Yahweh your God has destroyed all the men who followed Baal Peor from among you.
Deuteronomy 4.4: 4 But you who were faithful to Yahweh your God are all alive today.
Deuteronomy 4.5: 5 Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as Yahweh my God commanded me, that you should do so in the middle of the land where you go in to possess it.
Deuteronomy 4.6: 6 Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who shall hear all these statutes and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”
Deuteronomy 4.7: 7 For what great nation is there that has a god so near to them as Yahweh our God is whenever we call on him?
Deuteronomy 4.8: 8 What great nation is there that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law which I set before you today?
Deuteronomy 4.9: 9 Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children—
Deuteronomy 4.10: 10 the day that you stood before Yahweh your God in Horeb, when Yahweh said to me, “Assemble the people to me, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children.”
Deuteronomy 4.11: 11 You came near and stood under the mountain. The mountain burned with fire to the heart of the sky, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness.
Deuteronomy 4.12: 12 Yahweh spoke to you out of the middle of the fire: you heard the voice of words, but you saw no form; you only heard a voice.
Deuteronomy 4.13: 13 He declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even the ten commandments. He wrote them on two stone tablets.
Deuteronomy 4.14: 14 Yahweh commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and ordinances, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it.
Deuteronomy 4.15: 15 Be very careful, for you saw no kind of form on the day that Yahweh spoke to you in Horeb out of the middle of the fire,
Deuteronomy 4.16: 16 lest you corrupt yourselves, and make yourself a carved image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
Deuteronomy 4.17: 17 the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky,
Deuteronomy 4.18: 18 the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth;
Deuteronomy 4.19: 19 and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the army of the sky, you are drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which Yahweh your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky.
Deuteronomy 4.20: 20 But Yahweh has taken you, and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as it is today.
Deuteronomy 4.21: 21 Furthermore Yahweh was angry with me for your sakes, and swore that I should not go over the Jordan, and that I should not go in to that good land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance;
Deuteronomy 4.22: 22 but I must die in this land. I must not go over the Jordan, but you shall go over and possess that good land.
Deuteronomy 4.23: 23 Be careful, lest you forget the covenant of Yahweh your God, which he made with you, and make yourselves a carved image in the form of anything which Yahweh your God has forbidden you.
Deuteronomy 4.24: 24 For Yahweh your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.
Deuteronomy 4.25: 25 When you shall father children and children’s children, and you shall have been long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a carved image in the form of anything, and shall do that which is evil in Yahweh your God’s sight to provoke him to anger,
Deuteronomy 4.26: 26 I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from off the land which you go over the Jordan to possess it. You will not prolong your days on it, but will utterly be destroyed.
Deuteronomy 4.27: 27 Yahweh will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where Yahweh will lead you away.
Deuteronomy 4.28: 28 There you shall serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
Deuteronomy 4.29: 29 But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you shall find him when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.
Deuteronomy 4.30: 30 When you are in oppression, and all these things have come on you, in the latter days you shall return to Yahweh your God and listen to his voice.
Deuteronomy 4.31: 31 For Yahweh your God is a merciful God. He will not fail you nor destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore to them.
Deuteronomy 4.32: 32 For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and from the one end of the sky to the other, whether there has been anything as great as this thing is, or has been heard like it?
Deuteronomy 4.33: 33 Did a people ever hear the voice of God speaking out of the middle of the fire, as you have heard, and live?
Deuteronomy 4.34: 34 Or has God tried to go and take a nation for himself from among another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, by war, by a mighty hand, by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that Yahweh your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
Deuteronomy 4.35: 35 It was shown to you so that you might know that Yahweh is God. There is no one else besides him.
Deuteronomy 4.36: 36 Out of heaven he made you to hear his voice, that he might instruct you. On earth he made you to see his great fire; and you heard his words out of the middle of the fire.
Deuteronomy 4.37: 37 Because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their offspring after them, and brought you out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt;
Deuteronomy 4.38: 38 to drive out nations from before you greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is today.
Deuteronomy 4.39: 39 Know therefore today, and take it to heart, that Yahweh himself is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath. There is no one else.
Deuteronomy 4.40: 40 You shall keep his statutes and his commandments which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for all time.
Deuteronomy 4.41: 41 Then Moses set apart three cities beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise,
Deuteronomy 4.42: 42 that the man slayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unintentionally and didn’t hate him in time past, and that fleeing to one of these cities he might live:
Deuteronomy 4.43: 43 Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, for the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan for the Manassites.
Deuteronomy 4.44: 44 This is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel.
Deuteronomy 4.45: 45 These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances which Moses spoke to the children of Israel when they came out of Egypt,
Deuteronomy 4.46: 46 beyond the Jordan, in the valley opposite Beth Peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel struck when they came out of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 4.47: 47 They took possession of his land and the land of Og king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise;
Deuteronomy 4.48: 48 from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, even to Mount Sion (also called Hermon),
Deuteronomy 4.49: 49 and all the Arabah beyond the Jordan eastward, even to the sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah.
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Deuteronomy 5.1: 1 Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, “Hear, Israel, the statutes and the ordinances which I speak in your ears today, that you may learn them, and observe to do them.”
Deuteronomy 5.2: 2 Yahweh our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
Deuteronomy 5.3: 3 Yahweh didn’t make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive today.
Deuteronomy 5.4: 4 Yahweh spoke with you face to face on the mountain out of the middle of the fire,
Deuteronomy 5.5: 5 (I stood between Yahweh and you at that time, to show you Yahweh’s word; for you were afraid because of the fire, and didn’t go up onto the mountain) saying,
Deuteronomy 5.6: 6 “I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
Deuteronomy 5.7: 7 “You shall have no other gods before me.
Deuteronomy 5.8: 8 “You shall not make a carved image for yourself—any likeness of what is in heaven above, or what is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
Deuteronomy 5.9: 9 You shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them; for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me;
Deuteronomy 5.10: 10 and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
Deuteronomy 5.11: 11 “You shall not misuse the name of Yahweh your God; for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who misuses his name.
Deuteronomy 5.12: 12 “Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as Yahweh your God commanded you.
Deuteronomy 5.13: 13 You shall labor six days, and do all your work;
Deuteronomy 5.14: 14 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God, in which you shall not do any work— neither you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates; that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you.
Deuteronomy 5.15: 15 You shall remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God brought you out of there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm. Therefore Yahweh your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.
Deuteronomy 5.16: 16 “Honor your father and your mother, as Yahweh your God commanded you; that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
Deuteronomy 5.17: 17 “You shall not murder.
Deuteronomy 5.18: 18 “You shall not commit adultery.
Deuteronomy 5.19: 19 “You shall not steal.
Deuteronomy 5.20: 20 “You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
Deuteronomy 5.21: 21 “You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. Neither shall you desire your neighbor’s house, his field, or his male servant, or his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.”
Deuteronomy 5.22: 22 Yahweh spoke these words to all your assembly on the mountain out of the middle of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice. He added no more. He wrote them on two stone tablets, and gave them to me.
Deuteronomy 5.23: 23 When you heard the voice out of the middle of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, you came near to me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders;
Deuteronomy 5.24: 24 and you said, “Behold, Yahweh our God has shown us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the middle of the fire. We have seen today that God does speak with man, and he lives.
Deuteronomy 5.25: 25 Now therefore, why should we die? For this great fire will consume us. If we hear Yahweh our God’s voice any more, then we shall die.
Deuteronomy 5.26: 26 For who is there of all flesh, that has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the middle of the fire, as we have, and lived?
Deuteronomy 5.27: 27 Go near, and hear all that Yahweh our God shall say, and tell us all that Yahweh our God tells you; and we will hear it, and do it.”
Deuteronomy 5.28: 28 Yahweh heard the voice of your words when you spoke to me; and Yahweh said to me, “I have heard the voice of the words of this people which they have spoken to you. They have well said all that they have spoken.
Deuteronomy 5.29: 29 Oh that there were such a heart in them that they would fear me and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them and with their children forever!
Deuteronomy 5.30: 30 “Go tell them, ‘Return to your tents.’
Deuteronomy 5.31: 31 But as for you, stand here by me, and I will tell you all the commandments, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which you shall teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess.”
Deuteronomy 5.32: 32 You shall observe to do therefore as Yahweh your God has commanded you. You shall not turn away to the right hand or to the left.
Deuteronomy 5.33: 33 You shall walk in all the way which Yahweh your God has commanded you, that you may live and that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which you shall possess.
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Deuteronomy 6.1: 1 Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Yahweh your God commanded to teach you, that you might do them in the land that you go over to possess;
Deuteronomy 6.2: 2 that you might fear Yahweh your God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you—you, your son, and your son’s son, all the days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged.
Deuteronomy 6.3: 3 Hear therefore, Israel, and observe to do it, that it may be well with you, and that you may increase mightily, as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has promised to you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.
Deuteronomy 6.4: 4 Hear, Israel: Yahweh is our God. Yahweh is one.
Deuteronomy 6.5: 5 You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.
Deuteronomy 6.6: 6 These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart;
Deuteronomy 6.7: 7 and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.
Deuteronomy 6.8: 8 You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.
Deuteronomy 6.9: 9 You shall write them on the door posts of your house and on your gates.
Deuteronomy 6.10: 10 It shall be, when Yahweh your God brings you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you, great and goodly cities which you didn’t build,
Deuteronomy 6.11: 11 and houses full of all good things which you didn’t fill, and cisterns dug out which you didn’t dig, vineyards and olive trees which you didn’t plant, and you shall eat and be full;
Deuteronomy 6.12: 12 then beware lest you forget Yahweh, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
Deuteronomy 6.13: 13 You shall fear Yahweh your God; and you shall serve him, and shall swear by his name.
Deuteronomy 6.14: 14 You shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples who are around you,
Deuteronomy 6.15: 15 for Yahweh your God among you is a jealous God, lest the anger of Yahweh your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth.
Deuteronomy 6.16: 16 You shall not tempt Yahweh your God, as you tempted him in Massah.
Deuteronomy 6.17: 17 You shall diligently keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you.
Deuteronomy 6.18: 18 You shall do that which is right and good in Yahweh’s sight, that it may be well with you and that you may go in and possess the good land which Yahweh swore to your fathers,
Deuteronomy 6.19: 19 to thrust out all your enemies from before you, as Yahweh has spoken.
Deuteronomy 6.20: 20 When your son asks you in time to come, saying, “What do the testimonies, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Yahweh our God has commanded you mean?”
Deuteronomy 6.21: 21 then you shall tell your son, “We were Pharaoh’s slaves in Egypt. Yahweh brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand;
Deuteronomy 6.22: 22 and Yahweh showed great and awesome signs and wonders on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his house, before our eyes;
Deuteronomy 6.23: 23 and he brought us out from there, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he swore to our fathers.
Deuteronomy 6.24: 24 Yahweh commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear Yahweh our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as we are today.
Deuteronomy 6.25: 25 It shall be righteousness to us, if we observe to do all these commandments before Yahweh our God, as he has commanded us.”
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Deuteronomy 7.1: 1 When Yahweh your God brings you into the land where you go to possess it, and casts out many nations before you—the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite—seven nations greater and mightier than you;
Deuteronomy 7.2: 2 and when Yahweh your God delivers them up before you, and you strike them, then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them.
Deuteronomy 7.3: 3 You shall not make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to his son, nor shall you take his daughter for your son.
Deuteronomy 7.4: 4 For that would turn away your sons from following me, that they may serve other gods. So Yahweh’s anger would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly.
Deuteronomy 7.5: 5 But you shall deal with them like this: you shall break down their altars, dash their pillars in pieces, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their engraved images with fire.
Deuteronomy 7.6: 6 For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.
Deuteronomy 7.7: 7 Yahweh didn’t set his love on you nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all peoples;
Deuteronomy 7.8: 8 but because Yahweh loves you, and because he desires to keep the oath which he swore to your fathers, Yahweh has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 7.9: 9 Know therefore that Yahweh your God himself is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with them who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations,
Deuteronomy 7.10: 10 and repays those who hate him to their face, to destroy them. He will not be slack to him who hates him. He will repay him to his face.
Deuteronomy 7.11: 11 You shall therefore keep the commandments, the statutes, and the ordinances which I command you today, to do them.
Deuteronomy 7.12: 12 It shall happen, because you listen to these ordinances and keep and do them, that Yahweh your God will keep with you the covenant and the loving kindness which he swore to your fathers.
Deuteronomy 7.13: 13 He will love you, bless you, and multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your livestock and the young of your flock, in the land which he swore to your fathers to give you.
Deuteronomy 7.14: 14 You will be blessed above all peoples. There won’t be male or female barren among you, or among your livestock.
Deuteronomy 7.15: 15 Yahweh will take away from you all sickness; and he will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you know, on you, but will lay them on all those who hate you.
Deuteronomy 7.16: 16 You shall consume all the peoples whom Yahweh your God shall deliver to you. Your eye shall not pity them. You shall not serve their gods; for that would be a snare to you.
Deuteronomy 7.17: 17 If you shall say in your heart, “These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?”
Deuteronomy 7.18: 18 you shall not be afraid of them. You shall remember well what Yahweh your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt:
Deuteronomy 7.19: 19 the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, the wonders, the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, by which Yahweh your God brought you out. So shall Yahweh your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid.
Deuteronomy 7.20: 20 Moreover Yahweh your God will send the hornet among them, until those who are left, and hide themselves, perish from before you.
Deuteronomy 7.21: 21 You shall not be scared of them; for Yahweh your God is among you, a great and awesome God.
Deuteronomy 7.22: 22 Yahweh your God will cast out those nations before you little by little. You may not consume them at once, lest the animals of the field increase on you.
Deuteronomy 7.23: 23 But Yahweh your God will deliver them up before you, and will confuse them with a great confusion, until they are destroyed.
Deuteronomy 7.24: 24 He will deliver their kings into your hand, and you shall make their name perish from under the sky. No one will be able to stand before you until you have destroyed them.
Deuteronomy 7.25: 25 You shall burn the engraved images of their gods with fire. You shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it for yourself, lest you be snared in it; for it is an abomination to Yahweh your God.
Deuteronomy 7.26: 26 You shall not bring an abomination into your house and become a devoted thing like it. You shall utterly detest it. You shall utterly abhor it; for it is a devoted thing.
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Deuteronomy 8.1: 1 You shall observe to do all the commandments which I command you today, that you may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers.
Deuteronomy 8.2: 2 You shall remember all the way which Yahweh your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not.
Deuteronomy 8.3: 3 He humbled you, allowed you to be hungry, and fed you with manna, which you didn’t know, neither did your fathers know, that he might teach you that man does not live by bread only, but man lives by every word that proceeds out of Yahweh’s mouth.
Deuteronomy 8.4: 4 Your clothing didn’t grow old on you, neither did your foot swell, these forty years.
Deuteronomy 8.5: 5 You shall consider in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so Yahweh your God disciplines you.
Deuteronomy 8.6: 6 You shall keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.
Deuteronomy 8.7: 7 For Yahweh your God brings you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of springs, and underground water flowing into valleys and hills;
Deuteronomy 8.8: 8 a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive trees and honey;
Deuteronomy 8.9: 9 a land in which you shall eat bread without scarcity, you shall not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you may dig copper.
Deuteronomy 8.10: 10 You shall eat and be full, and you shall bless Yahweh your God for the good land which he has given you.
Deuteronomy 8.11: 11 Beware lest you forget Yahweh your God, in not keeping his commandments, his ordinances, and his statutes, which I command you today;
Deuteronomy 8.12: 12 lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built fine houses and lived in them;
Deuteronomy 8.13: 13 and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied;
Deuteronomy 8.14: 14 then your heart might be lifted up, and you forget Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage;
Deuteronomy 8.15: 15 who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, with venomous snakes and scorpions, and thirsty ground where there was no water; who poured water for you out of the rock of flint;
Deuteronomy 8.16: 16 who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers didn’t know, that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end;
Deuteronomy 8.17: 17 and lest you say in your heart, “My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth.”
Deuteronomy 8.18: 18 But you shall remember Yahweh your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as it is today.
Deuteronomy 8.19: 19 It shall be, if you shall forget Yahweh your God, and walk after other gods, and serve them and worship them, I testify against you today that you shall surely perish.
Deuteronomy 8.20: 20 As the nations that Yahweh makes to perish before you, so you shall perish, because you wouldn’t listen to Yahweh your God’s voice.
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Deuteronomy 9.1: 1 Hear, Israel! You are to pass over the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to the sky,
Deuteronomy 9.2: 2 a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you have heard say, “Who can stand before the sons of Anak?”
Deuteronomy 9.3: 3 Know therefore today that Yahweh your God is he who goes over before you as a devouring fire. He will destroy them and he will bring them down before you. So you shall drive them out and make them perish quickly, as Yahweh has spoken to you.
Deuteronomy 9.4: 4 Don’t say in your heart, after Yahweh your God has thrust them out from before you, “For my righteousness Yahweh has brought me in to possess this land;” because Yahweh drives them out before you because of the wickedness of these nations.
Deuteronomy 9.5: 5 Not for your righteousness or for the uprightness of your heart do you go in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations Yahweh your God does drive them out from before you, and that he may establish the word which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
Deuteronomy 9.6: 6 Know therefore that Yahweh your God doesn’t give you this good land to possess for your righteousness, for you are a stiff-necked people.
Deuteronomy 9.7: 7 Remember, and don’t forget, how you provoked Yahweh your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day that you left the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against Yahweh.
Deuteronomy 9.8: 8 Also in Horeb you provoked Yahweh to wrath, and Yahweh was angry with you to destroy you.
Deuteronomy 9.9: 9 When I had gone up onto the mountain to receive the stone tablets, even the tablets of the covenant which Yahweh made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water.
Deuteronomy 9.10: 10 Yahweh delivered to me the two stone tablets written with God’s finger. On them were all the words which Yahweh spoke with you on the mountain out of the middle of the fire in the day of the assembly.
Deuteronomy 9.11: 11 It came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights that Yahweh gave me the two stone tablets, even the tablets of the covenant.
Deuteronomy 9.12: 12 Yahweh said to me, “Arise, get down quickly from here; for your people whom you have brought out of Egypt have corrupted themselves. They have quickly turned away from the way which I commanded them. They have made a molten image for themselves!”
Deuteronomy 9.13: 13 Furthermore Yahweh spoke to me, saying, “I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people.
Deuteronomy 9.14: 14 Leave me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under the sky; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.”
Deuteronomy 9.15: 15 So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire. The two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands.
Deuteronomy 9.16: 16 I looked, and behold, you had sinned against Yahweh your God. You had made yourselves a molded calf. You had quickly turned away from the way which Yahweh had commanded you.
Deuteronomy 9.17: 17 I took hold of the two tablets, and threw them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes.
Deuteronomy 9.18: 18 I fell down before Yahweh, as at the first, forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sin which you sinned, in doing that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger.
Deuteronomy 9.19: 19 For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure with which Yahweh was angry against you to destroy you. But Yahweh listened to me that time also.
Deuteronomy 9.20: 20 Yahweh was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him. I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.
Deuteronomy 9.21: 21 I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burned it with fire, and crushed it, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust. I threw its dust into the brook that descended out of the mountain.
Deuteronomy 9.22: 22 At Taberah, at Massah, and at Kibroth Hattaavah you provoked Yahweh to wrath.
Deuteronomy 9.23: 23 When Yahweh sent you from Kadesh Barnea, saying, “Go up and possess the land which I have given you,” you rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh your God, and you didn’t believe him or listen to his voice.
Deuteronomy 9.24: 24 You have been rebellious against Yahweh from the day that I knew you.
Deuteronomy 9.25: 25 So I fell down before Yahweh the forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because Yahweh had said he would destroy you.
Deuteronomy 9.26: 26 I prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Lord Yahweh, don’t destroy your people and your inheritance that you have redeemed through your greatness, that you have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
Deuteronomy 9.27: 27 Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Don’t look at the stubbornness of this people, nor at their wickedness, nor at their sin,
Deuteronomy 9.28: 28 lest the land you brought us out from say, ‘Because Yahweh was not able to bring them into the land which he promised to them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.’
Deuteronomy 9.29: 29 Yet they are your people and your inheritance, which you brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm.”
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Deuteronomy 10.1: 1 At that time Yahweh said to me, “Cut two stone tablets like the first, and come up to me onto the mountain, and make an ark of wood.
Deuteronomy 10.2: 2 I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets which you broke, and you shall put them in the ark.”
Deuteronomy 10.3: 3 So I made an ark of acacia wood, and cut two stone tablets like the first, and went up onto the mountain, having the two tablets in my hand.
Deuteronomy 10.4: 4 He wrote on the tablets, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which Yahweh spoke to you on the mountain out of the middle of the fire in the day of the assembly; and Yahweh gave them to me.
Deuteronomy 10.5: 5 I turned and came down from the mountain, and put the tablets in the ark which I had made; and there they are as Yahweh commanded me.
Deuteronomy 10.6: 6 (The children of Israel traveled from Beeroth Bene Jaakan to Moserah. There Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest’s office in his place.
Deuteronomy 10.7: 7 From there they traveled to Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of brooks of water.
Deuteronomy 10.8: 8 At that time Yahweh set apart the tribe of Levi to bear the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, to stand before Yahweh to minister to him, and to bless in his name, to this day.
Deuteronomy 10.9: 9 Therefore Levi has no portion nor inheritance with his brothers; Yahweh is his inheritance, according as Yahweh your God spoke to him.)
Deuteronomy 10.10: 10 I stayed on the mountain, as at the first time, forty days and forty nights; and Yahweh listened to me that time also. Yahweh would not destroy you.
Deuteronomy 10.11: 11 Yahweh said to me, “Arise, take your journey before the people; and they shall go in and possess the land which I swore to their fathers to give to them.”
Deuteronomy 10.12: 12 Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
Deuteronomy 10.13: 13 to keep Yahweh’s commandments and statutes, which I command you today for your good?
Deuteronomy 10.14: 14 Behold, to Yahweh your God belongs heaven, the heaven of heavens, and the earth, with all that is therein.
Deuteronomy 10.15: 15 Only Yahweh had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he chose their offspring after them, even you above all peoples, as it is today.
Deuteronomy 10.16: 16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked.
Deuteronomy 10.17: 17 For Yahweh your God, he is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the awesome, who doesn’t respect persons or take bribes.
Deuteronomy 10.18: 18 He executes justice for the fatherless and widow and loves the foreigner in giving him food and clothing.
Deuteronomy 10.19: 19 Therefore love the foreigner, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 10.20: 20 You shall fear Yahweh your God. You shall serve him. You shall cling to him, and you shall swear by his name.
Deuteronomy 10.21: 21 He is your praise, and he is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome things which your eyes have seen.
Deuteronomy 10.22: 22 Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and now Yahweh your God has made you as the stars of the sky for multitude.
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Deuteronomy 11.1: 1 Therefore you shall love Yahweh your God, and keep his instructions, his statutes, his ordinances, and his commandments, always.
Deuteronomy 11.2: 2 Know this day—for I don’t speak with your children who have not known, and who have not seen the chastisement of Yahweh your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, his outstretched arm,
Deuteronomy 11.3: 3 his signs, and his works, which he did in the middle of Egypt to Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and to all his land;
Deuteronomy 11.4: 4 and what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red Sea to overflow them as they pursued you, and how Yahweh has destroyed them to this day;
Deuteronomy 11.5: 5 and what he did to you in the wilderness until you came to this place;
Deuteronomy 11.6: 6 and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben—how the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households, their tents, and every living thing that followed them, in the middle of all Israel;
Deuteronomy 11.7: 7 but your eyes have seen all of Yahweh’s great work which he did.
Deuteronomy 11.8: 8 Therefore you shall keep the entire commandment which I command you today, that you may be strong, and go in and possess the land that you go over to possess;
Deuteronomy 11.9: 9 and that you may prolong your days in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give to them and to their offspring, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Deuteronomy 11.10: 10 For the land, where you go in to possess isn’t like the land of Egypt that you came out of, where you sowed your seed and watered it with your foot, as a garden of herbs;
Deuteronomy 11.11: 11 but the land that you go over to possess is a land of hills and valleys which drinks water from the rain of the sky,
Deuteronomy 11.12: 12 a land which Yahweh your God cares for. Yahweh your God’s eyes are always on it, from the beginning of the year even to the end of the year.
Deuteronomy 11.13: 13 It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to my commandments which I command you today, to love Yahweh your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
Deuteronomy 11.14: 14 that I will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, your new wine, and your oil.
Deuteronomy 11.15: 15 I will give grass in your fields for your livestock, and you shall eat and be full.
Deuteronomy 11.16: 16 Be careful, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn away to serve other gods and worship them;
Deuteronomy 11.17: 17 and Yahweh’s anger be kindled against you, and he shut up the sky so that there is no rain, and the land doesn’t yield its fruit; and you perish quickly from off the good land which Yahweh gives you.
Deuteronomy 11.18: 18 Therefore you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul. You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.
Deuteronomy 11.19: 19 You shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.
Deuteronomy 11.20: 20 You shall write them on the door posts of your house and on your gates;
Deuteronomy 11.21: 21 that your days and your children’s days may be multiplied in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens above the earth.
Deuteronomy 11.22: 22 For if you shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you—to do them, to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cling to him—
Deuteronomy 11.23: 23 then Yahweh will drive out all these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves.
Deuteronomy 11.24: 24 Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even to the western sea shall be your border.
Deuteronomy 11.25: 25 No man will be able to stand before you. Yahweh your God will lay the fear of you and the dread of you on all the land that you tread on, as he has spoken to you.
Deuteronomy 11.26: 26 Behold, I set before you today a blessing and a curse:
Deuteronomy 11.27: 27 the blessing, if you listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, which I command you today;
Deuteronomy 11.28: 28 and the curse, if you do not listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, but turn away out of the way which I command you today, to go after other gods which you have not known.
Deuteronomy 11.29: 29 It shall happen, when Yahweh your God brings you into the land that you go to possess, that you shall set the blessing on Mount Gerizim, and the curse on Mount Ebal.
Deuteronomy 11.30: 30 Aren’t they beyond the Jordan, behind the way of the going down of the sun, in the land of the Canaanites who dwell in the Arabah near Gilgal, beside the oaks of Moreh?
Deuteronomy 11.31: 31 For you are to pass over the Jordan to go in to possess the land which Yahweh your God gives you, and you shall possess it and dwell in it.
Deuteronomy 11.32: 32 You shall observe to do all the statutes and the ordinances which I set before you today.
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Deuteronomy 12.1: 1 These are the statutes and the ordinances which you shall observe to do in the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess all the days that you live on the earth.
Deuteronomy 12.2: 2 You shall surely destroy all the places in which the nations that you shall dispossess served their gods: on the high mountains, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
Deuteronomy 12.3: 3 You shall break down their altars, dash their pillars in pieces, and burn their Asherah poles with fire. You shall cut down the engraved images of their gods. You shall destroy their name out of that place.
Deuteronomy 12.4: 4 You shall not do so to Yahweh your God.
Deuteronomy 12.5: 5 But to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, you shall seek his habitation, and you shall come there.
Deuteronomy 12.6: 6 You shall bring your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the wave offering of your hand, your vows, your free will offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock there.
Deuteronomy 12.7: 7 There you shall eat before Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and your households, in which Yahweh your God has blessed you.
Deuteronomy 12.8: 8 You shall not do all the things that we do here today, every man whatever is right in his own eyes;
Deuteronomy 12.9: 9 for you haven’t yet come to the rest and to the inheritance which Yahweh your God gives you.
Deuteronomy 12.10: 10 But when you go over the Jordan and dwell in the land which Yahweh your God causes you to inherit, and he gives you rest from all your enemies around you, so that you dwell in safety,
Deuteronomy 12.11: 11 then it shall happen that to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, there you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the wave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which you vow to Yahweh.
Deuteronomy 12.12: 12 You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God—you, and your sons, your daughters, your male servants, your female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you.
Deuteronomy 12.13: 13 Be careful that you don’t offer your burnt offerings in every place that you see;
Deuteronomy 12.14: 14 but in the place which Yahweh chooses in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you.
Deuteronomy 12.15: 15 Yet you may kill and eat meat within all your gates, after all the desire of your soul, according to Yahweh your God’s blessing which he has given you. The unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and the deer.
Deuteronomy 12.16: 16 Only you shall not eat the blood. You shall pour it out on the earth like water.
Deuteronomy 12.17: 17 You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain, or of your new wine, or of your oil, or the firstborn of your herd or of your flock, nor any of your vows which you vow, nor your free will offerings, nor the wave offering of your hand;
Deuteronomy 12.18: 18 but you shall eat them before Yahweh your God in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose: you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, and the Levite who is within your gates. You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God in all that you put your hand to.
Deuteronomy 12.19: 19 Be careful that you don’t forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land.
Deuteronomy 12.20: 20 When Yahweh your God enlarges your border, as he has promised you, and you say, “I want to eat meat,” because your soul desires to eat meat, you may eat meat, after all the desire of your soul.
Deuteronomy 12.21: 21 If the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to put his name is too far from you, then you shall kill of your herd and of your flock, which Yahweh has given you, as I have commanded you; and you may eat within your gates, after all the desire of your soul.
Deuteronomy 12.22: 22 Even as the gazelle and as the deer is eaten, so you shall eat of it. The unclean and the clean may eat of it alike.
Deuteronomy 12.23: 23 Only be sure that you don’t eat the blood; for the blood is the life. You shall not eat the life with the meat.
Deuteronomy 12.24: 24 You shall not eat it. You shall pour it out on the earth like water.
Deuteronomy 12.25: 25 You shall not eat it, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, when you do that which is right in Yahweh’s eyes.
Deuteronomy 12.26: 26 Only your holy things which you have, and your vows, you shall take and go to the place which Yahweh shall choose.
Deuteronomy 12.27: 27 You shall offer your burnt offerings, the meat and the blood, on Yahweh your God’s altar. The blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on Yahweh your God’s altar, and you shall eat the meat.
Deuteronomy 12.28: 28 Observe and hear all these words which I command you, that it may go well with you and with your children after you forever, when you do that which is good and right in Yahweh your God’s eyes.
Deuteronomy 12.29: 29 When Yahweh your God cuts off the nations from before you where you go in to dispossess them, and you dispossess them and dwell in their land,
Deuteronomy 12.30: 30 be careful that you are not ensnared to follow them after they are destroyed from before you, and that you not inquire after their gods, saying, “How do these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise.”
Deuteronomy 12.31: 31 You shall not do so to Yahweh your God; for every abomination to Yahweh, which he hates, they have done to their gods; for they even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.
Deuteronomy 12.32: 32 Whatever thing I command you, that you shall observe to do. You shall not add to it, nor take away from it.
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Deuteronomy 13.1: 1 If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you, and he gives you a sign or a wonder,
Deuteronomy 13.2: 2 and the sign or the wonder comes to pass, of which he spoke to you, saying, “Let’s go after other gods” (which you have not known) “and let’s serve them,”
Deuteronomy 13.3: 3 you shall not listen to the words of that prophet, or to that dreamer of dreams; for Yahweh your God is testing you, to know whether you love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
Deuteronomy 13.4: 4 You shall walk after Yahweh your God, fear him, keep his commandments, and obey his voice. You shall serve him, and cling to him.
Deuteronomy 13.5: 5 That prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death, because he has spoken rebellion against Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to draw you aside out of the way which Yahweh your God commanded you to walk in. So you shall remove the evil from among you.
Deuteronomy 13.6: 6 If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is as your own soul, entices you secretly, saying, “Let’s go and serve other gods”—which you have not known, you, nor your fathers;
Deuteronomy 13.7: 7 of the gods of the peoples who are around you, near to you, or far off from you, from the one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth—
Deuteronomy 13.8: 8 you shall not consent to him nor listen to him; neither shall your eye pity him, neither shall you spare, neither shall you conceal him;
Deuteronomy 13.9: 9 but you shall surely kill him. Your hand shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterwards the hands of all the people.
Deuteronomy 13.10: 10 You shall stone him to death with stones, because he has sought to draw you away from Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
Deuteronomy 13.11: 11 All Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall not do any more wickedness like this among you.
Deuteronomy 13.12: 12 If you hear about one of your cities, which Yahweh your God gives you to dwell there, that
Deuteronomy 13.13: 13 certain wicked fellows have gone out from among you and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, “Let’s go and serve other gods,” which you have not known,
Deuteronomy 13.14: 14 then you shall inquire, investigate, and ask diligently. Behold, if it is true, and the thing certain, that such abomination was done among you,
Deuteronomy 13.15: 15 you shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, with all that is therein and its livestock, with the edge of the sword.
Deuteronomy 13.16: 16 You shall gather all its plunder into the middle of its street, and shall burn with fire the city, with all of its plunder, to Yahweh your God. It shall be a heap forever. It shall not be built again.
Deuteronomy 13.17: 17 Nothing of the devoted thing shall cling to your hand, that Yahweh may turn from the fierceness of his anger and show you mercy, and have compassion on you and multiply you, as he has sworn to your fathers,
Deuteronomy 13.18: 18 when you listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, to keep all his commandments which I command you today, to do that which is right in Yahweh your God’s eyes.
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Deuteronomy 14.1: 1 You are the children of Yahweh your God. You shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
Deuteronomy 14.2: 2 For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God, and Yahweh has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.
Deuteronomy 14.3: 3 You shall not eat any abominable thing.
Deuteronomy 14.4: 4 These are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,
Deuteronomy 14.5: 5 the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the chamois.
Deuteronomy 14.6: 6 Every animal that parts the hoof, and has the hoof split in two and chews the cud, among the animals, you may eat.
Deuteronomy 14.7: 7 Nevertheless these you shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of those who have the hoof split: the camel, the hare, and the rabbit. Because they chew the cud but don’t part the hoof, they are unclean to you.
Deuteronomy 14.8: 8 The pig, because it has a split hoof but doesn’t chew the cud, is unclean to you. You shall not eat their meat. You shall not touch their carcasses.
Deuteronomy 14.9: 9 These you may eat of all that are in the waters: you may eat whatever has fins and scales.
Deuteronomy 14.10: 10 You shall not eat whatever doesn’t have fins and scales. It is unclean to you.
Deuteronomy 14.11: 11 Of all clean birds you may eat.
Deuteronomy 14.12: 12 But these are they of which you shall not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the osprey,
Deuteronomy 14.13: 13 the red kite, the falcon, the kite after its kind,
Deuteronomy 14.14: 14 every raven after its kind,
Deuteronomy 14.15: 15 the ostrich, the owl, the seagull, the hawk after its kind,
Deuteronomy 14.16: 16 the little owl, the great owl, the horned owl,
Deuteronomy 14.17: 17 the pelican, the vulture, the cormorant,
Deuteronomy 14.18: 18 the stork, the heron after its kind, the hoopoe, and the bat.
Deuteronomy 14.19: 19 All winged creeping things are unclean to you. They shall not be eaten.
Deuteronomy 14.20: 20 Of all clean birds you may eat.
Deuteronomy 14.21: 21 You shall not eat of anything that dies of itself. You may give it to the foreigner living among you who is within your gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it to a foreigner; for you are a holy people to Yahweh your God.
You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.
Deuteronomy 14.22: 22 You shall surely tithe all the increase of your seed, that which comes out of the field year by year.
Deuteronomy 14.23: 23 You shall eat before Yahweh your God, in the place which he chooses to cause his name to dwell, the tithe of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock; that you may learn to fear Yahweh your God always.
Deuteronomy 14.24: 24 If the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry it because the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to set his name there is too far from you, when Yahweh your God blesses you,
Deuteronomy 14.25: 25 then you shall turn it into money, bind up the money in your hand, and shall go to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose.
Deuteronomy 14.26: 26 You shall trade the money for whatever your soul desires: for cattle, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever your soul asks of you. You shall eat there before Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household.
Deuteronomy 14.27: 27 You shall not forsake the Levite who is within your gates, for he has no portion nor inheritance with you.
Deuteronomy 14.28: 28 At the end of every three years you shall bring all the tithe of your increase in the same year, and shall store it within your gates.
Deuteronomy 14.29: 29 The Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, as well as the foreigner living among you, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your gates shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.
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Deuteronomy 15.1: 1 At the end of every seven years, you shall cancel debts.
Deuteronomy 15.2: 2 This is the way it shall be done: every creditor shall release that which he has lent to his neighbor. He shall not require payment from his neighbor and his brother, because Yahweh’s release has been proclaimed.
Deuteronomy 15.3: 3 Of a foreigner you may require it; but whatever of yours is with your brother, your hand shall release.
Deuteronomy 15.4: 4 However there will be no poor with you (for Yahweh will surely bless you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance to possess)
Deuteronomy 15.5: 5 if only you diligently listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all this commandment which I command you today.
Deuteronomy 15.6: 6 For Yahweh your God will bless you, as he promised you. You will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow. You will rule over many nations, but they will not rule over you.
Deuteronomy 15.7: 7 If a poor man, one of your brothers, is with you within any of your gates in your land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother;
Deuteronomy 15.8: 8 but you shall surely open your hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need, which he lacks.
Deuteronomy 15.9: 9 Beware that there not be a wicked thought in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand,” and your eye be evil against your poor brother and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.
Deuteronomy 15.10: 10 You shall surely give, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him, because it is for this thing Yahweh your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you put your hand to.
Deuteronomy 15.11: 11 For the poor will never cease out of the land. Therefore I command you to surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.
Deuteronomy 15.12: 12 If your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you and serves you six years, then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.
Deuteronomy 15.13: 13 When you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty.
Deuteronomy 15.14: 14 You shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, out of your threshing floor, and out of your wine press. As Yahweh your God has blessed you, you shall give to him.
Deuteronomy 15.15: 15 You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you. Therefore I command you this thing today.
Deuteronomy 15.16: 16 It shall be, if he tells you, “I will not go out from you,” because he loves you and your house, because he is well with you,
Deuteronomy 15.17: 17 then you shall take an awl, and thrust it through his ear to the door, and he shall be your servant forever. Also to your female servant you shall do likewise.
Deuteronomy 15.18: 18 It shall not seem hard to you when you let him go free from you; for he has been double the value of a hired hand as he served you six years. Yahweh your God will bless you in all that you do.
Deuteronomy 15.19: 19 You shall dedicate all the firstborn males that are born of your herd and of your flock to Yahweh your God. You shall do no work with the firstborn of your herd, nor shear the firstborn of your flock.
Deuteronomy 15.20: 20 You shall eat it before Yahweh your God year by year in the place which Yahweh shall choose, you and your household.
Deuteronomy 15.21: 21 If it has any defect—is lame or blind, or has any defect whatever, you shall not sacrifice it to Yahweh your God.
Deuteronomy 15.22: 22 You shall eat it within your gates. The unclean and the clean shall eat it alike, as the gazelle and as the deer.
Deuteronomy 15.23: 23 Only you shall not eat its blood. You shall pour it out on the ground like water.
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Deuteronomy 16.1: 1 Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to Yahweh your God; for in the month of Abib Yahweh your God brought you out of Egypt by night.
Deuteronomy 16.2: 2 You shall sacrifice the Passover to Yahweh your God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which Yahweh shall choose to cause his name to dwell there.
Deuteronomy 16.3: 3 You shall eat no leavened bread with it. You shall eat unleavened bread with it seven days, even the bread of affliction (for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste) that you may remember the day when you came out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life.
Deuteronomy 16.4: 4 No yeast shall be seen with you in all your borders seven days; neither shall any of the meat, which you sacrifice the first day at evening, remain all night until the morning.
Deuteronomy 16.5: 5 You may not sacrifice the Passover within any of your gates which Yahweh your God gives you;
Deuteronomy 16.6: 6 but at the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell in, there you shall sacrifice the Passover at evening, at the going down of the sun, at the season that you came out of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 16.7: 7 You shall roast and eat it in the place which Yahweh your God chooses. In the morning you shall return to your tents.
Deuteronomy 16.8: 8 Six days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to Yahweh your God. You shall do no work.
Deuteronomy 16.9: 9 You shall count for yourselves seven weeks. From the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain you shall begin to count seven weeks.
Deuteronomy 16.10: 10 You shall keep the feast of weeks to Yahweh your God with a tribute of a free will offering of your hand, which you shall give according to how Yahweh your God blesses you.
Deuteronomy 16.11: 11 You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God: you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite who is within your gates, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow who are among you, in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there.
Deuteronomy 16.12: 12 You shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt. You shall observe and do these statutes.
Deuteronomy 16.13: 13 You shall keep the feast of booths seven days, after you have gathered in from your threshing floor and from your wine press.
Deuteronomy 16.14: 14 You shall rejoice in your feast, you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your gates.
Deuteronomy 16.15: 15 You shall keep a feast to Yahweh your God seven days in the place which Yahweh chooses, because Yahweh your God will bless you in all your increase and in all the work of your hands, and you shall be altogether joyful.
Deuteronomy 16.16: 16 Three times in a year all of your males shall appear before Yahweh your God in the place which he chooses: in the feast of unleavened bread, in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of booths. They shall not appear before Yahweh empty.
Deuteronomy 16.17: 17 Every man shall give as he is able, according to Yahweh your God’s blessing which he has given you.
Deuteronomy 16.18: 18 You shall make judges and officers in all your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.
Deuteronomy 16.19: 19 You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality. You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.
Deuteronomy 16.20: 20 You shall follow that which is altogether just, that you may live and inherit the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
Deuteronomy 16.21: 21 You shall not plant for yourselves an Asherah of any kind of tree beside Yahweh your God’s altar, which you shall make for yourselves.
Deuteronomy 16.22: 22 Neither shall you set yourself up a sacred stone which Yahweh your God hates.
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Deuteronomy 17.1: 1 You shall not sacrifice to Yahweh your God an ox or a sheep in which is a defect or anything evil; for that is an abomination to Yahweh your God.
Deuteronomy 17.2: 2 If there is found among you, within any of your gates which Yahweh your God gives you, a man or woman who does that which is evil in Yahweh your God’s sight in transgressing his covenant,
Deuteronomy 17.3: 3 and has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the stars of the sky, which I have not commanded,
Deuteronomy 17.4: 4 and you are told, and you have heard of it, then you shall inquire diligently. Behold, if it is true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is done in Israel,
Deuteronomy 17.5: 5 then you shall bring out that man or that woman who has done this evil thing to your gates, even that same man or woman; and you shall stone them to death with stones.
Deuteronomy 17.6: 6 At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, he who is to die shall be put to death. At the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.
Deuteronomy 17.7: 7 The hands of the witnesses shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So you shall remove the evil from among you.
Deuteronomy 17.8: 8 If there arises a matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within your gates, then you shall arise, and go up to the place which Yahweh your God chooses.
Deuteronomy 17.9: 9 You shall come to the priests who are Levites and to the judge who shall be in those days. You shall inquire, and they shall give you the verdict.
Deuteronomy 17.10: 10 You shall do according to the decisions of the verdict which they shall give you from that place which Yahweh chooses. You shall observe to do according to all that they shall teach you.
Deuteronomy 17.11: 11 According to the decisions of the law which they shall teach you, and according to the judgment which they shall tell you, you shall do. You shall not turn away from the sentence which they announce to you, to the right hand, nor to the left.
Deuteronomy 17.12: 12 The man who does presumptuously in not listening to the priest who stands to minister there before Yahweh your God, or to the judge, even that man shall die. You shall put away the evil from Israel.
Deuteronomy 17.13: 13 All the people shall hear and fear, and do no more presumptuously.
Deuteronomy 17.14: 14 When you have come to the land which Yahweh your God gives you, and possess it and dwell in it, and say, “I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me,”
Deuteronomy 17.15: 15 you shall surely set him whom Yahweh your God chooses as king over yourselves. You shall set as king over you one from among your brothers. You may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother.
Deuteronomy 17.16: 16 Only he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he may multiply horses; because Yahweh has said to you, “You shall not go back that way again.”
Deuteronomy 17.17: 17 He shall not multiply wives to himself, that his heart not turn away. He shall not greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.
Deuteronomy 17.18: 18 It shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write himself a copy of this law in a book, out of that which is before the Levitical priests.
Deuteronomy 17.19: 19 It shall be with him, and he shall read from it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear Yahweh his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them;
Deuteronomy 17.20: 20 that his heart not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he not turn away from the commandment to the right hand, or to the left, to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his children, in the middle of Israel.
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Deuteronomy 18.1: 1 The priests and the Levites—all the tribe of Levi—shall have no portion nor inheritance with Israel. They shall eat the offerings of Yahweh made by fire and his portion.
Deuteronomy 18.2: 2 They shall have no inheritance among their brothers. Yahweh is their inheritance, as he has spoken to them.
Deuteronomy 18.3: 3 This shall be the priests’ due from the people, from those who offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep, that they shall give to the priest: the shoulder, the two cheeks, and the inner parts.
Deuteronomy 18.4: 4 You shall give him the first fruits of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep.
Deuteronomy 18.5: 5 For Yahweh your God has chosen him out of all your tribes to stand to minister in Yahweh’s name, him and his sons forever.
Deuteronomy 18.6: 6 If a Levite comes from any of your gates out of all Israel where he lives, and comes with all the desire of his soul to the place which Yahweh shall choose,
Deuteronomy 18.7: 7 then he shall minister in the name of Yahweh his God, as all his brothers the Levites do, who stand there before Yahweh.
Deuteronomy 18.8: 8 They shall have like portions to eat, in addition to that which comes from the sale of his family possessions.
Deuteronomy 18.9: 9 When you have come into the land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not learn to imitate the abominations of those nations.
Deuteronomy 18.10: 10 There shall not be found with you anyone who makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who tells fortunes, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer,
Deuteronomy 18.11: 11 or a charmer, or someone who consults with a familiar spirit, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
Deuteronomy 18.12: 12 For whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh. Because of these abominations, Yahweh your God drives them out from before you.
Deuteronomy 18.13: 13 You shall be blameless with Yahweh your God.
Deuteronomy 18.14: 14 For these nations that you shall dispossess listen to those who practice sorcery and to diviners; but as for you, Yahweh your God has not allowed you so to do.
Deuteronomy 18.15: 15 Yahweh your God will raise up to you a prophet from among you, of your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him.
Deuteronomy 18.16: 16 This is according to all that you desired of Yahweh your God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, “Let me not hear again Yahweh my God’s voice, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I not die.”
Deuteronomy 18.17: 17 Yahweh said to me, “They have well said that which they have spoken.
Deuteronomy 18.18: 18 I will raise them up a prophet from among their brothers, like you. I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him.
Deuteronomy 18.19: 19 It shall happen, that whoever will not listen to my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.
Deuteronomy 18.20: 20 But the prophet who speaks a word presumptuously in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.”
Deuteronomy 18.21: 21 You may say in your heart, “How shall we know the word which Yahweh has not spoken?”
Deuteronomy 18.22: 22 When a prophet speaks in Yahweh’s name, if the thing doesn’t follow, nor happen, that is the thing which Yahweh has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You shall not be afraid of him.
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Deuteronomy 19.1: 1 When Yahweh your God cuts off the nations whose land Yahweh your God gives you, and you succeed them and dwell in their cities and in their houses,
Deuteronomy 19.2: 2 you shall set apart three cities for yourselves in the middle of your land, which Yahweh your God gives you to possess.
Deuteronomy 19.3: 3 You shall prepare the way, and divide the borders of your land which Yahweh your God causes you to inherit into three parts, that every man slayer may flee there.
Deuteronomy 19.4: 4 This is the case of the man slayer who shall flee there and live: Whoever kills his neighbor unintentionally, and didn’t hate him in time past—
Deuteronomy 19.5: 5 as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to chop wood and his hand swings the ax to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle and hits his neighbor so that he dies—he shall flee to one of these cities and live.
Deuteronomy 19.6: 6 Otherwise, the avenger of blood might pursue the man slayer while hot anger is in his heart and overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him mortally, even though he was not worthy of death, because he didn’t hate him in time past.
Deuteronomy 19.7: 7 Therefore I command you to set apart three cities for yourselves.
Deuteronomy 19.8: 8 If Yahweh your God enlarges your border, as he has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land which he promised to give to your fathers;
Deuteronomy 19.9: 9 and if you keep all this commandment to do it, which I command you today, to love Yahweh your God, and to walk ever in his ways, then you shall add three cities more for yourselves, in addition to these three.
Deuteronomy 19.10: 10 This is so that innocent blood will not be shed in the middle of your land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, leaving blood guilt on you.
Deuteronomy 19.11: 11 But if any man hates his neighbor, lies in wait for him, rises up against him, strikes him mortally so that he dies, and he flees into one of these cities;
Deuteronomy 19.12: 12 then the elders of his city shall send and bring him there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.
Deuteronomy 19.13: 13 Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall purge the innocent blood from Israel that it may go well with you.
Deuteronomy 19.14: 14 You shall not remove your neighbor’s landmark, which they of old time have set, in your inheritance which you shall inherit, in the land that Yahweh your God gives you to possess.
Deuteronomy 19.15: 15 One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin that he sins. At the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall a matter be established.
Deuteronomy 19.16: 16 If an unrighteous witness rises up against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing,
Deuteronomy 19.17: 17 then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before Yahweh, before the priests and the judges who shall be in those days;
Deuteronomy 19.18: 18 and the judges shall make diligent inquisition; and behold, if the witness is a false witness, and has testified falsely against his brother,
Deuteronomy 19.19: 19 then you shall do to him as he had thought to do to his brother. So you shall remove the evil from among you.
Deuteronomy 19.20: 20 Those who remain shall hear, and fear, and will never again commit any such evil among you.
Deuteronomy 19.21: 21 Your eyes shall not pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
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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.
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Deuteronomy 21.1: 1 If someone is found slain in the land which Yahweh your God gives you to possess, lying in the field, and it isn’t known who has struck him,
Deuteronomy 21.2: 2 then your elders and your judges shall come out, and they shall measure to the cities which are around him who is slain.
Deuteronomy 21.3: 3 It shall be that the elders of the city which is nearest to the slain man shall take a heifer of the herd, which hasn’t been worked with and which has not drawn in the yoke.
Deuteronomy 21.4: 4 The elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer’s neck there in the valley.
Deuteronomy 21.5: 5 The priests the sons of Levi shall come near, for them Yahweh your God has chosen to minister to him, and to bless in Yahweh’s name; and according to their word shall every controversy and every assault be decided.
Deuteronomy 21.6: 6 All the elders of that city which is nearest to the slain man shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley.
Deuteronomy 21.7: 7 They shall answer and say, “Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.
Deuteronomy 21.8: 8 Forgive, Yahweh, your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and don’t allow innocent blood among your people Israel.” The blood shall be forgiven them.
Deuteronomy 21.9: 9 So you shall put away the innocent blood from among you, when you shall do that which is right in Yahweh’s eyes.
Deuteronomy 21.10: 10 When you go out to battle against your enemies, and Yahweh your God delivers them into your hands and you carry them away captive,
Deuteronomy 21.11: 11 and see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you are attracted to her, and desire to take her as your wife,
Deuteronomy 21.12: 12 then you shall bring her home to your house. She shall shave her head and trim her nails.
Deuteronomy 21.13: 13 She shall take off the clothing of her captivity, and shall remain in your house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month. After that you shall go in to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.
Deuteronomy 21.14: 14 It shall be, if you have no delight in her, then you shall let her go where she desires; but you shall not sell her at all for money. You shall not deal with her as a slave, because you have humbled her.
Deuteronomy 21.15: 15 If a man has two wives, the one beloved and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated, and if the firstborn son is hers who was hated,
Deuteronomy 21.16: 16 then it shall be, in the day that he causes his sons to inherit that which he has, that he may not give the son of the beloved the rights of the firstborn before the son of the hated, who is the firstborn;
Deuteronomy 21.17: 17 but he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the hated, by giving him a double portion of all that he has; for he is the beginning of his strength. The right of the firstborn is his.
Deuteronomy 21.18: 18 If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and though they chasten him, will not listen to them,
Deuteronomy 21.19: 19 then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city and to the gate of his place.
Deuteronomy 21.20: 20 They shall tell the elders of his city, “This our son is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey our voice. He is a glutton and a drunkard.”
Deuteronomy 21.21: 21 All the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall remove the evil from among you. All Israel shall hear, and fear.
Deuteronomy 21.22: 22 If a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree,
Deuteronomy 21.23: 23 his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him the same day; for he who is hanged is accursed of God. Don’t defile your land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance.
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Deuteronomy 22.1: 1 You shall not see your brother’s ox or his sheep go astray and hide yourself from them. You shall surely bring them again to your brother.
Deuteronomy 22.2: 2 If your brother isn’t near to you, or if you don’t know him, then you shall bring it home to your house, and it shall be with you until your brother comes looking for it, and you shall restore it to him.
Deuteronomy 22.3: 3 So you shall do with his donkey. So you shall do with his garment. So you shall do with every lost thing of your brother’s, which he has lost and you have found. You may not hide yourself.
Deuteronomy 22.4: 4 You shall not see your brother’s donkey or his ox fallen down by the way, and hide yourself from them. You shall surely help him to lift them up again.
Deuteronomy 22.5: 5 A woman shall not wear men’s clothing, neither shall a man put on women’s clothing; for whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh your God.
Deuteronomy 22.6: 6 If you come across a bird’s nest on the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the hen sitting on the young, or on the eggs, you shall not take the hen with the young.
Deuteronomy 22.7: 7 You shall surely let the hen go, but the young you may take for yourself, that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days.
Deuteronomy 22.8: 8 When you build a new house, then you shall make a railing around your roof, so that you don’t bring blood on your house if anyone falls from there.
Deuteronomy 22.9: 9 You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest all the fruit be defiled, the seed which you have sown, and the increase of the vineyard.
Deuteronomy 22.10: 10 You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.
Deuteronomy 22.11: 11 You shall not wear clothes of wool and linen woven together.
Deuteronomy 22.12: 12 You shall make yourselves fringes on the four corners of your cloak with which you cover yourself.
Deuteronomy 22.13: 13 If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, hates her,
Deuteronomy 22.14: 14 accuses her of shameful things, gives her a bad name, and says, “I took this woman, and when I came near to her, I didn’t find in her the tokens of virginity;”
Deuteronomy 22.15: 15 then the young lady’s father and mother shall take and bring the tokens of the young lady’s virginity to the elders of the city in the gate.
Deuteronomy 22.16: 16 The young lady’s father shall tell the elders, “I gave my daughter to this man as his wife, and he hates her.
Deuteronomy 22.17: 17 Behold, he has accused her of shameful things, saying, ‘I didn’t find in your daughter the tokens of virginity;’ and yet these are the tokens of my daughter’s virginity.” They shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.
Deuteronomy 22.18: 18 The elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him.
Deuteronomy 22.19: 19 They shall fine him one hundred shekels of silver, and give them to the father of the young lady, because he has given a bad name to a virgin of Israel. She shall be his wife. He may not put her away all his days.
Deuteronomy 22.20: 20 But if this thing is true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the young lady,
Deuteronomy 22.21: 21 then they shall bring out the young lady to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done folly in Israel, to play the prostitute in her father’s house. So you shall remove the evil from among you.
Deuteronomy 22.22: 22 If a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both die, the man who lay with the woman and the woman. So you shall remove the evil from Israel.
Deuteronomy 22.23: 23 If there is a young lady who is a virgin pledged to be married to a husband, and a man finds her in the city, and lies with her,
Deuteronomy 22.24: 24 then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones; the lady, because she didn’t cry, being in the city; and the man, because he has humbled his neighbor’s wife. So you shall remove the evil from among you.
Deuteronomy 22.25: 25 But if the man finds the lady who is pledged to be married in the field, and the man forces her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall die;
Deuteronomy 22.26: 26 but to the lady you shall do nothing. There is in the lady no sin worthy of death; for as when a man rises against his neighbor and kills him, even so is this matter;
Deuteronomy 22.27: 27 for he found her in the field, the pledged to be married lady cried, and there was no one to save her.
Deuteronomy 22.28: 28 If a man finds a lady who is a virgin, who is not pledged to be married, grabs her and lies with her, and they are found,
Deuteronomy 22.29: 29 then the man who lay with her shall give to the lady’s father fifty shekels of silver. She shall be his wife, because he has humbled her. He may not put her away all his days.
Deuteronomy 22.30: 30 A man shall not take his father’s wife, and shall not uncover his father’s skirt.
Deuteronomy 23.0:
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Deuteronomy 23.1: 1 He who is emasculated by crushing or cutting shall not enter into Yahweh’s assembly.
Deuteronomy 23.2: 2 A person born of a forbidden union shall not enter into Yahweh’s assembly; even to the tenth generation shall no one of his enter into Yahweh’s assembly.
Deuteronomy 23.3: 3 An Ammonite or a Moabite shall not enter into Yahweh’s assembly; even to the tenth generation shall no one belonging to them enter into Yahweh’s assembly forever,
Deuteronomy 23.4: 4 because they didn’t meet you with bread and with water on the way when you came out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you.
Deuteronomy 23.5: 5 Nevertheless Yahweh your God wouldn’t listen to Balaam, but Yahweh your God turned the curse into a blessing to you, because Yahweh your God loved you.
Deuteronomy 23.6: 6 You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days forever.
Deuteronomy 23.7: 7 You shall not abhor an Edomite, for he is your brother. You shall not abhor an Egyptian, because you lived as a foreigner in his land.
Deuteronomy 23.8: 8 The children of the third generation who are born to them may enter into Yahweh’s assembly.
Deuteronomy 23.9: 9 When you go out and camp against your enemies, then you shall keep yourselves from every evil thing.
Deuteronomy 23.10: 10 If there is among you any man who is not clean by reason of that which happens to him by night, then shall he go outside of the camp. He shall not come within the camp;
Deuteronomy 23.11: 11 but it shall be, when evening comes, he shall bathe himself in water. When the sun is down, he shall come within the camp.
Deuteronomy 23.12: 12 You shall have a place also outside of the camp where you go relieve yourself.
Deuteronomy 23.13: 13 You shall have a trowel among your weapons. It shall be, when you relieve yourself, you shall dig with it, and shall turn back and cover your excrement;
Deuteronomy 23.14: 14 for Yahweh your God walks in the middle of your camp, to deliver you, and to give up your enemies before you. Therefore your camp shall be holy, that he may not see an unclean thing in you, and turn away from you.
Deuteronomy 23.15: 15 You shall not deliver to his master a servant who has escaped from his master to you.
Deuteronomy 23.16: 16 He shall dwell with you, among you, in the place which he shall choose within one of your gates, where it pleases him best. You shall not oppress him.
Deuteronomy 23.17: 17 There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
Deuteronomy 23.18: 18 You shall not bring the hire of a prostitute, or the wages of a male prostitute, into the house of Yahweh your God for any vow; for both of these are an abomination to Yahweh your God.
Deuteronomy 23.19: 19 You shall not lend on interest to your brother: interest of money, interest of food, interest of anything that is lent on interest.
Deuteronomy 23.20: 20 You may charge a foreigner interest; but you shall not your brother interest, that Yahweh your God may bless you in all that you put your hand to, in the land where you go in to possess it.
Deuteronomy 23.21: 21 When you vow a vow to Yahweh your God, you shall not be slack to pay it, for Yahweh your God will surely require it of you; and it would be sin in you.
Deuteronomy 23.22: 22 But if you refrain from making a vow, it shall be no sin in you.
Deuteronomy 23.23: 23 You shall observe and do that which has gone out of your lips. Whatever you have vowed to Yahweh your God as a free will offering, which you have promised with your mouth, you must do.
Deuteronomy 23.24: 24 When you come into your neighbor’s vineyard, then you may eat your fill of grapes at your own pleasure; but you shall not put any in your container.
Deuteronomy 23.25: 25 When you come into your neighbor’s standing grain, then you may pluck the ears with your hand; but you shall not use a sickle on your neighbor’s standing grain.
Deuteronomy 24.0:
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Deuteronomy 24.1: 1 When a man takes a wife and marries her, then it shall be, if she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a certificate of divorce, put it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
Deuteronomy 24.2: 2 When she has departed out of his house, she may go and be another man’s wife.
Deuteronomy 24.3: 3 If the latter husband hates her, and write her a certificate of divorce, puts it in her hand, and sends her out of his house; or if the latter husband dies, who took her to be his wife;
Deuteronomy 24.4: 4 her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife after she is defiled; for that would be an abomination to Yahweh. You shall not cause the land to sin, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance.
Deuteronomy 24.5: 5 When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army, neither shall he be assigned any business. He shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.
Deuteronomy 24.6: 6 No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone as a pledge, for he takes a life in pledge.
Deuteronomy 24.7: 7 If a man is found stealing any of his brothers of the children of Israel, and he deals with him as a slave, or sells him, then that thief shall die. So you shall remove the evil from among you.
Deuteronomy 24.8: 8 Be careful in the plague of leprosy, that you observe diligently and do according to all that the Levitical priests teach you. As I commanded them, so you shall observe to do.
Deuteronomy 24.9: 9 Remember what Yahweh your God did to Miriam, by the way as you came out of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 24.10: 10 When you lend your neighbor any kind of loan, you shall not go into his house to get his pledge.
Deuteronomy 24.11: 11 You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you lend shall bring the pledge outside to you.
Deuteronomy 24.12: 12 If he is a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge.
Deuteronomy 24.13: 13 You shall surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his garment and bless you. It shall be righteousness to you before Yahweh your God.
Deuteronomy 24.14: 14 You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brothers or one of the foreigners who are in your land within your gates.
Deuteronomy 24.15: 15 In his day you shall give him his wages, neither shall the sun go down on it; for he is poor and sets his heart on it; lest he cry against you to Yahweh, and it be sin to you.
Deuteronomy 24.16: 16 The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers. Every man shall be put to death for his own sin.
Deuteronomy 24.17: 17 You shall not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, nor take a widow’s clothing in pledge;
Deuteronomy 24.18: 18 but you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you there. Therefore I command you to do this thing.
Deuteronomy 24.19: 19 When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow, that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.
Deuteronomy 24.20: 20 When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
Deuteronomy 24.21: 21 When you harvest your vineyard, you shall not glean it after yourselves. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
Deuteronomy 24.22: 22 You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt. Therefore I command you to do this thing.
Deuteronomy 25.0:
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Deuteronomy 25.1: 1 If there is a controversy between men, and they come to judgment and the judges judge them, then they shall justify the righteous and condemn the wicked.
Deuteronomy 25.2: 2 It shall be, if the wicked man is worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down and to be beaten before his face, according to his wickedness, by number.
Deuteronomy 25.3: 3 He may sentence him to no more than forty stripes. He shall not give more, lest if he should give more and beat him more than that many stripes, then your brother will be degraded in your sight.
Deuteronomy 25.4: 4 You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out the grain.
Deuteronomy 25.5: 5 If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger. Her husband’s brother shall go in to her, and take her as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her.
Deuteronomy 25.6: 6 It shall be that the firstborn whom she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name not be blotted out of Israel.
Deuteronomy 25.7: 7 If the man doesn’t want to take his brother’s wife, then his brother’s wife shall go up to the gate to the elders, and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to raise up to his brother a name in Israel. He will not perform the duty of a husband’s brother to me.”
Deuteronomy 25.8: 8 Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him. If he stands and says, “I don’t want to take her,”
Deuteronomy 25.9: 9 then his brother’s wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders, and loose his sandal from off his foot, and spit in his face. She shall answer and say, “So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother’s house.”
Deuteronomy 25.10: 10 His name shall be called in Israel, “The house of him who had his sandal removed.”
Deuteronomy 25.11: 11 When men strive against each other, and the wife of one draws near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him who strikes him, and puts out her hand, and grabs him by his private parts,
Deuteronomy 25.12: 12 then you shall cut off her hand. Your eye shall have no pity.
Deuteronomy 25.13: 13 You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, one heavy and one light.
Deuteronomy 25.14: 14 You shall not have in your house diverse measures, one large and one small.
Deuteronomy 25.15: 15 You shall have a perfect and just weight. You shall have a perfect and just measure, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
Deuteronomy 25.16: 16 For all who do such things, all who do unrighteously, are an abomination to Yahweh your God.
Deuteronomy 25.17: 17 Remember what Amalek did to you by the way as you came out of Egypt;
Deuteronomy 25.18: 18 how he met you by the way, and struck the rearmost of you, all who were feeble behind you, when you were faint and weary; and he didn’t fear God.
Deuteronomy 25.19: 19 Therefore it shall be, when Yahweh your God has given you rest from all your enemies all around, in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it, that you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky. You shall not forget.
Deuteronomy 26.0:
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Deuteronomy 26.1: 1 It shall be, when you have come in to the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, possess it, and dwell in it,
Deuteronomy 26.2: 2 that you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you shall bring in from your land that Yahweh your God gives you. You shall put it in a basket, and shall go to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there.
Deuteronomy 26.3: 3 You shall come to the priest who shall be in those days, and tell him, “I profess today to Yahweh your God, that I have come to the land which Yahweh swore to our fathers to give us.”
Deuteronomy 26.4: 4 The priest shall take the basket out of your hand, and set it down before Yahweh your God’s altar.
Deuteronomy 26.5: 5 You shall answer and say before Yahweh your God, “My father was a Syrian ready to perish. He went down into Egypt, and lived there, few in number. There he became a great, mighty, and populous nation.
Deuteronomy 26.6: 6 The Egyptians mistreated us, afflicted us, and imposed hard labor on us.
Deuteronomy 26.7: 7 Then we cried to Yahweh, the God of our fathers. Yahweh heard our voice, and saw our affliction, our toil, and our oppression.
Deuteronomy 26.8: 8 Yahweh brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, with great terror, with signs, and with wonders;
Deuteronomy 26.9: 9 and he has brought us into this place, and has given us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Deuteronomy 26.10: 10 Now, behold, I have brought the first of the fruit of the ground, which you, Yahweh, have given me.” You shall set it down before Yahweh your God, and worship before Yahweh your God.
Deuteronomy 26.11: 11 You shall rejoice in all the good which Yahweh your God has given to you, and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the foreigner who is among you.
Deuteronomy 26.12: 12 When you have finished tithing all the tithe of your increase in the third year, which is the year of tithing, then you shall give it to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat within your gates and be filled.
Deuteronomy 26.13: 13 You shall say before Yahweh your God, “I have put away the holy things out of my house, and also have given them to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all your commandment which you have commanded me. I have not transgressed any of your commandments, neither have I forgotten them.
Deuteronomy 26.14: 14 I have not eaten of it in my mourning, neither have I removed any of it while I was unclean, nor given of it for the dead. I have listened to Yahweh my God’s voice. I have done according to all that you have commanded me.
Deuteronomy 26.15: 15 Look down from your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless your people Israel, and the ground which you have given us, as you swore to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.”
Deuteronomy 26.16: 16 Today Yahweh your God commands you to do these statutes and ordinances. You shall therefore keep and do them with all your heart and with all your soul.
Deuteronomy 26.17: 17 You have declared today that Yahweh is your God, and that you would walk in his ways, keep his statutes, his commandments, and his ordinances, and listen to his voice.
Deuteronomy 26.18: 18 Yahweh has declared today that you are a people for his own possession, as he has promised you, and that you should keep all his commandments.
Deuteronomy 26.19: 19 He will make you high above all nations that he has made, in praise, in name, and in honor; and that you may be a holy people to Yahweh your God, as he has spoken.
Deuteronomy 27.0:
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Deuteronomy 27.1: 1 Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, “Keep all the commandment which I command you today.
Deuteronomy 27.2: 2 It shall be on the day when you shall pass over the Jordan to the land which Yahweh your God gives you, that you shall set yourself up great stones, and coat them with plaster.
Deuteronomy 27.3: 3 You shall write on them all the words of this law, when you have passed over, that you may go in to the land which Yahweh your God gives you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has promised you.
Deuteronomy 27.4: 4 It shall be, when you have crossed over the Jordan, that you shall set up these stones, which I command you today, on Mount Ebal, and you shall coat them with plaster.
Deuteronomy 27.5: 5 There you shall build an altar to Yahweh your God, an altar of stones. You shall not use any iron tool on them.
Deuteronomy 27.6: 6 You shall build Yahweh your God’s altar of uncut stones. You shall offer burnt offerings on it to Yahweh your God.
Deuteronomy 27.7: 7 You shall sacrifice peace offerings, and shall eat there. You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God.
Deuteronomy 27.8: 8 You shall write on the stones all the words of this law very plainly.”
Deuteronomy 27.9: 9 Moses and the Levitical priests spoke to all Israel, saying, “Be silent and listen, Israel! Today you have become the people of Yahweh your God.
Deuteronomy 27.10: 10 You shall therefore obey Yahweh your God’s voice, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command you today.”
Deuteronomy 27.11: 11 Moses commanded the people the same day, saying,
Deuteronomy 27.12: 12 “These shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people, when you have crossed over the Jordan: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.
Deuteronomy 27.13: 13 These shall stand on Mount Ebal for the curse: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.
Deuteronomy 27.14: 14 With a loud voice, the Levites shall say to all the men of Israel,
Deuteronomy 27.15: 15 ‘Cursed is the man who makes an engraved or molten image, an abomination to Yahweh, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret.’
All the people shall answer and say, ‘Amen.’
Deuteronomy 27.16: 16 ‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or his mother.’
All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
Deuteronomy 27.17: 17 ‘Cursed is he who removes his neighbor’s landmark.’
All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
Deuteronomy 27.18: 18 ‘Cursed is he who leads the blind astray on the road.’
All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
Deuteronomy 27.19: 19 ‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.’
All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
Deuteronomy 27.20: 20 ‘Cursed is he who lies with his father’s wife, because he dishonors his father’s bed.’
All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
Deuteronomy 27.21: 21 ‘Cursed is he who lies with any kind of animal.’
All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
Deuteronomy 27.22: 22 ‘Cursed is he who lies with his sister, his father’s daughter or his mother’s daughter.’
All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
Deuteronomy 27.23: 23 ‘Cursed is he who lies with his mother-in-law.’
All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
Deuteronomy 27.24: 24 ‘Cursed is he who secretly kills his neighbor.’
All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
Deuteronomy 27.25: 25 ‘Cursed is he who takes a bribe to kill an innocent person.’
All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
Deuteronomy 27.26: 26 ‘Cursed is he who doesn’t uphold the words of this law by doing them.’
All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’”
Deuteronomy 28.0:
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Deuteronomy 28.1: 1 It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you today, that Yahweh your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.
Deuteronomy 28.2: 2 All these blessings will come upon you, and overtake you, if you listen to Yahweh your God’s voice.
Deuteronomy 28.3: 3 You shall be blessed in the city, and you shall be blessed in the field.
Deuteronomy 28.4: 4 You shall be blessed in the fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the fruit of your animals, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock.
Deuteronomy 28.5: 5 Your basket and your kneading trough shall be blessed.
Deuteronomy 28.6: 6 You shall be blessed when you come in, and you shall be blessed when you go out.
Deuteronomy 28.7: 7 Yahweh will cause your enemies who rise up against you to be struck before you. They will come out against you one way, and will flee before you seven ways.
Deuteronomy 28.8: 8 Yahweh will command the blessing on you in your barns, and in all that you put your hand to. He will bless you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
Deuteronomy 28.9: 9 Yahweh will establish you for a holy people to himself, as he has sworn to you, if you shall keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, and walk in his ways.
Deuteronomy 28.10: 10 All the peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by Yahweh’s name, and they will be afraid of you.
Deuteronomy 28.11: 11 Yahweh will grant you abundant prosperity in the fruit of your body, in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give you.
Deuteronomy 28.12: 12 Yahweh will open to you his good treasure in the sky, to give the rain of your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand. You will lend to many nations, and you will not borrow.
Deuteronomy 28.13: 13 Yahweh will make you the head, and not the tail. You will be above only, and you will not be beneath, if you listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God which I command you today, to observe and to do,
Deuteronomy 28.14: 14 and shall not turn away from any of the words which I command you today, to the right hand or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
Deuteronomy 28.15: 15 But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come on you and overtake you.
Deuteronomy 28.16: 16 You will be cursed in the city, and you will be cursed in the field.
Deuteronomy 28.17: 17 Your basket and your kneading trough will be cursed.
Deuteronomy 28.18: 18 The fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock will be cursed.
Deuteronomy 28.19: 19 You will be cursed when you come in, and you will be cursed when you go out.
Deuteronomy 28.20: 20 Yahweh will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke in all that you put your hand to do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, because of the evil of your doings, by which you have forsaken me.
Deuteronomy 28.21: 21 Yahweh will make the pestilence cling to you, until he has consumed you from off the land where you go in to possess it.
Deuteronomy 28.22: 22 Yahweh will strike you with consumption, with fever, with inflammation, with fiery heat, with the sword, with blight, and with mildew. They will pursue you until you perish.
Deuteronomy 28.23: 23 Your sky that is over your head will be bronze, and the earth that is under you will be iron.
Deuteronomy 28.24: 24 Yahweh will make the rain of your land powder and dust. It will come down on you from the sky, until you are destroyed.
Deuteronomy 28.25: 25 Yahweh will cause you to be struck before your enemies. You will go out one way against them, and will flee seven ways before them. You will be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.
Deuteronomy 28.26: 26 Your dead bodies will be food to all birds of the sky, and to the animals of the earth; and there will be no one to frighten them away.
Deuteronomy 28.27: 27 Yahweh will strike you with the boils of Egypt, with the tumors, with the scurvy, and with the itch, of which you can not be healed.
Deuteronomy 28.28: 28 Yahweh will strike you with madness, with blindness, and with astonishment of heart.
Deuteronomy 28.29: 29 You will grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways. You will only be oppressed and robbed always, and there will be no one to save you.
Deuteronomy 28.30: 30 You will betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her. You will build a house, and you won’t dwell in it. You will plant a vineyard, and not use its fruit.
Deuteronomy 28.31: 31 Your ox will be slain before your eyes, and you will not eat any of it. Your donkey will be violently taken away from before your face, and will not be restored to you. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and you will have no one to save you.
Deuteronomy 28.32: 32 Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people. Your eyes will look, and fail with longing for them all day long. There will be no power in your hand.
Deuteronomy 28.33: 33 A nation which you don’t know will eat the fruit of your ground and all of your work. You will only be oppressed and crushed always,
Deuteronomy 28.34: 34 so that the sights that you see with your eyes will drive you mad.
Deuteronomy 28.35: 35 Yahweh will strike you in the knees and in the legs with a sore boil, of which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.
Deuteronomy 28.36: 36 Yahweh will bring you, and your king whom you will set over yourselves, to a nation that you have not known, you nor your fathers. There you will serve other gods of wood and stone.
Deuteronomy 28.37: 37 You will become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where Yahweh will lead you away.
Deuteronomy 28.38: 38 You will carry much seed out into the field, and will gather little in, for the locust will consume it.
Deuteronomy 28.39: 39 You will plant vineyards and dress them, but you will neither drink of the wine, nor harvest, because worms will eat them.
Deuteronomy 28.40: 40 You will have olive trees throughout all your borders, but you won’t anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives will drop off.
Deuteronomy 28.41: 41 You will father sons and daughters, but they will not be yours, for they will go into captivity.
Deuteronomy 28.42: 42 Locusts will consume all of your trees and the fruit of your ground.
Deuteronomy 28.43: 43 The foreigner who is among you will mount up above you higher and higher, and you will come down lower and lower.
Deuteronomy 28.44: 44 He will lend to you, and you won’t lend to him. He will be the head, and you will be the tail.
Deuteronomy 28.45: 45 All these curses will come on you, and will pursue you and overtake you, until you are destroyed, because you didn’t listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded you.
Deuteronomy 28.46: 46 They will be for a sign and for a wonder to you and to your offspring forever.
Deuteronomy 28.47: 47 Because you didn’t serve Yahweh your God with joyfulness and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things;
Deuteronomy 28.48: 48 therefore you will serve your enemies whom Yahweh sends against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in lack of all things. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.
Deuteronomy 28.49: 49 Yahweh will bring a nation against you from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies: a nation whose language you will not understand,
Deuteronomy 28.50: 50 a nation of fierce facial expressions, that doesn’t respect the elderly, nor show favor to the young.
Deuteronomy 28.51: 51 They will eat the fruit of your livestock and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed. They also won’t leave you grain, new wine, oil, the increase of your livestock, or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.
Deuteronomy 28.52: 52 They will besiege you in all your gates until your high and fortified walls in which you trusted come down throughout all your land. They will besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land which Yahweh your God has given you.
Deuteronomy 28.53: 53 You will eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, whom Yahweh your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies will distress you.
Deuteronomy 28.54: 54 The man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye will be evil toward his brother, toward the wife whom he loves, and toward the remnant of his children whom he has remaining,
Deuteronomy 28.55: 55 so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he will eat, because he has nothing left to him, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy will distress you in all your gates.
Deuteronomy 28.56: 56 The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye will be evil toward the husband that she loves, toward her son, toward her daughter,
Deuteronomy 28.57: 57 toward her young one who comes out from between her feet, and toward her children whom she bears; for she will eat them secretly for lack of all things in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy will distress you in your gates.
Deuteronomy 28.58: 58 If you will not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and fearful name, YAHWEH your God,
Deuteronomy 28.59: 59 then Yahweh will make your plagues and the plagues of your offspring fearful, even great plagues, and of long duration, and severe sicknesses, and of long duration.
Deuteronomy 28.60: 60 He will bring on you again all the diseases of Egypt, which you were afraid of; and they will cling to you.
Deuteronomy 28.61: 61 Also every sickness and every plague which is not written in the book of this law, Yahweh will bring them on you until you are destroyed.
Deuteronomy 28.62: 62 You will be left few in number, even though you were as the stars of the sky for multitude, because you didn’t listen to Yahweh your God’s voice.
Deuteronomy 28.63: 63 It will happen that as Yahweh rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so Yahweh will rejoice over you to cause you to perish and to destroy you. You will be plucked from the land that you are going in to possess.
Deuteronomy 28.64: 64 Yahweh will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth. There you will serve other gods which you have not known, you nor your fathers, even wood and stone.
Deuteronomy 28.65: 65 Among these nations you will find no ease, and there will be no rest for the sole of your foot; but Yahweh will give you there a trembling heart, failing of eyes, and pining of soul.
Deuteronomy 28.66: 66 Your life will hang in doubt before you. You will be afraid night and day, and will have no assurance of your life.
Deuteronomy 28.67: 67 In the morning you will say, “I wish it were evening!” and at evening you will say, “I wish it were morning!” for the fear of your heart which you will fear, and for the sights which your eyes will see.
Deuteronomy 28.68: 68 Yahweh will bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the way of which I told to you that you would never see it again. There you will offer yourselves to your enemies for male and female slaves, and nobody will buy you.
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Deuteronomy 29.1: 1 These are the words of the covenant which Yahweh commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.
Deuteronomy 29.2: 2 Moses called to all Israel, and said to them:
Your eyes have seen all that Yahweh did in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land;
Deuteronomy 29.3: 3 the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders.
Deuteronomy 29.4: 4 But Yahweh has not given you a heart to know, eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.
Deuteronomy 29.5: 5 I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not grown old on you, and your sandals have not grown old on your feet.
Deuteronomy 29.6: 6 You have not eaten bread, neither have you drunk wine or strong drink, that you may know that I am Yahweh your God.
Deuteronomy 29.7: 7 When you came to this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon and Og the king of Bashan came out against us to battle, and we struck them.
Deuteronomy 29.8: 8 We took their land, and gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of the Manassites.
Deuteronomy 29.9: 9 Therefore keep the words of this covenant and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do.
Deuteronomy 29.10: 10 All of you stand today in the presence of Yahweh your God: your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all the men of Israel,
Deuteronomy 29.11: 11 your little ones, your wives, and the foreigners who are in the middle of your camps, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water,
Deuteronomy 29.12: 12 that you may enter into the covenant of Yahweh your God, and into his oath, which Yahweh your God makes with you today,
Deuteronomy 29.13: 13 that he may establish you today as his people, and that he may be your God, as he spoke to you and as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
Deuteronomy 29.14: 14 Neither do I make this covenant and this oath with you only,
Deuteronomy 29.15: 15 but with those who stand here with us today before Yahweh our God, and also with those who are not here with us today
Deuteronomy 29.16: 16 (for you know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the middle of the nations through which you passed;
Deuteronomy 29.17: 17 and you have seen their abominations and their idols of wood, stone, silver, and gold, which were among them);
Deuteronomy 29.18: 18 lest there should be among you man, woman, family, or tribe whose heart turns away today from Yahweh our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that produces bitter poison;
Deuteronomy 29.19: 19 and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, “I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart,” to destroy the moist with the dry.
Deuteronomy 29.20: 20 Yahweh will not pardon him, but then Yahweh’s anger and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book will fall on him, and Yahweh will blot out his name from under the sky.
Deuteronomy 29.21: 21 Yahweh will set him apart for evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant written in this book of the law.
Deuteronomy 29.22: 22 The generation to come—your children who will rise up after you, and the foreigner who will come from a far land—will say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses with which Yahweh has made it sick,
Deuteronomy 29.23: 23 that all of its land is sulfur, salt, and burning, that it is not sown, doesn’t produce, nor does any grass grow in it, like the overthrow of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath.
Deuteronomy 29.24: 24 Even all the nations will say, “Why has Yahweh done this to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?”
Deuteronomy 29.25: 25 Then men will say, “Because they abandoned the covenant of Yahweh, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt,
Deuteronomy 29.26: 26 and went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods that they didn’t know and that he had not given to them.
Deuteronomy 29.27: 27 Therefore Yahweh’s anger burned against this land, to bring on it all the curses that are written in this book.
Deuteronomy 29.28: 28 Yahweh rooted them out of their land in anger, in wrath, and in great indignation, and thrust them into another land, as it is today.”
Deuteronomy 29.29: 29 The secret things belong to Yahweh our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.
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Deuteronomy 30.1: 1 It shall happen, when all these things have come on you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you shall call them to mind among all the nations where Yahweh your God has driven you,
Deuteronomy 30.2: 2 and return to Yahweh your God and obey his voice according to all that I command you today, you and your children, with all your heart and with all your soul,
Deuteronomy 30.3: 3 that then Yahweh your God will release you from captivity, have compassion on you, and will return and gather you from all the peoples where Yahweh your God has scattered you.
Deuteronomy 30.4: 4 If your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of the heavens, from there Yahweh your God will gather you, and from there he will bring you back.
Deuteronomy 30.5: 5 Yahweh your God will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed, and you will possess it. He will do you good, and increase your numbers more than your fathers.
Deuteronomy 30.6: 6 Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your offspring, to love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.
Deuteronomy 30.7: 7 Yahweh your God will put all these curses on your enemies and on those who hate you, who persecuted you.
Deuteronomy 30.8: 8 You shall return and obey Yahweh’s voice, and do all his commandments which I command you today.
Deuteronomy 30.9: 9 Yahweh your God will make you prosperous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, for good; for Yahweh will again rejoice over you for good, as he rejoiced over your fathers,
Deuteronomy 30.10: 10 if you will obey Yahweh your God’s voice, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law; if you turn to Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
Deuteronomy 30.11: 11 For this commandment which I command you today is not too hard for you or too distant.
Deuteronomy 30.12: 12 It is not in heaven, that you should say, “Who will go up for us to heaven, bring it to us, and proclaim it to us, that we may do it?”
Deuteronomy 30.13: 13 Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, “Who will go over the sea for us, bring it to us, and proclaim it to us, that we may do it?”
Deuteronomy 30.14: 14 But the word is very near to you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may do it.
Deuteronomy 30.15: 15 Behold, I have set before you today life and prosperity, and death and evil.
Deuteronomy 30.16: 16 For I command you today to love Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways and to keep his commandments, his statutes, and his ordinances, that you may live and multiply, and that Yahweh your God may bless you in the land where you go in to possess it.
Deuteronomy 30.17: 17 But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away and worship other gods, and serve them,
Deuteronomy 30.18: 18 I declare to you today that you will surely perish. You will not prolong your days in the land where you pass over the Jordan to go in to possess it.
Deuteronomy 30.19: 19 I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your descendants,
Deuteronomy 30.20: 20 to love Yahweh your God, to obey his voice, and to cling to him; for he is your life, and the length of your days, that you may dwell in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
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Deuteronomy 31.1: 1 Moses went and spoke these words to all Israel.
Deuteronomy 31.2: 2 He said to them, “I am one hundred twenty years old today. I can no more go out and come in. Yahweh has said to me, ‘You shall not go over this Jordan.’
Deuteronomy 31.3: 3 Yahweh your God himself will go over before you. He will destroy these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess them. Joshua will go over before you, as Yahweh has spoken.
Deuteronomy 31.4: 4 Yahweh will do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land, when he destroyed them.
Deuteronomy 31.5: 5 Yahweh will deliver them up before you, and you shall do to them according to all the commandment which I have commanded you.
Deuteronomy 31.6: 6 Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or scared of them; for Yahweh your God himself is who goes with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you.”
Deuteronomy 31.7: 7 Moses called to Joshua, and said to him in the sight of all Israel, “Be strong and courageous, for you shall go with this people into the land which Yahweh has sworn to their fathers to give them; and you shall cause them to inherit it.
Deuteronomy 31.8: 8 Yahweh himself is who goes before you. He will be with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you. Don’t be afraid. Don’t be discouraged.”
Deuteronomy 31.9: 9 Moses wrote this law and delivered it to the priests the sons of Levi, who bore the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, and to all the elders of Israel.
Deuteronomy 31.10: 10 Moses commanded them, saying, “At the end of every seven years, in the set time of the year of release, in the feast of booths,
Deuteronomy 31.11: 11 when all Israel has come to appear before Yahweh your God in the place which he will choose, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing.
Deuteronomy 31.12: 12 Assemble the people, the men and the women and the little ones, and the foreigners who are within your gates, that they may hear, learn, fear Yahweh your God, and observe to do all the words of this law,
Deuteronomy 31.13: 13 and that their children, who have not known, may hear and learn to fear Yahweh your God, as long as you live in the land where you go over the Jordan to possess it.”
Deuteronomy 31.14: 14 Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, your days approach that you must die. Call Joshua, and present yourselves in the Tent of Meeting, that I may commission him.”
Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the Tent of Meeting.
Deuteronomy 31.15: 15 Yahweh appeared in the Tent in a pillar of cloud, and the pillar of cloud stood over the Tent’s door.
Deuteronomy 31.16: 16 Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers. This people will rise up and play the prostitute after the strange gods of the land where they go to be among them, and will forsake me and break my covenant which I have made with them.
Deuteronomy 31.17: 17 Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come on them; so that they will say in that day, ‘Haven’t these evils come on us because our God is not among us?’
Deuteronomy 31.18: 18 I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evil which they have done, in that they have turned to other gods.
Deuteronomy 31.19: 19 “Now therefore write this song for yourselves, and teach it to the children of Israel. Put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.
Deuteronomy 31.20: 20 For when I have brought them into the land which I swore to their fathers, flowing with milk and honey, and they have eaten and filled themselves, and grown fat, then they will turn to other gods, and serve them, and despise me, and break my covenant.
Deuteronomy 31.21: 21 It will happen, when many evils and troubles have come on them, that this song will testify before them as a witness; for it will not be forgotten out of the mouths of their descendants; for I know their ways and what they are doing today, before I have brought them into the land which I promised them.”
Deuteronomy 31.22: 22 So Moses wrote this song the same day, and taught it to the children of Israel.
Deuteronomy 31.23: 23 He commissioned Joshua the son of Nun, and said, “Be strong and courageous; for you shall bring the children of Israel into the land which I swore to them. I will be with you.”
Deuteronomy 31.24: 24 When Moses had finished writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished,
Deuteronomy 31.25: 25 Moses commanded the Levites, who bore the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, saying,
Deuteronomy 31.26: 26 “Take this book of the law, and put it by the side of the ark of Yahweh your God’s covenant, that it may be there for a witness against you.
Deuteronomy 31.27: 27 For I know your rebellion and your stiff neck. Behold, while I am yet alive with you today, you have been rebellious against Yahweh. How much more after my death?
Deuteronomy 31.28: 28 Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to witness against them.
Deuteronomy 31.29: 29 For I know that after my death you will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn away from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will happen to you in the latter days, because you will do that which is evil in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.”
Deuteronomy 31.30: 30 Moses spoke in the ears of all the assembly of Israel the words of this song, until they were finished.
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Deuteronomy 32.1: 1 Give ear, you heavens, and I will speak.
Let the earth hear the words of my mouth.
Deuteronomy 32.2: 2 My doctrine will drop as the rain.
My speech will condense as the dew,
as the misty rain on the tender grass,
as the showers on the herb.
Deuteronomy 32.3: 3 For I will proclaim Yahweh’s name.
Ascribe greatness to our God!
Deuteronomy 32.4: 4 The Rock: his work is perfect,
for all his ways are just.
A God of faithfulness who does no wrong,
just and right is he.
Deuteronomy 32.5: 5 They have dealt corruptly with him.
They are not his children, because of their defect.
They are a perverse and crooked generation.
Deuteronomy 32.6: 6 Is this the way you repay Yahweh,
foolish and unwise people?
Isn’t he your father who has bought you?
He has made you and established you.
Deuteronomy 32.7: 7 Remember the days of old.
Consider the years of many generations.
Ask your father, and he will show you;
your elders, and they will tell you.
Deuteronomy 32.8: 8 When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance,
when he separated the children of men,
he set the bounds of the peoples
according to the number of the children of Israel.
Deuteronomy 32.9: 9 For Yahweh’s portion is his people.
Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
Deuteronomy 32.10: 10 He found him in a desert land,
in the waste howling wilderness.
He surrounded him.
He cared for him.
He kept him as the apple of his eye.
Deuteronomy 32.11: 11 As an eagle that stirs up her nest,
that flutters over her young,
he spread abroad his wings,
he took them,
he bore them on his feathers.
Deuteronomy 32.12: 12 Yahweh alone led him.
There was no foreign god with him.
Deuteronomy 32.13: 13 He made him ride on the high places of the earth.
He ate the increase of the field.
He caused him to suck honey out of the rock,
oil out of the flinty rock;
Deuteronomy 32.14: 14 butter from the herd, and milk from the flock,
with fat of lambs,
rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats,
with the finest of the wheat.
From the blood of the grape, you drank wine.
Deuteronomy 32.15: 15 But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked.
You have grown fat.
You have grown thick.
You have become sleek.
Then he abandoned God who made him,
and rejected the Rock of his salvation.
Deuteronomy 32.16: 16 They moved him to jealousy with strange gods.
They provoked him to anger with abominations.
Deuteronomy 32.17: 17 They sacrificed to demons, not God,
to gods that they didn’t know,
to new gods that came up recently,
which your fathers didn’t dread.
Deuteronomy 32.18: 18 Of the Rock who became your father, you are unmindful,
and have forgotten God who gave you birth.
Deuteronomy 32.19: 19 Yahweh saw and abhorred,
because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.
Deuteronomy 32.20: 20 He said, “I will hide my face from them.
I will see what their end will be;
for they are a very perverse generation,
children in whom is no faithfulness.
Deuteronomy 32.21: 21 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God.
They have provoked me to anger with their vanities.
I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people.
I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
Deuteronomy 32.22: 22 For a fire is kindled in my anger,
that burns to the lowest Sheol,
devours the earth with its increase,
and sets the foundations of the mountains on fire.
Deuteronomy 32.23: 23 “I will heap evils on them.
I will spend my arrows on them.
Deuteronomy 32.24: 24 They shall be wasted with hunger,
and devoured with burning heat
and bitter destruction.
I will send the teeth of animals on them,
with the venom of vipers that glide in the dust.
Deuteronomy 32.25: 25 Outside the sword will bereave,
and in the rooms,
terror on both young man and virgin,
the nursing infant with the gray-haired man.
Deuteronomy 32.26: 26 I said that I would scatter them afar.
I would make their memory to cease from among men;
Deuteronomy 32.27: 27 were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy,
lest their adversaries should judge wrongly,
lest they should say, ‘Our hand is exalted,
Yahweh has not done all this.’”
Deuteronomy 32.28: 28 For they are a nation void of counsel.
There is no understanding in them.
Deuteronomy 32.29: 29 Oh that they were wise, that they understood this,
that they would consider their latter end!
Deuteronomy 32.30: 30 How could one chase a thousand,
and two put ten thousand to flight,
unless their Rock had sold them,
and Yahweh had delivered them up?
Deuteronomy 32.31: 31 For their rock is not as our Rock,
even our enemies themselves concede.
Deuteronomy 32.32: 32 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom,
of the fields of Gomorrah.
Their grapes are poison grapes.
Their clusters are bitter.
Deuteronomy 32.33: 33 Their wine is the poison of serpents,
the cruel venom of asps.
Deuteronomy 32.34: 34 “Isn’t this laid up in store with me,
sealed up among my treasures?
Deuteronomy 32.35: 35 Vengeance is mine, and recompense,
at the time when their foot slides;
for the day of their calamity is at hand.
Their doom rushes at them.”
Deuteronomy 32.36: 36 For Yahweh will judge his people,
and have compassion on his servants,
when he sees that their power is gone;
that there is no one remaining, shut up or left at large.
Deuteronomy 32.37: 37 He will say, “Where are their gods,
the rock in which they took refuge;
Deuteronomy 32.38: 38 which ate the fat of their sacrifices,
and drank the wine of their drink offering?
Let them rise up and help you!
Let them be your protection.
Deuteronomy 32.39: 39 “See now that I myself am he.
There is no god with me.
I kill and I make alive.
I wound and I heal.
There is no one who can deliver out of my hand.
Deuteronomy 32.40: 40 For I lift up my hand to heaven and declare,
as I live forever,
Deuteronomy 32.41: 41 if I sharpen my glittering sword,
my hand grasps it in judgment;
I will take vengeance on my adversaries,
and will repay those who hate me.
Deuteronomy 32.42: 42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood.
My sword shall devour flesh with the blood of the slain and the captives,
from the head of the leaders of the enemy.”
Deuteronomy 32.43: 43 Rejoice, you nations, with his people,
for he will avenge the blood of his servants.
He will take vengeance on his adversaries,
and will make atonement for his land and for his people.
Deuteronomy 32.44: 44 Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he and Joshua the son of Nun.
Deuteronomy 32.45: 45 Moses finished reciting all these words to all Israel.
Deuteronomy 32.46: 46 He said to them, “Set your heart to all the words which I testify to you today, which you shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.
Deuteronomy 32.47: 47 For it is no vain thing for you, because it is your life, and through this thing you shall prolong your days in the land, where you go over the Jordan to possess it.”
Deuteronomy 32.48: 48 Yahweh spoke to Moses that same day, saying,
Deuteronomy 32.49: 49 “Go up into this mountain of Abarim, to Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is across from Jericho; and see the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel for a possession.
Deuteronomy 32.50: 50 Die on the mountain where you go up, and be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother died on Mount Hor, and was gathered to his people;
Deuteronomy 32.51: 51 because you trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah of Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because you didn’t uphold my holiness among the children of Israel.
Deuteronomy 32.52: 52 For you shall see the land from a distance; but you shall not go there into the land which I give the children of Israel.”
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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.”
Deuteronomy 34.0:
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Deuteronomy 34.1: 1 Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is opposite Jericho. Yahweh showed him all the land of Gilead to Dan,
Deuteronomy 34.2: 2 and all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, to the Western Sea,
Deuteronomy 34.3: 3 and the south, and the Plain of the valley of Jericho the city of palm trees, to Zoar.
Deuteronomy 34.4: 4 Yahweh said to him, “This is the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, ‘I will give it to your offspring.’ I have caused you to see it with your eyes, but you shall not go over there.”
Deuteronomy 34.5: 5 So Moses the servant of Yahweh died there in the land of Moab, according to Yahweh’s word.
Deuteronomy 34.6: 6 He buried him in the valley in the land of Moab opposite Beth Peor, but no man knows where his tomb is to this day.
Deuteronomy 34.7: 7 Moses was one hundred twenty years old when he died. His eye was not dim, nor his strength gone.
Deuteronomy 34.8: 8 The children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days, until the days of weeping in the mourning for Moses were ended.
Deuteronomy 34.9: 9 Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands on him. The children of Israel listened to him, and did as Yahweh commanded Moses.
Deuteronomy 34.10: 10 Since then, there has not arisen a prophet in Israel like Moses, whom Yahweh knew face to face,
Deuteronomy 34.11: 11 in all the signs and the wonders which Yahweh sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land,
Deuteronomy 34.12: 12 and in all the mighty hand, and in all the awesome deeds, which Moses did in the sight of all Israel.
Judges 0.0:
The Book of
Judges
Judges 2.0:
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Judges 2.1: 1 Yahweh’s angel came up from Gilgal to Bochim. He said, “I brought you out of Egypt, and have brought you to the land which I swore to give your fathers. I said, ‘I will never break my covenant with you.
Judges 2.2: 2 You shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land. You shall break down their altars.’ But you have not listened to my voice. Why have you done this?
Judges 2.3: 3 Therefore I also said, ‘I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be in your sides, and their gods will be a snare to you.’”
Judges 2.4: 4 When Yahweh’s angel spoke these words to all the children of Israel, the people lifted up their voice and wept.
Judges 2.5: 5 They called the name of that place Bochim, and they sacrificed there to Yahweh.
Judges 2.6: 6 Now when Joshua had sent the people away, the children of Israel each went to his inheritance to possess the land.
Judges 2.7: 7 The people served Yahweh all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work of Yahweh that he had worked for Israel.
Judges 2.8: 8 Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Yahweh, died, being one hundred ten years old.
Judges 2.9: 9 They buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath Heres, in the hill country of Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaash.
Judges 2.10: 10 After all that generation were gathered to their fathers, another generation arose after them who didn’t know Yahweh, nor the work which he had done for Israel.
Judges 2.11: 11 The children of Israel did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and served the Baals.
Judges 2.12: 12 They abandoned Yahweh, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the peoples who were around them, and bowed themselves down to them; and they provoked Yahweh to anger.
Judges 2.13: 13 They abandoned Yahweh, and served Baal and the Ashtaroth.
Judges 2.14: 14 Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of raiders who plundered them. He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, so that they could no longer stand before their enemies.
Judges 2.15: 15 Wherever they went out, Yahweh’s hand was against them for evil, as Yahweh had spoken, and as Yahweh had sworn to them; and they were very distressed.
Judges 2.16: 16 Yahweh raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those who plundered them.
Judges 2.17: 17 Yet they didn’t listen to their judges; for they prostituted themselves to other gods, and bowed themselves down to them. They quickly turned away from the way in which their fathers walked, obeying Yahweh’s commandments. They didn’t do so.
Judges 2.18: 18 When Yahweh raised up judges for them, then Yahweh was with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for it grieved Yahweh because of their groaning by reason of those who oppressed them and troubled them.
Judges 2.19: 19 But when the judge was dead, they turned back, and dealt more corruptly than their fathers in following other gods to serve them and to bow down to them. They didn’t cease what they were doing, or give up their stubborn ways.
Judges 2.20: 20 Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel; and he said, “Because this nation transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and has not listened to my voice,
Judges 2.21: 21 I also will no longer drive out any of the nations that Joshua left when he died from before them;
Judges 2.22: 22 that by them I may test Israel, to see if they will keep Yahweh’s way to walk therein, as their fathers kept it, or not.”
Judges 2.23: 23 So Yahweh left those nations, without driving them out hastily. He didn’t deliver them into Joshua’s hand.
Judges 8.0:
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Judges 8.1: 1 The men of Ephraim said to him, “Why have you treated us this way, that you didn’t call us when you went to fight with Midian?” They rebuked him sharply.
Judges 8.2: 2 He said to them, “What have I now done in comparison with you? Isn’t the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?
Judges 8.3: 3 God has delivered into your hand the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb! What was I able to do in comparison with you?” Then their anger was abated toward him when he had said that.
Judges 8.4: 4 Gideon came to the Jordan and passed over, he and the three hundred men who were with him, faint, yet pursuing.
Judges 8.5: 5 He said to the men of Succoth, “Please give loaves of bread to the people who follow me; for they are faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.”
Judges 8.6: 6 The princes of Succoth said, “Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in your hand, that we should give bread to your army?”
Judges 8.7: 7 Gideon said, “Therefore when Yahweh has delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.”
Judges 8.8: 8 He went up there to Penuel, and spoke to them in the same way; and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth had answered.
Judges 8.9: 9 He spoke also to the men of Penuel, saying, “When I come again in peace, I will break down this tower.”
Judges 8.10: 10 Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their armies with them, about fifteen thousand men, all who were left of all the army of the children of the east; for there fell one hundred twenty thousand men who drew sword.
Judges 8.11: 11 Gideon went up by the way of those who lived in tents on the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and struck the army; for the army felt secure.
Judges 8.12: 12 Zebah and Zalmunna fled and he pursued them. He took the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and confused all the army.
Judges 8.13: 13 Gideon the son of Joash returned from the battle from the ascent of Heres.
Judges 8.14: 14 He caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and inquired of him; and he described for him the princes of Succoth, and its elders, seventy-seven men.
Judges 8.15: 15 He came to the men of Succoth, and said, “See Zebah and Zalmunna, concerning whom you taunted me, saying, ‘Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in your hand, that we should give bread to your men who are weary?’”
Judges 8.16: 16 He took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth.
Judges 8.17: 17 He broke down the tower of Penuel, and killed the men of the city.
Judges 8.18: 18 Then he said to Zebah and Zalmunna, “What kind of men were they whom you killed at Tabor?”
They answered, “They were like you. They all resembled the children of a king.”
Judges 8.19: 19 He said, “They were my brothers, the sons of my mother. As Yahweh lives, if you had saved them alive, I would not kill you.”
Judges 8.20: 20 He said to Jether his firstborn, “Get up and kill them!” But the youth didn’t draw his sword; for he was afraid, because he was yet a youth.
Judges 8.21: 21 Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, “You rise and fall on us; for as the man is, so is his strength.” Gideon arose, and killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and took the crescents that were on their camels’ necks.
Judges 8.22: 22 Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, “Rule over us, both you, your son, and your son’s son also; for you have saved us out of the hand of Midian.”
Judges 8.23: 23 Gideon said to them, “I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you. Yahweh shall rule over you.”
Judges 8.24: 24 Gideon said to them, “I do have a request: that you would each give me the earrings of his plunder.” (For they had golden earrings, because they were Ishmaelites.)
Judges 8.25: 25 They answered, “We will willingly give them.” They spread a garment, and every man threw the earrings of his plunder into it.
Judges 8.26: 26 The weight of the golden earrings that he requested was one thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold, in addition to the crescents, and the pendants, and the purple clothing that was on the kings of Midian, and in addition to the chains that were about their camels’ necks.
Judges 8.27: 27 Gideon made an ephod out of it, and put it in Ophrah, his city. Then all Israel played the prostitute with it there; and it became a snare to Gideon and to his house.
Judges 8.28: 28 So Midian was subdued before the children of Israel, and they lifted up their heads no more. The land had rest forty years in the days of Gideon.
Judges 8.29: 29 Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and lived in his own house.
Judges 8.30: 30 Gideon had seventy sons conceived from his body, for he had many wives.
Judges 8.31: 31 His concubine who was in Shechem also bore him a son, and he named him Abimelech.
Judges 8.32: 32 Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the tomb of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
Judges 8.33: 33 As soon as Gideon was dead, the children of Israel turned again and played the prostitute following the Baals, and made Baal Berith their god.
Judges 8.34: 34 The children of Israel didn’t remember Yahweh their God, who had delivered them out of the hand of all their enemies on every side;
Judges 8.35: 35 neither did they show kindness to the house of Jerubbaal, that is, Gideon, according to all the goodness which he had shown to Israel.
Judges 9.0:
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Judges 9.1: 1 Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem to his mother’s brothers, and spoke with them and with all the family of the house of his mother’s father, saying,
Judges 9.2: 2 “Please speak in the ears of all the men of Shechem, ‘Is it better for you that all the sons of Jerubbaal, who are seventy persons, rule over you, or that one rule over you?’ Remember also that I am your bone and your flesh.”
Judges 9.3: 3 His mother’s brothers spoke of him in the ears of all the men of Shechem all these words. Their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech; for they said, “He is our brother.”
Judges 9.4: 4 They gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baal Berith, with which Abimelech hired vain and reckless fellows who followed him.
Judges 9.5: 5 He went to his father’s house at Ophrah, and killed his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, being seventy persons, on one stone; but Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left, for he hid himself.
Judges 9.6: 6 All the men of Shechem assembled themselves together with all the house of Millo, and went and made Abimelech king by the oak of the pillar that was in Shechem.
Judges 9.7: 7 When they told it to Jotham, he went and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim and lifted up his voice, cried out, and said to them, “Listen to me, you men of Shechem, that God may listen to you.
Judges 9.8: 8 The trees set out to anoint a king over themselves. They said to the olive tree, ‘Reign over us.’
Judges 9.9: 9 “But the olive tree said to them, ‘Should I stop producing my oil, with which they honor God and man by me, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?’
Judges 9.10: 10 “The trees said to the fig tree, ‘Come and reign over us.’
Judges 9.11: 11 “But the fig tree said to them, ‘Should I leave my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?’
Judges 9.12: 12 “The trees said to the vine, ‘Come and reign over us.’
Judges 9.13: 13 “The vine said to them, ‘Should I leave my new wine, which cheers God and man, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?’
Judges 9.14: 14 “Then all the trees said to the bramble, ‘Come and reign over us.’
Judges 9.15: 15 “The bramble said to the trees, ‘If in truth you anoint me king over you, then come and take refuge in my shade; and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.’
Judges 9.16: 16 “Now therefore, if you have dealt truly and righteously, in that you have made Abimelech king, and if you have dealt well with Jerubbaal and his house, and have done to him according to the deserving of his hands
Judges 9.17: 17 (for my father fought for you, risked his life, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian;
Judges 9.18: 18 and you have risen up against my father’s house today and have slain his sons, seventy persons, on one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his female servant, king over the men of Shechem, because he is your brother);
Judges 9.19: 19 if you then have dealt truly and righteously with Jerubbaal and with his house today, then rejoice in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you;
Judges 9.20: 20 but if not, let fire come out from Abimelech and devour the men of Shechem and the house of Millo; and let fire come out from the men of Shechem and from the house of Millo and devour Abimelech.”
Judges 9.21: 21 Jotham ran away and fled, and went to Beer and lived there, for fear of Abimelech his brother.
Judges 9.22: 22 Abimelech was prince over Israel three years.
Judges 9.23: 23 Then God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of Shechem; and the men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech,
Judges 9.24: 24 that the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come, and that their blood might be laid on Abimelech their brother who killed them, and on the men of Shechem who strengthened his hands to kill his brothers.
Judges 9.25: 25 The men of Shechem set an ambush for him on the tops of the mountains, and they robbed all who came along that way by them; and Abimelech was told about it.
Judges 9.26: 26 Gaal the son of Ebed came with his brothers and went over to Shechem; and the men of Shechem put their trust in him.
Judges 9.27: 27 They went out into the field, harvested their vineyards, trod the grapes, celebrated, and went into the house of their god and ate and drank, and cursed Abimelech.
Judges 9.28: 28 Gaal the son of Ebed said, “Who is Abimelech, and who is Shechem, that we should serve him? Isn’t he the son of Jerubbaal? Isn’t Zebul his officer? Serve the men of Hamor the father of Shechem, but why should we serve him?
Judges 9.29: 29 I wish that this people were under my hand! Then I would remove Abimelech.” He said to Abimelech, “Increase your army and come out!”
Judges 9.30: 30 When Zebul the ruler of the city heard the words of Gaal the son of Ebed, his anger burned.
Judges 9.31: 31 He sent messengers to Abimelech craftily, saying, “Behold, Gaal the son of Ebed and his brothers have come to Shechem; and behold, they incite the city against you.
Judges 9.32: 32 Now therefore, go up by night, you and the people who are with you, and lie in wait in the field.
Judges 9.33: 33 It shall be that in the morning, as soon as the sun is up, you shall rise early and rush on the city. Behold, when he and the people who are with him come out against you, then may you do to them as you shall find occasion.”
Judges 9.34: 34 Abimelech rose up, and all the people who were with him, by night, and they laid wait against Shechem in four companies.
Judges 9.35: 35 Gaal the son of Ebed went out, and stood in the entrance of the gate of the city. Abimelech rose up, and the people who were with him, from the ambush.
Judges 9.36: 36 When Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, “Behold, people are coming down from the tops of the mountains.”
Zebul said to him, “You see the shadows of the mountains as if they were men.”
Judges 9.37: 37 Gaal spoke again and said, “Behold, people are coming down by the middle of the land, and one company comes by the way of the oak of Meonenim.”
Judges 9.38: 38 Then Zebul said to him, “Now where is your mouth, that you said, ‘Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him?’ Isn’t this the people that you have despised? Please go out now and fight with them.”
Judges 9.39: 39 Gaal went out before the men of Shechem, and fought with Abimelech.
Judges 9.40: 40 Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him, and many fell wounded, even to the entrance of the gate.
Judges 9.41: 41 Abimelech lived at Arumah; and Zebul drove out Gaal and his brothers, that they should not dwell in Shechem.
Judges 9.42: 42 On the next day, the people went out into the field; and they told Abimelech.
Judges 9.43: 43 He took the people and divided them into three companies, and laid wait in the field; and he looked, and behold, the people came out of the city. So, he rose up against them and struck them.
Judges 9.44: 44 Abimelech and the companies that were with him rushed forward and stood in the entrance of the gate of the city; and the two companies rushed on all who were in the field and struck them.
Judges 9.45: 45 Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city and killed the people in it. He beat down the city and sowed it with salt.
Judges 9.46: 46 When all the men of the tower of Shechem heard of it, they entered into the stronghold of the house of Elberith.
Judges 9.47: 47 Abimelech was told that all the men of the tower of Shechem were gathered together.
Judges 9.48: 48 Abimelech went up to Mount Zalmon, he and all the people who were with him; and Abimelech took an ax in his hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it up, and laid it on his shoulder. Then he said to the people who were with him, “What you have seen me do, make haste, and do as I have done!”
Judges 9.49: 49 All the people likewise each cut down his bough, followed Abimelech, and put them at the base of the stronghold, and set the stronghold on fire over them, so that all the people of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women.
Judges 9.50: 50 Then Abimelech went to Thebez and encamped against Thebez, and took it.
Judges 9.51: 51 But there was a strong tower within the city, and all the men and women of the city fled there, and shut themselves in, and went up to the roof of the tower.
Judges 9.52: 52 Abimelech came to the tower and fought against it, and came near to the door of the tower to burn it with fire.
Judges 9.53: 53 A certain woman cast an upper millstone on Abimelech’s head, and broke his skull.
Judges 9.54: 54 Then he called hastily to the young man, his armor bearer, and said to him, “Draw your sword and kill me, that men not say of me, ‘A woman killed him.’ His young man thrust him through, and he died.”
Judges 9.55: 55 When the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they each departed to his place.
Judges 9.56: 56 Thus God repaid the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did to his father in killing his seventy brothers;
Judges 9.57: 57 and God repaid all the wickedness of the men of Shechem on their heads; and the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal came on them.
Judges 20.0:
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Judges 20.1: 1 Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was assembled as one man, from Dan even to Beersheba, with the land of Gilead, to Yahweh at Mizpah.
Judges 20.2: 2 The chiefs of all the people, even of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen who drew sword.
Judges 20.3: 3 (Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel had gone up to Mizpah.) The children of Israel said, “Tell us, how did this wickedness happen?”
Judges 20.4: 4 The Levite, the husband of the woman who was murdered, answered, “I came into Gibeah that belongs to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to spend the night.
Judges 20.5: 5 The men of Gibeah rose against me, and surrounded the house by night. They intended to kill me and they raped my concubine, and she is dead.
Judges 20.6: 6 I took my concubine and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel; for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel.
Judges 20.7: 7 Behold, you children of Israel, all of you, give here your advice and counsel.”
Judges 20.8: 8 All the people arose as one man, saying, “None of us will go to his tent, neither will any of us turn to his house.
Judges 20.9: 9 But now this is the thing which we will do to Gibeah: we will go up against it by lot;
Judges 20.10: 10 and we will take ten men of one hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and one hundred of one thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand to get food for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that the men of Gibeah have done in Israel.”
Judges 20.11: 11 So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man.
Judges 20.12: 12 The tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, “What wickedness is this that has happened among you?
Judges 20.13: 13 Now therefore deliver up the men, the wicked fellows who are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death and put away evil from Israel.”
But Benjamin would not listen to the voice of their brothers, the children of Israel.
Judges 20.14: 14 The children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities to Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.
Judges 20.15: 15 The children of Benjamin were counted on that day out of the cities twenty-six thousand men who drew the sword, in addition to the inhabitants of Gibeah, who were counted seven hundred chosen men.
Judges 20.16: 16 Among all these soldiers there were seven hundred chosen men who were left-handed. Every one of them could sling a stone at a hair and not miss.
Judges 20.17: 17 The men of Israel, besides Benjamin, were counted four hundred thousand men who drew sword. All these were men of war.
Judges 20.18: 18 The children of Israel arose, went up to Bethel, and asked counsel of God. They asked, “Who shall go up for us first to battle against the children of Benjamin?”
Yahweh said, “Judah first.”
Judges 20.19: 19 The children of Israel rose up in the morning and encamped against Gibeah.
Judges 20.20: 20 The men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and the men of Israel set the battle in array against them at Gibeah.
Judges 20.21: 21 The children of Benjamin came out of Gibeah, and on that day destroyed twenty-two thousand of the Israelite men down to the ground.
Judges 20.22: 22 The people, the men of Israel, encouraged themselves, and set the battle again in array in the place where they set themselves in array the first day.
Judges 20.23: 23 The children of Israel went up and wept before Yahweh until evening; and they asked of Yahweh, saying, “Shall I again draw near to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother?”
Yahweh said, “Go up against him.”
Judges 20.24: 24 The children of Israel came near against the children of Benjamin the second day.
Judges 20.25: 25 Benjamin went out against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand men. All these drew the sword.
Judges 20.26: 26 Then all the children of Israel and all the people went up, and came to Bethel, and wept, and sat there before Yahweh, and fasted that day until evening; then they offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before Yahweh.
Judges 20.27: 27 The children of Israel asked Yahweh (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,
Judges 20.28: 28 and Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it in those days), saying, “Shall I yet again go out to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease?”
Yahweh said, “Go up; for tomorrow I will deliver him into your hand.”
Judges 20.29: 29 Israel set ambushes all around Gibeah.
Judges 20.30: 30 The children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and set themselves in array against Gibeah, as at other times.
Judges 20.31: 31 The children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to strike and kill of the people as at other times, in the highways, of which one goes up to Bethel and the other to Gibeah, in the field, about thirty men of Israel.
Judges 20.32: 32 The children of Benjamin said, “They are struck down before us, as at the first.” But the children of Israel said, “Let’s flee, and draw them away from the city to the highways.”
Judges 20.33: 33 All the men of Israel rose up out of their place and set themselves in array at Baal Tamar. Then the ambushers of Israel broke out of their place, even out of Maareh Geba.
Judges 20.34: 34 Ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel came over against Gibeah, and the battle was severe; but they didn’t know that disaster was close to them.
Judges 20.35: 35 Yahweh struck Benjamin before Israel; and the children of Israel destroyed of Benjamin that day twenty-five thousand one hundred men. All these drew the sword.
Judges 20.36: 36 So the children of Benjamin saw that they were struck, for the men of Israel yielded to Benjamin because they trusted the ambushers whom they had set against Gibeah.
Judges 20.37: 37 The ambushers hurried, and rushed on Gibeah; then the ambushers spread out, and struck all the city with the edge of the sword.
Judges 20.38: 38 Now the appointed sign between the men of Israel and the ambushers was that they should make a great cloud of smoke rise up out of the city.
Judges 20.39: 39 The men of Israel turned in the battle, and Benjamin began to strike and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons; for they said, “Surely they are struck down before us, as in the first battle.”
Judges 20.40: 40 But when the cloud began to arise up out of the city in a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them; and behold, the whole city went up in smoke to the sky.
Judges 20.41: 41 The men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were dismayed; for they saw that disaster had come on them.
Judges 20.42: 42 Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel to the way of the wilderness, but the battle followed hard after them; and those who came out of the cities destroyed them in the middle of it.
Judges 20.43: 43 They surrounded the Benjamites, chased them, and trod them down at their resting place, as far as near Gibeah toward the sunrise.
Judges 20.44: 44 Eighteen thousand men of Benjamin fell; all these were men of valor.
Judges 20.45: 45 They turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon. They gleaned five thousand men of them in the highways, and followed hard after them to Gidom, and struck two thousand men of them.
Judges 20.46: 46 So that all who fell that day of Benjamin were twenty-five thousand men who drew the sword. All these were men of valor.
Judges 20.47: 47 But six hundred men turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, and stayed in the rock of Rimmon four months.
Judges 20.48: 48 The men of Israel turned again on the children of Benjamin, and struck them with the edge of the sword—including the entire city, the livestock, and all that they found. Moreover they set all the cities which they found on fire.
1 Samuel 13.0:
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1 Samuel 13.1: 1 Saul was thirty years old when he became king, and he reigned over Israel forty-two years.
1 Samuel 13.2: 2 Saul chose for himself three thousand men of Israel, of which two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in the Mount of Bethel, and one thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin. He sent the rest of the people to their own tents.
1 Samuel 13.3: 3 Jonathan struck the garrison of the Philistines that was in Geba, and the Philistines heard of it. Saul blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, “Let the Hebrews hear!”
1 Samuel 13.4: 4 All Israel heard that Saul had struck the garrison of the Philistines, and also that Israel was considered an abomination to the Philistines. The people were gathered together after Saul to Gilgal.
1 Samuel 13.5: 5 The Philistines assembled themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the seashore in multitude. They came up and encamped in Michmash, eastward of Beth Aven.
1 Samuel 13.6: 6 When the men of Israel saw that they were in trouble (for the people were distressed), then the people hid themselves in caves, in thickets, in rocks, in tombs, and in pits.
1 Samuel 13.7: 7 Now some of the Hebrews had gone over the Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead; but as for Saul, he was yet in Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling.
1 Samuel 13.8: 8 He stayed seven days, according to the time set by Samuel; but Samuel didn’t come to Gilgal, and the people were scattering from him.
1 Samuel 13.9: 9 Saul said, “Bring the burnt offering to me here, and the peace offerings.” He offered the burnt offering.
1 Samuel 13.10: 10 It came to pass that as soon as he had finished offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came; and Saul went out to meet him, that he might greet him.
1 Samuel 13.11: 11 Samuel said, “What have you done?”
Saul said, “Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that you didn’t come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines assembled themselves together at Michmash;
1 Samuel 13.12: 12 therefore I said, ‘Now the Philistines will come down on me to Gilgal, and I haven’t entreated the favor of Yahweh.’ I forced myself therefore, and offered the burnt offering.”
1 Samuel 13.13: 13 Samuel said to Saul, “You have done foolishly. You have not kept the commandment of Yahweh your God, which he commanded you; for now Yahweh would have established your kingdom on Israel forever.
1 Samuel 13.14: 14 But now your kingdom will not continue. Yahweh has sought for himself a man after his own heart, and Yahweh has appointed him to be prince over his people, because you have not kept that which Yahweh commanded you.”
1 Samuel 13.15: 15 Samuel arose, and went from Gilgal to Gibeah of Benjamin. Saul counted the people who were present with him, about six hundred men.
1 Samuel 13.16: 16 Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people who were present with them, stayed in Geba of Benjamin; but the Philistines encamped in Michmash.
1 Samuel 13.17: 17 The raiders came out of the camp of the Philistines in three companies: one company turned to the way that leads to Ophrah, to the land of Shual;
1 Samuel 13.18: 18 another company turned the way to Beth Horon; and another company turned the way of the border that looks down on the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.
1 Samuel 13.19: 19 Now there was no blacksmith found throughout all the land of Israel; for the Philistines said, “Lest the Hebrews make themselves swords or spears”;
1 Samuel 13.20: 20 but all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, each man to sharpen his own plowshare, mattock, ax, and sickle.
1 Samuel 13.21: 21 The price was one payim each to sharpen mattocks, plowshares, pitchforks, axes, and goads.
1 Samuel 13.22: 22 So it came to pass in the day of battle, that neither sword nor spear was found in the hand of any of the people who were with Saul and Jonathan; but Saul and Jonathan his son had them.
1 Samuel 13.23: 23 The garrison of the Philistines went out to the pass of Michmash.
2 Samuel 14.0:
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2 Samuel 14.1: 1 Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king’s heart was toward Absalom.
2 Samuel 14.2: 2 Joab sent to Tekoa, and brought a wise woman from there, and said to her, “Please act like a mourner, and put on mourning clothing, please, and don’t anoint yourself with oil, but be as a woman who has mourned a long time for the dead.
2 Samuel 14.3: 3 Go in to the king, and speak like this to him.” So Joab put the words in her mouth.
2 Samuel 14.4: 4 When the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, showed respect, and said, “Help, O king!”
2 Samuel 14.5: 5 The king said to her, “What ails you?”
She answered, “Truly I am a widow, and my husband is dead.
2 Samuel 14.6: 6 Your servant had two sons, and they both fought together in the field, and there was no one to part them, but the one struck the other, and killed him.
2 Samuel 14.7: 7 Behold, the whole family has risen against your servant, and they say, ‘Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he killed, and so destroy the heir also.’ Thus they would quench my coal which is left, and would leave to my husband neither name nor remainder on the surface of the earth.”
2 Samuel 14.8: 8 The king said to the woman, “Go to your house, and I will give a command concerning you.”
2 Samuel 14.9: 9 The woman of Tekoa said to the king, “My lord, O king, may the iniquity be on me, and on my father’s house; and may the king and his throne be guiltless.”
2 Samuel 14.10: 10 The king said, “Whoever says anything to you, bring him to me, and he will not bother you any more.”
2 Samuel 14.11: 11 Then she said, “Please let the king remember Yahweh your God, that the avenger of blood destroy not any more, lest they destroy my son.”
He said, “As Yahweh lives, not one hair of your son shall fall to the earth.”
2 Samuel 14.12: 12 Then the woman said, “Please let your servant speak a word to my lord the king.”
He said, “Say on.”
2 Samuel 14.13: 13 The woman said, “Why then have you devised such a thing against the people of God? For in speaking this word the king is as one who is guilty, in that the king does not bring home again his banished one.
2 Samuel 14.14: 14 For we must die, and are like water spilled on the ground, which can’t be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him.
2 Samuel 14.15: 15 Now therefore seeing that I have come to speak this word to my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid. Your servant said, ‘I will now speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.’
2 Samuel 14.16: 16 For the king will hear, to deliver his servant out of the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.
2 Samuel 14.17: 17 Then your servant said, ‘Please let the word of my lord the king bring rest; for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad. May Yahweh, your God, be with you.’”
2 Samuel 14.18: 18 Then the king answered the woman, “Please don’t hide anything from me that I ask you.”
The woman said, “Let my lord the king now speak.”
2 Samuel 14.19: 19 The king said, “Is the hand of Joab with you in all this?”
The woman answered, “As your soul lives, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right hand or to the left from anything that my lord the king has spoken; for your servant Joab urged me, and he put all these words in the mouth of your servant.
2 Samuel 14.20: 20 Your servant Joab has done this thing to change the face of the matter. My lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth.”
2 Samuel 14.21: 21 The king said to Joab, “Behold now, I have done this thing. Go therefore, and bring the young man Absalom back.”
2 Samuel 14.22: 22 Joab fell to the ground on his face, showed respect, and blessed the king. Joab said, “Today your servant knows that I have found favor in your sight, my lord, king, in that the king has performed the request of his servant.”
2 Samuel 14.23: 23 So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.
2 Samuel 14.24: 24 The king said, “Let him return to his own house, but let him not see my face.” So Absalom returned to his own house, and didn’t see the king’s face.
2 Samuel 14.25: 25 Now in all Israel there was no one to be so much praised as Absalom for his beauty. From the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no defect in him.
2 Samuel 14.26: 26 When he cut the hair of his head (now it was at every year’s end that he cut it; because it was heavy on him, therefore he cut it); he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels, after the king’s weight.
2 Samuel 14.27: 27 Three sons were born to Absalom, and one daughter, whose name was Tamar. She was a woman with a beautiful face.
2 Samuel 14.28: 28 Absalom lived two full years in Jerusalem, and he didn’t see the king’s face.
2 Samuel 14.29: 29 Then Absalom sent for Joab, to send him to the king, but he would not come to him. Then he sent again a second time, but he would not come.
2 Samuel 14.30: 30 Therefore he said to his servants, “Behold, Joab’s field is near mine, and he has barley there. Go and set it on fire.” So Absalom’s servants set the field on fire.
2 Samuel 14.31: 31 Then Joab arose, and came to Absalom to his house, and said to him, “Why have your servants set my field on fire?”
2 Samuel 14.32: 32 Absalom answered Joab, “Behold, I sent to you, saying, ‘Come here, that I may send you to the king, to say, “Why have I come from Geshur? It would be better for me to be there still. Now therefore let me see the king’s face, and if there is iniquity in me, let him kill me.”’”
2 Samuel 14.33: 33 So Joab came to the king, and told him; and when he had called for Absalom, he came to the king, and bowed himself on his face to the ground before the king; and the king kissed Absalom.
1 Chronicles 0.0:
The First Book of Chronicles
1 Chronicles 1.0:
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1 Chronicles 1.1: 1 Adam, Seth, Enosh,
1 Chronicles 1.2: 2 Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared,
1 Chronicles 1.3: 3 Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech,
1 Chronicles 1.4: 4 Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
1 Chronicles 1.5: 5 The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
1 Chronicles 1.6: 6 The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Diphath, and Togarmah.
1 Chronicles 1.7: 7 The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.
1 Chronicles 1.8: 8 The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
1 Chronicles 1.9: 9 The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabta, Raama, Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.
1 Chronicles 1.10: 10 Cush became the father of Nimrod. He began to be a mighty one in the earth.
1 Chronicles 1.11: 11 Mizraim became the father of Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim,
1 Chronicles 1.12: 12 Pathrusim, Casluhim (where the Philistines came from), and Caphtorim.
1 Chronicles 1.13: 13 Canaan became the father of Sidon his firstborn, Heth,
1 Chronicles 1.14: 14 the Jebusite, and the Amorite, the Girgashite,
1 Chronicles 1.15: 15 the Hivite, the Arkite, the Sinite,
1 Chronicles 1.16: 16 the Arvadite, the Zemarite, and the Hamathite.
1 Chronicles 1.17: 17 The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, Aram, Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshech.
1 Chronicles 1.18: 18 Arpachshad became the father of Shelah, and Shelah became the father of Eber.
1 Chronicles 1.19: 19 To Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided; and his brother’s name was Joktan.
1 Chronicles 1.20: 20 Joktan became the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,
1 Chronicles 1.21: 21 Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,
1 Chronicles 1.22: 22 Ebal, Abimael, Sheba,
1 Chronicles 1.23: 23 Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.
1 Chronicles 1.24: 24 Shem, Arpachshad, Shelah,
1 Chronicles 1.25: 25 Eber, Peleg, Reu,
1 Chronicles 1.26: 26 Serug, Nahor, Terah,
1 Chronicles 1.27: 27 Abram (also called Abraham).
1 Chronicles 1.28: 28 The sons of Abraham: Isaac and Ishmael.
1 Chronicles 1.29: 29 These are their generations: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth; then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,
1 Chronicles 1.30: 30 Mishma, Dumah, Massa, Hadad, Tema,
1 Chronicles 1.31: 31 Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. These are the sons of Ishmael.
1 Chronicles 1.32: 32 The sons of Keturah, Abraham’s concubine: she bore Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. The sons of Jokshan: Sheba and Dedan.
1 Chronicles 1.33: 33 The sons of Midian: Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the sons of Keturah.
1 Chronicles 1.34: 34 Abraham became the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau and Israel.
1 Chronicles 1.35: 35 The sons of Esau: Eliphaz, Reuel, Jeush, Jalam, and Korah.
1 Chronicles 1.36: 36 The sons of Eliphaz: Teman, Omar, Zephi, Gatam, Kenaz, Timna, and Amalek.
1 Chronicles 1.37: 37 The sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah.
1 Chronicles 1.38: 38 The sons of Seir: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan.
1 Chronicles 1.39: 39 The sons of Lotan: Hori and Homam; and Timna was Lotan’s sister.
1 Chronicles 1.40: 40 The sons of Shobal: Alian, Manahath, Ebal, Shephi, and Onam. The sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah.
1 Chronicles 1.41: 41 The son of Anah: Dishon. The sons of Dishon: Hamran, Eshban, Ithran, and Cheran.
1 Chronicles 1.42: 42 The sons of Ezer: Bilhan, Zaavan, and Jaakan. The sons of Dishan: Uz and Aran.
1 Chronicles 1.43: 43 Now these are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom, before any king reigned over the children of Israel: Bela the son of Beor; and the name of his city was Dinhabah.
1 Chronicles 1.44: 44 Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his place.
1 Chronicles 1.45: 45 Jobab died, and Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his place.
1 Chronicles 1.46: 46 Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who struck Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his place; and the name of his city was Avith.
1 Chronicles 1.47: 47 Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his place.
1 Chronicles 1.48: 48 Samlah died, and Shaul of Rehoboth by the River reigned in his place.
1 Chronicles 1.49: 49 Shaul died, and Baal Hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his place.
1 Chronicles 1.50: 50 Baal Hanan died, and Hadad reigned in his place; and the name of his city was Pai: and his wife’s name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.
1 Chronicles 1.51: 51 Then Hadad died. The chiefs of Edom were: chief Timna, chief Aliah, chief Jetheth,
1 Chronicles 1.52: 52 chief Oholibamah, chief Elah, chief Pinon,
1 Chronicles 1.53: 53 chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief Mibzar,
1 Chronicles 1.54: 54 chief Magdiel, and chief Iram. These are the chiefs of Edom.
1 Chronicles 2.0:
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1 Chronicles 2.1: 1 These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun,
1 Chronicles 2.2: 2 Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
1 Chronicles 2.3: 3 The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, and Shelah; which three were born to him of Shua’s daughter the Canaanitess. Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in Yahweh’s sight; and he killed him.
1 Chronicles 2.4: 4 Tamar his daughter-in-law bore him Perez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah were five.
1 Chronicles 2.5: 5 The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul.
1 Chronicles 2.6: 6 The sons of Zerah: Zimri, Ethan, Heman, Calcol, and Dara; five of them in all.
1 Chronicles 2.7: 7 The son of Carmi: Achar, the troubler of Israel, who committed a trespass in the devoted thing.
1 Chronicles 2.8: 8 The son of Ethan: Azariah.
1 Chronicles 2.9: 9 The sons also of Hezron, who were born to him: Jerahmeel, Ram, and Chelubai.
1 Chronicles 2.10: 10 Ram became the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab became the father of Nahshon, prince of the children of Judah;
1 Chronicles 2.11: 11 and Nahshon became the father of Salma, and Salma became the father of Boaz,
1 Chronicles 2.12: 12 and Boaz became the father of Obed, and Obed became the father of Jesse;
1 Chronicles 2.13: 13 and Jesse became the father of his firstborn Eliab, and Abinadab the second, and Shimea the third,
1 Chronicles 2.14: 14 Nethanel the fourth, Raddai the fifth,
1 Chronicles 2.15: 15 Ozem the sixth, David the seventh;
1 Chronicles 2.16: 16 and their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. The sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, Joab, and Asahel, three.
1 Chronicles 2.17: 17 Abigail bore Amasa; and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.
1 Chronicles 2.18: 18 Caleb the son of Hezron became the father of children of Azubah his wife, and of Jerioth; and these were her sons: Jesher, Shobab, and Ardon.
1 Chronicles 2.19: 19 Azubah died, and Caleb married Ephrath, who bore him Hur.
1 Chronicles 2.20: 20 Hur became the father of Uri, and Uri became the father of Bezalel.
1 Chronicles 2.21: 21 Afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he took as wife when he was sixty years old; and she bore him Segub.
1 Chronicles 2.22: 22 Segub became the father of Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.
1 Chronicles 2.23: 23 Geshur and Aram took the towns of Jair from them, with Kenath, and its villages, even sixty cities. All these were the sons of Machir the father of Gilead.
1 Chronicles 2.24: 24 After Hezron died in Caleb Ephrathah, Abijah Hezron’s wife bore him Ashhur the father of Tekoa.
1 Chronicles 2.25: 25 The sons of Jerahmeel the firstborn of Hezron were Ram the firstborn, Bunah, Oren, Ozem, and Ahijah.
1 Chronicles 2.26: 26 Jerahmeel had another wife, whose name was Atarah. She was the mother of Onam.
1 Chronicles 2.27: 27 The sons of Ram the firstborn of Jerahmeel were Maaz, Jamin, and Eker.
1 Chronicles 2.28: 28 The sons of Onam were Shammai and Jada. The sons of Shammai: Nadab and Abishur.
1 Chronicles 2.29: 29 The name of the wife of Abishur was Abihail; and she bore him Ahban and Molid.
1 Chronicles 2.30: 30 The sons of Nadab: Seled and Appaim; but Seled died without children.
1 Chronicles 2.31: 31 The son of Appaim: Ishi. The son of Ishi: Sheshan. The son of Sheshan: Ahlai.
1 Chronicles 2.32: 32 The sons of Jada the brother of Shammai: Jether and Jonathan; and Jether died without children.
1 Chronicles 2.33: 33 The sons of Jonathan: Peleth and Zaza. These were the sons of Jerahmeel.
1 Chronicles 2.34: 34 Now Sheshan had no sons, but daughters. Sheshan had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Jarha.
1 Chronicles 2.35: 35 Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha his servant as wife; and she bore him Attai.
1 Chronicles 2.36: 36 Attai became the father of Nathan, and Nathan became the father of Zabad,
1 Chronicles 2.37: 37 and Zabad became the father of Ephlal, and Ephlal became the father of Obed,
1 Chronicles 2.38: 38 and Obed became the father of Jehu, and Jehu became the father of Azariah,
1 Chronicles 2.39: 39 and Azariah became the father of Helez, and Helez became the father of Eleasah,
1 Chronicles 2.40: 40 and Eleasah became the father of Sismai, and Sismai became the father of Shallum,
1 Chronicles 2.41: 41 and Shallum became the father of Jekamiah, and Jekamiah became the father of Elishama.
1 Chronicles 2.42: 42 The sons of Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel were Mesha his firstborn, who was the father of Ziph; and the sons of Mareshah the father of Hebron.
1 Chronicles 2.43: 43 The sons of Hebron: Korah, Tappuah, Rekem, and Shema.
1 Chronicles 2.44: 44 Shema became the father of Raham, the father of Jorkeam; and Rekem became the father of Shammai.
1 Chronicles 2.45: 45 The son of Shammai was Maon; and Maon was the father of Beth Zur.
1 Chronicles 2.46: 46 Ephah, Caleb’s concubine, bore Haran, Moza, and Gazez; and Haran became the father of Gazez.
1 Chronicles 2.47: 47 The sons of Jahdai: Regem, Jothan, Geshan, Pelet, Ephah, and Shaaph.
1 Chronicles 2.48: 48 Maacah, Caleb’s concubine, bore Sheber and Tirhanah.
1 Chronicles 2.49: 49 She bore also Shaaph the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father of Machbena, and the father of Gibea; and the daughter of Caleb was Achsah.
1 Chronicles 2.50: 50 These were the sons of Caleb, the son of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah: Shobal the father of Kiriath Jearim,
1 Chronicles 2.51: 51 Salma the father of Bethlehem, and Hareph the father of Beth Gader.
1 Chronicles 2.52: 52 Shobal the father of Kiriath Jearim had sons: Haroeh, half of the Menuhoth.
1 Chronicles 2.53: 53 The families of Kiriath Jearim: the Ithrites, the Puthites, the Shumathites, and the Mishraites; from them came the Zorathites and the Eshtaolites.
1 Chronicles 2.54: 54 The sons of Salma: Bethlehem, the Netophathites, Atroth Beth Joab, and half of the Manahathites, the Zorites.
1 Chronicles 2.55: 55 The families of scribes who lived at Jabez: the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and the Sucathites. These are the Kenites who came from Hammath, the father of the house of Rechab.
1 Chronicles 3.0:
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1 Chronicles 3.1: 1 Now these were the sons of David, who were born to him in Hebron: the firstborn, Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess; the second, Daniel, of Abigail the Carmelitess;
1 Chronicles 3.2: 2 the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur; the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith;
1 Chronicles 3.3: 3 the fifth, Shephatiah of Abital; the sixth, Ithream by Eglah his wife:
1 Chronicles 3.4: 4 six were born to him in Hebron; and he reigned there seven years and six months. He reigned thirty-three years in Jerusalem;
1 Chronicles 3.5: 5 and these were born to him in Jerusalem: Shimea, Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon, four, of Bathshua the daughter of Ammiel;
1 Chronicles 3.6: 6 and Ibhar, Elishama, Eliphelet,
1 Chronicles 3.7: 7 Nogah, Nepheg, Japhia,
1 Chronicles 3.8: 8 Elishama, Eliada, and Eliphelet, nine.
1 Chronicles 3.9: 9 All these were the sons of David, in addition to the sons of the concubines; and Tamar was their sister.
1 Chronicles 3.10: 10 Solomon’s son was Rehoboam, Abijah his son, Asa his son, Jehoshaphat his son,
1 Chronicles 3.11: 11 Joram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his son,
1 Chronicles 3.12: 12 Amaziah his son, Azariah his son, Jotham his son,
1 Chronicles 3.13: 13 Ahaz his son, Hezekiah his son, Manasseh his son,
1 Chronicles 3.14: 14 Amon his son, and Josiah his son.
1 Chronicles 3.15: 15 The sons of Josiah: the firstborn Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, and the fourth Shallum.
1 Chronicles 3.16: 16 The sons of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son, and Zedekiah his son.
1 Chronicles 3.17: 17 The sons of Jeconiah, the captive: Shealtiel his son,
1 Chronicles 3.18: 18 Malchiram, Pedaiah, Shenazzar, Jekamiah, Hoshama, and Nedabiah.
1 Chronicles 3.19: 19 The sons of Pedaiah: Zerubbabel and Shimei. The sons of Zerubbabel: Meshullam and Hananiah; and Shelomith was their sister;
1 Chronicles 3.20: 20 and Hashubah, Ohel, Berechiah, Hasadiah, and Jushab Hesed, five.
1 Chronicles 3.21: 21 The sons of Hananiah: Pelatiah and Jeshaiah; the sons of Rephaiah, the sons of Arnan, the sons of Obadiah, the sons of Shecaniah.
1 Chronicles 3.22: 22 The son of Shecaniah: Shemaiah. The sons of Shemaiah: Hattush, Igal, Bariah, Neariah, and Shaphat, six.
1 Chronicles 3.23: 23 The sons of Neariah: Elioenai, Hizkiah, and Azrikam, three.
1 Chronicles 3.24: 24 The sons of Elioenai: Hodaviah, Eliashib, Pelaiah, Akkub, Johanan, Delaiah, and Anani, seven.
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1 Chronicles 4.1: 1 The sons of Judah: Perez, Hezron, Carmi, Hur, and Shobal.
1 Chronicles 4.2: 2 Reaiah the son of Shobal became the father of Jahath; and Jahath became the father of Ahumai and Lahad. These are the families of the Zorathites.
1 Chronicles 4.3: 3 These were the sons of the father of Etam: Jezreel, Ishma, and Idbash. The name of their sister was Hazzelelponi.
1 Chronicles 4.4: 4 Penuel was the father of Gedor and Ezer the father of Hushah. These are the sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah, the father of Bethlehem.
1 Chronicles 4.5: 5 Ashhur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah.
1 Chronicles 4.6: 6 Naarah bore him Ahuzzam, Hepher, Temeni, and Haahashtari. These were the sons of Naarah.
1 Chronicles 4.7: 7 The sons of Helah were Zereth, Izhar, and Ethnan.
1 Chronicles 4.8: 8 Hakkoz became the father of Anub, Zobebah, and the families of Aharhel the son of Harum.
1 Chronicles 4.9: 9 Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. His mother named him Jabez, saying, “Because I bore him with sorrow.”
1 Chronicles 4.10: 10 Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, “Oh that you would bless me indeed, and enlarge my border! May your hand be with me, and may you keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain!”
God granted him that which he requested.
1 Chronicles 4.11: 11 Chelub the brother of Shuhah became the father of Mehir, who was the father of Eshton.
1 Chronicles 4.12: 12 Eshton became the father of Beth Rapha, Paseah, and Tehinnah the father of Ir Nahash. These are the men of Recah.
1 Chronicles 4.13: 13 The sons of Kenaz: Othniel and Seraiah. The sons of Othniel: Hathath.
1 Chronicles 4.14: 14 Meonothai became the father of Ophrah: and Seraiah became the father of Joab the father of Ge Harashim; for they were craftsmen.
1 Chronicles 4.15: 15 The sons of Caleb the son of Jephunneh: Iru, Elah, and Naam. The son of Elah: Kenaz.
1 Chronicles 4.16: 16 The sons of Jehallelel: Ziph, Ziphah, Tiria, and Asarel.
1 Chronicles 4.17: 17 The sons of Ezrah: Jether, Mered, Epher, and Jalon; and she bore Miriam, Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa.
1 Chronicles 4.18: 18 His wife the Jewess bore Jered the father of Gedor, Heber the father of Soco, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah. These are the sons of Bithiah the daughter of Pharaoh, whom Mered took.
1 Chronicles 4.19: 19 The sons of the wife of Hodiah, the sister of Naham, were the father of Keilah the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the Maacathite.
1 Chronicles 4.20: 20 The sons of Shimon: Amnon, Rinnah, Ben Hanan, and Tilon. The sons of Ishi: Zoheth, and Ben Zoheth.
1 Chronicles 4.21: 21 The sons of Shelah the son of Judah: Er the father of Lecah, Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of those who worked fine linen, of the house of Ashbea;
1 Chronicles 4.22: 22 and Jokim, and the men of Cozeba, and Joash, and Saraph, who had dominion in Moab, and Jashubilehem. These records are ancient.
1 Chronicles 4.23: 23 These were the potters, and the inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah: they lived there with the king for his work.
1 Chronicles 4.24: 24 The sons of Simeon: Nemuel, Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, Shaul;
1 Chronicles 4.25: 25 Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, and Mishma his son.
1 Chronicles 4.26: 26 The sons of Mishma: Hammuel his son, Zaccur his son, Shimei his son.
1 Chronicles 4.27: 27 Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brothers didn’t have many children, and all their family didn’t multiply like the children of Judah.
1 Chronicles 4.28: 28 They lived at Beersheba, Moladah, Hazarshual,
1 Chronicles 4.29: 29 at Bilhah, at Ezem, at Tolad,
1 Chronicles 4.30: 30 at Bethuel, at Hormah, at Ziklag,
1 Chronicles 4.31: 31 at Beth Marcaboth, Hazar Susim, at Beth Biri, and at Shaaraim. These were their cities until David’s reign.
1 Chronicles 4.32: 32 Their villages were Etam, Ain, Rimmon, Tochen, and Ashan, five cities;
1 Chronicles 4.33: 33 and all their villages that were around the same cities, to Baal. These were their settlements, and they have their genealogy.
1 Chronicles 4.34: 34 Meshobab, Jamlech, Joshah the son of Amaziah,
1 Chronicles 4.35: 35 Joel, Jehu the son of Joshibiah, the son of Seraiah, the son of Asiel,
1 Chronicles 4.36: 36 Elioenai, Jaakobah, Jeshohaiah, Asaiah, Adiel, Jesimiel, Benaiah,
1 Chronicles 4.37: 37 and Ziza the son of Shiphi, the son of Allon, the son of Jedaiah, the son of Shimri, the son of Shemaiah—
1 Chronicles 4.38: 38 these mentioned by name were princes in their families. Their fathers’ houses increased greatly.
1 Chronicles 4.39: 39 They went to the entrance of Gedor, even to the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.
1 Chronicles 4.40: 40 They found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceful; for those who lived there before were descended from Ham.
1 Chronicles 4.41: 41 These written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and struck their tents. The Meunim who were found there, and they destroyed them utterly to this day, and lived in their place; because there was pasture there for their flocks.
1 Chronicles 4.42: 42 Some of them, even of the sons of Simeon, five hundred men, went to Mount Seir, having for their captains Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi.
1 Chronicles 4.43: 43 They struck the remnant of the Amalekites who escaped, and have lived there to this day.
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1 Chronicles 5.1: 1 The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel (for he was the firstborn; but, because he defiled his father’s couch, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel; and the genealogy is not to be listed according to the birthright.
1 Chronicles 5.2: 2 For Judah prevailed above his brothers, and from him came the prince; but the birthright was Joseph’s)—
1 Chronicles 5.3: 3 the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.
1 Chronicles 5.4: 4 The sons of Joel: Shemaiah his son, Gog his son, Shimei his son,
1 Chronicles 5.5: 5 Micah his son, Reaiah his son, Baal his son,
1 Chronicles 5.6: 6 and Beerah his son, whom Tilgath Pilneser king of Assyria carried away captive. He was prince of the Reubenites.
1 Chronicles 5.7: 7 His brothers by their families, when the genealogy of their generations was listed: the chief, Jeiel, and Zechariah,
1 Chronicles 5.8: 8 and Bela the son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Joel, who lived in Aroer, even to Nebo and Baal Meon;
1 Chronicles 5.9: 9 and he lived eastward even to the entrance of the wilderness from the river Euphrates, because their livestock were multiplied in the land of Gilead.
1 Chronicles 5.10: 10 In the days of Saul, they made war with the Hagrites, who fell by their hand; and they lived in their tents throughout all the land east of Gilead.
1 Chronicles 5.11: 11 The sons of Gad lived beside them, in the land of Bashan to Salecah:
1 Chronicles 5.12: 12 Joel the chief, Shapham the second, Janai, and Shaphat in Bashan.
1 Chronicles 5.13: 13 Their brothers of their fathers’ houses: Michael, Meshullam, Sheba, Jorai, Jacan, Zia, and Eber, seven.
1 Chronicles 5.14: 14 These were the sons of Abihail, the son of Huri, the son of Jaroah, the son of Gilead, the son of Michael, the son of Jeshishai, the son of Jahdo, the son of Buz;
1 Chronicles 5.15: 15 Ahi the son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, chief of their fathers’ houses.
1 Chronicles 5.16: 16 They lived in Gilead in Bashan, and in its towns, and in all the pasture lands of Sharon, as far as their borders.
1 Chronicles 5.17: 17 All these were listed by genealogies in the days of Jotham king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel.
1 Chronicles 5.18: 18 The sons of Reuben, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, of valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword, and to shoot with bow, and skillful in war, were forty-four thousand seven hundred sixty, that were able to go out to war.
1 Chronicles 5.19: 19 They made war with the Hagrites, with Jetur, and Naphish, and Nodab.
1 Chronicles 5.20: 20 They were helped against them, and the Hagrites were delivered into their hand, and all who were with them; for they cried to God in the battle, and he answered them, because they put their trust in him.
1 Chronicles 5.21: 21 They took away their livestock; of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred fifty thousand, and of donkeys two thousand, and of men one hundred thousand.
1 Chronicles 5.22: 22 For many fell slain, because the war was of God. They lived in their place until the captivity.
1 Chronicles 5.23: 23 The children of the half-tribe of Manasseh lived in the land: they increased from Bashan to Baal Hermon, Senir, and Mount Hermon.
1 Chronicles 5.24: 24 These were the heads of their fathers’ houses: even Epher, Ishi, Eliel, Azriel, Jeremiah, Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty men of valor, famous men, heads of their fathers’ houses.
1 Chronicles 5.25: 25 They trespassed against the God of their fathers, and played the prostitute after the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God destroyed before them.
1 Chronicles 5.26: 26 So the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgath Pilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them away, even the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, and brought them to Halah, Habor, Hara, and to the river of Gozan, to this day.
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1 Chronicles 6.1: 1 The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
1 Chronicles 6.2: 2 The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel.
1 Chronicles 6.3: 3 The children of Amram: Aaron, Moses, and Miriam. The sons of Aaron: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
1 Chronicles 6.4: 4 Eleazar became the father of Phinehas, Phinehas became the father of Abishua,
1 Chronicles 6.5: 5 Abishua became the father of Bukki. Bukki became the father of Uzzi.
1 Chronicles 6.6: 6 Uzzi became the father of Zerahiah. Zerahiah became the father of Meraioth.
1 Chronicles 6.7: 7 Meraioth became the father of Amariah. Amariah became the father of Ahitub.
1 Chronicles 6.8: 8 Ahitub became the father of Zadok. Zadok became the father of Ahimaaz.
1 Chronicles 6.9: 9 Ahimaaz became the father of Azariah. Azariah became the father of Johanan.
1 Chronicles 6.10: 10 Johanan became the father of Azariah, who executed the priest’s office in the house that Solomon built in Jerusalem.
1 Chronicles 6.11: 11 Azariah became the father of Amariah. Amariah became the father of Ahitub.
1 Chronicles 6.12: 12 Ahitub became the father of Zadok. Zadok became the father of Shallum.
1 Chronicles 6.13: 13 Shallum became the father of Hilkiah. Hilkiah became the father of Azariah.
1 Chronicles 6.14: 14 Azariah became the father of Seraiah. Seraiah became the father of Jehozadak.
1 Chronicles 6.15: 15 Jehozadak went into captivity, when Yahweh carried Judah and Jerusalem away by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar.
1 Chronicles 6.16: 16 The sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.
1 Chronicles 6.17: 17 These are the names of the sons of Gershom: Libni and Shimei.
1 Chronicles 6.18: 18 The sons of Kohath were Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.
1 Chronicles 6.19: 19 The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers’ households.
1 Chronicles 6.20: 20 Of Gershom: Libni his son, Jahath his son, Zimmah his son,
1 Chronicles 6.21: 21 Joah his son, Iddo his son, Zerah his son, and Jeatherai his son.
1 Chronicles 6.22: 22 The sons of Kohath: Amminadab his son, Korah his son, Assir his son,
1 Chronicles 6.23: 23 Elkanah his son, and Ebiasaph his son, Assir his son,
1 Chronicles 6.24: 24 Tahath his son, Uriel his son, Uzziah his son, and Shaul his son.
1 Chronicles 6.25: 25 The sons of Elkanah: Amasai and Ahimoth.
1 Chronicles 6.26: 26 As for Elkanah, the sons of Elkanah: Zophai his son, Nahath his son,
1 Chronicles 6.27: 27 Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, and Elkanah his son.
1 Chronicles 6.28: 28 The sons of Samuel: the firstborn, Joel, and the second, Abijah.
1 Chronicles 6.29: 29 The sons of Merari: Mahli, Libni his son, Shimei his son, Uzzah his son,
1 Chronicles 6.30: 30 Shimea his son, Haggiah his son, Asaiah his son.
1 Chronicles 6.31: 31 These are they whom David set over the service of song in Yahweh’s house, after the ark came to rest there.
1 Chronicles 6.32: 32 They ministered with song before the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting, until Solomon had built Yahweh’s house in Jerusalem. They performed the duties of their office according to their order.
1 Chronicles 6.33: 33 These are those who served, and their sons. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman the singer, the son of Joel, the son of Samuel,
1 Chronicles 6.34: 34 the son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Toah,
1 Chronicles 6.35: 35 the son of Zuph, the son of Elkanah, the son of Mahath, the son of Amasai,
1 Chronicles 6.36: 36 the son of Elkanah, the son of Joel, the son of Azariah, the son of Zephaniah,
1 Chronicles 6.37: 37 the son of Tahath, the son of Assir, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah,
1 Chronicles 6.38: 38 the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, the son of Israel.
1 Chronicles 6.39: 39 His brother Asaph, who stood on his right hand, even Asaph the son of Berechiah, the son of Shimea,
1 Chronicles 6.40: 40 the son of Michael, the son of Baaseiah, the son of Malchijah,
1 Chronicles 6.41: 41 the son of Ethni, the son of Zerah, the son of Adaiah,
1 Chronicles 6.42: 42 the son of Ethan, the son of Zimmah, the son of Shimei,
1 Chronicles 6.43: 43 the son of Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi.
1 Chronicles 6.44: 44 On the left hand their brothers the sons of Merari: Ethan the son of Kishi, the son of Abdi, the son of Malluch,
1 Chronicles 6.45: 45 the son of Hashabiah, the son of Amaziah, the son of Hilkiah,
1 Chronicles 6.46: 46 the son of Amzi, the son of Bani, the son of Shemer,
1 Chronicles 6.47: 47 the son of Mahli, the son of Mushi, the son of Merari, the son of Levi.
1 Chronicles 6.48: 48 Their brothers the Levites were appointed for all the service of the tabernacle of God’s house.
1 Chronicles 6.49: 49 But Aaron and his sons offered on the altar of burnt offering, and on the altar of incense, for all the work of the most holy place, and to make atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded.
1 Chronicles 6.50: 50 These are the sons of Aaron: Eleazar his son, Phinehas his son, Abishua his son,
1 Chronicles 6.51: 51 Bukki his son, Uzzi his son, Zerahiah his son,
1 Chronicles 6.52: 52 Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son,
1 Chronicles 6.53: 53 Zadok his son, and Ahimaaz his son.
1 Chronicles 6.54: 54 Now these are their dwelling places according to their encampments in their borders: to the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites (for theirs was the first lot),
1 Chronicles 6.55: 55 to them they gave Hebron in the land of Judah, and its pasture lands around it;
1 Chronicles 6.56: 56 but the fields of the city, and its villages, they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
1 Chronicles 6.57: 57 To the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of refuge, Hebron; Libnah also with its pasture lands, Jattir, Eshtemoa with its pasture lands,
1 Chronicles 6.58: 58 Hilen with its pasture lands, Debir with its pasture lands,
1 Chronicles 6.59: 59 Ashan with its pasture lands, and Beth Shemesh with its pasture lands;
1 Chronicles 6.60: 60 and out of the tribe of Benjamin, Geba with its pasture lands, Allemeth with its pasture lands, and Anathoth with its pasture lands. All their cities throughout their families were thirteen cities.
1 Chronicles 6.61: 61 To the rest of the sons of Kohath were given by lot, out of the family of the tribe, out of the half-tribe, the half of Manasseh, ten cities.
1 Chronicles 6.62: 62 To the sons of Gershom, according to their families, out of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.
1 Chronicles 6.63: 63 To the sons of Merari were given by lot, according to their families, out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities.
1 Chronicles 6.64: 64 The children of Israel gave to the Levites the cities with their pasture lands.
1 Chronicles 6.65: 65 They gave by lot out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, and out of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, these cities which are mentioned by name.
1 Chronicles 6.66: 66 Some of the families of the sons of Kohath had cities of their borders out of the tribe of Ephraim.
1 Chronicles 6.67: 67 They gave to them the cities of refuge, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim with its pasture lands, and Gezer with its pasture lands,
1 Chronicles 6.68: 68 Jokmeam with its pasture lands, Beth Horon with its pasture lands,
1 Chronicles 6.69: 69 Aijalon with its pasture lands, Gath Rimmon with its pasture lands;
1 Chronicles 6.70: 70 and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Aner with its pasture lands, and Bileam with its pasture lands, for the rest of the family of the sons of Kohath.
1 Chronicles 6.71: 71 To the sons of Gershom were given, out of the family of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with its pasture lands, and Ashtaroth with its pasture lands;
1 Chronicles 6.72: 72 and out of the tribe of Issachar, Kedesh with its pasture lands, Daberath with its pasture lands,
1 Chronicles 6.73: 73 Ramoth with its pasture lands, and Anem with its pasture lands;
1 Chronicles 6.74: 74 and out of the tribe of Asher, Mashal with its pasture lands, Abdon with its pasture lands,
1 Chronicles 6.75: 75 Hukok with its pasture lands, and Rehob with its pasture lands;
1 Chronicles 6.76: 76 and out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its pasture lands, Hammon with its pasture lands, and Kiriathaim with its pasture lands.
1 Chronicles 6.77: 77 To the rest of the Levites, the sons of Merari, were given, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Rimmono with its pasture lands, Tabor with its pasture lands;
1 Chronicles 6.78: 78 and beyond the Jordan at Jericho, on the east side of the Jordan, were given them, out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the wilderness with its pasture lands, and Jahzah with its pasture lands,
1 Chronicles 6.79: 79 Kedemoth with its pasture lands, and Mephaath with its pasture lands;
1 Chronicles 6.80: 80 and out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with its pasture lands, Mahanaim with its pasture lands,
1 Chronicles 6.81: 81 Heshbon with its pasture lands, and Jazer with its pasture lands.
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1 Chronicles 7.1: 1 Of the sons of Issachar: Tola, and Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four.
1 Chronicles 7.2: 2 The sons of Tola: Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their fathers’ houses, of Tola; mighty men of valor in their generations. Their number in the days of David was twenty-two thousand six hundred.
1 Chronicles 7.3: 3 The son of Uzzi: Izrahiah. The sons of Izrahiah: Michael, Obadiah, Joel, and Isshiah, five; all of them chief men.
1 Chronicles 7.4: 4 With them, by their generations, after their fathers’ houses, were bands of the army for war, thirty-six thousand; for they had many wives and sons.
1 Chronicles 7.5: 5 Their brothers among all the families of Issachar, mighty men of valor, listed in all by genealogy, were eighty-seven thousand.
1 Chronicles 7.6: 6 The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, and Jediael, three.
1 Chronicles 7.7: 7 The sons of Bela: Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth, and Iri, five; heads of fathers’ houses, mighty men of valor; and they were listed by genealogy twenty-two thousand thirty-four.
1 Chronicles 7.8: 8 The sons of Becher: Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth, and Alemeth. All these were the sons of Becher.
1 Chronicles 7.9: 9 They were listed by genealogy, after their generations, heads of their fathers’ houses, mighty men of valor, twenty thousand two hundred.
1 Chronicles 7.10: 10 The son of Jediael: Bilhan. The sons of Bilhan: Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Chenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish, and Ahishahar.
1 Chronicles 7.11: 11 All these were sons of Jediael, according to the heads of their fathers’ households, mighty men of valor, seventeen thousand two hundred, who were able to go out in the army for war.
1 Chronicles 7.12: 12 So were Shuppim, Huppim, the sons of Ir, Hushim, and the sons of Aher.
1 Chronicles 7.13: 13 The sons of Naphtali: Jahziel, Guni, Jezer, Shallum, and the sons of Bilhah.
1 Chronicles 7.14: 14 The sons of Manasseh: Asriel, whom his concubine the Aramitess bore. She bore Machir the father of Gilead.
1 Chronicles 7.15: 15 Machir took a wife of Huppim and Shuppim, whose sister’s name was Maacah. The name of the second was Zelophehad; and Zelophehad had daughters.
1 Chronicles 7.16: 16 Maacah the wife of Machir bore a son, and she named him Peresh. The name of his brother was Sheresh; and his sons were Ulam and Rakem.
1 Chronicles 7.17: 17 The sons of Ulam: Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh.
1 Chronicles 7.18: 18 His sister Hammolecheth bore Ishhod, Abiezer, and Mahlah.
1 Chronicles 7.19: 19 The sons of Shemida were Ahian, Shechem, Likhi, and Aniam.
1 Chronicles 7.20: 20 The sons of Ephraim: Shuthelah, Bered his son, Tahath his son, Eleadah his son, Tahath his son,
1 Chronicles 7.21: 21 Zabad his son, Shuthelah his son, Ezer, and Elead, whom the men of Gath who were born in the land killed, because they came down to take away their livestock.
1 Chronicles 7.22: 22 Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brothers came to comfort him.
1 Chronicles 7.23: 23 He went in to his wife, and she conceived, and bore a son, and he named him Beriah, because there was trouble with his house.
1 Chronicles 7.24: 24 His daughter was Sheerah, who built Beth Horon the lower and the upper, and Uzzen Sheerah.
1 Chronicles 7.25: 25 Rephah was his son, and Resheph, and Telah his son, Tahan his son,
1 Chronicles 7.26: 26 Ladan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son,
1 Chronicles 7.27: 27 Nun his son, and Joshua his son.
1 Chronicles 7.28: 28 Their possessions and settlements were Bethel and its towns, and eastward Naaran, and westward Gezer, with its towns; Shechem also and its towns, to Azzah and its towns;
1 Chronicles 7.29: 29 and by the borders of the children of Manasseh, Beth Shean and its towns, Taanach and its towns, Megiddo and its towns, and Dor and its towns. The children of Joseph the son of Israel lived in these.
1 Chronicles 7.30: 30 The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, and Beriah. Serah was their sister.
1 Chronicles 7.31: 31 The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel, who was the father of Birzaith.
1 Chronicles 7.32: 32 Heber became the father of Japhlet, Shomer, Hotham, and Shua their sister.
1 Chronicles 7.33: 33 The sons of Japhlet: Pasach, Bimhal, and Ashvath. These are the children of Japhlet.
1 Chronicles 7.34: 34 The sons of Shemer: Ahi, Rohgah, Jehubbah, and Aram.
1 Chronicles 7.35: 35 The sons of Helem his brother: Zophah, Imna, Shelesh, and Amal.
1 Chronicles 7.36: 36 The sons of Zophah: Suah, Harnepher, Shual, Beri, Imrah,
1 Chronicles 7.37: 37 Bezer, Hod, Shamma, Shilshah, Ithran, and Beera.
1 Chronicles 7.38: 38 The sons of Jether: Jephunneh, Pispa, and Ara.
1 Chronicles 7.39: 39 The sons of Ulla: Arah, Hanniel, and Rizia.
1 Chronicles 7.40: 40 All these were the children of Asher, heads of the fathers’ houses, choice and mighty men of valor, chief of the princes. The number of them listed by genealogy for service in war was twenty-six thousand men.
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1 Chronicles 8.1: 1 Benjamin became the father of Bela his firstborn, Ashbel the second, Aharah the third,
1 Chronicles 8.2: 2 Nohah the fourth, and Rapha the fifth.
1 Chronicles 8.3: 3 Bela had sons: Addar, Gera, Abihud,
1 Chronicles 8.4: 4 Abishua, Naaman, Ahoah,
1 Chronicles 8.5: 5 Gera, Shephuphan, and Huram.
1 Chronicles 8.6: 6 These are the sons of Ehud. These are the heads of fathers’ households of the inhabitants of Geba, who were carried captive to Manahath:
1 Chronicles 8.7: 7 Naaman, Ahijah, and Gera, who carried them captive; and he became the father of Uzza and Ahihud.
1 Chronicles 8.8: 8 Shaharaim became the father of children in the field of Moab, after he had sent them away. Hushim and Baara were his wives.
1 Chronicles 8.9: 9 By Hodesh his wife, he became the father of Jobab, Zibia, Mesha, Malcam,
1 Chronicles 8.10: 10 Jeuz, Shachia, and Mirmah. These were his sons, heads of fathers’ households.
1 Chronicles 8.11: 11 By Hushim, he became the father of Abitub and Elpaal.
1 Chronicles 8.12: 12 The sons of Elpaal: Eber, Misham, and Shemed, who built Ono and Lod, with its towns;
1 Chronicles 8.13: 13 and Beriah, and Shema, who were heads of fathers’ households of the inhabitants of Aijalon, who put to flight the inhabitants of Gath;
1 Chronicles 8.14: 14 and Ahio, Shashak, Jeremoth,
1 Chronicles 8.15: 15 Zebadiah, Arad, Eder,
1 Chronicles 8.16: 16 Michael, Ishpah, Joha, the sons of Beriah,
1 Chronicles 8.17: 17 Zebadiah, Meshullam, Hizki, Heber,
1 Chronicles 8.18: 18 Ishmerai, Izliah, Jobab, the sons of Elpaal,
1 Chronicles 8.19: 19 Jakim, Zichri, Zabdi,
1 Chronicles 8.20: 20 Elienai, Zillethai, Eliel,
1 Chronicles 8.21: 21 Adaiah, Beraiah, Shimrath, the sons of Shimei,
1 Chronicles 8.22: 22 Ishpan, Eber, Eliel,
1 Chronicles 8.23: 23 Abdon, Zichri, Hanan,
1 Chronicles 8.24: 24 Hananiah, Elam, Anthothijah,
1 Chronicles 8.25: 25 Iphdeiah, Penuel, the sons of Shashak,
1 Chronicles 8.26: 26 Shamsherai, Shehariah, Athaliah,
1 Chronicles 8.27: 27 Jaareshiah, Elijah, Zichri, and the sons of Jeroham.
1 Chronicles 8.28: 28 These were heads of fathers’ households throughout their generations, chief men. These lived in Jerusalem.
1 Chronicles 8.29: 29 The father of Gibeon, whose wife’s name was Maacah, lived in Gibeon,
1 Chronicles 8.30: 30 with his firstborn son Abdon, Zur, Kish, Baal, Nadab,
1 Chronicles 8.31: 31 Gedor, Ahio, and Zecher.
1 Chronicles 8.32: 32 Mikloth became the father of Shimeah. They also lived with their brothers in Jerusalem, near their brothers.
1 Chronicles 8.33: 33 Ner became the father of Kish. Kish became the father of Saul. Saul became the father of Jonathan, Malchishua, Abinadab, and Eshbaal.
1 Chronicles 8.34: 34 The son of Jonathan was Merib Baal. Merib Baal became the father of Micah.
1 Chronicles 8.35: 35 The sons of Micah: Pithon, Melech, Tarea, and Ahaz.
1 Chronicles 8.36: 36 Ahaz became the father of Jehoaddah. Jehoaddah became the father of Alemeth, Azmaveth, and Zimri. Zimri became the father of Moza.
1 Chronicles 8.37: 37 Moza became the father of Binea. Raphah was his son, Eleasah his son, and Azel his son.
1 Chronicles 8.38: 38 Azel had six sons, whose names are these: Azrikam, Bocheru, Ishmael, Sheariah, Obadiah, and Hanan. All these were the sons of Azel.
1 Chronicles 8.39: 39 The sons of Eshek his brother: Ulam his firstborn, Jeush the second, and Eliphelet the third.
1 Chronicles 8.40: 40 The sons of Ulam were mighty men of valor, archers, and had many sons, and sons’ sons, one hundred fifty. All these were of the sons of Benjamin.
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1 Chronicles 9.1: 1 So all Israel were listed by genealogies; and behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel. Judah was carried away captive to Babylon for their disobedience.
1 Chronicles 9.2: 2 Now the first inhabitants who lived in their possessions in their cities were Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the temple servants.
1 Chronicles 9.3: 3 In Jerusalem lived of the children of Judah, of the children of Benjamin, and of the children of Ephraim and Manasseh:
1 Chronicles 9.4: 4 Uthai the son of Ammihud, the son of Omri, the son of Imri, the son of Bani, of the children of Perez the son of Judah.
1 Chronicles 9.5: 5 Of the Shilonites: Asaiah the firstborn, and his sons.
1 Chronicles 9.6: 6 Of the sons of Zerah: Jeuel and their brothers, six hundred ninety.
1 Chronicles 9.7: 7 Of the sons of Benjamin: Sallu the son of Meshullam, the son of Hodaviah, the son of Hassenuah,
1 Chronicles 9.8: 8 and Ibneiah the son of Jeroham, and Elah the son of Uzzi, the son of Michri, and Meshullam the son of Shephatiah, the son of Reuel, the son of Ibnijah;
1 Chronicles 9.9: 9 and their brothers, according to their generations, nine hundred fifty-six. All these men were heads of fathers’ households by their fathers’ houses.
1 Chronicles 9.10: 10 Of the priests: Jedaiah, Jehoiarib, Jachin,
1 Chronicles 9.11: 11 and Azariah the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the ruler of God’s house;
1 Chronicles 9.12: 12 and Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son of Pashhur, the son of Malchijah, and Maasai the son of Adiel, the son of Jahzerah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Meshillemith, the son of Immer;
1 Chronicles 9.13: 13 and their brothers, heads of their fathers’ houses, one thousand seven hundred sixty; very able men for the work of the service of God’s house.
1 Chronicles 9.14: 14 Of the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, of the sons of Merari;
1 Chronicles 9.15: 15 and Bakbakkar, Heresh, Galal, and Mattaniah the son of Mica, the son of Zichri, the son of Asaph,
1 Chronicles 9.16: 16 and Obadiah the son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, who lived in the villages of the Netophathites.
1 Chronicles 9.17: 17 The gatekeepers: Shallum, Akkub, Talmon, Ahiman, and their brothers (Shallum was the chief),
1 Chronicles 9.18: 18 who previously served in the king’s gate eastward. They were the gatekeepers for the camp of the children of Levi.
1 Chronicles 9.19: 19 Shallum the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his brothers, of his father’s house, the Korahites, were over the work of the service, keepers of the thresholds of the tent. Their fathers had been over Yahweh’s camp, keepers of the entry.
1 Chronicles 9.20: 20 Phinehas the son of Eleazar was ruler over them in time past, and Yahweh was with him.
1 Chronicles 9.21: 21 Zechariah the son of Meshelemiah was gatekeeper of the door of the Tent of Meeting.
1 Chronicles 9.22: 22 All these who were chosen to be gatekeepers in the thresholds were two hundred twelve. These were listed by genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer ordained in their office of trust.
1 Chronicles 9.23: 23 So they and their children had the oversight of the gates of Yahweh’s house, even the house of the tent, as guards.
1 Chronicles 9.24: 24 On the four sides were the gatekeepers, toward the east, west, north, and south.
1 Chronicles 9.25: 25 Their brothers, in their villages, were to come in every seven days from time to time to be with them:
1 Chronicles 9.26: 26 for the four chief gatekeepers, who were Levites, were in an office of trust, and were over the rooms and over the treasuries in God’s house.
1 Chronicles 9.27: 27 They stayed around God’s house, because that duty was on them; and to their duty was its opening morning by morning.
1 Chronicles 9.28: 28 Certain of them were in charge of the vessels of service; for these were brought in by count, and these were taken out by count.
1 Chronicles 9.29: 29 Some of them also were appointed over the furniture, and over all the vessels of the sanctuary, over the fine flour, the wine, the oil, the frankincense, and the spices.
1 Chronicles 9.30: 30 Some of the sons of the priests prepared the mixing of the spices.
1 Chronicles 9.31: 31 Mattithiah, one of the Levites, who was the firstborn of Shallum the Korahite, had the office of trust over the things that were baked in pans.
1 Chronicles 9.32: 32 Some of their brothers, of the sons of the Kohathites, were over the show bread, to prepare it every Sabbath.
1 Chronicles 9.33: 33 These are the singers, heads of fathers’ households of the Levites, who lived in the rooms and were free from other service; for they were employed in their work day and night.
1 Chronicles 9.34: 34 These were heads of fathers’ households of the Levites, throughout their generations, chief men. These lived at Jerusalem.
1 Chronicles 9.35: 35 Jeiel the father of Gibeon, whose wife’s name was Maacah, lived in Gibeon with
1 Chronicles 9.36: 36 his firstborn son Abdon, Zur, Kish, Baal, Ner, Nadab,
1 Chronicles 9.37: 37 Gedor, Ahio, Zechariah, and Mikloth.
1 Chronicles 9.38: 38 Mikloth became the father of Shimeam. They also lived with their brothers in Jerusalem, near their brothers.
1 Chronicles 9.39: 39 Ner became the father of Kish. Kish became the father of Saul. Saul became the father of Jonathan, Malchishua, Abinadab, and Eshbaal.
1 Chronicles 9.40: 40 The son of Jonathan was Merib Baal. Merib Baal became the father of Micah.
1 Chronicles 9.41: 41 The sons of Micah: Pithon, Melech, Tahrea, and Ahaz.
1 Chronicles 9.42: 42 Ahaz became the father of Jarah. Jarah became the father of Alemeth, Azmaveth, and Zimri. Zimri became the father of Moza.
1 Chronicles 9.43: 43 Moza became the father of Binea; and Rephaiah his son, Eleasah his son, and Azel his son.
1 Chronicles 9.44: 44 Azel had six sons, whose names are these: Azrikam, Bocheru, Ishmael, Sheariah, Obadiah, and Hanan. These were the sons of Azel.
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1 Chronicles 10.1: 1 Now the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain on Mount Gilboa.
1 Chronicles 10.2: 2 The Philistines followed hard after Saul and after his sons; and the Philistines killed Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua, the sons of Saul.
1 Chronicles 10.3: 3 The battle went hard against Saul, and the archers overtook him; and he was distressed by reason of the archers.
1 Chronicles 10.4: 4 Then Saul said to his armor bearer, “Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and abuse me.”
But his armor bearer would not; for he was terrified. Therefore Saul took his sword, and fell on it.
1 Chronicles 10.5: 5 When his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he likewise fell on his sword, and died.
1 Chronicles 10.6: 6 So Saul died with his three sons; and all his house died together.
1 Chronicles 10.7: 7 When all the men of Israel who were in the valley saw that they fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned their cities, and fled; and the Philistines came and lived in them.
1 Chronicles 10.8: 8 On the next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, they found Saul and his sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.
1 Chronicles 10.9: 9 They stripped him, and took his head and his armor, and sent into the land of the Philistines all around, to carry the news to their idols, and to the people.
1 Chronicles 10.10: 10 They put his armor in the house of their gods, and fastened his head in the house of Dagon.
1 Chronicles 10.11: 11 When all Jabesh Gilead heard all that the Philistines had done to Saul,
1 Chronicles 10.12: 12 all the valiant men arose, and took away the body of Saul, and the bodies of his sons, and brought them to Jabesh, and buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
1 Chronicles 10.13: 13 So Saul died for his trespass which he committed against Yahweh, because of Yahweh’s word, which he didn’t keep; and also because he asked counsel of one who had a familiar spirit, to inquire,
1 Chronicles 10.14: 14 and didn’t inquire of Yahweh. Therefore he killed him, and turned the kingdom over to David the son of Jesse.
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1 Chronicles 11.1: 1 Then all Israel gathered themselves to David to Hebron, saying, “Behold, we are your bone and your flesh.
1 Chronicles 11.2: 2 In times past, even when Saul was king, it was you who led out and brought in Israel. Yahweh your God said to you, ‘You shall be shepherd of my people Israel, and you shall be prince over my people Israel.’”
1 Chronicles 11.3: 3 So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and David made a covenant with them in Hebron before Yahweh; and they anointed David king over Israel, according to Yahweh’s word by Samuel.
1 Chronicles 11.4: 4 David and all Israel went to Jerusalem (also called Jebus); and the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, were there.
1 Chronicles 11.5: 5 The inhabitants of Jebus said to David, “You will not come in here.” Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion. The same is David’s city.
1 Chronicles 11.6: 6 David said, “Whoever strikes the Jebusites first shall be chief and captain.” Joab the son of Zeruiah went up first, and was made chief.
1 Chronicles 11.7: 7 David lived in the stronghold; therefore they called it David’s city.
1 Chronicles 11.8: 8 He built the city all around, from Millo even around; and Joab repaired the rest of the city.
1 Chronicles 11.9: 9 David grew greater and greater; for Yahweh of Armies was with him.
1 Chronicles 11.10: 10 Now these are the chief of the mighty men whom David had, who showed themselves strong with him in his kingdom, together with all Israel, to make him king, according to Yahweh’s word concerning Israel.
1 Chronicles 11.11: 11 This is the number of the mighty men whom David had: Jashobeam, the son of a Hachmonite, the chief of the thirty; he lifted up his spear against three hundred and killed them at one time.
1 Chronicles 11.12: 12 After him was Eleazar the son of Dodo, the Ahohite, who was one of the three mighty men.
1 Chronicles 11.13: 13 He was with David at Pasdammim, and there the Philistines were gathered together to battle, where there was a plot of ground full of barley; and the people fled from before the Philistines.
1 Chronicles 11.14: 14 They stood in the middle of the plot, defended it, and killed the Philistines; and Yahweh saved them by a great victory.
1 Chronicles 11.15: 15 Three of the thirty chief men went down to the rock to David, into the cave of Adullam; and the army of the Philistines were encamped in the valley of Rephaim.
1 Chronicles 11.16: 16 David was then in the stronghold, and the garrison of the Philistines was in Bethlehem at that time.
1 Chronicles 11.17: 17 David longed, and said, “Oh that one would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!”
1 Chronicles 11.18: 18 The three broke through the army of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David; but David would not drink any of it, but poured it out to Yahweh,
1 Chronicles 11.19: 19 and said, “My God forbid me, that I should do this! Shall I drink the blood of these men who have put their lives in jeopardy?” For they risked their lives to bring it. Therefore he would not drink it. The three mighty men did these things.
1 Chronicles 11.20: 20 Abishai, the brother of Joab, he was chief of the three; for he lifted up his spear against three hundred and killed them, and had a name among the three.
1 Chronicles 11.21: 21 Of the three, he was more honorable than the two, and was made their captain; however he wasn’t included in the three.
1 Chronicles 11.22: 22 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds, killed the two sons of Ariel of Moab. He also went down and killed a lion in the middle of a pit on a snowy day.
1 Chronicles 11.23: 23 He killed an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits high. In the Egyptian’s hand was a spear like a weaver’s beam; and he went down to him with a staff, plucked the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand, and killed him with his own spear.
1 Chronicles 11.24: 24 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada did these things, and had a name among the three mighty men.
1 Chronicles 11.25: 25 Behold, he was more honorable than the thirty, but he didn’t attain to the three; and David set him over his guard.
1 Chronicles 11.26: 26 The mighty men of the armies also include Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,
1 Chronicles 11.27: 27 Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the Pelonite,
1 Chronicles 11.28: 28 Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abiezer the Anathothite,
1 Chronicles 11.29: 29 Sibbecai the Hushathite, Ilai the Ahohite,
1 Chronicles 11.30: 30 Maharai the Netophathite, Heled the son of Baanah the Netophathite,
1 Chronicles 11.31: 31 Ithai the son of Ribai of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite,
1 Chronicles 11.32: 32 Hurai of the brooks of Gaash, Abiel the Arbathite,
1 Chronicles 11.33: 33 Azmaveth the Baharumite, Eliahba the Shaalbonite,
1 Chronicles 11.34: 34 the sons of Hashem the Gizonite, Jonathan the son of Shagee the Hararite,
1 Chronicles 11.35: 35 Ahiam the son of Sacar the Hararite, Eliphal the son of Ur,
1 Chronicles 11.36: 36 Hepher the Mecherathite, Ahijah the Pelonite,
1 Chronicles 11.37: 37 Hezro the Carmelite, Naarai the son of Ezbai,
1 Chronicles 11.38: 38 Joel the brother of Nathan, Mibhar the son of Hagri,
1 Chronicles 11.39: 39 Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Berothite, the armor bearer of Joab the son of Zeruiah,
1 Chronicles 11.40: 40 Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,
1 Chronicles 11.41: 41 Uriah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai,
1 Chronicles 11.42: 42 Adina the son of Shiza the Reubenite, a chief of the Reubenites, and thirty with him,
1 Chronicles 11.43: 43 Hanan the son of Maacah, and Joshaphat the Mithnite,
1 Chronicles 11.44: 44 Uzzia the Ashterathite, Shama and Jeiel the sons of Hotham the Aroerite,
1 Chronicles 11.45: 45 Jediael the son of Shimri, and Joha his brother, the Tizite,
1 Chronicles 11.46: 46 Eliel the Mahavite, and Jeribai, and Joshaviah, the sons of Elnaam, and Ithmah the Moabite,
1 Chronicles 11.47: 47 Eliel, and Obed, and Jaasiel the Mezobaite.
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1 Chronicles 12.1: 1 Now these are those who came to David to Ziklag, while he was a fugitive from Saul the son of Kish. They were among the mighty men, his helpers in war.
1 Chronicles 12.2: 2 They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in slinging stones and in shooting arrows from the bow. They were of Saul’s relatives of the tribe of Benjamin.
1 Chronicles 12.3: 3 The chief was Ahiezer, then Joash, the sons of Shemaah the Gibeathite; Jeziel and Pelet, the sons of Azmaveth; Beracah; Jehu the Anathothite;
1 Chronicles 12.4: 4 Ishmaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty man among the thirty and a leader of the thirty; Jeremiah; Jahaziel; Johanan; Jozabad the Gederathite;
1 Chronicles 12.5: 5 Eluzai; Jerimoth; Bealiah; Shemariah; Shephatiah the Haruphite;
1 Chronicles 12.6: 6 Elkanah, Isshiah Azarel, Joezer, and Jashobeam, the Korahites;
1 Chronicles 12.7: 7 and Joelah and Zebadiah, the sons of Jeroham of Gedor.
1 Chronicles 12.8: 8 Some Gadites joined David in the stronghold in the wilderness, mighty men of valor, men trained for war, who could handle shield and spear; whose faces were like the faces of lions, and they were as swift as the gazelles on the mountains:
1 Chronicles 12.9: 9 Ezer the chief, Obadiah the second, Eliab the third,
1 Chronicles 12.10: 10 Mishmannah the fourth, Jeremiah the fifth,
1 Chronicles 12.11: 11 Attai the sixth, Eliel the seventh,
1 Chronicles 12.12: 12 Johanan the eighth, Elzabad the ninth,
1 Chronicles 12.13: 13 Jeremiah the tenth, and Machbannai the eleventh.
1 Chronicles 12.14: 14 These of the sons of Gad were captains of the army: he who was least was equal to one hundred, and the greatest to one thousand.
1 Chronicles 12.15: 15 These are those who went over the Jordan in the first month, when it had overflowed all its banks; and they put to flight all who lived in the valleys, both toward the east and toward the west.
1 Chronicles 12.16: 16 Some of the children of Benjamin and Judah came to the stronghold to David.
1 Chronicles 12.17: 17 David went out to meet them, and answered them, “If you have come peaceably to me to help me, my heart will be united with you; but if you have come to betray me to my adversaries, since there is no wrong in my hands, may the God of our fathers see this and rebuke it.”
1 Chronicles 12.18: 18 Then the Spirit came on Amasai, who was chief of the thirty, and he said, “We are yours, David, and on your side, you son of Jesse. Peace, peace be to you, and peace be to your helpers; for your God helps you.” Then David received them, and made them captains of the band.
1 Chronicles 12.19: 19 Some of Manasseh also joined David, when he came with the Philistines against Saul to battle; but they didn’t help them; for the lords of the Philistines sent him away after consultation, saying, “He will desert to his master Saul to the jeopardy of our heads.”
1 Chronicles 12.20: 20 As he went to Ziklag, some from Manasseh joined him: Adnah, Jozabad, Jediael, Michael, Jozabad, Elihu, and Zillethai, captains of thousands who were of Manasseh.
1 Chronicles 12.21: 21 They helped David against the band of rovers; for they were all mighty men of valor, and were captains in the army.
1 Chronicles 12.22: 22 For from day to day men came to David to help him, until there was a great army, like God’s army.
1 Chronicles 12.23: 23 These are the numbers of the heads of those who were armed for war, who came to David to Hebron, to turn the kingdom of Saul to him, according to Yahweh’s word.
1 Chronicles 12.24: 24 The children of Judah who bore shield and spear were six thousand eight hundred, armed for war.
1 Chronicles 12.25: 25 Of the children of Simeon, mighty men of valor for the war: seven thousand one hundred.
1 Chronicles 12.26: 26 Of the children of Levi: four thousand six hundred.
1 Chronicles 12.27: 27 Jehoiada was the leader of the household of Aaron; and with him were three thousand seven hundred,
1 Chronicles 12.28: 28 and Zadok, a young man mighty of valor, and of his father’s house twenty-two captains.
1 Chronicles 12.29: 29 Of the children of Benjamin, Saul’s relatives: three thousand, for until then, the greatest part of them had kept their allegiance to Saul’s house.
1 Chronicles 12.30: 30 Of the children of Ephraim: twenty thousand eight hundred, mighty men of valor, famous men in their fathers’ houses.
1 Chronicles 12.31: 31 Of the half-tribe of Manasseh: eighteen thousand, who were mentioned by name, to come and make David king.
1 Chronicles 12.32: 32 Of the children of Issachar, men who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do, their heads were two hundred; and all their brothers were at their command.
1 Chronicles 12.33: 33 Of Zebulun, such as were able to go out in the army, who could set the battle in array, with all kinds of instruments of war: fifty thousand who could command and were not of double heart.
1 Chronicles 12.34: 34 Of Naphtali: one thousand captains, and with them with shield and spear thirty-seven thousand.
1 Chronicles 12.35: 35 Of the Danites who could set the battle in array: twenty-eight thousand six hundred.
1 Chronicles 12.36: 36 Of Asher, such as were able to go out in the army, who could set the battle in array: forty thousand.
1 Chronicles 12.37: 37 On the other side of the Jordan, of the Reubenites, the Gadites, and of the half-tribe of Manasseh, with all kinds of instruments of war for the battle: one hundred twenty thousand.
1 Chronicles 12.38: 38 All these were men of war, who could order the battle array, and came with a perfect heart to Hebron, to make David king over all Israel; and all the rest also of Israel were of one heart to make David king.
1 Chronicles 12.39: 39 They were there with David three days, eating and drinking; for their brothers had supplied provisions for them.
1 Chronicles 12.40: 40 Moreover those who were near to them, as far as Issachar, Zebulun, and Naphtali, brought bread on donkeys, on camels, on mules, and on oxen: supplies of flour, cakes of figs, clusters of raisins, wine, oil, cattle, and sheep in abundance; for there was joy in Israel.
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1 Chronicles 13.1: 1 David consulted with the captains of thousands and of hundreds, even with every leader.
1 Chronicles 13.2: 2 David said to all the assembly of Israel, “If it seems good to you, and if it is of Yahweh our God, let’s send word everywhere to our brothers who are left in all the land of Israel, with whom the priests and Levites are in their cities that have pasture lands, that they may gather themselves to us.
1 Chronicles 13.3: 3 Also, let’s bring the ark of our God back to us again; for we didn’t seek it in the days of Saul.”
1 Chronicles 13.4: 4 All the assembly said that they would do so; for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people.
1 Chronicles 13.5: 5 So David assembled all Israel together, from the Shihor the brook of Egypt even to the entrance of Hamath, to bring God’s ark from Kiriath Jearim.
1 Chronicles 13.6: 6 David went up with all Israel to Baalah, that is, to Kiriath Jearim, which belonged to Judah, to bring up from there God Yahweh’s ark that sits above the cherubim, that is called by the Name.
1 Chronicles 13.7: 7 They carried God’s ark on a new cart, and brought it out of Abinadab’s house; and Uzza and Ahio drove the cart.
1 Chronicles 13.8: 8 David and all Israel played before God with all their might, even with songs, with harps, with stringed instruments, with tambourines, with cymbals, and with trumpets.
1 Chronicles 13.9: 9 When they came to Chidon’s threshing floor, Uzza put out his hand to hold the ark; for the oxen stumbled.
1 Chronicles 13.10: 10 Yahweh’s anger burned against Uzza, and he struck him, because he put his hand on the ark; and he died there before God.
1 Chronicles 13.11: 11 David was displeased, because Yahweh had broken out against Uzza. He called that place Perez Uzza, to this day.
1 Chronicles 13.12: 12 David was afraid of God that day, saying, “How can I bring God’s ark home to me?”
1 Chronicles 13.13: 13 So David didn’t move the ark with him into David’s city, but carried it aside into Obed-Edom the Gittite’s house.
1 Chronicles 13.14: 14 God’s ark remained with the family of Obed-Edom in his house three months; and Yahweh blessed Obed-Edom’s house and all that he had.
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1 Chronicles 14.1: 1 Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David with cedar trees, masons, and carpenters, to build him a house.
1 Chronicles 14.2: 2 David perceived that Yahweh had established him king over Israel; for his kingdom was exalted on high, for his people Israel’s sake.
1 Chronicles 14.3: 3 David took more wives at Jerusalem, and David became the father of more sons and daughters.
1 Chronicles 14.4: 4 These are the names of the children whom he had in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon,
1 Chronicles 14.5: 5 Ibhar, Elishua, Elpelet,
1 Chronicles 14.6: 6 Nogah, Nepheg, Japhia,
1 Chronicles 14.7: 7 Elishama, Beeliada, and Eliphelet.
1 Chronicles 14.8: 8 When the Philistines heard that David was anointed king over all Israel, all the Philistines went up to seek David; and David heard of it, and went out against them.
1 Chronicles 14.9: 9 Now the Philistines had come and made a raid in the valley of Rephaim.
1 Chronicles 14.10: 10 David inquired of God, saying, “Shall I go up against the Philistines? Will you deliver them into my hand?”
Yahweh said to him, “Go up; for I will deliver them into your hand.”
1 Chronicles 14.11: 11 So they came up to Baal Perazim, and David defeated them there. David said, God has broken my enemies by my hand, like waters breaking out. Therefore they called the name of that place Baal Perazim.
1 Chronicles 14.12: 12 They left their gods there; and David gave a command, and they were burned with fire.
1 Chronicles 14.13: 13 The Philistines made a another raid in the valley.
1 Chronicles 14.14: 14 David inquired again of God; and God said to him, “You shall not go up after them. Turn away from them, and come on them opposite the mulberry trees.
1 Chronicles 14.15: 15 When you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the mulberry trees, then go out to battle; for God has gone out before you to strike the army of the Philistines.”
1 Chronicles 14.16: 16 David did as God commanded him; and they attacked the army of the Philistines from Gibeon even to Gezer.
1 Chronicles 14.17: 17 The fame of David went out into all lands; and Yahweh brought the fear of him on all nations.
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1 Chronicles 15.1: 1 David made himself houses in David’s city; and he prepared a place for God’s ark, and pitched a tent for it.
1 Chronicles 15.2: 2 Then David said, “No one ought to carry God’s ark but the Levites. For Yahweh has chosen them to carry God’s ark, and to minister to him forever.”
1 Chronicles 15.3: 3 David assembled all Israel at Jerusalem, to bring up Yahweh’s ark to its place, which he had prepared for it.
1 Chronicles 15.4: 4 David gathered together the sons of Aaron and the Levites:
1 Chronicles 15.5: 5 of the sons of Kohath, Uriel the chief, and his brothers one hundred twenty;
1 Chronicles 15.6: 6 of the sons of Merari, Asaiah the chief, and his brothers two hundred twenty;
1 Chronicles 15.7: 7 of the sons of Gershom, Joel the chief, and his brothers one hundred thirty;
1 Chronicles 15.8: 8 of the sons of Elizaphan, Shemaiah the chief, and his brothers two hundred;
1 Chronicles 15.9: 9 of the sons of Hebron, Eliel the chief, and his brothers eighty;
1 Chronicles 15.10: 10 of the sons of Uzziel, Amminadab the chief, and his brothers one hundred twelve.
1 Chronicles 15.11: 11 David called for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for the Levites, for Uriel, Asaiah, Joel, Shemaiah, Eliel, and Amminadab,
1 Chronicles 15.12: 12 and said to them, “You are the heads of the fathers’ households of the Levites. Sanctify yourselves, both you and your brothers, that you may bring the ark of Yahweh, the God of Israel, up to the place that I have prepared for it.
1 Chronicles 15.13: 13 For because you didn’t carry it at first, Yahweh our God broke out in anger against us, because we didn’t seek him according to the ordinance.”
1 Chronicles 15.14: 14 So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of Yahweh, the God of Israel.
1 Chronicles 15.15: 15 The children of the Levites bore God’s ark on their shoulders with its poles, as Moses commanded according to Yahweh’s word.
1 Chronicles 15.16: 16 David spoke to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brothers as singers with instruments of music, stringed instruments, harps, and cymbals, sounding aloud and lifting up their voices with joy.
1 Chronicles 15.17: 17 So the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel; and of his brothers, Asaph the son of Berechiah; and of the sons of Merari their brothers, Ethan the son of Kushaiah;
1 Chronicles 15.18: 18 and with them their brothers of the second rank, Zechariah, Ben, Jaaziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, Obed-Edom, and Jeiel, the doorkeepers.
1 Chronicles 15.19: 19 So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were given cymbals of bronze to sound aloud;
1 Chronicles 15.20: 20 and Zechariah, Aziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Maaseiah, and Benaiah, with stringed instruments set to Alamoth;
1 Chronicles 15.21: 21 and Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, Obed-Edom, Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps tuned to the eight-stringed lyre, to lead.
1 Chronicles 15.22: 22 Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, was over the singing. He taught the singers, because he was skillful.
1 Chronicles 15.23: 23 Berechiah and Elkanah were doorkeepers for the ark.
1 Chronicles 15.24: 24 Shebaniah, Joshaphat, Nethanel, Amasai, Zechariah, Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, blew the trumpets before God’s ark; and Obed-Edom and Jehiah were doorkeepers for the ark.
1 Chronicles 15.25: 25 So David, the elders of Israel, and the captains over thousands, went to bring the ark of Yahweh’s covenant up out of the house of Obed-Edom with joy.
1 Chronicles 15.26: 26 When God helped the Levites who bore the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, they sacrificed seven bulls and seven rams.
1 Chronicles 15.27: 27 David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, as were all the Levites who bore the ark, the singers, and Chenaniah the choir master with the singers; and David had an ephod of linen on him.
1 Chronicles 15.28: 28 Thus all Israel brought the ark of Yahweh’s covenant up with shouting, with sound of the cornet, with trumpets, and with cymbals, sounding aloud with stringed instruments and harps.
1 Chronicles 15.29: 29 As the ark of Yahweh’s covenant came to David’s city, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out at the window, and saw king David dancing and playing; and she despised him in her heart.
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1 Chronicles 16.1: 1 They brought in God’s ark, and set it in the middle of the tent that David had pitched for it; and they offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before God.
1 Chronicles 16.2: 2 When David had finished offering the burnt offering and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in Yahweh’s name.
1 Chronicles 16.3: 3 He gave to everyone of Israel, both man and woman, to everyone a loaf of bread, a portion of meat, and a cake of raisins.
1 Chronicles 16.4: 4 He appointed some of the Levites to minister before Yahweh’s ark, and to commemorate, to thank, and to praise Yahweh, the God of Israel:
1 Chronicles 16.5: 5 Asaph the chief, and second to him Zechariah, then Jeiel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah, Obed-Edom, and Jeiel, with stringed instruments and with harps; and Asaph with cymbals, sounding aloud;
1 Chronicles 16.6: 6 with Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets continually, before the ark of the covenant of God.
1 Chronicles 16.7: 7 Then on that day David first ordained to give thanks to Yahweh, by the hand of Asaph and his brothers.
1 Chronicles 16.8: 8 Oh give thanks to Yahweh.
Call on his name.
Make what he has done known among the peoples.
1 Chronicles 16.9: 9 Sing to him.
Sing praises to him.
Tell of all his marvelous works.
1 Chronicles 16.10: 10 Glory in his holy name.
Let the heart of those who seek Yahweh rejoice.
1 Chronicles 16.11: 11 Seek Yahweh and his strength.
Seek his face forever more.
1 Chronicles 16.12: 12 Remember his marvelous works that he has done,
his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth,
1 Chronicles 16.13: 13 you offspring of Israel his servant,
you children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
1 Chronicles 16.14: 14 He is Yahweh our God.
His judgments are in all the earth.
1 Chronicles 16.15: 15 Remember his covenant forever,
the word which he commanded to a thousand generations,
1 Chronicles 16.16: 16 the covenant which he made with Abraham,
his oath to Isaac.
1 Chronicles 16.17: 17 He confirmed it to Jacob for a statute,
and to Israel for an everlasting covenant,
1 Chronicles 16.18: 18 saying, “I will give you the land of Canaan,
The lot of your inheritance,”
1 Chronicles 16.19: 19 when you were but a few men in number,
yes, very few, and foreigners were in it.
1 Chronicles 16.20: 20 They went about from nation to nation,
from one kingdom to another people.
1 Chronicles 16.21: 21 He allowed no man to do them wrong.
Yes, he reproved kings for their sakes,
1 Chronicles 16.22: 22 “Don’t touch my anointed ones!
Do my prophets no harm!”
1 Chronicles 16.23: 23 Sing to Yahweh, all the earth!
Display his salvation from day to day.
1 Chronicles 16.24: 24 Declare his glory among the nations,
and his marvelous works among all the peoples.
1 Chronicles 16.25: 25 For great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised.
He also is to be feared above all gods.
1 Chronicles 16.26: 26 For all the gods of the peoples are idols,
but Yahweh made the heavens.
1 Chronicles 16.27: 27 Honor and majesty are before him.
Strength and gladness are in his place.
1 Chronicles 16.28: 28 Ascribe to Yahweh, you relatives of the peoples,
ascribe to Yahweh glory and strength!
1 Chronicles 16.29: 29 Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due to his name.
Bring an offering, and come before him.
Worship Yahweh in holy array.
1 Chronicles 16.30: 30 Tremble before him, all the earth.
The world also is established that it can’t be moved.
1 Chronicles 16.31: 31 Let the heavens be glad,
and let the earth rejoice!
Let them say among the nations, “Yahweh reigns!”
1 Chronicles 16.32: 32 Let the sea roar, and its fullness!
Let the field exult, and all that is in it!
1 Chronicles 16.33: 33 Then the trees of the forest will sing for joy before Yahweh,
for he comes to judge the earth.
1 Chronicles 16.34: 34 Oh give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good,
for his loving kindness endures forever.
1 Chronicles 16.35: 35 Say, “Save us, God of our salvation!
Gather us together and deliver us from the nations,
to give thanks to your holy name,
to triumph in your praise.”
1 Chronicles 16.36: 36 Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel,
from everlasting even to everlasting.
All the people said, “Amen,” and praised Yahweh.
1 Chronicles 16.37: 37 So he left Asaph and his brothers there before the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, to minister before the ark continually, as every day’s work required;
1 Chronicles 16.38: 38 and Obed-Edom with their brothers, sixty-eight; Obed-Edom also the son of Jeduthun and Hosah to be doorkeepers;
1 Chronicles 16.39: 39 and Zadok the priest, and his brothers the priests, before Yahweh’s tabernacle in the high place that was at Gibeon,
1 Chronicles 16.40: 40 to offer burnt offerings to Yahweh on the altar of burnt offering continually morning and evening, even according to all that is written in Yahweh’s law, which he commanded to Israel;
1 Chronicles 16.41: 41 and with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest who were chosen, who were mentioned by name, to give thanks to Yahweh, because his loving kindness endures forever;
1 Chronicles 16.42: 42 and with them Heman and Jeduthun with trumpets and cymbals for those that should sound aloud, and with instruments for the songs of God; and the sons of Jeduthun to be at the gate.
1 Chronicles 16.43: 43 All the people departed, each man to his house; and David returned to bless his house.
1 Chronicles 17.0:
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1 Chronicles 17.1: 1 When David lived in his house, David said to Nathan the prophet, “Behold, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of Yahweh’s covenant is in a tent.”
1 Chronicles 17.2: 2 Nathan said to David, “Do all that is in your heart; for God is with you.”
1 Chronicles 17.3: 3 That same night, the word of God came to Nathan, saying,
1 Chronicles 17.4: 4 “Go and tell David my servant, ‘Yahweh says, “You shall not build me a house to dwell in;
1 Chronicles 17.5: 5 for I have not lived in a house since the day that I brought up Israel to this day, but have gone from tent to tent, and from one tent to another.
1 Chronicles 17.6: 6 In all places in which I have walked with all Israel, did I speak a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people, saying, ‘Why have you not built me a house of cedar?’”’
1 Chronicles 17.7: 7 “Now therefore, you shall tell my servant David, ‘Yahweh of Armies says, “I took you from the sheep pen, from following the sheep, to be prince over my people Israel.
1 Chronicles 17.8: 8 I have been with you wherever you have gone, and have cut off all your enemies from before you. I will make you a name like the name of the great ones who are in the earth.
1 Chronicles 17.9: 9 I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place, and be moved no more. The children of wickedness will not waste them any more, as at the first,
1 Chronicles 17.10: 10 and from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel. I will subdue all your enemies. Moreover I tell you that Yahweh will build you a house.
1 Chronicles 17.11: 11 It will happen, when your days are fulfilled that you must go to be with your fathers, that I will set up your offspring after you, who will be of your sons; and I will establish his kingdom.
1 Chronicles 17.12: 12 He will build me a house, and I will establish his throne forever.
1 Chronicles 17.13: 13 I will be his father, and he will be my son. I will not take my loving kindness away from him, as I took it from him that was before you;
1 Chronicles 17.14: 14 but I will settle him in my house and in my kingdom forever. His throne will be established forever.”’”
1 Chronicles 17.15: 15 According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so Nathan spoke to David.
1 Chronicles 17.16: 16 Then David the king went in, and sat before Yahweh; and he said, “Who am I, Yahweh God, and what is my house, that you have brought me this far?
1 Chronicles 17.17: 17 This was a small thing in your eyes, God; but you have spoken of your servant’s house for a great while to come, and have respected me according to the standard of a man of high degree, Yahweh God.
1 Chronicles 17.18: 18 What can David say yet more to you concerning the honor which is done to your servant? For you know your servant.
1 Chronicles 17.19: 19 Yahweh, for your servant’s sake, and according to your own heart, you have done all this greatness, to make known all these great things.
1 Chronicles 17.20: 20 Yahweh, there is no one like you, neither is there any God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
1 Chronicles 17.21: 21 What one nation in the earth is like your people Israel, whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, to make you a name by great and awesome things, in driving out nations from before your people, whom you redeem out of Egypt?
1 Chronicles 17.22: 22 For you made your people Israel your own people forever; and you, Yahweh, became their God.
1 Chronicles 17.23: 23 Now, Yahweh, let the word that you have spoken concerning your servant, and concerning his house, be established forever, and do as you have spoken.
1 Chronicles 17.24: 24 Let your name be established and magnified forever, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies is the God of Israel, even a God to Israel. The house of David your servant is established before you.’
1 Chronicles 17.25: 25 For you, my God, have revealed to your servant that you will build him a house. Therefore your servant has found courage to pray before you.
1 Chronicles 17.26: 26 Now, Yahweh, you are God, and have promised this good thing to your servant.
1 Chronicles 17.27: 27 Now it has pleased you to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue forever before you; for you, Yahweh, have blessed, and it is blessed forever.”
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1 Chronicles 18.1: 1 After this, David defeated the Philistines and subdued them, and took Gath and its towns out of the hand of the Philistines.
1 Chronicles 18.2: 2 He defeated Moab; and the Moabites became servants to David, and brought tribute.
1 Chronicles 18.3: 3 David defeated Hadadezer king of Zobah to Hamath, as he went to establish his dominion by the river Euphrates.
1 Chronicles 18.4: 4 David took from him one thousand chariots, seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen; and David hamstrung all the chariot horses, but reserved of them enough for one hundred chariots.
1 Chronicles 18.5: 5 When the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, David struck twenty-two thousand men of the Syrians.
1 Chronicles 18.6: 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.
1 Chronicles 18.7: 7 David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadadezer, and brought them to Jerusalem.
1 Chronicles 18.8: 8 From Tibhath and from Cun, cities of Hadadezer, David took very much bronze, with which Solomon made the bronze sea, the pillars, and the vessels of bronze.
1 Chronicles 18.9: 9 When Tou king of Hamath heard that David had struck all the army of Hadadezer king of Zobah,
1 Chronicles 18.10: 10 he sent Hadoram 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 Tou); and he had with him all kinds of vessels of gold and silver and bronze.
1 Chronicles 18.11: 11 King David also dedicated these to Yahweh, with the silver and the gold that he carried away from all the nations; from Edom, from Moab, from the children of Ammon, from the Philistines, and from Amalek.
1 Chronicles 18.12: 12 Moreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah struck eighteen thousand of the Edomites in the Valley of Salt.
1 Chronicles 18.13: 13 He put garrisons in Edom; and all the Edomites became servants to David. Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he went.
1 Chronicles 18.14: 14 David reigned over all Israel; and he executed justice and righteousness for all his people.
1 Chronicles 18.15: 15 Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the army; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder;
1 Chronicles 18.16: 16 Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Abimelech the son of Abiathar, were priests; Shavsha was scribe;
1 Chronicles 18.17: 17 and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and the sons of David were chief officials serving the king.
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1 Chronicles 19.1: 1 After this, Nahash the king of the children of Ammon died, and his son reigned in his place.
1 Chronicles 19.2: 2 David said, “I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father showed kindness to me.”
So David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. David’s servants came into the land of the children of Ammon to Hanun, to comfort him.
1 Chronicles 19.3: 3 But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, “Do you think that David honors your father, in that he has sent comforters to you? Haven’t his servants come to you to search, to overthrow, and to spy out the land?”
1 Chronicles 19.4: 4 So Hanun took David’s servants, shaved them, and cut off their garments in the middle at their buttocks, and sent them away.
1 Chronicles 19.5: 5 Then some people went and told David how the men were treated. He sent to meet them; for the men were greatly humiliated. The king said, “Stay at Jericho until your beards have grown, and then return.”
1 Chronicles 19.6: 6 When the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves odious to David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent one thousand talents of silver to hire chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia, out of Aram-maacah, and out of Zobah.
1 Chronicles 19.7: 7 So they hired for themselves thirty-two thousand chariots, and the king of Maacah with his people, who came and encamped near Medeba. The children of Ammon gathered themselves together from their cities, and came to battle.
1 Chronicles 19.8: 8 When David heard of it, he sent Joab with all the army of the mighty men.
1 Chronicles 19.9: 9 The children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at the gate of the city; and the kings who had come were by themselves in the field.
1 Chronicles 19.10: 10 Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before and behind, he chose some of all the choice men of Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians.
1 Chronicles 19.11: 11 The rest of the people he committed into the hand of Abishai his brother; and they put themselves in array against the children of Ammon.
1 Chronicles 19.12: 12 He said, “If the Syrians are too strong for me, then you are to help me; but if the children of Ammon are too strong for you, then I will help you.
1 Chronicles 19.13: 13 Be courageous, and let’s be strong for our people and for the cities of our God. May Yahweh do that which seems good to him.”
1 Chronicles 19.14: 14 So Joab and the people who were with him came near to the front of the Syrians to the battle; and they fled before him.
1 Chronicles 19.15: 15 When the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians had fled, they likewise fled before Abishai his brother, and entered into the city. Then Joab came to Jerusalem.
1 Chronicles 19.16: 16 When the Syrians saw that they were defeated by Israel, they sent messengers, and called out the Syrians who were beyond the River, with Shophach the captain of the army of Hadadezer leading them.
1 Chronicles 19.17: 17 David was told that; so he gathered all Israel together, passed over the Jordan, came to them, and set the battle in array against them. So when David had put the battle in array against the Syrians, they fought with him.
1 Chronicles 19.18: 18 The Syrians fled before Israel; and David killed of the Syrian men seven thousand chariots, and forty thousand footmen, and also killed Shophach the captain of the army.
1 Chronicles 19.19: 19 When the servants of Hadadezer saw that they were defeated by Israel, they made peace with David, and served him. The Syrians would not help the children of Ammon any more.
1 Chronicles 20.0:
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1 Chronicles 20.1: 1 At the time of the return of the year, at the time when kings go out, Joab led out the army, and wasted the country of the children of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem. Joab struck Rabbah, and overthrew it.
1 Chronicles 20.2: 2 David took the crown of their king from off his head, and found it to weigh a talent of gold, and there were precious stones in it. It was set on David’s head, and he brought very much plunder out of the city.
1 Chronicles 20.3: 3 He brought out the people who were in it, and had them cut with saws, with iron picks, and with axes. David did so to all the cities of the children of Ammon. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.
1 Chronicles 20.4: 4 After this, war arose at Gezer with the Philistines. Then Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Sippai, of the sons of the giant; and they were subdued.
1 Chronicles 20.5: 5 Again there was war with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jair killed Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.
1 Chronicles 20.6: 6 There was again war at Gath, where there was a man of great stature, who had twenty-four fingers and toes, six on each hand, and six on each foot; and he also was born to the giant.
1 Chronicles 20.7: 7 When he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea David’s brother killed him.
1 Chronicles 20.8: 8 These were born to the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.
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1 Chronicles 21.1: 1 Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to take a census of Israel.
1 Chronicles 21.2: 2 David said to Joab and to the princes of the people, “Go, count Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring me word, that I may know how many there are.”
1 Chronicles 21.3: 3 Joab said, “May Yahweh make his people a hundred times as many as they are. But, my lord the king, aren’t they all my lord’s servants? Why does my lord require this thing? Why will he be a cause of guilt to Israel?”
1 Chronicles 21.4: 4 Nevertheless the king’s word prevailed against Joab. Therefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, then came to Jerusalem.
1 Chronicles 21.5: 5 Joab gave up the sum of the census of the people to David. All those of Israel were one million one hundred thousand men who drew a sword; and in Judah were four hundred seventy thousand men who drew a sword.
1 Chronicles 21.6: 6 But he didn’t count Levi and Benjamin among them; for the king’s word was abominable to Joab.
1 Chronicles 21.7: 7 God was displeased with this thing; therefore he struck Israel.
1 Chronicles 21.8: 8 David said to God, “I have sinned greatly, in that I have done this thing. But now put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly.”
1 Chronicles 21.9: 9 Yahweh spoke to Gad, David’s seer, saying,
1 Chronicles 21.10: 10 “Go and speak to David, saying, ‘Yahweh says, “I offer you three things. Choose one of them, that I may do it to you.”’”
1 Chronicles 21.11: 11 So Gad came to David, and said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Take your choice:
1 Chronicles 21.12: 12 either three years of famine; or three months to be consumed before your foes, while the sword of your enemies overtakes you; or else three days the sword of Yahweh, even pestilence in the land, and Yahweh’s angel destroying throughout all the borders of Israel. Now therefore consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.’”
1 Chronicles 21.13: 13 David said to Gad, “I am in distress. Let me fall, I pray, into Yahweh’s hand; for his mercies are very great. Don’t let me fall into man’s hand.”
1 Chronicles 21.14: 14 So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell.
1 Chronicles 21.15: 15 God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it. As he was about to destroy, Yahweh saw, and he relented of the disaster, and said to the destroying angel, “It is enough. Now withdraw your hand.” Yahweh’s angel was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
1 Chronicles 21.16: 16 David lifted up his eyes, and saw Yahweh’s angel standing between earth and the sky, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem.
Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell on their faces.
1 Chronicles 21.17: 17 David said to God, “Isn’t it I who commanded the people to be counted? It is even I who have sinned and done very wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand, O Yahweh my God, be against me, and against my father’s house; but not against your people, that they should be plagued.”
1 Chronicles 21.18: 18 Then Yahweh’s angel commanded Gad to tell David that David should go up and raise an altar to Yahweh on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
1 Chronicles 21.19: 19 David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spoke in Yahweh’s name.
1 Chronicles 21.20: 20 Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons who were with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.
1 Chronicles 21.21: 21 As David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshing floor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground.
1 Chronicles 21.22: 22 Then David said to Ornan, “Give me the place of this threshing floor, that I may build an altar to Yahweh on it. You shall sell it to me for the full price, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people.”
1 Chronicles 21.23: 23 Ornan said to David, “Take it for yourself, and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes. Behold, I give the oxen for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meal offering. I give it all.”
1 Chronicles 21.24: 24 King David said to Ornan, “No; but I will most certainly buy it for the full price. For I will not take that which is yours for Yahweh, nor offer a burnt offering that costs me nothing.”
1 Chronicles 21.25: 25 So David gave to Ornan six hundred shekels of gold by weight for the place.
1 Chronicles 21.26: 26 David built an altar to Yahweh there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called on Yahweh; and he answered him from the sky by fire on the altar of burnt offering.
1 Chronicles 21.27: 27 Then Yahweh commanded the angel, and he put his sword back into its sheath.
1 Chronicles 21.28: 28 At that time, when David saw that Yahweh had answered him in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there.
1 Chronicles 21.29: 29 For Yahweh’s tabernacle, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering, were at that time in the high place at Gibeon.
1 Chronicles 21.30: 30 But David couldn’t go before it to inquire of God; for he was afraid because of the sword of Yahweh’s angel.
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1 Chronicles 22.1: 1 Then David said, “This is the house of Yahweh God, and this is the altar of burnt offering for Israel.”
1 Chronicles 22.2: 2 David gave orders to gather together the foreigners who were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to cut dressed stones to build God’s house.
1 Chronicles 22.3: 3 David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates, and for the couplings; and bronze in abundance without weight;
1 Chronicles 22.4: 4 and cedar trees without number, for the Sidonians and the people of Tyre brought cedar trees in abundance to David.
1 Chronicles 22.5: 5 David said, “Solomon my son is young and tender, and the house that is to be built for Yahweh must be exceedingly magnificent, of fame and of glory throughout all countries. I will therefore make preparation for it.” So David prepared abundantly before his death.
1 Chronicles 22.6: 6 Then he called for Solomon his son, and commanded him to build a house for Yahweh, the God of Israel.
1 Chronicles 22.7: 7 David said to Solomon his son, “As for me, it was in my heart to build a house to the name of Yahweh my God.
1 Chronicles 22.8: 8 But Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, ‘You have shed blood abundantly, and have made great wars. You shall not build a house to my name, because you have shed much blood on the earth in my sight.
1 Chronicles 22.9: 9 Behold, a son shall be born to you, who shall be a man of peace. I will give him rest from all his enemies all around; for his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quietness to Israel in his days.
1 Chronicles 22.10: 10 He shall build a house for my name; and he will be my son, and I will be his father; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel forever.’
1 Chronicles 22.11: 11 Now, my son, may Yahweh be with you and prosper you, and build the house of Yahweh your God, as he has spoken concerning you.
1 Chronicles 22.12: 12 May Yahweh give you discretion and understanding, and put you in charge of Israel; that so you may keep the law of Yahweh your God.
1 Chronicles 22.13: 13 Then you will prosper, if you observe to do the statutes and the ordinances which Yahweh gave Moses concerning Israel. Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid, and don’t be dismayed.
1 Chronicles 22.14: 14 Now, behold, in my affliction I have prepared for Yahweh’s house one hundred thousand talents of gold, one million talents of silver, and bronze and iron without weight; for it is in abundance. I have also prepared timber and stone; and you may add to them.
1 Chronicles 22.15: 15 There are also workmen with you in abundance, cutters and workers of stone and timber, and all kinds of men who are skillful in every kind of work;
1 Chronicles 22.16: 16 of the gold, the silver, the bronze, and the iron, there is no number. Arise and be doing, and may Yahweh be with you.”
1 Chronicles 22.17: 17 David also commanded all the princes of Israel to help Solomon his son, saying,
1 Chronicles 22.18: 18 “Isn’t Yahweh your God with you? Hasn’t he given you rest on every side? For he has delivered the inhabitants of the land into my hand; and the land is subdued before Yahweh, and before his people.
1 Chronicles 22.19: 19 Now set your heart and your soul to follow Yahweh your God. Arise therefore, and build the sanctuary of Yahweh God, to bring the ark of Yahweh’s covenant and the holy vessels of God into the house that is to be built for Yahweh’s name.”
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1 Chronicles 23.1: 1 Now David was old and full of days; and he made Solomon his son king over Israel.
1 Chronicles 23.2: 2 He gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites.
1 Chronicles 23.3: 3 The Levites were counted from thirty years old and upward; and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand.
1 Chronicles 23.4: 4 David said, “Of these, twenty-four thousand were to oversee the work of Yahweh’s house, six thousand were officers and judges,
1 Chronicles 23.5: 5 four thousand were doorkeepers, and four thousand praised Yahweh with the instruments which I made for giving praise.”
1 Chronicles 23.6: 6 David divided them into divisions according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
1 Chronicles 23.7: 7 Of the Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei.
1 Chronicles 23.8: 8 The sons of Ladan: Jehiel the chief, Zetham, and Joel, three.
1 Chronicles 23.9: 9 The sons of Shimei: Shelomoth, Haziel, and Haran, three. These were the heads of the fathers’ households of Ladan.
1 Chronicles 23.10: 10 The sons of Shimei: Jahath, Zina, Jeush, and Beriah. These four were the sons of Shimei.
1 Chronicles 23.11: 11 Jahath was the chief, and Zizah the second; but Jeush and Beriah didn’t have many sons; therefore they became a fathers’ house in one reckoning.
1 Chronicles 23.12: 12 The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four.
1 Chronicles 23.13: 13 The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses; and Aaron was separated, that he should sanctify the most holy things, he and his sons, forever, to burn incense before Yahweh, to minister to him, and to bless in his name, forever.
1 Chronicles 23.14: 14 But as for Moses the man of God, his sons were named among the tribe of Levi.
1 Chronicles 23.15: 15 The sons of Moses: Gershom and Eliezer.
1 Chronicles 23.16: 16 The sons of Gershom: Shebuel the chief.
1 Chronicles 23.17: 17 The sons of Eliezer were: Rehabiah the chief; and Eliezer had no other sons; but the sons of Rehabiah were very many.
1 Chronicles 23.18: 18 The sons of Izhar: Shelomith the chief.
1 Chronicles 23.19: 19 The sons of Hebron: Jeriah the chief, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth.
1 Chronicles 23.20: 20 The sons of Uzziel: Micah the chief, and Isshiah the second.
1 Chronicles 23.21: 21 The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. The sons of Mahli: Eleazar and Kish.
1 Chronicles 23.22: 22 Eleazar died, and had no sons, but daughters only: and their brothers the sons of Kish took them as wives.
1 Chronicles 23.23: 23 The sons of Mushi: Mahli, Eder, and Jeremoth, three.
1 Chronicles 23.24: 24 These were the sons of Levi after their fathers’ houses, even the heads of the fathers’ houses of those who were counted individually, in the number of names by their polls, who did the work for the service of Yahweh’s house, from twenty years old and upward.
1 Chronicles 23.25: 25 For David said, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, has given rest to his people; and he dwells in Jerusalem forever.
1 Chronicles 23.26: 26 Also the Levites will no longer need to carry the tabernacle and all its vessels for its service.”
1 Chronicles 23.27: 27 For by the last words of David the sons of Levi were counted, from twenty years old and upward.
1 Chronicles 23.28: 28 For their office was to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service of Yahweh’s house, in the courts, and in the rooms, and in the purifying of all holy things, even the work of the service of God’s house;
1 Chronicles 23.29: 29 for the show bread also, and for the fine flour for a meal offering, whether of unleavened wafers, or of that which is baked in the pan, or of that which is soaked, and for all measurements of quantity and size;
1 Chronicles 23.30: 30 and to stand every morning to thank and praise Yahweh, and likewise in the evening;
1 Chronicles 23.31: 31 and to offer all burnt offerings to Yahweh, on the Sabbaths, on the new moons, and on the set feasts, in number according to the ordinance concerning them, continually before Yahweh;
1 Chronicles 23.32: 32 and that they should keep the duty of the Tent of Meeting, the duty of the holy place, and the duty of the sons of Aaron their brothers, for the service of Yahweh’s house.
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1 Chronicles 24.1: 1 These were the divisions of the sons of Aaron. The sons of Aaron: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
1 Chronicles 24.2: 2 But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and had no children: therefore Eleazar and Ithamar executed the priest’s office.
1 Chronicles 24.3: 3 David with Zadok of the sons of Eleazar and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, divided them according to their ordering in their service.
1 Chronicles 24.4: 4 There were more chief men found of the sons of Eleazar than of the sons of Ithamar; and they were divided like this: of the sons of Eleazar there were sixteen, heads of fathers’ houses; and of the sons of Ithamar, according to their fathers’ houses, eight.
1 Chronicles 24.5: 5 Thus they were divided impartially by drawing lots; for there were princes of the sanctuary, and princes of God, both of the sons of Eleazar, and of the sons of Ithamar.
1 Chronicles 24.6: 6 Shemaiah the son of Nethanel the scribe, who was of the Levites, wrote them in the presence of the king, the princes, Zadok the priest, Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and the heads of the fathers’ households of the priests and of the Levites; one fathers’ house being taken for Eleazar, and one taken for Ithamar.
1 Chronicles 24.7: 7 Now the first lot came out to Jehoiarib, the second to Jedaiah,
1 Chronicles 24.8: 8 the third to Harim, the fourth to Seorim,
1 Chronicles 24.9: 9 the fifth to Malchijah, the sixth to Mijamin,
1 Chronicles 24.10: 10 the seventh to Hakkoz, the eighth to Abijah,
1 Chronicles 24.11: 11 the ninth to Jeshua, the tenth to Shecaniah,
1 Chronicles 24.12: 12 the eleventh to Eliashib, the twelfth to Jakim,
1 Chronicles 24.13: 13 the thirteenth to Huppah, the fourteenth to Jeshebeab,
1 Chronicles 24.14: 14 the fifteenth to Bilgah, the sixteenth to Immer,
1 Chronicles 24.15: 15 the seventeenth to Hezir, the eighteenth to Happizzez,
1 Chronicles 24.16: 16 the nineteenth to Pethahiah, the twentieth to Jehezkel,
1 Chronicles 24.17: 17 the twenty-first to Jachin, the twenty-second to Gamul,
1 Chronicles 24.18: 18 the twenty-third to Delaiah, and the twenty-fourth to Maaziah.
1 Chronicles 24.19: 19 This was their ordering in their service, to come into Yahweh’s house according to the ordinance given to them by Aaron their father, as Yahweh, the God of Israel, had commanded him.
1 Chronicles 24.20: 20 Of the rest of the sons of Levi: of the sons of Amram, Shubael; of the sons of Shubael, Jehdeiah.
1 Chronicles 24.21: 21 Of Rehabiah: of the sons of Rehabiah, Isshiah the chief.
1 Chronicles 24.22: 22 Of the Izharites, Shelomoth; of the sons of Shelomoth, Jahath.
1 Chronicles 24.23: 23 The sons of Hebron: Jeriah, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth.
1 Chronicles 24.24: 24 The sons of Uzziel: Micah; of the sons of Micah, Shamir.
1 Chronicles 24.25: 25 The brother of Micah: Isshiah; of the sons of Isshiah, Zechariah.
1 Chronicles 24.26: 26 The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. The son of Jaaziah: Beno.
1 Chronicles 24.27: 27 The sons of Merari: of Jaaziah, Beno, Shoham, Zaccur, and Ibri.
1 Chronicles 24.28: 28 Of Mahli: Eleazar, who had no sons.
1 Chronicles 24.29: 29 Of Kish, the son of Kish: Jerahmeel.
1 Chronicles 24.30: 30 The sons of Mushi: Mahli, Eder, and Jerimoth. These were the sons of the Levites after their fathers’ houses.
1 Chronicles 24.31: 31 These likewise cast lots even as their brothers the sons of Aaron in the presence of David the king, Zadok, Ahimelech, and the heads of the fathers’ households of the priests and of the Levites; the fathers’ households of the chief even as those of his younger brother.
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1 Chronicles 25.1: 1 Moreover, David and the captains of the army set apart for the service certain of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who were to prophesy with harps, with stringed instruments, and with cymbals. The number of those who did the work according to their service was:
1 Chronicles 25.2: 2 of the sons of Asaph: Zaccur, Joseph, Nethaniah, and Asharelah. The sons of Asaph were under the hand of Asaph, who prophesied at the order of the king.
1 Chronicles 25.3: 3 Of Jeduthun, the sons of Jeduthun: Gedaliah, Zeri, Jeshaiah, Shimei, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six, under the hands of their father Jeduthun, who prophesied in giving thanks and praising Yahweh with the harp.
1 Chronicles 25.4: 4 Of Heman, the sons of Heman: Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel, Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti, Romamti-Ezer, Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, and Mahazioth.
1 Chronicles 25.5: 5 All these were the sons of Heman the king’s seer in the words of God, to lift up the horn. God gave to Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.
1 Chronicles 25.6: 6 All these were under the hands of their father for song in Yahweh’s house, with cymbals, stringed instruments, and harps, for the service of God’s house: Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman being under the order of the king.
1 Chronicles 25.7: 7 The number of them, with their brothers who were instructed in singing to Yahweh, even all who were skillful, was two hundred eighty-eight.
1 Chronicles 25.8: 8 They cast lots for their offices, all alike, the small as well as the great, the teacher as well as the student.
1 Chronicles 25.9: 9 Now the first lot came out for Asaph to Joseph; the second to Gedaliah, he and his brothers and sons were twelve;
1 Chronicles 25.10: 10 the third to Zaccur, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
1 Chronicles 25.11: 11 the fourth to Izri, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
1 Chronicles 25.12: 12 the fifth to Nethaniah, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
1 Chronicles 25.13: 13 the sixth to Bukkiah, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
1 Chronicles 25.14: 14 the seventh to Jesharelah, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
1 Chronicles 25.15: 15 the eighth to Jeshaiah, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
1 Chronicles 25.16: 16 the ninth to Mattaniah, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
1 Chronicles 25.17: 17 the tenth to Shimei, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
1 Chronicles 25.18: 18 the eleventh to Azarel, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
1 Chronicles 25.19: 19 the twelfth to Hashabiah, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
1 Chronicles 25.20: 20 for the thirteenth, Shubael, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
1 Chronicles 25.21: 21 for the fourteenth, Mattithiah, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
1 Chronicles 25.22: 22 for the fifteenth to Jeremoth, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
1 Chronicles 25.23: 23 for the sixteenth to Hananiah, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
1 Chronicles 25.24: 24 for the seventeenth to Joshbekashah, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
1 Chronicles 25.25: 25 for the eighteenth to Hanani, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
1 Chronicles 25.26: 26 for the nineteenth to Mallothi, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
1 Chronicles 25.27: 27 for the twentieth to Eliathah, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
1 Chronicles 25.28: 28 for the twenty-first to Hothir, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
1 Chronicles 25.29: 29 for the twenty-second to Giddalti, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
1 Chronicles 25.30: 30 for the twenty-third to Mahazioth, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
1 Chronicles 25.31: 31 for the twenty-fourth to Romamti-Ezer, his sons and his brothers, twelve.
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1 Chronicles 26.1: 1 For the divisions of the doorkeepers: of the Korahites, Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph.
1 Chronicles 26.2: 2 Meshelemiah had sons: Zechariah the firstborn, Jediael the second, Zebadiah the third, Jathniel the fourth,
1 Chronicles 26.3: 3 Elam the fifth, Jehohanan the sixth, and Eliehoenai the seventh.
1 Chronicles 26.4: 4 Obed-Edom had sons: Shemaiah the firstborn, Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, Sacar the fourth, Nethanel the fifth,
1 Chronicles 26.5: 5 Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, and Peullethai the eighth; for God blessed him.
1 Chronicles 26.6: 6 Sons were also born to Shemaiah his son, who ruled over the house of their father; for they were mighty men of valor.
1 Chronicles 26.7: 7 The sons of Shemaiah: Othni, Rephael, Obed, and Elzabad, whose brothers were valiant men, Elihu, and Semachiah.
1 Chronicles 26.8: 8 All these were of the sons of Obed-Edom: they and their sons and their brothers, able men in strength for the service: sixty-two of Obed-Edom.
1 Chronicles 26.9: 9 Meshelemiah had sons and brothers, valiant men, eighteen.
1 Chronicles 26.10: 10 Also Hosah, of the children of Merari, had sons: Shimri the chief (for though he was not the firstborn, yet his father made him chief),
1 Chronicles 26.11: 11 Hilkiah the second, Tebaliah the third, and Zechariah the fourth. All the sons and brothers of Hosah were thirteen.
1 Chronicles 26.12: 12 Of these were the divisions of the doorkeepers, even of the chief men, having offices like their brothers, to minister in Yahweh’s house.
1 Chronicles 26.13: 13 They cast lots, the small as well as the great, according to their fathers’ houses, for every gate.
1 Chronicles 26.14: 14 The lot eastward fell to Shelemiah. Then for Zechariah his son, a wise counselor, they cast lots; and his lot came out northward.
1 Chronicles 26.15: 15 To Obed-Edom southward; and to his sons the storehouse.
1 Chronicles 26.16: 16 To Shuppim and Hosah westward, by the gate of Shallecheth, at the causeway that goes up, watchman opposite watchman.
1 Chronicles 26.17: 17 Eastward were six Levites, northward four a day, southward four a day, and for the storehouse two and two.
1 Chronicles 26.18: 18 For Parbar westward, four at the causeway, and two at Parbar.
1 Chronicles 26.19: 19 These were the divisions of the doorkeepers; of the sons of the Korahites, and of the sons of Merari.
1 Chronicles 26.20: 20 Of the Levites, Ahijah was over the treasures of God’s house and over the treasures of the dedicated things.
1 Chronicles 26.21: 21 The sons of Ladan, the sons of the Gershonites belonging to Ladan, the heads of the fathers’ households belonging to Ladan the Gershonite: Jehieli.
1 Chronicles 26.22: 22 The sons of Jehieli: Zetham, and Joel his brother, over the treasures of Yahweh’s house.
1 Chronicles 26.23: 23 Of the Amramites, of the Izharites, of the Hebronites, of the Uzzielites:
1 Chronicles 26.24: 24 and Shebuel the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, was ruler over the treasures.
1 Chronicles 26.25: 25 His brothers: of Eliezer, Rehabiah his son, and Jeshaiah his son, and Joram his son, and Zichri his son, and Shelomoth his son.
1 Chronicles 26.26: 26 This Shelomoth and his brothers were over all the treasures of the dedicated things, which David the king, and the heads of the fathers’ households, the captains over thousands and hundreds, and the captains of the army, had dedicated.
1 Chronicles 26.27: 27 They dedicated some of the plunder won in battles to repair Yahweh’s house.
1 Chronicles 26.28: 28 All that Samuel the seer, and Saul the son of Kish, and Abner the son of Ner, and Joab the son of Zeruiah, had dedicated, whoever had dedicated anything, it was under the hand of Shelomoth, and of his brothers.
1 Chronicles 26.29: 29 Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons were for the outward business over Israel, for officers and judges.
1 Chronicles 26.30: 30 Of the Hebronites, Hashabiah and his brothers, men of valor, one thousand seven hundred, had the oversight of Israel beyond the Jordan westward, for all the business of Yahweh, and for the service of the king.
1 Chronicles 26.31: 31 Of the Hebronites, Jerijah was the chief, even of the Hebronites, according to their generations by fathers’ households. They were sought for in the fortieth year of the reign of David, and mighty men of valor were found among them at Jazer of Gilead.
1 Chronicles 26.32: 32 His brothers, men of valor, were two thousand seven hundred, heads of fathers’ households, whom king David made overseers over the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of the Manassites, for every matter pertaining to God, and for the affairs of the king.
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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.
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1 Chronicles 28.1: 1 David assembled all the princes of Israel, the princes of the tribes, the captains of the companies who served the king by division, the captains of thousands, the captains of hundreds, and the rulers over all the substance and possessions of the king and of his sons, with the officers and the mighty men, even all the mighty men of valor, to Jerusalem.
1 Chronicles 28.2: 2 Then David the king stood up on his feet, and said, “Hear me, my brothers, and my people! As for me, it was in my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, and for the footstool of our God; and I had prepared for the building.
1 Chronicles 28.3: 3 But God said to me, ‘You shall not build a house for my name, because you are a man of war, and have shed blood.’
1 Chronicles 28.4: 4 However Yahweh, the God of Israel, chose me out of all the house of my father to be king over Israel forever. For he has chosen Judah to be prince; and in the house of Judah, the house of my father; and among the sons of my father he took pleasure in me to make me king over all Israel.
1 Chronicles 28.5: 5 Of all my sons (for Yahweh has given me many sons), he has chosen Solomon my son to sit on the throne of Yahweh’s kingdom over Israel.
1 Chronicles 28.6: 6 He said to me, ‘Solomon, your son, shall build my house and my courts; for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father.
1 Chronicles 28.7: 7 I will establish his kingdom forever if he continues to do my commandments and my ordinances, as it is today.’
1 Chronicles 28.8: 8 Now therefore, in the sight of all Israel, Yahweh’s assembly, and in the audience of our God, observe and seek out all the commandments of Yahweh your God; that you may possess this good land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children after you forever.
1 Chronicles 28.9: 9 You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.
1 Chronicles 28.10: 10 Take heed now; for Yahweh has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary. Be strong, and do it.”
1 Chronicles 28.11: 11 Then David gave to Solomon his son the plans for the porch of the temple, for its houses, for its treasuries, for its upper rooms, for its inner rooms, for the place of the mercy seat;
1 Chronicles 28.12: 12 and the plans of all that he had by the Spirit, for the courts of Yahweh’s house, for all the surrounding rooms, for the treasuries of God’s house, and for the treasuries of the dedicated things;
1 Chronicles 28.13: 13 also for the divisions of the priests and the Levites, for all the work of the service of Yahweh’s house, and for all the vessels of service in Yahweh’s house;
1 Chronicles 28.14: 14 of gold by weight for the gold, for all vessels of every kind of service; for all the vessels of silver by weight, for all vessels of every kind of service;
1 Chronicles 28.15: 15 by weight also for the lamp stands of gold, and for its lamps, of gold, by weight for every lamp stand and for its lamps; and for the lamp stands of silver, by weight for every lamp stand and for its lamps, according to the use of every lamp stand;
1 Chronicles 28.16: 16 and the gold by weight for the tables of show bread, for every table; and silver for the tables of silver;
1 Chronicles 28.17: 17 and the forks, the basins, and the cups, of pure gold; and for the golden bowls by weight for every bowl; and for the silver bowls by weight for every bowl;
1 Chronicles 28.18: 18 and for the altar of incense refined gold by weight; and gold for the plans for the chariot, and the cherubim that spread out and cover the ark of Yahweh’s covenant.
1 Chronicles 28.19: 19 “All this”, David said, “I have been made to understand in writing from Yahweh’s hand, even all the works of this pattern.”
1 Chronicles 28.20: 20 David said to Solomon his son, “Be strong and courageous, and do it. Don’t be afraid, nor be dismayed; for Yahweh God, even my God, is with you. He will not fail you, nor forsake you, until all the work for the service of Yahweh’s house is finished.
1 Chronicles 28.21: 21 Behold, there are the divisions of the priests and the Levites, for all the service of God’s house. Every willing man who has skill, for any kind of service, shall be with you in all kinds of work. Also the captains and all the people will be entirely at your command.”
1 Chronicles 29.0:
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1 Chronicles 29.1: 1 David the king said to all the assembly, “Solomon my son, whom alone God has chosen, is yet young and tender, and the work is great; for the palace is not for man, but for Yahweh God.
1 Chronicles 29.2: 2 Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for the things of gold, the silver for the things of silver, the bronze for the things of bronze, iron for the things of iron, and wood for the things of wood; also onyx stones, stones to be set, stones for inlaid work, of various colors, all kinds of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance.
1 Chronicles 29.3: 3 In addition, because I have set my affection on the house of my God, since I have a treasure of my own of gold and silver, I give it to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house,
1 Chronicles 29.4: 4 even three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, with which to overlay the walls of the houses;
1 Chronicles 29.5: 5 of gold for the things of gold, and of silver for the things of silver, and for all kinds of work to be made by the hands of artisans. Who then offers willingly to consecrate himself today to Yahweh?”
1 Chronicles 29.6: 6 Then the princes of the fathers’ households, and the princes of the tribes of Israel, and the captains of thousands and of hundreds, with the rulers over the king’s work, offered willingly;
1 Chronicles 29.7: 7 and they gave for the service of God’s house of gold five thousand talents and ten thousand darics, of silver ten thousand talents, of bronze eighteen thousand talents, and of iron one hundred thousand talents.
1 Chronicles 29.8: 8 People with whom precious stones were found gave them to the treasure of Yahweh’s house, under the hand of Jehiel the Gershonite.
1 Chronicles 29.9: 9 Then the people rejoiced, because they offered willingly, because with a perfect heart they offered willingly to Yahweh; and David the king also rejoiced with great joy.
1 Chronicles 29.10: 10 Therefore David blessed Yahweh before all the assembly; and David said, “You are blessed, Yahweh, the God of Israel our father, forever and ever.
1 Chronicles 29.11: 11 Yours, Yahweh, is the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty! For all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, Yahweh, and you are exalted as head above all.
1 Chronicles 29.12: 12 Both riches and honor come from you, and you rule over all! In your hand is power and might! It is in your hand to make great, and to give strength to all!
1 Chronicles 29.13: 13 Now therefore, our God, we thank you, and praise your glorious name.
1 Chronicles 29.14: 14 But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly as this? For all things come from you, and we have given you of your own.
1 Chronicles 29.15: 15 For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.
1 Chronicles 29.16: 16 Yahweh our God, all this store that we have prepared to build you a house for your holy name comes from your hand, and is all your own.
1 Chronicles 29.17: 17 I know also, my God, that you try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things. Now I have seen with joy your people, who are present here, offer willingly to you.
1 Chronicles 29.18: 18 Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this desire forever in the thoughts of the heart of your people, and prepare their heart for you;
1 Chronicles 29.19: 19 and give to Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep your commandments, your testimonies, and your statutes, and to do all these things, and to build the palace, for which I have made provision.”
1 Chronicles 29.20: 20 Then David said to all the assembly, “Now bless Yahweh your God!”
All the assembly blessed Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and bowed down their heads and prostrated themselves before Yahweh and the king.
1 Chronicles 29.21: 21 They sacrificed sacrifices to Yahweh, and offered burnt offerings to Yahweh, on the next day after that day, even one thousand bulls, one thousand rams, and one thousand lambs, with their drink offerings and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel,
1 Chronicles 29.22: 22 and ate and drank before Yahweh on that day with great gladness. They made Solomon the son of David king the second time, and anointed him before Yahweh to be prince, and Zadok to be priest.
1 Chronicles 29.23: 23 Then Solomon sat on the throne of Yahweh as king instead of David his father, and prospered; and all Israel obeyed him.
1 Chronicles 29.24: 24 All the princes, the mighty men, and also all of the sons of king David submitted themselves to Solomon the king.
1 Chronicles 29.25: 25 Yahweh magnified Solomon exceedingly in the sight of all Israel, and gave to him such royal majesty as had not been on any king before him in Israel.
1 Chronicles 29.26: 26 Now David the son of Jesse reigned over all Israel.
1 Chronicles 29.27: 27 The time that he reigned over Israel was forty years; he reigned seven years in Hebron, and he reigned thirty-three years in Jerusalem.
1 Chronicles 29.28: 28 He died at a good old age, full of days, riches, and honor; and Solomon his son reigned in his place.
1 Chronicles 29.29: 29 Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they are written in the history of Samuel the seer, and in the history of Nathan the prophet, and in the history of Gad the seer,
1 Chronicles 29.30: 30 with all his reign and his might, and the times that went over him, and over Israel, and over all the kingdoms of the countries.
Nehemiah 0.0:
The Book of
Nehemiah
Nehemiah 1.0:
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Nehemiah 1.1: 1 The words of Nehemiah the son of Hacaliah.
Now in the month Chislev, in the twentieth year, as I was in Susa the palace,
Nehemiah 1.2: 2 Hanani, one of my brothers, came, he and certain men out of Judah; and I asked them about the Jews who had escaped, who were left of the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem.
Nehemiah 1.3: 3 They said to me, “The remnant who are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach. The wall of Jerusalem is also broken down, and its gates are burned with fire.”
Nehemiah 1.4: 4 When I heard these words, I sat down and wept, and mourned several days; and I fasted and prayed before the God of heaven,
Nehemiah 1.5: 5 and said, “I beg you, Yahweh, the God of heaven, the great and awesome God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments:
Nehemiah 1.6: 6 Let your ear now be attentive, and your eyes open, that you may listen to the prayer of your servant, which I pray before you at this time, day and night, for the children of Israel your servants, while I confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against you. Yes, I and my father’s house have sinned.
Nehemiah 1.7: 7 We have dealt very corruptly against you, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the ordinances, which you commanded your servant Moses.
Nehemiah 1.8: 8 “Remember, I beg you, the word that you commanded your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you trespass, I will scatter you among the peoples;
Nehemiah 1.9: 9 but if you return to me, and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts were in the uttermost part of the heavens, yet I will gather them from there, and will bring them to the place that I have chosen, to cause my name to dwell there.’
Nehemiah 1.10: 10 “Now these are your servants and your people, whom you have redeemed by your great power, and by your strong hand.
Nehemiah 1.11: 11 Lord, I beg you, let your ear be attentive now to the prayer of your servant, and to the prayer of your servants, who delight to fear your name; and please prosper your servant today, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man.”
Now I was cup bearer to the king.
Nehemiah 2.0:
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Nehemiah 2.1: 1 In the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, when wine was before him, I picked up the wine, and gave it to the king. Now I had not been sad before in his presence.
Nehemiah 2.2: 2 The king said to me, “Why is your face sad, since you are not sick? This is nothing else but sorrow of heart.”
Then I was very much afraid.
Nehemiah 2.3: 3 I said to the king, “Let the king live forever! Why shouldn’t my face be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers’ tombs, lies waste, and its gates have been consumed with fire?”
Nehemiah 2.4: 4 Then the king said to me, “What is your request?”
So I prayed to the God of heaven.
Nehemiah 2.5: 5 I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, that you would send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers’ tombs, that I may build it.”
Nehemiah 2.6: 6 The king said to me (the queen was also sitting by him), “How long will your journey be? When will you return?”
So it pleased the king to send me, and I set a time for him.
Nehemiah 2.7: 7 Moreover I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, let letters be given me to the governors beyond the River, that they may let me pass through until I come to Judah;
Nehemiah 2.8: 8 and a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king’s forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the citadel by the temple, for the wall of the city, and for the house that I will occupy.”
The king granted my requests, because of the good hand of my God on me.
Nehemiah 2.9: 9 Then I came to the governors beyond the River, and gave them the king’s letters. Now the king had sent captains of the army and horsemen with me.
Nehemiah 2.10: 10 When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly, because a man had come to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.
Nehemiah 2.11: 11 So I came to Jerusalem, and was there three days.
Nehemiah 2.12: 12 I arose in the night, I and a few men with me. I didn’t tell anyone what my God put into my heart to do for Jerusalem. There wasn’t any animal with me, except the animal that I rode on.
Nehemiah 2.13: 13 I went out by night by the valley gate, even toward the jackal’s well, then to the dung gate, and inspected the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and its gates were consumed with fire.
Nehemiah 2.14: 14 Then I went on to the spring gate and to the king’s pool, but there was no place for the animal that was under me to pass.
Nehemiah 2.15: 15 Then I went up in the night by the brook, and inspected the wall; and I turned back, and entered by the valley gate, and so returned.
Nehemiah 2.16: 16 The rulers didn’t know where I went, or what I did. I had not as yet told it to the Jews, nor to the priests, nor to the nobles, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest who did the work.
Nehemiah 2.17: 17 Then I said to them, “You see the bad situation that we are in, how Jerusalem lies waste, and its gates are burned with fire. Come, let’s build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we won’t be disgraced.”
Nehemiah 2.18: 18 I told them of the hand of my God which was good on me, as also of the king’s words that he had spoken to me.
They said, “Let’s rise up and build.” So they strengthened their hands for the good work.
Nehemiah 2.19: 19 But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite servant, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they ridiculed us, and despised us, and said, “What is this thing that you are doing? Will you rebel against the king?”
Nehemiah 2.20: 20 Then I answered them, and said to them, “The God of heaven will prosper us. Therefore we, his servants, will arise and build; but you have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem.”
Nehemiah 3.0:
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Nehemiah 3.1: 1 Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brothers the priests, and they built the sheep gate. They sanctified it, and set up its doors. They sanctified it even to the tower of Hammeah, to the tower of Hananel.
Nehemiah 3.2: 2 Next to him the men of Jericho built. Next to them Zaccur the son of Imri built.
Nehemiah 3.3: 3 The sons of Hassenaah built the fish gate. They laid its beams, and set up its doors, its bolts, and its bars.
Nehemiah 3.4: 4 Next to them, Meremoth the son of Uriah, the son of Hakkoz made repairs. Next to them, Meshullam the son of Berechiah, the son of Meshezabel made repairs. Next to them, Zadok the son of Baana made repairs.
Nehemiah 3.5: 5 Next to them, the Tekoites made repairs; but their nobles didn’t put their necks to the Lord’s work.
Nehemiah 3.6: 6 Joiada the son of Paseah and Meshullam the son of Besodeiah repaired the old gate. They laid its beams, and set up its doors, and its bolts, and its bars.
Nehemiah 3.7: 7 Next to them, Melatiah the Gibeonite, and Jadon the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon and of Mizpah, repaired the residence of the governor beyond the River.
Nehemiah 3.8: 8 Next to him, Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, goldsmiths, made repairs. Next to him, Hananiah, one of the perfumers, made repairs, and they fortified Jerusalem even to the wide wall.
Nehemiah 3.9: 9 Next to them, Rephaiah the son of Hur, the ruler of half the district of Jerusalem, made repairs.
Nehemiah 3.10: 10 Next to them, Jedaiah the son of Harumaph made repairs across from his house. Next to him, Hattush the son of Hashabneiah made repairs.
Nehemiah 3.11: 11 Malchijah the son of Harim, and Hasshub the son of Pahathmoab, repaired another portion, and the tower of the furnaces.
Nehemiah 3.12: 12 Next to him, Shallum the son of Hallohesh, the ruler of half the district of Jerusalem, he and his daughters, made repairs.
Nehemiah 3.13: 13 Hanun and the inhabitants of Zanoah repaired the valley gate. They built it, and set up its doors, its bolts, and its bars, and one thousand cubits of the wall to the dung gate.
Nehemiah 3.14: 14 Malchijah the son of Rechab, the ruler of the district of Beth Haccherem repaired the dung gate. He built it, and set up its doors, its bolts, and its bars.
Nehemiah 3.15: 15 Shallun the son of Colhozeh, the ruler of the district of Mizpah repaired the spring gate. He built it, and covered it, and set up its doors, its bolts, and its bars, and the wall of the pool of Shelah by the king’s garden, even to the stairs that go down from David’s city.
Nehemiah 3.16: 16 After him, Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, the ruler of half the district of Beth Zur, made repairs to the place opposite the tombs of David, and to the pool that was made, and to the house of the mighty men.
Nehemiah 3.17: 17 After him, the Levites, Rehum the son of Bani made repairs. Next to him, Hashabiah, the ruler of half the district of Keilah, made repairs for his district.
Nehemiah 3.18: 18 After him, their brothers, Bavvai the son of Henadad, the ruler of half the district of Keilah made repairs.
Nehemiah 3.19: 19 Next to him, Ezer the son of Jeshua, the ruler of Mizpah, repaired another portion, across from the ascent to the armory at the turning of the wall.
Nehemiah 3.20: 20 After him, Baruch the son of Zabbai earnestly repaired another portion, from the turning of the wall to the door of the house of Eliashib the high priest.
Nehemiah 3.21: 21 After him, Meremoth the son of Uriah the son of Hakkoz repaired another portion, from the door of the house of Eliashib even to the end of the house of Eliashib.
Nehemiah 3.22: 22 After him, the priests, the men of the Plain made repairs.
Nehemiah 3.23: 23 After them, Benjamin and Hasshub made repairs across from their house. After them, Azariah the son of Maaseiah the son of Ananiah made repairs beside his own house.
Nehemiah 3.24: 24 After him, Binnui the son of Henadad repaired another portion, from the house of Azariah to the turning of the wall, and to the corner.
Nehemiah 3.25: 25 Palal the son of Uzai made repairs opposite the turning of the wall, and the tower that stands out from the upper house of the king, which is by the court of the guard. After him Pedaiah the son of Parosh made repairs.
Nehemiah 3.26: 26 (Now the temple servants lived in Ophel, to the place opposite the water gate toward the east, and the tower that stands out.)
Nehemiah 3.27: 27 After him the Tekoites repaired another portion, opposite the great tower that stands out, and to the wall of Ophel.
Nehemiah 3.28: 28 Above the horse gate, the priests made repairs, everyone across from his own house.
Nehemiah 3.29: 29 After them, Zadok the son of Immer made repairs across from his own house. After him, Shemaiah the son of Shecaniah, the keeper of the east gate made repairs.
Nehemiah 3.30: 30 After him, Hananiah the son of Shelemiah, and Hanun the sixth son of Zalaph, repaired another portion. After him, Meshullam the son of Berechiah made repairs across from his room.
Nehemiah 3.31: 31 After him, Malchijah, one of the goldsmiths to the house of the temple servants, and of the merchants, made repairs opposite the gate of Hammiphkad, and to the ascent of the corner.
Nehemiah 3.32: 32 Between the ascent of the corner and the sheep gate, the goldsmiths and the merchants made repairs.
Nehemiah 4.0:
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Nehemiah 4.1: 1 But when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry, and was very indignant, and mocked the Jews.
Nehemiah 4.2: 2 He spoke before his brothers and the army of Samaria, and said, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they fortify themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, since they are burned?”
Nehemiah 4.3: 3 Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, “What they are building, if a fox climbed up it, he would break down their stone wall.”
Nehemiah 4.4: 4 “Hear, our God; for we are despised. Turn back their reproach on their own head. Give them up for a plunder in a land of captivity.
Nehemiah 4.5: 5 Don’t cover their iniquity. Don’t let their sin be blotted out from before you; for they have insulted the builders.”
Nehemiah 4.6: 6 So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together to half its height: for the people had a mind to work.
Nehemiah 4.7: 7 But when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabians, the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem went forward, and that the breaches began to be filled, they were very angry;
Nehemiah 4.8: 8 and they all conspired together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion among us.
Nehemiah 4.9: 9 But we made our prayer to our God, and set a watch against them day and night because of them.
Nehemiah 4.10: 10 Judah said, “The strength of the bearers of burdens is fading, and there is much rubble; so that we are not able to build the wall.”
Nehemiah 4.11: 11 Our adversaries said, “They will not know or see, until we come in among them and kill them, and cause the work to cease.”
Nehemiah 4.12: 12 When the Jews who lived by them came, they said to us ten times from all places, “Wherever you turn, they will attack us.”
Nehemiah 4.13: 13 Therefore I set guards in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, in the open places. I set the people by family groups with their swords, their spears, and their bows.
Nehemiah 4.14: 14 I looked, and rose up, and said to the nobles, to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, “Don’t be afraid of them! Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your houses.”
Nehemiah 4.15: 15 When our enemies heard that it was known to us, and God had brought their counsel to nothing, all of us returned to the wall, everyone to his work.
Nehemiah 4.16: 16 From that time forth, half of my servants did the work, and half of them held the spears, the shields, the bows, and the coats of mail; and the rulers were behind all the house of Judah.
Nehemiah 4.17: 17 Those who built the wall, and those who bore burdens loaded themselves; everyone with one of his hands did the work, and with the other held his weapon.
Nehemiah 4.18: 18 Among the builders, everyone wore his sword at his side, and so built. He who sounded the trumpet was by me.
Nehemiah 4.19: 19 I said to the nobles, and to the rulers and to the rest of the people, “The work is great and large, and we are separated on the wall, far from one another.
Nehemiah 4.20: 20 Wherever you hear the sound of the trumpet, rally there to us. Our God will fight for us.”
Nehemiah 4.21: 21 So we did the work. Half of the people held the spears from the rising of the morning until the stars appeared.
Nehemiah 4.22: 22 Likewise at the same time I said to the people, “Let everyone with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a guard to us, and may labor in the day.”
Nehemiah 4.23: 23 So neither I, nor my brothers, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard who followed me, none of us took off our clothes. Everyone took his weapon to the water.
Nehemiah 5.0:
5
Nehemiah 5.1: 1 Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews.
Nehemiah 5.2: 2 For there were some who said, “We, our sons and our daughters, are many. Let us get grain, that we may eat and live.”
Nehemiah 5.3: 3 There were also some who said, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our houses. Let us get grain, because of the famine.”
Nehemiah 5.4: 4 There were also some who said, “We have borrowed money for the king’s tribute using our fields and our vineyards as collateral.
Nehemiah 5.5: 5 Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children as their children. Behold, we bring our sons and our daughters into bondage to be servants, and some of our daughters have been brought into bondage. It is also not in our power to help it, because other men have our fields and our vineyards.”
Nehemiah 5.6: 6 I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words.
Nehemiah 5.7: 7 Then I consulted with myself, and contended with the nobles and the rulers, and said to them, “You exact usury, everyone of his brother.” I held a great assembly against them.
Nehemiah 5.8: 8 I said to them, “We, after our ability, have redeemed our brothers the Jews that were sold to the nations; and would you even sell your brothers, and should they be sold to us?” Then they held their peace, and found not a word to say.
Nehemiah 5.9: 9 Also I said, “The thing that you do is not good. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?
Nehemiah 5.10: 10 I likewise, my brothers and my servants, lend them money and grain. Please let us stop this usury.
Nehemiah 5.11: 11 Please restore to them, even today, their fields, their vineyards, their olive groves, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, that you are charging them.”
Nehemiah 5.12: 12 Then they said, “We will restore them, and will require nothing of them. We will do so, even as you say.”
Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they would do according to this promise.
Nehemiah 5.13: 13 Also I shook out my lap, and said, “So may God shake out every man from his house, and from his labor, that doesn’t perform this promise; even may he be shaken out and emptied like this.”
All the assembly said, “Amen,” and praised Yahweh. The people did according to this promise.
Nehemiah 5.14: 14 Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even to the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes the king, that is, twelve years, I and my brothers have not eaten the bread of the governor.
Nehemiah 5.15: 15 But the former governors who were before me were supported by the people, and took bread and wine from them, plus forty shekels of silver; yes, even their servants ruled over the people; but I didn’t do so, because of the fear of God.
Nehemiah 5.16: 16 Yes, I also continued in the work of this wall. We didn’t buy any land. All my servants were gathered there to the work.
Nehemiah 5.17: 17 Moreover there were at my table, of the Jews and the rulers, one hundred fifty men, in addition to those who came to us from among the nations that were around us.
Nehemiah 5.18: 18 Now that which was prepared for one day was one ox and six choice sheep. Also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days a store of all sorts of wine. Yet for all this, I didn’t demand the governor’s pay, because the bondage was heavy on this people.
Nehemiah 5.19: 19 Remember me, my God, for good, all that I have done for this people.
Nehemiah 6.0:
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Nehemiah 6.1: 1 Now when it was reported to Sanballat, Tobiah, and to Geshem the Arabian, and to the rest of our enemies, that I had built the wall, and that there was no breach left in it (though even to that time I had not set up the doors in the gates)
Nehemiah 6.2: 2 Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, “Come! Let’s meet together in the villages in the plain of Ono.” But they intended to harm me.
Nehemiah 6.3: 3 I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work, so that I can’t come down. Why should the work cease, while I leave it, and come down to you?”
Nehemiah 6.4: 4 They sent to me four times like this; and I answered them the same way.
Nehemiah 6.5: 5 Then Sanballat sent his servant to me the same way the fifth time with an open letter in his hand,
Nehemiah 6.6: 6 in which was written, “It is reported among the nations, and Gashmu says it, that you and the Jews intend to rebel. Because of that, you are building the wall. You would be their king, according to these words.
Nehemiah 6.7: 7 You have also appointed prophets to proclaim of you at Jerusalem, saying, ‘There is a king in Judah!’ Now it will be reported to the king according to these words. Come now therefore, and let’s take counsel together.”
Nehemiah 6.8: 8 Then I sent to him, saying, “There are no such things done as you say, but you imagine them out of your own heart.”
Nehemiah 6.9: 9 For they all would have made us afraid, saying, “Their hands will be weakened from the work, that it not be done.” But now, strengthen my hands.
Nehemiah 6.10: 10 I went to the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabel, who was shut in at his home; and he said, “Let us meet together in God’s house, within the temple, and let’s shut the doors of the temple; for they will come to kill you. Yes, in the night they will come to kill you.”
Nehemiah 6.11: 11 I said, “Should a man like me flee? Who is there that, being such as I, would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in.”
Nehemiah 6.12: 12 I discerned, and behold, God had not sent him; but he pronounced this prophecy against me. Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.
Nehemiah 6.13: 13 He hired so that I would be afraid, do so, and sin, and that they might have material for an evil report, that they might reproach me.
Nehemiah 6.14: 14 “Remember, my God, Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, and also the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets, that would have put me in fear.”
Nehemiah 6.15: 15 So the wall was finished in the twenty-fifth day of Elul, in fifty-two days.
Nehemiah 6.16: 16 When all our enemies heard of it, all the nations that were around us were afraid, and they lost their confidence; for they perceived that this work was done by our God.
Nehemiah 6.17: 17 Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters to Tobiah, and Tobiah’s letters came to them.
Nehemiah 6.18: 18 For there were many in Judah sworn to him, because he was the son-in-law of Shecaniah the son of Arah; and his son Jehohanan had taken the daughter of Meshullam the son of Berechiah as wife.
Nehemiah 6.19: 19 Also they spoke of his good deeds before me, and reported my words to him. Tobiah sent letters to put me in fear.
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Nehemiah 7.1: 1 Now when the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and the gatekeepers and the singers and the Levites were appointed,
Nehemiah 7.2: 2 I put my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the governor of the fortress, in charge of Jerusalem; for he was a faithful man, and feared God above many.
Nehemiah 7.3: 3 I said to them, “Don’t let the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun is hot; and while they stand guard, let them shut the doors, and you bar them: and appoint watches of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, everyone in his watch, with everyone near his house.”
Nehemiah 7.4: 4 Now the city was wide and large; but the people were few therein, and the houses were not built.
Nehemiah 7.5: 5 My God put into my heart to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be listed by genealogy. I found the book of the genealogy of those who came up at the first, and I found this written in it:
Nehemiah 7.6: 6 These are the children of the province who went up out of the captivity of those who had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away, and who returned to Jerusalem and to Judah, everyone to his city,
Nehemiah 7.7: 7 who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah.
The number of the men of the people of Israel:
Nehemiah 7.8: 8 The children of Parosh: two thousand one hundred seventy-two.
Nehemiah 7.9: 9 The children of Shephatiah: three hundred seventy-two.
Nehemiah 7.10: 10 The children of Arah: six hundred fifty-two.
Nehemiah 7.11: 11 The children of Pahathmoab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab: two thousand eight hundred eighteen.
Nehemiah 7.12: 12 The children of Elam: one thousand two hundred fifty-four.
Nehemiah 7.13: 13 The children of Zattu: eight hundred forty-five.
Nehemiah 7.14: 14 The children of Zaccai: seven hundred sixty.
Nehemiah 7.15: 15 The children of Binnui: six hundred forty-eight.
Nehemiah 7.16: 16 The children of Bebai: six hundred twenty-eight.
Nehemiah 7.17: 17 The children of Azgad: two thousand three hundred twenty-two.
Nehemiah 7.18: 18 The children of Adonikam: six hundred sixty-seven.
Nehemiah 7.19: 19 The children of Bigvai: two thousand sixty-seven.
Nehemiah 7.20: 20 The children of Adin: six hundred fifty-five.
Nehemiah 7.21: 21 The children of Ater: of Hezekiah, ninety-eight.
Nehemiah 7.22: 22 The children of Hashum: three hundred twenty-eight.
Nehemiah 7.23: 23 The children of Bezai: three hundred twenty-four.
Nehemiah 7.24: 24 The children of Hariph: one hundred twelve.
Nehemiah 7.25: 25 The children of Gibeon: ninety-five.
Nehemiah 7.26: 26 The men of Bethlehem and Netophah: one hundred eighty-eight.
Nehemiah 7.27: 27 The men of Anathoth: one hundred twenty-eight.
Nehemiah 7.28: 28 The men of Beth Azmaveth: forty-two.
Nehemiah 7.29: 29 The men of Kiriath Jearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth: seven hundred forty-three.
Nehemiah 7.30: 30 The men of Ramah and Geba: six hundred twenty-one.
Nehemiah 7.31: 31 The men of Michmas: one hundred twenty-two.
Nehemiah 7.32: 32 The men of Bethel and Ai: one hundred twenty-three.
Nehemiah 7.33: 33 The men of the other Nebo: fifty-two.
Nehemiah 7.34: 34 The children of the other Elam: one thousand two hundred fifty-four.
Nehemiah 7.35: 35 The children of Harim: three hundred twenty.
Nehemiah 7.36: 36 The children of Jericho: three hundred forty-five.
Nehemiah 7.37: 37 The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono: seven hundred twenty-one.
Nehemiah 7.38: 38 The children of Senaah: three thousand nine hundred thirty.
Nehemiah 7.39: 39 The priests: The children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua: nine hundred seventy-three.
Nehemiah 7.40: 40 The children of Immer: one thousand fifty-two.
Nehemiah 7.41: 41 The children of Pashhur: one thousand two hundred forty-seven.
Nehemiah 7.42: 42 The children of Harim: one thousand seventeen.
Nehemiah 7.43: 43 The Levites: the children of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, of the children of Hodevah: seventy-four.
Nehemiah 7.44: 44 The singers: the children of Asaph: one hundred forty-eight.
Nehemiah 7.45: 45 The gatekeepers: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai: one hundred thirty-eight.
Nehemiah 7.46: 46 The temple servants: the children of Ziha, the children of Hasupha, the children of Tabbaoth,
Nehemiah 7.47: 47 the children of Keros, the children of Sia, the children of Padon,
Nehemiah 7.48: 48 the children of Lebana, the children of Hagaba, the children of Salmai,
Nehemiah 7.49: 49 the children of Hanan, the children of Giddel, the children of Gahar,
Nehemiah 7.50: 50 the children of Reaiah, the children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda,
Nehemiah 7.51: 51 the children of Gazzam, the children of Uzza, the children of Paseah.
Nehemiah 7.52: 52 The children of Besai, the children of Meunim, the children of Nephushesim,
Nehemiah 7.53: 53 the children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, the children of Harhur,
Nehemiah 7.54: 54 the children of Bazlith, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha,
Nehemiah 7.55: 55 the children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Temah,
Nehemiah 7.56: 56 the children of Neziah, and the children of Hatipha.
Nehemiah 7.57: 57 The children of Solomon’s servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Perida,
Nehemiah 7.58: 58 the children of Jaala, the children of Darkon, the children of Giddel,
Nehemiah 7.59: 59 the children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth Hazzebaim, and the children of Amon.
Nehemiah 7.60: 60 All the temple servants and the children of Solomon’s servants were three hundred ninety-two.
Nehemiah 7.61: 61 These were those who went up from Tel Melah, Tel Harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer; but they could not show their fathers’ houses, nor their offspring, whether they were of Israel:
Nehemiah 7.62: 62 The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda: six hundred forty-two.
Nehemiah 7.63: 63 Of the priests: the children of Hobaiah, the children of Hakkoz, the children of Barzillai, who took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name.
Nehemiah 7.64: 64 These searched for their genealogical records, but couldn’t find them. Therefore they were deemed disqualified and removed from the priesthood.
Nehemiah 7.65: 65 The governor told that they should not eat of the most holy things until a priest stood up to minister with Urim and Thummim.
Nehemiah 7.66: 66 The whole assembly together was forty-two thousand three hundred sixty,
Nehemiah 7.67: 67 in addition to their male servants and their female servants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty-seven. They had two hundred forty-five singing men and singing women.
Nehemiah 7.68: 68 Their horses were seven hundred thirty-six; their mules, two hundred forty-five;
Nehemiah 7.69: 69 their camels, four hundred thirty-five; their donkeys, six thousand seven hundred twenty.
Nehemiah 7.70: 70 Some from among the heads of fathers’ households gave to the work. The governor gave to the treasury one thousand darics of gold, fifty basins, and five hundred thirty priests’ garments.
Nehemiah 7.71: 71 Some of the heads of fathers’ households gave into the treasury of the work twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand two hundred minas of silver.
Nehemiah 7.72: 72 That which the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand darics of gold, plus two thousand minas of silver, and sixty-seven priests’ garments.
Nehemiah 7.73: 73 So the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, some of the people, the temple servants, and all Israel, lived in their cities.
When the seventh month had come, the children of Israel were in their cities.
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Nehemiah 8.1: 1 All the people gathered themselves together as one man into the wide place that was in front of the water gate; and they spoke to Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which Yahweh had commanded to Israel.
Nehemiah 8.2: 2 Ezra the priest brought the law before the assembly, both men and women, and all who could hear with understanding, on the first day of the seventh month.
Nehemiah 8.3: 3 He read from it before the wide place that was in front of the water gate from early morning until midday, in the presence of the men and the women, and of those who could understand. The ears of all the people were attentive to the book of the law.
Nehemiah 8.4: 4 Ezra the scribe stood on a pulpit of wood, which they had made for the purpose; and beside him stood Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his right hand; and on his left hand, Pedaiah, Mishael, Malchijah, Hashum, Hashbaddanah, Zechariah, and Meshullam.
Nehemiah 8.5: 5 Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people (for he was above all the people), and when he opened it, all the people stood up.
Nehemiah 8.6: 6 Then Ezra blessed Yahweh, the great God.
All the people answered, “Amen, Amen,” with the lifting up of their hands. They bowed their heads, and worshiped Yahweh with their faces to the ground.
Nehemiah 8.7: 7 Also Jeshua, Bani, Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law; and the people stayed in their place.
Nehemiah 8.8: 8 They read in the book, in the law of God, distinctly; and they gave the sense, so that they understood the reading.
Nehemiah 8.9: 9 Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people, said to all the people, “Today is holy to Yahweh your God. Don’t mourn, nor weep.” For all the people wept when they heard the words of the law.
Nehemiah 8.10: 10 Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared, for today is holy to our Lord. Don’t be grieved, for the joy of Yahweh is your strength.”
Nehemiah 8.11: 11 So the Levites calmed all the people, saying, “Hold your peace, for the day is holy. Don’t be grieved.”
Nehemiah 8.12: 12 All the people went their way to eat, to drink, to send portions, and to celebrate, because they had understood the words that were declared to them.
Nehemiah 8.13: 13 On the second day, the heads of fathers’ households of all the people, the priests, and the Levites were gathered together to Ezra the scribe, to study the words of the law.
Nehemiah 8.14: 14 They found written in the law how Yahweh had commanded by Moses that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month;
Nehemiah 8.15: 15 and that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, “Go out to the mountain, and get olive branches, branches of wild olive, myrtle branches, palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make temporary shelters, as it is written.”
Nehemiah 8.16: 16 So the people went out, and brought them, and made themselves temporary shelters, everyone on the roof of his house, in their courts, in the courts of God’s house, in the wide place of the water gate, and in the wide place of Ephraim’s gate.
Nehemiah 8.17: 17 All the assembly of those who had come back out of the captivity made temporary shelters, and lived in the temporary shelters; for since the days of Jeshua the son of Nun to that day the children of Israel had not done so. There was very great gladness.
Nehemiah 8.18: 18 Also day by day, from the first day to the last day, he read in the book of the law of God. They kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly, according to the ordinance.
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Nehemiah 9.1: 1 Now in the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, with sackcloth, and dirt on them.
Nehemiah 9.2: 2 The offspring of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.
Nehemiah 9.3: 3 They stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of Yahweh their God a fourth part of the day; and a fourth part they confessed, and worshiped Yahweh their God.
Nehemiah 9.4: 4 Then Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani of the Levites stood up on the stairs, and cried with a loud voice to Yahweh their God.
Nehemiah 9.5: 5 Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, “Stand up and bless Yahweh your God from everlasting to everlasting! Blessed be your glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise!
Nehemiah 9.6: 6 You are Yahweh, even you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their army, the earth and all things that are on it, the seas and all that is in them, and you preserve them all. The army of heaven worships you.
Nehemiah 9.7: 7 You are Yahweh, the God who chose Abram, brought him out of Ur of the Chaldees, gave him the name of Abraham,
Nehemiah 9.8: 8 found his heart faithful before you, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, to give it to his offspring, and have performed your words; for you are righteous.
Nehemiah 9.9: 9 “You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heard their cry by the Red Sea,
Nehemiah 9.10: 10 and showed signs and wonders against Pharaoh, and against all his servants, and against all the people of his land; for you knew that they dealt proudly against them, and made a name for yourself, as it is today.
Nehemiah 9.11: 11 You divided the sea before them, so that they went through the middle of the sea on the dry land; and you cast their pursuers into the depths, as a stone into the mighty waters.
Nehemiah 9.12: 12 Moreover, in a pillar of cloud you led them by day; and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them light in the way in which they should go.
Nehemiah 9.13: 13 “You also came down on Mount Sinai, and spoke with them from heaven, and gave them right ordinances and true laws, good statutes and commandments,
Nehemiah 9.14: 14 and made known to them your holy Sabbath, and commanded them commandments, statutes, and a law, by Moses your servant,
Nehemiah 9.15: 15 and gave them bread from the sky for their hunger, and brought water out of the rock for them for their thirst, and commanded them that they should go in to possess the land which you had sworn to give them.
Nehemiah 9.16: 16 “But they and our fathers behaved proudly, hardened their neck, didn’t listen to your commandments,
Nehemiah 9.17: 17 and refused to obey. They weren’t mindful of your wonders that you did among them, but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage. But you are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and didn’t forsake them.
Nehemiah 9.18: 18 Yes, when they had made themselves a molded calf, and said, ‘This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,’ and had committed awful blasphemies;
Nehemiah 9.19: 19 yet you in your manifold mercies didn’t forsake them in the wilderness. The pillar of cloud didn’t depart from over them by day, to lead them in the way; neither did the pillar of fire by night, to show them light, and the way in which they should go.
Nehemiah 9.20: 20 You gave also your good Spirit to instruct them, and didn’t withhold your manna from their mouth, and gave them water for their thirst.
Nehemiah 9.21: 21 “Yes, forty years you sustained them in the wilderness. They lacked nothing. Their clothes didn’t grow old, and their feet didn’t swell.
Nehemiah 9.22: 22 Moreover you gave them kingdoms and peoples, which you allotted according to their portions. So they possessed the land of Sihon, even the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan.
Nehemiah 9.23: 23 You also multiplied their children as the stars of the sky, and brought them into the land concerning which you said to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.
Nehemiah 9.24: 24 “So the children went in and possessed the land, and you subdued before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gave them into their hands, with their kings and the peoples of the land, that they might do with them as they pleased.
Nehemiah 9.25: 25 They took fortified cities and a rich land, and possessed houses full of all good things, cisterns dug out, vineyards, olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate, were filled, became fat, and delighted themselves in your great goodness.
Nehemiah 9.26: 26 “Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, cast your law behind their back, killed your prophets that testified against them to turn them again to you, and they committed awful blasphemies.
Nehemiah 9.27: 27 Therefore you delivered them into the hand of their adversaries, who distressed them. In the time of their trouble, when they cried to you, you heard from heaven; and according to your manifold mercies you gave them saviors who saved them out of the hands of their adversaries.
Nehemiah 9.28: 28 But after they had rest, they did evil again before you; therefore you left them in the hands of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them; yet when they returned, and cried to you, you heard from heaven; and many times you delivered them according to your mercies,
Nehemiah 9.29: 29 and testified against them, that you might bring them again to your law. Yet they were arrogant, and didn’t listen to your commandments, but sinned against your ordinances (which if a man does, he shall live in them), turned their backs, stiffened their neck, and would not hear.
Nehemiah 9.30: 30 Yet many years you put up with them, and testified against them by your Spirit through your prophets. Yet they would not listen. Therefore you gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.
Nehemiah 9.31: 31 “Nevertheless in your manifold mercies you didn’t make a full end of them, nor forsake them; for you are a gracious and merciful God.
Nehemiah 9.32: 32 Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness, don’t let all the travail seem little before you, that has come on us, on our kings, on our princes, on our priests, on our prophets, on our fathers, and on all your people, since the time of the kings of Assyria to this day.
Nehemiah 9.33: 33 However you are just in all that has come on us; for you have dealt truly, but we have done wickedly.
Nehemiah 9.34: 34 Also our kings, our princes, our priests, and our fathers have not kept your law, nor listened to your commandments and your testimonies with which you testified against them.
Nehemiah 9.35: 35 For they have not served you in their kingdom, and in your great goodness that you gave them, and in the large and rich land which you gave before them. They didn’t turn from their wicked works.
Nehemiah 9.36: 36 “Behold, we are servants today, and as for the land that you gave to our fathers to eat its fruit and its good, behold, we are servants in it.
Nehemiah 9.37: 37 It yields much increase to the kings whom you have set over us because of our sins. Also they have power over our bodies and over our livestock, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.
Nehemiah 9.38: 38 Yet for all this, we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, our Levites, and our priests, seal it.”
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Nehemiah 10.1: 1 Now those who sealed were: Nehemiah the governor, the son of Hacaliah, and Zedekiah,
Nehemiah 10.2: 2 Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah,
Nehemiah 10.3: 3 Pashhur, Amariah, Malchijah,
Nehemiah 10.4: 4 Hattush, Shebaniah, Malluch,
Nehemiah 10.5: 5 Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah,
Nehemiah 10.6: 6 Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch,
Nehemiah 10.7: 7 Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin,
Nehemiah 10.8: 8 Maaziah, Bilgai, and Shemaiah. These were the priests.
Nehemiah 10.9: 9 The Levites: namely, Jeshua the son of Azaniah, Binnui of the sons of Henadad, Kadmiel;
Nehemiah 10.10: 10 and their brothers, Shebaniah, Hodiah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan,
Nehemiah 10.11: 11 Mica, Rehob, Hashabiah,
Nehemiah 10.12: 12 Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah,
Nehemiah 10.13: 13 Hodiah, Bani, and Beninu.
Nehemiah 10.14: 14 The chiefs of the people: Parosh, Pahathmoab, Elam, Zattu, Bani,
Nehemiah 10.15: 15 Bunni, Azgad, Bebai,
Nehemiah 10.16: 16 Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin,
Nehemiah 10.17: 17 Ater, Hezekiah, Azzur,
Nehemiah 10.18: 18 Hodiah, Hashum, Bezai,
Nehemiah 10.19: 19 Hariph, Anathoth, Nobai,
Nehemiah 10.20: 20 Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir,
Nehemiah 10.21: 21 Meshezabel, Zadok, Jaddua,
Nehemiah 10.22: 22 Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah,
Nehemiah 10.23: 23 Hoshea, Hananiah, Hasshub,
Nehemiah 10.24: 24 Hallohesh, Pilha, Shobek,
Nehemiah 10.25: 25 Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah,
Nehemiah 10.26: 26 Ahiah, Hanan, Anan,
Nehemiah 10.27: 27 Malluch, Harim, and Baanah.
Nehemiah 10.28: 28 The rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the temple servants, and all those who had separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters—everyone who had knowledge, and understanding—
Nehemiah 10.29: 29 joined with their brothers, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God’s law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of Yahweh our Lord, and his ordinances and his statutes;
Nehemiah 10.30: 30 and that we would not give our daughters to the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons;
Nehemiah 10.31: 31 and if the peoples of the land bring wares or any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy from them on the Sabbath, or on a holy day; and that we would forego the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.
Nehemiah 10.32: 32 Also we made ordinances for ourselves, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God;
Nehemiah 10.33: 33 for the show bread, for the continual meal offering, for the continual burnt offering, for the Sabbaths, for the new moons, for the set feasts, and for the holy things, and for the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.
Nehemiah 10.34: 34 We, the priests, the Levites, and the people, cast lots for the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our God, according to our fathers’ houses, at times appointed, year by year, to burn on Yahweh our God’s altar, as it is written in the law;
Nehemiah 10.35: 35 and to bring the first fruits of our ground, and the first fruits of all fruit of all kinds of trees, year by year, to Yahweh’s house;
Nehemiah 10.36: 36 also the firstborn of our sons, and of our livestock, as it is written in the law, and the firstborn of our herds and of our flocks, to bring to the house of our God, to the priests who minister in the house of our God;
Nehemiah 10.37: 37 and that we should bring the first fruits of our dough, our wave offerings, the fruit of all kinds of trees, and the new wine and the oil, to the priests, to the rooms of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground to the Levites; for they, the Levites, take the tithes in all the cities of our tillage.
Nehemiah 10.38: 38 The priest the son of Aaron shall be with the Levites, when the Levites take tithes. The Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes to the house of our God, to the rooms, into the treasure house.
Nehemiah 10.39: 39 For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring the wave offering of the grain, of the new wine, and of the oil, to the rooms, where the vessels of the sanctuary are, and the priests who minister, with the gatekeepers and the singers. We will not forsake the house of our God.
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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.
Nehemiah 12.0:
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Nehemiah 12.1: 1 Now these are the priests and the Levites who went up with Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra,
Nehemiah 12.2: 2 Amariah, Malluch, Hattush,
Nehemiah 12.3: 3 Shecaniah, Rehum, Meremoth,
Nehemiah 12.4: 4 Iddo, Ginnethoi, Abijah,
Nehemiah 12.5: 5 Mijamin, Maadiah, Bilgah,
Nehemiah 12.6: 6 Shemaiah, and Joiarib, Jedaiah.
Nehemiah 12.7: 7 Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, and Jedaiah. These were the chiefs of the priests and of their brothers in the days of Jeshua.
Nehemiah 12.8: 8 Moreover the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, and Mattaniah, who was over the thanksgiving, he and his brothers.
Nehemiah 12.9: 9 Also Bakbukiah and Unno, their brothers, were close to them according to their offices.
Nehemiah 12.10: 10 Jeshua became the father of Joiakim, and Joiakim became the father of Eliashib, and Eliashib became the father of Joiada,
Nehemiah 12.11: 11 and Joiada became the father of Jonathan, and Jonathan became the father of Jaddua.
Nehemiah 12.12: 12 In the days of Joiakim were priests, heads of fathers’ households: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah;
Nehemiah 12.13: 13 of Ezra, Meshullam; of Amariah, Jehohanan;
Nehemiah 12.14: 14 of Malluchi, Jonathan; of Shebaniah, Joseph;
Nehemiah 12.15: 15 of Harim, Adna; of Meraioth, Helkai;
Nehemiah 12.16: 16 of Iddo, Zechariah; of Ginnethon, Meshullam;
Nehemiah 12.17: 17 of Abijah, Zichri; of Miniamin, of Moadiah, Piltai;
Nehemiah 12.18: 18 of Bilgah, Shammua; of Shemaiah, Jehonathan;
Nehemiah 12.19: 19 and of Joiarib, Mattenai; of Jedaiah, Uzzi;
Nehemiah 12.20: 20 of Sallai, Kallai; of Amok, Eber;
Nehemiah 12.21: 21 of Hilkiah, Hashabiah; of Jedaiah, Nethanel.
Nehemiah 12.22: 22 As for the Levites, in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, and Johanan, and Jaddua, there were recorded the heads of fathers’ households; also the priests, in the reign of Darius the Persian.
Nehemiah 12.23: 23 The sons of Levi, heads of fathers’ households, were written in the book of the chronicles, even until the days of Johanan the son of Eliashib.
Nehemiah 12.24: 24 The chiefs of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua the son of Kadmiel, with their brothers close to them, to praise and give thanks, according to the commandment of David the man of God, watch next to watch.
Nehemiah 12.25: 25 Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were gatekeepers keeping the watch at the storehouses of the gates.
Nehemiah 12.26: 26 These were in the days of Joiakim the son of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the governor, and of Ezra the priest and scribe.
Nehemiah 12.27: 27 At the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem, they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep the dedication with gladness, both with giving thanks, and with singing, with cymbals, stringed instruments, and with harps.
Nehemiah 12.28: 28 The sons of the singers gathered themselves together, both out of the plain around Jerusalem and from the villages of the Netophathites;
Nehemiah 12.29: 29 also from Beth Gilgal, and out of the fields of Geba and Azmaveth: for the singers had built themselves villages around Jerusalem.
Nehemiah 12.30: 30 The priests and the Levites purified themselves; and they purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.
Nehemiah 12.31: 31 Then I brought up the princes of Judah on the wall, and appointed two great companies who gave thanks and went in procession. One went on the right hand on the wall toward the dung gate;
Nehemiah 12.32: 32 and after them went Hoshaiah, with half of the princes of Judah,
Nehemiah 12.33: 33 and Azariah, Ezra, and Meshullam,
Nehemiah 12.34: 34 Judah, Benjamin, Shemaiah, Jeremiah,
Nehemiah 12.35: 35 and some of the priests’ sons with trumpets: Zechariah the son of Jonathan, the son of Shemaiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Micaiah, the son of Zaccur, the son of Asaph;
Nehemiah 12.36: 36 and his brothers, Shemaiah, Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, Judah, and Hanani, with the musical instruments of David the man of God; and Ezra the scribe was before them.
Nehemiah 12.37: 37 By the spring gate, and straight before them, they went up by the stairs of David’s city, at the ascent of the wall, above David’s house, even to the water gate eastward.
Nehemiah 12.38: 38 The other company of those who gave thanks went to meet them, and I after them, with the half of the people, on the wall, above the tower of the furnaces, even to the wide wall,
Nehemiah 12.39: 39 and above the gate of Ephraim, and by the old gate, and by the fish gate, and the tower of Hananel, and the tower of Hammeah, even to the sheep gate: and they stood still in the gate of the guard.
Nehemiah 12.40: 40 So the two companies of those who gave thanks in God’s house stood, and I, and the half of the rulers with me;
Nehemiah 12.41: 41 and the priests, Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Micaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah, and Hananiah, with trumpets;
Nehemiah 12.42: 42 and Maaseiah, Shemaiah, Eleazar, Uzzi, Jehohanan, Malchijah, Elam, and Ezer. The singers sang loud, with Jezrahiah their overseer.
Nehemiah 12.43: 43 They offered great sacrifices that day, and rejoiced; for God had made them rejoice with great joy; and the women and the children also rejoiced; so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard even far away.
Nehemiah 12.44: 44 On that day, men were appointed over the rooms for the treasures, for the wave offerings, for the first fruits, and for the tithes, to gather into them, according to the fields of the cities, the portions appointed by the law for the priests and Levites; for Judah rejoiced for the priests and for the Levites who waited.
Nehemiah 12.45: 45 They performed the duty of their God, and the duty of the purification, and so did the singers and the gatekeepers, according to the commandment of David, and of Solomon his son.
Nehemiah 12.46: 46 For in the days of David and Asaph of old there was a chief of the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgiving to God.
Nehemiah 12.47: 47 All Israel in the days of Zerubbabel, and in the days of Nehemiah, gave the portions of the singers and the gatekeepers, as every day required; and they set apart that which was for the Levites; and the Levites set apart that which was for the sons of Aaron.
Nehemiah 13.0:
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Nehemiah 13.1: 1 On that day they read in the book of Moses in the hearing of the people; and it was found written in it that an Ammonite and a Moabite should not enter into the assembly of God forever,
Nehemiah 13.2: 2 because they didn’t meet the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, to curse them; however our God turned the curse into a blessing.
Nehemiah 13.3: 3 It came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated all the mixed multitude from Israel.
Nehemiah 13.4: 4 Now before this, Eliashib the priest, who was appointed over the rooms of the house of our God, being allied to Tobiah,
Nehemiah 13.5: 5 had prepared for him a great room, where before they laid the meal offerings, the frankincense, the vessels, and the tithes of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, which were given by commandment to the Levites, the singers, and the gatekeepers; and the wave offerings for the priests.
Nehemiah 13.6: 6 But in all this, I was not at Jerusalem; for in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I went to the king; and after some days I asked leave of the king,
Nehemiah 13.7: 7 and I came to Jerusalem, and understood the evil that Eliashib had done for Tobiah, in preparing him a room in the courts of God’s house.
Nehemiah 13.8: 8 It grieved me severely. Therefore I threw all Tobiah’s household stuff out of the room.
Nehemiah 13.9: 9 Then I commanded, and they cleansed the rooms. I brought into them the vessels of God’s house, with the meal offerings and the frankincense again.
Nehemiah 13.10: 10 I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been given them; so that the Levites and the singers, who did the work, had each fled to his field.
Nehemiah 13.11: 11 Then I contended with the rulers, and said, “Why is God’s house forsaken?” I gathered them together, and set them in their place.
Nehemiah 13.12: 12 Then all Judah brought the tithe of the grain, the new wine, and the oil to the treasuries.
Nehemiah 13.13: 13 I made treasurers over the treasuries, Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok the scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah: and next to them was Hanan the son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah; for they were counted faithful, and their business was to distribute to their brothers.
Nehemiah 13.14: 14 Remember me, my God, concerning this, and don’t wipe out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, and for its observances.
Nehemiah 13.15: 15 In those days I saw some men treading wine presses on the Sabbath in Judah, bringing in sheaves, and loading donkeys; also with wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day; and I testified against them in the day in which they sold food.
Nehemiah 13.16: 16 Some men of Tyre also lived there, who brought in fish and all kinds of wares, and sold on the Sabbath to the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem.
Nehemiah 13.17: 17 Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said to them, “What evil thing is this that you do, and profane the Sabbath day?
Nehemiah 13.18: 18 Didn’t your fathers do this, and didn’t our God bring all this evil on us, and on this city? Yet you bring more wrath on Israel by profaning the Sabbath.”
Nehemiah 13.19: 19 It came to pass that when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the Sabbath, I commanded that the doors should be shut, and commanded that they should not be opened until after the Sabbath. I set some of my servants over the gates, so that no burden should be brought in on the Sabbath day.
Nehemiah 13.20: 20 So the merchants and sellers of all kinds of wares camped outside of Jerusalem once or twice.
Nehemiah 13.21: 21 Then I testified against them, and said to them, “Why do you stay around the wall? If you do so again, I will lay hands on you.” From that time on, they didn’t come on the Sabbath.
Nehemiah 13.22: 22 I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the Sabbath day. Remember to me, my God, this also, and spare me according to the greatness of your loving kindness.
Nehemiah 13.23: 23 In those days I also saw the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab;
Nehemiah 13.24: 24 and their children spoke half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews’ language, but according to the language of each people.
Nehemiah 13.25: 25 I contended with them, and cursed them, and struck certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, “You shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons, or for yourselves.
Nehemiah 13.26: 26 Didn’t Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet among many nations there was no king like him, and he was loved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless foreign women caused even him to sin.
Nehemiah 13.27: 27 Shall we then listen to you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women?”
Nehemiah 13.28: 28 One of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite; therefore I chased him from me.
Nehemiah 13.29: 29 Remember them, my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood and of the Levites.
Nehemiah 13.30: 30 Thus I cleansed them from all foreigners, and appointed duties for the priests and for the Levites, everyone in his work;
Nehemiah 13.31: 31 and for the wood offering, at times appointed, and for the first fruits. Remember me, my God, for good.
Job 7.0:
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Job 7.1: 1 “Isn’t a man forced to labor on earth?
Aren’t his days like the days of a hired hand?
Job 7.2: 2 As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow,
as a hireling who looks for his wages,
Job 7.3: 3 so am I made to possess months of misery,
wearisome nights are appointed to me.
Job 7.4: 4 When I lie down, I say,
‘When will I arise, and the night be gone?’
I toss and turn until the dawning of the day.
Job 7.5: 5 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust.
My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.
Job 7.6: 6 My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle,
and are spent without hope.
Job 7.7: 7 Oh remember that my life is a breath.
My eye will no more see good.
Job 7.8: 8 The eye of him who sees me will see me no more.
Your eyes will be on me, but I will not be.
Job 7.9: 9 As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away,
so he who goes down to Sheol will come up no more.
Job 7.10: 10 He will return no more to his house,
neither will his place know him any more.
Job 7.11: 11 “Therefore I will not keep silent.
I will speak in the anguish of my spirit.
I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
Job 7.12: 12 Am I a sea, or a sea monster,
that you put a guard over me?
Job 7.13: 13 When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me.
My couch will ease my complaint;’
Job 7.14: 14 then you scare me with dreams,
and terrify me through visions:
Job 7.15: 15 so that my soul chooses strangling,
death rather than my bones.
Job 7.16: 16 I loathe my life.
I don’t want to live forever.
Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
Job 7.17: 17 What is man, that you should magnify him,
that you should set your mind on him,
Job 7.18: 18 that you should visit him every morning,
and test him every moment?
Job 7.19: 19 How long will you not look away from me,
nor leave me alone until I swallow down my spittle?
Job 7.20: 20 If I have sinned, what do I do to you, you watcher of men?
Why have you set me as a mark for you,
so that I am a burden to myself?
Job 7.21: 21 Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity?
For now will I lie down in the dust.
You will seek me diligently, but I will not be.”
Psalms 7.0:
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A meditation by David, which he sang to Yahweh, concerning the words of Cush, the Benjamite.
Psalms 7.1: 1 Yahweh, my God, I take refuge in you.
Save me from all those who pursue me, and deliver me,
Psalms 7.2: 2 lest they tear apart my soul like a lion,
ripping it in pieces, while there is no one to deliver.
Psalms 7.3: 3 Yahweh, my God, if I have done this,
if there is iniquity in my hands,
Psalms 7.4: 4 if I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me
(yes, I have delivered him who without cause was my adversary),
Psalms 7.5: 5 let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it;
yes, let him tread my life down to the earth,
and lay my glory in the dust. Selah.
Psalms 7.6: 6 Arise, Yahweh, in your anger.
Lift up yourself against the rage of my adversaries.
Awake for me. You have commanded judgment.
Psalms 7.7: 7 Let the congregation of the peoples surround you.
Rule over them on high.
Psalms 7.8: 8 Yahweh administers judgment to the peoples.
Judge me, Yahweh, according to my righteousness,
and to my integrity that is in me.
Psalms 7.9: 9 Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end,
but establish the righteous;
their minds and hearts are searched by the righteous God.
Psalms 7.10: 10 My shield is with God,
who saves the upright in heart.
Psalms 7.11: 11 God is a righteous judge,
yes, a God who has indignation every day.
Psalms 7.12: 12 If a man doesn’t repent, he will sharpen his sword;
he has bent and strung his bow.
Psalms 7.13: 13 He has also prepared for himself the instruments of death.
He makes ready his flaming arrows.
Psalms 7.14: 14 Behold, he travails with iniquity.
Yes, he has conceived mischief,
and brought out falsehood.
Psalms 7.15: 15 He has dug a hole,
and has fallen into the pit which he made.
Psalms 7.16: 16 The trouble he causes shall return to his own head.
His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.
Psalms 7.17: 17 I will give thanks to Yahweh according to his righteousness,
and will sing praise to the name of Yahweh Most High.
Psalms 10.0:
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Psalms 10.1: 1 Why do you stand far off, Yahweh?
Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?
Psalms 10.2: 2 In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak.
They are caught in the schemes that they devise.
Psalms 10.3: 3 For the wicked boasts of his heart’s cravings.
He blesses the greedy and condemns Yahweh.
Psalms 10.4: 4 The wicked, in the pride of his face,
has no room in his thoughts for God.
Psalms 10.5: 5 His ways are prosperous at all times.
He is arrogant, and your laws are far from his sight.
As for all his adversaries, he sneers at them.
Psalms 10.6: 6 He says in his heart, “I shall not be shaken.
For generations I shall have no trouble.”
Psalms 10.7: 7 His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression.
Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.
Psalms 10.8: 8 He lies in wait near the villages.
From ambushes, he murders the innocent.
His eyes are secretly set against the helpless.
Psalms 10.9: 9 He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush.
He lies in wait to catch the helpless.
He catches the helpless when he draws him in his net.
Psalms 10.10: 10 The helpless are crushed.
They collapse.
They fall under his strength.
Psalms 10.11: 11 He says in his heart, “God has forgotten.
He hides his face.
He will never see it.”
Psalms 10.12: 12 Arise, Yahweh!
God, lift up your hand!
Don’t forget the helpless.
Psalms 10.13: 13 Why does the wicked person condemn God,
and say in his heart, “God won’t call me into account?”
Psalms 10.14: 14 But you do see trouble and grief.
You consider it to take it into your hand.
You help the victim and the fatherless.
Psalms 10.15: 15 Break the arm of the wicked.
As for the evil man, seek out his wickedness until you find none.
Psalms 10.16: 16 Yahweh is King forever and ever!
The nations will perish out of his land.
Psalms 10.17: 17 Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble.
You will prepare their heart.
You will cause your ear to hear,
Psalms 10.18: 18 to judge the fatherless and the oppressed,
that man who is of the earth may terrify no more.
Psalms 32.0:
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By David. A contemplative psalm.
Psalms 32.1: 1 Blessed is he whose disobedience is forgiven,
whose sin is covered.
Psalms 32.2: 2 Blessed is the man to whom Yahweh doesn’t impute iniquity,
in whose spirit there is no deceit.
Psalms 32.3: 3 When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.
Psalms 32.4: 4 For day and night your hand was heavy on me.
My strength was sapped in the heat of summer. Selah.
Psalms 32.5: 5 I acknowledged my sin to you.
I didn’t hide my iniquity.
I said, I will confess my transgressions to Yahweh,
and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.
Psalms 32.6: 6 For this, let everyone who is godly pray to you in a time when you may be found.
Surely when the great waters overflow, they shall not reach to him.
Psalms 32.7: 7 You are my hiding place.
You will preserve me from trouble.
You will surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah.
Psalms 32.8: 8 I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go.
I will counsel you with my eye on you.
Psalms 32.9: 9 Don’t be like the horse, or like the mule, which have no understanding,
who are controlled by bit and bridle, or else they will not come near to you.
Psalms 32.10: 10 Many sorrows come to the wicked,
but loving kindness shall surround him who trusts in Yahweh.
Psalms 32.11: 11 Be glad in Yahweh, and rejoice, you righteous!
Shout for joy, all you who are upright in heart!
Song of Solomon 0.0:
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Song of Solomon 1.0:
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Song of Solomon 1.1: 1 The Song of songs, which is Solomon’s.
Beloved
Song of Solomon 1.2: 2 Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth;
for your love is better than wine.
Song of Solomon 1.3: 3 Your oils have a pleasing fragrance.
Your name is oil poured out,
therefore the virgins love you.
Song of Solomon 1.4: 4 Take me away with you.
Let’s hurry.
The king has brought me into his rooms.
Friends
We will be glad and rejoice in you.
We will praise your love more than wine!
Beloved
They are right to love you.
Song of Solomon 1.5: 5 I am dark, but lovely,
you daughters of Jerusalem,
like Kedar’s tents,
like Solomon’s curtains.
Song of Solomon 1.6: 6 Don’t stare at me because I am dark,
because the sun has scorched me.
My mother’s sons were angry with me.
They made me keeper of the vineyards.
I haven’t kept my own vineyard.
Song of Solomon 1.7: 7 Tell me, you whom my soul loves,
where you graze your flock,
where you rest them at noon;
for why should I be as one who is veiled
beside the flocks of your companions?
Lover
Song of Solomon 1.8: 8 If you don’t know, most beautiful among women,
follow the tracks of the sheep.
Graze your young goats beside the shepherds’ tents.
Song of Solomon 1.9: 9 I have compared you, my love,
to a steed in Pharaoh’s chariots.
Song of Solomon 1.10: 10 Your cheeks are beautiful with earrings,
your neck with strings of jewels.
Friends
Song of Solomon 1.11: 11 We will make you earrings of gold,
with studs of silver.
Beloved
Song of Solomon 1.12: 12 While the king sat at his table,
my perfume spread its fragrance.
Song of Solomon 1.13: 13 My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh,
that lies between my breasts.
Song of Solomon 1.14: 14 My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms
from the vineyards of En Gedi.
Lover
Song of Solomon 1.15: 15 Behold, you are beautiful, my love.
Behold, you are beautiful.
Your eyes are like doves.
Beloved
Song of Solomon 1.16: 16 Behold, you are beautiful, my beloved, yes, pleasant;
and our couch is verdant.
Lover
Song of Solomon 1.17: 17 The beams of our house are cedars.
Our rafters are firs.
Song of Solomon 2.0:
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Beloved
Song of Solomon 2.1: 1 I am a rose of Sharon,
a lily of the valleys.
Lover
Song of Solomon 2.2: 2 As a lily among thorns,
so is my love among the daughters.
Beloved
Song of Solomon 2.3: 3 As the apple tree among the trees of the wood,
so is my beloved among the sons.
I sat down under his shadow with great delight,
his fruit was sweet to my taste.
Song of Solomon 2.4: 4 He brought me to the banquet hall.
His banner over me is love.
Song of Solomon 2.5: 5 Strengthen me with raisins,
refresh me with apples;
for I am faint with love.
Song of Solomon 2.6: 6 His left hand is under my head.
His right hand embraces me.
Song of Solomon 2.7: 7 I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem,
by the roes, or by the hinds of the field,
that you not stir up, nor awaken love,
until it so desires.
Song of Solomon 2.8: 8 The voice of my beloved!
Behold, he comes,
leaping on the mountains,
skipping on the hills.
Song of Solomon 2.9: 9 My beloved is like a roe or a young deer.
Behold, he stands behind our wall!
He looks in at the windows.
He glances through the lattice.
Song of Solomon 2.10: 10 My beloved spoke, and said to me,
“Rise up, my love, my beautiful one, and come away.
Song of Solomon 2.11: 11 For behold, the winter is past.
The rain is over and gone.
Song of Solomon 2.12: 12 The flowers appear on the earth.
The time of the singing has come,
and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.
Song of Solomon 2.13: 13 The fig tree ripens her green figs.
The vines are in blossom.
They give out their fragrance.
Arise, my love, my beautiful one,
and come away.”
Lover
Song of Solomon 2.14: 14 My dove in the clefts of the rock,
in the hiding places of the mountainside,
let me see your face.
let me hear your voice;
for your voice is sweet and your face is lovely.
Song of Solomon 2.15: 15 Catch for us the foxes,
the little foxes that plunder the vineyards;
for our vineyards are in blossom.
Beloved
Song of Solomon 2.16: 16 My beloved is mine, and I am his.
He browses among the lilies.
Song of Solomon 2.17: 17 Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away,
turn, my beloved,
and be like a roe or a young deer on the mountains of Bether.
Song of Solomon 3.0:
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Song of Solomon 3.1: 1 By night on my bed,
I sought him whom my soul loves.
I sought him, but I didn’t find him.
Song of Solomon 3.2: 2 I will get up now, and go about the city;
in the streets and in the squares I will seek him whom my soul loves.
I sought him, but I didn’t find him.
Song of Solomon 3.3: 3 The watchmen who go about the city found me;
“Have you seen him whom my soul loves?”
Song of Solomon 3.4: 4 I had scarcely passed from them,
when I found him whom my soul loves.
I held him, and would not let him go,
until I had brought him into my mother’s house,
into the room of her who conceived me.
Song of Solomon 3.5: 5 I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem,
by the roes, or by the hinds of the field,
that you not stir up nor awaken love,
until it so desires.
Song of Solomon 3.6: 6 Who is this who comes up from the wilderness like pillars of smoke,
perfumed with myrrh and frankincense,
with all spices of the merchant?
Song of Solomon 3.7: 7 Behold, it is Solomon’s carriage!
Sixty mighty men are around it,
of the mighty men of Israel.
Song of Solomon 3.8: 8 They all handle the sword, and are expert in war.
Every man has his sword on his thigh,
because of fear in the night.
Song of Solomon 3.9: 9 King Solomon made himself a carriage
of the wood of Lebanon.
Song of Solomon 3.10: 10 He made its pillars of silver,
its bottom of gold, its seat of purple,
the middle of it being paved with love,
from the daughters of Jerusalem.
Song of Solomon 3.11: 11 Go out, you daughters of Zion, and see king Solomon,
with the crown with which his mother has crowned him,
in the day of his weddings,
in the day of the gladness of his heart.
Song of Solomon 4.0:
4
Lover
Song of Solomon 4.1: 1 Behold, you are beautiful, my love.
Behold, you are beautiful.
Your eyes are like doves behind your veil.
Your hair is as a flock of goats,
that descend from Mount Gilead.
Song of Solomon 4.2: 2 Your teeth are like a newly shorn flock,
which have come up from the washing,
where every one of them has twins.
None is bereaved among them.
Song of Solomon 4.3: 3 Your lips are like scarlet thread.
Your mouth is lovely.
Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil.
Song of Solomon 4.4: 4 Your neck is like David’s tower built for an armory,
on which a thousand shields hang,
all the shields of the mighty men.
Song of Solomon 4.5: 5 Your two breasts are like two fawns
that are twins of a roe,
which feed among the lilies.
Song of Solomon 4.6: 6 Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away,
I will go to the mountain of myrrh,
to the hill of frankincense.
Song of Solomon 4.7: 7 You are all beautiful, my love.
There is no spot in you.
Song of Solomon 4.8: 8 Come with me from Lebanon, my bride,
with me from Lebanon.
Look from the top of Amana,
from the top of Senir and Hermon,
from the lions’ dens,
from the mountains of the leopards.
Song of Solomon 4.9: 9 You have ravished my heart, my sister, my bride.
You have ravished my heart with one of your eyes,
with one chain of your neck.
Song of Solomon 4.10: 10 How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride!
How much better is your love than wine,
the fragrance of your perfumes than all kinds of spices!
Song of Solomon 4.11: 11 Your lips, my bride, drip like the honeycomb.
Honey and milk are under your tongue.
The smell of your garments is like the smell of Lebanon.
Song of Solomon 4.12: 12 My sister, my bride, is a locked up garden;
a locked up spring,
a sealed fountain.
Song of Solomon 4.13: 13 Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits,
henna with spikenard plants,
Song of Solomon 4.14: 14 spikenard and saffron,
calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of incense tree;
myrrh and aloes, with all the best spices,
Song of Solomon 4.15: 15 a fountain of gardens,
a well of living waters,
flowing streams from Lebanon.
Beloved
Song of Solomon 4.16: 16 Awake, north wind, and come, you south!
Blow on my garden, that its spices may flow out.
Let my beloved come into his garden,
and taste his precious fruits.
Song of Solomon 5.0:
5
Lover
Song of Solomon 5.1: 1 I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride.
I have gathered my myrrh with my spice;
I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey;
I have drunk my wine with my milk.
Friends
Eat, friends!
Drink, yes, drink abundantly, beloved.
Beloved
Song of Solomon 5.2: 2 I was asleep, but my heart was awake.
It is the voice of my beloved who knocks:
“Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled;
for my head is filled with dew,
and my hair with the dampness of the night.”
Song of Solomon 5.3: 3 I have taken off my robe. Indeed, must I put it on?
I have washed my feet. Indeed, must I soil them?
Song of Solomon 5.4: 4 My beloved thrust his hand in through the latch opening.
My heart pounded for him.
Song of Solomon 5.5: 5 I rose up to open for my beloved.
My hands dripped with myrrh,
my fingers with liquid myrrh,
on the handles of the lock.
Song of Solomon 5.6: 6 I opened to my beloved;
but my beloved left, and had gone away.
My heart went out when he spoke.
I looked for him, but I didn’t find him.
I called him, but he didn’t answer.
Song of Solomon 5.7: 7 The watchmen who go about the city found me.
They beat me.
They bruised me.
The keepers of the walls took my cloak away from me.
Song of Solomon 5.8: 8 I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem,
If you find my beloved,
that you tell him that I am faint with love.
Friends
Song of Solomon 5.9: 9 How is your beloved better than another beloved,
you fairest among women?
How is your beloved better than another beloved,
that you do so adjure us?
Beloved
Song of Solomon 5.10: 10 My beloved is white and ruddy.
The best among ten thousand.
Song of Solomon 5.11: 11 His head is like the purest gold.
His hair is bushy, black as a raven.
Song of Solomon 5.12: 12 His eyes are like doves beside the water brooks,
washed with milk, mounted like jewels.
Song of Solomon 5.13: 13 His cheeks are like a bed of spices with towers of perfumes.
His lips are like lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.
Song of Solomon 5.14: 14 His hands are like rings of gold set with beryl.
His body is like ivory work overlaid with sapphires.
Song of Solomon 5.15: 15 His legs are like pillars of marble set on sockets of fine gold.
His appearance is like Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.
Song of Solomon 5.16: 16 His mouth is sweetness;
yes, he is altogether lovely.
This is my beloved, and this is my friend,
daughters of Jerusalem.
Song of Solomon 6.0:
6
Friends
Song of Solomon 6.1: 1 Where has your beloved gone, you fairest among women?
Where has your beloved turned, that we may seek him with you?
Beloved
Song of Solomon 6.2: 2 My beloved has gone down to his garden,
to the beds of spices,
to pasture his flock in the gardens, and to gather lilies.
Song of Solomon 6.3: 3 I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine.
He browses among the lilies.
Lover
Song of Solomon 6.4: 4 You are beautiful, my love, as Tirzah,
lovely as Jerusalem,
awesome as an army with banners.
Song of Solomon 6.5: 5 Turn away your eyes from me,
for they have overcome me.
Your hair is like a flock of goats,
that lie along the side of Gilead.
Song of Solomon 6.6: 6 Your teeth are like a flock of ewes,
which have come up from the washing,
of which every one has twins;
not one is bereaved among them.
Song of Solomon 6.7: 7 Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil.
Song of Solomon 6.8: 8 There are sixty queens, eighty concubines,
and virgins without number.
Song of Solomon 6.9: 9 My dove, my perfect one, is unique.
She is her mother’s only daughter.
She is the favorite one of her who bore her.
The daughters saw her, and called her blessed.
The queens and the concubines saw her, and they praised her.
Song of Solomon 6.10: 10 Who is she who looks out as the morning,
beautiful as the moon,
clear as the sun,
and awesome as an army with banners?
Song of Solomon 6.11: 11 I went down into the nut tree grove,
to see the green plants of the valley,
to see whether the vine budded,
and the pomegranates were in flower.
Song of Solomon 6.12: 12 Without realizing it,
my desire set me with my royal people’s chariots.
Friends
Song of Solomon 6.13: 13 Return, return, Shulammite!
Return, return, that we may gaze at you.
Lover
Why do you desire to gaze at the Shulammite,
as at the dance of Mahanaim?
Song of Solomon 7.0:
7
Song of Solomon 7.1: 1 How beautiful are your feet in sandals, prince’s daughter!
Your rounded thighs are like jewels,
the work of the hands of a skillful workman.
Song of Solomon 7.2: 2 Your body is like a round goblet,
no mixed wine is wanting.
Your waist is like a heap of wheat,
set about with lilies.
Song of Solomon 7.3: 3 Your two breasts are like two fawns,
that are twins of a roe.
Song of Solomon 7.4: 4 Your neck is like an ivory tower.
Your eyes are like the pools in Heshbon by the gate of Bathrabbim.
Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon which looks toward Damascus.
Song of Solomon 7.5: 5 Your head on you is like Carmel.
The hair of your head like purple.
The king is held captive in its tresses.
Song of Solomon 7.6: 6 How beautiful and how pleasant you are,
love, for delights!
Song of Solomon 7.7: 7 This, your stature, is like a palm tree,
your breasts like its fruit.
Song of Solomon 7.8: 8 I said, “I will climb up into the palm tree.
I will take hold of its fruit.”
Let your breasts be like clusters of the vine,
the smell of your breath like apples.
Song of Solomon 7.9: 9 Your mouth is like the best wine,
that goes down smoothly for my beloved,
gliding through the lips of those who are asleep.
Beloved
Song of Solomon 7.10: 10 I am my beloved’s.
His desire is toward me.
Song of Solomon 7.11: 11 Come, my beloved! Let’s go out into the field.
Let’s lodge in the villages.
Song of Solomon 7.12: 12 Let’s go early up to the vineyards.
Let’s see whether the vine has budded,
its blossom is open,
and the pomegranates are in flower.
There I will give you my love.
Song of Solomon 7.13: 13 The mandrakes produce fragrance.
At our doors are all kinds of precious fruits, new and old,
which I have stored up for you, my beloved.
Song of Solomon 8.0:
8
Song of Solomon 8.1: 1 Oh that you were like my brother,
who nursed from the breasts of my mother!
If I found you outside, I would kiss you;
yes, and no one would despise me.
Song of Solomon 8.2: 2 I would lead you, bringing you into the house of my mother,
who would instruct me.
I would have you drink spiced wine,
of the juice of my pomegranate.
Song of Solomon 8.3: 3 His left hand would be under my head.
His right hand would embrace me.
Song of Solomon 8.4: 4 I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem,
that you not stir up, nor awaken love,
until it so desires.
Friends
Song of Solomon 8.5: 5 Who is this who comes up from the wilderness,
leaning on her beloved?
Beloved
Under the apple tree I aroused you.
There your mother conceived you.
There she was in labor and bore you.
Song of Solomon 8.6: 6 Set me as a seal on your heart,
as a seal on your arm;
for love is strong as death.
Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol.
Its flashes are flashes of fire,
a very flame of Yahweh.
Song of Solomon 8.7: 7 Many waters can’t quench love,
neither can floods drown it.
If a man would give all the wealth of his house for love,
he would be utterly scorned.
Brothers
Song of Solomon 8.8: 8 We have a little sister.
She has no breasts.
What shall we do for our sister
in the day when she is to be spoken for?
Song of Solomon 8.9: 9 If she is a wall,
we will build on her a turret of silver.
If she is a door,
we will enclose her with boards of cedar.
Beloved
Song of Solomon 8.10: 10 I am a wall, and my breasts like towers,
then I was in his eyes like one who found peace.
Song of Solomon 8.11: 11 Solomon had a vineyard at Baal Hamon.
He leased out the vineyard to keepers.
Each was to bring a thousand shekels of silver for its fruit.
Song of Solomon 8.12: 12 My own vineyard is before me.
The thousand are for you, Solomon,
two hundred for those who tend its fruit.
Lover
Song of Solomon 8.13: 13 You who dwell in the gardens, with friends in attendance,
let me hear your voice!
Beloved
Song of Solomon 8.14: 14 Come away, my beloved!
Be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices!
Ezekiel 13.0:
13
Ezekiel 13.1: 1 Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
Ezekiel 13.2: 2 “Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who prophesy, and say to those who prophesy out of their own heart, ‘Hear Yahweh’s word:
Ezekiel 13.3: 3 The Lord Yahweh says, “Woe to the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!
Ezekiel 13.4: 4 Israel, your prophets have been like foxes in the waste places.
Ezekiel 13.5: 5 You have not gone up into the gaps or built up the wall for the house of Israel, to stand in the battle in Yahweh’s day.
Ezekiel 13.6: 6 They have seen falsehood and lying divination, who say, ‘Yahweh says;’ but Yahweh has not sent them. They have made men to hope that the word would be confirmed.
Ezekiel 13.7: 7 Haven’t you seen a false vision, and haven’t you spoken a lying divination, in that you say, ‘Yahweh says;’ but I have not spoken?”
Ezekiel 13.8: 8 “‘Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “Because you have spoken falsehood and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you,” says the Lord Yahweh.
Ezekiel 13.9: 9 “My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and who utter lying divinations. They will not be in the council of my people, neither will they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither will they enter into the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.”
Ezekiel 13.10: 10 “‘Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, “Peace;” and there is no peace. When one builds up a wall, behold, they plaster it with whitewash.
Ezekiel 13.11: 11 Tell those who plaster it with whitewash that it will fall. There will be an overflowing shower; and you, great hailstones, will fall. A stormy wind will tear it.
Ezekiel 13.12: 12 Behold, when the wall has fallen, won’t it be said to you, “Where is the plaster with which you have plastered it?”
Ezekiel 13.13: 13 “‘Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “I will even tear it with a stormy wind in my wrath. There will be an overflowing shower in my anger, and great hailstones in wrath to consume it.
Ezekiel 13.14: 14 So I will break down the wall that you have plastered with whitewash, and bring it down to the ground, so that its foundation will be uncovered. It will fall, and you will be consumed in the middle of it. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.
Ezekiel 13.15: 15 Thus I will accomplish my wrath on the wall, and on those who have plastered it with whitewash. I will tell you, ‘The wall is no more, neither those who plastered it;
Ezekiel 13.16: 16 to wit, the prophets of Israel who prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and who see visions of peace for her, and there is no peace,’” says the Lord Yahweh.’”
Ezekiel 13.17: 17 You, son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people, who prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy against them,
Ezekiel 13.18: 18 and say, “The Lord Yahweh says: ‘Woe to the women who sew pillows on all elbows, and make kerchiefs for the head of persons of every stature to hunt souls! Will you hunt the souls of my people, and save souls alive for yourselves?
Ezekiel 13.19: 19 You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to kill the souls who should not die, and to save the souls alive who should not live, by your lying to my people who listen to lies.’
Ezekiel 13.20: 20 “Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I am against your pillows, with which you hunt the souls to make them fly, and I will tear them from your arms. I will let the souls go, even the souls whom you hunt to make them fly.
Ezekiel 13.21: 21 I will also tear your kerchiefs, and deliver my people out of your hand, and they will be no more in your hand to be hunted. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.
Ezekiel 13.22: 22 Because with lies you have grieved the heart of the righteous, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, and be saved alive.
Ezekiel 13.23: 23 Therefore you shall no more see false visions, nor practice divination. I will deliver my people out of your hand. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.’”
Ezekiel 21.0:
21
Ezekiel 21.1: 1 Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
Ezekiel 21.2: 2 “Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem, and preach toward the sanctuaries, and prophesy against the land of Israel.
Ezekiel 21.3: 3 Tell the land of Israel, ‘Yahweh says: “Behold, I am against you, and will draw my sword out of its sheath, and will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked.
Ezekiel 21.4: 4 Seeing then that I will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked, therefore my sword will go out of its sheath against all flesh from the south to the north.
Ezekiel 21.5: 5 All flesh will know that I, Yahweh, have drawn my sword out of its sheath. It will not return any more.”’
Ezekiel 21.6: 6 “Therefore sigh, you son of man. You shall sigh before their eyes with a broken heart and with bitterness.
Ezekiel 21.7: 7 It shall be, when they ask you, ‘Why do you sigh?’ that you shall say, ‘Because of the news, for it comes! Every heart will melt, all hands will be feeble, every spirit will faint, and all knees will be weak as water. Behold, it comes, and it shall be done, says the Lord Yahweh.’”
Ezekiel 21.8: 8 Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
Ezekiel 21.9: 9 “Son of man, prophesy, and say, ‘Yahweh says:
“A sword! A sword!
It is sharpened,
and also polished.
Ezekiel 21.10: 10 It is sharpened that it may make a slaughter.
It is polished that it may be as lightning.
Should we then make mirth?
The rod of my son condemns every tree.
Ezekiel 21.11: 11 It is given to be polished,
that it may be handled.
The sword is sharpened.
Yes, it is polished
to give it into the hand of the killer.”’
Ezekiel 21.12: 12 Cry and wail, son of man;
for it is on my people.
It is on all the princes of Israel.
They are delivered over to the sword with my people.
Therefore beat your thigh.
Ezekiel 21.13: 13 “For there is a trial. What if even the rod that condemns will be no more?” says the Lord Yahweh.
Ezekiel 21.14: 14 “You therefore, son of man, prophesy,
and strike your hands together.
Let the sword be doubled the third time,
the sword of the fatally wounded.
It is the sword of the great one who is fatally wounded,
which enters into their rooms.
Ezekiel 21.15: 15 I have set the threatening sword against all their gates,
that their heart may melt,
and their stumblings be multiplied.
Ah! It is made as lightning.
It is pointed for slaughter.
Ezekiel 21.16: 16 Gather yourselves together.
Go to the right.
Set yourselves in array.
Go to the left,
wherever your face is set.
Ezekiel 21.17: 17 I will also strike my hands together,
and I will cause my wrath to rest.
I, Yahweh, have spoken it.”
Ezekiel 21.18: 18 Yahweh’s word came to me again, saying,
Ezekiel 21.19: 19 “Also, you son of man, appoint two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come. They both will come out of one land, and mark out a place. Mark it out at the head of the way to the city.
Ezekiel 21.20: 20 You shall appoint a way for the sword to come to Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and to Judah in Jerusalem the fortified.
Ezekiel 21.21: 21 For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination. He shook the arrows back and forth. He consulted the teraphim. He looked in the liver.
Ezekiel 21.22: 22 In his right hand was the lot for Jerusalem, to set battering rams, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to set battering rams against the gates, to cast up mounds, and to build forts.
Ezekiel 21.23: 23 It will be to them as a false divination in their sight, who have sworn oaths to them; but he brings iniquity to memory, that they may be taken.
Ezekiel 21.24: 24 “Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Because you have caused your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are uncovered, so that in all your doings your sins appear; because you have come to memory, you will be taken with the hand.
Ezekiel 21.25: 25 “‘You, deadly wounded wicked one, the prince of Israel, whose day has come, in the time of the iniquity of the end,
Ezekiel 21.26: 26 the Lord Yahweh says: “Remove the turban, and take off the crown. This will not be as it was. Exalt that which is low, and humble that which is high.
Ezekiel 21.27: 27 I will overturn, overturn, overturn it. This also will be no more, until he comes whose right it is; and I will give it.”’
Ezekiel 21.28: 28 “You, son of man, prophesy, and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says this concerning the children of Ammon, and concerning their reproach:
“A sword! A sword is drawn!
It is polished for the slaughter,
to cause it to devour,
that it may be as lightning;
Ezekiel 21.29: 29 while they see for you false visions,
while they divine lies to you,
to lay you on the necks of the wicked who are deadly wounded,
whose day has come in the time of the iniquity of the end.
Ezekiel 21.30: 30 Cause it to return into its sheath.
In the place where you were created,
in the land of your birth, I will judge you.
Ezekiel 21.31: 31 I will pour out my indignation on you.
I will blow on you with the fire of my wrath.
I will deliver you into the hand of brutish men,
skillful to destroy.
Ezekiel 21.32: 32 You will be for fuel to the fire.
Your blood will be in the middle of the land.
You will be remembered no more;
for I, Yahweh, have spoken it.”’”
Joel 0.0:
The Book of
Joel
Joel 1.0:
1
Joel 1.1: 1 Yahweh’s word that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel.
Joel 1.2: 2 Hear this, you elders,
And listen, all you inhabitants of the land.
Has this ever happened in your days,
or in the days of your fathers?
Joel 1.3: 3 Tell your children about it,
and have your children tell their children,
and their children, another generation.
Joel 1.4: 4 What the swarming locust has left, the great locust has eaten.
What the great locust has left, the grasshopper has eaten.
What the grasshopper has left, the caterpillar has eaten.
Joel 1.5: 5 Wake up, you drunkards, and weep!
Wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine;
for it is cut off from your mouth.
Joel 1.6: 6 For a nation has come up on my land, strong, and without number.
His teeth are the teeth of a lion,
and he has the fangs of a lioness.
Joel 1.7: 7 He has laid my vine waste,
and stripped my fig tree.
He has stripped its bark, and thrown it away.
Its branches are made white.
Joel 1.8: 8 Mourn like a virgin dressed in sackcloth for the husband of her youth!
Joel 1.9: 9 The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from Yahweh’s house.
The priests, Yahweh’s ministers, mourn.
Joel 1.10: 10 The field is laid waste.
The land mourns, for the grain is destroyed,
The new wine has dried up,
and the oil languishes.
Joel 1.11: 11 Be confounded, you farmers!
Wail, you vineyard keepers;
for the wheat and for the barley;
for the harvest of the field has perished.
Joel 1.12: 12 The vine has dried up, and the fig tree withered;
the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree,
even all of the trees of the field are withered;
for joy has withered away from the sons of men.
Joel 1.13: 13 Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests!
Wail, you ministers of the altar.
Come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God,
for the meal offering and the drink offering are withheld from your God’s house.
Joel 1.14: 14 Sanctify a fast.
Call a solemn assembly.
Gather the elders,
and all the inhabitants of the land, to the house of Yahweh, your God,
and cry to Yahweh.
Joel 1.15: 15 Alas for the day!
For the day of Yahweh is at hand,
and it will come as destruction from the Almighty.
Joel 1.16: 16 Isn’t the food cut off before our eyes;
joy and gladness from the house of our God?
Joel 1.17: 17 The seeds rot under their clods.
The granaries are laid desolate.
The barns are broken down, for the grain has withered.
Joel 1.18: 18 How the animals groan!
The herds of livestock are perplexed, because they have no pasture.
Yes, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.
Joel 1.19: 19 Yahweh, I cry to you,
For the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness,
and the flame has burned all the trees of the field.
Joel 1.20: 20 Yes, the animals of the field pant to you,
for the water brooks have dried up,
And the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.
Joel 2.0:
2
Joel 2.1: 1 Blow the trumpet in Zion,
and sound an alarm in my holy mountain!
Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble,
for the day of Yahweh comes,
for it is close at hand:
Joel 2.2: 2 A day of darkness and gloominess,
a day of clouds and thick darkness.
As the dawn spreading on the mountains,
a great and strong people;
there has never been the like,
neither will there be any more after them,
even to the years of many generations.
Joel 2.3: 3 A fire devours before them,
and behind them, a flame burns.
The land is as the garden of Eden before them,
and behind them, a desolate wilderness.
Yes, and no one has escaped them.
Joel 2.4: 4 Their appearance is as the appearance of horses,
and they run as horsemen.
Joel 2.5: 5 Like the noise of chariots on the tops of the mountains, they leap,
like the noise of a flame of fire that devours the stubble,
like a strong people set in battle array.
Joel 2.6: 6 At their presence the peoples are in anguish.
All faces have grown pale.
Joel 2.7: 7 They run like mighty men.
They climb the wall like warriors.
They each march in his line, and they don’t swerve off course.
Joel 2.8: 8 Neither does one jostle another;
they march everyone in his path,
and they burst through the defenses,
and don’t break ranks.
Joel 2.9: 9 They rush on the city.
They run on the wall.
They climb up into the houses.
They enter in at the windows like thieves.
Joel 2.10: 10 The earth quakes before them.
The heavens tremble.
The sun and the moon are darkened,
and the stars withdraw their shining.
Joel 2.11: 11 Yahweh thunders his voice before his army;
for his forces are very great;
for he is strong who obeys his command;
for the day of Yahweh is great and very awesome,
and who can endure it?
Joel 2.12: 12 “Yet even now,” says Yahweh, “turn to me with all your heart,
and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.”
Joel 2.13: 13 Tear your heart, and not your garments,
and turn to Yahweh, your God;
for he is gracious and merciful,
slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness,
and relents from sending calamity.
Joel 2.14: 14 Who knows? He may turn and relent,
and leave a blessing behind him,
even a meal offering and a drink offering to Yahweh, your God.
Joel 2.15: 15 Blow the trumpet in Zion!
Sanctify a fast.
Call a solemn assembly.
Joel 2.16: 16 Gather the people.
Sanctify the assembly.
Assemble the elders.
Gather the children, and those who nurse from breasts.
Let the bridegroom go out of his room,
and the bride out of her room.
Joel 2.17: 17 Let the priests, the ministers of Yahweh, weep between the porch and the altar,
and let them say, “Spare your people, Yahweh,
and don’t give your heritage to reproach,
that the nations should rule over them.
Why should they say among the peoples,
‘Where is their God?’”
Joel 2.18: 18 Then Yahweh was jealous for his land,
And had pity on his people.
Joel 2.19: 19 Yahweh answered his people,
“Behold, I will send you grain, new wine, and oil,
and you will be satisfied with them;
and I will no more make you a reproach among the nations.
Joel 2.20: 20 But I will remove the northern army far away from you,
and will drive it into a barren and desolate land,
its front into the eastern sea,
and its back into the western sea;
and its stench will come up,
and its bad smell will rise.”
Surely he has done great things.
Joel 2.21: 21 Land, don’t be afraid.
Be glad and rejoice, for Yahweh has done great things.
Joel 2.22: 22 Don’t be afraid, you animals of the field;
for the pastures of the wilderness spring up,
for the tree bears its fruit.
The fig tree and the vine yield their strength.
Joel 2.23: 23 “Be glad then, you children of Zion,
and rejoice in Yahweh, your God;
for he gives you the early rain in just measure,
and he causes the rain to come down for you,
the early rain and the latter rain,
as before.
Joel 2.24: 24 The threshing floors will be full of wheat,
and the vats will overflow with new wine and oil.
Joel 2.25: 25 I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten,
the great locust, the grasshopper, and the caterpillar,
my great army, which I sent among you.
Joel 2.26: 26 You will have plenty to eat, and be satisfied,
and will praise the name of Yahweh, your God,
who has dealt wondrously with you;
and my people will never again be disappointed.
Joel 2.27: 27 You will know that I am among Israel,
and that I am Yahweh, your God, and there is no one else;
and my people will never again be disappointed.
Joel 2.28: 28 “It will happen afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh;
and your sons and your daughters will prophesy.
Your old men will dream dreams.
Your young men will see visions.
Joel 2.29: 29 And also on the servants and on the handmaids in those days,
I will pour out my Spirit.
Joel 2.30: 30 I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth:
blood, fire, and pillars of smoke.
Joel 2.31: 31 The sun will be turned into darkness,
and the moon into blood,
before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.
Joel 2.32: 32 It will happen that whoever will call on Yahweh’s name shall be saved;
for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be those who escape,
as Yahweh has said,
and among the remnant, those whom Yahweh calls.
Joel 3.0:
3
Joel 3.1: 1 “For, behold, in those days,
and in that time,
when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,
Joel 3.2: 2 I will gather all nations,
and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat;
and I will execute judgment on them there for my people,
and for my heritage, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations.
They have divided my land,
Joel 3.3: 3 and have cast lots for my people,
and have given a boy for a prostitute,
and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.
Joel 3.4: 4 “Yes, and what are you to me, Tyre, and Sidon,
and all the regions of Philistia?
Will you repay me?
And if you repay me,
I will swiftly and speedily return your repayment on your own head.
Joel 3.5: 5 Because you have taken my silver and my gold,
and have carried my finest treasures into your temples,
Joel 3.6: 6 and have sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem to the sons of the Greeks,
that you may remove them far from their border.
Joel 3.7: 7 Behold, I will stir them up out of the place where you have sold them,
and will return your repayment on your own head;
Joel 3.8: 8 and I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hands of the children of Judah,
and they will sell them to the men of Sheba,
to a faraway nation,
for Yahweh has spoken it.”
Joel 3.9: 9 Proclaim this among the nations:
“Prepare for war!
Stir up the mighty men.
Let all the warriors draw near.
Let them come up.
Joel 3.10: 10 Beat your plowshares into swords,
and your pruning hooks into spears.
Let the weak say, ‘I am strong.’
Joel 3.11: 11 Hurry and come, all you surrounding nations,
and gather yourselves together.”
Cause your mighty ones to come down there, Yahweh.
Joel 3.12: 12 “Let the nations arouse themselves,
and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat;
for there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations.
Joel 3.13: 13 Put in the sickle;
for the harvest is ripe.
Come, tread, for the wine press is full,
the vats overflow, for their wickedness is great.”
Joel 3.14: 14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision!
For the day of Yahweh is near, in the valley of decision.
Joel 3.15: 15 The sun and the moon are darkened,
and the stars withdraw their shining.
Joel 3.16: 16 Yahweh will roar from Zion,
and thunder from Jerusalem;
and the heavens and the earth will shake;
but Yahweh will be a refuge to his people,
and a stronghold to the children of Israel.
Joel 3.17: 17 “So you will know that I am Yahweh, your God,
dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain.
Then Jerusalem will be holy,
and no strangers will pass through her any more.
Joel 3.18: 18 It will happen in that day,
that the mountains will drop down sweet wine,
the hills will flow with milk,
all the brooks of Judah will flow with waters,
and a fountain will flow out from Yahweh’s house,
and will water the valley of Shittim.
Joel 3.19: 19 Egypt will be a desolation,
and Edom will be a desolate wilderness,
for the violence done to the children of Judah,
because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
Joel 3.20: 20 But Judah will be inhabited forever,
and Jerusalem from generation to generation.
Joel 3.21: 21 I will cleanse their blood,
that I have not cleansed:
for Yahweh dwells in Zion.”
Obadiah 0.0:
The Book of
Obadiah
Obadiah 1.0:
1
Obadiah 1.1: 1 The vision of Obadiah. This is what the Lord Yahweh says about Edom. We have heard news from Yahweh, and an ambassador is sent among the nations, saying, “Arise, and let’s rise up against her in battle.
Obadiah 1.2: 2 Behold, I have made you small among the nations. You are greatly despised.
Obadiah 1.3: 3 The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’
Obadiah 1.4: 4 Though you mount on high as the eagle, and though your nest is set among the stars, I will bring you down from there,” says Yahweh.
Obadiah 1.5: 5 “If thieves came to you, if robbers by night—oh, what disaster awaits you—wouldn’t they only steal until they had enough? If grape pickers came to you, wouldn’t they leave some gleaning grapes?
Obadiah 1.6: 6 How Esau will be ransacked! How his hidden treasures are sought out!
Obadiah 1.7: 7 All the men of your alliance have brought you on your way, even to the border. The men who were at peace with you have deceived you, and prevailed against you. Friends who eat your bread lay a snare under you. There is no understanding in him.”
Obadiah 1.8: 8 “Won’t I in that day”, says Yahweh, “destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mountain of Esau?
Obadiah 1.9: 9 Your mighty men, Teman, will be dismayed, to the end that everyone may be cut off from the mountain of Esau by slaughter.
Obadiah 1.10: 10 For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame will cover you, and you will be cut off forever.
Obadiah 1.11: 11 In the day that you stood on the other side, in the day that strangers carried away his substance, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots for Jerusalem, even you were like one of them.
Obadiah 1.12: 12 But don’t look down on your brother in the day of his disaster, and don’t rejoice over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction. Don’t speak proudly in the day of distress.
Obadiah 1.13: 13 Don’t enter into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity. Don’t look down on their affliction in the day of their calamity, neither seize their wealth on the day of their calamity.
Obadiah 1.14: 14 Don’t stand in the crossroads to cut off those of his who escape. Don’t deliver up those of his who remain in the day of distress.
Obadiah 1.15: 15 For the day of Yahweh is near all the nations! As you have done, it will be done to you. Your deeds will return upon your own head.
Obadiah 1.16: 16 For as you have drunk on my holy mountain, so will all the nations drink continually. Yes, they will drink, swallow down, and will be as though they had not been.
Obadiah 1.17: 17 But in Mount Zion, there will be those who escape, and it will be holy. The house of Jacob will possess their possessions.
Obadiah 1.18: 18 The house of Jacob will be a fire, the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble. They will burn among them, and devour them. There will not be any remaining to the house of Esau.” Indeed, Yahweh has spoken.
Obadiah 1.19: 19 Those of the South will possess the mountain of Esau, and those of the lowland, the Philistines. They will possess the field of Ephraim, and the field of Samaria. Benjamin will possess Gilead.
Obadiah 1.20: 20 The captives of this army of the children of Israel, who are among the Canaanites, will possess even to Zarephath; and the captives of Jerusalem, who are in Sepharad, will possess the cities of the Negev.
Obadiah 1.21: 21 Saviors will go up on Mount Zion to judge the mountains of Esau, and the kingdom will be Yahweh’s.
Nahum 0.0:
The Book of
Nahum
Nahum 1.0:
1
Nahum 1.1: 1 A revelation about Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
Nahum 1.2: 2 Yahweh is a jealous God and avenges. Yahweh avenges and is full of wrath. Yahweh takes vengeance on his adversaries, and he maintains wrath against his enemies.
Nahum 1.3: 3 Yahweh is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. Yahweh has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
Nahum 1.4: 4 He rebukes the sea, and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers. Bashan languishes, and Carmel; and the flower of Lebanon languishes.
Nahum 1.5: 5 The mountains quake before him, and the hills melt away. The earth trembles at his presence, yes, the world, and all who dwell in it.
Nahum 1.6: 6 Who can stand before his indignation? Who can endure the fierceness of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken apart by him.
Nahum 1.7: 7 Yahweh is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him.
Nahum 1.8: 8 But with an overflowing flood, he will make a full end of her place, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.
Nahum 1.9: 9 What do you plot against Yahweh? He will make a full end. Affliction won’t rise up the second time.
Nahum 1.10: 10 For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.
Nahum 1.11: 11 There is one gone out of you, who devises evil against Yahweh, who counsels wickedness.
Nahum 1.12: 12 Yahweh says: “Though they be in full strength, and likewise many, even so they will be cut down, and he shall pass away. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more.
Nahum 1.13: 13 Now I will break his yoke from off you, and will burst your bonds apart.”
Nahum 1.14: 14 Yahweh has commanded concerning you: “No more descendants will bear your name. Out of the house of your gods, I will cut off the engraved image and the molten image. I will make your grave, for you are vile.”
Nahum 1.15: 15 Behold, on the mountains the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace! Keep your feasts, Judah! Perform your vows, for the wicked one will no more pass through you. He is utterly cut off.
Nahum 2.0:
2
Nahum 2.1: 1 He who dashes in pieces has come up against you. Keep the fortress! Watch the way! Strengthen your waist! Fortify your power mightily!
Nahum 2.2: 2 For Yahweh restores the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel; for the destroyers have destroyed them, and ruined their vine branches.
Nahum 2.3: 3 The shield of his mighty men is made red. The valiant men are in scarlet. The chariots flash with steel in the day of his preparation, and the pine spears are brandished.
Nahum 2.4: 4 The chariots rage in the streets. They rush back and forth in the wide ways. Their appearance is like torches. They run like the lightnings.
Nahum 2.5: 5 He summons his picked troops. They stumble on their way. They dash to its wall, and the protective shield is put in place.
Nahum 2.6: 6 The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace is dissolved.
Nahum 2.7: 7 It is decreed: she is uncovered, she is carried away; and her servants moan as with the voice of doves, beating on their breasts.
Nahum 2.8: 8 But Nineveh has been from of old like a pool of water, yet they flee away. “Stop! Stop!” they cry, but no one looks back.
Nahum 2.9: 9 Take the plunder of silver. Take the plunder of gold, for there is no end of the store, the glory of all goodly furniture.
Nahum 2.10: 10 She is empty, void, and waste. The heart melts, the knees knock together, their bodies and faces have grown pale.
Nahum 2.11: 11 Where is the den of the lions, and the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion and the lioness walked, the lion’s cubs, and no one made them afraid?
Nahum 2.12: 12 The lion tore in pieces enough for his cubs, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with the kill, and his dens with prey.
Nahum 2.13: 13 “Behold, I am against you,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword will devour your young lions; and I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers will no longer be heard.”
Nahum 3.0:
3
Nahum 3.1: 1 Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and robbery. The prey doesn’t depart.
Nahum 3.2: 2 The noise of the whip, the noise of the rattling of wheels, prancing horses, and bounding chariots,
Nahum 3.3: 3 the horseman mounting, and the flashing sword, the glittering spear, and a multitude of slain, and a great heap of corpses, and there is no end of the bodies. They stumble on their bodies,
Nahum 3.4: 4 because of the multitude of the prostitution of the alluring prostitute, the mistress of witchcraft, who sells nations through her prostitution, and families through her witchcraft.
Nahum 3.5: 5 “Behold, I am against you,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show the nations your nakedness, and the kingdoms your shame.
Nahum 3.6: 6 I will throw abominable filth on you, and make you vile, and will set you a spectacle.
Nahum 3.7: 7 It will happen that all those who look at you will flee from you, and say, ‘Nineveh is laid waste! Who will mourn for her?’ Where will I seek comforters for you?”
Nahum 3.8: 8 Are you better than No-Amon, who was situated among the rivers, who had the waters around her; whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was of the sea?
Nahum 3.9: 9 Cush and Egypt were her boundless strength. Put and Libya were her helpers.
Nahum 3.10: 10 Yet was she carried away. She went into captivity. Her young children also were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streets, and they cast lots for her honorable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.
Nahum 3.11: 11 You also will be drunken. You will be hidden. You also will seek a stronghold because of the enemy.
Nahum 3.12: 12 All your fortresses will be like fig trees with the first-ripe figs: if they are shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.
Nahum 3.13: 13 Behold, your troops among you are women. The gates of your land are set wide open to your enemies. The fire has devoured your bars.
Nahum 3.14: 14 Draw water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. Make the brick kiln strong.
Nahum 3.15: 15 There the fire will devour you. The sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the grasshopper. Multiply like grasshoppers. Multiply like the locust.
Nahum 3.16: 16 You have increased your merchants more than the stars of the skies. The grasshopper strips, and flees away.
Nahum 3.17: 17 Your guards are like the locusts, and your officials like the swarms of locusts, which settle on the walls on a cold day, but when the sun appears, they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
Nahum 3.18: 18 Your shepherds slumber, king of Assyria. Your nobles lie down. Your people are scattered on the mountains, and there is no one to gather them.
Nahum 3.19: 19 There is no healing your wound, for your injury is fatal. All who hear the report of you clap their hands over you; for who hasn’t felt your endless cruelty?
Haggai 0.0:
The Book of
Haggai
Haggai 1.0:
1
Haggai 1.1: 1 In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, Yahweh’s word came by Haggai, the prophet, to Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying,
Haggai 1.2: 2 “This is what Yahweh of Armies says: These people say, ‘The time hasn’t yet come, the time for Yahweh’s house to be built.’”
Haggai 1.3: 3 Then Yahweh’s word came by Haggai, the prophet, saying,
Haggai 1.4: 4 “Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies waste?
Haggai 1.5: 5 Now therefore this is what Yahweh of Armies says: Consider your ways.
Haggai 1.6: 6 You have sown much, and bring in little. You eat, but you don’t have enough. You drink, but you aren’t filled with drink. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm, and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes in it.”
Haggai 1.7: 7 This is what Yahweh of Armies says: “Consider your ways.
Haggai 1.8: 8 Go up to the mountain, bring wood, and build the house. I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified,” says Yahweh.
Haggai 1.9: 9 “You looked for much, and, behold, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?” says Yahweh of Armies, “Because of my house that lies waste, while each of you is busy with his own house.
Haggai 1.10: 10 Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit.
Haggai 1.11: 11 I called for a drought on the land, on the mountains, on the grain, on the new wine, on the oil, on that which the ground produces, on men, on livestock, and on all the labor of the hands.”
Haggai 1.12: 12 Then Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed Yahweh, their God’s voice, and the words of Haggai, the prophet, as Yahweh, their God, had sent him; and the people feared Yahweh.
Haggai 1.13: 13 Then Haggai, Yahweh’s messenger, spoke Yahweh’s message to the people, saying, “I am with you,” says Yahweh.
Haggai 1.14: 14 Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and worked on the house of Yahweh of Armies, their God,
Haggai 1.15: 15 in the twenty-fourth day of the month, in the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.
Haggai 2.0:
2
Haggai 2.1: 1 In the seventh month, in the twenty-first day of the month, Yahweh’s word came by Haggai the prophet, saying,
Haggai 2.2: 2 “Speak now to Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to the remnant of the people, saying,
Haggai 2.3: 3 ‘Who is left among you who saw this house in its former glory? How do you see it now? Isn’t it in your eyes as nothing?
Haggai 2.4: 4 Yet now be strong, Zerubbabel,’ says Yahweh. ‘Be strong, Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest. Be strong, all you people of the land,’ says Yahweh, ‘and work, for I am with you,’ says Yahweh of Armies.
Haggai 2.5: 5 This is the word that I covenanted with you when you came out of Egypt, and my Spirit lived among you. ‘Don’t be afraid.’
Haggai 2.6: 6 For this is what Yahweh of Armies says: ‘Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, the earth, the sea, and the dry land;
Haggai 2.7: 7 and I will shake all nations. The precious things of all nations will come, and I will fill this house with glory, says Yahweh of Armies.
Haggai 2.8: 8 The silver is mine, and the gold is mine,’ says Yahweh of Armies.
Haggai 2.9: 9 ‘The latter glory of this house will be greater than the former,’ says Yahweh of Armies; ‘and in this place I will give peace,’ says Yahweh of Armies.”
Haggai 2.10: 10 In the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, Yahweh’s word came by Haggai the prophet, saying,
Haggai 2.11: 11 “Yahweh of Armies says: Ask now the priests concerning the law, saying,
Haggai 2.12: 12 ‘If someone carries holy meat in the fold of his garment, and with his fold touches bread, stew, wine, oil, or any food, will it become holy?’”
The priests answered, “No.”
Haggai 2.13: 13 Then Haggai said, “If one who is unclean by reason of a dead body touch any of these, will it be unclean?”
The priests answered, “It will be unclean.”
Haggai 2.14: 14 Then Haggai answered, “‘So is this people, and so is this nation before me,’ says Yahweh; ‘and so is every work of their hands. That which they offer there is unclean.
Haggai 2.15: 15 Now, please consider from this day and backward, before a stone was laid on a stone in Yahweh’s temple.
Haggai 2.16: 16 Through all that time, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten. When one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty, there were only twenty.
Haggai 2.17: 17 I struck you with blight, mildew, and hail in all the work of your hands; yet you didn’t turn to me,’ says Yahweh.
Haggai 2.18: 18 ‘Consider, please, from this day and backward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, since the day that the foundation of Yahweh’s temple was laid, consider it.
Haggai 2.19: 19 Is the seed yet in the barn? Yes, the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree haven’t produced. From today I will bless you.’”
Haggai 2.20: 20 Yahweh’s word came the second time to Haggai in the twenty-fourth day of the month, saying,
Haggai 2.21: 21 “Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, ‘I will shake the heavens and the earth.
Haggai 2.22: 22 I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms. I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the nations. I will overthrow the chariots, and those who ride in them. The horses and their riders will come down, everyone by the sword of his brother.
Haggai 2.23: 23 In that day, says Yahweh of Armies, I will take you, Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of Shealtiel,’ says Yahweh, ‘and will make you as a signet, for I have chosen you,’ says Yahweh of Armies.”
Malachi 0.0:
The Book of
Malachi
Malachi 1.0:
1
Malachi 1.1: 1 A revelation, Yahweh’s word to Israel by Malachi.
Malachi 1.2: 2 “I have loved you,” says Yahweh.
Yet you say, “How have you loved us?”
“Wasn’t Esau Jacob’s brother?” says Yahweh, “Yet I loved Jacob;
Malachi 1.3: 3 but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.”
Malachi 1.4: 4 Whereas Edom says, “We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places;” Yahweh of Armies says, “They shall build, but I will throw down; and men will call them ‘The Wicked Land,’ even the people against whom Yahweh shows wrath forever.”
Malachi 1.5: 5 Your eyes will see, and you will say, “Yahweh is great—even beyond the border of Israel!”
Malachi 1.6: 6 “A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? Says Yahweh of Armies to you, priests, who despise my name. You say, ‘How have we despised your name?’
Malachi 1.7: 7 You offer polluted bread on my altar. You say, ‘How have we polluted you?’ In that you say, ‘Yahweh’s table is contemptible.’
Malachi 1.8: 8 When you offer the blind for sacrifice, isn’t that evil? And when you offer the lame and sick, isn’t that evil? Present it now to your governor! Will he be pleased with you? Or will he accept your person?” says Yahweh of Armies.
Malachi 1.9: 9 “Now, please entreat the favor of God, that he may be gracious to us. With this, will he accept any of you?” says Yahweh of Armies.
Malachi 1.10: 10 “Oh that there were one among you who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you,” says Yahweh of Armies, “neither will I accept an offering at your hand.
Malachi 1.11: 11 For from the rising of the sun even to its going down, my name is great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering: for my name is great among the nations,” says Yahweh of Armies.
Malachi 1.12: 12 “But you profane it, in that you say, ‘Yahweh’s table is polluted, and its fruit, even its food, is contemptible.’
Malachi 1.13: 13 You say also, ‘Behold, what a weariness it is!’ and you have sniffed at it”, says Yahweh of Armies; “and you have brought that which was taken by violence, the lame, and the sick; thus you bring the offering. Should I accept this at your hand?” says Yahweh.
Malachi 1.14: 14 “But the deceiver is cursed, who has in his flock a male, and vows, and sacrifices to the Lord a defective thing; for I am a great King,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and my name is awesome among the nations.”
Malachi 2.0:
2
Malachi 2.1: 1 “Now, you priests, this commandment is for you.
Malachi 2.2: 2 If you will not listen, and if you will not take it to heart, to give glory to my name,” says Yahweh of Armies, “then I will send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have cursed them already, because you do not take it to heart.
Malachi 2.3: 3 Behold, I will rebuke your offspring, and will spread dung on your faces, even the dung of your feasts; and you will be taken away with it.
Malachi 2.4: 4 You will know that I have sent this commandment to you, that my covenant may be with Levi,” says Yahweh of Armies.
Malachi 2.5: 5 “My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him that he might be reverent toward me; and he was reverent toward me, and stood in awe of my name.
Malachi 2.6: 6 The law of truth was in his mouth, and unrighteousness was not found in his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and turned many away from iniquity.
Malachi 2.7: 7 For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Yahweh of Armies.
Malachi 2.8: 8 But you have turned away from the path. You have caused many to stumble in the law. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi,” says Yahweh of Armies.
Malachi 2.9: 9 “Therefore I have also made you contemptible and wicked before all the people, according to the way you have not kept my ways, but have had respect for persons in the law.
Malachi 2.10: 10 Don’t we all have one father? Hasn’t one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers?
Malachi 2.11: 11 Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of Yahweh which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.
Malachi 2.12: 12 Yahweh will cut off, to the man who does this, him who wakes and him who answers, out of the tents of Jacob, and him who offers an offering to Yahweh of Armies.
Malachi 2.13: 13 This again you do: you cover Yahweh’s altar with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, because he doesn’t regard the offering any more, neither receives it with good will at your hand.
Malachi 2.14: 14 Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant.
Malachi 2.15: 15 Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought godly offspring. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
Malachi 2.16: 16 One who hates and divorces”, says Yahweh, the God of Israel, “covers his garment with violence!” says Yahweh of Armies. “Therefore pay attention to your spirit, that you don’t be unfaithful.
Malachi 2.17: 17 You have wearied Yahweh with your words. Yet you say, ‘How have we wearied him?’ In that you say, ‘Everyone who does evil is good in Yahweh’s sight, and he delights in them;’ or ‘Where is the God of justice?’
Malachi 3.0:
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Malachi 3.1: 1 “Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me; and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, behold, he comes!” says Yahweh of Armies.
Malachi 3.2: 2 “But who can endure the day of his coming? And who will stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire, and like launderers’ soap;
Malachi 3.3: 3 and he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and silver; and they shall offer to Yahweh offerings in righteousness.
Malachi 3.4: 4 Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasant to Yahweh, as in the days of old, and as in ancient years.
Malachi 3.5: 5 I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.
Malachi 3.6: 6 “For I, Yahweh, don’t change; therefore you, sons of Jacob, are not consumed.
Malachi 3.7: 7 From the days of your fathers you have turned away from my ordinances, and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you,” says Yahweh of Armies. “But you say, ‘How shall we return?’
Malachi 3.8: 8 Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me! But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ In tithes and offerings.
Malachi 3.9: 9 You are cursed with the curse; for you rob me, even this whole nation.
Malachi 3.10: 10 Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this,” says Yahweh of Armies, “if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there will not be room enough for.
Malachi 3.11: 11 I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast its fruit before its time in the field,” says Yahweh of Armies.
Malachi 3.12: 12 “All nations shall call you blessed, for you will be a delightful land,” says Yahweh of Armies.
Malachi 3.13: 13 “Your words have been stout against me,” says Yahweh. “Yet you say, ‘What have we spoken against you?’
Malachi 3.14: 14 You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God;’ and ‘What profit is it that we have followed his instructions, and that we have walked mournfully before Yahweh of Armies?
Malachi 3.15: 15 Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.’
Malachi 3.16: 16 Then those who feared Yahweh spoke one with another; and Yahweh listened, and heard, and a book of memory was written before him, for those who feared Yahweh, and who honored his name.
Malachi 3.17: 17 They shall be mine,” says Yahweh of Armies, “my own possession in the day that I make, and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him.
Malachi 3.18: 18 Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn’t serve him.
Malachi 4.0:
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Malachi 4.1: 1 “For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up,” says Yahweh of Armies, “that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
Malachi 4.2: 2 But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall.
Malachi 4.3: 3 You shall tread down the wicked; for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I make,” says Yahweh of Armies.
Malachi 4.4: 4 “Remember the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded to him in Horeb for all Israel, even statutes and ordinances.
Malachi 4.5: 5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.
Malachi 4.6: 6 He will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.”
Romans 6.0:
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Romans 6.1: 1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
Romans 6.2: 2 May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?
Romans 6.3: 3 Or don’t you know that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
Romans 6.4: 4 We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.
Romans 6.5: 5 For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be part of his resurrection;
Romans 6.6: 6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.
Romans 6.7: 7 For he who has died has been freed from sin.
Romans 6.8: 8 But if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him;
Romans 6.9: 9 knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over him!
Romans 6.10: 10 For the death that he died, he died to sin one time; but the life that he lives, he lives to God.
Romans 6.11: 11 Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 6.12: 12 Therefore don’t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.
Romans 6.13: 13 Also, do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
Romans 6.14: 14 For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.
Romans 6.15: 15 What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? May it never be!
Romans 6.16: 16 Don’t you know that when you present yourselves as servants and obey someone, you are the servants of whomever you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?
Romans 6.17: 17 But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered.
Romans 6.18: 18 Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness.
Romans 6.19: 19 I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.
Romans 6.20: 20 For when you were servants of sin, you were free from righteousness.
Romans 6.21: 21 What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
Romans 6.22: 22 But now, being made free from sin and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification and the result of eternal life.
Romans 6.23: 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
1 Timothy 0.0:
Paul’s First Letter to Timothy
1 Timothy 1.0:
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1 Timothy 1.1: 1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ according to the commandment of God our Savior and the Lord Jesus Christ our hope;
1 Timothy 1.2: 2 to Timothy, my true child in faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
1 Timothy 1.3: 3 As I urged you when I was going into Macedonia, stay at Ephesus that you might command certain men not to teach a different doctrine,
1 Timothy 1.4: 4 and not to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause disputes, rather than God’s stewardship, which is in faith—
1 Timothy 1.5: 5 but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith,
1 Timothy 1.6: 6 from which things some, having missed the mark, have turned away to vain talking,
1 Timothy 1.7: 7 desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say, nor about what they strongly affirm.
1 Timothy 1.8: 8 But we know that the law is good, if a person uses it lawfully,
1 Timothy 1.9: 9 as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
1 Timothy 1.10: 10 for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine,
1 Timothy 1.11: 11 according to the Good News of the glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.
1 Timothy 1.12: 12 I thank him who enabled me, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he counted me faithful, appointing me to service;
1 Timothy 1.13: 13 although I used to be a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
1 Timothy 1.14: 14 The grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
1 Timothy 1.15: 15 The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.
1 Timothy 1.16: 16 However, for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first, Jesus Christ might display all his patience for an example of those who were going to believe in him for eternal life.
1 Timothy 1.17: 17 Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to God who alone is wise, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
1 Timothy 1.18: 18 I commit this instruction to you, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which were given to you before, that by them you may wage the good warfare,
1 Timothy 1.19: 19 holding faith and a good conscience, which some having thrust away made a shipwreck concerning the faith,
1 Timothy 1.20: 20 of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I delivered to Satan, that they might be taught not to blaspheme.
1 Timothy 2.0:
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1 Timothy 2.1: 1 I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks be made for all men:
1 Timothy 2.2: 2 for kings and all who are in high places, that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and reverence.
1 Timothy 2.3: 3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,
1 Timothy 2.4: 4 who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.
1 Timothy 2.5: 5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,
1 Timothy 2.6: 6 who gave himself as a ransom for all, the testimony in its own times,
1 Timothy 2.7: 7 to which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle—I am telling the truth in Christ, not lying—a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
1 Timothy 2.8: 8 I desire therefore that the men in every place pray, lifting up holy hands without anger and doubting.
1 Timothy 2.9: 9 In the same way, that women also adorn themselves in decent clothing, with modesty and propriety, not just with braided hair, gold, pearls, or expensive clothing,
1 Timothy 2.10: 10 but with good works, which is appropriate for women professing godliness.
1 Timothy 2.11: 11 Let a woman learn in quietness with full submission.
1 Timothy 2.12: 12 But I don’t permit a woman to teach, nor to exercise authority over a man, but to be in quietness.
1 Timothy 2.13: 13 For Adam was formed first, then Eve.
1 Timothy 2.14: 14 Adam wasn’t deceived, but the woman, being deceived, has fallen into disobedience;
1 Timothy 2.15: 15 but she will be saved through her childbearing, if they continue in faith, love, and sanctification with sobriety.
1 Timothy 3.0:
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1 Timothy 3.1: 1 This is a faithful saying: someone who seeks to be an overseer desires a good work.
1 Timothy 3.2: 2 The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;
1 Timothy 3.3: 3 not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;
1 Timothy 3.4: 4 one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;
1 Timothy 3.5: 5 (but how could someone who doesn’t know how to rule one’s own house take care of God’s assembly?)
1 Timothy 3.6: 6 not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.
1 Timothy 3.7: 7 Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.
1 Timothy 3.8: 8 Servants, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money,
1 Timothy 3.9: 9 holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.
1 Timothy 3.10: 10 Let them also first be tested; then let them serve if they are blameless.
1 Timothy 3.11: 11 Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, and faithful in all things.
1 Timothy 3.12: 12 Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
1 Timothy 3.13: 13 For those who have served well gain for themselves a good standing, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.
1 Timothy 3.14: 14 These things I write to you, hoping to come to you shortly;
1 Timothy 3.15: 15 but if I wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in God’s house, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
1 Timothy 3.16: 16 Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great:
God was revealed in the flesh,
justified in the spirit,
seen by angels,
preached among the nations,
believed on in the world,
and received up in glory.
1 Timothy 4.0:
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1 Timothy 4.1: 1 But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,
1 Timothy 4.2: 2 through the hypocrisy of men who speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron,
1 Timothy 4.3: 3 forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
1 Timothy 4.4: 4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with thanksgiving.
1 Timothy 4.5: 5 For it is sanctified through the word of God and prayer.
1 Timothy 4.6: 6 If you instruct the brothers of these things, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith, and of the good doctrine which you have followed.
1 Timothy 4.7: 7 But refuse profane and old wives’ fables. Exercise yourself toward godliness.
1 Timothy 4.8: 8 For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.
1 Timothy 4.9: 9 This saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance.
1 Timothy 4.10: 10 For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we have set our trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.
1 Timothy 4.11: 11 Command and teach these things.
1 Timothy 4.12: 12 Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.
1 Timothy 4.13: 13 Until I come, pay attention to reading, to exhortation, and to teaching.
1 Timothy 4.14: 14 Don’t neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the elders.
1 Timothy 4.15: 15 Be diligent in these things. Give yourself wholly to them, that your progress may be revealed to all.
1 Timothy 4.16: 16 Pay attention to yourself and to your teaching. Continue in these things, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.
1 Timothy 5.0:
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1 Timothy 5.1: 1 Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers;
1 Timothy 5.2: 2 the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.
1 Timothy 5.3: 3 Honor widows who are widows indeed.
1 Timothy 5.4: 4 But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety toward their own family and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.
1 Timothy 5.5: 5 Now she who is a widow indeed and desolate, has her hope set on God, and continues in petitions and prayers night and day.
1 Timothy 5.6: 6 But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives.
1 Timothy 5.7: 7 Also command these things, that they may be without reproach.
1 Timothy 5.8: 8 But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.
1 Timothy 5.9: 9 Let no one be enrolled as a widow under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man,
1 Timothy 5.10: 10 being approved by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the saints’ feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, and if she has diligently followed every good work.
1 Timothy 5.11: 11 But refuse younger widows, for when they have grown wanton against Christ, they desire to marry,
1 Timothy 5.12: 12 having condemnation, because they have rejected their first pledge.
1 Timothy 5.13: 13 Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.
1 Timothy 5.14: 14 I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.
1 Timothy 5.15: 15 For already some have turned away after Satan.
1 Timothy 5.16: 16 If any man or woman who believes has widows, let them relieve them, and don’t let the assembly be burdened, that it might relieve those who are widows indeed.
1 Timothy 5.17: 17 Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.
1 Timothy 5.18: 18 For the Scripture says, “You shall not muzzle the ox when it treads out the grain.” And, “The laborer is worthy of his wages.”
1 Timothy 5.19: 19 Don’t receive an accusation against an elder, except at the word of two or three witnesses.
1 Timothy 5.20: 20 Those who sin, reprove in the sight of all, that the rest also may be in fear.
1 Timothy 5.21: 21 I command you in the sight of God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the chosen angels, that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.
1 Timothy 5.22: 22 Lay hands hastily on no one. Don’t be a participant in other people’s sins. Keep yourself pure.
1 Timothy 5.23: 23 Be no longer a drinker of water only, but use a little wine for your stomach’s sake and your frequent infirmities.
1 Timothy 5.24: 24 Some men’s sins are evident, preceding them to judgment, and some also follow later.
1 Timothy 5.25: 25 In the same way also there are good works that are obvious, and those that are otherwise can’t be hidden.
1 Timothy 6.0:
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1 Timothy 6.1: 1 Let as many as are bondservants under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and the doctrine not be blasphemed.
1 Timothy 6.2: 2 Those who have believing masters, let them not despise them because they are brothers, but rather let them serve them, because those who partake of the benefit are believing and beloved. Teach and exhort these things.
1 Timothy 6.3: 3 If anyone teaches a different doctrine, and doesn’t consent to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness,
1 Timothy 6.4: 4 he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, insulting, evil suspicions,
1 Timothy 6.5: 5 constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Withdraw yourself from such.
1 Timothy 6.6: 6 But godliness with contentment is great gain.
1 Timothy 6.7: 7 For we brought nothing into the world, and we certainly can’t carry anything out.
1 Timothy 6.8: 8 But having food and clothing, we will be content with that.
1 Timothy 6.9: 9 But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation, a snare, and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.
1 Timothy 6.10: 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
1 Timothy 6.11: 11 But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness.
1 Timothy 6.12: 12 Fight the good fight of faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.
1 Timothy 6.13: 13 I command you before God, who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate testified the good confession,
1 Timothy 6.14: 14 that you keep the commandment without spot, blameless, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ,
1 Timothy 6.15: 15 which in its own times he will show, who is the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings, and Lord of lords.
1 Timothy 6.16: 16 He alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen, nor can see: to whom be honor and eternal power. Amen.
1 Timothy 6.17: 17 Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be arrogant, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;
1 Timothy 6.18: 18 that they do good, that they be rich in good works, that they be ready to distribute, willing to share;
1 Timothy 6.19: 19 laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold of eternal life.
1 Timothy 6.20: 20 Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of what is falsely called knowledge,
1 Timothy 6.21: 21 which some profess, and thus have wandered from the faith.
Grace be with you. Amen.
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Preface to the World English Bible
What is the Holy Bible?
The Holy Bible is a collection of books and letters written by many people who were inspired by the Holy Spirit of God. These books tell us how we can be saved from the evil of this world and gain eternal life that is truly worth living. Although the Holy Bible contains rules of conduct, it is not just a rule book. It reveals God’s heart—a Father’s heart, full of love and compassion. The Holy Bible tells you what you need to know and believe to be saved from sin and evil and how to live a life that is truly worth living, no matter what your current circumstances may be.
The Holy Bible consists of two main sections: the Old Testament (including Psalms and Proverbs) and the New Testament (Matthew through Revelation). The Old Testament records God’s interaction with mankind before He sent His son to redeem us, while recording prophesy predicting that coming. The New Testament tells us of God’s Son and Anointed One, Jesus, and the wonderful salvation that He purchased for us.
The same Holy Spirit who inspired the Holy Bible is living among us today, and He is happy to help you understand what He intended as you study His Word. Just ask Him, and He is more than happy to help you apply His message to your life.
The Old Testament was originally written mostly in Hebrew. The New Testament was originally written mostly in the common street Greek (not the formal Greek used for official legal matters). The Holy Bible is translated into many languages, and being translated into many more, so that everyone may have an opportunity to hear the Good News about Jesus Christ.
Why was the World English Bible translated?
There are already many good translations of the Holy Bible into contemporary English. Unfortunately, almost all of them are restricted by copyright and copyright holder policy. This restricts publication and republication of God’s Word in many ways, such as in downloadable files on the Internet, use of extensive quotations in books, etc. The World English Bible was commissioned by God in response to prayer about this subject.
Because the World English Bible is in the Public Domain (not copyrighted), it can be freely copied, distributed, and redistributed without any payment of royalties. You don’t even have to ask permission to do so. You may publish the whole World English Bible in book form, bind it in leather and sell it. You may incorporate it into your Bible study software. You may make and distribute audio recordings of it. You may broadcast it. All you have to do is maintain the integrity of God’s Word before God, and reserve the name “World English Bible” for faithful copies of this translation.
How was the World English Bible translated?
The World English Bible is an update of the American Standard Version (ASV) of the Holy Bible, published in 1901. A custom computer program updated the archaic words and word forms to contemporary equivalents, and then a team of volunteers proofread and updated the grammar. The New Testament was updated to conform to the Majority Text reconstruction of the original Greek manuscripts, thus taking advantage of the superior access to manuscripts that we have now compared to when the original ASV was translated.
What is different about the World English Bible?
The style of the World English Bible, while fairly literally translated, is in informal, spoken English. The World English Bible is designed to sound good and be accurate when read aloud. It is not formal in its language, just as the original Greek of the New Testament was not formal. The WEB uses contractions rather freely.
The World English Bible doesn’t capitalize pronouns pertaining to God. The original manuscripts made no such distinction. Hebrew has no such thing as upper and lower case, and the original Greek manuscripts were written in all upper case letters. Attempting to add in such a distinction raises some difficulties in translating dual-meaning Scriptures such as the coronation psalms.
The World English Bible main edition translates God’s Proper Name in the Old Testament as “Yahweh.” The Messianic Edition and the British Edition of the World English Bible translates the same name as “LORD” (all capital letters), or when used with “Lord” (mixed case, translated from “Adonai”,) GOD. There are solid translational arguments for both traditions.
Because World English Bible uses the Majority Text as the basis for the New Testament, you may notice the following differences in comparing the WEB to other translations:
The order of Matthew 23:13 and 14 is reversed in some translations.
Luke 17:36 and Acts 15:34, which are not found in the majority of the Greek Manuscripts (and are relegated to footnotes in the WEB) may be included in some other translations.
Romans 14:24-26 in the WEB may appear as Romans 16:25-27 in other translations.
1 John 5:7-8 contains an addition in some translations, including the KJV. Erasmus admitted adding this text to his published Greek New Testament, even though he could at first find no Greek manuscript support for it, because he was being pressured by men to do so, and because he didn’t see any doctrinal harm in it. Lots of things not written by John in this letter are true, but we decline to add them to what the Holy Spirit inspired through John.
With all of the above and some other places where lack of clarity in the original manuscripts has led to multiple possible readings, significant variants are listed in footnotes. The reading that in our prayerful judgment is best is in the main text. Overall, the World English Bible doesn’t differ very much from several other good contemporary English translations of the Holy Bible. The message of Salvation through Jesus Christ is still the same. The point of this translation was not to be very different (except for legal status), but to update the ASV for readability while retaining or improving the accuracy of that well-respected translation and retaining the public domain status of the ASV.
Does the World English Bible include the Apocrypha?
The World English Bible is an ecumenical project that includes books included in Bibles in many denominations. The main 66 books of the Old and New Testaments are recognized as Scripture by all true Christians. There are also books considered to be part of, depending on which book and who you ask, Deuterocanon, Apocrypha, and Pseudepigrapha.
The following books and parts of books are recognized as Deuterocanonical Scripture by the Roman Catholic, Greek, and Russian Orthodox Churches: Tobit, Judith, Esther from the Greek Septuagint, The Wisdom of Solomon, Ecclesiasticus (also called The Wisdom of Jesus Son of Sirach), Baruch, The Song of the Three Holy Children, Susanna, and Bel and the Dragon, 1 Maccabees, 2 Maccabees. In this edition, The Letter of Jeremiah is included as chapter 6 of Baruch. Three of those books come from parts of Daniel found in the Greek Septuagint, but not the Hebrew Old Testament: The Song of the Three Holy Children, Susanna, and Bel and the Dragon. These 11 books, plus the 66 books of the Old and New Testaments comprise the 88 books in the Roman Catholic Bible.
The following books are recognized as Deuterocanonical Scripture by the Greek and Russian Orthodox Churches, but not the Roman Catholic Church: 1 Esdras, The Prayer of Manasseh, Psalm 151, and 3 Maccabees. Note that 1 Esdras and the Prayer of Manasseh are also in an appendix to the Latin Vulgate Bible.
The Slavonic Bible includes 2 Esdras, but calls it 3 Esdras. This same book is in the Appendix to the Latin Vulgate as 4 Esdras.
An appendix to the Greek Septuagint contains 4 Maccabees. It is included for its historical value.
Among Christian denominations and among individual Christians, opinions vary widely on the Deuterocanon/Apocrypha, as do the collective names they give them. Many regard them as useful in gaining additional understanding of the Old and New Testaments and the hand of God in history, even if they don’t give them the same status as the 66 books of the Old and New Testaments. They are included here in support of the churches and individuals who read them and use them, as separate from, but frequently used with, the core canon of the 66 books of the Holy Bible.
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Tobit 0.0:
TOBIT
Tobit is recognized as Deuterocanonical Scripture by the Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, and Russian Orthodox Churches.
Tobit 1.0:
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Tobit 1.1: 1 The book of the words of Tobit, the son of Tobiel, the son of Ananiel, the son of Aduel, the son of Gabael, of the seed of Asiel, of the tribe of Naphtali;
Tobit 1.2: 2 who in the days of Enemessar king of the Assyrians was carried away captive out of Thisbe, which is on the right hand of Kedesh Naphtali in Galilee above Asher.
Tobit 1.3: 3 I, Tobit walked in the ways of truth and righteousness all the days of my life, and I did many alms deeds to my kindred and my nation, who went with me into the land of the Assyrians, to Nineveh.
Tobit 1.4: 4 When I was in my own country, in the land of Israel, while I was yet young, all the tribe of Naphtali my father fell away from the house of Jerusalem, which was chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, that all the tribes should sacrifice there, and the temple of the habitation of the Most High was hallowed and built therein for all ages.
Tobit 1.5: 5 All the tribes which fell away together sacrificed to the heifer Baal, and so did the house of Naphtali my father.
Tobit 1.6: 6 I alone went often to Jerusalem at the feasts, as it has been ordained to all Israel by an everlasting decree, having the first fruits and the tenths of my increase, and that which was first shorn; and I gave them at the altar to the priests the sons of Aaron.
Tobit 1.7: 7 I gave a tenth part of all my increase to the sons of Levi, who ministered at Jerusalem. A second tenth part I sold away, and went, and spent it each year at Jerusalem.
Tobit 1.8: 8 A third tenth I gave to them to whom it was appropriate, as Deborah my father’s mother had commanded me, because I was left an orphan by my father.
Tobit 1.9: 9 When I became a man, I took as wife Anna of the seed of our own family. With her, I became the father of Tobias.
Tobit 1.10: 10 When I was carried away captive to Nineveh, all my kindred and my relatives ate of the bread of the Gentiles;
Tobit 1.11: 11 but I kept myself from eating,
Tobit 1.12: 12 because I remembered God with all my soul.
Tobit 1.13: 13 So the Most High gave me grace and favor in the sight of Enemessar, and I was his purchasing agent.
Tobit 1.14: 14 And I went into Media, and left ten talents of silver in trust with Gabael, the brother of Gabrias, at Rages of Media.
Tobit 1.15: 15 And when Enemessar was dead, Sennacherib his son reigned in his place. In his time, the highways were troubled, and I could no longer go into Media.
Tobit 1.16: 16 In the days of Enemessar, I did many alms deeds to my kindred: I gave my bread to the hungry,
Tobit 1.17: 17 and my garments to the naked. If I saw any of my race dead, and thrown out on the wall of Ninevah, I buried him.
Tobit 1.18: 18 If Sennacherib the king killed any, when he came fleeing from Judea, I buried them privately; for in his wrath he killed many; and the bodies were sought for by the king, and were not found.
Tobit 1.19: 19 But one of the Ninevites went and showed to the king concerning me, how I buried them, and hid myself; and when I knew that I was sought for to be put to death, I withdrew myself for fear.
Tobit 1.20: 20 And all my goods were forcibly taken away, and there was nothing left to me, save my wife Anna and my son Tobias.
Tobit 1.21: 21 No more than fifty five days passed before two of his sons killed him, and they fled into the mountains of Ararat. And Sarchedonus his son reigned in his place; and he appointed Achiacharus my brother Anael’s son over all the accounts of his kingdom, and over all his affairs.
Tobit 1.22: 22 Achiacharus requested me, and I came to Nineveh. Now Achiacharus was cupbearer, keeper of the signet, steward, and overseer of the accounts. Sarchedonus appointed him next to himself, but he was my brother’s son.
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Tobit 2.1: 1 Now when I had come home again, and my wife Anna was restored to me, and my son Tobias, in the feast of Pentecost, which is the holy feast of the seven weeks, there was a good dinner prepared me, and I sat down to eat.
Tobit 2.2: 2 I saw abundance of meat, and I said to my son, “Go and bring whatever poor man you find of our kindred, who is mindful of the Lord. Behold, I wait for you.”
Tobit 2.3: 3 Then he came, and said, “Father, one of our race is strangled, and has been cast out in the marketplace.”
Tobit 2.4: 4 Before I had tasted anything, I sprang up, and took him up into a chamber until the sun had set.
Tobit 2.5: 5 Then I returned, washed myself, ate my bread in heaviness,
Tobit 2.6: 6 and remembered the prophecy of Amos, as he said,
“Your feasts will be turned into mourning,
and all your mirth into lamentation.
Tobit 2.7: 7 So I wept: and when the sun had set, I went and dug a grave, and buried him.
Tobit 2.8: 8 My neighbors mocked me, and said, “He is no longer afraid to be put to death for this matter; and yet he fled away. Behold, he buries the dead again.”
Tobit 2.9: 9 The same night I returned from burying him, and slept by the wall of my courtyard, being polluted; and my face was uncovered.
Tobit 2.10: 10 I didn’t know that there were sparrows in the wall. My eyes were open and the sparrows dropped warm dung into my eyes, and white films came over my eyes. I went to the physicians, and they didn’t help me; but Achiacharus nourished me, until I went into Elymais.
Tobit 2.11: 11 My wife Anna wove cloth in the women’s chambers,
Tobit 2.12: 12 and sent the work back to the owners. They on their part paid her wages, and also gave her a kid.
Tobit 2.13: 13 But when it came to my house, it began to cry, and I said to her, Where did this kid come from? Is it stolen? Give it back to the owners; for it is not lawful to eat anything that is stolen.
Tobit 2.14: 14 But she said, “It has been given to me for a gift more than the wages.”
I didn’t believe her, and I asked her to return it to the owners; and I was ashamed of her.
But she answered and said to me, “Where are your alms and your righteous deeds? Behold, you and all your works are known.”
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Tobit 3.1: 1 I was grieved and wept, and prayed in sorrow, saying,
Tobit 3.2: 2 “O Lord, you are righteous, and all your works and all your ways are mercy and truth, and you judge true and righteous judgement forever.
Tobit 3.3: 3 Remember me, and look at me. Don’t take vengeance on me for my sins and my ignorances, and the sins of my fathers who sinned before you.
Tobit 3.4: 4 For they disobeyed your commandments. You gave us as plunder, for captivity, for death, and for a proverb of reproach to all the nations among whom we are dispersed.
Tobit 3.5: 5 Now your judgments are many and true; that you should deal with me according to my sins and the sins of my fathers; because we didn’t keep your commandments, for we didn’t walk in truth before you.
Tobit 3.6: 6 Now deal with me according to that which is pleasing in your sight. Command my spirit to be taken from me, that I may be released, and become earth. For it is more profitable for me to die rather than to live, because I have heard false reproaches, and there is much sorrow in me. Command that I be released from my distress, now, and go to the everlasting place. Don’t turn your face away from me.”
Tobit 3.7: 7 The same day it happened to Sarah the daughter of Raguel in Ecbatana of Media, that she also was reproached by her father’s maidservants;
Tobit 3.8: 8 because that she had been given to seven husbands, and Asmodaeus the evil spirit killed them, before they had lain with her. And they said to her, “Do you not know that you strangle your husbands? You have had already seven husbands, and you haven’t borne the name of any one of them.
Tobit 3.9: 9 Why do you scourge us? If they are dead, go your ways with them. Let us never see either son or daughter from you.”
Tobit 3.10: 10 When she heard these things, she was grieved exceedingly, so that she thought about hanging herself. Then she said, “I am the only daughter of my father. If I do this, it will be a reproach to him, and I will bring down his old age with sorrow to the grave.”
Tobit 3.11: 11 Then she prayed by the window, and said, “Blessed are you, O Lord my God, and blessed is your holy and honorable name forever! Let all your works praise you forever!
Tobit 3.12: 12 And now, Lord, I have set my eyes and my face toward you.
Tobit 3.13: 13 Command that I be released from the earth, and that I no longer hear reproach.
Tobit 3.14: 14 You know, Lord, that I am pure from all sin with man,
Tobit 3.15: 15 and that I never polluted my name or the name of my father, in the land of my captivity. I am the only daughter of my father, and he has no child that will be his heir, nor brother near him, nor son belonging to him, that I should keep myself for a wife to him. Seven husbands of mine are dead already. Why should I live? If it doesn’t please you to kill me, command some regard to be had of me, and pity taken of me, and that I hear no more reproach.”
Tobit 3.16: 16 The prayer of both was heard before the glory of the great God.
Tobit 3.17: 17 Raphael also was sent to heal them both, to scale away the white films from Tobit’s eyes, and to give Sarah the daughter of Raguel for a wife to Tobias the son of Tobit; and to bind Asmodaeus the evil spirit; because it belonged to Tobias that he should inherit her. At that very time, Tobit returned and entered into his house, and Sarah the daughter of Raguel came down from her upper chamber.
Tobit 4.0:
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Tobit 4.1: 1 In that day Tobit remembered the money which he had left in trust with Gabael in Rages of Media,
Tobit 4.2: 2 and he said to himself, I have asked for death; why do I not call my son Tobias, that I may explain to him about the money before I die?
Tobit 4.3: 3 And he called him, and said,
“My child, if I die, bury me. Don’t despise your mother. Honor her all the days of your life, and do that which is pleasing to her, and don’t grieve her.
Tobit 4.4: 4 Remember, my child, that she has seen many dangers for you, when you were in her womb. When she is dead, bury her by me in one grave.
Tobit 4.5: 5 My child, be mindful of the Lord our God all your days, and don’t let your will be set to sin and to transgress his commandments: do righteousness all the days of your life, and don’t follow the ways of unrighteousness.
Tobit 4.6: 6 For if you do what is true, your deeds will prosperously succeed for you, and for all those who do righteousness.
Tobit 4.7: 7 Give alms from your possessions. When you give alms, don’t let your eye be envious. Don’t turn away your face from any poor man, and the face of God won’t be turned away from you.
Tobit 4.8: 8 As your possessions are, give alms of it according to your abundance. If you have little, don’t be afraid to give alms according to that little;
Tobit 4.9: 9 for you lay up a good treasure for yourself against the day of necessity;
Tobit 4.10: 10 because alms-giving delivers from death, and doesn’t allow you to come into darkness.
Tobit 4.11: 11 Alms is a good gift in the sight of the Most High for all that give it.
Tobit 4.12: 12 Beware, my child, of all whoredom, and take first a wife of the seed of your fathers. Don’t take a strange wife, who is not of your father’s tribe; for we are the descendants of the prophets. Remember, my child, that Noah, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, our fathers of old time, all took wives of their kindred, and were blessed in their children, and their seed will inherit the land.
Tobit 4.13: 13 And now, my child, love your kindred, and don’t scorn your kindred and the sons and the daughters of your people in your heart, to take a wife of them; for in scornfulness is destruction and much trouble, and in naughtiness is decay and great lack; for naughtiness is the mother of famine.
Tobit 4.14: 14 Don’t let the wages of any man who works for you wait with you, but give it to him out of hand. If you serve God, you will be rewarded. Take heed to yourself, my child, in all your works, and be discreet in all your behavior.
Tobit 4.15: 15 And what you yourself hate, do to no man. Don’t drink wine to drunkenness, and don’t let drunkenness go with you on your way.
Tobit 4.16: 16 Give of your bread to the hungry, and of your garments to those who are naked. Give alms from all your abundance. Don’t let your eye be envious when you give alms.
Tobit 4.17: 17 Pour out your bread on the burial of the just, and give nothing to sinners.
Tobit 4.18: 18 Ask counsel of every man who is wise, and don’t despise any counsel that is profitable.
Tobit 4.19: 19 Bless the Lord your God at all times, and ask of him that your ways may be made straight, and that all your paths and counsels may prosper; for every nation has no counsel; but the Lord himself gives all good things, and he humbles whom he will, as he will. And now, my child, remember my commandments, and let them not be blotted out of your mind.
Tobit 4.20: 20 And now I explain to you about the ten talents of silver, which I left in trust with Gabael the son of Gabrias at Rages of Media.
Tobit 4.21: 21 And fear not, my child, because we are made poor. You have much wealth, if you fear God, and depart from all sin, and do that which is pleasing in his sight.”
Tobit 5.0:
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Tobit 5.1: 1 Then Tobias answered and said to him, “Father, I will do all things, whatever you have commanded me.
Tobit 5.2: 2 But how could I receive the money, since I don’t know him?”
Tobit 5.3: 3 He gave him the handwriting, and said to him, “Seek a man who will go with you, and I will give him wages, whiles I yet live; and go and receive the money.”
Tobit 5.4: 4 He went to seek a man, and found Raphael who was an angel;
Tobit 5.5: 5 and he didn’t know it. He said to him, “Can I go with you to Rages of Media? Do you know those places well?”
Tobit 5.6: 6 The angel said to him, “I will go with you. I know the way well. I have lodged with our brother Gabael.”
Tobit 5.7: 7 Tobias said to him, “Wait for me, and I will tell my father.”
Tobit 5.8: 8 He said to him, “Go, and don’t wait. And he went in and said to his father, “Behold, I have found someone who will go with me.”
But he said, “Call him to me, that I may know of what tribe he is, and whether he be a trustworthy man to go with you.”
Tobit 5.9: 9 So he called him, and he came in, and they saluted one another.
Tobit 5.10: 10 And Tobit said to him, “Brother, of what tribe and of what family are you? Tell me.”
Tobit 5.11: 11 He said to him, “Do you seek a tribe and a family, or a hired man which will go with your son?”
And Tobit said to him, “I want to know, brother, your kindred and your name.”
Tobit 5.12: 12 And he said, “I am Azarias, the son of Ananias the great, of your kindred.”
Tobit 5.13: 13 And he said to him, “Welcome, brother. Don’t be angry with me, because I sought to know your tribe and family. You are my brother, of an honest and good lineage; for I knew Ananias and Jathan, the sons of Shemaiah the great, when we went together to Jerusalem to worship, and offered the firstborn, and the tenths of our increase; and they didn’t go astray in the error of our kindred. My brother, you are of a great stock.
Tobit 5.14: 14 But tell me, what wages shall I give you? A drachma a day, and those things that be necessary for you, as to my son?
Tobit 5.15: 15 And moreover, if you both return safe and sound, I will add something to your wages.”
Tobit 5.16: 16 And so they agreed. And he said to Tobias, “Prepare yourself for the journey. May God prosper you.” So his son prepared what was needful for the journey, and his father said to him, “Go with this man; but God, who dwells in heaven, will prosper your journey. May his angel go with you.”
Then they both departed, and the young man’s dog went with them.
Tobit 5.17: 17 But Anna his mother wept, and said to Tobit, “Why have you sent away our child? Isn’t he the staff of our hand, in going in and out before us?
Tobit 5.18: 18 Don’t be greedy to add money to money; but let it be as refuse compared to our child.
Tobit 5.19: 19 For what the Lord has given us to live is enough for us.”
Tobit 5.20: 20 Tobit said to her, “Don’t worry, my sister. He will return safe and sound, and your eyes will see him.
Tobit 5.21: 21 For a good angel will go with him. His journey will be prospered, and he will return safe and sound.”
Tobit 5.22: 22 So she stopped weeping.
Tobit 6.0:
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Tobit 6.1: 1 Now as they went on their journey, they came at evening to the river Tigris, and they lodged there.
Tobit 6.2: 2 But the young man went down to wash himself, and a fish leaped out of the river, and would have swallowed up the young man.
Tobit 6.3: 3 But the angel said to him, “Grab the fish!”
So the young man grabbed the fish, and hauled it up onto the land.
Tobit 6.4: 4 And the angel said to him, “Cut the fish open, and take the heart, the liver, and the bile, and keep them with you.”
Tobit 6.5: 5 And the young man did as the angel commanded him; but they roasted the fish, and ate it. And they both went on their way, till they drew near to Ecbatana.
Tobit 6.6: 6 The young man said to the angel, “Brother Azarias, of what use is the heart, the liver, and the bile of the fish?”
Tobit 6.7: 7 He said to him, “About the heart and the liver: If a demon or an evil spirit troubles anyone, we must burn those and make smoke of them before the man or the woman, and the affliction will flee.
Tobit 6.8: 8 But as for the bile, it is good to anoint a man that has white films in his eyes, and he will be healed.”
Tobit 6.9: 9 But when they drew near to Rages,
Tobit 6.10: 10 the angel said to the young man, “Brother, today we will lodge with Raguel. He is your kinsman. He has an only daughter named Sarah. I will speak about her, that she should be given to you for a wife.
Tobit 6.11: 11 For her inheritance belongs to you, and you only are of her kindred.
Tobit 6.12: 12 The maid is fair and wise. And now hear me, and I will speak to her father. When we return from Rages we will celebrate the marriage; for I know that Raguel may in no way marry her to another according to the law of Moses, or else he would be liable to death, because it belongs to you to take the inheritance, rather than any other.”
Tobit 6.13: 13 Then the young man said to the angel, “Brother Azarias, I have heard that this maid has been given to seven men, and that they all perished in the bride-chamber.
Tobit 6.14: 14 Now I am the only son of my father, and I am afraid, lest I go in and die, even as those before me. For a demon loves her, which harms no man, but those which come to her. Now I fear lest I die, and bring my father’s and my mother’s life to the grave with sorrow because of me. They have no other son to bury them.”
Tobit 6.15: 15 But the angel said to him, “Don’t you remember the words which your father commanded you, that you should take a wife of your own kindred? Now hear me, brother; for she will be your wife. Don’t worry about the demon; for this night she will be given you as wife.
Tobit 6.16: 16 And when you come into the bride-chamber, you shall take the ashes of incense, and shall lay upon them some of the heart and liver of the fish, and shall make smoke with them.
Tobit 6.17: 17 The demon will smell it, and flee away, and never come again any more. But when you go near to her, both of you rise up, and cry to God who is merciful. He will save you, and have mercy on you. Don’t be afraid, for she was prepared for you from the beginning; and you will save her, and she will go with you. And I suppose that you will have children with her.”
When Tobias heard these things, he loved her, and his soul was strongly joined to her.
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Tobit 7.1: 1 They came to Ecbatana, and arrived at the house of Raguel. But Sarah met them; and she greeted them, and they her. Then she brought them into the house.
Tobit 7.2: 2 Raguel said to Edna his wife, “This young man really resembles Tobit my cousin!”
Tobit 7.3: 3 And Raguel asked them, “Where are you two from, kindred?”
They said to him, “We are of the sons of Naphtali, who are captives in Nineveh.”
Tobit 7.4: 4 He said to them, “Do you know Tobit our brother?”
They said, “We know him.”
Then he said to them, “Is he in good health?”
Tobit 7.5: 5 They said, “He is both alive, and in good health.” Tobias said, “He is my father.”
Tobit 7.6: 6 And Raguel sprang up, and kissed him, wept,
Tobit 7.7: 7 blessed him, and said to him, “You are the son of an honest and good man.” When he had heard that Tobit had lost his sight, he was grieved, and wept;
Tobit 7.8: 8 and Edna his wife and Sarah his daughter wept. They received them gladly; and they killed a ram of the flock, and served them meat.
But Tobias said to Raphael, “Brother Azarias, speak of those things of which you talked about in the way, and let the matter be finished.”
Tobit 7.9: 9 So he communicated the thing to Raguel. Raguel said to Tobias, “Eat, drink, and make merry:
Tobit 7.10: 10 for it belongs to you to take my child. However I will tell you the truth.
Tobit 7.11: 11 I have given my child to seven men, and whenever they came in to her, they died in the night. But for the present be merry.”
And Tobias said, “I will taste nothing here, until you all make a covenant and enter into that covenant with me.”
Tobit 7.12: 12 Raguel said, “Take her to yourself from now on according to custom. You are her relative, and she is yours. The merciful God will give all good success to you.”
Tobit 7.13: 13 And he called his daughter Sarah, and took her by the hand, and gave her to be wife of Tobias, and said, “Behold, take her to yourself after the law of Moses, and lead her away to your father.” And he blessed them.
Tobit 7.14: 14 He called Edna his wife, then took a book, wrote a contract, and sealed it.
Tobit 7.15: 15 Then they began to eat.
Tobit 7.16: 16 And Raguel called his wife Edna, and said to her, “Sister, prepare the other chamber, and bring her in there.”
Tobit 7.17: 17 She did as he asked her, and brought her in there. She wept, and she received the tears of her daughter, and said to her,
Tobit 7.18: 18 “Be comforted, my child. May the Lord of heaven and earth give you favor for this your sorrow. Be comforted, my daughter.”
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Tobit 8.1: 1 When they had finished their supper, they brought Tobias in to her.
Tobit 8.2: 2 But as he went, he remembered the words of Raphael, and took the ashes of the incense, and put the heart and the liver of the fish on them, and made smoke with them.
Tobit 8.3: 3 When the demon smelled that smell, it fled into the uppermost parts of Egypt, and the angel bound him.
Tobit 8.4: 4 But after they were both shut in together, Tobias rose up from the bed, and said, “Sister, arise, and let’s pray that the Lord may have mercy on us.”
Tobit 8.5: 5 And Tobias began to say, “Blessed are you, O God of our fathers, and blessed is your holy and glorious name forever. Let the heavens bless you, and all your creatures.
Tobit 8.6: 6 You made Adam, and gave him Eve his wife for a helper and support. From them came the seed of men. You said, it is not good that the man should be alone. Let’s make him a helper like him.
Tobit 8.7: 7 And now, O Lord, I take not this my sister for lust, but in truth. Command that I may find mercy and grow old with her.”
Tobit 8.8: 8 She said with him, “Amen.” And they both slept that night.
Tobit 8.9: 9 Raguel arose, and went and dug a grave,
Tobit 8.10: 10 saying, “Lest he also should die.”
Tobit 8.11: 11 And Raguel came into his house,
Tobit 8.12: 12 and said to Edna his wife, “Send one of the maidservants, and let them see if he is alive. If not, we will bury him, and no man will know it.”
Tobit 8.13: 13 So the maidservant opened the door, and went in, and found them both sleeping,
Tobit 8.14: 14 and came out, and told them that he was alive.
Tobit 8.15: 15 Then Raguel blessed God, saying, “Blessed are you, O God, with all pure and holy blessing! Let your saints bless you, and all your creatures! Let all your angels and your elect bless you forever!
Tobit 8.16: 16 Blessed are you, because you have made me glad; and it has not happened to me as I suspected; but you have dealt with us according to your great mercy.
Tobit 8.17: 17 Blessed are you, because you have had mercy on two that were the only begotten children of their parents. Show them mercy, O Lord. Fulfill their life in health with gladness and mercy.
Tobit 8.18: 18 He commanded his servants to fill the grave.
Tobit 8.19: 19 He kept the wedding feast for them fourteen days.
Tobit 8.20: 20 Before the days of the wedding feast were finished, Raguel sware to him, that he should not depart till the fourteen days of the wedding feast were fulfilled;
Tobit 8.21: 21 and that then he should take half of his goods, and go in safety to his father; and the rest, said he, when my wife and I die.
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Tobit 9.1: 1 And Tobias called Raphael, and said to him,
Tobit 9.2: 2 “Brother Azarias, take with you a servant and two camels, and go to Rages of Media to Gabael, and receive the money for me, and bring him to the wedding feast,
Tobit 9.3: 3 because Raguel has sworn that I must not depart.
Tobit 9.4: 4 My father counts the days; and if I wait long, he will be very grieved.
Tobit 9.5: 5 So Raphael went on his way, and lodged with Gabael, and gave him the handwriting; so he brought forth the bags with their seals, and gave them to him.
Tobit 9.6: 6 Then they rose up early in the morning together, and came to the wedding feast. Tobias blessed his wife.
Tobit 10.0:
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Tobit 10.1: 1 Tobit his father counted every day. When the days of the journey were expired, and they didn’t come,
Tobit 10.2: 2 he said, “Is he perchance detained? Or is Gabael perchance dead, and there is no one to give him the money?”
Tobit 10.3: 3 He was very grieved.
Tobit 10.4: 4 But his wife said to him, “The child has perished, seeing he waits long.” She began to bewail him, and said,
Tobit 10.5: 5 “I care about nothing, my child, since I have let you go, the light of my eyes.”
Tobit 10.6: 6 Tobit said to her, “Hold your peace. Don’t worry. He is in good health.”
Tobit 10.7: 7 And she said to him, “Hold your peace. Don’t deceive me. My child has perished.” And she went out every day into the way by which they went, and ate no bread in the day-time, and didn’t stop bewailing her son Tobias for whole nights, until the fourteen days of the wedding feast were expired, which Raguel had sworn that he should spend there.
Then Tobias said to Raguel, “Send me away, for my father and my mother look no more to see me.”
Tobit 10.8: 8 But his father-in-law said to him, “Stay with me, and I will send to your father, and they will declare to him how things go with you.”
Tobit 10.9: 9 Tobias said, “No. Send me away to my father.”
Tobit 10.10: 10 Raguel arose, and gave him Sarah his wife, and half his goods, servants and cattle and money;
Tobit 10.11: 11 and he blessed them, and sent them away, saying, “The God of heaven will prosper you, my children, before I die.”
Tobit 10.12: 12 And he said to his daughter, “Honor your father-in-law and your mother-in-law. They are now your parents. Let me hear a good report of you. Then he kissed her.
Edna said to Tobias, “May the Lord of heaven restore you, dear brother, and grant to me that I may see your children of my daughter Sarah, that I may rejoice before the Lord. Behold, I commit my daughter to you in special trust. Don’t cause her grief.
Tobit 11.0:
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Tobit 11.1: 1 After these things Tobias also went his way, blessing God because he had prospered his journey; and he blessed Raguel and Edna his wife. Then he went on his way until they drew near to Nineveh.
Tobit 11.2: 2 Raphael said to Tobias, “Don’t you know, brother, how you left your father?
Tobit 11.3: 3 Let’s run forward before your wife, and prepare the house.
Tobit 11.4: 4 But take in your hand the bile of the fish.” So they went their way, and the dog went after them.
Tobit 11.5: 5 Anna sat looking around toward the path for her son.
Tobit 11.6: 6 She saw him coming, and said to his father, “Behold, your son is coming with the man that went with him!”
Tobit 11.7: 7 Raphael said, “I know, Tobias, that your father will open his eyes.
Tobit 11.8: 8 Therefore anoint his eyes with the bile, and being pricked with it, he will rub, and will make the white films fall away. Then he will see you.”
Tobit 11.9: 9 Anna ran to him, and fell upon the neck of her son, and said to him, “I have seen you, my child! I am ready to die.” They wept both.
Tobit 11.10: 10 Tobit went toward the door and stumbled; but his son ran to him,
Tobit 11.11: 11 and took hold of his father. He rubbed the bile on his father’s eyes, saying, “Cheer up, my father.”
Tobit 11.12: 12 When his eyes began to hurt, he rubbed them.
Tobit 11.13: 13 Then the white films peeled away from the corners of his eyes; and he saw his son, and fell upon his neck.
Tobit 11.14: 14 He wept, and said, “Blessed are you, O God, and blessed is your name forever! Blessed are all your holy angels!
Tobit 11.15: 15 For you scourged, and had mercy on me. Behold, I see my son Tobias.” And his son went in rejoicing, and told his father the great things that had happened to him in Media.
Tobit 11.16: 16 Tobit went out to meet his daughter-in-law at the gate of Nineveh, rejoicing, and blessing God. Those who saw him go marveled, because he had received his sight.
Tobit 11.17: 17 Tobit gave thanks before them, because God had shown mercy on him. When Tobit came near to Sarah his daughter-in-law, he blessed her, saying, “Welcome, daughter! Blessed is God who has brought you to us, and blessed are your father and your mother.” And there was joy among all his kindred who were at Nineveh.
Tobit 11.18: 18 Achiacharus and Nasbas his brother’s son came.
Tobit 11.19: 19 Tobias’ wedding feast was kept seven days with great gladness.
Tobit 12.0:
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Tobit 12.1: 1 And Tobit called his son Tobias, and said to him, “See, my child, that the man which went with you have his wages, and you must give him more.”
Tobit 12.2: 2 And he said to him, “Father, it is no harm to me to give him the half of those things which I have brought;
Tobit 12.3: 3 for he has led me for you in safety, and he cured my wife, and brought my money, and likewise cured you.”
Tobit 12.4: 4 The old man said, “It is due to him.”
Tobit 12.5: 5 And he called the angel, and said to him, “Take half of all that you all have brought.”
Tobit 12.6: 6 Then he called them both privately, and said to them, “Bless God, and give him thanks, and magnify him, and give him thanks in the sight of all that live, for the things which he has done with you. It is good to bless God and exalt his name, showing forth with honor the works of God. Don’t be slack to give him thanks.
Tobit 12.7: 7 It is good to keep close the secret of a king, but to reveal gloriously the works of God. Do good, and evil won’t find you.
Tobit 12.8: 8 Good is prayer with fasting, alms, and righteousness. A little with righteousness is better than much with unrighteousness. It is better to give alms than to lay up gold.
Tobit 12.9: 9 Alms delivers from death, and it purges away all sin. Those who give alms and do righteousness will be filled with life;
Tobit 12.10: 10 but those who sin are enemies to their own life.
Tobit 12.11: 11 Surely I will keep nothing closed from you. I have said, ‘It is good to keep close the secret of a king, but to reveal gloriously the works of God.’
Tobit 12.12: 12 And now, when you prayed, and Sarah your daughter-in-law, I brought the memorial of your prayer before the Holy One. When you buried the dead, I was with you likewise.
Tobit 12.13: 13 And when you didn’t delay to rise up, and leave your dinner, that you might go and cover the dead, your good deed was not hidden from me. I was with you.
Tobit 12.14: 14 And now God sent me to heal you and Sarah your daughter-in-law.
Tobit 12.15: 15 I am Raphael, one of the seven holy angels, which present the prayers of the saints, and go in before the glory of the Holy One.”
Tobit 12.16: 16 And they were both troubled, and fell upon their faces; for they were afraid.
Tobit 12.17: 17 And he said to them, “Don’t be afraid. You will all have peace; but bless God forever.
Tobit 12.18: 18 For I came not of any favor of my own, but by the will of your God. Therefore bless him forever.
Tobit 12.19: 19 All these days I appeared to you. I didn’t eat or drink, but you all saw a vision.
Tobit 12.20: 20 Now give God thanks, because I ascend to him that sent me. Write in a book all the things which have been done.”
Tobit 12.21: 21 Then they rose up, and saw him no more.
Tobit 12.22: 22 They confessed the great and wonderful works of God, and how the angel of the Lord had appeared to them.
Tobit 13.0:
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Tobit 13.1: 1 And Tobit wrote a prayer for rejoicing, and said,
“Blessed is God who lives forever!
Blessed is his kingdom!
Tobit 13.2: 2 For he scourges, and shows mercy.
He leads down to the grave, and brings up again.
There is no one that will escape his hand.
Tobit 13.3: 3 Give thanks to him before the Gentiles, all you children of Israel!
For he has scattered us among them.
Tobit 13.4: 4 Declare his greatness, there.
Extol him before all the living;
because he is our Lord,
and God is our Father forever.
Tobit 13.5: 5 He will scourge us for our iniquities, and will again show mercy,
and will gather us out of all the nations among whom you are all scattered.
Tobit 13.6: 6 If you turn to him with your whole heart and with your whole soul,
to do truth before him,
then he will turn to you,
and won’t hide his face from you.
See what he will do with you.
Give him thanks with your whole mouth.
Bless the Lord of righteousness.
Exalt the everlasting King.
I give him thanks in the land of my captivity,
and show his strength and majesty to a nation of sinners.
Turn, you sinners, and do righteousness before him.
Who can tell if he will accept you and have mercy on you?
Tobit 13.7: 7 I exalt my God.
My soul exalts the King of heaven,
and rejoices in his greatness.
Tobit 13.8: 8 Let all men speak,
and let them give him thanks in Jerusalem.
Tobit 13.9: 9 O Jerusalem, the holy city,
he will scourge you for the works of your sons,
and will again have mercy on the sons of the righteous.
Tobit 13.10: 10 Give thanks to the Lord with goodness,
and bless the everlasting King,
that his tabernacle may be built in you again with joy,
and that he may make glad in you those who are captives,
and love in you forever those who are miserable.
Tobit 13.11: 11 Many nations will come from afar to the name of the Lord God
with gifts in their hands, even gifts to the King of heaven.
Generations of generations will praise you,
and sing songs of rejoicing.
Tobit 13.12: 12 All those who hate you are cursed.
All those who love you forever will be blessed.
Tobit 13.13: 13 Rejoice and be exceedingly glad for the sons of the righteous;
for they will be gathered together and will bless the Lord of the righteous.
Tobit 13.14: 14 Oh blessed are those who love you.
They will rejoice for your peace.
Blessed are all those who sorrowed for all your scourges;
because they will rejoice for you when they have seen all your glory.
They will be made glad forever.
Tobit 13.15: 15 Let my soul bless God the great King.
Tobit 13.16: 16 For Jerusalem will be built with sapphires, emeralds, and precious stones;
your walls and towers and battlements with pure gold.
Tobit 13.17: 17 The streets of Jerusalem will be paved with beryl, carbuncle, and stones of Ophir.
Tobit 13.18: 18 All her streets will say, “Hallelujah!”
and give praise, saying, “Blessed be God, who has exalted you forever!”
Tobit 14.0:
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Tobit 14.1: 1 Then Tobit finished giving thanks.
Tobit 14.2: 2 He was fifty-eight years old when he lost his sight. After eight years, he received it again. He gave alms and he feared the Lord God more and more, and gave thanks to him.
Tobit 14.3: 3 Now he grew very old; and he called his son with the six sons of his son, and said to him, “My child, take your sons. Behold, I have grown old, and am ready to depart out of this life.
Tobit 14.4: 4 Go into Media, my child, for I surely believe all the things which Jonah the prophet spoke of Nineveh, that it will be overthrown, but in Media there will rather be peace for a season. Our kindred will be scattered in the earth from the good land. Jerusalem will be desolate, and the house of God in it will be burned up, and will be desolate for a time.
Tobit 14.5: 5 God will again have mercy on them, and bring them back into the land, and they will build the house, but not like to the former house, until the times of that age are fulfilled. Afterward they will return from the places of their captivity, and build up Jerusalem with honor. The house of God will be built in it forever with a glorious building, even as the prophets spoke concerning it.
Tobit 14.6: 6 And all the nations will turn to fear the Lord God truly, and will bury their idols.
Tobit 14.7: 7 All the nations will bless the Lord, and his people will give thanks to God, and the Lord will exalt his people; and all those who love the Lord God in truth and righteousness will rejoice, showing mercy to our kindred.
Tobit 14.8: 8 And now, my child, depart from Nineveh, because those things which the prophet Jonah spoke will surely come to pass.
Tobit 14.9: 9 But you must keep the law and the ordinances, and show yourself merciful and righteous, that it may be well with you.
Tobit 14.10: 10 Bury me decently, and your mother with me. Don’t stay at Nineveh. See, my child, what Aman did to Achiacharus that nourished him, how out of light he brought him into darkness, and all the recompense that he made him. Achiacharus was saved, but the other had his recompense, and he went down into darkness. Manasses gave alms, and escaped the snare of death which he set for him; but Aman fell into the snare, and perished.
Tobit 14.11: 11 And now, my children, consider what alms does, and how righteousness delivers.”
While he was saying these things, he gave up the ghost in the bed; but he was one hundred fifty eight years old. Tobias buried him magnificently.
Tobit 14.12: 12 When Anna died, he buried her with his father. But Tobias departed with his wife and his sons to Ecbatana to Raguel his father-in-law,
Tobit 14.13: 13 and he grew old in honor, and he buried his father-in-law and mother-in-law magnificently, and he inherited their possessions, and his father Tobit’s.
Tobit 14.14: 14 He died at Ecbatana of Media, being one hundred twenty seven years old.
Tobit 14.15: 15 Before he died, he heard of the destruction of Nineveh, which Nebuchadnezzar and Ahasuerus took captive. Before his death, he rejoiced over Nineveh.
Esther (Greek) 0.0:
ESTHER
translated from the Greek Septuagint
Introduction
The book of Esther in the Greek Septuagint contains 5 additions that the traditional Hebrew text doesn’t have. These additions are recognized as Deuterocanonical Scripture by the Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, and Russian Orthodox Churches. Those additions are enclosed in [square brackets]. Because the additions by themselves make little sense without the broader context of the book, we present here a translation of the whole book of Esther from the Greek.
We have chosen not to distract the reader with confusing out-of-order chapter numbers that would result from using the KJV versification, but rather merge these 5 additions as extensions at the beginning of 1:1 and after 3:13, 4:17, 8:12, and 10:3. This makes some verses (1:1, 5:1, and 8:12) really long, but it also makes the verses line up with the same verse numbers in Esther as translated from the traditional Hebrew text. Some of the proper names in this book have been changed to the more familiar Hebrew form instead of the direct transliteration from the Greek.
Esther (Greek) 4.0:
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Esther (Greek) 4.1: 1 But Mordecai, having perceived what was done, tore his garments, put on sackcloth, and sprinkled dust upon himself. Having rushed forth through the open street of the city, he cried with a loud voice, “A nation that has done no wrong is going to be destroyed!”
Esther (Greek) 4.2: 2 He came to the king’s gate, and stood; for it was not lawful for him to enter into the palace wearing sackcloth and ashes.
Esther (Greek) 4.3: 3 And in every province where the letters were published, there was crying, lamentation, and great mourning on the part of the Jews. They wore sackcloth and ashes.
Esther (Greek) 4.4: 4 The queen’s maids and chamberlains went in and told her; and when she had heard what was done, she was disturbed. She sent to clothe Mordecai, and take away his sackcloth; but he refused.
Esther (Greek) 4.5: 5 So Esther called for her chamberlain Hathach, who waited upon her; and she sent to learn the truth from Mordecai.
Esther (Greek) 4.7: 7 Mordecai showed him what was done, and the promise which Haman had made the king of ten thousand talents to be paid into the treasury, that he might destroy the Jews.
Esther (Greek) 4.8: 8 And he gave him the copy of what was published in Susa concerning their destruction to show to Esther; and told him to charge her to go in and entreat the king, and to beg him for the people. “Remember, he said, the days of your humble condition, how you were nursed by my hand; because Haman who holds the next place to the king has spoken against us for death. Call upon the Lord, and speak to the king concerning us, to deliver us from death.”
Esther (Greek) 4.9: 9 So Hathach went in and told her all these words.
Esther (Greek) 4.10: 10 Esther said to Hathach, “Go to Mordecai, and say,
Esther (Greek) 4.11: 11 ‘All the nations of the empire know than any man or woman who goes in to the king into the inner court without being called, that person can’t live; except to whomever the king stretches out his golden sceptre, he shall live. I haven’t been called to go into the king for thirty days.’”
Esther (Greek) 4.12: 12 So Hathach reported to Mordecai all the words of Esther.
Esther (Greek) 4.13: 13 Then Mordecai said to Hathach, “Go, and say to her, ‘Esther, don’t say to yourself that you alone will escape in the kingdom, more than all the other Jews.
Esther (Greek) 4.14: 14 For if you refuse to listen on this occasion, help and protection will come to the Jews from another place; but you and your father’s house will perish. Who knows if you have been made queen for this occasion?’”
Esther (Greek) 4.15: 15 And Esther sent the man that came to her to Mordecai, saying,
Esther (Greek) 4.16: 16 “Go and assemble the Jews that are in Susa, and all of you fast for me, and don’t eat or drink for three days, night and day. My maidens and I will also fast. Then I will go in to the king contrary to the law, even if I must die.”
Esther (Greek) 4.17: 17 So Mordecai went and did all that Esther commanded him.
Esther (Greek) 4.18: 18 [He prayed to the Lord, making mention of all the works of the Lord.
Esther (Greek) 4.19: 19 He said, “Lord God, you are king ruling over all, for all things are in your power, and there is no one who can oppose you in your purpose to save Israel;
Esther (Greek) 4.20: 20 for you have made the heaven and the earth and every wonderful thing under heaven.
Esther (Greek) 4.21: 21 You are Lord of all, and there is no one who can resist you, Lord.
Esther (Greek) 4.22: 22 You know all things. You know, Lord, that it is not in insolence, nor arrogance, nor love of glory, that I have done this, to refuse to bow down to the arrogant Haman.
Esther (Greek) 4.23: 23 For I would gladly have kissed the soles of his feet for the safety of Israel.
Esther (Greek) 4.24: 24 But I have done this that I might not set the glory of man above the glory of God. I will not worship anyone except you, my Lord, and I will not do these things in arrogance.
Esther (Greek) 4.25: 25 And now, O Lord God, the King, the God of Abraham, spare your people, for our enemies are planning our destruction, and they have desired to destroy your ancient inheritance.
Esther (Greek) 4.26: 26 Do not overlook your people, whom you have redeemed for yourself out of the land of Egypt.
Esther (Greek) 4.27: 27 Listen to my prayer. Have mercy on your inheritance and turn our mourning into gladness, that we may live and sing praise to your name, O Lord. Don’t utterly destroy the mouth of those who praise you, O Lord.”
Esther (Greek) 4.28: 28 All Israel cried with all their might, for death was before their eyes.
Esther (Greek) 4.29: 29 And queen Esther took refuge in the Lord, being taken as it were in the agony of death.
Esther (Greek) 4.30: 30 Having taken off her glorious apparel, she put on garments of distress and mourning. Instead of grand perfumes she filled her head with ashes and dung. She greatly brought down her body, and she filled every place of her glad adorning with the her tangled hair.
Esther (Greek) 4.31: 31 She implored the Lord God of Israel, and said, “O my Lord, you alone are our king. Help me. I am destitute, and have no helper but you,
Esther (Greek) 4.32: 32 for my danger is near at hand.
Esther (Greek) 4.33: 33 I have heard from my birth, in the tribe of my kindred that you, Lord, took Israel out of all the nations, and our fathers out of all their kindred for a perpetual inheritance, and have done for them all that you have said.
Esther (Greek) 4.34: 34 And now we have sinned before you, and you have delivered us into the hands of our enemies,
Esther (Greek) 4.35: 35 because we honored their gods. You are righteous, O Lord.
Esther (Greek) 4.36: 36 But now they have not been content with the bitterness of our slavery, but have laid their hands on the hands of their idols
Esther (Greek) 4.37: 37 to abolish the decree of your mouth, and utterly to destroy your inheritance, and to stop the mouth of those who praise you, and to extinguish the glory of your house and your alter,
Esther (Greek) 4.38: 38 and to open the mouth of the Gentiles to speak the praises of vanities, and that a mortal king should be admired forever.
Esther (Greek) 4.39: 39 O Lord, don’t resign your sceptre to them that are not, and don’t let them laugh at our fall, but turn their counsel against themselves, and make an example of him who has begun to injure us.
Esther (Greek) 4.40: 40 Remember us, O Lord, manifest yourself in the time of our affliction. Encourage me, O King of gods, and ruler of all dominion!
Esther (Greek) 4.41: 41 Put harmonious speech into my mouth before the lion, and turn his heart to hate him who fights against us, to the utter destruction of him who agrees with him.
Esther (Greek) 4.42: 42 But deliver us by your hand, and help me who am destitute, and have none but you, O Lord.
Esther (Greek) 4.43: 43 You know all things, and know that I hate the glory of transgressors, and that I abhor the couch of the uncircumcised, and of every stranger.
Esther (Greek) 4.44: 44 You know my necessity, for I abhor the symbol of my proud station, which is upon my head in the days of my splendor. I abhor it as a menstruous cloth, and I don’t wear it in the days of my tranquility.
Esther (Greek) 4.45: 45 Your handmaid has not eaten at Haman’s table Haman, and I have not honored the banquet of the king, neither have I drunk wine of libations.
Esther (Greek) 4.46: 46 Neither has your handmaid rejoiced since the day of my promotion until now, except in you, O Lord God of Abraham.
Esther (Greek) 4.47: 47 O god, who has power over all, listen to the voice of the desperate, and deliver us from the hand of those who devise mischief. Deliver me from my fear.]
Esther (Greek) 6.0:
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Esther (Greek) 6.1: 1 The Lord removed sleep from the king that night; so he told his servant to bring in the books, the registers of daily events, to read to him.
Esther (Greek) 6.2: 2 And he found the records written concerning Mordecai, how he had told the king about the king’s two chamberlains, when they were keeping guard, and sought to lay hands on Ahasuerus.
Esther (Greek) 6.3: 3 The king said, “What honor or favor have we done for Mordecai?”
The king’s servants said, “You haven’t done anything for him.”
Esther (Greek) 6.4: 4 And while the king was enquiring about the kindness of Mordecai, behold, Haman was in the court. The king said, “Who is in the court? Now Haman had come in to speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on the gallows which he had prepared.
Esther (Greek) 6.5: 5 The king’s servants said, “Behold, Haman stands in the court.”
And the king said, “Call him!”
Esther (Greek) 6.6: 6 The king said to Haman, “What should I do for the man whom I wish to honor?”
Haman said within himself, “Whom would the king honor but myself?”
Esther (Greek) 6.7: 7 He said to the king, “As for the man whom the king wishes to honor,
Esther (Greek) 6.8: 8 let the king’s servants bring the robe of fine linen which the king puts on, and the horse on which the king rides,
Esther (Greek) 6.9: 9 and let him give it to one of the king’s noble friends, and let him dress the man whom the king loves. Let him mount him on the horse, and proclaim through the streets of the city, saying, “This is what will be done for every man whom the king honors!”
Esther (Greek) 6.10: 10 Then the king said to Haman, “You have spoken well. Do so for Mordecai the Jew, who waits in the palace, and let not a word of what you have spoken be neglected!”
Esther (Greek) 6.11: 11 So Haman took the robe and the horse, dressed Mordecai, mounted him on the horse, and went through the streets of the city, and proclaimed, saying, “This is what will be done for every man whom the king wishes to honor.”
Esther (Greek) 6.12: 12 Then Mordecai returned to the palace; but Haman went home mourning, and having his head covered.
Esther (Greek) 6.13: 13 Haman related the events that had happened him to Zeresh his wife, and to his friends. His friends and his wife said to him, “If Mordecai is of the race of the Jews, and you have begun to be humbled before him, you will assuredly fall, and you will not be able to withstand him, for the living God is with him.”
Esther (Greek) 6.14: 14 While they were still speaking, the chamberlains arrived, to rush Haman to the banquet which Esther had prepared.
Wisdom of Solomon 19.0:
19
Wisdom of Solomon 19.1: 1 But indignation without mercy came upon the ungodly to the end;
For God also foreknew their future,
Wisdom of Solomon 19.2: 2 how, having changed their minds to let your people go,
and having sped them eagerly on their way,
they would change their minds and pursue them.
Wisdom of Solomon 19.3: 3 For while they were yet in the midst of their mourning,
and lamenting at the graves of the dead,
they drew upon themselves another counsel of folly,
and pursued as fugitives those whom they had begged to leave and driven out.
Wisdom of Solomon 19.4: 4 For the doom which they deserved was drawing them to this end,
and it made them forget the things that had happened to them,
that they might fill up the punishment which was yet lacking to their torments,
Wisdom of Solomon 19.5: 5 and that your people might journey on by a marvelous road,
but they themselves might find a strange death.
Wisdom of Solomon 19.6: 6 For the whole creation, each part in its diverse kind, was made new again,
complying with your commandments,
that your servants might be kept unharmed.
Wisdom of Solomon 19.7: 7 Then the cloud that overshadowed the camp was seen,
and dry land rising up out of what had been water,
out of the Red sea an unhindered highway,
and a grassy plain out of the violent surge,
Wisdom of Solomon 19.8: 8 by which they passed over with all their army,
these who were covered with your hand,
having seen strange marvels.
Wisdom of Solomon 19.9: 9 For like horses they roamed at large,
and they skipped about like lambs,
praising you, O Lord, who was their deliverer.
Wisdom of Solomon 19.10: 10 For they still remembered the things that happened in the time of their sojourning,
how instead of bearing cattle, the land brought forth lice,
and instead of fish, the river spewed out a multitude of frogs.
Wisdom of Solomon 19.11: 11 But afterwards, they also saw a new generation race of birds,
when, led on by desire, they asked for luxurious dainties;
Wisdom of Solomon 19.12: 12 For, to comfort them, quails came up for them from the sea.
Wisdom of Solomon 19.13: 13 Punishments came upon the sinners,
not without the signs that were given beforehand by the force of the thunders;
for they justly suffered through their own wickednesses,
for the hatred which they practiced toward guests was grievous indeed.
Wisdom of Solomon 19.14: 14 For whereas the others didn’t receive the strangers when they came to them,
the Egyptians made slaves of guests who were their benefactors.
Wisdom of Solomon 19.15: 15 And not only so, but God will visit the men of Sodom another way,
since they received as enemies those who were aliens;
Wisdom of Solomon 19.16: 16 whereas these first welcomed with feastings,
and then afflicted with dreadful toils,
those who had already shared with them in the same rights.
Wisdom of Solomon 19.17: 17 And moreover they were stricken with loss of sight
(even as were those others at the righteous man’s doors),
when, being surrounded with yawning darkness,
they each looked for the passage through his own door.
Wisdom of Solomon 19.18: 18 For as the notes of a lute vary the character of the rhythm,
even so the elements, changing their order one with another,
continuing always in its sound,
as may clearly be conjectured from the sight of the things that have happened.
Wisdom of Solomon 19.19: 19 For creatures of the dry land were turned into creatures of the waters,
and creatures that swim moved upon the land.
Wisdom of Solomon 19.20: 20 Fire kept the mastery of its own power in water,
and water forgot its quenching nature.
Wisdom of Solomon 19.21: 21 On the contrary, flames didn’t consume flesh of perishable creatures that walked among them,
neither did they melt the ice-like grains of ambrosial food that were apt to melt.
Wisdom of Solomon 19.22: 22 For in all things, O Lord, you magnified your people,
and you glorified them and didn’t lightly regard them,
standing by their side in every time and place.
Sirach 23.0:
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Sirach 23.1: 1 O Lord, Father and Master of my life,
Abandon me not to their counsel:
Suffer me not to fall by them.
Sirach 23.2: 2 Who will set scourges over my thought,
And a discipline of wisdom over my heart?
That they spare me not for my ignorances,
And my heart pass not by their sins:
Sirach 23.3: 3 That my ignorances be not multiplied,
And my sins abound not;
And I will fall before my adversaries,
And my enemy rejoice over me.
Sirach 23.4: 4 O Lord, Father and God of my life,
Give me not a proud look,
Sirach 23.5: 5 And turn away concupiscense from me.
Sirach 23.6: 6 Let not greediness and chambering overtake me;
And give me not over to a shameless mind.
Sirach 23.7: 7 Hear you°, my children, the discipline of the mouth;
And he that keeps it will not be taken.
Sirach 23.8: 8 The sinner will be overtaken in his lips;
And the reviler and the proud man will stumble therein.
Sirach 23.9: 9 Accustom not your mouth to an oath;
And be not accustomed to the naming of the Holy One.
Sirach 23.10: 10 For as a servant that is continually scourged will not lack a bruise,
So he also that swears and names God continually will not be cleansed from sin.
Sirach 23.11: 11 A man of many oaths will be filled with iniquity;
And the scourge will not depart from his house:
If he shall offend, his sin will be upon him;
And if he disregard it, he has sinned doubly;
And if he has sworn in vain, he will not be justified;
For his house will be filled with calamities.
Sirach 23.12: 12 There is a manner of speech that is clothed about with death:
Let it not be found in the heritage of Jacob;
For all these things will be far from the godly,
And they will not wallow in sins.
Sirach 23.13: 13 Accustom not your mouth to gross rudeness,
For therein is the word of sin.
Sirach 23.14: 14 Remember your father and your mother,
For you sit in the midst of great men;
That you be not forgetful before them,
And become a fool by your custom;
So will you wish that you had not been born,
And curse the day of your nativity.
Sirach 23.15: 15 A man that is accustomed to words of reproach
Will not be corrected all the days of his life.
Sirach 23.16: 16 Two sorts of men multiply sins,
And the third will bring wrath:
A hot mind, as a burning fire, will not be quenched till it be consumed:
A fornicator in the body of his flesh will never cease till he has burned out the fire.
Sirach 23.17: 17 All bread is sweet to a fornicator:
He will not leave off till he die.
Sirach 23.18: 18 A man that goes astray from his own bed,
Saying in his heart, Who sees me?
Darkness is round about me, and the walls hide me,
And no man sees me; of whom am I afraid?
The Most High will not remember my sins;
Sirach 23.19: 19 —And the eyes of men are his terror,
And he knows not that the eyes of the Lord are ten thousand times brighter than the sun,
Beholding all the ways of men,
And looking into secret places.
Sirach 23.20: 20 All things were known to him or ever they were created;
And in like manner also after they were perfected.
Sirach 23.21: 21 This man will be punished in the streets of the city;
And where he suspected not he will be taken.
Sirach 23.22: 22 So also a wife that leaves her husband,
And brings in an heir by a stranger.
Sirach 23.23: 23 For first, she was disobedient in the law of the Most High;
And secondly, she trespassed against her own husband;
And thirdly, she played the adulteress in whoredom,
And brought in children by a stranger.
Sirach 23.24: 24 She shall be brought out into the congregation;
And upon her children will there be visitation.
Sirach 23.25: 25 Her children will not spread into roots,
And her branches will bear no fruit.
Sirach 23.26: 26 She will leave her memory for a curse;
And her reproach will not be blotted out.
Sirach 23.27: 27 And those who are left behind will know that there is nothing better than the fear of the Lord,
And nothing sweeter than to take heed to the commandments of the Lord.
Sirach 23.28: 28
Sirach 27.0:
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Sirach 27.1: 1 Many have sinned for a thing indifferent;
And he that seeks to multiply gain will turn his eye away.
Sirach 27.2: 2 A nail will stick fast between the joinings of stones;
And sin will thrust itself in between buying and selling.
Sirach 27.3: 3 Unless a man hold on diligently in the fear of the Lord,
His house will soon be overthrown.
Sirach 27.4: 4 In the shaking of a sieve, the refuse remains;
So the filth of man in his reasoning.
Sirach 27.5: 5 The furnace will prove the potter’s vessels;
And the trial of a man is in his reasoning.
Sirach 27.6: 6 The fruit of a tree declares the husbandry thereof;
So is the utterance of the thought of the heart of a man.
Sirach 27.7: 7 Praise no man before you hear him reason;
For this is the trial of men.
Sirach 27.8: 8 If you follow righteousness, you will obtain her,
And put her on, as a long robe of glory.
Sirach 27.9: 9 Birds will return to their like;
And truth will return to those who practice her.
Sirach 27.10: 10 The lion lies in wait for prey;
So does sin for those who work iniquity.
Sirach 27.11: 11 The discourse of a godly man is always wisdom:
But the foolish man changes as the moon.
Sirach 27.12: 12 Among men void of understanding observe the opportunity;
But stay continually among the thoughtful.
Sirach 27.13: 13 The discourse of fools is an offence;
And their laughter is in the wantonness of sin.
Sirach 27.14: 14 The talk of a man of many oaths will make the hair stand upright;
And their strife makes one stop his ears.
Sirach 27.15: 15 The strife of the proud is a shedding of blood;
And their reviling of each other is a grievous thing to hear.
Sirach 27.16: 16 He that reveals secrets destroys credit,
And will not find a friend to his mind.
Sirach 27.17: 17 Love a friend, and keep faith with him:
But if you reveal his secrets,
You shall not pursue after him;
Sirach 27.18: 18 For as a man has destroyed his enemy,
So have you destroyed the friendship of your neighbor.
Sirach 27.19: 19 And as a bird which you have released out of your hand,
So have you let your neighbor go, and you will not catch him again:
Sirach 27.20: 20 Pursue him not, for he is gone far away,
And has escaped as a gazelle out of the snare.
Sirach 27.21: 21 For a wound may be bound up, and after reviling there may be a reconcilement;
But he that reveals secrets has lost hope.
Sirach 27.22: 22 One that winks with the eye contrives evil things;
And no man will remove him from it.
Sirach 27.23: 23 When you are present, he will speak sweetly,
And will admire your words;
But afterward he will writhe his mouth,
And set a trap for you in your words.
Sirach 27.24: 24 I have hated many things, but nothing like him;
And the Lord will hate him.
Sirach 27.25: 25 One that casts a stone on high casts it on his own head;
And a deceitful stroke will open wounds.
Sirach 27.26: 26 He that digs a pit will fall into it;
And he that sets a snare will be taken therein.
Sirach 27.27: 27 He that does evil things, they will roll upon him,
And he will not know whence they have come to him.
Sirach 27.28: 28 Mockery and reproach are from the arrogant;
And vengeance, as a lion, will lie in wait for him.
Sirach 27.29: 29 They that rejoice at the fall of the godly will be taken in a snare;
And anguish will consume them before they die.
Sirach 27.30: 30 Wrath and anger, these also are abominations;
And a sinful man will possess them.
4 Maccabees 2.0:
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4 Maccabees 2.1: 1 And what wonder? if the lusts of the soul, after participation with what is beautiful, are frustrated,
4 Maccabees 2.2: 2 on this ground, therefore, the temperate Joseph is praised in that by reasoning, he subdued, on reflection, the indulgence of sense.
4 Maccabees 2.3: 3 For, although young, and ripe for sexual intercourse, he abrogated by reasoning the stimulus of his passions.
4 Maccabees 2.4: 4 And it is not merely the stimulus of sensual indulgence, but that of every desire, that reasoning is able to master.
4 Maccabees 2.5: 5 For instance, the law says, You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor anything that belongs to your neighbor.
4 Maccabees 2.6: 6 Now, then, since it is the law which has forbidden us to desire, I shall much the more easily persuade you, that reasoning is able to govern our lusts, just as it does the affections which are impediments to justice.
4 Maccabees 2.7: 7 Since in what way is a solitary eater, and a glutton, and a drunkard reclaimed, unless it be clear that reasoning is lord of the passions?
4 Maccabees 2.8: 8 A man, therefore, who regulates his course by the law, even if he be a lover of money, immediately puts force upon his own disposition; lending to the needy without interest, and cancelling the debt of the incoming Sabbath.
4 Maccabees 2.9: 9 And should a man be parsimonious, he is ruled by the law acting through reasoning; so that he does not glean his harvest crops, nor vintage: and in reference to other points we may perceive that it is reasoning that conquers his passions.
4 Maccabees 2.10: 10 For the law conquers even affection toward parents, not surrendering virtue on their account.
4 Maccabees 2.11: 11 And it prevails over marriage love, condemning it when transgressing law.
4 Maccabees 2.12: 12 And it lords it over the love of parents toward their children, for they punish them for vice; and it domineers over the intimacy of friends, reproving them when wicked.
4 Maccabees 2.13: 13 And think it not a strange assertion that reasoning can in behalf of the law conquer even enmity.
4 Maccabees 2.14: 14 It allows not to cut down the cultivated herbage of an enemy, but preserves it from the destroyers, and collects their fallen ruins.
4 Maccabees 2.15: 15 And reason appears to be master of the more violent passions, as love of empire and empty boasting, and slander.
4 Maccabees 2.16: 16 For the temperate understanding repels all these malignant passions, as it does wrath: for it masters even this.
4 Maccabees 2.17: 17 Thus Moses, when angered against Dathan and Abiram, did nothing to them in wrath, but regulated his anger by reasoning.
4 Maccabees 2.18: 18 For the temperate mind is able, as I said, to be superior to the passions, and to transfer some, and destroy others.
4 Maccabees 2.19: 19 For why, else, does our most wise father Jacob blame Simeon and Levi for having irrationally slain the whole race of the Shechemites, saying, Cursed be their anger.
4 Maccabees 2.20: 20 For if reasoning didn’t possess the power of subduing angry affections, he would not have spoken thus.
4 Maccabees 2.21: 21 For at the time when God created man, He implanted within him his passions and moral nature.
4 Maccabees 2.22: 22 And at that time He enthroned above all the holy leader mind, through the medium of the senses.
4 Maccabees 2.23: 23 And He gave a law to this mind, by living according to which it will maintain a temperate, and just, and good, and manly reign.
4 Maccabees 2.24: 24 How, then, a man may say, if reasoning be master of the passions, has it no control over forgetfulness and ignorance?
4 Maccabees 17.0:
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4 Maccabees 17.1: 1 And some of the spearbearers said, that when she herself was about to be seized for the purpose of being put to death, she threw herself upon the pile, rather than they should touch her person.
4 Maccabees 17.2: 2 O you mother, who together with seven children did destroy the violence of the tyrant, and render void his wicked intentions, and exhibit the nobleness of faith!
4 Maccabees 17.3: 3 For you, as a house bravely built upon the pillar of your children, did bear without swaying, the shock of tortures.
4 Maccabees 17.4: 4 Be of good cheer, therefore, O holy-minded mother! holding the firm substance of the hope of your steadfastness with God.
4 Maccabees 17.5: 5 Not so gracious does the moon appear with the stars in heaven, as you are established honorable before God, and fixed in the firmament with your sons who you did illuminate with religion to the stars.
4 Maccabees 17.6: 6 For your bearing of children was after the fashion of a child of Abraham.
4 Maccabees 17.7: 7 And, were it lawful for us to paint as on a tablet the religion of your story, the spectators would not shudder at beholding the mother of seven children enduring for the sake of religion various tortures even to death.
4 Maccabees 17.8: 8 And it had been a worth thing to have inscribed upon the tomb itself these words as a memorial to those of the nation,
4 Maccabees 17.9: 9 Here an aged priest, and an aged woman, and seven sons, are buried through the violence of a tyrant, who wished to destroy the society of the Hebrews.
4 Maccabees 17.10: 10 These also avenged their nation, looking to God, and enduring torments to death.
4 Maccabees 17.11: 11 For it was truly a divine contest which was carried through by them.
4 Maccabees 17.12: 12 For at that time virtue presided over the contest, approving the victory through endurance, namely, immortality, eternal life.
4 Maccabees 17.13: 13 Eleazar was the first to contend: and the mother of the seven children entered the contest; and the kindred contended.
4 Maccabees 17.14: 14 The tyrant was the opposite; and the world and living men were the spectators.
4 Maccabees 17.15: 15 And reverence for God conquered, and crowned her own athletes.
4 Maccabees 17.16: 16 Who didn’t admire those champions of true legislation? who were not astonied?
4 Maccabees 17.17: 17 The tyrant himself, and all their council, admired their endurance;
4 Maccabees 17.18: 18 through which, also, they now stand beside the divine throne, and live a blessed life.
4 Maccabees 17.19: 19 For Moses says, And all the saints are under your hands.
4 Maccabees 17.20: 20 These, therefore, having been sanctified through God, have been honored not only with this honor, but that also by their means the enemy didn’t overcome our nation;
4 Maccabees 17.21: 21 and that the tyrant was punished, and their country purified.
4 Maccabees 17.22: 22 For they became the ransom to the sin of the nation; and the Divine Providence saved Israel, aforetime afflicted, by the blood of those pious ones, and the propitiatory death.
4 Maccabees 17.23: 23 For the tyrant Antiochus, looking to their manly virtue, and to their endurance in torture, proclaimed that endurance as an example to his soldiers.
4 Maccabees 17.24: 24 And they proved to be to him noble and brave for land battles and for sieges; and he conquered and stormed the towns of all his enemies.